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THE

Hiftorical

For the YEAR MDCCXCIV.
Volume LXIV.

PART THE, SECOND.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.

LONDON, Printed by JOHN NICHOLS,
at Cicero’s Head, Red Lion Pajfage, Fleet-Street :

And fold by ELTZ. NEWBERY, the Corner of St. Paul's
Chitnh Yard, Ludgate- Sired. 1794.

ELEGY (tn fheBcr.th of LLYWELYN.thelaft Pdncsof Whiles (previous to the Sahjusatlora
of that Princip.ilily hy Eilvvard the FirH;), vvlio was killeil uear Biiiltli, in Bi eckiiock-
fnire, ti aufcrihed from t!ie late Rev, Evan Evans's (the Antiquary) valuable MSS, now
in the PollelTion of Paul Paii'.on, Efq. of Angleiey.

Hie Leolinu'; ultimus Carnhrise fuit Pr'uceps, et occifus fuit juxta Buellt iimo, die
D;'cembris anno i iM’U'Jitoribu', Madog Min, etaliis; in MSS. Com it is de Macclesfield,
liune Madog Min Epifeopum Bangoiieniem fuilTe dicitnr; fed neque in Godwino, neque
alias ullibi, me talem legifie, memini. Hoc faPem verum eft, Epifeopum ilium, quq Leo-
lioo regnan'e, mitram tenujt Bangorienfem, illiinfenfum fuiffe, et ab eo in Ang’iam pullum,
Marvvnad L^ywYlyn Grutfudd Ty-Tur/og Leoi.iwi Griffini filu Ihrenodia.

■ - “ - - -- - CHRIS TE Domine munifice, donum pero,

Cl-irille fill Dei, fincere, fons fapient lU
Chri fie facer, liberals, fortifitme, [lulniiirne,
Qni crucis poenam tulifti fevei ithm mi.

Qnte ad hominem ride[l,humauum genus]

' fpedlant loquar,

Qni fert dolorem, fit prudentifTimus,

Cm natura hberal'ter profudit fuas dotes,

Is anlmi fit hvimillimi.

ChriPais venit in mundiim, ne Adamus
Et genus humannm etlet in inferno, cum ca-
codemonibusmaKimecaptivis, [mum,
Ut expleret Coelum circa Creatorem iu,.re-
Quod perdidit Angelus fi. didifiimus.

Perdidit Cambria magua hr-roeni virtute
incl. tiiiimum, [miifinmnique |

Qni gfadium tenuit, corufeum, rutiium, fir~
Princep'' magiianimns non v'ivtt, hcu ! quid
faciam ob e'fus danumm,

Qni fuit Leo ftrunuus, douorum profufir^,
munificentifiimus !

Vir pro nobis peiiit ; vir ex nob lilEima
profapia oi tus; [loqni non veieor,
Vir qui CarUhnam defendir, de quo apei ie
Magnanimus L.eoilnus, Cambrorum rnaxime
ingenmis ;

Vir cui non pluc iit fugere proxima via, i. e.
qui oinmiu) hoihbus lergum date de-
dignatus efl,

V^'.r qui virilitereft aggrelTusaciem maxime
tbetenfant (i. e. copiufiffimam) ;

Vir cni vu'idia I'uerunl catlra, Itatioque,
Validillimus Griliini films, qui in do .is'ccm-
mrend s [clams ;

Superab^tt Nudd et Mordavum, iiberab.tate
Vir rufa hatia, vir ferius ut Priamus,

Vii dig'/ius, et tiux copiarum fuperbiffima-
rum ; [liffimus,

Vir cui ghnaa redundat, vir fumpfuum Ibet
Ufque ad eum locum, cjuo I'ol curfum luu.u
facit longinquiliimum ; '

Vir in deftruendo iracundus, Princepfqne
c'ementiliimiu, [amicus fiditfirrhi.q
Vir ob q iem magnus eft iudlus, qnt fuit
Vir api r me elegans, fapien^, ei fticdtifiirmis
a Mona, (cherrinmm ;

Cfqne ad Caer Idior, locum omnium pul-
Vir (u’.t Leolinus juxta Tavi tcimnios,

Vir in j>ublico veifans, vellibus laxiffimis,
Vir fuit piaccipuus, lunTniuim
Ufque r.d poitum Gv\ygyr, Aquila gererofa,

Ille verc qui afitimpfii a^rumnam angu'dtf-
fimam, [graviflimamqnej^

Et moitem pro genere hunia”o, miferam,
Accipiat lueurn Principem, nohilifiimi ortiis,
Et eum participcm redd.at fuae mifericordisc,
qui fummustdl honos.

Bletwikus Bakpus cotr)pofuit,c'uxa izSz.

olaf Gyinru, yr hiun a Inddivyd ym Muelt
d''T.vy dwyll Madog Min, yr hwn inedd
Llyfr Arglvvy.Ul Macclesfiel 1, oedd Efgob
Bangor; Fa! hyn y cantLlywAynabGwliWW.-

Mae Dodlorar Fangor fain
Oes Bradvvr Ynys Biydain
Brad a wnaeth briw dan eithin
Bradog fuwa’th Madog nua
Yha d’erhyn Eyvvelyn Iwyd
1 Ehiellt pan ddifawyd &c.

M AR V/ N AD.

C'^Rift Arglwydd 1 livvydd, rhodd a arebaf,
^Crifl f.ib Dinv didwjP, fnmbwoilhonaf
Cr.fi ddeddfawl, cedawl, ycadainaf,

Ar ddclw a borthes, ddoiur dtlygnaf.

A berthyn am ddyn, a ddyweda'',

A bortho gofid, bip! bwylUxaf,

A fu gnaws, achaws uchaf, ei feddiant
Ei feddwl bid leiaf.

Crifl a dd.ieth ir Byd, rhag bod. Addaf,

A’r bohl yn Ufiern, geihern gaethaf,

J vm'enwi Nef, ynahylch Naf udit;l,

A golles Angel angheifyddafi

Coiles Cymru favvr, gwawr gwreiddaf,

' Cy vvoX. ,ian elgud, giuywddrud, glewaf,
Gwrctdd lyw, nid byvq ba wnaf 6 g. lied!
Gwreiddlow hyged, rhoddged rhvvyddaf.

Gwr a las drofom ; gwr oedd drofa',
Govroedd dios Gymiu, liy y henw/‘f,
Gwrawl Lyweivn, gwiriaf o Gymro,

Gwr ni charei fin, Ir lllrJd nefaf.

Gwrgwrd,! yn c. rchu llu, lied exhaf,
Gwr gwyrddliw Behyli, gwcrfyll gorfaf,

G wi eiddfab Gruffudd, ddi; ratiuf, am reg
Yn nedvifau mawrdeg, Nudd a Mordaf,

GvvT gwayvv-riuUl, gw'r prudd fegis Priaf
Gwr gwivv yn frenhin, fyddin falchaf
Gwr hvlwydti etglod, g \ r liadaf, — am draul,
Jdyd i cerddai haul, i’l- hwyl htllaf,

Gwr dig i ddefiry vv, Ely w ilyleiddaf,
Gwr dygn i alar, car eywiraf,

Gwr eywirgoeth, doeth dttliolaf — oEun
K}d yng Haerleon y lie tecaf.

Gwr fu Llywelyn ger terfyn Taf
Gwr cyhoedd, gwiscoedd gwascarocaf,

Gwr oetld, arbennig, henafovvyr,

Hyci ym liortli Vvygyr*, Eryraraf,

Y g'vr a gymmyrth, engyrth yngaf,
Angau dn s bumoes, drvmloes tlvomaf
A uymero fy Rhv. yf, i hy wiocaf fonedU
Yn rhan trugaredd, fawredd fwyaf.
BLSDnYX Fardd ah cant o ddeutn tz8,2.

^ Awfon \V)gyr, medd rhai, yw Cemacs
yrn Mbi>.

The ^^cteornlogic;’! Diarif^sfor |une:i!id fuly ^^,6 1 Ch.'irnel-hcufes.'iniiCrypt

Lo NL>.‘ 1 A Z h T T S

General Even.
Lloyd’s Evening
St.James’sChrou.
London Chron.
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I’he Sun — Star
VVhicehall Eveti,
London Packet
Enghih i'hron.
Courier — Ev.Ma.
Middletex jouni.
Hue and Cry.
Jasly Advtrtifer
r imes — Briton
viorning Chron.
Gfizstteer, Ledger
Herald — Or cU
S’. Poft World
^‘ubUf ans -f dvei t.
f 3 Weekly Papers
Rath 2, Bnitol 4
RirrejM^ghJim 2
Blackburn
Bucks— Bury
1am bridge 2
Canrerbiary 2
Chelmsford
IChefler

Gentleman i Magazine

J 0 H N’s Gate.

P»i

2I7I!SEtlSf

^*^1 la I I

— X-

Coventry

Cumherland
E'crby, Exeter
Cloutclter
HercfordjHull
Ipf'.vich
Ireland
Leeds 2

Leicfster 2
Lewes

JL-vnrn..^l

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uverpoo! j
Mx id ft one
Maaichefter 2
Newca^le 3
Northampton
Norwich 2
Nottingham
Ox rouD
Reading
Saliflaury
Scot LAND
Sheftleld 2
Sherborne %
-Shicwlhury
Stamford 2
Wincheftef
Whitehaven
W'orcefter
York 3

c o

T A I M I N G

Letter from Dr.Era.nk.UnCoihelLirl ■.)( Buchan 5S7
' Mrs. -All 'rdyce — B.lEops and Temporal Peers 58S
Scriptural Criti'yifm, ati-l Mifcellaii. Remaiks //>

■ Pai ticular Defci'ipltonofthe 1 fla.nd of Coi iica 587
Mr. Tlu). Watfnn — The Author of-Chryfal ctpi
CaruT'.ir — Proteflant and Catholic Churches ;/>
Epr, aph at Mercers Hall on C hauucy Faa'.ily 592

■Sandys’sMonuna 1 7 1 2
— Chat les’.'^ Chair 6 iS '

William the Lion, King of ScotliU 1 — Sterne

5'' 3

' Mr. Ai chdeacon Travi.s and ProfelTorPo! fon 594
Letters of Dr. Hildelley and Vir Richardfon 595'
. Philofophical Realousror ClericalCtu’puIence 59!)
Popular Supeirtition — Cafe of Hyilrd'ph 'hia 598
ScrophulousAhfceT — 3 he Farley liilcript on 599
BriCilh Settlement — Mifcel'an. Ohfervat?on.s 6^ 0
WithernfeyandOwihorne — TheRrownGr b 601
The Garden Infe<ft in Wliite Froth harralefs 602
Mr-ShawL Report of Hiiloryof ''taifordihire 60^
Tlie Progi cfs of an Autlior- — M. Von Fi.iller 6o5

N e v\- ton Fi ai 1 —ChuLzp ‘xtnos
Ti an>-;.tLafitic CoiTe'puuilence — Geo. pierce 619
I ,jt..a.4C '.n Bi’.riai Service — Sii' If.ac Newton 620
t/ncoluOiire Loy:dty Ihevs'm in l-ft Centuiy ih.
Coiliafon's Somerfet -Aftinny-of Lanri-age 621
A Jui'V’Daaa’s' 1 liouglitf on 1 urttpike !fo.ads (>zx'-

Critu|ue on Mr. Eokvel! and on Dr. Johofon 623
Ports Vindicated — A,n .Anecdote o.*" Dr. Watts 621

3 1 ^

I !?

Oiagiral LeitersoT DeanSwnft to Mr. Wmdar 6
On the inttincTve A.rt(icli.)ii of Ardmals. &C 629 j ^
V\'h.it A.bhey Lpinds cihcl’argeJ from Titlics? 627! ''
The Chi'oniclcs of t!'!'' Se.ifoos for ‘spring 1 y 94 6 2 8 1 ;
Pi oceedings t e Lift •'^eihori of Farliamsnt 629!'
Review of New Pu k lic .r a 10 n s 63 3 — 648^/
Index I n j;ic>to r i u s— Queries anrvvered 648
S^EL EC 7 Pp K T RY, nliep.Land M odei o 6 49 — 6 £54
National Convention in Fi ance — FoV. Aff.ors 0

Inteliigencefromv iViousFm ts o.' theContinent 6^7

The Gallic^in Chuixh — Scat. 28 Flea. VllL -607 ‘mponantinitll.gencefroiri l.oiidouGazcf es6"Q
A Two Mouths Tour in Scotland concluded 6 lot On tlie U'mon of CoiTjca with Giera Britain 66^
Ombronnfecer — A Barber’s PoL; — TheCpeed 61,2 Hiftoric.-’lChronide — Dou.elfic Uccurrence.'i 66'i
Free-Mafonry— Reliques of Ancient Poetiy 61 3 Marriages, Deaths, t't cfei nie.nt?, k.c. 6yo—6-c
Glartouhury Se.al— The Langvvorili Family 615 ' Theati'. RegiBer— MonthT Ei.iof rvL.rtaluy 679
^Oliver Cromwell’s Houle -On Dr. Pi ieliiey 617 , Daily Variations in the Prices of the StoCkf- 6Sc

j EmbelMlisd with a Portrait of Sx. Wii.t.iam the Lyon, Kin'g of Scots; wHh
j PiTUrtfque VTews of tlie Sifter Chu.rcfies of Vvi-therms^y and Cvvihorne ^

1 and of Oliver Cromwei.l’s House, *0 C l ee k f n w 1 1, l.

A 2 L n n N U S U 'R B J ' N

.ten

Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero’s Head, Red- Lion Pallage, Fleet-ftree: ;
where all Letters to the Editor are defired to he-addrelfed, Post-paid.

1794.

SJ^.

Meteorological Diaries for June and July 1794.

Wind.

3arom.

Iherm State of Weather in Tune, 1794.

jreet in. ^

VV calm

30,^3

14 2 .0 'dear expanfe, fine day

S calm

i.i rain, moift, fpringing day

3'E calm

.6 blue Iky, very pleafant

a'E calm

.9 ’dark Iky, clears up

NE calm

.7 dark fky, clears up, but little fun

N moderate

29,88

.3 dark Iky, cqld raw day

N moderate

after rain, clouded, fair

W briik ate

.9 clouded, cold without fun

NW moder

.q dark Iky, fun, and pleafant

NW raodera

.8 black clouds, pleafant

S briik

.8 dark Iky, Ihower at night

W Cairn

6 1

.4 black clouds, flight fhow^er

S briftc

.7 dark fley, fhower at night

W moderate

.3 clouds, clears up, and flue

S calm

3^2*^

.9 blue Iky, fultry

SE moderate

2 .0 clear expanfe, fcorching

E briflc

.4 clear expanfe, fine day

SE briik

' clear expanfe, fine day

SF moderate

20 ,81

,2 dark morning, fliower in the night ;

NW gentle

1.8 black clouds, flight fliower P. M'.

iS" calm

6 1

.6 dark thick morning, fine day

jS briflc

2 .2 blue Iky, white clouds, fine day

S calm

1 .1; blue fky, white clouds, flight fhower P.M.

S W calm

.6 /blue fky, white clouds, fine day

Z t

VV ..gentle

2 .0 blue fky, white clouds, fine day

NW briik

.0 blue fky, black and white clouds, fine (fay

W gentle

30 ,12

.1 clear expanfe, fine day

'SW erdm

,1 overcaft, clears up, fine day

29IS brifk

.5 clear expanfe, fine day

30'SVV briik
i

•29,92

.c clear, thunder and rain P.M.

Gathered ripe flravvberries. — 4. Fox-glove in bloom. — 5. CiTckoo-fplf (cicadnla) upon
different plants, — 8. Grafs has grown much in the couife of la'ft week. — ii. Gathered a
Provence rofe.—ia. Several Fields of hay-grafs cut. —13, Thunder at a diftance. — 14. Bar*
ley in the ear.— 16. Bees fwarm. — 17. Wheat in the ear. Thermometer 96 out of doors
four o’cU)ck P.M. Hay harveii become general.

Fall of rain, 1 inch 5-ioths. Evapoi atlon to the 23d of the month, 3 inches 7-ioths j '
after that, owing to accident, no certainty,

IVahgn near Liverp'.oly J- Holt.

' Meteorological IaBle tor July, 1794*

Height

of Fabrenb

eit’sTh

ermoinerer. j

Height

of Fa

hrenheit’s Thcrmom,eter.

D. of

Month.

>X %

‘3arom
in. pts.

W eather
in July 1794.

A ^

'slj

d?:!

.. *

^ 0

00 (c;

. .

"0 «

inE

Barom
io. pts

V/eather
in July 1794.

^une

30,22

fair

1 2

30 >05

fair

>3^

fair

,06

fair

,28

fair

,06

fair

3C>

,01

iair

,18

cloudy

29 ,98

cloudy

1 6

,01

fhowery

30 >15

fair

17.

,01

fair

,01

fair

6 1

,26

fair

6 1

29 ,88

fair

,20

fair

,94

fair

29,98

fair

fco

,90

fair

,92

,89

fhowery

30,18

'■air

•■>57

ihowery

,28

fair

*49

fair

,L9

fair

,90

(bow'ery

643

I 79

1 ,

,18

■fair

1 59

,86

ihowery

W. CARiT, Optician, No, i8z, near Norfoik-Street, Stiaitd,

THE

mans

(587

For- JULY,

1794,

BEING THE FIRST NUMBER OF VOL. LXIV. PART JL

Mr. Urban, Dryburgh Abbey, July iz.
-^WHE very lon^ iiitermif-
w lion or my correlpond-
^ ence with you h^s been
owing to my particular
engagements in litera-

p"'-

vented me from contri¬
buting to your ufeful undertaking. Be¬
ing of opinion, that the wide dilTemina-
tion and extenfion of ufeful knowledge
in both fexes, in all ages and tanks,
ought to be the primary obje61: of every
friend to humanity, I have uniformly,
with my illuftrious fiiend the Great
Wafhington, been a promoter of cheap
and well-digefled periodical publica¬
tions. I have, for three or four years
paft, furniflied a good deal of matter
for Dr. Anderfon’s Journal in Scotland,
called The Bee ; which, from feme dif¬
ficulties in the circulation of it, has
been lately fufpended by the Editor.
Juft attachment to my own country in¬
duced me to give a preference to that
Journal; but now, finding myfelf clif-
engagid, 1 chearfully reafl'ume my lite¬
rary connexion with the Gentleman’s
IMagazine, that truly chafte and re-
fpfc6\able repolitory of erudite and ufe¬
ful information.

As a beginning, I fend you a truly
interefting letter of the worthy Dr«
Franklin. Nothing, in my opinion,
can more furely tend to produce peace,
induftry, and happinefs, in Britain, than
an interchange of citizens with conge¬
nial America ; and whoever difeou-
rages that interchange muft be eonli-
dered as no friend to the happinel's of
either fide of the Atlantic, or the inte-
refts of humanity at large.

Auierica prefents a country founded
upon pure princip es of Chriftian cha¬
nty, and untainted morality as /losing

from that charity, fuch as the world ne«
ver before exhibited. She, therefore,
offers to the refleiffing and inquifitive
mind confiderations and hopes that en¬
ter deep and far into a happier futurity.
I am, Sir, wich^eftetm, your obedient
humble fervant, Buchan. '

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Minljler Extras -
ordinary and Pkni-potentia>r)/ from the United
Stages of America to France, to the Earl of
Buchan.

My Lord, Eajf, March 17, 1783.

I received the letter your Loi dfliip did
me the honour of writing to me the iS:h
paft ; and am much obliged by your kind
congratulations on the return of peace, Which
I hope wnll be lafting.

“ With regard to the terms on wh'ch
lands may be acquired in America, and the
man’ner of beginning new fettlements on
them, 1 cannot give h*;tter information than
may be found in a book lately printed at
London, under fome fuch title as Letters
from a Eennjylvanian Farmer, by Heifoi' St.
John. The only encouragement we hold
oiK to rtrangers are, a good climate, fertile
foil, nvholef jme air and water, plenty of prtwi-
font 'and fuel, good pay for labour, kind neigh¬
bours, good laws, and a hearty welcome. I'he
reft depends on a man’s own induftry and
virtue. Lauds are cheap, but they muft be
bought. All fettlements are undertaken at
private expence ; the publick conti'ibutes
nothing but defence and juftice. 1 have long
obferved of your people, that their fobriety,
frugahty, induftry, and honefty, feldoni
fail of fuccefs in America, and of procuring
them a good cftabhlhment among us.

“ I do not recollecfl the circumftance you
are pleafed to men ion, of my h.aving fav^d
a cit zen at St. Andrew's by giving a turn to
ills diforder ; and I am cm ions to know’
what the diforder was, and what the advice
I gave wh-oh proved fo faiu aty*. With
great reraid, I ha"e the honour to be, my
J.ord, your Lordrbip’s nioft obedient and
moft humble for 'ant, B. Franklin ”

It was a fever in which the Earl of Buchan, then Lord CardroL, lay ftek ai St An¬
drew’s; and the advice w'as, not to blifter according to the old pradlice and the op.iuun of
the learned Dr. Thomas Simfon, brother c'f tlie celebrated geometrician at Glafgow. B.

Mf.

Mrs^ Allardyee. — Bljhops and Temporal Peers ^ Isc, [July,

Mr. Urban, July lo.

iN your Magazine for April, p. 352,
you mention a monumerjt ere6ieci at
Aberdeen to the memory of Mrs. A!\ar~
fiy£( and, in your Obituary for May,
p. 484, notice the death of her lou.

1 lake the liberty of fending you a
more paiticLilar defcription of the mo¬
nument. It is executed by Bacon in
tiiC beft fty’e and tafte, and is a mafteriy
performance.

Two figures, Piety and Benevolence,
in alto rilic'vo, form the principal part,
piety is looking towards Heaven, hold¬
ing the Bible in her hand, on the open
page of which is written,

What doth the Lord God reopiire of
thee, but to do foiily, and to lovs mercy,
and to walk liumbly with. thy God Mi-
cah, vi. 8.

Benevolence has a pelican and nek in
her hand. Between the figures, on
part of a column, is placed an urn
riclily decorated wiih flowers; flowers,
fimblematica! of beauty, but in their na¬
ture of no duration.

On the fiont of the pedeflal, which
fupports the figures, the artift has hap-
y>ilv perfonified the idea of Shakfpeare,
Patience on a monument fmh.ng at
Grief.” On thej^blet is the following
i?aj/o rehrVQ : the hiothcr, nearly expi¬
ring, is tornmitfing 10 th? arms of the
father their infant Ion ; wiiile he, kneel¬
ing at her bedfide in an attitude of grief,
the countenance concealed, is rt-ceivinrr
this pledge of (heir mutual afTcfition. In
this tender moment, with a Imile of pa¬
tience and refignation, fhe points with
pne hand to the chiid, indicative pf
comfort here; her othej- hand’ is lifted
towards Heaven, expreffive of her con¬
fidence that a hippy union of all their
Jpnits flral' take place hereafter.

The inicriptiun is,

f‘ Sacred to the memory of

Ann, *

p-.e wife pf Alexander Alliirclyce, of Dnnottar,
daughter of Alexander Baxter, of Gldfel.
$he was married the 7th Aug.iif, X7’86 ; *
g<ive bh"'(h to het ion
Alexander B,.x’er Allaulyca
the 23d July, and <'epaij:ed t ns 1-fe
at Aberdeen tne ilt Auguit, 178;, agid
28 years.

As a tribute juftly due to the eminent vir¬
tues, gentle rnanuers, and perioual accom-
plifhments, of a moO; amiable 'woman, her
difcoiifolate hufoaiid dedicates this monu¬
ment.”

Yours, &e. ^ Viator.

P. S, The monDinent is placed m ti^e

Weft end of St. Nicholas’s church,

Aberdeen.

M r. Urban, J^^lv 2 3 .

E pleafed to accept a few milcella-
neons ftiidlures on fome of your
precedine IMagazines.

Vol. I^Xin p. 985, col. T. Is not
the expreflion, “ the atfiir is on the fa^
pis, or carpet,” borrowed from the
Houfe of Peers, where the table ufed to
be, and probibly fttll is, covered with a
carpet? if lo, it is eafy to fee how “ to
be on the iapisA. f e. on the table be¬
fore us, cau'e to fignify, to be under
confideration or difculiioii ; w'hich is, I
believe, its nif-nning. I underftand it
is alfo a Ficnch phrafe.

P. 1078. In contrafling a bifliop and
a rernporsl peer, yruir correfpondent
L. L. overlooks one mawrua! difference
bct'xeen them. The bilhop is inrrufted
with an office as well as invefted with
dignity ; but the temporal peer is in¬
vefted with dignity only. The bifhop
does not ajfume a dominion;” be
merelv exercifes, with more or lefs pru¬
dence and dilcietion, what is given him,
and it may be ‘Wver thofe who yefler-
day were up.m an equal footing with
him that is, if they are now part of
his charge. But the temporal peer has
no authority to “exercile over his for¬
mer comiades;” what he received was
honourable rank, accompanied indeed
with valuable privileges, but, ftn^tly
fpeaking, with no power. 1 will not
here enquire into the degree of authority
poffeftLd by bifhops; but the faSi, that
authority, be it more or lei's, is joined
to their office, I hope yotur sorrefpond-
ent him lelf will allow,

P. 1188. The rema'k of the Jews
(John viii. 57), “ Thou art not yet

fifty years eld,” feems by no means to
warrant the ” inference” of your corre¬
fpondent S E. that our hleftvd Lord
“ muft have th'-n bren upwards of
thirty-three.’’ It is not alw.ays eafy,
from the looks of a perfon who is in the
vigour of life, to afeertain his age with¬
in fix or eght years; and, if they
tiiOLight it even poiiib.e that our blelled
Ssviour might be forty, they would na¬
turally take the next round number;
and half a century, as Grotius julily
oblerves, was noihing to the period in
^ueftion, which was about eighteen
centu. ies.

Voi.LXiV. p, 145, col, I. As I have
not fee-n Dr. Syinonds’s Obfervations, X
cannot imaginsj what puzzles him in

I Cor»

1794-1

Scriptural Crituifm, and Mtfcillaneons Bemarh.

\ Cor. viii. 3 : “If any man love God,
the fame is kfio'zvn of him that is,
ackno^vl^clged or approved by him : as,
The Lord hiovjeib the way of the
righteous,” Pl'al. 1. 6. Compare Matt.

XXV. I z. ^

As to Rev. i. m (ib. 146, col, 1), it
is no unufual thmg for words belonging
to one of the feufes to be applied to
another ; as,

“ Et pollquam di^ifis fueranc cum voce Io~
cuti ”

TLe hand

with the tongue.” - Milton.

So too Gen xxvii 27 ; “ See, the fmell
of my (on,” &c. where Patrick may be
confulted.

But here no words could be more
proper than thofe which St. John ufes.
He “ turned to fee d' and that which
occafioned his turning was “ a great
voice” which he heard behind him
(ver. 10); but, till he had looked, he
did not know whether there was or w'as
nor anv perfon ; (o that “to Ice -who ul-
tered the voice” wl 1 not do: it might
be a voice from Heaven, or aiticuiate
words formed miraculoufly in the nir,
without any vifible appearance. The
meaning, therefore, which the circum-
ft.ances require, cannot, I think, any
other way be fo well and fo concilely
exprefled as it is by the Apoflle, I
turned to fee the voice ”

P. 209, col. 2. The “ legendary tale,'’

I believe, is a common one; and it is
lingular that a tal£ fo incredible flrould
be common.

P. 496. The “ Hiftoria Literaria”
was the woik of Dr. C^ve, not of Mr.
Cave.

Pp 497, 49^5. 599> 617. The old in-
fpripnon prouatily is to be read thus :

Muniat hoc templum cruca g,lonftcanS
microcofmum

^se g-^nuit Chi ilium niiferis hoc fiat afilum.”
The only doubtful words are the two in
Itahcks. It is clearly defigned for
verfe ; and it is an inftance of a praffice
which the Roman Catholicks of tins
country, 1 believe, genera. ly drlavow,
prayer to the B eilcd V .rgin. They do
not as thev tell us, prav to the (aint,
but defire the faint to pray fur them:
“ Holy Virgin, pray for us.” But how
fuch an addrefs as this, whether they
choofe to call it prayer or not, can be
made with any profpeef of being heard,
unlefs the faint pofTelles one of the in¬
communicable^ attributes of God, his
pmnipi efence, it leems impofTible to ex¬
plain or comprehend, R. C,

DESCRIPTION OF CORSICA.

H E ifland of Corfica, now happily
uniteo to the Crown of Great Bri¬
tain, is ficuated nearly oppofite to the
main-land of Genoa, between the gulph
of Genoa and the Ifland of Sardinia, and,
according to the be'^ maps which Bufeh-
irg had feen*, is in length thirty-two
miles, and in breadth twelve miles, divi¬
ded almofl lonjqtudiraHv bv a chain of
m' untains ; and indeed the gr^^atefl part
of the ifland is mountainous. Tne foil is
fruitful even on the mountains, except
the highefl, whofe fummits are covered
with fnow the greateft part of the year.
Corn grows very well, and- much flax,
and in many places excellent W'ine, and
cik and chefnuts. In the interior part
of cl le ifland is plenty of cattle, and the
inhabitants drive a great trade with all
forts of them, but more efpecially goats,
wh.ole fleflr is the common food of Cor-
tica. There are feveral mines of iron,
lead, copper, and filver, befides ftones
and mineral -, and a good coral fifliery
on the coaff. Tiie number of parilhes in
1740 W'as 333 ; of villages 427 ; of fires,
46,854 i and of fouls, 120,380; which,
in 1760, amounted to 130,000; Mr. Bof-
well canies it to 220,000.

The kingdom of Corfica was con¬
quered by the G noeL, who drove out
th-e Saracens A. D, 8c6. The Pifan«
took it from the Gmoefe in the iitb
ceniar", ceded it in die following, and
recovered it in the next. Alphoufus V.
King of Arraeon, au-empted, u^ithout
fuccels, to make himfelf mafter of it
1420. In 15 3 3« the French polTclTed
themfclves of the gieatefl part of the
iflrfnd, but ceded ir by the treaty of
Cainbrefis, iS59' *5^4’ the inhabi¬

tants revttlted from die Genoefe ; and,
though reduced to obedience five years
after, preftrved an inveterate averfion to
the Genoef , who treated them with the
utmofl r.gour. An infurretSlion, on oc-
cafion of heavy taxes, broke out 1726,
vvlrich were ended by the interpofition of
the Emperor. In 1 73 5,fiefli troubles broke
out and the iflanders chofe Theo-d'ire
Baron Nsuhof their king ; who, after
fonie exertions, ended his days in prif-.m
for debt at London, where in 1753 a fub-
feription vv.is raifed for him by pulrlic
advertlfcment (XXIII. 99). Peace was
at length letlored during the years 1743
and 1744; and, though our fleet bom¬
barded Bahia 1743, and the malcon-
_ _ - ■ _ ' - - — - ■ - ■ ■ - ^

* Here is Ibme great miltake ; and Mr.
Bofw'ell’s meafures, hereafter given, are
more likely to be correil.

tents

590 A particular Defcrlpilon of the Jjland of Corfica.

tents feizsd the town, it was foon reco¬
vered from them. May 15, 1768, the
Genoefe gave up Corfica to the king of
France as a compenfation for the ex-
pences that crown had been and was to
be at for the redu6fion of the ifland.
Jipril 9, 1769, Comte de Vaux arrived
at Corfica, and made a progrcfs. May
J3, Paoli and his friends embarked at
Porto Vecchio on board a velfel carrying
Knglifh colours, July 18, France ceded
it to the king of Sardinia ; and the Duke
gle Chablais, the king’s brother, pre¬
pared to take poli'efiion of it. (Vol.

XLIV. p. 384).

The cbrgy are very numerous, and
there are 68 convents of Cordeliers, Ca¬
puchins, and Servites. The revenues
of the ifland were applied by the Genoese,
in time of peace, to maintain governors,
officers, and foldiers : the furplus has
never exceeded 40,000 Genoele livres.

The chain ot mcjuntaitts divides the
ifland into two unequal parts, and thefe
again are fubdivided into dillrlfils or pro¬
vinces of different tribunals and fiefs, and
thefeagain intopieves, paiiihes,and psezes.

Thus much from Bulching’s Geogra¬
phy, XII. 297—306. For farther par¬
ticulars we muft refer to a map of the
ifland in our vol. XXVIi. p. 441 ; to
Mr. Bofw’elPs defeription of it, and of
its chief Paoli, publifhed 1778 ^ and our
a>bflra£I of it, XXXVIII. lyz.

Mr. Bofvvell makes the length of the
ifland 150 miles, the breadth from 40
to 53 miles, and the circumference 322
miles. It is charmingly fituated in the
Meditenanean, whence continual breezes
fan and cool ic in fummtr, and the fur¬
rounding body of water keeps it warm in
winter; fo that it is one of the moff
t-*mperate countries in that quarter of
Europe. Tlie air is frelh and healthful
dxcept in one or two places. It is re-
iTiarkably well furniifitd with good har¬
bours. Tiie great divifion of it is into
the country on this and on that fide of
The mountains, reckoning from Baflia,
into nine provinces, and into many pieves,
fontarring each a certain number of pa-
riflies. Every paeje, or village, e]v6fs
annually a and two other magnf-

tiatcs, called padri del commune-^ and
rnce a year all the inhabitants of tacb
village alTembleand clioofe ■&. procurator e
to repreient them in the geneial conjulia
f'"- oarh-unent of the nation, made up of
feveral who have been fonTieilv members
of lire fupreme council, 01 have loft near
relations in the fervice of their country.
Tlic inagiiii ates of each piovincc fend ,

alfo a procuratore i and two of thofe of
the provinces, together with the procu-
ratore of their magidrates, are chofen to
eltfl the prefident to prefide in the gene¬
ral confulta, and an orator to read the
papers fubjeifled to deliberation. Tlie
General’s office much refembles that of
the Stadcholder. The government ex¬
hibits a complete and well ordered demo¬
cracy. Paoli appeared to Mr. B. to have
no great propenfity to an alliance with
any foreign povver; but wc trull our na¬
tion have fince been fafficienrly unde¬
ceived in their opinions of the Corficans,
and the latter have overcome their ob-
jeftions; and that Paoli’s firm perfuafion
that God would interpole to give free¬
dom to Corfica, and the prefentiment of
Roulfeau, that one day this ifland would
allonifh Europe, will be accomplifhed.

Mr. URBAiJ, July

REMEMBER, when the French
miniflersvvere treating about Corfica
many years ago, that the neutral and
hoflile nations dwelt much upon the
importance of that ifland to the French
as a repofitory of growing naval timber,
and more erpecially ad vantageous as be¬
ing in the vicinity of Toulon. Now,
Mr. Urban, I have never heard anv au-
rhentic folution of that queftion ; and
the publick would be obliged if, through
your medium, any intelligent carr§-
I'pondeut would determine the fame,
and in what part the woods (if any) for
the fupply of a navy grow. It has a
coarle cheap white wine in tolerable
plenty, and, I believe, a good l^arbour
in St Fiorenza; which, during any
pofTeffion of by friends in future, may
he looked upon by us both as a negative
and politive . good, but not to that
amount as to be equivalent to the ex-
pence of keeping it ourfelves. I have
viewed it mylelf from the fea many
years ago, when in the hands of the
Genoefe, but faw, what I only thougt t
it to have, a barren fuiface devoid of
woods.

Whllfl; we are on the wing of enquiry
in one article of Natural Hiflory, per¬
mit me to p.fk, whether any informant
cm denounce if the Cafpian lake, or
lea, as it is fometirnes called, be in any
degree fnlc or brackifli ? I have often
had thoughts of afking the late good
and inquiiitive commijiiontr Jonas Han-
way th s queftion, who could have pre-
citely lolved it, but as often forgot. I
have not his Travels by me ; but others
may remember what he fays on this

fubieft,

r *

[ 794*] Watfon. — The Author of ChryfaL — Cafimlr. - 5gs

ubje6^, or fpeak perhaps from their
)wn knowledge,

A QjJONDAM Correspondent,

Mr. Urban, July 17*

MUST^ beg that you will be fo good
as to give an early infertion in your
Vlagazine of my apology for milleading
;our readers about the real author of
‘ Intimations apd Evklences of a future
jtate.*' In attempting to correft a mif-
ake of yours, Mr. Urban, 1 fell into
)ne myfelf. You may remember shat,
n one of your numbers, you had inti-
nated your conjefturcs that yourcorre-
pondent Mr. Thomas Watfon, of Wig-
till, was the author of the faid publi-
?ation, which I certainly knew was not
be cafe ; and I, trufling to the autho-
ity of the Monthly Reviewers, and
)ther publications, aferibed the work to
he late Mr. Thomas Wation, near
Faunton : and now it appears, from
Mr. Toulmin’s letter, that I, in my
urn, W2S miftaken. I can affure that
gentleman, that I had no defire to lub-
fitute invention for truth to injure iiis
Tiend, nor todifcredit your Mifcellany
ay palming my vague tancies upon the
jubltck. As the book was aferibed by
:reditable pubheations to that author,
jnd uncontradiftfcd as far as I knewj
ind as 1 was certain that you were mil-
:aken in thinking it the production of
i^our friend of that name, the miftake
was natural enough on my part; and l
fhould fuppofe Mr. Toulmin will now
be fatisfied that 1 had no intentions of
injuring the reputation of his departed
friend. ‘

There is another Mr, Thomas Wat¬
fon, a clergyman of the Engiifli church,
an acquaintai-ce of mine, refiding neajT
Halifax, in Yorklhire, abundantly ca¬
pable of writing fuch a work ; but, whe¬
ther he be ready the author or not, I
do not know J . R.

Mr. Urban, July i.

FTER having been a reader of
your valuable work for twenty
years, and having perufed all your vo¬
lumes in feparate numbers through the
flreets of London (for my friends know
me to be a t/alking reader mrny years),
I am at laft tempted to become a corre-
Ipordent by the perulal ot lorne inte-
rdting articles in your number for June.
1 fliad, how'-ver, begin by informing
your (dd navy olTl.er, p. c^^z, that an

Irifli gentleman, a Mr. Johnflone, is the
author of the excellent fatirical novel
“ Chryfal.” This information I had
fome years ago from an intimate friend
of his, Mr. Bonham, a very valuable
member of fociety, an Iriflt gentleman,
and refident in London many years. I
know not whether Mr. Johnflone has
added any thing to his literary fame or
not lince the publication of Chryfal,
which was fo well received.

For the information of a gentleman,
who fome time ago enquired about a
tranflation of the celebrated Cafimir, I
lhall obferve, that there is a fcarce little
work, containing only a part of his Odes,
tianllated by G. H. /. e. G. Hils, as
appears from a fhort Latin Dedications
“ Viro veie generofo, et meritiflime a.
me colendo, Bernardo Hyde armigero.^’
From the Dedication he appears to have
been ti^tor to Mr. Hyde’s fons. The
tranflation, being executed 14S years
ago, is in the old dry, dole, anti inhar¬
monious ilyle. It would perhaps amule
an x\ntiquary, or ai»l a reader not wtli
acquainted with Latin lyric poetry.
Should the enquirer With to fee a few
Odes in Mr. Hils’s antient drefs, I
would tranicribe them with pleafure foe
a future number.

But now for the chief aim of this let¬
ter, which relates particularly to the
hints thrown out in June about a coali¬
tion between the Protc.flant and R man
Catholic churches. How ddiiable an.
obje6t to all lovers of evangelic concord!
But, to conejuer the prejudices of parties
fo long divided, bic labor, hoc opus g/?.
To follow the allubon of the Poet, re-
"jocare gradum fuperafque evader e ai
auras, that is, to tread back our fteps,
and breathe the free and liberal air of the
bed Proteflant wr ters j when, I fay, is
that to be expeded from the Clergy of
the Gallican Church ? I will venture to
affirm, and it is a Roman Catholick that;
fays it, that they are not fo well ac¬
quainted with our good writers of every
kind as we are witlr theirs. 1 have con-
vcrled with many of them, who have
emigrated even from Normandy, who
never heard of our Dr. Johnfon, and
who know nothing of our befl Proteflant
divines. Whence then is the light, as a
Proreftant would fay, to break in upon
them? 1 always tliought that the giand
partition between both Churches was
their opinion of tlie Sactament, and all
the appendages and fupeifrrufturc erett-
e<,l on that opinion. Who is to give up
the untenable ground ? I am lure there

are

* Tins point is cleared up, p. 6 16. Eba r-

592 Frotejtant and Catholic Churches,-— ^hs Cliauncy Family, f Juty

are points the Proteftants never can, and
never will. It (f.tnis vv« want on both
fides half a dozen Fenelons to fettle the
buhnefs. I have no expedfations fiom
the flaffjing and nnfoibearing Boffuefs of
eithei fide. Mach may be expelled bom
a few Beringtons, did vv.c polUfs them;
and fu'ch a man alio as Dr. Geddes might
do much, and would go a great wav,
with headinefs and prudence, whatever
Mr. Milner might iliink to the contrary.
I have the honour of kn-iwing Dr. G,
and think him an excell nt member of
iociety. In company, f;e takes every
proper opportunity of throwing out the
l)eft maxims for the condudl of both
fexes, without the leaft air of dogma-
tifin. He is fond of the fociety of young
men, who are equally fond of his, not to
make profelvtes, hut becaufe he loves
the candour, the warmth, and honeliy of
youth.

Bat, to return. How lamentable is it,
at leafl in my mind, that, fince the Re¬
formation, the Roman Catholic fervice
has not been p ^formed throughout Eu¬
rope in the langaage of the country ! Can
the repetiri m of a few Pater-nolErs and
Ave Marias by a piovis, [ admit, and
illiterate audience, be compared to the
intelligible and manly lerviceof the Pio-
tedanc Chuich, where every heart and
voice join in the bme fentiments ?
But this would be a great ftndc towards
your Church. And vet 1 have heard
the Proteftant fervice highly praifeJ by
an elegant and liberal member of the
CatVioiic Church, Dr. Barret, vicar ge¬
neral of the diocefe of Kiilalo ", and even
commended, in a pamphlet written 20
years ago by that gentleman. It will be
a wonderful revolution fnould it ever
take p’ace, and it feems to be now pre¬
paring, though 1 am fotry to fee it is
per damnay per c^edes, but the Reforma¬
tion, though now fixed and trarquiil, has
bad its fl'iare of blood and flaaghter to
wade through.

Thefe obfervations come, Mr. Urban,
from a man who knows much of the 'ar¬
cana of the Roman Catholic religion,
having fpent many years in one of the
lirii'teh feminaries in Paris, where he
faw the unremitting difcipline, the felt-
denial, and fan'^liiy (however exploded
the term may be to modtra ears), of
many doctors of that Chu»ch. But, af¬
ter 30 years rehdence in England, he
knows that Protellants can julfly bo.itt
of their Jortin, Lowth, Pearce, Porceus,
and an iiundred others. What is the
confequence ? We individually cry up

the learning and virtue of the merriber
of onr own communion, vvhiie collec'
tively we lament that fuch great and wor¬
thy men cannot or will not coalefce.

Tire writer of this article is fcniibl
ho^v unimportant his fentiments mult b(
on a fubjedf of inch magnitude. Pie onh
ventures’ to give a modefl: hint, tf) p©in
out the tl ffjcuitics of the navigatioi
which lead to the harlrour of coalition
His maxim has been, wnrh the great rnaf-
ter of life and manneis, Hora'fe, to foJlo<A
tlie fallsntzs Jemita Since his re-

fidence in England, he has had offer;
from a worthy friend of a good living,
could he prevail on himfeif to adopt -i
new rchg'on with worldly intereft thrown
into the fcaie. He could not follow the
example of his old fellow-frudent and
countryman, the Rev. Thomas O’Beirnej
formerly chap.ain to L' rcl Howe, and
quondam (ecretary to the Duke of Port¬
land. He d'oes not blame his old friend;
he only fays that the fame convidtion hag
not flifhed upon his iotelh^ls, though he
never was called a Saint the L’ifh col¬
lege like fome of his friends. Unfortu¬
nately, be became a poet and fatirift in a
foil then adverfc to freedom, which drove
him to the Land of Liioerty (a circum-
fraacc which he can never regict) ; and
he thus freelv declares that, though a
Roman Catholick, all his friends and
acquaintance are for the mod: pait Pro-
teftants. They know he onlv heks and
vviihev for truth, if arij one would kindly’’
point out the way to her temple ; and he
has been ever ed!fit"i f)v the candour and
iroeralicy of their fcntiment«.

Yours, &c. John Phelan,
Libranan to (he CaUr^e oj Phy-
jicrans o4 London.

Mr. Urban, July

GAINST the wall of Merctr. hall
anti chapel is a muial monument
coniilling of a pyramid of frlue marble
behind an urn, under which is a bafc
w id* this infcfjption :

In t’ne adjoining vault
nrg depofite-.l ti-ie remains
of rHiLip Chauncy, efq.
who died April 30, 1763, aged 63 \ ears ;

of \'I I's. Mary C m a u n c v ,
who died Jan. 29, 1784, aged. 52 years;

and of Nat h.ani£l Chauncy, elq.

■who died Jan. 29, 1790, aged 73 years.

Arms: Gules, a crols fl n y Or, on
a chi' f. Sable, a lion palJant Or.

The wiiole is the work of the late Mr.
J. Spiilcr, whofc death is te.crded in
your prclcnt volume, p. 48^, Jb Q..

Mr.

6re^UzJM}u/. tZuly. ^2^^-

s^ a\"illia:\i king or scots,

Surniimed- Hie ITT ON.

The I^of//u/er the Th' /title -iFeieeu*

^herdee?t, n'here he h(7eh^ hds Chtt^te/., hhe ahi^

JP/ace iReJ /he t/ienP

1794*] William Lion, <?/ Scotland* — Sterne. 593

M r. U R ?• A N’ , 2 O.

HE frvri vert of the Trinity friers,
ar Abe’^Hevp, is generally aMf)\ved
to have been founded by King WiD'am
the Lion, in the twelfth century, where
he had a chapel, and nfreu ufed to live
the*re him'eif tn r°':irenrient,

•Dr. Wdliam Guild, principal of the
king’s college, and one of the minifters
of Aberdeen, obtained a of this

fpot, with the premif'es, from Kmg'
Charles the Fi'ft, and made them over
to the incorporated trades of that burgh.
Over the ga^e of the ha!!, which now
generally goes by the title of the trades-
hall, tlte name of Dr. Guild, Jn letters
01" gold, at this day is to he feen.

The painting, of which a copy is
herewith fent vou plate /•), cuts a

confj^icuous figure among the many old
p rtiaiis iu tliat ha 1. But Mr. Uiban
will not expetfl any fort of prottf that it
was taken from. the original, tht ugh
there is great reafon to believe that it is
a wry aniienr painting, poffibly as o.’d
as tlie time of the Trinity friers, or
pvlotiiurine rnunks, as they were alfo
called. The fiame is of maify oak.

One of thefe monks, by name Huwe,
is mentioned in the Ragman Roll, anno
1296; and one would imagine that
every thing about this hall was fidl jn-
tended t j keep up the appear-tnee of an-
tiqu ty 5 the proportions of the great
loom, the lengtli whereof is 64 feet,
and the breadth only 17; the height is
the fame*. Bf en the furniture has
preferved the fame llyle of antiquity.
There are two carved chairs, the lateft
whereof was done in the year 1574*

There was alfo an old chapei ficua'ted
near the hall, which was pulled down
the other d iv in oider to build a giand
church for clie incorporated trades, and
of which t Ihali probably have occafmn
to give you fome account hereafter. L.

Mr. Urban, M^i*chefer, "June 18.

S notiling tends m-.>re to dtgtade
and cx'inguifh real fennment and

* 1 am I old' that thefe are nearly the pro-
porlu.ns ot many of the 100ms in VVindfor
Cafilv, Hampton Court, and other autient
hui’.dii gs, both in England and Scotland ;
but tins point, Mr. Urban, I leave to your
detf rminaiion entirely either to print or
flip;-, refs it. The building of the tradet-hall
for ten feet high is veiy old ; and this lower
fiory is now divdded into twelve fepoaie
spartments for poorpradefmen. The upper
Itory IS more modern.

Glnt. Mag. Juh’y » 794-

religion than to aflociate thefe with buf"
foonry and obfcenity; hence 1 have al¬
ways looked upon Sterne to be one of
the mofi dangerous writers of his time.
It is Tii.e, the I'upnofed origiua ity of his
iaukhing and crying in the lame breath,
and breaking through every rule of or¬
der and common fenfe, at firll diew an
audience round this literary mountebank j
but it feems now, that even the poor
mer t of ra'king nonfenfe in a new way
is denied to him. In addition to the
proofs of plagiarifm vvhich your corre-
fpoirdent, p. 406, has brought ajainlt
this wtiter, 1 wiih to lefer the reader to

An Ellay towards the Theory of the
Jnitl'igible World, by Gabriel John,’*
(uppofed to be Tom D’Uify, piib'ifhed
in the firft year of the preient century ;
to whirh, I chmk, the author of Trif-
tram and the bencimental Journey is
greatly indebted for the eccentric man¬
ner of his writing. In this we have a
Preface in the middle of the work, fec-
tions concerning weathercocks and but¬
ton-holes, a ch-^pter which is announ¬
ced CO be the be ft in the book, and ano¬
ther which the reader is defired not to
lo.)k into. And yet, Mr. Urban, 1 am
acquainted with men of edusution, who,
at the prefent dj»y, are apes of the mi¬
mic Sieriie, and who value themf'elves
on pofftlling what they call the Shan-
dean ftyle. J. M.

OMM ^

O ! limed foul, that, flruggUng to be fi ee,
Alt more engag’d 1” Hami. et^

Mr, Urban, June 30.

I PITY you from my heait. More
.2- laft words of the three heavenly wit-
nelRs ! The gentleman, who calls him
{tii your friend, comes forth in your lad
number, and feems defirous to engage
in the controvei Ty. His letter, 1 think,
may be reduced to three heads.

Firft, he is angry vvith your Reviewer
for fuppofing that Mr. Porlon’s letters
may be fufficient to confute Mr. I'ravis,
even though it lliould be alloi.\ ed that
not one of the MbS. now found in the
Panfian library lielongs to the lift ufed
by R. Stephens in his folio edition.

Sesondly, he alierts that Mi. Poi Ton’s
arguments are all borrowed.

'Fhi'd.y, he half piomiles to give a
B RE VI ATE of the contioveiTy.

In aniwer to the firft, give my re-
Cptftful complui.eius to your Reviewer^
and tell him chat he has made coo hafty
a eoncellion. Alt. Travis has done no-

thmg

^OA Remarks on A^r. Travis* — Letters of Dr. HiMefley, ^e.

thing lefs than proved the non-identity of
fhe MSS. by the fpecimens already pro¬
duced. Let him publilh his entire col¬
lation, and we fliall be better enabled to
fornn a judgement.

The fecond is a form’dable objection
truly ! Porfon himlelf having for¬

mally dilclaimed all pretenfions to no¬
velty, as any of your readers may fee
by looking at tf s beginning of his fe-
cond letter, or in your vol LIX p. loi.
In return, I beg to know how much
new mat'er Mr. Travis has added, from
his own dock, erron exempted?

On the third I obferve, that you feem
alieady to have had enough of the
controverly. Such too Teems to have
been Air. Porfon’s opinion, when he
took the rubje6f out of your Miicellany
to treat it in a more convenient place
and manner. It is difficult to difeufs
fuch a quediqn properly with the inter¬
ruptions which your plan rendeis ne-
telTary. I fubmit it, therefore, to your
friends whether he would not do better
to lick that mafs of knowledge, with
which his mind teems, into rhe form of
a pamphlet, than to extra6l it by piece¬
meal at monthly intervals.

Whether this gentleman be a new-
dubbed knight, tvjho Jleeps on brambles
till ke kills' his man, or the doughty
champion himfelf, who wears his beaver
down left bis perfon ffiould be known
and his challenge refilled, I am willing
to enter the lids with him on the fulfil¬
ment of one indifpenfable previous con¬
dition.

I believe that 1 fliall do no injudice
to Mr. Travis and your friend (if they
are two), by luppofing that they edeem
the defence of R. Stephens, as newly
furbifiied up, to be the brighted piece
of armour in the hero’s panoplia dogma-
tica. In comparing the readings of the
Paris MSS. w'th the marginal readings
of R. Stephens’s edition, he makes, a-
mong other aiTertlon?, the following ;

1. P,^ge 225. That MS. (Par. No.

1 12), reads oi [aoi sv rtj

cnxAiyfsytcr.a otxv in Alait. xix. 28; but
the MS £ of R, Stephens read oi awo-

(/.oi hc(.roXr,v oro(.y Iq

the coirefponding p-flage.

2. P. 231. R. Srephens affirms, that

his MS. ^ read ^laroA'/iv Matt,

xix. 28 ; neither of whieh words are
found in that pallage in iVtS. 47

3. P. 233. R Stephens allirnis, that

his MS. i read in Matt,

xix. 28 : but the MS. 49 has neither of
thofe words in this paffiage.

4. P 227. Rs S-epher.s affirms, that
all his MSS. read a,(psc>}v'i<xl ay in Maft.
ix. 2: but tfie MS. No. 112, now in
quedion, reads ipsunlxl act in this paf-
lage.

5. P. 230 That MS. (No. 72) reads
octpiccjvlai crot in Matt. ix. 2 : .but R. Ste^
phens affirms, that ALL his AISS. read
a^scuUcti ay in this verfe.

6. P. 233. The MS 49 reads
onplctjyloii aoi o(,i otiAv^toci in Mutt. ix. 2 ;
but all R. Stephens's MSS. read utpicovloii
cry in this paffiage.

Now, Sir, I affiert, on the other hand,
that every one of thefe fix alfertions con¬
tains a dire6l and abfoiute falfehood.
The previous condition, at which 1 juft
now hinted, is an explicit anlwer to the
follow ing queries :

(Lu I. Has Mr. Travis really com¬
mitted thefe errors or not

Qu. 2. Ought not an author, wffio is
capable of making I'uch ridiculous, inch
infantine blunders, or of aderting fuch
palpable falfehoods, to be deprived ipfo
fa^o of all right to engage in a literary
wa.-fare }

It is diverting enough to hear Mr,
'I'lavis and his myrmidons exclaim a-
gaind the want of candour and Iffi^rahty
m their opponents. They always bring
to my nr!in,d the dory of the c.onv!6f,
who complained bitterly of the unpolite
behaviour of the judge in condemning
him. U RB ANO Amicior.

Letters of Doctors PIiloeslev,

Hales, Leland, and Mr. Sa-

muelRichardson.

Mr. Urban, Chelfea, June 30.
HE ready attention with which vou
inferted in your pamphlet'^ Dr,
Doddr tlge’s letter to Dr. Hildeft-y is
not unnoticed. Aly friend Mr. Gi-
berne, no IcL than myfelf, feels encou¬
raged to add the following, which he
referved from amidft manyotheis: an.d
to fc,e them in the lift of your perma¬
nent publications will be a circumdance
of fatisfaSlion to us both.

To colleft a fel of medals, nr of an-
tient portraits, lias, at ti.mes, been the
eager purfuit of ingenious and good
men. What 1 now forward to you are'
not unworthy of the like regard ; and to
ciais on the fame line a Hildeftey, a

^ See Mag. for May la^, P- 415-

Kichardfon^

>794-]

Original Letter of Dr. Hilcieiley.

Richarclfon, a Hales, and a Leland, is
to form a conHellation of no ordinary
lulbe. They were all of the btnign
afpedt; they did not live in vain j they
{’peak forcibly, and from tlse heart ; and
thus once more exhibit a proof of the
old and an'mating adage,

Great fouls by infllndt to each father turn,
Demand aliaance, and in friendihip burn.
The good B. (hop’s two letters, and
the nanative of his lafi illnefs and de«
ceafe. Teemed too interefling to be omit¬
ted. Such of thefe papers as you prefer,
or all of them, if approved, are at your
fervice. They are genuine; the origi¬
nals are here inclofed for your inlpec-
tion ; and I give them to your readers,
that, like my relation end myfe'f, they
may be at once arnufed and advantaged.

Yours, VVn. Butler.

LETTER I.

Dr. Hii.desley to the
Miss Ithells.

Hitchin, 13 Dec. y 754*
NOTHING could excuie the liberty
I take of intruding a book upon the la¬
dies at the Temple — who, 1 doubt not,
are amply fuinifhed vvdth choice of the
bell; of every kind — but my thorough
perluabon, that what 1 here prelume to
recommend to tluir perufal will be
quite acceptable to them.

if this he iowked upon as a compli¬
ment, I can only fay, it is a ju-fl one.
’Tis too {ure, tliar, in this age of variety
of (elf- filing engagements, ttiere are not
many to he found who have a relifli for
fuch fuhlime and fpiritual enjoyment as
thefe “ Meditations ’ are capable of af¬
fording. It gives me great pleafure to
think how you will ootli rejoice in them ;
and how ready vou wi1i U: to (ay, with
Dr. Young, and feme otheis who ad¬
mire them, that “ they Ihould never be
far out of our reach.”

Were this world and its contents de-
figned for our chief end and happinel'',
right it might leem to be, as anxious,
and folicitous, and eager, as we lee the
generality of its votaries are, — to obtain
and puifue the gratifications peculiar to.
our animal frame and mortal condition.
But, if our true and permanent felicity
is to be had and fought elfewheit,'
namely, in a (late as different as earth is
from heaven, and time from eternity ;
if the dole of a few more revolutions of
the fame fort of unfatisfying days,
months, and years, we have already pad,
will indantly convince us of tins uitier-

ence, when it will avail us little to re¬
member what degree or dation of life
vve have filled lure, hut what we have
known, and done, of the will of HIM
that placed us in it; [then] from the^e
corrfiderations we are naturally led to
think, farther, That, ag fure as God' is a
fpitit,, the joys of heaven muff be fp'ni--
tual\ that even our bodies, with whxh
we are to arlfe, are to he Tpiritualiftd, — -
for, flcfii and blood cannot inherit, can¬
not partake, or have any fenfe of, tire
delights of the ki.^geiom purchafed by
the blood of Chrid.

What, then, mud needs he the trued
wifcjoin of a rational thinking creature,
but to provide in earned for this ctr-
taif!, tr.e<v'\tahle change ! that it may be,
with all advantage, to eternitv Rut,
alas ! how few are there To vviTe an-d To
thinking I If rhoTe I am now W'riting
to arc, — as I conceive they are, — of the
number of the few, I have my end in,
and (hall need no apology for, this ad-
dreTs. My incapacity, which has of late
increaTed, of being To uTeful to, and
converTant with, the family I the mod
revere of any under my charge, has been
one inducement to this unufual manner
of application to them, of which 1 pro-
mife mvTclf their candid and favourable
acceptance; and fubfetibe, with my ear¬
ned prayers for their improvement and
perfevtrance in w'hatever may tend to
their everlading welfare, Mr. and the
Mifs Ithell’s fincerely obedient and ob-
ligod humble lervant, M. HildesleY.

The above letter, or perhaps the
unkuow'n volume referred to, is thus
fuperTcnbed ;

my worthy
and

highly -edeemtd parifhioners,
TEliztbeth’l

Mrs. < and > Ithell,

L Martha J
thefe Meditations
are humbly prefented

their obedient and faithful pador,

M. H.

LETTER IL

Mr. S. Richardson, Author of
Clarissa, Grandison, and Pa¬
mela, TO A Lady.

Madam, l-ondoj, Jan. 10,

I AM very lorry that the Bifliop lays,
“ He dare not call me his friend.” No
one living could value the good ^tcar of

tiilchi

59^ Original Letter of Mr. Richardfon. — Clerical Corpulence. [July,

Jtiitchin more than I (Hfl, for the fake of
bi'^ charaf^er, before I had ihe p'eafure
of bsine vifited by him as Bijljop of Maf?;
and moff heartily I con^rratulateci in my
mind the people comioitted to his charge,
on the’.r happinefs not fuiTeiing by their
change.

To myfelf, in the letters he favoured
me with, I always thought him too con-
clefcending, too hum bit ; and is he not
fo, in the notice he takes of me in the
paper !>efore me? 1 thought myfelf
verv happy in meeting, at the inn

at Barney the go’'d Mr. Mddtt-n.ev, on
l;is return from I^cnt. Dr. You’ g dmed
with me there ; and it was with regret
that I could not engage him to do ib
too ; but he had tpo good rea'ons to deny
me that ple.sfure. My InibneU lav al-
wa’ s heavy upon me. I never. ,in two
or three vears, c'ou'd make n vific to Dr.
Y'oung of more t' .•’o three or four days,
cut and in; hut. ttad I known that tiie
good Vicar of Hiichin had formed but
l!.a!f a vvifh t- he me there. 1 would
have got Dr. Young (both gcntlemea
! ie(pe£t'.ng each otlt^r greatly) to h^ive
ihewed me tlte way.

[ had the favour of a vift, at my
boufe in town, from his Lortldiip; and,
mectiag him afterwards in the hrect, I
knew that he was in movn p’-epaiing for
bisdiocefe; and, if I lorget not. 1 was
led to hope for another viltt hef >ie h s
dt pa'-ture. But little did I know that
bis Lordthip was bx wdt'h; weeks tn
town, while mv bufinels led me fo near
him; if I had. I llv-uld have held my-
feif incxcufable not to have paid my
duty to him in aii that time.

I have a very bneere lerpe^i: for this
worthy Prelate. He has an amiaiile af-
pe6f, and a cheay fulntf in his manner,
that B-emed to me an affurance that ail
nvas ri^ht ^vithtn. 1 had interefled my¬
felf in bis w'eifarr, and fliould have re¬
joiced in an account of it, in Ins new
lettlement. His^ Lordihip is very good
tome, in. his kind proir.sfe x\Qi to free
me, in future, occabonaliy, fiom what
be calls hi.s intrufions. He has not, any
where, a n.iore buccre well- vvibur. I
fhould rake it for a favour to be conb-
dered by fo worthv a Divine as mare
than cn acquai’riance.

Many h-^ppy returns of ihc feafon at¬
tend your Laclyfhip, and all vou love,
prays. Madam, your mob fanhful and
obliged fervan^ S. Rj C H A K D S ON.

(Jbf Lorre] panience ^ill be con^

UKued,)

Mr. Urban, Juve i6.

AVING been lately emoloyed in
the perufal of Dr. Arl)u hnot’s ju¬
dicious “ ElPay on Aliments,’’ fome re¬
marks, which are made between the
28th and 32d pages of the volume in
o6iavo, have gwen rife to a few rhougbts
that I tfdnk may, in borne meafure. lay
claim to orig^nalify ; at Icaif I have ne¬
ver been tl.ern before 1 and, if you
fljou'd think t'ley.mlgfit p-ove not tin n-
t'erefti.ng to fame of vour readers, you
will be kind enough to give them a co¬
lumn as 'bon as you conveniently can ;
2!ul by fo doing you will fihbge the wri¬
ter of rhefe li ne*., who rh'nk- they may
be of fome ufe, in order to invalidate an
invidious charge (frerpiently fake) which
is efterr iiiade againft the general body of
C!e'rick.s.

It not unfreqvienrly happens ihat the
piiefts of our iand are “deck’d with
health,” and are both c rpu'ent and of a
ruddy complex'on. Now, the cenforious
part of the tvorld aferibe this to indo¬
lence and luxurious ditc. Tlie ignorant
believe the accidati' 11 to be a true one ;
a 'd thus are rhut truly valuable part of
fociety vilified and lightly eileemed by
fuch a large proportion of mankind as
are the cenloiious and the ignorant.
But, if there i.e any truth in Dw Ar-
buihnot’s aberrion of the lungs beirg
“ rbe chief inilrument f)f banguification,
and that the aniniai, udio has that o'gan
fau'ty, can never be duly rourilhed,”
then the Anaromifi and PraTjoiogift wi'l
be able to accou'nt for clerical obtdrey
avid floridnefs on b fs invidious p'iuc'.oles
than thobe which airiioetliem to lazinels
a; d Iv-gh-li ving. By the periodical du¬
ties of tl.cir profedlion their lungs aie
neceffarily put in a6lion, and continued
fo lor fome fpace of time. Now it is
well known , by all m inkind (however
cppof.’e their prailice may be to their
knoxvledge) that general mufcular exer¬
tions, as nvalkirtg, riding. See. contritiute
to general health, anti that exertions of
any pai ricular lei of mulcles tend, in a
particular manner, to invigorate and
ifrengthen thole muAdes in a lupsrior
degree to luch as arc kept in a more
(|'deicent flate ; witneB the arms of a
VY arerman or Blackimiih, tiie legs of a
Dancing- mafter, and the bra wnvfhouhiers
of a Porter. Tiius the lungs of a Cler¬
gy man being exerted bv reading and
preaching, luch exercile has a natural
tentfency to keep that organ in a Hate of

hcrikh;,

1 794-] Philofophicnl P.eafons far Clerical Corpulence, 597

liesich, an<] to removf f.i^bt defers ;
and, confcfjU' ntiv, as fan^uification and
Kuintion are thereby hettt r obtained than
bv rVie lunps heinc^ only emplov*'d in
the unavoidable a6t of r':fp!r:>rion, rite
riecelTary inference tbeacc nr. uil be. that
Clericks are a><)re likely to be florid
and fat than other men, wbofe oexupa-
tions do not fo qiuch lead them to pul¬
monary exertions for the purpofe of
fp^-akir^.

Xhe lame reafon'n^ hobls good wl h
rtfpe^f to fuch pesfons, in the. other de¬
partments (b life, as are employed moch
in oratorv ; many of tliem approach, in
rotunnitv of aop-^arance, to Shakfoeare’s
Sir John P.uncii, and often "‘laid the
lean earth as' thevVwdk along.” B.'t
this (lots not invariably happen; f t,
while lome of ih;rn are, bke F'alflaff,
“ horfe-back-breakers, and huge hills i.f
fljifh,” there are otliers who are “ Oarve-
iings, dry’d neats’ tongues, flock-fn'ies,
and tailors’ yards.” Tlie ftage aliords
proofs of tills ; and the two leading
Ipeakers of our fetiare are arguments
pro aiid con — Mr. F. is corpulent, Mr.
P. is lean.

In obje<flion to tbe fyOem here ad¬
vanced, lome w,ig may archly obferve,
that “the under ing« of the Ch.urch, the
curates, and fuch as read moft, and eat
and dnnk leafl, are genera'ly the leajt
cQ'pnlent P' l)ut, as excijfrjs exercife
ruay debilitate and weaken the whole
frame, inflead of flrengtl'.en ng it, fo loo
much fpeaking may impede the nutrinve
fundfi 'ins of rite lungs, and thus produce
leannei : and, befldes, it is geneially
tbe cafe, ih«c perfons much given to
oratory are addi£fed to dole budy,
\v hich isanothtr caufe that operates ag iinfl:
the repletion of the bod/. However,
taking the fubjeof in a general view, vye
Iliall find that moJeraie exetc'fc of the
lungs in e’ocutixrn cont.'^ibures to corpu-
lence ; and the ale-bibber, who diinks
near a gallon a day, and i-s grown fo fat
as to be, like tbe facetious knight, al-
moft out of all compafs,” peihaps is
not lefs indebted to that loud vocifera¬
tion, that Tinging and roaring, which
generally accompanies inebriety, than r©
tiie nutritious ([uaiicies of ins cerev/fial
potation. "rUc few lafl: words mav in¬
duce fome of your readers, Mr. Urban,
to fuppofe the author of this letter to-'be
fome Lexiplianic [ edagogue, fond of
uflng uncommon terms wlren a plainer
rliddion would be more exprellive and
n.ore elegant ; but he beg, leave to hint
to them, tiiat li.ey mult not corjedure

who lie ; for, if they guefs from week’s
end to week's end. they will ftill be ig¬
norant of liim. N^-irher mwfl they fiip-
pofw him to he Dr. Lickorifh, Dr. Wil¬
lis, or Dr. Stonhoufe, or an'/ oth r rif
their aerpuintanr e, although he flgns
liiir/e!r Cr.ERo-'VlEkicus.

I>y way of P. S. g ve me icavc to fug-
gefl to medical pratticioners and orhe*'?,
that ilicic ate many cafes of Confump-
t’on wh'^re the hefi nrefcripuon would
be for the patient 10 read aloud fonte
hou s in tlie dav, p.articu lar! v an. hour
brfoie dinn^'r. No ntaoer liow flow ard
deldeiate the ratent reads; Itut Ic is
n.it to he dercricd from tbe tii d becau’c
it fatigues bun at JirJi . Ha'dr will iu
tbi^ c.de, a-, in other , render titat ea'^'
wiui.ii was at firfl diflicu’t and weart-
fome ; and prohablv it will clftOl fuch a
citange in his health, tliar th- peifon,
who was reduced to a fate to languid
thi-it he could fc^ircely articulate a fen-
tence to be audiirle at the diftance of a
few yards, will in a fhort lime be able to
fpe k in fuch a manner as Dr. Arm-
flreng deferibes in his poem on the atc
of p'eferving health; that is, to *• nvteld
the thunder of Demolihenes V To ail
fedentary perfons this exercife is mofl:
excellently falutary ; and therefore wo¬
men in tafy hfg Ihould in general he ac-
cuitomed to it from an early period,
wliich won'id g've, to n any a fallow cem-
plc.sion that novv itc^uires rouge, a blouru
riic're capt. rating than the nicelt art could
poflmlv beflo'vv; and, at the fame time,
the mind would be thercliy furnifhtd
with i^*eas for profitable converracion. —
I could fay much more in praife of itj
but, my paper being filled, I am con-
ftrained to finun my fentimenrs, in hopes
thn your valuable Magaz ne will ire the
channel of con ve ting ttiein. to the infpec-
tion of others; and thiu^, Itr, 1 bid you,
for the prtfen', farewel !

Mr. Urban, July i.

T N an Twer to B. b. p. 4.43, I enn in-
^ form ht,m that, about two years
1 was app'icd ro for fllver to make a
ring for a young girl of the place wlierc
1 live (Glouceitt I flili e), l)uc not io the
linie way your correlpcndent '■vas. The
giil’s n'lOther came to me; and, after a
prelude of, “ Sir, I h.<pe you will ex-
cuf'e my boidnefs!” “ 1 do not wifh to
(•ffend yoia!” “ I beg your pardon for
troubling you!” &;c. ikc, with a great
many more intiodudtorv phfales, wliicli
abnefi put me out of counten . nee, not
being able to guefs what dieadlul tale

jtc

5^8 Popular Superftltlon. — Remarkable Cafe of Hydrophobia, [July

fie nvould unfold — t length (be fald,
that h< r daughter, a young girl in her
teens, was very much troubled with
convulfton fits. “ Well 1” cried I, a
little recovered from the furorize fl»e
had occafU'rned, “ do you mjftake me
for a Doftor “No, Sir, but I carne
to beg that yt^tJ will colle£f five fix-
pence s of five di fife re nt batchelois, which
yon will be fo good as to convey by the
bands of a Batchelor to a fmith who is a
batcheior, for him to make a ring for
mv daughter, to cure her fits.” Thus
the mighty bufinef'- was out. It was to
be kept a profound fecret; not the per-
fons who gave the rttoney were to know
%vhat for or whom thev gave it to. I did as
defired; and, behold I it cured the girl.
This I can affirm. Now, Mr. Urban,
1 think with your correlpondent B. b,
that it muft be the power of imagination
entirely that did this. I have fince
■known more infiances with the lame ef-
icSt, though differing as to the number
of fix*perices, fome taking three, levtn,
or nine, to make the ring’^.

Yours, &c. Bocr.tomensis,

refuarlahle Cufs of HYDROPHOBIA.

Mr. Urban, JuneiS.

A S the {ullowicg Irnfortunare cafe of
that dreadful maUdy, the canine
TOadnefs, may operate as a caution to
praditioners, and prove beneficial to
the publi’ck, I beg the favour of you to
infert it in your next, and you will ob-
iige your humble fervant,

G. North Robin son , Surgeon,
Chip-Norton, Oxfordfirire.

Early on Friday morning the 13th
infiant I was requefted to fee John
Edwards (about 40 years of age), at
Swerford, near Chm-N >rton, Oxford-
Ihire, who had received a bite orr the
band from a mad dog upwards of eight
months before. He was then attended
by a young gentleman of ihe faculty,
who, after the ufe of the knife and
caufiick, unfortunately undertook to
cure or prevent the fciFe-6ls of the wound
by means of faiivation, m preference to
the ufua! and mod effcftua! remedy,
the fea-water. The means made ule of
to promote a free difeharge of fdliva fo
far fucceeded ; but, as it ultimately and
evidently appeal's, did neither correct
nor exterminate the aend virus, or
cattle of this deplorable difeale.

O.a Monday the 9'h infiant the pa¬
tient felt a pain and tingling of the

* See ourlM>exIisDicATORius this month.

hand and arm, beginning in the part
where the hire was received, and pro¬
ceeding upwards, towards the back part
O'! the head. As he had no idea of the
caufe nor confequences, no notice was
taken of this partial affe5lion, as he
confidered it to be only rheumatic, and
he with fome difficulty purfued his ulual
avocations, until 'VVednefflay the iith
infiant, when apparent fymptoms of
hydrophobia were perceived, and the
gentleman who before attended him
was fent for. It was alfo thought ne-
ceiTary to confult Mr. Harris, of Hook-
Norton, near Swerford, a g-ntlemm
who h iS the care of maniacal patients.
R ood was drawn from the arm, the
ftraight waificoat put on, and a pdl,
containing one grain of opium and two
grains of calomel, adminiftered every
four hours, but without quieting the
convulfive motions of the whole I'yfiem
in the leafi deprec. Under thefe teni-
ble and unremitting afieilions the un¬
fortunate patient laboured the whole of
Thurfdav night; and, as before-men¬
tioned, I was requefied to fee him on
Friday morning. About feven o’clock
I found him in the rneft agitated and
commiferating fiate, with a very quick
weak pulle, and an intolerable tliirfi,
which at this time could not be allevi¬
ated by liquids. As air, and the fight of
every kind of fluid, aggravated the dif-
eafe, and feemed to occafion an appre-
henfion of fufiocation, i tried both oil and
milk, by means of a feather nioiftened
with the fame, iiut in vain. 1 then mixed
a little powder-fugar with freffi butter,
which was taken from a fpoon with
much avidity, and anfwered the pur-
pofe of moiftening the mouth and fauces
exceedingly well. I then fcarified the
difeafed arm, above the wrift, and both
the legs, with the' (canficatcr, and ap¬
plied blifiers'over the fame, as an ex¬
ternal fiimulus, to derive, if polfibie,
fome of the morbid matter from the
more fenfitive and vital parts. I con-
fulted with Mr. Harris, to alter the
pills, and to adminifter them more
often ; upon which the patient took
one of the pills as follows every hour
during the violence of the paroxyfms :

R; Camphor ^ ifs Opii ^ fs Calo¬
mel gr. X. ft, m^iifa in pil. xxx.

The good effefts of this plan were
evidently demonftrated by fooq dimi-
niffiing the irritability and violence of
the convulhons ; for, by two o’c'oek in
the day, thefe commotions were in a

great

17g4-l Remarlable Hydrophobia, — Scrophukus Ahfcejje!,

599

great meafure quieted, and the patient
began ro take thin liquuls freely, as
gruel, &c. and made conliderable quan*
tiftes of high-coloured urine at inter¬
vals. I law him again in the evening,
and found him very calm and quiet,
and perfe6\ly fenfible, but extremely
faint, and he Teemed to entertain hopes
of recovery. Upon this remiffion of the
paroxvfms, I thought no time lliould
be loft in adminiftering the bark, there¬
fore ordered the following mixture :

Pulv. Cort. Periiv, ^ is
— — • Rad. Serpent. Viig.

Aq. Menthae Vulg. ^ viij
Sp. Sal. Marinse ^ j niift. fu-
mar. Cochl. iij laVga tertia qua-
que hora.

The pstient larguiflied until 8 o’clock
«n Saturday morning, without any vio¬
lent return of the parr xyTms; To that
he had a more caiy and quiet paflage
out of th's world than could be expe6t-
ed ttnder the foregoing circumdances.

Though this cafe proved irrecovera¬
bly loft, from the patient’s ilrength be¬
ing ft) nearly exhaufted, which he had
not perfe£lly recovei ed fince the procrTs
of falivation, and from the unremitting
violence of the difeafe, until the opiun>,
united with camphor, by being more
r>'^ten adminiftered, abated the Tpafnao-
dic convu'ftons of Nature ; ycr, had
this been Tooner effefted, I fiiould have
flattered myfelf with a more favourable
iftue.

N. B. As going to the Tea, in acci¬
dents of this kind, is by Tome defpiled,
and the ufe of the knife and cauftick
may, in many cafes, be precarious, par¬
ticularly in deep wounds of the tendi¬
nous or vafcular parrs, — query, to ob¬
viate fuch difficulties, without the ex¬
tirpation of the limb, would not rubbing
a moderate quantity of Ung. Hydrar-
gyrus upon the injured pirt, together
with an internal medicine, fuch as the
mixture prefcribed in the aforefaid cafe,
be a very likely means to obviate or
eradicate the caufe of ths difeafe ?

eafv and fuccefsful Method of
treating Scrophulom or Sinus Abfceffes.

Having, in feveral inftances, found
the following method fuccefsful in the
cure of fcrophulous and finus abfctfles,
particularly in a cafe of long (landing,
with three excenftve finufes, one in the
thigh, another in the hip, and the tuird
over the fuperior part of the os facruna,
attended with a confiderable difeharge,

and which had been turned out of an
infirmary incurable, 1 take this oppor¬
tunity to offer it to the publick.

Dry lint applied to the orifice of the
wound, and a comprefs moiftened with
Aq. Z nc! VitiioUri Camph- twice or
thrice a-day, and a proper bandage,
were the oftiy outward applications,;
and inrernally, to adults, four large
fpoonfuls of the following infufion
every morning about ii o’c'oek, and
again about 4 in the afternoon ; and
every night and morning ten drops of
Acidum Muriaticum in camomile tea.

The infufion:

R Cort. Ulmi & Cort. Qjuerci aa Ibfs

Rad. Liquor ^ 4

Aq. Calcis lb ix. Infunde pti dies
uj, et cola.

IVfr. Urban, Jtefy 7.

DISSATISFT.D with the manner
in which your correfpondent F. M.
reads the old infenption at Farlev
church, p. 497, I had a mind to try if
I could not ftiike out fomerhing that
would at lead afford a ineaning, which
cannot well be elicited from the words
he gives us. Whether I have fuc-
ceeded muft be left to the judgem&nt of
your re iders.

In looking at the infeription as deli¬
neated in plate f. fitj. j, h ftruck me
diie^ily that the words, though ranged
like profe, wete real y two hexoneter
verfes, vvhich I read thus:

“ Mimiat lioc templum cruce glorificans mk
crocofmum : [lum.’"

Qua genuit Chriftum miferis prece fiat afy-

Of which, for want’of a better, accept
the following tranflation :

“ May he, whofecrofsfor man has glory won.
Far from this church all harm remove ;
And may her prayers, who calls tliat Saviour
A refuge to the wretched prove!” fSo>',

Yours, &C. POLYPRAGMON.

Mr. Urban, June 24.

The letter in p. 30, figned S. A. is
ft) obfeure, that, tiil an anfwer
was begun at p. 127, I was at a lofs to-
know what it meant. * Inconfiftent and
abfurd in other refpe6ls, it would pro¬
bably have pjffed unnoticed by your
readers, if one, who feems to be touch¬
ed, had not called for fbrne attention
to it.

As far, however, as his letter goes in
that number, he leaves the matter as
much in the daik, to the generality of

the

6oC> T Ian for Eritifli Settlement . — Alifcellaneous Ohfei'Vatlo,ns.

the refiners, as it was before he be'^an.
lie fpeaks o'' a p'an which he means
to c'rculate through vour extenbve con-
ireyance, a plan wh'CM it is his t'utv to
pioniote — of a perpetual warfare rhat
has been carried on for the deitru.ffion
of the dcfign— that it will be bis duty to
bring the a6fois before the judgement
of tfieir country— that S,. A. is not ig
iroiant of the calumny that has been
made the inllrument of fo much mtf-
chief — ihat the party whofe catsfe he
cfpoufes have abandoned their pofr, and
jttirtd from the field, adding to a dif-
gracefu! conttft a more difgracefut de¬
feat. Hr ilien enters wno a phimloph'-
cal dirquifition, and there he breaks off
for the time, leaving us juft whee we
were as to noy intornration retpefling
ihe plan, the nature or the nppohtion,
of the ai'fo'S in it, or of the calumny.

in p. 29S, Mr. Yi ung pu.s^his name
to thie ccncl ution of the letter, the Bift
p3'. t of which had no Bgnature. We
now are get a little faither; \\e find at
ieaft wh.o it is that frit (ore. He talks
of the aceju fit on of a trafil of Wc<fie
land for the purpole wf a B’itifi) !et?!e-
ment; but where this wafie land lies, or
what \s mea^'^y a Bnt'tfi (ettlement,
ire forgets to tell us. He makes fiuiae
pertinent obfervai ions on S A’s incou-
fillencies whuh ;o be fure are g aring
enough, tot' ch e s .] i ghtl v on being char¬
ged wiih iifiug cler ov-ducks, makes
home geneiai rt flrxi■''n^, and ends hts
letter; but,' having forget wiiat he fat
down to expLin, namely, his plan, the
nature of the opp-rfition to u, and the atft-
0(S, he adds a PS, bv which a h uit is
j>iven of fume place of reformation
wh ch might have been letn at \Va!.
worth in 1791. W'hether it is how to
be (etn any where we know no more
than we did when wt frit our.

If the writer of this is the M'o Y.
who w'as foriiter'y feeretary to tfie Ph.i-
lan'-hropic Society, and I'or whofe di{-
in (bon the governors of that Society
gave realons to the publick ligned with
their names, it will throw lome light on
tlie bufintfs, which (might to be ex-
p)a ned.

F. K-’s obfer vations. p 304. are very
jutt. Let me add iliat, wiien a gentle¬
man has taken lubfci q tions for a book,
be ounht net to publifh a part of that
woik /eparateiy. I allude to Mr. Blore’s
publifhing fmgiy a li ftory of Wiefi.id,
in Dctbylhi.'e, when his liilloiy ot that
touaty m going on.

Y uui s, &1C. CL X#

(L ^

Mr. IJrsan, yune

CAN the dates of the yeais in the
epitaph on George Felton and E'f-
zabeth his wife be right in p. 297, col.
I r” In col. Z- of the preceding pags»
I rq, we fliould read “ p. 198 and,
1 . 6 i , “ p • 9 9 ”

In p. 306, col. I, !. 7» me fhould read
Forburv, Reading as in p. 485,
col. 2, I. 58.

In the t tie-page of your Magazine
for laft month the name of “ Porfon” is
errcneoufly fubfiituted for that of
“ Gibbon.”

Pp. 402, 403. L. L’s fatisfaflory no¬
tice or the enquiry relative to Doletus,
irt p. 1985 merits acknowledgernenr.
Neither the “Ode on Lrafni us’s Death,’’
nor the “ Eoiitie to C.ardinal Tc'urnon,”
occurs in the (carce edition, wiih which,
he is “acquainted on'y by report.”

Ml'/ Hildeflcy’s anfvver to Dr. D )d-
(Pidge’s letter, in p. 415, 16, is pui)-
iiihed in Mr. Sredntan’s valuable col-
l-6lh)n of “ Lecfer.s to and from Dr.
Doddridge,” p. 460 — 465 ; vvlience it
appems th.rt the prefennent, p.jf-

feifed by hiin, came to him “ by lot in
rh" rotation (.f vacancies of the college
livings,” It was Hicchin, in Hertford-
fhue, one of tlie livings in the gift of
T'nnity college, Cambr. [See p. 595.]
Tite ingenious conjeCfure ’ of
E. E. A, in p. 42.6, will not be admit¬
ted by thofe who recollecff, that the paf-
fages produced from “Common Senlc”
are to be found njerhatim atrsonti the
“ Mi fcellaneous Pieces” of Lord Cbet-
terfield ; who, with Lord Lyttelton,
had tlie principal fliare in this per odical
paper, which commenced on Feb. 5,
1737, and was continued to J >n, 27,
1719. Lmtot does not appear to have
“ hid any fiiare in the coiidu6i” of it.
Two volumes in (mail o61a‘’0, contain¬
ing thefe papers, with the tfiiee num¬
bers of Frog’i Journal by Lord Chefier-
field, were printed in 1738 and 1739,
and lold by J. Purfer, in VVYaite Friers,
and G, Hiukins, in F eet-freet —
W’ould jciinfon have exprclfcd bimifeif
io lightly as his Loidih.p does in the
la!l words of Canidia’s cuaracfer in p.
427.^ The “internal evidence” - here
(urely po nts out the Peer, and not the
“ Moralift” or the “ Divine.”

P. 441, col. 2, i. 10, for “ 4u>” read
“ folio.” Ruddiman was a!(o the edi¬
tor of two o6lavo volum-s of Latin
ep files of Kings J^,me.s 1 Vk and V, and
of Qu"^^ Maiy, of Scotland, printed
at Eumburgh in 1722. Scrutator.

Mr,

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Oi^ivER Cromwell's IIoxisE^CLRRKEisrvv^ELL Close .

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II .p.

1794-] and Owuiovnt,— The Brown Gruh^ ^ 6oi

Mr. LTrbak, June 26.

X has been well obfervcd by the Hif*
torian of Durham, tliat, “to pre-
ferve to after-times the mcmones of
thole buildings, of which not even the
names will remain to denote their fitua-
tion, is no infignificant puifu'.t in the
traveller; who thereby confiens to pof-
terity the evidences of thole circum-
flances which will be momentous to a’l
apes.” Influenced by this opinion, I
take the liberty of giving, in your va¬
luable Repofltory, “ a local habitation”
to a building of which the exidence will
be of very fliort duration ; of perpetua¬
ting the memory of two churches, which
wi 1 foon ceafe to exiil even in the re¬
membrance of the parifliioners^ f/*/. //.)
Xhey are the two little churches of Wi¬
the rn fey and Owthorne (or Overthorne),
mentioned by C'itnden, called, from the
fillers who buili them, Sifter-kirks, and
not far from Conftable Burton.

Qvvthorne is fituated on the very edge
of the cliff on the Eaflern fide of Holder^
nefsj and fo dangeroufly expofed to the
violence of the fea as to induce the pa-
rifhioners to take it down k)r the pur-
pofe of ere6ling a new one in a more fe-
cure fl;uation. EborACENSIS,

Mr. Urban, June

N your April Magazine, p. 3i7> a
correfpondent requetls a method of
deftroying the dirty brown Grub. As I
find no anfwer returned in yours for
May, I will give him fome information
that may be of ufe to him. Some years
ago, I broke up fix acres of old lay
ground, and lowed them with peas.
Walking in the field fome time after
the peas were up, 1 obferved a great
number of them gnawed off juft above
the ground; and, immediately recogni¬
zing my old acquaintance the Grubs, I
tuined up fome pieces of the turf that
were left, and found one or more of
them under every piece ; on which I
lent for fome women and children to
pick the field over, and ordered them to
bring me what they had gathered in the
afternoon, which was about a peck ;
afterwards they threw them into the ri¬
ver that ran clofe by. 1 had the field
picked ovei twice, and fuppofc J might
dtftroy a bufliel and a half, or two
bufhels, of the Grubs; by which i laved
my peas, and had a decent crop.

Some time after, my gardener told
me, that one of his melon plants in a
frame had been gnawed off the precs-
Gent. Mag. Julyt 1794.

ding night ; which I foon difeovered
had been done by my old enemy; on
which I t!ire61:ed him to cut a turf, and
lay it, grafs dov\nward, near the plants ;
and in the morning the marauder was
caught in the trap. I would, therefore,
recommend to him to lay fevera! pieces
of turf where he thinks the enemy is
likely to make an attempt; and 1 doubt
not but he will fucceed in his ambuf-
cade. Yours, &c, R. B.

Mr. Urban, June 6.

IN anfwer to J. O. p. 435, who wifties
to be informed refpefting what ihofe
antmalcula are engendered from, which
appear at this feafon upon flirubs and
flowers enveloped in froth, be pleafed
to inforn him, that they are engendered
(like moft animalcula) from the eggs
of the parent animal. The infedl in
queftion belongs to the Linnean genus
Cicada^ of the order hhmiptera, a ge¬
nus containing feveral lingular fpecies,
and particularly the fly called in France
la Cigale, which is fo remarkable for
the apparatus by which it produces
founds, which apparatus has been
accurately in veftigated, and admi¬
rably deferibed, by the indefatigable
Reaumur, in his Hijioire des I'lJeStesd*
The fpecies of which J. O. defiies the
hiftory is Cicada Spumaria Linn, of
which the Larva (or infedi: in its firffc
ftate) is polfeffed of the lingular pro¬
perty of emitting from different parts of
its body the frothy fubftance in which it
is found, and under the llielcer of which,
it undergoes its metamorphofes, till it
emerges from its more humble ftate of
exiftence in the form of a fly. To a
philofophic inveftigator of the works of
Nature, there is nothing more admirable
than the means provided by the all-wfife
Parent of the Univerfe for enablingf
animals either to refill or efcape from
their enemies; and the wonderful man¬
ner in which thefe means are appor¬
tioned to their multiplying power, the
number of their enemies, ^leir ftrength^
agility, &c. The lion has its teeth and
fangs, and the floth its cry of diflrefs,
which has been faid to conquer tiie
fiercenefs of its enemies. Among tlis
moft defencelefs animals, the tribe of
infers may generally be reckoned ; and
particularly that part of them which,
in their earlier ftages, are pofTefTcd of few
locoiflotive powers, and are nor provided
with any w'eapons of defence. It is
amoDgft this tribe of animalS; therefore,

that

6o2 The Garden In feB, enveloped In White Frolh, harmlefs. []uly^

that we {liall meet with the greateft va¬
riety of thofe contrivances by which
the weak and defencelefs are enabled to
efcaire the fight and elude the vigilance
of the more powerful, of whom they
would otherwife be the prey. It is, no
doubt, with this view, that this dimin'u-
tive infcft is provided with the power
of concealing itielf in its own froth;
which may likewife ferve the purpofe
of preferving from the too vivid rt^ys of
the Sun its very delicate and tender
frame. The Cicada Sputnaria in its dy
ftate is thus delcrib'^d by Barbut (Gen.
Inf p. 12c;), or rather by Geoffroi, of
whofe woik upon Infefls the former is
litt'e more th m an abftra^f.

‘‘ Amongil the fpecies of this country
th’S is one of the largeft ; it is of a brown co¬
lour, often inclining to green ; the head,
thorax, and clyflra, are finely dotted ; on ttiefe
lafl are fetn two white fpots, ohlong and
tranfverfe, arifing from '.he outer edge oi the
elytra, the one higher, the other lower, but
not quite reaching to the inner edge ; fo
that the bands by them formed acrofs the
elytra are interrupted in t!ie middle. The
under part of the infedl is of a light brown,’^

J. O. may make h’tnfelf quite eafy
with refpeft to any mifehief to be ap»
prehended from this inlt^f, which, in
all ftages, is believ-d to be pcrfeftly in¬
nocent. Many of the circumliances
hinted at in this llioit account might
furnifli materials for long and curious
invsRigations refpe^fing the nature of
animals; if they ferve the purpofe (f
exciting the curiofity of lome amohgfl;
thofe who are opprelfed by the weight
of time, and rendered unhappy by a
leifure which- they know not how to
employ ; if they are the means of draw¬
ing any from idlenefs and inanity to the
fludy of the philofopby of Natural Hi!-
tory (a ftudy which muih be highly gia-
tdying to all who are endowed with the
bitfliug of curiofity, and have minds
capable of intellhftual enjoyment), my
purpofe m writing, this will be fully
anfwered. En TOMQioGUS.

Mr. Urban, lum 1 3.

N p- 435, I obferve a very ingenious
correipondent enquires into the na¬
ture of that fpeciesof infe6isv which pro¬
ceeds from the white froth fo frequentiy
to be feen in the Spring months on all
all kinds of vegetables in every part of
England. Many writers have imagined
the fpume to proceed from the exhala¬
tion of rhe earth. Some elleemed it the
faliva ©f the cuckoo; whence, its vulgar

denomination “ cuckoo-fpit others,
the extravafited juices of plants, or an
hardened dew. But all thefe opinions
are equally erroneous. The froth pro¬
ceeds from a frnal'l infefi, wh'ch inciofes
itfelf within it, with an oblong obtufs
body, a large bead, and fmall eyes.
The animal emirs the fpurne from many
parts of its bcKly, iinde>goes its changes
witliin it, then burlls into a winged
Bate, and flies abroad in fearch of us
mate. It is perfecllv innoxirms; has
four wings; the two external ones <>f a
dufky brown maiked with two white
(pots.

A Derbyshire Entomologist.

Mr. Urban, Hart/horn, June 14.

OUR excellent Mifcellany has long
and very juftly been efteemed a
moft extenlive vehicle for the fugitive
fentiments and remarks of your nume¬
rous correfpondents, as well as a great
variety of literal y, hiftorical, and other
articles of real value, which the late
learned hiftorian, E. Gibbon, well ob-
ferves in your prefent voiume, p. 6-.
And let rne add, ihat it is a!fo an ad¬
mirable court of literary judicature,
where the merits of all writers are
weighed in a fair and eejuitabie fcale,,
and the pleadings of all pa-iies are
faithfu ly* and liberally recorded.

As the truth of theie obfervations is
grounded upon experience, I hope once
more to be indulged with a place when
convenient, that I may, through this
difFufive channel, inform any diftant
friends and fubfsribers of my progrefs
fince they lafl heard from rne, after the
fortunate recovery of the long-Iofl trea-
fnre colle^fed by Dr. Wilkes and the
Rev. T. Feilde*.

The ftrft occurrence to which I wifli
to call their attention was the purchafe
of thirteen volumes, folio, of “ Stafford
MSS.” fo lettered on their handlome
old binding. Thefe confift of tran-
feripts of all the antient deeds, court-
rolls, and other curious evidences,
formerly belonging to the great barony
of Stafford, The perfon who firft took,
upon hinu that name, and built his caftle
there, was Robert de Tonei, or Todeni,
a Norman, a great favourite and rela¬
tion of William the Cbnqqeror ; to
whom that king, for his fervices, when
he had fub'dued this kingdom, gave an
imrnenfe fortune, and made him lord of
no lefs than 131 townfliips, whereof 81

^ See your vol. LXIIL p. zio.

lay

1 794*1 Shaw’s Report of Pro^rffs for StafFordfliire.

603

lav in this county, as appears from
Domefclay Book.

His defceiidants were crested earis of
Stsffot d and dukes of B ickint;ham ; the
]a(l of which, named F-dwaid, was at¬
tainted of high tieafon, and beheaded
May 17, i^zijiipon Tower- hill, whofe
fon Henry was rcfiored in blood two
years after by the title of Lord Stafford,
lie was a man of preat learning, and
an Anriquary, being keeper of the re¬
cords in the Tou'er, according to Stoyv,
in the time of (Lneen Elizabeth. And I
have the fatisfadtion to Snd, from a va¬
riety of evidence, that he was the chief
colleftor of the above corious volumes,
which, from their bulk and nature,
could not have end iefs than 150I. tran-
fcribing. But they came to me at a mo¬
derate price in Mr. King’s auction- room,
K'og-llreet, Covent garden, April 20,
1793; and, being then too much elated
with my accidental purchafe to make
any cool enquiries, ] only now imper-
fedlly recolledt that they were in a cata¬
logue of the joint librants of Dr Speed
j(I think, of Southamjrton ), and ano¬
ther gentleman. I fiiould, therefore,
be glad to receive farther information
refpedfing them, and how they puffed
in fuch good prereryation from their no¬
ble repofitory, Thorn bury caftle, in
Gloucefterflui e, the feat of the dukes
of Buckingham ^ of which honour
three of my volumes contains many cu¬
rious illuftrations from Inquifuions,
Court-rolls, &c. at the fervice’ of Mr.
Biglaod, if fuicahle to his plan, or any
ocher hiflorian of that county.

Permit me here to offer my beft thanks
10 that rerpedtable lociety, the College
of Arms, for the very liberal indul¬
gence of accefs to the valuable collec-
iions of MSS there depofued*, particu¬
larly Sir William Du’gdde’s Vifjtation
of Statfordlliire, whence 1 copied a
great vaiiety of church notes, inlcrip-
fions, , nd drawings of arms and monq-
mtnisj clpecially thpfe beiutiful ones
xvhich (o richly ado ned the cathedral
of Lichfield helore-the fad deflru&ion
made by thole laciilegious fanaticks in
the civil wars. At the fame lime, with
mucli furrow and regret, let me add my
poor tribute of condulance at the late-
IhoTing fate of the two worthy mem¬
bers, j. C Brooke and B. Pingo, efq.
who were arnongfl the fixceeri untori?u-
nate fuflerers at the theatre in the Hay-
maiket (from *tfie former of whom,
as an eminent Antiquar v Herald, and

* :>cc the obituary for February, p. 1^7.

very promifing friend, I had flattered
myfelf with the hopes of much aflifl-
ance) ; an event which muff ever be
rem.ernhered with horror while huma¬
nity exiffs, and will doubtiefs be a fub-
jedf of future dread rill fome plan, like
Captain Project’s in your laft Magazine,
p. 12 2, be adopted, to render the ac¬
cefs to public places fafe and “commo-
d lous.

Bu‘, to return to the main defign of
my letter; I muff acknowledge mv obli¬
gations to the right honourable the Earl
of Lticefter for the ufe of his copy of
the antient Regifter of Totbury pnory,
Irkewife for an elegant plate of that cu¬
rious church.

By the right honourable the Earl of
Uxbridge I have been bonouied with
the moff flattering patronage, and libe¬
ral accefs to his very noble and curious
archives j whence I have procured the
original Regifier of Burton abbey in the
higheft prel’ervation, together with an
abundant variety of antient roils, Saxon
and other charters, &c. illuftiative of
the immenfe property uhich, on the
riiffolution of that religious houfe, was
granted to William Lord Paget. Thefe
are certainly of the utmofl confequence
to, and will with fidelity and care be
incorporated in, the firfl volume. To
the Hon. Earl Ferrers I am alfo

obliged for accefs to his curious ar¬
chives, which greatly illuffrate the an¬
tic nc baronial feat of that family at
Chartley, and other manors in the
.countv of Staff rd'. By the Right Hon.
Lord Dudley 1 am promiled a plate of
Ills antient and mofl pidlurefque caflle,
from an excellent drawing in my col-
ledfion, taken by an eminent artift for
Dr. Wilkes. Nor can 1 omit this op¬
portunity of exprelfing my grateful obli-
gaiions to the honourable and right re-
vsrepd the biflaop, and to the dean and
chapter of Lichfield, fof their generous
contributions to perpetuate that beauti¬
ful cattiedral, and other diflinguilhed
maiks of their wifhes to promote the
undertaking. And particulatly am I
obliged to the Rev. DrT Falconer for
having declined a fimilar publication,
and liberally given me his colledlions
and interefl in the county. L'kewife to
the Rev. Theophili^s Buckeridge, a
well-known Antiquary, and correfpond-
ent in your Magazine, I have the fatis*
fadfion to add my beft acknowledge¬
ments for a curious engraving, and
other favours. From the Muleum of
the late Mr, Greene I am indulged by

hii

^04 Air. Report of Prcgrefs for [July

his fon with the ufe of fome MSS. con-
cerninor Lichfield, and a plate of Bi(hop
Hacket’s monument, engraved by Hol¬
lar. Mv thanks arc likevvife due to the
Rev. Henry White for his friendly
aids ; and to S. Simpfon, efq. town-
clerk of Lichfield.

To jof. Loxdale, of Lythwood, near
Shrewil)ury, efq. 1 am greatly obliged
for all the original MSS. (chiefly relating
to the hundreds of Pirehill and T otman-
How) written by his relation the Rev.
Thomas Loxdale, vicar of Leek ; which
preferment he refigned 1735,
afterwards reftor of Tixall, as appears
by his own very ufefu! and entertaining
parochial accounts. To Sir Nigel B.
Giefiey, hart 1 am obliged for the ufe
of man V curiousi records, &c. By Ri¬
chard Gough, efq. author of that fplen-
clid work, “ Sepulchral Monuments,”
the new edition of Camden’s Britannia,
&c. I have been honoured with peculiar
favours. To Thomas Pennant, efq. I
am much indebted for many excellent
remaiks and deTcripcions in this county,
as well as for the piomife of fome vahi-
able drawinicJS in his poireflion. Mt,
Blore and Mr. Nichols, the Hiftorians
of Derbyfhire and Leiceflerflure, have
my bell acknowledgements for their
d.'flinguiflted lervices; likewife the Rev.
Dr. Nalh, the Worcefterfliire Hifloiian,
for a very full account of the partflies
of Clent and Arlev, written by the
learned Bifhop Lvttehon. To Edward
Croxall, efq. 1 mull exprefs my watm-
eft tlianks for the very liberal ufe of bis
old deeds and court-rolls, lllullrative of
the manor of Aldridge, &c. Alio, to
Richard Dyott, efq. for a copy of the
large and carious furvey of the honour
of Tutbury in the time of Queen Eli¬
zabeth, and for other elTentiai ierviccs.
Likevvife, to Samuel Steele Perkins,
efq. for the ufe of an excellent cFiartu-
1 iry from the library of W- H. C Flo-
yer, efq. relating to Hints and Weftoa
under Lizard. To Richard Wilkes
Unett, efq. the heir to Dr. Wilkes’s
MSS. 1 am under particular obligations.

The Rev. Thomas Shaw Heliier has
very k nd y lent me his excellent copies
of [’uinbach’s incomparable MSS, which
fo fully and clearly record tlie manetiai
hifiory, antient ped'grees, arms, and
inonufi.entai ink riptionc, of every pa-
rifli in the hundred of Seifdon, &c.
George Molineux, efq. late fpenff of
the Ihiic, alfootleied me libeiai accefs
to fome curious Colledions in iiis pol-
fcliion.

To my very good friend P. T.
Hinckes, efq. 1 am indebted for much
affiflance in the antient parifli of Bifli-
bury, &c. ; and to Thomas Fowler,
efq. for the inrpe61ion of his valuable
chartulary at Pendef'ord ; likevvife, to
Flenry Vernon, efq. for feveral favours*
By Richard Whitworth, efq. I am pro-
mifed every necelTary information from
the principal proprietors. In the agri¬
cultural department, F. P. Eliot, efq.
will lend me his clefirahle aid, together
with fome other friends well verted
in that moll ufeful fcience. And,
in the whole cecenomy of Statifiica! as
well as Natural Hiflory, I have been
favoured with fome excellent papers by
Mr. W. Pitt, and fliall foon receive
more fully his ingenious oblervations in
this county through the medium of that
fpirited and laudable inflitution, the
Board of Agriculture. To Jofephi
Scott, efq. I am much obliged for the
contribution of tevera! pl.ates, and other
favours j alfo, to ray friends S. Egerton
Brvdges, etq. and Peter Vere, efq. for
fimilar contributions, and to the former
for various afliflance. To Sir Robert:
Burdetr, bart. I am greatly obliged for
the prefentofan engraving; likewife to
Robert Pyott, efq. for a p ate of Street-
hav old ha!!, &c. 'I'he Rev, Dr,

Booker has polueiv given me his affift-
ance in the vicinity of Dudley, From
F. Dugdale Aiiiey, efq. I received aU
excellent MS. copy of B'rdefvvick. F.
B Finney, tfq. has prumded me his
aid in the parifhes of Leek and Chedle-
ton. And by Mr. j. Gee, [ have been
favoured with a very cOpious account of
WaKall, a plate of which fine old
church and town will be engraved at
the txpence of the corporation. D. B.
Curvveu, efq. has my thanks for fome
records relating to Kinver. To the
Rev. W. Gicfley I had occafion to ex-
prefs my bell acknowledgements in your
lad Mtgazine, p. 431; and to Charles
d’oliet, efq in vol. LXliL p. zro; al¬
fo to C. E. Repmgton, efq. in rny lafl:
Piopofals.

F naliy, let me offer this fmall
tribute of thanks to my excellent
frientL, S- P. Wolfeiftan, efq. for his
conti ibarioii of a plate, and valuable
aid ; Col. Chadvvitk, and C. Chadwick,
efq. for the u(e of their admirable leries
df old deeds, lllullrative of the ma¬
nor of Mavefyn Ridware from the time
of Henry I, and for their other great
afliftance and contributions; efpecially
to the latter for a very curious tenure-

roll

^7Q4'i Shaw’s Report of Progrefs for StafTordfhire.

roll of Offlow hundred (time of Henry
tranfcribed for him by the inde-
fatigab’e Mr. Avfcough from the Har-
leian MSS. To trouble you with a far¬
ther lift of obligations would be intru-
ftve and improper, as I (hall foon, 1
truft, have an opportunity of expreding
them more fully in my intended Preface.

The laft acquifition, and by far the
leaft, is a recent purchafe of two vo¬
lumes of MSS. from the library of an
opulent Antiquaiy, and a perfon of
reputed benevolence, from whom I had
flattered myfelf with the hopes of ob¬
taining affidance upon more liberal
terms. But, what makes them of little
value, 1 had previoufly copied moft of
the Staffordfltire articles by favour of
J. Meyrick, efej. Weftminfter, and that
ufeful col!e6for, Mr. Simeo, Great
Queen fireet. To thefe were attached
two lefler volumes (of much greater
value than the former, and plainly writ¬
ten by the fame hand, by BalTano,

of Derby, formerly an ingenious heral¬
dic painter and colle6for), which confift
principally of rr.onumental inferiptions
in Deibyfliire, now at Mr« Blore’s fer-
vice ; to whom if they afford any thing
uleful, it will be fome confolation to me
in the unfortunate bargain.

Very far, Mr. Urban, has itever been
from my (entiments or intereft' to have
given the leaft offence to any one in my
prefent undertaking, much lefs to — ca-
iera dtfunt. I was proceeding to trou¬
ble you with the particulars of fome
extraordinary inimical condu61, vvhich
I lhall now omit. For, the great en¬
couragement 1 have at lengtli met with,
in (pite of all oppofuion, prefents to my
light as well as iinaginatinn a pi6\ure,
whole fore- ground is replete with tiie
moft agreeable features; fo that the few
remaining objf els, which once call much
gloom upon the Icenc, are now thrown
with indifterence into the back-ground,
and alrnod obfeured in their o\Vn faint
and ciiflant fliddow. Yet, many are the
extraneous difficulties I have had to en-
countei (as if the care and labour naiu-
rally attending fuch works, even under
the greateft patronage and moft benign
aufpices, were nrit fuffciently eppref-
ftve!), befides the angry ftorms of ad-
verfe wind', enough to have furled the
fails of a much ft longer vell'el than
mine, and driven it back into its tran¬
quil port again, but that (ome gentler
and more piofperous gales have occafi-
onally rilen to keep it fteady on its
couife; and, if I may be allowed lo

purfue the metaphor, T am now far em¬
barked, with ample proviftons, on a
long and perilous, though, I hope, at
laft a profperous, vovage, unhurt by the
fmall-lliot of thofe piratical frigates
vvhich are continually gliding on every
ocean ; the motto pendant on my fore¬
fail having always been, what I would
wifti my enemies to adopt, “ Nothing
extenuate, or fet down aught in ma¬
lice.” Yet, as life is ever an uncertain!,
tenure, and that of your humble ferv?int
tire pilot (though, 1 truft, full as good
as for fome years paft) is not of the
longed leafe, he h!rs ftill the fpirit,
though not authorifed by mucfi inde¬
pendent fortune, to take care that his
cargo, fuch as it is, fliall not be degra¬
ded by a public au6lion, nor hawked
for fale in a Boohfeller's Catalogue^ but
be fafely depoftted (after it has done its
duty to the intended Hifiory) in that
noble repofitory the Brinfh Mufeum;
where it will fiand, in at leaft zo vo¬
lumes folio, as authorities for w'hat may
be printed, and for more minute infor*
mation to the curious.

Yours, &c. S. Shaw, jun.

Mr. Urban, Richmond ^ April lo,

fable gbo/lp’ of ninety-feven of
my pamphlets “ njuere flitting up
the chimney" when it occurred to me,
that the hiftory of them would not be
unentertaining to the generality of your
readers, nor unufeful to fuch of them
as are under circumftances limilar to my
own.

You muft'know then, Sir, that I
came into the world with the feeds of a
diforder the moft troublefome and in¬
curable of any; nothing lefs than the
cacoeibes fcribendi^ a malady unfortu¬
nately far removed from the vortex of
thole panacea which, on other occa-
ftons, have lo happy an effc£l. The
firft fymptom of this difeafe, if I rightly
remember, appeared on the blank-leaf
of a Fr opria qua martbus \ , iht fecond,
on -the window of an inn ; it afteruaVds
made its appearance on tfse Poet’s Cor¬
ner of a news-paper; and, finally, broke
out in the full fever, the delirious rage,
of a political pamphlet. To drop the
metaphor : after having been employed
all the former part of my life as an un¬
profitable Icribbler, I at laft took up
the employment of an author in a pro-
felfional manner, and as a means of
procuring a livelihood. The bud at
length burft into a flower; the caterpil¬
lar g^ot wings, and ibrtied in all the ma-

jefty

6^6

^he Pr ogre/s of an Author. — M. Von Haller.

jefty of—a butterfly. The Rambler in¬
forms u8, tliat, before a man can ^wrue,
it is neccflary that he flioulcl read, T. hiS
1 h-.d done; but, unfortunately, my
readme; bad pafTed over like a delightful
dream that leaves no lading impreifion
behind it; and, unfortunately ngain,
except the tliitd volume of ’Tfijiram
Shandy Bath Cutde^ and a tra6f; of
S-iJuedefihorgs, my, library confified of
few bo^ ks of anv value or importance,
or that were likely to afford me any
confiderable aifillance. To this and the
peculiar u »f a^onur ohlmf of my fvdy, as
■well as the narraucnejs of my circumr
faxioes, F attribute the melaiicholv luc-
cefs of my labours ; for, To far from be-
ie-g procul a turhd firepBuque remotus,
i svas fituate in the very centre of a
crowd of g'gglmg girls; and, fo far
from being anxie'ate carens nec dft io^r
tioice faranda Joi'hciiu/, my levee was
daily attended by a hoft of wafherwo-
men, ttilors, and paflrycooks : the
former defe6t, however, I in fome mea-
I'ure fup.plied by conflantly employing
SETiy imaqinaiion tvhenever information
failed ; and I cotilbled myfelf under the
unfavout ablenefs of firnation and cir-
cumilances by recoliebiing that Apollo
bad fwept the lyre in the midft of the
nine fillers; that ?liny had vvikten du¬
ring an eruption of Vefuvius; and that
Dry deny Shakfpeare, Hooker , CajlaliOy
^nd a long lot of other writers, had
found never-dying laurels for their
brows even in the baned wafte of indi¬
gence. Cverloi king every diCadvan-
Sage, tlieieiote, I plodded on; at one
hour wooing with ardour the Mufe of
Shakfpeare; at the next, engaged in
all the fubtleties of theological contro-
^etlv; now weaving bonnets and rasdri-
gals, then fuddenly “leaving all meaner
ihmgs” to fiem the torrent of reirellion,
or to fix the bafanre of power. N ji very
long timeeiapfed beiore three pamphlets
weie ready (or the p els ; they were im¬
mediately punted, and loo cop es of
them delivertd to niy neighbour the
bookfciltr. You, Mr. Urban, who
ere a hroi'ier in tlie trarle, will e lily
conceive the iolicitude w.th whii.h 1
Waited for the illue of iheir faie. I
formed a reloluuon, however, to make
liu enqui.RS oil the expiration of fix
months; for, I very juflly xealoned,
thot ihe larger tfie lorn which 1 had to
receive, the greater would be the flirnu-
lus to my future undermk ngs. The
grer.t and important day however,
at length arrived, and I was told b^- the

fhop-bov, with a friendly fmile on his-
countenance, that his mafter had fold no
iefs than three of them, and was in
great expedfations of difpofing of a
fourth.

Sic iranfit gloria mundi I — Congratu¬
late me, however, Mr. Urban, on having
found aeon fokirion under this mi.sfortune,
great as it is. I'lie honours of Fame 1 rie-
ver defired. To fee my portrait flaring
from a fliop windo-w, painted by Lau¬
rence, and engraved bv Birtolozzi; to
fee ^variorum editions of mv works; to
have my hallowed bones laid with re¬
reverence in Wefttninftcr-abbey ; to
have my anecdotes, letters, and the
Lveepings of my ftudy, GolU6led into an
elaborate quarto, and fold, like tlte
“ filthy excretion of the civet cat,*’ at
an es'ravagant price; this, believe me.
Sir, made no part of my expediqdionsy
and, confequentl V, 1 cannot be faid to
be difappointtd. Befidcs, a durable re¬
putation always fprings from fmal! be¬
ginnings; and it gives me exquifite
pleafure to reft-ul that, although no-voy
by the independency uf mv pen, and
the partiality of the times, like the bac
in the fable, ] am received by neither
fide, and damned bo h by Monthly and
Critical Reviewers, yet tli/it it is pojjible
{however improbable) that at fome fu¬
ture period, when the fever of p.artv has
in fome meafure fubfided, my writings
will emerge from their obfeurity, and
afford a cojpfortable fubfifience to the
children of rny great gieat grandchil¬
dren’s children. Such of your readers,
however, Sir, who think to reap an
7nediaie haivefl by the labouisof their
pen, let me earneflly advife to lay it
down in time, iefl, hke me, they fnould
find themfelves nrioft milt- rabiy miflaken j
and / to appeafe tiie wra'h of their fta-
lioner and printer, fliould be under the
nectliity of pieparing themfe.ves for a
curacy of 50/. per annum. A. IJ.

Mr. Urban, June 26.

I N the year lySt, a duel whs fought
at Avignon between a M. von Er¬
lach and a M. von Haller, in which t!.e
latter was koled. He was ion of tlie
famous Ada Her, and an officer of a Swifs
regiment feivingin France. He was a
great genius, and, as fuch men fome-
timcs ate, a great oddity; in Ihoit, a
rnofl cxcrnordinai V man. In him weie

unitetl tlie liappiefl gifts and endowments
of naiu'e. which he had cultivated to
an uncommon decree. His charadler
was humane and honefl, of a moll cap-

iivaiing

1794*1 Haller.- — Union with the QdXWcTin Church. 607

tirating: gaiety in converfation, in con-
juDwlion with great drollery of humour,
and an invincible obftinacy. His fa¬
ther, having high notions <»f his pater¬
nal defcent, and of his own fatherly au¬
thority, one day made him Tome difa-
grt-eable reproaches, and Hronglv infill¬
ed on being the direilor of hts condu6l,
evtn after his arrival at man’s eftate ;
his Ton repaid him all the expences he
had been at in bringing him up, even to
the fees of the clergyman who baptized
him, and the nurle that futkied him;
and never after would dine or fup with
him but he paid for his meal. He ufu-
ally travelled on foot, and always went
ftrait foi wards. If he came to a river,
he Iwam across it ; if to a mountaita, he
climbed over it. His whole baggage
never confided of any thing more than a
couple, of fiiirts. He was very fond of
pUy, and commonly pUved with fuc-
ceis. His quarrel with M. von Eilach
arofe about a pod of honour, for which
they had both been candidates, at Bern.
Hts numerous friends and acquaintance
itill chcrifh and revere his niemorv.

Yours, &c. M. M. M.

Mr. Urban, July

CANNOT but own rnyfelf gratified
by the favourable regards which two
of your correfpondent-s have bedowed
on my letter, p. 204, concerning the
practicability and deiirablenefs of an
union between the Englidi and Gallican
chttrehes.

On examination of that letter, 1 be¬
lieve, it will be found that I have there
exprefled my fentiments with fufficient
clearnefs and perfpicuity. In one in¬
dance, notwithdanding, my friend Ci-
prian, p 511, has mifunderhood me.
If he will take the trouble of turning to
the uorks of Mr. Leflie, he will fee
that thole treatifes which I ventured to
recommend are not fo much conrrover-
fial as conciliatory; and that one of
them, which I more particularly point¬
ed out, is profefTedlv (o.

The ufage which 1 have received
from another correlpondent, p. 512, has
not been altogether fo gentle; but his
animadvei fions are fo far from carrying
force enough to fliake my fettled opi¬
nions, that they are too unimportant to
defeive a ferious coafideration, too in-
flgnificant to provoke an indignant re¬
ply. V/heiher they are reconcilable
with that charity which he fo jurtly
confiders as the elfence of our holy reli¬
gion, let his own confeience deteimine.

On the learning, the judgement,
the temper, of this Confident Proieilanr,
1 have only to remark, that I do not
think it necefiary to anfwer quediorrs
which evidently proceed rather frwn a
puritanical peevifhrcfs of fjorit rha«
f»om a real defi e of obtaining inform-t-
tion and in(lru6lion.

Extra.&s /ind Abridgements from the

“ Reafons for the A meniiment of th$
‘‘ Steht. 28 Hen. VI! !. Cap. it.”
ECULIAR are the hatdlhips fuf-
feied by the family by the death of
the incumbent at the eve of harved.

T^'O-thirds of the charge of building
and rebuilding parlonage- houfes revert,
in Ireland, to the family of him who in¬
curred the hrd expence; yet thjat juft
politic law was never introduced into
this kingdom.

It was a condsnt ufage of this church
(when fettled does not appear), that, if
a mini'der of a paridi lived til! Lady-
day, or a few wseks after, he had a
right of difpofing by will of the fruits
of the next harved; and it was confirm¬
ed by Edmond of Abington. Aichbi-
fhop of Canterbury, 1236, and received
as an edablilhed law. The reafon was,
becaufe the incumbents, having difehar-
ged the du'y all the winter, when little
or no profit accrued from the prefer¬
ment, mud otherwife receive a very
fmali rtcompence; the confequence
whereof would be an inability to pay
their debts. A fynod of the diocefe of
Norwich, 1255, declared a breach of
this culloin to be very unjud, and threat¬
ened excomrriunicatum to the violators
of fo valuable a privilege. A fimilar
conditution was confirmed by Cardinal
Wolfey for the clergy of the province of
York, 1518. By the conditution of
Thuidan, Archbidrop of York, the
prebendaries of all the collegiate
churches in that diocefe were allowed to
difpoi'e of a year’s profits of their pre¬
ferments after their death. The mem¬
bers of the church of Lincoln have en¬
joyed for upwards of z,oo years the be¬
nefit of this rule. Pope Honorius HI.
confirmed an old law of the fame kind
to the dean and chapter of Lichfield.
There was the fame rule and pradlice ia
feveral parts of Ireland.

The Clergy refoluiely maintained
their own cudom in oppofition to the
canon law, by which not only the fub-
fequent profits, but what an incumbent
had faved from the fruits of his benefice,
were to rev^ert to the Church, till the

le-gn

6o8 Reofons for an Ammdnient of the Stat* 28 Hen. Vllf. [July

rei^n of Henry VIII, when it was fu-
perl'eded b) ihe a6l of which we corn-
plain.

One profelTed defign of this bsU, gi-
■«ring the prohts from the time of avoid¬
ance, was, to enable the fucceflor to
defray the heavy charge of fisll fruits
which were highly railed after they
were takeii from the Pope and annexed
to the, Grown, and to enable liini to be
more expeditious in the payment of
them. But, in' many cafes, the realon
remains in part only, and in a greater
Dumber does not at all fubfift. The
firft- fruits of moO; parochial livings are
much lefs in proportion to the real pro¬
fits than thev were fome years ago; and,
by the ift of Elizabeth and 5th of Anne,
the much greater number of livings in
England are difchaiged. Of twenty-
eight principal cathedral and collegiate
churches, thirteen only are rated, four¬
teen were never in charge, and Wind for
was difeharged by aft of parliament.
Under thef'e circumllances, if we are
guided by the declared intentiqn of the
Legiflature, more than half the Clergy
who fucceed to vacant benefices ought
not to afl'ume the privilege given them
bv this (latute j and, with relpeft to the
reft, the cafe is fo materially altered,
they ought in equity to forego it. For,
befides the advantages which they re¬
ceive from the improvemept of their
livings, they are no: under the fame
difiiculties in the payment of their firft-
fruits with thofe whom the bill had in
view ; and, as to the fees for inftitution
and induftion, they have not been much
augmented for near 200 years.

The profeffed reafon no longer re¬
maining, for which the claufe of the
flatute of Henry Vilf. was enafted j
why ftiould not the Clergy be relieved
from the partial and inequitable effefts
of it ?

If an incumbent dies before harveft,
he has but a fmall compenfation for
his labours during the greater part of
the year. Bendcs, his tithes are lubjeft
to the land-tax, to aflfeirments for the
relief of the poor, and the repair of the
highways, &c. and they mull all be
paid to the hour of the death of the in¬
cumbent; though, as the law now
ftands, the greatcfl part of the revenue
for which he is charged becomes from
that time the property of another.

The ftatute of the nth of the late
Icing gives to the executors of tenants
for life a title to the proportion of the
annual rent to the lime of their deeeafe j

and a fubfequent aft of parliament vir¬
tually repeals a former aft in every in-
flance where they are contrary to each
other.

Upon a fiippofition we flmuld grant
the bill of Henry VHL not to have
been extremely partial at the time of
its commencement, yet, from a variety
of caufes, it may be now mofl injurious
and oppreffive ; for, as the fevefi.! dues
for offerings, furplice-fees, &c. &c. had
a much greater proportion to the tithes
than they have at prefent, and were re¬
ceived in different parts of the year, an
incumbent who died a little before har¬
veft; was not equally aggrieved j and,
though they are now trivial fums, they
would at that time purchafe many of
the neceffaries of life; for, Lord Mans¬
field laid, that a fee of two fhillings in
the iff of Elizabeth would novv.amouiit
to 203.

A faint attempt was made at the be¬
ginning of this century to effeft an al¬
teration of the bill in queftion, by fecu-
ring a proportionable ftiare of the an¬
nual profits of livings to the executors
of incumbents according to the time or
their poffeftion. The want of fuccefs
was attributed to Dr. P - , yet he al¬

lows that the profits fiiould accrue to
him on whom the fervices and burden
fail ; and every equitable man muff
grant, that the perfon who has perform¬
ed the duty, and fupported the incum¬
brances for ten, perhaps elever^months,
has a prior right to him who cannot be
charged with them for the fame number
of weeks ; but, by appropriating to each
according to the time of pofieffion, each
perfon is paid for his labour. And why
ought a hazard to be permitted in a cafe
of luch great confequence, on vvhicli
the maintenance of many perfons de¬
pends, when a fair and equitable me¬
thod of divifion may be with e,jfe adopt¬
ed ? And fi-irely the alteration of this
aft would leffen, if not put an end to,
the differences which too frequently
anfe between the fucceffor and the re-
prefentative of the laft incumbent, by
fettling the fums due to each according
to the time of the incumbency. The
Clergy of Exeter, it is faid, convinced
of the equity of this rule, endeavour to
make it a general one.

A plea indeed has been ufed by feve-
ral, that, in former inftances, they had
to their detriment been obliged to fub-
mit to this claufe of the ftatute, and
they thought it very fair to reimburfe
their Ioffes when a favourable opportu-

nity.

^794*] Reafons for an Amendment of the Stat, 20 Hen. VIII.

nltv offerefL What is this but to main¬
tain ti'nr, hfccaufe ore man hath dealt
rigarouflv by me, it is aUowabie fnr me
to aS in the fame harfh nianner bv an-
other; in dut6h violation of that golden
rule of tquirv, which requires us to do
as 'Tvif nMOuid hft and nut as we have
been, dune by ?

A dread of promoting and encoura¬
ging fimonidca! c< ntr.i6fs feems princi¬
pally to have occaboned the Dean’s vi¬
rulent oppofu’.on to an alterat on of this
af\ of Henry VHi. Ftom the warm
expreirioiis uftd by hinr>^ it is mofi pro¬
bable he had received frequent intima¬
tions of patrons infiding on bonds or
promifes of making allowances to the
family of the predecrfioi cut of the
fruits of the following hatveii. But, if
a proportionate div.jion of the profits
were the rule obfe.ved, the teprefenta-
tives of the lad. incumbent would be
lefs objeclsof compalbi n than they now
are. Behdes, too many pations in thefe
days confult their own profit, and not
the mtereft of the widows and cliildien
of dccealcd clers?. vrnen, in the execution
of t.heir troft. When livings are adver-
tifed to be fold upon an immediate re-
fignation, or a profpeif of the fpeedy
death of fuk o. aged incumbents, can
we doubt whether thole preferment-
brokers calculate exadily what quantity
of tithe is likely to icuiain not levered
from the ground at the time of the va¬
cancy, and e>pefl an adequate price for
the chance ? Tlrts abule of the indul¬
gence given by the a6f is of itlelf a luf-
ficient teafon for its alteration.

The payment to the clergy of Can-
terbuiy according to the rent of houfes
is quarterly. A pound- rate, due at the
four quaite^s of the year, is afiwflcd
upon Coventry, Jpfwich, and North¬
ampton, by particular afts of parlia¬
ment. In lome or all the new-eda-
b ifired panOits in and neat the metro¬
polis, the nmney levied on the tenants
of houfes fur ifie lupport of leflors is to
be paid quarterly. The lame is the
cafe in leveral paiillics in tlie city, in
which, after tlm dieadful fire in 1666,
the income of the mirilters weie lettkd
by Stat. 22 and 23 of Cliaries 11. The
method puilucd by tliele leveral ails, to
It-cuie ro each clergyuian, who dilcbar-
ges the duty, h’.s juft lliare of the profits,
mav encourage us to hope for lucctls,
fliould an application be made to the Le-
gillati.re for mitigating the I'eveiiiy of
tije ht\ of Henry \ 111.

Gent. MJ^G. juij^ ‘794*

If wc examine the nurricrous afts of
parliament which Twel! our llatute-
books, we ffjal! find few thar more re¬
quire an aiteration than thofe which
palled in tire reign of this capricious and
arbitrary monarch. And few probably
of our coumrymen lulFered more uo-
jjftiy (the fcditious monks and bigoted
priefts excepted) from his fevere decrees
than thofe of our proftlfion. He re-
firained them from rriarrying, and even
made it a capital offence for them to en¬
joy a natural right of mankind. And,
by the ft itute which gave all future
p'ofits to CuccelTors on benefices, befides
thus enibling them to pay fpeedily the
firft fruits, iie probably intended tocheck,
if he could nor prevent, the common
prailice, by cutting off a refoui ce for the
maintenance of the wives and children of
clergymen after their death, thus “heap- '
ing forrows upon fimrows on the wi¬
dows and fathei lefs.” At leaft, the con-
fiderdtion that the law was enaited when
the members of our order were under a
reilraint of celibacy is a good reafon for
an amendment of it; and that, under
luch a change of circumftances, this
claule Ihould remain in force, is ano¬
ther of the griLvarces of which we
juftly complain ; for, how great mult
be the embarraiftnent to receive not
much more than a tenth part for the
lervice of ten months, and thus to be
deprived of almoft a year’s income of
the benefice !

The'e were probably the reafons why
Bilhop Buinet, that zealous promoter of
the interefts of the parochial clergv,
earnellly pieft an amendment of t.his
a61, and which prompted Bilhop Glbfon
to expiefs a w'ifli, that a claule had Uten
added to a bill of the 12 h of Queen
Anne, to enfuie an equitab e conlidcra-
tion, for ftrvtng the cure of parilhts, to
the wives and ch ldren of fuch incum¬
bents who died a liir'e'before harveft.
This requires alteration more than the
cl.aufe fo complained of by Burn, which
obliges the family to quit the hcule on
a month’s notice; for, the forms of law
will peimit them to keep pofi'elfion f.ir
a fufficieni time, whereas they can Irave
no redrels if the lucceffor is determi¬
ned to Icize to his ul'e all the lublequen:
profits.

If the charges of the fuccelTor’s fet¬
tling on his new pieferment are high,
the piolits of it are hkewile riling to
hun j but this law is to the widow and
fatherltls a deprivation of folatia luHns.

“ Exigua

6 10 Conclufion of a Tvjo Months Tour in Scotland,

** Exigua ingentis, mlfero fed debira patri.”

^11. lib-. XI.

The ftipends of the clergy of the
Church of Scotland are payable at
Wliitfuntide and Michaelmas; and, in
ca<e of death before the flipend becomes
due, the family has a right, bv a fpecial
law, to half a yeas'* sent of the ftipend,
befides what the deeeafed was to re¬
ceive for the time of his incumbency.

And, with us, ought not the family
to receive what is in ftri6i juHice due to
them, what their departed friend had
earned by his labour^, and what he had
even purchafed by payment of taxes and
affefTments for profits to be received by
the fuccefior?

The a6l in queftion pafTed in a reign
when thoufands, who are now injured
by it, were never intended to have an
exiftence.

The Clergy are now fubjeft to the
fame mode of taxation with the laity.
Ought then one to be debarred of a be¬
nefit which the other enjoys ? And yet
th e heirs of all tenants for life, except
clergymen, are entitled to a proportion
of the rent of the eftate according to the
time for which it is charged.

Equitas fequiiur legitn ought to be an
invariable rule. In this inftance juftice
and equity, and the law (the jlri^ and
biting ianju)^ mpve in lines very different
and far diftant. The deviation ought
to be re6fified.

A6f 28th of Henry VIII. 'the tithes,
fruits, &:c. &c. belonging to any par-
fonage, vicarage, &c. &c. growing, ri¬
ling, or coming, during the time of the"
vacation of the fame promotion fpiritual,
lhall belong and adhere to fuch perfon
as fliall be thereunto next prefenred,
&c. Sec. tOTvards the payment of the firfi-
Jruits to the king’s highnefs.

Two Months Touh in Scotland.
{Concluded jrom p. 523. >)
HATEVER was at tiiat time
the appearance of the town of
Falkirk, yet, growing wealthier, as we
were informed it daily did, by the trade
which paifes through it betwixt the
Carron works and Glafgow, it can
Icarcely fince have failed to acquire the
means of greater cleanlinels and beauty.

In th s neignboui hoorl, in the end of
the thirieenth century, a fierce encoun¬
ter tt)ok place between the Engiiih, un¬
der Edward the Firft, and the Scottiili
fo rces, led by Comyn, lord of Badenoch,
and james, tiie lie ward of the king.
4

dom (of the line of Banquo, and foun¬
der of the royal houfe of Stuart), in
which the latter weie defeated and dif-
perfed ; when the intrepid W'^illiam
Wallace, having efftfted for the troops
under his command a fafe retreat be¬
yond the Carron, is faid to have held
acrofs that fiream with Robert Bruce,
the grandfon of the iate claimant of the
crown, and ferving at that time under
the banners of the Englifh monarch, a
conference fo patriotic and in (pil ing, as
to have aroufed him to tho^e noble and
fuccefsfui ftruggles which he rriade af¬
terwards to emancipate, and eftablifh
the independence of, his country.

At Linlithgow, the next plate of note
occurring to the traveller, a confiderable
part of the royal palace ilill remains,
which, together with a handfbrne
church, gives an air of iroportance to a
town in other refpebls of an afpeit de¬
caying, dull, and dirty. Along the
fronts of many of tlie houfes here (a
cumberfome mode of architeblure pre¬
vailing in many parts of Scoiland) runs
a kind of gallery framed of wood, by
which the firft-floors may be afeended
inimediaiely from the ftreet without en¬
tering the rooms below. It was from
one of thel'e that, in the year 1570, ’the
regent Murray was fhot, in his way to
Edinbuigh from Stilling, by Hamilton
of Bothwellhaugh, whom he had much
lefs obliged, ir leems, by having fpared
bis life when forfeit, than exdfperated
by btttowing a part of his ellate upon a
favourite, who took poflellion of it with
circumfiances of unfeeling eagernefs.

In the courfe of this ftage the Firth
of Forth, on the left-hand, bounded
by tiie bold hills of Fifefhire rifing one
above another, and having its hither
fhore finely wooded, enriched by culti¬
vation, and adorned with rriany ftately
feats and cheerful villas, furniflies a
fuccefTion of interefling views Night,
however, dropped her envious curtain
over them whilfl we were yet fome miles
fhort of Edinburgh, towards which we
pufli.ed with a degree of acceleration in-
verfely proportionate to our difiance
from it, from an increafing eagernefs to
obtain letters from our Southern friends,
from whom we had had no opportunity
of receiving any communications fince
we quitted i livv'^nefs.

Entering Edinbuigh rather late, we
advanced towards our inn in the higher
part of that noble city along feverai nar-
lovv lanes and iiieets, not witnout ap-

piehenfiunSf

1794 ] Conclujton of a Two Months Tour in Scotland, 6i I

prehenfions, well or ill founded, of cer¬
tain falurations from aloft j which, how¬
ever, we had the fortune to elcape.

After an ablence of fome” weeks, and,
undoubtedly, an intermixture of fa¬
tigues and pleafures', not fmai! was our
latisfaStion to congratulate each other
on the return of our whole party (with
the exception of our poor fpaniel be-
forementioned ) in perfeff ibfeiy, health,
and rp;rits, to the fame apartments
we had occupied in the outfet of our
journey. Comparing them with many
which we had met with fince, they
feemed to have increafed in elegance
and fize ; and, indeed, fo comfortably
did we find ourfelves accommodated,
that we agreed to halt here for a day or
two, as well for the purpofe of attend¬
ing the court of fellions, at that time
fitting, and of revifiting many feenes and
obje£ls which had interefted us before,
as for an interval of repofe after a pretty
long' continued courfe of a£tiviiy and
exertion.

In vifiting the principal, if not the
only, colfee-houfe in this city, for a
fight of fuch Englifh news-papers as
had arrived fince our departure, we
were furprized to find a room fo little
correfpondent either to the population
or magnificence of the metropolis of the
INorth, being only of very moderate di-
menfions, with whited walls, and floor¬
ed, 1 think, with fione ; not divided in¬
to boxes, nor adorned with any other-
furniture than an old clock in a wooden
cafe painted blue, with a few' chairs and
tables of a very homely kind.

Leaving Edinburgh, in our way to¬
wards Carlille, we at firfl fimnd the
country in a good flate of tillage, and
rot ungrateful to the farnrier’s toil, ex¬
hibiting plentiful crops of potatoes, oats,
and here, or barley ; feme handfome,
and many comfortable, houles prefent-
ing themlelves in various places. But,
having palTed the village of Middleton,
the face of things changes for the
worfe, dreary hills snd dufky moors
fucceeding to the brighter feenes of cul¬
tivation ; nor IS it much amended at
Bankhoufe, a folitary inn by the way-
fide. Hence to Selkirk the road occa-
fionally fkirts upon, or overhangs, the
Tweed; but neither here, nor near
Berwick, as has already been remarked,
do the banks of that river prefent any
confiderable (hare of thofe exquifite
beauties wh ch the compofitions ot fome
of Its native poets had taught us to ex-
pe6t, Selkiik is an old decaying town

on the Southern border of the Tweed ;
nor is the way in any particular degiee
either remarkable or interefling thence
to Hawick, beyond which, almoft to
the Englilh borders, the whole tra£l of
country is the property of the Duke of
Buccleugh, aftbrding in feveral places
very refpe61able fa'mples of hufl)andry,
but being generally defe£live in the pro¬
fitable and pi^lurefque accompaniment
of wood. Proceeding towards Lang
holme, we rode chiefly along the depth
of glens, narrow, and inclnfed by hills
moderately high, and of a fine and ver¬
dant turf, refembiing fome in^the neigh¬
bourhood of Petersfield, on the road to
Portfmouth.

Crofnng the Efk at Longtown, in ad¬
vancing to Carlifle, on the right, is fitu-
ate the famous Solway mofs, which ha¬
ving a few years before either difTolved,
and borne down by its weight, the fide
of the mountain which confined it, burft
forth, and defeended in a rnoft alarming
and overwhelming current of black and
fetid Dime upon whatfoever lay within
its courfe. The havock and difmay at¬
tendant on this unlooked-for invafion
had left an impreffion upon the minds
of thofe who law or fuffered bv it
fcarcely to be obliterated, and not to be
deferibed ; whiifl; much of the devafla-
tion it occafioned -v^as flill apparent,
though a large tia61: of land had air^adv
been recovered, or dug out, at an ex¬
pence to Dr. Graham, the proprietor,
equal almoft, as he hinifelf informed us,
to Its worth.

At a little diftance on the left-hand
of the road, and feparated from it by
the intervention of the river £flc, ftands
Netherby, once a military ftation (the
caftra exploraiormn) of the Romans,
and at that time the elegant and hofpi-
table refidencu of the abovementioned
reverend gentleman, to which his fon.
Sir James Graham, bart. has fucceeded
fince. Many feudal fcrvices and cuf-
toms ftill obtain here ; and, though per¬
haps nor neceflfary, it may be aftowable
to add, that many curious fpecimens
and proofs of Roman arts and inhabita¬
tion, having been from time to time
difeovered and collefted here, are at all
times moft liberally open to the infpec-
tion of the curious traveller.

So truly ideal, in the mean time (to
adopt an exprtflion in the beaut. ful tra¬
gedy of D' uglas), IS the line of fepara-
tion betsvixe the fifter kingdoms, that
we had a6lually paflb-d from that to this
Without being confeious of our change ;

but

6i2 Omhwmttcv^—Barhrs Pole!. — Applies Creed. [July

buf not, however, without bearing back
with us a Lifting (enfe of much amufe-
ment received, and many accormnoda-
ting, kind, and hofpit.nble offices, per¬
formed towards us wiiilft in Scotland.

July 8, 17(^4. \V. Gibson.

Mr. Urban, July

TNGENUUS, p. 295, exprefles his
(ufpicion of the word ombrometer in
Chambeis’s Di^i ionary, which, he
thinks, muft fi^nify an infirument to
rneaCure ffiade. i beg leave to allure
him that the word is jnrftcily right.
It is rather lurprizing that he fticuld
have fallen into a miftake refpediing a
word which is ent rely analogous to
others which, I prelume, he is not un-
acqua nted with. Barometer, tbetme^
jneter, hygrometer j are all derived from
the Gitek, like ombrometer, and com¬
pounded in the fame manner, logenuus
is furprizecl not to find in that D.ilio-
rary the vvoid FluXiiatneter. The rea-
fon is very plain- The word is a mon¬
grel, ablurd, uncbiffical w'osd, fortned
(Contrary to analogy, and fuch as no
fcholar can make ufe of And 1 hope,
M-. U ban, your urbanity will not fo
far get the better of your rtgaid to p'O-
priety of language as to induce you to
countenance the Imall ph .loiopbOrs in
the ufe of their jargon. Pope le is us,
witli rerpe6t to ne>v words, that

Ufe will father what ’s be^oi by Seufe.”

The word plunjiametir was begotten
by Nonlenfe upon Ignorance, and can
never be introduaed into a work that
has any pretenfions to clafiica! iangu qye.

In voor review of Payne’s “Epiiome
of Hifterv,” p. 359, the niotto, rneri-
tioned as written under the porcr&it of a
great American ftateiman, is ftrangely
quoted, Eripmi ccelo Julmen tyranneque
jeeptrum. I i.>eg leave to iav, that, the
words form an hex:amtcer veifc, and aie
written thus :

pripuit cceIo fulmen, fceptrumcpie tyrannis,

yours, &c. PfiiLOBOous,

Mr. Urban, juh; c.

ALAUV, p. 552, enquires the par-
licLilars of that general cufioju of

barbers fixing pt)!es befoie their ffinps,
in Brand 'b Onier various on Mr.
B'mrne’s I’opular Antiquities, p. 389,
the following note -ppears ;

The barber’s pole h:.s been the firbjedf
of many conjcfituies ; Ibme conceiving it to
h tve originated from the word foil or head,
with feyeral olfier conec-its as far-feiciied au<4

as unmeaning : but the true intention of tJiat
party-coloured ftaff was, to fhew the mailer
of the fliop pradiifed forgery, and could
breathe a vein as well as mow a beard ;
fuch a ftaff bcii g to this day, by eve y vil-
laye pradlitioner, pul into the hand of a pa¬
tient undergoing phlebotomy. The white
band w'hich encompaffes the ffaff' w'as meant
to reprefent the fillet, thus elegantly turned
round it.”

y.'Urs, &c. A. Y.

Mr Urban, Temple, July 6.

your unwearied a'tiention in
-®- gratifying the publick with every
thing rur ous, permit to lay before you
the Apojibs Creed, copied verbatim from
an antient Englijh MS. (in the p irelfton
of Air. Sae-, booklelltr),'^ confiftnig^of
Prayers, &c. vvritren in the reign of Ri¬
chard II. A [.OVER OF Antiquity.

I bilevie in God Farlre alle mygty. cha-
pere of lieuene and of enlie. and in Jhefu
Clift his f'onle fone cure Lord ocn vchiche
was conceyuede of ilie Holy G«>oft. borne of
the mayden Marye. luffrede undir the Pounce
Pil ite: cnicifyede and dede. and is biriede.
Cometh down to iielles : tiie tliridde day he
roos from deeftiis. lieyede up to heueues.
fitteth on his fadrerigte fide G('d alle mygty':
and fro thenne he is to come for to deemc the
qwyice and dede. i bih ue in the Holy Spi¬
rit. holy chirche, corannyng of ftyntvs. for-
geutnede of fv nnes. niyng of fieishe. unto
ay lafly ne 1ft. So mote it be : Amen.”

. M o U R E A N , MMtvg, July 7.

j READ witn s fi o t.i 1 fh m c n t and in-

dignation, p. 491, an attack on Fiee-
mafonry, infinu it ng it in great mea-
fure to have been the caufeof the French
Kc‘Z)CiU', tot! , wbicn IS (ec for th by feme
frantic vifionary with a view to debafe
thQ pureJi and moft imrAuculate hi(iiLiiiion
that the world ever produced ; an miii-
tution founded on eternal Reafon and
i * which has for iis deep bafis the
civiiizjtion of mankind, and whole ever-
lading glory it is to have the immove¬
able lupport of thoie two mighpy pillars
^cieijce and Muiaiiry, co eval with.
Creation 1 he G and A’'chite6l cf the
Univerfe raifed on A'lalonic principles
Hus beaureous globe. Bjt what fociety
E fafe from the attacks of Ignorance,
MHice. or Envy? I am, Mu Urban,
an old Mafon, and have been at a con-
iiderable number of Irrdges, but never
once in my life heard the leaft dilcour/e
of Parties or Politicks-, nor is it ever
fuflcred to form the leaft part of Mafo-
nic con verfaiion, which always confifts
pf Morally^ Sets nee, and Truth ; nor is

there

1794'] Free-Mafonry. — The ReViques cf AncUnt Poetry. 6i:j

there a Myftery belonging ro the Royal
Art that can bear the leaft affinity to the
wicked conclufions and impajtations of
your correfpondent from M.'incheher;
to whom I wcfUld recommend candour,
and to become a Mafon, as a fure means
of refuting every niifconception he may
have fornned of the brotherliood, who'e
j grand tenets are, to do their duty to God
I ar;d their m ig hhours, to preferve and re-
I commend peace on earth, and good-wili
to all men. RusTiCUS.

Remarks on the Reliq^ues of
Ancient Poetry, continued Jrom
p. 528.

PAGR 2S0. Another inftance of (Pteen
E'’Zibeth’b piiittice of fw^aiing i ex-
traft from her fecretarv Dav\fi-n’s “ A-
pologv.” PI r Majefiy to’d him, fhe
had had a (beam that the Scots Q^een
had been executed, pretending to be fo
troubled with the new , that, if fhe had
had a fwoid, fne cuuid have run him
through; upon whicii “ I aflced her lyhat
jt meant, and wheilier, havinii proceeded
thus far, fire would not go brnward with
the executiopi r” Confirming tlds with a
folemn oath, and fcnne veliemency, f3ie'
an'wered ‘'Yes,”&c.

P. 296, To the account of William
Warner, a poet of no mean note in the
age of Elizabeth, may he added, that it
appears, ftom the rtgifier of Amwell,
CO. Herts, tiiat he died theie 9t’h March,
1608-9, “ fi'ddenly in the night in his
beddc, without any former complavnt or
ficknefi'e;” and that he v/as “a man of
good yeares anti honeld reparation ; by
ids proftfiion an atturnev at the com¬
mon pleafe,” Scott's Amwell, p. 22, not.

P. 349 :

“ Mark ! I hear my father ftorming!

PJark. ! 1 hear my mother chide !” —

Similar to that ipirited palfage of Horace
(Carm.III. xxvii. 57) vvhere Eur 'pa,
accufiog hi-r.'elf for having eloped fiom
her father’s roof, figures to herlelf what
he will fay when he mifies her:

‘ Impudens liqui patrios penates,,

Impudens Orewm moror -

Vi Hi Fu'-ope pate> urget abfens

Vluid men' culfas V'

VOL. II.

P. XV. Though fome make flight of
libels, yet you may fee bv them liow the
wind firs ; a-, take a draw and tf.row it
up into the air, you may fee by that
which way the wind is, which you fliall
not do by calling up a done,” SeUlen’s
Table Talk. This palfage has been imi¬

tated by the late phiioGnhi'' al and ele¬
gant Piefident of the P o- al Academy:
“ In ornament's we find the diarailiVerif-
t Cil maiks of a national tafie, as, by
throuinji up a feather into the air, we
know which wav the air blows, better
than bv a numc heavy matter,” Sir Jo-
dtua Reynolds, Dife. VI L p. 306. Per¬
mit ffie to dinrefs for a momenr, to ob-
ferve how luptrior Selden’s Table Talk,
is to all the other Ana ; 'and how exalt¬
ed an idea it gives one of the converf.i-
t on of thi'-; great man, whole colloquial
powers, if he ha<l had a Bofwell to re¬
cord tiiem, would have appeared as
mmich to exeteti t!iofe of the late Dr.
Johnfon a- the converlation of this lafl
did the infipidity of a modern conver-
fazione.

P.4:

He weiule that the faylesivere inarigonel.’*

'I'he anonymous author of the curious
narrative of the fird croifade relates, that
the Tu! ks at the fiege of Antioch diot
the Cl'iridians’ heads out of mangonels.
“ Nofile autem fuperveniente, reverte-
runt retto Turci, ablcivlerunt capita
mortuorum Chridianorum, & detulerunc
ea in civita'-em : aha vero ede, fummo
mane, ejecerunt ilia fo’^as cum manga-
nellis.” Belli Sacri HiUoria, cap. 54,
apud Alabiilon Mufeum Itahcum, voi.
1 part li. p. 172. This palfage is in
that part of the hidory which appears to
have been written by an eye-wficiiefs.
From about the" 100th chapter it mani-
fediy is continued by another liand.

P. 6. Dr. Bcrney obierves, that, if
this elegv, which is in ottan)a rima, was
written at tlie t me of Edward I’s death
(as It feems to have been), it proves that
we are not indebted to Italy for that
danza. Kidory of Murick,wol. II. p.

34'>-

P. >3. “The turnament of Totten¬
ham” appear.-, to be a very aniient bur-
lelque upon the old feudal cufiorn of
marrying an hcirefs to the knight who
Ifiould vanf|uifb all his opponen's at a
folemn allemolv hoiden for that pur-
pefe. I do not know of any in dance of
this fo late as the a- e of Edward III.
(the date of this poem.), when tue ita-
lons of tile fcodal policy were worn
away, and focicty had advanced to a
dage at which luch means of lupplving
the kingdom wfith able defentitrs were
no longer requifite. But that this had
been a prevailing ulage in more early
times appeals fr*m th>. frequent abufions
to it in the oid romances, which reprr-

lent

6i4 Remarks on the Reliques of Jacient Poetry, [July,

fent the manners of that remote period.
Ltland I’.as ptvfervecl, from an old Enj^-
romance ot the “ Gefies of the Fitz
Warines^’ (of which, if it be extant, an
account would be very acceptable), an
example in our own coun'ry. Paine
Peverel, who died (ns far the grenter
jvart of the Norman’s companions did)
without ifTae, left an onlv fiiier, married
So a noble knight William, who “worn
Ei'efmere, and Max'or, and otiier mo.”
Of his daughters and coheirs, Helen, the
eldefl, married the fan and heir of Fitz
but Melbt, the voungeft, with
the trvte ipirit of a (eodal heire's, “ w >1 -i
Bon but a kniglre wherefore her fa¬
ther William proclaimed, “by crye, that
noble yong men fliouhi meete at Peve-
rei’s Place in the Peake, and he that
provid himfelf in feates of armes, (hold
hav'e Mellet his daughter, with the caf-'
tie of Whittington” in Shrnpihire. To
this enterprize came Guarine, with “ a
fhield (jf iilver, and a proude peacockt”
(i. e. a peacock in his pride, as the he¬
ralds term it,) “ in his heauime creft
and, after having fubdued all his com¬
petitors, wedded the ladv, and became
progenitor of the Fitz Warins, who
Were long feated at Wliiciington. Le-
laad’s CoUe'ftanea, vol. I. p. 23. This
rs'iay be added ro the circumOances of
Egreement between the Heroic a^d Go¬
thic mann rs, which Bifhop Flurd has
drawn out in fo agreeable a manner, and
accounted for with fo philofophical a
fpirit, in his 4th letter on Chivalry. For,
Herodotus relates a fimilar tranfaftion
in an early period of the Grecian hif-
tory. Clilihenes the Sicyonian, being
vi£for at the Olympic games, proclaimed
that he would give his daughter Agarifte
CO the worthttff j and therefore defiied
that all fuch as afpired to her hand
would c me to Sicyon. At the time
appointed a great number of fuitors
esm?* from the different ilates of Greece;
slLof win m Herodotus enumerates in a
rnarjm r very like the I Ps of warriors in
an old romance, and in a ftyle which
fli -ws that his hilfory was founded upon
loiue antient memorials, not entirely of
the traditional kind. G imes are pre¬
pared ; and Chfihenes, with an hetfpita-
luv vvhich conlfituted an ell ntial leature
both of the Heroic and Gothic charac¬
ters, entertained his guefts for a whole
year; at the end of wliich, after a va¬
riety of adventures, nanated by the fa¬
ther of hillory with his agreeable cir-
cumftantialicv, Megaclcs lire Athenian,
fen of AUmaijn, .won the lady, and be¬

came anceffor of the famous line of the
7\Icm;r;onidae. lierodot. Erato, cap.
’26. It was on thi occaGou that Clif-
thenes made the celebrated bon mot upon
Hippoclides of Sparta, wlio, in "order to
ingra'iate IdmElf writh his inten.ded fa¬
ther-in law, danced ’nefore all the com¬
pany : “ O fon of TiUnder, vou have
danced away your weddmg.” 'fbe
Greek is rrOich better: O 'nsxi T*cray(N>f,

a7rct}p'^r,7Cio "yH ro'i yxy.oii,

P. 14. Lillr the aflroioger, in his cu¬
rious “Life,” relates (p 34), that, lorne
time about 1632, be isougne lome aflro-
logicai books, out of the librarv of Mr.
A. lEdwell, lately deceafetl, miniiter of
Tottenham High Crols, who had been
ch.iplain to Sir Henry Wocton, when he
was ambalfador at Venice, and alfifted
Pietro Soave Polano in writing the tlif-
tory of the Council of Trent.

P. I 7 :

“ He that had no gode hor^,

He gat liim a mare.”

In order to apprehend the humour of
this palTage, we muft recoke^f, that, in
the days of chivalry, it was efteemed de¬
grading to ride on a mare. “ Lcs ju-
rnens,” fays an exquiii.e mafter of this
fubjedf, “ etoient une monture dero-
geante, affedlee aux roturiers A aux che¬
valiers degrades,&, peuretre par un uiage
prudent, on !es avoit relervees pour la
culture des rerres, & pour multiplier
leur efpece,” Memoires fur Pane. Che-
valerie, par M. de la Cprne de Ste-Pa-
lave, part i. vol. T. p. 20. He confirms
this by a quotation from Perceforeft :
“ Ne on ne pouvoit ung Chevalier plus
deshonnorer que de le ^aire chevaucher
unc yument pour le blafme, & tenoit-on
depuis que e’eftoient chevaliers necreus

de nuiie valeur, ne ja plus chevaliers
qui ayma fon honneur, ne joufioit a lui,
ne frappoit d’epee non plus que un fol
tonclus.” The Bedouin Ar.rbs, on the
contrary, as M. Volney informs
prefer mares to horfes. Travels, vol. 1.
p. 406, Englilh rranflation.

Mr, Urban, 7^^ 7*

^HE houfe which has a room pro¬
jetfling nearly crols the North aile
of Bicknor church, as deferibed by In-
dagacor Roffenfis, p. 414, is termed by
Mr. Hafled the re£tot’s tioufe, or hovel.
My reafon for noticing it is a wifh to be
infornied, whether this be not a fingle'
inftance of an incumbent’s manfion be¬
ing placed under the roof of his church.

The incontrovertible plagiarifmswhich

have

1794- 1 Glaftcnbury Seaf. — Monuments of the Lajigworth F:tmUy. 615

have been (^etei^ed in the writings of
the f'lcetiour. Sterne, p. 406^ niay have
brought to the recolleStion of ievera! of
yr)ur readers the obfervation of Arch-
b’.fho'p Herr ng (Preface to Sermons, p.
x^xvii.), that “ the wits of Qj.}een
Anne’s reign had made great ufe of that
forgotten l)0()k. Barton’s Anatomy of
Melancholy, ” Qit. VViil his Gr-^ce’s
remark apply to tiie Alemoirs of Scri-
blerus >

It appears, from the h-^Tforv of Baro¬
nets, that Sir George Slingfby, knt.
comptroller of the n^.vy in the reign of
James the Fnft, had by Margaret,
daiiehrer of VVMliam Walter, alderman
of York, eight hms. Should any of
your readers be apprized of the vear of
the b rtli of George, the fifth fon, a
■communication of it will oblij^e.

Yours, cSec. W. and D.

Mr. Urban, Sha, Juh 8.

PERMl r me to trouble you once
more on the fubjedf of the Glafion-
bury leal, engraved in your p'ate I. fig.
5, for April. An explanation was re-
qitedtd j which D. H, p. 42-I, has thus
given; S(ip^rUum Jans de E‘’mart^r.
Xhis, N5r. Urban, may be clear and
intelligible polfibiy to you; at leaft, I
ihould (uppofe { >, to D. H. ; but poor
Obadiah is as much in the dark as ever,
cind to his dull comprehenfion it. appears
more incompreheiilible than the leal it-
felf. D H. lee ms lo liave niifl iken the
letters, which are evidently s : SANS
DF, E ENM.ARTIN. It iTiav be i . ad
thus Sigilium fandium de E. Enmartin,
If this be the true reading, can D. H.
inform me what, or vvho, Enmartin
was ? It IS alfo (aid, that it “ reprelents
a pair of compalTes. Hence I am indu¬
ced to alk your mafonic eorrefpondents
if they can fiy whencr* it cvime, and
whole luperfcMpti'in it bears? It has no
handle, but on,y a loophole on the
back, and appears to have been worn
(ulpended to loine part of a dreis. D.A
guihtions of this kind are, I doubt nor,
received by no Imall part < f your read¬
ers with a frnile; others may think with
me, kisc non funt nugee. OaADiAH.

Mr. Urban, July 9.

EORGE LANGWORTH, or St.
f iiomas Apolile, Lcuidon, gentle-
nan, by his will, da ed Mav 11, 170S,
Hid proved in the P erogative Cojit of
he Archbilhopof Canterbury, October
17, 1714. bequeathed three pounds and
iye liiiilings a-year, cliarged upon his

efiate in Wilmington, in the countv of
Kent, t-o the following ufes; — N.ifneiy,
twenty fhiliings to be difinbuted < n
Chrifimas eve to the poor of the pirilh
of Wilmington, by the vicar and
cburchvs ardens ; a’fo forty Ihillings to
the vicar, pavab'e on the feafi of St.
Thomas, and five lliillings moie to be
expended in cleaning ahd keeping in
tepiir the tombs belonging to the
Lan^iworths, his ancefiois, in the
church-yard and veftry-houfe.

The tombs referred to are four cf
the kind commonly called Altar or
Table Monuments. One of them ad¬
joins to the Eafl wall of the chancel,
and the other three placed in a row at a
little diilance from it to the Eaft ; and
there is alfo a fmail mural monument
of black marble, fet in an elegant
f<ame of Portland Hone, furmounted
With an u.n, which is luppofed to be
what IS alluded to in the will, as being
in the vaJirj-bQuJ'e, .whttt it might have
been onginVdly intended to be placed;
but it is fixed agamfi: the E ill wall of
the chancel, and not far from the vef-
trv. TtieJedger, or covering Hone, of
the tomb contiguous to the church is of
black marble, and the red of the nmte-
rials of Portland (tone. Of the three
oth-er aJtar-monuments, the ledgers are
of Purbeck, the Well ends of bUck.
marble, bur the fides and Eaft ends of
P-utland done.

On thefe tombs are the following
infer’ ptions,

I. Oil the tomb towards the Noith.

U pen the ledger ;

Here L3/eih Interred The Bodyes of
Sarah and B ar t ho lomew La ng wo r. th.
She died the 5th of September, 165c, Aged 19
Yeares 9 Monerhs. He April 24th, 1653, At
the Age of Eight Yeares r Moneth 22 Dayes.

She The Eldefl Daughter Efe The
6th Son of Francis Langw rth, Gent,
Here Refts the Body of Emz Sedley,
D.iughter of Francis Languoith, Gent,
of tiiib, Fariib, Relief of George Sedley,
Citizen of London. By whom Die had
dfue 2 Sons and 5 Daugliters. Siie
Died the 8ch of Odlober, 1693, Aged 6i
Years 1 5 D.iyes. -

At the \y efi end ;

Earth That in Eaith Intomb’d Here Lyes,
lirrnoi taliz’d Again Shall Rife,

And Death That Lay’d us in this Grave
ItCelf t Lengtii a Grave Shall Have.

Then Sliail Our Soules and Wee iii Triurriphi
Sing,

Whsr’s Now Thy Conquell Grave, O Death
thy Sting?

i. The

6i6 Monuments of the Langwortlis. — -Mr. Tlio. Watfoii. [JuItj

The tomVj in the middle.

Upon the ledger :

Here Rells the Remainder of
M A R V L AN G w 0 R T H j third Daughter
of Francis Languorih^ who
Departed this Life Anvil 3c th, i66o.

At the Age of 19 Years 3 Months
And 20 Days.

At the W efl end :

Who Liv’d And Dyed A Virgin Here She
Lye'^,

And Shall Again A Glorious Virgin Ri^e.
Her Now Biefl Soule Longs For Tliat Joy-
full D lye

V/hen her Dear Chrift Shall Bldd Her
Come Away.

To Weare Her Then Triumphant Crovvne
Wlien He To judge the World Comes
Dowme.

-j. The to.Tib towards the South,

, U pon the ledeer :

Here Lyeth Ljtirr’d The Body of
Dante LL Lanoworth, youn ^ell:

Son of Francis La"gv,'oi th, who
Bnded This Life 061( her 13th, t66c',
Aged 17 Yeaies 3 Moneths 7 Dayes.

At tlie Wed fend :

0 Earthe, Earthy What Thoir Do.fl Srelvlee,
Now

E’reLoong As Now 'im I Soe Shalt Be Thou.
ElyThrid of Sevenceene Yt ares At, Length Is
SpuniTj [riinn.

And Thy GiafsToo At Lengtli Shall Out Be
Whiifl; Here So Feare Thou God And 111
VVav s Shunn, f Done.

That Thou Mayll I-ia[^py Be That Weil Hall;

4. The tomb contiguous to the wall of
the chancel :

Married the
ytb or ful;. ,
162,8.

Here Reds the Bodyes of
Francis Lang wo r t h ,
Gent. And Mary his Wife,
ho Lived in Wedlock
Sixty Ycarr, And Were
Tlie Parents of Seven
Sons and three Daughters.

Born

Feb, 25th,

1597.

Borp

March i8tb^
1602.

He Died he id Day of
June, 1688, Aged 91
Y tai> and 3 Months,
being the 5' h Son of John

I.angwo th, D. D. Dece’d.

.She Dyed the 29th Day
of Janurrv, 1701, Aged
98 Years and 10 Months,
Being the Second
Daughter of G( orge
Tucker, Efq. Milton
Juxta Giseve End, Dec’d.

On the tablet fixed near the veftry :

This Race all run, ‘but Crown'd al ,ne is He
YVhofe Dayes conclude in Grace and Pietiie,
Then Feary Lo e. Hate, Attend,

God, Goof.iiefs, Sinn, The End.

Above the lines there is a fliield of
armt, quarterlv,

1. (Langwoith) three wolves heads.

2. A chevron betwee-P

three di'agons.

3. A lion rampant.

4 (Tucker) a chevron between thr ee
fea- horfes.

It appears from the regider, that Mr.
George Langworth was buried 061ober
I, 1714; but there is not any done,
with his name inferibed on it, that
marks the place of interment. If the
marble tablet be not referred to in the
wiii, it ma^ be a memorial of the tella-
tor himfelf.

As thefe epitaphs are not in the
church, they are not noriced among the
Monumen a! Infcriptions within the
D ocele of Rochelter, adjoined by Mr„
Tiimpe to ‘‘ Rpgiflrum R fftnfe nor
am 1 aware of their being printed in
any other col!tction. The very ad¬
vanced ages of Francis and Mary Lang¬
worth may be recorded among the in-
ftances of longevity of man and wife:
of the relative pofuron of verbs and
fub’'iantivc.s in different verf-.s there are
examples in tfiu Latin infcriptions at
Delft, and at Sp ttle Street, co. Lin¬
coln (fee pp. 219, 319, 427) and
I'lch an anangemenc may nor be un¬
common ; and, with relpe6f to the
other veiles, I fliall only add, that,
though it be church- yard poetry which
i have tranluiuttd to you, the rliimes
are not uncouth, and that molt of the
lines are adapted

— to teach the ruflic raoralifl to die.”

Yours, &c. S. D.

Mr. Urban, Ne-w Crane, July 11,
author of the “ Intimations
and Evidences of a future State”
(ir.entioned in p. 405) is Mr. T. Wat-
fon t, a DifTenting Minifier at Whitby,
in Y orkfliire. I had once the pleafure of
his company at my houfe, and the work
was lent Die by a parr*icular friend of us
both. The au'hor is much eftterned with¬
in rhe circle of hrs acquaintance. J. W.

As alfo in the encomiaftic motto on the
city of Brillol, tire latter couplet of which
may be thus lets diffufely rendered, and with
ail arrangement of words more correfpon-
dent than that given in the tranflation of
them in the Magazine of June, p. 542 :
God, King, tlie Laws, adores, reveres,
obferves, [preferves.

Country, Crimes, Peace, defends, abhors,
•f So alfo fays H. W. of Mile-end. Eoii'.

^Mr.

1794’1 Cromwell’s Houfe, — ChartieUhoufes and Crypts*

Mr. Urban, 'July t.

OLIVER CROMWELL’S HOUSE
(plaielU.) IS nrcupied chiefly bv
Mr. Blackberovv. Tiaclition points it
out ftionglv to have been the refidence
of Oliver Cromwell, where it ertings
were hjcM for the purpofe of bringing
about the revolution that took place in
the re'gii of King Charles I The pa-
rifli of Cleikenweil s rather reniarkable
for being inhabited for met I- by perfons
of high rank Oppofire OI ver Ciorn
well’s fi- od Nev\cifl'e houfe, belonging
to S. J Cavcndifli, Duke oi Newcaiile,
In Ay! tfbury-ftreet Rood the Earl of
Ayhlbury’s houfej ard, by tradition,
St. John's church was fornriCrly a chapel
annexed to the Earl’s manfion. It is
remat kabicj that the panfli have the re¬
cords before Cromwell’s Ufurpation and
after, but not during the Intertegnum.
Yours, See, - T. P.

Mr. Urban, Julj; 3.

AE tL V£R was the view of
Xv your correlpondent Csnibnenhs
in aligning the motive of Dr. Priefiley’s
clepaitute from this couniry, it has been
fhewn by Mr Toulmin, p. 495, 'hat he
miflook the motive. No one, however,
can midake Mr. T’s motive for this
communication, any more than (or his
undertaking to republifli Mr. Neal’s
Hiftoiy of tlie Puiitans, a woik com-
pofed by a Cal'vinifii: Independent being
now eciited by a Sccinian B^puji.

In regard to what is (aid, p. 491 ; w'e
can offer no apo ogy for Freemafonry
believing it at belt to be a hlly lecret,
yet not doubling that it might be per¬
verted to ferve the vvorfl of pui poles in
the hands ot danger us men.

Yours, ^c. B. B. B.

IVIr. Urban, 4.

rOUR correlpondent F. M. p. 497,
is totally inift<jken in h's leacnng
of the Fdtlev inlcription, which, icfer-
ring to the figure of the crofs over it,
iins thus :

“ Muniat hoc templum cruce glor\fi.
cam micrc-cofmuni quern genuit Cl.iil-
turn mifex\% pcccatoiibus fiat ujtium."

It is almoft impoHitdt to miliake the
letters as they Lie before the reader.
TUc gtntTal icnfe feenis r-i be, “ May
this temple prott6l hv the c ofs, g oiify
ing rht lilt. eWorld ! (7 he oifiicuji y about
C, whether qiity 01 (jutm, . r an\ thin
die, lerriers the n^xr oicmi>tr rf h.

^ See, howe.er, p. 6iz. Ei'IT.

Gent. Mag. *794»

fenfe obfeure), Mhv i lie a rer''enr to
miferabie finners !” It lias nor the lead
reference to a fanSnary in tne lenfe in¬
tended bv Dr. Pegge; and he let rets are
much o der tfian the time o' Henrs VI.

The done from Lo.coln has traces of
a crofs at the uppei a rnns j but, from
i's fi uation, may ir not raiher have been a
boundury than af pu'chtal monument?

Tij in'ciiption to in on the urn.,
p, 501, can have no le.ation to ihtiem-
ptror VuSior nus, wlio died at Col gne,
and moll probably was buried there It
is not unfr^quent on other Brit fh in-
feriptions. N.^mes on potterv are rather
of the maker than of the party whofe
'alhes the urn contained.

The arms of Edward the ConfefTor,
p. 506, were, a crofs patonce fietween 5
martU'ts. Ciiarne!-hou fes and Cr pts
are often confounded. Crypts were fre¬
quent under chancels and chapels ■, but
their deflination to receive tlie faper-
fluous bones fiom time to time dug up
in cimrch- vsrds, for a long fucceffion of
time, has led many to fufped; that they
were originallv intended to feive as char-
nel-houfes. Hence the vulgar error, that
the human bones w hich fill the vaults at
Hythe and Waltham- alibey were re¬
mains of fume batde, and the bt'er of
the fiain by William the Conqueror at
Battle; whereas every circumfiance con¬
curs to prove they have b-en put there,
from time to time, for the realon above-
mentioned. c

A monument of Mr. Wm. Sandys was
not to have been expe^ied at Fla«^burv,
p. 500, where he had at laft no propertv^
but rather with his family at Miftnlen ;
but perhaps the times prevented it.
There ieems a Inile inaccuraev in the
account of the paiifii-cltik of Fladbury
being confulred db ut builoings at Stiac-
ford, for fo it flioulu have tieen exprei-kd.
The monuments at Fladhruy and Strenf-
ham may be feen in Dr. N.iflps Collec¬
tions for Worcefienhne, under their le-
fpeoiwe articles.

Ph lo-Gothicus, p 513, is itiucli mif-
taken in uiu'Ci Handing the arms of
-Granvi le to be fuffiues^ or organ-refis ;
they zxc refs tor a Ipt; r, which were a
kind of bracket y p.ojefting fiom the
bieafi of’the aimour. Kent .mri Guil-
liP) d ,ubt this, a.id call them CluriohSt
an inliiument of iiiulick to wdi ch 1 can¬
not (ee the lead .eleuibljiice R ihert
Ear of Gio. C'fter temp. Henry I. and
Art;. or \ Clodion \\\ SoiiuiUtfhire, bear
them as well as GianviUe.

Nevuion.

6i8 Newton Hall, — Chalcoplionos. — K. Charles’s Chair. [July,

hall» enq,uirecl after pp. 410,
523, is in £?///(? parlfh ; an^l,

in Weever^'s time, there remained in it,
“ in old painting, two the one

for an ancefior of the Bourchiers, com¬
batant with another, being a Pagan king,
for the truth of Chrift, whom the faid
Englifliman overcame; and, in memory
thereof, his defcendants have ever fince
borne the head of the faid infidel, as alfo
ufed the furname of Bo<wfer, as I had it
out of the colle^fions of Auguftine Vin¬
cent, Windfor herald, deceafed,*' pp.
634. I do not find, however, from
Morant (II. 424), that it ever belonged
to the Bourchier familv.

I wifh to know if the firfi; volume,
complete, of the Hiflory of Cumberland,
announced on the cover of your June
Magazine as “ already printed, and
Jhortly njoill be publijhed,'* on the 24th of
that month, be the fame with that re¬
viewed in vol. LXIII. p, ri'97, as an
incomplete work, or do we look for an¬
other ? Yours, &c. D. H',

Mr. Urban, July 1-4.

The flone called Cbalcophonos, to
which C. M. alludes, p. 552, is
thus defcribed by Pliny, Nat. Hift.
XXXVI'I. c. I’O ; ** Cbalcophonos nigra
eji fed illifa arts tinnitum reddit, trogcs ^
diSf ut fuadent, geflandad* Ifidorus
tranfcribes this verbatim (Orig. XVI.
c. 14). Solinus, c. 37, fays, “ Chnl~
teoptbongos refonat ut pulfa a'ira ; pudice
habitus fervcit 'vocts clarifaiem.” To
the fame purpofe Marbadeus, c. i5.
All that we learn from thefe authors
is, that it was black and founding.

The Lady, in the Index Indicato-
rius, may find the folution of the bar¬
ber’s pole in vol. XL. p. 403,*. P.

Mr. U r ban, 7.

IN your laft Magazine, in a letter
figned John Jordan, is an account of
a Hate chair purchafed fiom among the
effe6Is of the late Lady-vifcountefs
Fane,, of Little Compton, in Gloucef-
terfliire, by Mr. Sands, of Wheel- bar-
row caftle, in that neighbourhood. The
writer of this letter knew the chair per-
fe6fly well at Little Compton, and he
knows the hiftory of it. It is neither
more nor lefs than the date chair in
which the king CAdng Charles the Se¬
cond) fate in the abocy, after his ci ro-
iiation, to receive the homage of the
peers. This chair was the ptrqu'fite
ef W iliam Tuxon, the archbifhop of

in p. 611, this raoiUli. Ldi x.

Canterbury, who crowned the king;
and either immediately, or after the
archbilhop’s death, which happened the
following year, it was fen-t to Little
Compton, the place of retreat of the
archbifliop from 1649^ to 1660, when,
in a Hate of extrera*e decrepitude, he
was fent for, and con veyed to town in
a litter, in order to be promoted to the
archiepifcopal fee of Canterbury ; which
promotion entitled him to perform the
ceremony of crodvning the fon of that
king whom, eleven years before, he
had attended, being then bifhop of
London, in his prifon of St. James, and
on his fcaffold at Whitehall.

This is the true hiftory of the chair,
which, upon the death of S r William
Juxon, was left, together with hi&
whole perfonal eftate, to his reli£f.
Dame Sufannah Juxon, afterwards Vil«
countefs Fane. As to marks of blood
upon the fooiftoof, the necelfary ap¬
pendage to a ftate-chair of that fort, I
never either faw or heard of any ; but
they may be there, and they may have
come from an hundred quarters, with¬
out belonging to the royal martyr. He
moft certainly Ihed none of his there.
The bifhop of London, even as dean of
the chapels, if his privileges had, at
the execution of the king, been ever fo
much reTpeifed, couid have no claim
to the block on which the king was
beheaded neither is it very likely that
that block was covered with purple
velvet. Indeed', had it been of the
moft common materials, there can be
no doub< but that Bifliop Juxon, coulds
he have eftablifhed his right to it, would
have preferved it as a r.eliqr.ie. I wifK
to have this inferted, and, if you- defire
it, i will give you my nam-e.

Yours, &c. ^ Vei^idicus,

Ml-. Urban,

Crooked Ifland^
Jan. 179^

iBDURATE muft the heart of that
individual be who can read the
luppofed foliloquy of Louis the Child
without fympathizing in its diftrers,''and
execrating the infernality of thofe iwo-^
legged tigers whofe infatiate maws ft ill
thirft for human bieotl. In the fame
Magazine for November is a narrative
of a cruelty in the Weft of England,
where both the lawyer and his client
appear as fit alTociates for that diaboli-
ca: aftf-mbly and pitv it is tlieir names
a e not expoled to as fingutar notice as
thofe of the philanthropic Roberfpierre,
&c, I wifti a few of youi" corrslpond-

eats,

1794*] Tranfatlantlc — Anecdotes of G to. VltxcQ. 619

tnts, who, with concern T obferre, on
trifling difputes, treat their opponents
with dogmatical afperity, would draw
forth villany and hard-heartedneft,
under whatever name or charafter it
may lie concealed ; there the cacoilhn
opprobrandi may be very laudably in¬
dulged. It might much benefit fociety
if the worthy committee for re;Iieving
pri'foncrs for fmall debts, where the
colls fo vaflly exceed the debt, would
mention the attorney’s name to whom
thofe wretches are fo happily beholden,
that fuch may be had in everlafting re¬
membrance. Lord Kenyon is much
extolled, on this fide the water, for his
dextrous excifion of Tome ro-tten limbs
jnfefling Weftminfter-hall. In the
iflands, his lopping-axe might do much
fervice. The vitals, not bowels, of
thefe heroes of the quill, the war hath
made putrefeent. Many poor French
and Americans have proved it feelin.-
ly. The amor patriae is tortured, like
charity, to cover a multitude of llns. I
will fport an opinion, though probably
much too late, that “a matter on the
carpet” hath an aJIufion to the antient
covering of a iible, where buflnefs of
importance .was difculled, fimilar to our
Board of Green Cloth, parvis cotnponere
tnagna — I fear Mifs Seward’s ilriftures
on Johnforr’s veracity did not proceed
from an exuberance of the milk of hu¬
man kindnefs. I fometimes thought
him more attentive to the truth than to
the propr.ety of what he afferted. I
hope the Teeming fanguinary go^t of her
friend Williams is now I'ufficiently
glutted. What an affe6fing fubjeft for
tragedy would thofe ferocious feenes
furnifh, provided the united powers of
language and of affion did not render
it loo dutrelling for endurance ! If our
bawlers for a parliamentary and other
Utopian reform would exert themfelves
effeiluaily to invefligate the abufes
which exift in many charitable inftitu-
tions, the bleffings of the poor would
accompany their enquiries, and mens
Jibi confeia reBi would rile fuperior to
prevalence of party.

In the Apiil (iaiement of Queea
Anne’s bounty, I find, in 30 years there
was rece'ved, bv

Tenths, 26 1,3 19

Legacies 17,016

^7^,335

What a woeful deduitiou follows!

Fees 6,597

Salaries, &c. 24,076

A new book (query?) 531

iVcm« Commiliion, &c, 12,317

How much of this, by attention In the
firft inflance, and how much may yet
be faveci, and the good refulting, I
leave to wifer heads to afeertain ; this
only I can venture to affirm : that,
whatever increafes the ability of a wor¬
thy clergyman to bring up a decent fa¬
mily adds more to the flock of public
virtue than all the money paid to all
the Petits maitres, or coxcomical clerks,
in Chriftendom. Is it now clear to the
publick, how the profits arifing from
that noble fund for erefting a college
iq Barbadoes is appropriated ? It is
rumoured that a fcheme, ten times more
chimerical, is in contemplation to adopt
the bafelefs fabrick of a fimilar con-
ftruotion in Bermuda, to teach gentle¬
men’s Tons of the Weft Indies to fwim,
and thofe of America to catch fiffi 5 the
former to be fed upon air, to increafe
agility; the latter, in a good whale
(eafon, are to provide for the year.
Stationary balloons will be appointed
to affill the iniercourfe. The profefifors
to be furnifiied from the univerfities of
Old-fireet and Moorfields. It is pre-
lumed, there being now no other de¬
mand for money, the Government will
provide liberally fora pharos to lighten
the fiioals off Cape Hatteras, and an
obfervatory to afeertain, with precifion,
whether a full moon be not encircled
with a rim, like that of a flat candle-
flick. They have hitherto been dab¬
bling only as pedlars; this is intended
coup de main. CoTTONlENSlS.

Mr. Urban, ^iverton^ June z'].

N Walker’s Sufterings of the

• Clerg\” is a long account of the
unparalltUd fufferings and hardfhips
that the Rev. George Pierce (who had
Pit quarter in this town) and his family
undeiwent. 1 find he was born at

Richmond, in Surrey; educated at
Eton, and elefted to a fellowfiiip of
King’s college, Cambridge, 1623, and
admitted to this living in 1634. He
had alio a living in Kent, of tne value
of 160I. per annum. His father was
keeper of the wardrobe to Queen Eli¬
zabeth, King jaines, and Charles the
Full. I have heard he had 23 children

6^0 Bunal Sermce.-^^ir L Newton. — Lmcolnlliire Loyalip [July,

b' his fecond wife ; fixteen of them
j' cd fo i'.e men and women ; and that
Ki'iy J<me feiv ei^hr of them to
K’n ’s college. C mbtdne, one of
wh rh wa*; 'he beforemeniioned George"
P.tice Pr 'CO the firif^^eh cncjui y t
can m ke, 1 cannot find out any de-
Prndai'is of this nu ne ous familv, un-
lefs It is an oM ma'den ^'entlewoman, a
great grand dau, ' terof thefaui George
p! rce If anv of your coj relpondeurs
could inform me, through the channel
cf -he Gentle man’s M garine^ if any
of the lineal defcend nts ;'fe nf)W li^
ving, and wheie, ir o-i'*' r' nfera i vour'
on Yours, &c* Tiverton iensis.

M r. I’ ' B A v ,

R. BOS^' RLL
M:) J Hrd n, ’
ohjeifs to a p ffa e

Ji^^y lO

, in his “ Ldc of
voi 11. p 4!;o,
ID on , R uri • ' Ser¬

vice, as Ipeak ng o " denfivelv o' the
future conditi' n of the deteaitd. Wiitn
he ve c nfide-s this paiTage, he wil* ice
thit his renf .re is tinto tided, “ We
comrri! his bv)dv to the ground — “ in
fu<e and certain hope ',1 be refurrec-
tion,’’ &;c. ^ thit is, of the general 'C-
furre6iion. N u a fy ! bic is cxprelfed
concerning the oeceaftd peilon in par¬
ticular ; a -ha liable and footh ng hope
is only impli<d T. W.

Mi. Urban, ^ ^ •

AS wh t € attS to perfons of enni-
- I enct hndi> ready ac-ds to your
IVluit um, 1 hatter rndelf it will nor be
unacceptable to your readeis to learn
that Sir Ifdd’C Newttm, 26 and 27 Sept.
1720, pi rchaled, fiom Paul CaTon,
f<n. r.f Melton, CO, Bucks, gent and
PiiU* Cilton, his foil, a cajutai eftare,
pr ncip.illy lands, at B den, Wilts, for
jugjR 6 • fed, ; which, in 1726, 14 and
15 Match, tie fetded on N-wton Btr-
ton, Ca h. Barton, and Roliert B trton,
his iitphew and nieces, H s hand¬
writing in 1726 was become exttemely
tremulous. M Grh.en.

Mr. Urban, July

1HAVE been an admirer of your
(yentieman’'' Magazine for m.-uy
years; and oDferving tiiat, though you
treat the nioO learned lubjciBs, you do
not defpirc (ucli as are infling, i t-ke
courage to tell you, that 1 am a g'reat
lover of tliat ufeful part of the featheied
creation caNed, Poultry, 1 take plealure
in attending them myfeif, b.ut often find
that I am puzzled to know how to tieat
Shetr dtflempers. I often vex them by

igncrance of their natural particulari¬
ties, and I Tearcb in vain for books to
inftruft me. If, through your Maga¬
zine, I could be informed of any trea-
tif<s publi fifed on the methods of ma¬
naging them ; or if, by reading my com-
{jilainr, fome good-humoured lorer of
the tribe would communicate fome of
their experience in your monthly publi¬
cation ; it would much pleafe

Y'ours, 5cc, Hannah.

Mr. Urban, July 15.

As Lincoln fbire wa’ the fi’-ft county
which has flood forward in fup-
pori of f)ur ex eih in Coofiirution, againft
the dtiigns of wicked men I'oth at home
and abrf'act it may nor he amrf’s to pre-
ferve, ia your v.Juable Rcpofit^'iy, a
former manifeftation of their zeal in
fupport of the juft prerogative, and tlie
p- efeiVation of the public peace, in
1642 It IS faithfully c -pied from a
hio'e Iheet of paper pr nted at the time,
and txtreourly Icirre. D. R.

1642. Th.e refolution of the gentry of Lin-
colrifhiie to provide 168 horfe ^or tlie
maintenance and defence of his Maje.ty’s
juft prerogative, and the prefei vative of
the public peace ; f e fa d iior'e to tie dif-
pofen Within the county of Lincoln for
three months after the 20th of ihis inflant
ju’y, at fuch time, and in lucli v/ay, as
ills M,, jelly fhall by his commillion direct.

F- Fane 4
Per. Bertie 4
'John Monfon 12
Edward Hulity 6
George Heneage 6
John Bolle.s 5
VVhliiam Felham 3
William Tborold 6
Ch. liuffev 2
Dauie! Deligne 3
Robert Tiiorold 3
|ei vale Set ope 4
Jervafe Neville 2.
John Burnell 2
Chrif. Beresford z
Robert Tredway 2
Ralpli Ewes 4
Earn. Eli s I
Anhur Red bed i
(George Walker 1
Hultwait Wrigiit 1
W'dii.im Stone i
'A'illiam Langton i
|ohn Fornery 4
Cliarles B illes 3
Ch. Daliyfon 4
Antli. Meres 1
William Saltmarlh
Ste. Anjerfon z
Thomas Ogle z

Thomas ^^o.lfon i
Robert Markham 4
Robert B diefe i
Thomas Rands i
Jo. Culumbcll I
Jo, Sintt I
Til. Hei ingion 2
William Daily Ion 4
N- Smith I
Jo, Oldfield z
And. May 3
Edward Toiirn^y x
Ai'th. Pnitler z
A urn. Topham 4
Hamlst Viarfhai 3
Rubeit Meres z
Morgan Winne 2
T'pomas Hurfl 2
Robrrt San.lerfon i
Robert Hafle-vond i
Aden Cranweii i
,Sre, Primet I
Ci), Harrington i
Henry Pigg i
Davy Wiliiamfon r
John Chapel i
William VVelby 2
Edward Midfimore x
William Dlfney 2
Fitin. W’elby ‘i

Thomas

[7o4»l Colli nfon’s Somerfetfbire

rhf map Read i South 3

Geo» ge Br .dlev I Hen. Fienne^l

Q\iac!rir.g i Ro*^ert M 'tbew i
Wiili ‘m <-'007 •> Riclianl Parke i
Williana Tyrwhit i Richard Fanrouit I
Robert T\ i-whit z Mont. Cholmeley i
id ward Heron i

Mr. Urban, yu/v >6.

LFHOUGH it is by no means
tnv intention to enter >nto a cie-
fence of Mr. Col’.infon’s ‘‘Hiftory of
SomerfetOui e,” I cannot, bo'.^ever, re¬
fill requefting that you will infert a
flieh examina’ion of the flnt^ures
p fl' d upon it bv V' ur certeTpondent
in vour Magazine foi lad month;
and I corctive, if no objettinns more
matetia! th.n what he has offered be
brouiiht againll it, »he book in quefiion
may continue 10 hold a refpeftable
place in the catalogue of our county -
hiftories.

Your correTpondent, in the begin¬
ning of Its letter, fays of Mi. Coilin-
fon’s hiftory, ih^at

TI»e lopogi aphical part, as far as relates
to the f.ice of the coun'ry, is, tni tl.e whole,
very well executed The d. fcnptions are
lively ard fpirited (timfhn ed, indeed, fome-
times, with a little alfei^fation), ard, for tlie
moil part, juft and (atisfadfoi y. such, a-
mong O'heis, is that given of the village of
Farley,” &c. &c.

After bavins.’ ftatfd that Mr. Collin-
fon had occupied ten papjs in his ac¬
count of this viil ge, rtiid had yiven
the dimenfions of the church, and the
infcriptions its nioruments b ar, your
correfpondent then fays,

“ In the fame biirf manner he difp;itches
moft of the chu'ches in the county ; anc*,”
W’hat is a fad omiflidn truly ! freriuentiy
negiedl? to record tl;e faint to whem the fa-
cred pile is dedicated.”

After det-iiling at length the cata¬
logue of Mi . Cu! linlbr/.s 1 rr< perfedt ion s
and errors, the whole is luinmed up by,
In truth, the church-notes are the moft
Hovenly part of ilie work.”

We are informed, th t in the win¬
dows at Farley there is (ome old paint¬
ed glafs, of which your corrdp! ndent
made memoranda ; and, as thefe memo¬
randa a e probrijbly irteiukd as a p.-it-
itrn for “church norts,'’ and are of
courfe fuppofed to tend to the e!u ida-
tiop. of tlie h'ftory of Far'ey, we are
formally innodured to the leveral per-
lons I here reprefented.

The fit ft figure is that of our Lady ;
the next only ** lookj like St. George j’’

,--^A[Jinity af Languages 621

but the dragon and fo much of the fi¬
gure “ IS (wanting,’* that it may Itt Sr.
George or any perfon elfe. Another
fitiure ** feemi” to be St, Mary Magda¬
lene. We next meet with two bifhops,
whofe names, unfortunately, are “ not
legible,** a«d two letteis, and two
fliields, of which the impalement of
one is “ en'irely defaced,” ^nd the
O' her is “ too imferfedi to be clearly
made eut.**

From this concife flatement the
reader wi’I be enabled to judge what
lofs Mr. Collinfon’s hiftorv has fuftain-

ed in the om'ffion of fuch memoranda.

Y ours, &c. E. C.

Me. Urban, Cambridge, “July 17.

Dr. glass, on the a.ftinity of the
Hebrew with a certain

word in the language of the South-fea
ill mds (A-rchce h-gia, vol. VI i I.), 'fays,

“ No argument in favour of the primac^
vlty of the Hebrew language is unimportant.
P.efearches of this nature, we underftand,
are now making under the diredfion of a
great Princefs, as well as by the alTiduons
capf of learned individuals. I am fully per-
fuaded that thefe refearches will terrhinate ia
forme new difeo^ cries of the connexion be¬
tween the language of every kingdom opoUL_
e.irth with that prefumed to have been fpo-
ken l>y Adam and Noah.”

We are ni;t informed who are the
peifnns erirplf^yecl by the Emprefs of
Pvulfia (for fhe moft probably is the
great piincels alluded to), or to what
languages their refeaiches extend, &c.

An account of the progrefs and refult
of thofe enquiries, from one of youf
Earned conelpondents, would therefore
oolige Yours, &c.

Mr. Urban, 'Jan. 26.

A S your iVlsgazine has a very ex-
J.\. renbve circulation, I wifh the
following confiderations may bethought
wori hy of a place in it.

Ihoughii of a Juryman refpediing Pre*
Jen^menis of High Roaas.

There are two inodes ci compelling
pirifhcs to repair their roads; one by
prefentment to the alLzes, or quarter-
ieiiions, by the judges or ihe juftices of
the peace, without recn-j ip to the grand
jury, or by the grand ju. , in confe-
qutnee of a bill brout-tit before them,
or from their own kno ' nge without
any bill; the other b, m order, on
C(<mplaint, from two 01 nore iuftxes
adting in the diftrift wh i ein the pai lili
is fituate. Of thefe, the latter has al¬
ways

6^2 Thoughts of a Juryman refpeSiin^ Turnpih Roads, [July,

ways appeared to me to be by far the
beft, for the following plain reafons :
I. The juftices within the diftri£l muft
be fuppofed moll likely to know tne
circnmflances of the road complained
againfl ; as, whether it is a public tho¬
roughfare road, leading from one town
to another; whether there a*-e not other
roads in the parilh, vvhich, being more
ufeful to the publick, and in a worfe
ftatc of repair, have not been already
ordered by them to be firll repaired, or
which ought in priority to be repaired,
a. They can eafily be made acquainted
with the ilate of the pariOj, fo as to
know how rT\uch road it can repair
within a given time; and can there¬
fore, without any rjik of oppreffing the
parilh with a burden to which its re-
fources are inadequate, order a certain
quantity of road to be repaired, in luch
a manner as they think right, within
that time. 3. As the furveyor of the
highways is fineable for not fuKilling
their order, the burden will fall, as it
ought to do, on the perfon offending,
and not on the parifh. This is a matter
of fome confcquence ; becaufe many
furveyors, who contribute a vety fmall
proportion to tl-ie paiifh -rates, are fo
little alfe£fed by the coil of a prefent-
Bient, that the dread of it is.rot of ef¬
ficacy enough to rtii'nu!.vte them to pro¬
per exertions; fome of them would
even fkethe frolick of attending at the
sHises at the expence of the parifh. The
caie is totally different when they them-
feives are perlbnally to pay for their
negligence. 4, The money which, in
confequence of a prefentment, w'ould go
into the pockets of the clerk of the af-
bzes, or leffions, and of attorneys,
would perhaps repair the road com¬
plained of. And this, furely, at a time
when parifhes are heavily burdened
with enormous poor-rates, not to men¬
tion tithes and other taxes, is a matter
of very ferious ccnfidcration. From
fuch reafons as thefe I have often been
induced to wifli that there was a claufe
prohibiting prefentments (except thofe
made by the judges and juilices) at the
afhzes or feiiions, unlcfs a previous
complaint has been made, without tf-
fe6l, to the juftices of thediftribl; in
vvhich cafe, perh aps, it would be proper
that the laid juftices fhould fend to the
affizes, or feiiions, where the prefent-
ment may be made, their reafons for
not proceeding to order the road to be
repaired in confequence of the com¬
plaint, the perfon intending to prefent

giving them due notice of his intention.
But this is out of my province ; and
my even hinting it may require an
apology. As the law ftands, what can
a poor juryman do? Is he, at all
events, on oath being made him that a
road is founderous, obliged to find the
bill ? or may he be allowed to ufe a
kind of difcretion r I own I Ihould be
inclined to afk, W'hether it was a public
road, whether the juftices of the diftrift
had ordered any roads to be repaired,
in which cafe^two orders would inter¬
fere ? whether the road was really in
fuch a ilate of repair as to render tra¬
velling over it dangerous or inconve¬
nient? or whether it was merely un-
pleafant? whether materials were, with¬
out great cofl and difficulty, to be pro¬
cured ? whether the refources of the
parifh were equal to making all their
roads fmooth and even ? whether the
perfon fvvorn had himfelf abloally fur-
veyed the road ? If, from unfatisfac-
toty anfwers, I had reafon to conclude
that the prefentment was unreafonable,
oppreffive, dibfated by pettilhnefs, re¬
venge, or fome private motive, might I
be allowed not to concur in finding the
bill ? or muft I a6f contrary to my
ideas of right, to comply with a form
of Itiw which I think wrong? What a
trying fnuation, to find Confcience, in
the trammels of an oath, againft Con¬
fcience direSed by Reafon and Equity!
I have often been (irrprized at obferving
juilices prefenting roads lying in their
own dilbibls. V/hac could be their
motive? Have they not all the power
neceffary for doing every thing that cgn
be done by a prefentment? Some, I
have heard, fay they do it becaufe they
do not like to tmpofe fines on their
neighbours, and to be teazed with ap¬
plications for remitting them; others,
that they get rid of the trouble of
making orders, and attending to their
execution. To me, who zm a plain
Englifhrr an, the proceeding recalls the
idea of Shakfpeare’s fantaftic nicks j
and iuch reafons appear to pioceed from
too much delicacy, felfiftmefs, and in¬
dolence, and want of proper contern
for their neighbours. Undeiftanding
that a bill on the lubjeft of the high¬
ways, viz. for exempting ceitain per-
fons from labour on them, will loon be
brought forward, 1 humbly beg leave
to hint two matters that may perhaps
be thought ufeful. As it is certain
that many furveyors do not fairly dif-
pofe of the money they coUe6l, and are

very

1794*] Prefentments of Turnplh Roads, — Critique on 623

|rery partial with re^pe^t to the diftri-
Ibution of labour, I Ihould wilh, for the
imore eafy unraveling their proceedings,
[that they fliould, at the expiration of
their year, render an account, in pro¬
per columns, firft, of the eftates in their
iparifhes, fpecifving what proportion of
duty each is liable to; whether they
compound, or do duty in kind ; when
fummoneci ; appeared or not; if not,
whether called before a magiftrate and
fined : fecondiy, of inhabitants liable to
labour; their names, oic. as above ; —
then of all the money they colledfed,
and from whom; thi amount of fines,
&c. ; then the particulars of their ex¬
penditure ; the names of perfons to
whom wages have been paid for la¬
bour; the nature of the labour; as,
whether by the day, or by the fathom,
or yard. Tk is account to be laid be¬
fore a veftry, duly fummoned, as is al¬
ready provided for, and allowed by
them, and afterwards before the juf-
tices, at their fpecial felfions. All
thefe precautions are abfoiutcly necef-
I'ary. — The other matter is, that, in
cafe the jufiiees find the furveyors in
any pariOi totally inadequate, through
iiinorance, to the talk of forming roads,
and that the inhabitants in general are
in the fame predicament, it fiialt be
lawful for them to appoint a perfon,
with a falary, to execute the office.
This too, 1 believe, would be of great
conlequencc. W. Lo VER I G H T.

P. S. Since 1 wrote the' above, the
following cafe has occurred to me; —
The highway aift provides againit pits
being made within 15 feet of the centre
of a h:gh road ; — fuppofe the pit jofi at
the exuemity of 15 feet, is it within
the adt ? If not, il;uuld not fome pro-
vifion be made for fuch a cdle, of which
1 know a very dangerous inftance ?

M;. Urban, Lancajier^ J une 14.
VERY author has, I believe, his
own peculiar ftyle, as every man
has his peculiar and dilfinguifhuig fea¬
tures. And, as we are often led into
error by a fimilarity, real or imaginaiy,
of the latter; lo, to afceriain, m the
former, the proper produdlions of an
author by the diftinguiflaing peculiarities
of fiyle, is an arduous undertaking.
There are many words with winch 1
am veiy converlanr, and efteem as truly
claliicai atifl elegant, which, ne»erthe-
lefs, I have often wondered that 1 could
never bring myfclf to the habitual ule
of in writing. 1 have received, m my

literary amufements, no fmall enter¬
tainment from very pofitive gentlemen
being much deceived in the appropria¬
tion of works to authors who claimed
no merit, and wdio deferved no blame,
from the publications aferibed to them j
when, to ufe a cant phrale, tbs kno'VL!-
iag ones are let in. Many of your read¬
ers will here recolledl: and enjoy with
me the imperious and dogmatizing fiyle
of old Bifiiop Sheridan to the facetious
Swift. “ 1 know very well that this is
the produdlion of mv learned friend,
his lordfhip of Sarum.” I don’t think
it is, my Lord.” O, Sir, I arh fure
it is. No pen but that of ray very learn¬
ed and refpe6fab!e friend Bp. Burnet
could have produced fuch a work !’"
“ I do not believe, however, he was
the author of it.’^ “ V^hy do you not ,

believe it ?” “ Becaufe it is written ia

a fiyle and manner very different from
his.” “ Let me tell you, young man,
you prefurne too much in pretending to
know an author by his fiyle. 1 have
long been converfant in literary matters,
and feen many pretenders much decei¬
ved by it. But, as you feem very po-
fitive, pray who did write it?” “ I
wrote it myfelf, my Lord i”

Permit me, upon this fubjeef, to offer'^
to you a criticifrn upon a critique of my
very , worthy and rerpe6fab!e friend,
James Bofwel!, elq. : a friend to him,
at ieafi, I certainly am, though T have
not the happinefs of being known, to
him. Ills candour will not only forgive
but thank me for it. In page 97 of
firft edition of Mr. B’s Life of Dr,
Johrifon are recorded the verfes, bv
lome attributed to the Dodlor, on Lord
Lovat’s execution*; in which ocegrs
the verfe,

‘‘ But Lovat’s fate indifferently we view',

True to no king, to no religion tnte.”

Thefe verfes Mr, B. inclines to be¬
lieve were not the Doctor’s ; ‘‘ One of
the belt criticks of the age fuggefis to
me, that the wrrid indfferentl)!, being
ufed in the lenie of without concern,
rendcis it improbable tha-t they Ihould
have been his com pofition.” But what
Will Mr. B. and this beft of ciiiicks fa i
to me when 1 pr< duce a pafl.ige from
Dr. JohnI on in contradiction to this cri-

* I have been in tlie habits, from tlie ear-
lieft infaiiGy, of pronouwemg E ilmet ii.o very
diiterently from w hat thefe vei Ics rcqmre :

“ t he brave, Balrnerino, were on tiiy' fide
Good Mr. Urban, what is tlie pr.)p. r pro-
nunciatiun i

tique ?

624 Remarks on '\ohn(on» — Poets vindicated, ^Dr^'WzXX^. [July,-

tique ? The truly admirable letter of
our literary ColofTus to Lord Chefter-
field, p. 144, has this particular fenfe
annexed to the word in queftion. “ The
notice which you have been pleafed to
take of my labours, had it been early
\jwould have heer}~\ had been kind; but
it has been delayed till 1 am indifferent^
and cannot enjoy it.”

Should Mr, B, Tuppofe this letter the
produ6\ion of one of his effeminated op¬
ponents, he will be much mihaken.
Faithful are the vjounds of a friend I 1
have a great veneration for Dr john-
fon j and have a due fenfe of the na¬
tional gratitude owing to that great and
good man for his very extraordinary
talents exerted In the caufe of religion,
of truth, and of the good of mankind.
I have a great eft^em for all that love
and venerate him : and I entotain in
particular a very fincere regard lor his
amiable, charitable, and good-natured
biographer; taking this opportunity of
exprelTing ray gratitude to him for the
■many happy hours of delightful infor¬
mation which he has afforded me in the
necdi'ary relaxation from leverer duties.
If he have been too verbole and his vo¬
lumes too ponderous, the enemies of
Johnfon, of Bofwell, and Truth, need
neither buy nor read his col!e6fions.
The hri£l regard for truth in JobHlbn
has, though impeached, pr ved invul¬
nerable; and, though the teeth oi the
little barking curs have appeared, ex¬
perience has proved that, being liable to
the influence of canine madnefs, and
being previoufly wormed, they could
not bite. With what confummate im¬
pudence of chop; mg logick L. X. c n
lay, “ Dr. J branded a vobole clafs of
men,'* and afterwards make exceptions
to that nvboie claff is t uly woithy of
the clafs of Anus] of whicli, and the
blue-flocking foe ety, I doubt not he is
a very voariby member. I was thoiked
at the impiety of \our all preiumptu- us
pedagogue, p 1^20, in If y ling the im¬
placable enemy • f D Johnfon, the
all - acccmpl ifhed Mils Anna Scwaid ”
I fhould as loon, as conflflently with
• the frailty of human nature, and as
^compaiibiy with tlie dodtiines of our
holy religion, have gi en her the ap¬
pellation of Oinnifcience or O unipo-
tence. I am no entmv to that ladv. i
thank her foi the pr dudion.s or her
M ufe. Ne jut or tamen ubra crepidam /
Are not the mimicai hofl of Icribbiers
contending for the honour of combating

with Hercules when Hercules is ngd
more ?

^ii cum viSlus erlt, mectmeertaffe fe»-
retur !

Or, if Ovid do not pleafe in this appro**
priation, Butler mav (uit them better:

If he that in the battle’s flain
Be in the bed of honour lain,

Then he that ’s beaten may be faid
To lie in honour’s truchle-bed !”

And thee let them lie, under the plea*
fing confciournefs of appropriating the
words of a greater than Ovid or Butler,
A livin'* dog is better than a dead
lion !” When MiL S, upon earnefl;
application, afDried flie had her infer*
mation from Mrs. Cobb, and that lady
allured Mr. B. rhat fhe had never men¬
tioned, nor even heard, fuch a report ;
furely fuch a detefdion required an apo¬
logy, and pot a cvnical, pedantic tribe
of defende.s; unlefs gallantry to a lady
muft ferve as a cover- flat to falfehood
and previricarion. But Mr. B. was too
gallant to t iuntph, contenting hiTifelf
with only publ'fli ng Mrs. Cobb’s letter.

The profligacy of too many poets in
all aires is '■on notorious for me here to
inhfl upon; and yet who think- hence
of uwpnr ng impiety to Mr. Cowper,

I ving to D . Johnion, or debaucheiy to
Dr. Waits? 1 have fometimes courted
the Mules as well as Mb's Seward and
Mr. Hayley ; but truth never olFended
me becaufe many in the fame piedic.a-
ment were blafphernous, dilToIute. and
abandoned. We have too many ami-
ab'e and excellent admirers of ihe Mufes
in the prefenr day to fear an univerfal
flander; and the author of tae Lives. of
me Poets wnr a poet hirnfelf'.

When Dr. Watts edited his poetical
works, he thought it nectfTary in a
Ihefa^e, J forget whe her to his Hons
Lyrtcre or liis Reliqutcc f uventles y to a-
polngize 10 the world tor being, as a
rel igtoMs man, lanked ar-nungfl the po-
ds. fo the fake of his puritanical
and narrow-minded readers, he informs
us, 'hat to be a poet does not necefTirily
imply a vn ious or pr* fligate chara6fer.
And trou' (I’f h, no doubt, fearing the
im putaiion^^ he is happy to flielter him-
(t‘f undei the pious and poetical refpec-
nbility of a David, a Molts, a S'do-
mon, a Dr, Young, and a Mr. Pope,
as the imitatoi of ilhiah. f

Thst Dr. Jcdinioii may be fuffered-to
reft quietly in his grave; that Mr. Bof-
vveb, his agtteable Biographer, now
fodiarj and cifiicled, may receive the

due

17'94*] Original Letters of Dean Swift Mr. Windar. 625

due rewards of his labours ; and that
.all bickering and animobty about his
great and good Hero, though neither
the ore nor the other pretend to per-
fediiou and the bemg a!l-acconiplifli<-d,
•may ceale, is the liiuere wifli of

Yours, &c. Proto-plasti-des.

Mr. UR'S AN, July i6.

HE two following -letters, wtinh,
it is believed, are not to be found
in any colleolioii of SvvifPs Woi k.s, bear
\'.ndoubted marks of his peculiar torn
of thought, and llyle of writing. Al¬
though the niaiter of both be familiar
and trivial, they may lerv'e to throw
fome new light on the two periods of
his life to which they relate.- — Swift
was 31 when the firll was written.
The lecond was addrtffed to the fame
gentleman, after an interval of 33
years, tie was then in his 64th year.
The lady he alludes t(; under the name
of Eli^a was probably Mils Jane Wa¬
ging, of Beffali, to whom an excellent
letter from Swift appeai^s in his Works.
The Mr. Windar to whom this letter
is addrtlfed lucceeded Swift in the pre¬
bend of Kilroot, and was gian-dfather
of Lord Macartney, whole mother,
Elizabeth, was the youngeil daugh.er
of Mr. Windar.

For the Rev. Mr. Wind.'tr,

PrE SEND ARY OF KlLROOT.

;[To be left at Belfift, in the county of
Antrim, Ireland.]

xAoor-Vaih ^ 13, 1698.

I AM not likely to be fo pleafed \vi h
any thing again this good while as I w 'S
with your letter of December zcth ; and it
has began' to put me into a good opinion of
my own merits, or at leafl my {kill at ne-
•g Delation, to find I lia^e fo quickly reifored
a correl'pondence that I {'eared was de¬
clining; as it requires more charms and
addrefs fur women to revive one fainting
flame than to kindle a dozen new ones.
But, I alfure you, I was very far from im¬
puting your filence to any bti'l caule (having
■never entertained one fingle il! tliougl t of
you in my iife), but to a cufforn which
breaks olf commerce between abundance < f
people, after a long alfence. At fii-ft one
onnl' vvntiijg for a little v. bile, — and then one
flays a vchiie longer to confiJer of excufes, — ■
and at laft it grows defperat-, and one does
not write at all. At Uiis rate I have ferved
other.s, and have been ferved myfelf.

1 wifli 1 had a Lexicon by me, tg find
whether your Gr^ ek word he fpe'.t and ac¬
cented riglP, and am very forry you have
n ade an acuiu.m m uhimay as it you laid the
GiNT. Mag. ‘T-.A, i 794«

greatefl ftrefs upon the av'OiR p.art of fbe
word. However, f prtitefl again if your
meaniiip, or any interj^retation you Ihail
ever make of that nature out of my letters ;
if I thought you deferved any hitter words,
I fhonld either deliver them planily, or hold
my tongue nhogeth.er; for, i elteem the
.cullom of co.iveying one’s refeiitmi.nt by
hints, or inuendos, to be a fign of malice or
fear, or too little fincerity : hut I have told
you, corarn et ahfens. tliat you are in your
niture more fenhhie than you need be ; and
1 l^u! it is with reputation as with all other
polLllions, that thofe who have the greateil
portion are moft coverous of it. Jc is hard
you cannot be fatisfled witli the eifeem of
the hefl .among your neighbours, but lofe
yc-ur time in r egarding what may he thought:
of you by one of my privacy and diftance. I
wilh you could as eafily make my elteem
and fr'.endlliin for you to be of any value, as
you may be fare to command them.

I fltoukl be forry if you have been at any
inconvenience in haftening my accorapts;
and 1 dare ref r you to my letterq that they
will lay the fault upon yourfelf ; for, I think
1 defired, more than ( nee, that you would
not make more- difpatch than itood with
your eafe, becanfe I was in no hafte at all.

I deiired of >ou, two or three times, that
when you had fent me a cat tlogue of thofe
few b(^oks, you would not fend them to
Dublin till you liad heard again from me.
The reafon was, that I did believe there
were one or two of them that might have
been ufeful to yon, and one or two more
th t vf^re not worth their carriage. Of the
latter fort were an old mufty Horace and
Joley’s b(K»k, Of the former were Rey¬
nold's Work ; Colleiflinn of Sermons, in
(juarto ; Stillingfleet’s G' Onnd':, &c. ; and
th.e folio paper book, very gooJ fur fermons,
<;r a receipt- bo'k for your wife, to keep
accounts of mutton, raifin-, -Sec.- The Scep-
tis Scientifica is not mine, but old Mr.
Dobbes’s ; and I wilh it were reflored. He
has Temple's .'VtiTcellanca inttead of it,
which is a good book, w’orth your reading.
If Sceptis Scientifica comes to me, I’ll burn
it for a fufii ni piece of abominable curious
virtuofo ttutf. The books mifling are few
and incoaliderab’.e, not worth troubling any
body about. I hope this will come to your
hands before you have fent your cargo, that
you may keep thofe hooks you mentioii ;
and defire }ou will wr.te my u.ame and rr
dono before them in large !eti;cr.<^. I defire
my humble (ejvice to Mrs Windar, ar.d
tliat you will let tier know I iTiail pay a vifit
at Carmoney home day or other, hovv l.ttle
foever any of you may think of it ; but I
v\ ill, as you delue, excufe you the delivery
of my complimeuts to poor H. Clements,
and hope you will have ixiuch be'ter foitnne
than poor Mr. Havi.s, who has Hfc a family
that is like to find a cruel want of him.

Fray

626 Original Letters of Dean Swift to Dr, Windar.

Pray let me hear that you grow very rich,
and begin to make purchafe. 1 never heard
that H. Clements was dead; 1 uas at his
mayoral feaft. Has he beep mayor lince, or
did he die then, and every body forgot to
fend me word of it ?

Thefe fermons you have thought fit to
tranfcribe will utterly difgrace you, unlels
you have fo much credit that whatever
comes from ^£.7^ will pafs. They were w'hat
I was firmly reiblved to burn, and efpecially
fome of them 5 the icllefi, trifling fluff tlsat
ever was writ, calculated for a church with¬
out company, or a roof like our ....... at

Oxford. They will be a perfedt lampoon
upon me, whenever you look on them and
remember they are mine.

I remember thofe letters to Eliza ; they
were writ in rpy youth. You might have
fealed them up, apd nobody of my friends
would have opened tliern. Pray burn them.

1 here were parcels of other papers that X
would not have loft, and I hope you have
packed them up, fo that they may come to
me. Some of them were abftiadfs and col-
ledllons from reading.

Yon mention a dangeipus rival for an atj-
fent lover. But I muft take ray fortune.
If the report proceeds, pray inform me;
and, when you have leifure and humour,
give me the pleafure of a letter from you i
and, though you are a man full of fafteniiigs
to the wo'UI, yet endeavour continue a
!t iendfhlp in abfence ; for, v. ho knows but
Fate may jumble us together again ; and I
believe, had I been ....... of your neigh¬
bourhood, 1 ihould not have been fo unfa-
lisfied with tlie region I was planted in

I am, and will be ever, entirely yours, S:c.

J. Swift. .

Pray let me know fomething of my debt
being paid to Tailef, th.e inh-keeper of , . .

I have forgot tlie mame of the

town — between Dromore ar.J Ne'wry. ’

’ ■ ■ ■

To THE Rev.Mr.V/in'darjAt Belfast.

Sir, Diiblin^ Yeh. 19, 1731-2.

I HAD the favour of yours' of the 6th
inftant. 1 have been above a fortnight con¬
fined by an accidental flrain, and can nei¬
ther ride nor walk, nor eaflly write, elfe
you fhould have heard from me fooner. I
am heartily fp' vy for youi' diforder, and ana
the murf fenfible by tho'e 1 have myfelf,
though not pf the fame kind, but a conftant
difpofltion to giddiiiefs, which I fear hay
prefent Confinement, with the ayant of ex-
ercife, wdl iUcre.Te. I am hfraid yon could
not light uponarnoi'e unqualified man to
fei ve yoa or my nearefl frieiuls', in any man¬
ner, wit!) 1 eojile in power : for, I liave the
rn stortune to be not only under the parti¬
cular dif| leafu'e both of the King and
Oneen, as cverv body Knows, but likewife
iv'ery pe.um, hern in England and Irelaud,
who i^ wdl with the Court, and can do me
good or hurt. And although this and the

two laft Lieutenants were of my old ac¬
quaintance, yet I never could prevail with
any of them to give a living to a fober grave
clergyman, who married my' near relation,
and has been long in tlie church, fo that he
flill is my curate ; and I reckon’ tliis prefeiR
governor will do like the reft. I befieve
there is not any perfon you fee from tliis
town who does not know that my I'miatioii
is as I deferibe. If you, or your fon, were
in favour with any bifhop or parfon, per¬
haps it might he contrived to have them put
in rnind, or folicited ; but I am no way pro¬
per to be the firft mover, becaufe there is
not one fpiritual or temporal lord in Ire¬
land whom 1 vifir, or by whom I am vifit-
ed, Init am as mere a monk as any in
Spain : and there is not a clergvman on tfie
top of a mountain who fo little converfes
with mankind, or is fo little reg irded by
them, on anv other account except flievving
malice. All this 1 bear as well as 1 can ;
eat my morfel alone, like a khig ; and edn-
ftantly at home, when I am not riding, or
walking, which I do often, and alauays
ahne. ’

I give yon this piaure of myfelf, out o£
old friendfhip; whence you may judge
what lliare of fph irs and niirth are now left
me ; yet 1 cannot read at night, and am
therefore forced to fcribble fdmethinr, '
whereof nine things in ten are burned next
morning. Forgive this tediou'nefs in the
pen, which 1 acquire by the want of fpeiul-
^ttg it in talk. And believe me to be, with
true efteem and fiiendfliip, your mofl obe¬
dient, humble fervaut, &c. '

[No fignaturej.

Mr, Urban, Stockport, June 30.

Y admiiation is never excited in a
more lively manner than when t
contemplate the natural alFeftion of the
irrational creation. It is, I think,' to
be placed among; the firfl of the incom-
prehenfible works of the Lord of the
Univerle. Few parents, I am afraid,
bear Inch an ardent love to their chil-
dretj as birds and beafts do to their off-
Ipring. The mofl timid become bold
and courageous in defence of their
young. I myfelf, for touching a young
rabbit, have received a mofl favage
bite from the old female. And no one
can be ignorant of the refolute and da¬
ring behaviour of the dotpeflic hen
when any thing approaches her little
chirping brood. Though naturally ti¬
morous, and knowing nothing but
flieht before flie hecomefs a parent; yet,
when that period arrives, ifie defpiles
every danger, and, with the mofl in-
N-epic! boldnefs, attacks the fluidieft dog
ill defence of her heiplefs fnm.ly. Hut
tiyither diefe, nor any otfisr infiances

which

i?94*3 injlin^ive AffeStioh.' — Lands dtfcha^ged from Tithe 's P 627

which I hare ever either read or heard
of, will bear comparifon with a very re¬
cent one in this town. As I was walk¬
ing carelefsly, fome evenings ago,
through the itreet, a young (parrow,
defirous, 1 (uppofe, of winging the air
before it was perfe^ily fledged, dropped
juft before me. When I faw its fuua-
tion, I gathered .and carried it to a little
boy in a fliop hard-by, who gladly ac¬
cepted of it as a young bro^n ltTi7iet. He
hung it in the flrop (the door of which
was conjftantly open); and, the Cnliiing
naorning, when the little one was dtf-
tetidiner its melodious throat was furpri-
7.ed by feeing another bird enter, and
fix upon the cage. Nothing frighted it;
it would not be driven away. At la ft.
he got up to it, and put it to the nefl-
ling. This was the mother. — The
cock the day after made his appearance
in the fame manner, hovered for a
while around the cage, and at length
fixed cn it as his partner had done be¬
fore. They are kept together, and
iooked upon as a very rare curiofuy.
Many go to fee them ; and the ftory of
them is related with wonder and afto-
iiiflrment in every corapaUy. When 1
think of this circumflance, I am ready
to cry out with Sterne, “ Shame on the
world; if we but loved one another as
thefe poor birds loved their young, it
would be fomething.” But what pa¬
rents, let me alk, to folace the affliftion
of their child, would obftinately deter¬
mine to endure the pinching wants and
fon ow s of a gloomy prifon ? Such con-
•du6l were not to be wifhed. Bur, in-
ftances like this manifeftly fliew, that
vve are far more felfijh than thde poor
feeble creatu.'-es.

Equidem credOf quod fit divinitus Hits

Ir.gtnium.

y oui s, &c. F. C.

Mr. Urban, July 12.

SHALL cfleem myfelf greatly obli¬
ged by your correfpondents inform¬
ing mt, through the channel of your
valuable publication, whether “ any
computation is extant of the ptefent an¬
nual value of the lands in England and
Ayales, winch are abfolutdy or viitu-
ally difcharged from tithes in conj'e-
quence of having belonged to the greater
abbeys, or of paying only autieut, fixed,
and inconfiderable lums, in lieu of
them ?”

And if any one of your correl'pon-
dents, who is in pofl'eHion of “ Johnfon
on Abbey Lands,” printed about a cen¬

tury ago, will communicate a ffiort view
of its contents, he will be entitled to
my bed thanks. C. M.

The Chronicles of the Seasons.
Spring, 1794.

Who is this beautiful Virgin that ap¬
proaches, 'clothed in a robe of light green ?
She has a gailand of flowers on her head„
ane! flowers fpring up wherever flie fets her
foot. The fnow' ivhich covered the fields,
and the ice which was in the rivers, melt
away wlien flie breathes upon them. The
young lambs frifle about her, and tlie birds
warble in their little throats, to welcome
her coming; and, when they fee her, tliey
begin to choofe their mates, and to build
their nefls. Youths and maidens, have ye
feen this beautiful Virgin c IF ye have, tell
me wdio is fne, ahd what is her name.”

Ehe Mafque oj: Nature.

'^/ES, jnflru£\ive Barbauld"^, the

youths and maidens of Britain
have leen the beautiful Virgin whom
thy elegant pen hath fo naturally de-
pi6fed ! She is the firft-bom daughter
of the Year, and men call her Spring.
She entered our hemifphere on the zotii
of^the third month, and nO more ice or
fnow was leen; but the general bril¬
liancy of her compiexiem was often di-
minifhed by cruel blights, and in Alay
was obfeured by cold rains. The robe
Ihe wore at her entrance was more vivid
than common, and her garland was
more varied. The lambs that greeted
her were unufually ftrong; and the birds
that welcomed her were forwarder in
their fong and in their archite<SUi! e than
wont to be. Oh ! pieafing autliorefs,
how worthily was tliy pen employed,,
when fdirefting the attention of the
ycuchs and the maidens of Britain tci
the works of their Al.aker !

On every thorn delightful wifdom grovvs^
In every rill a fw-eet inflructiun flov\ s.”

You N c .

The common laurel was in bloflom
on the 27th of March, and the purple
lilac on April the 5ch. Many oaks
were forward in leaf on April the 12th,
and walnut-trees had foliage on April
the 17th. Eafler-day (which feil oa
April the zoth) was grated by the fit ft
opening of the white-thorn flowers; aud
mull txhilaiating was the Eifler in
every naiuial refpe6l : the weather was
glorious, the crops piomifing, and ne¬
ver was a bloom fo profufe feen as was
then apparent on every kind of fhrub

- - ; - -m, .1111. - , — -

The Maique u( Nature \vas-wr;rtcu
Mrs. Barba ulti.

628

Chroniclei of the Seafons for Spring 1 794. '

and tree whether ufeful or ornamental.
On the Monday arrived the (wallows :
the night of the Friday fol owing was>
moft extraordinarily fulfocatin-g. The
weather we experienced in April was of
the fame degree of heat as that we often
have in June and J;uly, particularly at
Eafler. it ended, as ifuch periods ufu-
ally do, in a violent thunder- fiorm,
which happened on the z^yth, but was
nut general.

The fulphur buttejfly firfl: appeared
on- March the 26th; and, during the
middle of April, the air was fanned by
butterflies of many forts in great num¬
bers 5 and this year again the flugs were
intolerably troblefome.

A Southern Faunist.

Since Mr. ^Shaw’s Staflbrdfhire ar¬
ticle (p. 602); was put to prefs, we are in¬
formed, that his intended Hiflory has recei¬
ved additional llreiigth from the very libe¬
ral communications of the Rev. John Hom-
fray, B. A. of Merton College^ Oxford,
whole fondnefs for Local Antiquities led him
to CO Icdf every thing curmus and ufeful re¬
lating to StatfordlLure in the Allimulean and
Bodleian libraries, Oxford.

X. Y.Z. informs us, that Newton Ha'l.
(p. 41'^)* 'S in the pai'ilh of Dunmow; th^it
the mafonry was by Mr. William Vere, of
Stratford ; that the blank, on the farcopha-
gus was left for the name of the hufband ;
and that the C'liriftian name of Bridges, fo
called by /E. U, fliould be, as on the monu¬
ment, with a V — Bi7c!ges — the furname of
the dukes of Chandos.

PROCEED^INGS IN

H. OF LORD S.,

March .3.

N appeal from a decifion of the
Court of Seflion in Scotland, con¬
cerning a policy of idfurance, was- ar¬
gued, in which Campbell and others
were appellants, and RuiFel and Co,
le/pondents.

In the Commons, the fame day,
thanks were voted to Dr. B^thurfi for
his fermon preached on the Faft-day.

Mr. M. A. Taylor prefented a petition
from Mr. Chriflopher Atkinfon, pray¬
ing that the refoiution, by which he
was expelled from the Houfe, migiu he
expunged from its journals. Fie briefly
flated the cipcumftanccs which led to
the convidlion of Mr. Atkinfon. He
was found guilty of perjuty, faid to
have been commuted by him in fwear-
ing to the contents of an affidavit which
had been mnde, in order that he might
obtain a criminal information againll
Mr. Benneir, who, in the public prints,
had accufed him of mal-piactices ■ as
agent to tire Vi61ua!ling'oifice. S.nce
that time, howevei, he had r«,ceivtd the
royal pardon, and ins accounts tiad been
allowed in the Court of Exchequer.

The petition was received, and or¬
dered to he on the table.

H, OF lords.

March 4.

Their Lordfliips gave Judgement in
the appeal Campbell v. Rufl'e], by re-
verfing the interlocutors of the Court of
^eifroij.

PARLIAMENT, 1794.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
Main^aring prefented a petition from
the proprietors, renters, and creditors,
of the Rovalty Theatre, for a bill to
enable his Majefly. to grant a licence for
the faid theatre ; which was read, and
ordered to lie on the table«.

Mr. Peibam prefented a petition from
Meilrs, Baillie and Flome, the executos's
to the will of the late Joihn Hunter.
The will enjoins, that his anatomical
colle/dion of the human ceconomv, cai-
culated as it was for the inftruoli'on of
ftudents in furgeryand medicine, fhould
firft be offered to the Brinfli nation at a
reafonable value. Should the offer not
be accepted, the mufeum is to be of¬
fered to any other country difpofed ta
purcbafe it. Referred to a Coinmittee,
with inftruiSfion to report upon itj

March 5.

Mr. Burke moved, that a Committee,
conhliing of the Managers for conduc¬
ing the trial qf Mr. Haftings, be ap-
pointed to infpeft the Lords Journals as
far as relates to the trial of Mr. Hai-
tings, and to report their opinion rhere-
on to the Houfe.

The Houfe having refolved itfeif into
a Committee of Ways and Means j and
feveral accounts having been lefctred
to it,

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rib-
mitted to the Committee a mode of li¬
quidating the navy bills up to the 3 ill
of March, 1793, making a capital of
' 53)^94*' id. He propofed to fund
them ia the 5 per cents, at the rate of 99,
per cent,', winch would be equivalent,

Parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons In 1794* ^^9

Tie fald, to loi, if taken at the prefent
price. He then moved a refoluiion to
.this effeft, which was agreed to.

The Chancellor of the Excheq-uer ne»t
adverted to the duty to be impofed on
flates, ftones, and marble, and pointed
out that, from their grea-t variety, it
would be better to place the duty rather
on value than on weight. He alfo ob-
ferved, that there was a duty on thofe
materials at prefent when coming from
Jerfey, Guernfey, Alderney, Sark, and
Mann, but that it was fomething lefs
than the duty now in contemplation
amounted to. As it would, however,
in his opinion, be expedient to equalize
this duty throughout all parts his
Mijefly’s dominions, he meant to pro-
pofc the abolition of the ^prefent impod,
and to fubflitute one in its ftead exa£lly
fimilar to that abo-ut to take place ui
England. He then propofe4, the fol¬
lowing refoiutions ;

1. That it is the opinion, of this
Committee, that the prefent duty on
liones, flares, and marble, coming from
Jerfey, Guernfey, Sark, Alderney, and
Mann, do ceafe and determine,

z. That a duty of zoi. percent, be
laid on thofe ai tides when coming from
tliofe places.

3. That the fame duty be laid on the
fame articles carried coaftways from any
part of England. Agreed to.

H. OF L O R D &.

March 6.

Heard counfel in a Scotch caufe.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr,
Main^aring, after dating leveral im¬
proprieties which had obtained refpeft-
ing a due obfervation of the Sabbath,
owing to the relaxation cr inadequacy
of the laws relating thereto, particularly
in the indance of the pradlice of j..ur-
reymen bakers, which part or 1 ib pm-
p(>fed ineafuie would go to redrain
baking on a Sunday, except from the
hours of ten to one inclulive), moved
for leave to bring in a bill to cxplam
and amend an ad, ['alfed in the zqth
year of the reign of Charles U ; wnich
was agreed to.

The Cbancellcf of ihe Exchequer mo¬
ved for leave to bring m a b li fiunlar
to what had pafled in lad war — he meant,
a bill for augmenting the mtiitia. He
iiTiagined, from tlie prefent dtuation of
the couarry, any cbfei vations, in order
to induce the Houfe to agree to the
meafure, were unnect flbry j but was

perfuaded that the exertions which had
been made, and the zeal of the country
which appeared, in the lad war, would
not be found to be lefs efte£lual in the
prefent. In the lad; war,' by enliding
Volunteer CoiTqjanies, a confiderable
force for our internal defence was raifed
in a very diort period. He fhould wifli
to follow the deps of that bill except in
one refpe6l ; the bill that paffed in the
kid war was confined only to volun¬
teers; it might be advifable to leave aa
option to his Majedy, whether, under
certain circuinilances, there might not
be an addition of privates to each com¬
pany; and therefore the bill would
leave an option of augmenting the mi-
Ikia, either by volunteer companies, or
by the addition of privates to each com¬
pany, There were other means by
which the zeAl and fpirit of the country-
might be exerted with regard to its fe-
curity and defence, which might give us
the fulled conddence of fafety and pro-
te6fion at home. He did not then mean
to enter into them, nor did they imme-
d'icitelv call for parliamentary provifion.
It vvouid naturally occur to gtotlemcri
on that occafion, that there might be
other voiu'iteer compa»ies, elpecialiy
cm the fea-coads; and an augmentation
of the cavalrv, for interna! ‘defence, was
a very mateiid and important objefif^
They might alfo, under certain cir-
cu-mdances, have a fpecies of cavalry,
confifting of gentlemen and yeomanryp
who might not be called out of their
counties but on the preffure of an exi¬
gency, and in cafes of urgent ncceffity.
This was a fort of preparation which
occafioned very little inconvenience,
and gave the gieated degree of fecuriry
if any exigency flioukl ever arife. He
truded this rneafure would be agreeable
to the general feelings of the Houle and
country at large. Without troubling
the Houfe faither on the fubject, he
would move, “that leave be iMven to
bring in a bill for augmenting fne uiL-
liti.a."

W^’lien the quedion was. put,

Mr. M. A. Taylar faid, he had no ob-
jedtion to the bill in lo far as it went to
augment the militia, though be Ument-
td tlir^t lo many peilons would be taken
from the cuhivati.n of the land. He
did not lee any ncceLfity for volunteer
companies, and the other parts of th
Ixight lion. Gentleman’s pi ,n ; at,
ihercfore he ihould give them fii3 indi¬
vidual retjariv*-.

Ms. Francis fa;d, tha Right Hoq, Gen¬
tleman

<1.1

ParHdmeittary Prdcesdingi of Lords and Commons in 1794.

tlern-in was in 'the habit of appealing to
the feeiuigs of the Houfe and of vh'e
pubhck. With regard to rhe propnerv of
lYts nieafures in conducing the psefent
War, anH that they r^'paid him wih fi-
ience. The p'.iblick were in the deepell
defpair on account t)f I'he war.

Mr. Bvf.-verig rep bed to Mr. Francis
and Mr. Taylor, add gave his alien: to
the bill, • and obfei'vcd, that it did not
follow, becaufe the communication wat:'
not attended whh plaudits, that the
Houle was averfe to it.

Mr, f'bjf lamented that it fhoufd be
found expedient to cali for fuch an ex-
Eenhve and unprecedented augmentation
of rhe itjfetnal force, and in a much
greater degree than when, during "he
iate war, the great powers of Europe
were combined againft us, and their
fleets rode triur/iphant in the Channel !
If the apprehenfion and danger of irt-
vaflon Was now confidered to be pio-
portionally greater than at that pe^uid,
the nation, norwitliftanding all its alli¬
ances and advantages in the prelent,
muft be reduced to a very aUrming cii-
fls indeed. Such proceedings did not
forebode well as to the I'uccei's of the
War.

The quellinn was put. and carried,
and the bill ordered to be brought in
accordingly.

Mr. IVbitbread,' jun. faid, it was not
his intention to cali into quellion his
Majefty’s right in the making of trea¬
ties with foreign powers, a right which
was incoiueli ibiy veiled in the Crown,
but to call the coniideration of th'j
Houfe to the grounds on which thole
treaties had been made, and the ulti¬
mate objefts which they had in view.
He then took a nenerai view of the war

from the moment this country entered
into it, the progrefs of the fame, and of
our A. lies, in order to fltew that their
objedbs were difTrent from ours, and
that, if tliefe obje£H were obtained, we
could not even look for a permanent
peace, as they would fail out about the
divilion of the plunder. After a variety
of arguments and obrervatl(,;>ns in fup-
port of his opinion, he moved, that an
humble addiels be prefented to his Ma-
jefty, expreffing the deep concern w h’ch
his faithful Commons felt for his Ma-
jelly^s entering into treaties lb incompa¬
tible with the intcrefls and happinefs of
the nation ; and that his Majeliy would
lake luch iheafures as in his wifdom
leemod heft to extricate thb country,
withaut I'acrificing its honour, from

thofe engagement^ which we e likely to
prove injurious to its happinefs and
prof pentv.

Mr. Jinkinfon fafd, the difcufliori
that ought here to arife was, whether
the conduft of this country to other na¬
tions Was jull and true. Should a regu-,
lar motion be made for peace, He would
expeft an adeejuate fecurity fliould be
pointed out for its ftrib lity. Pie infifted
that, bn the pa it of France, the war
w,)s a war of aggreihon. The Conven¬
tion of Pilniti could hot be confidered
as ail a6l of provocation ; although it
declared to fet the King of France free,
and to enable him to form a government
julf dnd rational.

Mr. Fox engaged to fhew, that there
was no common objtbl to which the
Confederate Powers dire£led their at¬
tention. He combated the alfertion
that the French were the aggreilbri
againd Aullria and Pruffiaj and, on
the contrary, maintained, that, although
the Emperor held out pacific meafures,
yer no one believed his intentions were
fuch, and that, in point of faith, he
was continually interfering with the in¬
ternal government of France. After
reviewing the conduSf of the Allies to¬
wards France, he infilled, no inflances
of perfidy could be fo glaring, and abo¬
minably deneiem in good faith, as thofe
which they, with unblufliing front, had
fent into the world. From thefe points,
which he prefled to a great length, he
adduced the inference, th.-it the obje£ls
which our Allies propofed to them-
lelvcs were different from thofe which
we had flated to be burs. Ours might
be to reftoie order and peace to the
kingdom <i»f France; but the fair infe¬
rence from the condubl of our Allies
was, that they meant to difmember the
country, and indemnify themfelves by
plunder, and unjuftly appropriating the
ruins of that unfortunate kingdom to
their own advantage. He deprecated
fuch^an event, which, he was fure, far
from giving us even deiufive repofe,
would be a bone of contention to the
new-combined powers, and prove the
feeds of many future and deliru£tive
wars.

The ChanreUor of the Exchequer faid,
the leading principle of the gentlemen
on the oppohte fide of the Ploule was,
that we had voluntarily entered into the
war, and could conclude it whenever
we thought, proper; but the fa£l noto-
ribufiy was, that it wa.s a war of aggref-
fion and unmerited provocation on the

part

Barliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons In 1704. 6jt

)art of our enemies. He concluded,
hat, by taking a general view of the fi-
:uation of Euiope now, and comparing
X to what it was in the beginning of the
war, we m'ght fairly augur fuccefs to
our endeavours. t|e defended the alli¬
ances by obferying, as we were driven
into the war, we had a juft right to avail
purfelves of the aftiftance of thofe pow¬
ers whom we found already engagtd as
oppf)nents to our enemies.

The Houfe divided ; for the addre/s
$6, againft it 138, majority iiu

H. OF LORDS.

March 7.

The Scotland bark bill, and five in-
clofure bills, were bi ought from the
Commons, and read the fifft time.

Earl Cacrnar'^jon prefented a petition
agamft the VVorceftei fiiire canal bill;
which was ordered to lie on the table.

In the Crimmons, the famp day, the
bill for increaftng the militia was read
the th.ird time.

Upon the order of the day, for going
into a Commute^ upon the bi 1 for pre¬
venting the exportation of ftaves into
the foreign W'^eft India ifla'nds,

Col. Tarleion laid a few words againft
it. After which, the Houfe divided upon
going into the Committee ; which was
carried, Ayes 40, Noes 28.

H . OF LORDS.

March 10.

The Bifliop of Rocheper lamented the
delays that had attended the examina¬
tion of witnelfes on the flave trade.
This queftion, which came before »he
Houfe lo long ago as the year 1792,
Was certainly of gicat magnitude ; and,
it muft be the wifli of thole who were
for the abf)iicion of fo inhuman a.traf-
fick, as well as thofe who thought that
policy rendered the continuance of the
trade nectfthry, to have the quehion
fpeedily decided uptm ; behdes, it came
before the Houfe recommended by the
Commons of Great Britain, and was
therefore aqueftion that demanded their
Lordfhips moft ftrious attention, and a
fpeedy determination. It had been le-
folved to examine witneft'es, and to hear
counfel at the bar of the Houle. He
for one had agreed to that mode of pro¬
cedure ; but the experience of three fef-
ftuns of parliament had altered h.is opi-
ni<m as to the propiiety of that mode ;
ye; y little progrefs had been made, and
J,iie evidence already examined bore no

proportion to that which ft ill remains
for examination. He ftiould therefore
move, ** that the farther hearing of
counfel, and the examination of evi¬
dence, on the ftate of the flave-trade,
fhall be in a Cummirtee abnve-ftair^
and no longer at the bar of the Houfe;
and that their Lordfliips lhall he called
to attend the Committee for that pur-
pofe.”

The Duke of Clarence thought it irrt-
proper now to make any alteration in
the mode of condufiling the buftnefs^
His Roval Highnds had feen, from an
exa£f eftimate,. that the revenue arifing
from our Weft- India and African trade
was upwards of four millions annually,
and employed 25,000 Teamen He alked,
if thefe u’ere trining ohje61;s, or dekr-
ved to be coundered in a Committee,
when the Houfe heard appeals at their
bar on matters of little moment ? He
would not fuppofe it poftihle that they
could be fo inconftftent with themfelves.
Nothing ftiould ever prevail on that
Hople, where fuch an iintrenfe property
was at ftake as 7® milUons, to treat the
affair lighily, or to come to any deter-
ininriiioii till after the moft mature tie-
liberation. Gtcat attention was cer¬
tainly due to every thing winch came
from fo refpe£lable a body as the Com-
rtions of Enulaiui ; but ftill their Loid-
fliips muft judge for themfelves j and
he would never confent to fubferibe to
the opinion of others while bis o'wa
judgement was fupporttd by evidence.
After liaving fpoken very ably on the
motion, he concluded by giving it hit
decided negative.

Earl Man.'/ielJ would not give his
conlen: to the lefernng il> impo.tant aa
object to cl Comtnittee. .

Lord Grefinj 'aU could fee no difficulty
in that Houfe leaving cbe bulinefs to a
Commiute, either to culie6't t viclence, or
to report upon it. He therefore gavo
his approb^rjon to the motion.

Loi d oppoled the mo ion,

and thought it the moft extraordinary,
that ever biad been made, and was coii-
trary to the juftice of the Houfe. The
trade in queftion was fancliontd by the
executive and feveial legiftative ahts.
Religion had called it bale and infa¬
mous ; bur, were 70 millions of pro¬
perty, which were vefted in commtice,
and lanflioned to the piopricrors by an
authority which had induced them to
tmbaik in it, to be facrificed to a clu.nge
of opio on, or the caprice of tiie mo¬
ment? How could the Committee above

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632 Farliammtary Proceedings of

fiairs combine the joint efiefl of the
evidence given at their bar with that
which might be given before them ? It
was impodible^ and every wile and
g;ood Government fhould fhew al'i pof-
fible attention to the right of property,
which it Ihould preferve inviolate.

The Bifliop of Landoff only delated
that the public mind might not be kept
longer in fufpencs on the fubje^l. He
admitted that the merchants and plant¬
ers were deeply interehed in the iliue j
hut the wretched Africans w'ere no lels
fo. "Several millions were dragged
every year from their homes ; it was,
therefore, prolonging their wrecched-
iiefs, for the Houle to protra<St a decifion
upon it. He would bow to the opinion
of the Houle, whatever that might he;
if it was for continuing the trade, he
would fubmit to it; bur, if it was for
abolifliing it, he would greatly rejoice,
and would vote for thd motion.

Lord Kinnoid faid, when fuch pro¬
perty was at Hake, too great delibera-
icion could not be ufed. He, therefore,
was againft the motion.

The Hoofe divided ; and there ap¬
peared, for the motion 14, againft it
42, majority 28.

x- In the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
Adam brought forwaid his propoficion
relative to Mellrs. Muir and Palmer.
He prefaced It with a Ipeech of very
great length ; and moved, “ that there
be laid before tliis Houfe a copy of the
indiftment, warrant of committal, plea,
&:c. verdiiff, and fentence palled the 3 ill
of Auguft, 1793, on Thomas Muir
the younger, of Huntcrflnii,’’ &c.

The Lord Adojocate of Scotland con¬
tended, that the proceedings of the
court were in ftrift conformity to the
known and eftablithed law of Scotland,
though perhaps not of this part of the
ift.ind.

A long debate enfaed, which lafted
till paft three in the morning; when the
Houl'e divided,

For the motion 32, Againft it 171.

H. OF LORDS.

March 12.

The interlocutor of the Court of Sef-
fion in Scotland was affirmed, in the ap¬
peal, Newnham and others v.. Ruli'el
and Co.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
Penny- poft bill was read the thiid time,
and lent to the Lords,

Lords and Commons in 1794.

H. OF LORDS.

March 13.

Refolved into a Committee of the
whole Houfe on the African flave trade
bill ; when Mr. Franklyn was called to
the bar, and underwent a long exami¬
nation.

In the Commons, the fame day, in a
Committee on the militia bill, Mr.
Powys was prepared, he faid, as far as
he had read the bi'i'l, to give his hearty
alfent to it; he only vviffied to fee a
claufe introduced, to provide for the
wives and children of fuch mditia-men
as might be embodied under it, fimUar
to that claufe which was adopted in the
former bill.

Mr. Steele approved of the fuggeftion ;
and, as it was open to any member to
move fuch a claufe in that or any future
fiage of the bill, he Ihould not fail to
give it his fupport.

E. OF LORDS,

March 14.

Fleard an appeal from th-^ Court of
Selhon in Scotland.

In the Commons, the farne day, Mr.
Grey prefaced a motion, for bill to in?
demnify Minifters for theif nonduft re-
fpedfmg tlie landing of 'the Hcfhan
troops, with a fpeech of fome length, in
the courfe of which he took a compre-
henfive view of the arguments wftich
had been adduced 00 a former nicht

againft his propofitions on the fame fub-
je£l; and, at the fame time, ftaved the
lubllance of what bad been advanced
by himfelf and gentlemen on his fide
the Houle in favour of his propofttiows.
He then moved, for leave to bring in
a bill to indemnify thofe perfons whe^
bad advlfed his Majefty to order the de¬
barkation of the Helfian troops,” &c.

Mr, Francis, after feconding the mo¬
tion, obferved, that fuch a precedent, if
eftabliflied, would go to wound the
Conftitucion in its vital parts, and ex¬
tend the prerogative in fuch a degree,
as that the liberties of the lubjeft would
be infecure for a day.

Mr. F. Grenville, in a fpeech of fome
length, oppolecbthe motion, and was of
opinion, that fuch a power was pro¬
perly veiled in the Crown for the pur-
pofe of the defence and I'afety of the
country.

Several other gentlemen fpoke ; after
which the Houfe divided j

For the motion 41. Againft it 170.

1 13. Lei'‘

»79+-]

113. Letters dining the Courfe of a Tour through
Germany and Switzerland, in the Years 1 79 r
with RefeBions on the Manner Sj
Liternturey and Reiigionj of thofe Gauntries.
By Robert Gray, M. yd. Ficar o/Farring-
clon, Bei ks. (Continued from p. 253.7
R. Giay reports his travr s in To
different a mann-r from moft of
his contempoiariES that we fed a p'ea-
fure in tracing his pro^rcTs. Fie left
Kngland June 6, 179 r> ^nd fr m St.
Orner’s proceeded to Caff 1, L-fle, Ghent,
B'Ulfds, Liege, Spa, Aix-la -chapeile,
Dulfddotf. Cologne, Fiankfor*-, Mar-
hing, Caifel, Mentz, Manheim, Carl-
(ruiie, Rallade. B- rne, Fribourg, and fo
into the Swifs Cantons. ' At St. Omers
the monks were preparing to quit the
fpacious anrl Fe-utiful convent of St.
Bcrtin, which, like ctlter convents, was
to be coni' trrted iiito barracks, granaries,
qr manufadories. '1‘lre peop'e at L’fle
appeared I'^.ter cloibed, and more care-
fuilv fcil and lotiged, tlsan thofe in
France ; bu<, though tliey have caught the
entl-iubarm of libettv, and were flattered
bv its profperff, many of them murmur
aFainfl the violert proceedings of the
National Aifembly. The church of St.
Gudule has proba'olv been plundered of
its pulpit, painted ghfs, and picfures of
Rembrant, fines Mr. G. (aw it, and vve
fliudder to think what a different appear¬
ance many of the cities and towns he
describes in Fl^ndeis now wear. He
dra,vs a fliort but ftrong pirflure of Spa,
wiiere tfle king of Swcrlen was come to
meet the Prince cf Orange, hut did not
appear with him in public. “ The Ton
of the Prince of Orange has the reputa¬
tion of abilities far fuper’or to thofe of
his f.uh.cr, and cf inheriting thy gmius
of his rnu'her” (p. 14). 'I'he palace at
Dufl ldorf frerns deferred, but the inva¬
luable colled'tion of ptdfujres not unde-
fervcdly celebrated as an unrivalled af-
feinbdage of Flemifli pioduilions. Mr.
G. found tiiere a liaron de Harold, an
Ififliman, who lias pul)lifii.e'.i in Enghfli
fume poems under the n»n'e of Olhan,
from fragmen's of fortre ti .tditional fongs
foanil in the, Fr'e language in Ireland ;
and is now employed in tranfl^tir g into
Engijfli veife tlie Cluiftiad, a La in po-
efi>, bv Robert Clarke, a Cartiurfian
monk, of N e'uptmt, in 17 tiook.' , print¬
ed i-t B'uges, 1678, fr^'tn whicii, he
fays, M'.l'on borrowed hagely. Co¬
logne, tboug'.i firitly fituated lor trade,
is now declined both in fituation and
ccnimerce, and the ftreets and l>ailoingi
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are dlrtv and unimproved,. Count tPAr-
t«i'^,w;th M de Calonne, arrived there on
his r^ ad to Bruflels on advice that the
king his brother had efcaped; but the
news was Toon reverfed hv another mef-
fenger. ‘‘ if he had difpjayed his ftand-
ard what fatG elfeas muff inftantly
have followed ; the prepai ations for ci¬
vil war were a reatiy be -un.’’— — “ The
writer cou’d not then fortfee that an un-
controulcd and ferocious frerzy would
produce tfft6fs in France more dreadful
than any civil war at that period could
have occa fiontd” (p. 29 anrl note).

The pofirion of Cobientz on the Rhine
a*' the mouth of the IVlL-zelle is amazing¬
ly fine. Of the Rhine we c/an nevtr
profefs fufiicient admiiation. it lias every
beauty that poetical defeription hath af-
enbed to ir, p. 30. FrankJort affords
li'tle gaiety to a flranger except at a
coronation or law. The piiiicipal flreet
is (pacicus, ine town populous and well
governed, but the Lirtlieran Ipirit pre^
vails in rl-.e nvar:ufa<^loneh. I’lie trade is
fuppofed tod.-creafe. Marbu rgh has 'a
fl mnfning univerfitv, with 24 profeffors
and about 3 5t> fludtnts, From ['UT/ftf-
for Beambir’s plan, who Hyles him'feif
proftjor Ordinaire en psdaoogue, we
learn that 30!. per annum muff be paid
for boaid End inflruAtron in French and
German! Latin, Greek, rmd Hebrew,
muft be paid for fcparately, each 4!. per
annum 5 Italian and Englifh each 3!.
Dutch and Religion each 2!, los. p. 36.
Catiel is a melt beau.iful town, arid
foniewliat refenioles Bath, /imong tire-
manuferipts in the library is one of
*1 liucvdides , “ which fome Du.ch c>ii~
tor of tiiat Irdnorian h.is collated -^. Ja
the muleum are thiee fi'cns glafT^,
which vv,!] buin wo. d m w.ner and dif-
folve diamonds, inade bv a man in ii>c
rrmceof Srolhmg’v^ C-ivice, now d<ad,
p. 38. Mr. G. obkrves tnac the Lu-
thetan fpi.ric t,.,s aova'S i)een moiG to-*
>erant tfian tbai or Ca vin ; departing irx
this lef, vfl, as wJ' as in its general
piinf!j)ie-, lefs from flic citu cii of R nie
than from otlicr Pn^rtdant Lfts ; its op -
prtfhve Aid perftcuting temper, how-
evtr, ao.ited con ti net aid y toWdrns he
cloie of t),e ia i cenrtifv, wh- n tlic au-
tViot u\ ,of h'S fysiihobcai bookb oegan
to diminiib p. 40 We do not

* '1 i.is .MS. written on p pei, ( 52,
w-as collated by Schimiickc-, I'totcllor rt
Marhuigh, foi Dnker, m h:s eJition, Am-
iUrdanq 17 ix, fjJ. £ci s.

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comprehend what thefe fymbolical boohs
were.

Mentz is finely fituated at the con-'
fi'jence of the Maine and Rhine. The -
adjoining country is covered with vine¬
yards, among which-, noB far diftant, is
the pleafanc village of Hockeirn, wliere
the famous Hf^ck y^ine is produced, of
which the Augufiine- of Mavence and
Frankfort have cKclufive polTefiion. In
a good year the dean and chapter gain
1 2 or I CjCOO guilders by iu The Gothic
palace of Martinfirurg, the cathedral and
collegiate church, and the ektS^or’s fmall
Chateau Favorite, near the town, aie
briefty touched on. The pretenfions
of Fauft in concert with Guttenburg
and SchoefFer have been oppofed, but
their opponents can prr-oduee no works
printed before 1441, and irtdeed their
claim may be fatiT'a^orily defended. Ic
is certain that a Bible was publifhed at
Mavence i4(;o or 145.2, that thefe three
laboured conjointlv at it, and thas. pro¬
bably, this i*-' the firfl book that ever w'as
printed. The Speculum Vitai humane,
the Dj£\rinal and Grammar of Gallus-,
which bear an earlier date, are confider-
ed a; fpurious” (p. 5 1 ).

Manheim is a very beautiful town,
fortified alter Cohorn’s manner ; its
Ihreets are .fpacious and regular. The
Eleftoial Palace is fituated at the junc¬
tion of the Rhine and Neckar. His
colleftion of piftures is extremely inte-
refting, and ptiiiaps no fovereign in
Europe except the pope and the grand
duke of fufeany can Imaft of two col-
letlions tquai to thole of Duire'dorf
and Manheun. As the town has but
little trade, it (ufFeis much from the ab-
fence of the courB.

From Fiibcrg, whofe cathedr.al con¬
tains a few pu'tlures by Holbein, Mr. G.
comes to Bafie, the catliedral of whi-h
h remat kaole for the tombs of Eralmus,
and ot Gertrude, wife of the Emperor
Rodolph I. Mechel the engraver, whole
colleSlion c'f prints and pi£lures is well
worth feeing, has engia^ed Rubens’s
defiens from the D^nce of Death, now
purifhing on the walls of the churchr
vaid of the Pi ted cant,’ c Or. v. nt, in the
fuburhs of St. John, wiiere it was
fketched in meuntry of the plague
during the council at B.ifle, 1431. He
has alio publiflied an improvcii edition
cf Erafrnu-'s Morim Enco.nium, with
Holbein’ Ik cebes in the margi,i. In
the pubbe ob’arv are many letters cf
Eralmus to Amberiiach, be.'.vcen 1530
and containing luave curious oar-

ticuhrs relative to Englifh aFairs ; and
in the Album the hand- writing of Al¬
gernon- Sidney and Lord North.

The. fa'ls of the Rhine, which have of
late be-n fo unforruna'elv fignaiized in
our Magazine (fee vol LXIII. p. 1054.)
are thus deferibed by Mr. G.

“ The whole river, after rimpling and
foaming over feveral fcattered breakers,,
runs by differeut channels againft fomet
beautiful rocks, which rife feveral feet from
the water covered with fhrubby wood ; beat
back from thefe it rufhes round, and, by
three grand openings, precipitates its fall in
accumulated malfes for 50 or 60 feet per¬
pendicular, raging and foaming witli woa-
derful vi'«lenco, and throwing up a thick
dnft and fhower of fpray. In the view
from tlie front, as the banks approach in-
the perfpedive, the river appears almoft
furrounded by a fine amphitlieatre of hills,
richly covered with trees. After vie vvdng'*
it at the bottom of the defeeny and looking
up at its arched fall, and after contemplating
its broad and magnificent front from the
beach, we crolled over in a little boat to the
eaftle of Lauffen.. From the room there,.
wRicb overhangs the cataract, we faw the
river, underdifferent circuniAances, fpread-
img into gre ,t varieties of furface before its
fall; in foine parts gliding fmooth and tranf-
parent ©ver poliffed and rounde'd fwelliijgs
of rocks, in others broken, fnovvy, and un¬
equal, it rufhes- headlong, down its fteep
defeent. We wifeed to contemplate thw
amazing fall in every point of view, amt
tlierefore defemded to the planks and bs.ach
beneatli ir,, and were covered by its fpray
and flunned by its noife” (p 82).

We are next comliuSled ro Cofiftance^
St. Gallons., Glams, A''oren'zal, the baths
of Zurich, EnhdUn,

Strangers at Zurich are generally con-
du6led to fee Mr. Oefner the painter’s
works; we were fhewm fome of his land-
fcapes, in imitation, of thofe of Italian ma.f-
ters._ His defigning is good, but his manner
fomewliat hard. The Swifs, who have a
country of fuch peculiar feenery to deferibe,
fhould form a fchool of their own ; but it is
fingular that Switzerland has as yet pro¬
duced neither poets nor p.tioters who have
much diflinguifhc'd themfelves. The fub-
lime poem of Haller on the Alp>s is aimoR
the only important ‘lefcrqition' in poetry of
Swifs feenery by a native of Switzerland,
and, till latel. , it has Jiad no painters of
landkape known beyond their country.
The natives become familiar with the grand
and noble feenes of their country before thev
have attention to a.Imire,, and power to imi¬
tate, them ; and Su'itzei Land has fcurcely
yet arrivetl to tliat refinement of civilization-
in vs'hich a knowlei^e of the polite arts leads
men to tiie invelligation of their principles.

The

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*rhe foreigners who travel here for the firft
time are allonifhed at the ftupendous cha-
raifferof the objedls which they behold, but
thefe tliey dare not attempt to copy. The
mountain with its fummit of faow could
not, perhaps, be introduced with harmony.
The lake is too fpacious f«r reprefentation ;
and he wlio (liould felefl only the pi6fu-
refque cottage, or the woody bank., under¬
mined and rugged, would not ch iradlerife
his work as a defcription of Switzerland,
Painters, however, may flndy here every
departn.ent of art, and, when a Salvator
Rofa fhall arife, will find materials te em¬
ploy his pencil. We were much pleafed
with the works of Mr. Hope, a butcher,
who hasdifplayed a very extraordinary tafte
for laiidfc :pe. He has certainly a genius of
great fcope, and his reprefentatious are
much to be admired, 1 thought that he
failed in the c douring of his water. L’ Aca¬
demic Phyfique deferves much attention.
We faw tliere a fine Hortus Siccus, which
was colledled by the learned Gefner” (p.

Mr. G. next, in his way to Sr. Go-
thard, conies to^Z^r? at wliich

la^ is a colleftion of medals in the pof-
feflion of Mr. Hottinyer, which Mr.
Mechel has engraved, the lake of four
cantons, and William Tell’s chapel,
painted with fketches of his hiliorv.
Altdorf, the capital of the canton of Uri,
with a chapel ere61ed on the fpot where
Tell was horn. We earn >t follow him
over every mountain and through every
valley, which lie compares with Theffalian
lempe, p. 141 — 144. Leavmg St. Go-
thard, they crolhed the lake for Lucerne,
one of the watermen finging the feats of
Tell in fome traditiona' fongj^ which had
a local propriety, the borders of tlie
lake were occafionally adorne4:l with mo¬
numents eretflcd in honour of his ex¬
ploits. The Jefuits coPegc is large, and
now inhabited bv a few proftlTors, with
®ne of whom Mr. G. converfed ^ lit re¬
gretted, with much apparent conc'rrn
and hncerlty, tiie ir-ju-ry done to religion
by the inhdious induftry of Voltaire and
his parry, who have poifoned the fources
of information. The Swifs, who in
general hav® fome tafte for literature,
arc more likely to luffer from t)ie
wretched philofophy inferted in modern
pulilications, fince, where all drink,
many mnft he intoxica’ed with /hallow
dnuglits. He called alfo on General
Tiitfcr, who fliewed him his vey ac¬
curate and elaborate model, in w.ix and
ftone, of near one fourth of Switzerland,
m which he irds obferved the relative
heights of the mountains by a geome-

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trical proportion, traced out local cir*
cumft inces, and minutely mai'ked every
particu’ar deferving of attenci^m. (p 154,
*55-)

Mr. G. was vvitnefs to the receiving
of tw ) young maidens, in the bloom of
life, into a convent near Zurich, and was
furprlzcd to hear that the fpirit of re¬
tiring to celibacy is at prefent preva¬
lent among females in the Roman
Catholic part of Swizailand, p. 160.
The fmall remains of the Caille of
HapJbtirjh, which is famous as the root
of the family of Auftiia, lor ha'dng
furniflied Germany with an emperor,
Pvodolph of Hapfburgh, eleiffed izyj,
bv the intereft of the archhifhop of
Mayence, are now inliahited by -a far¬
mer, p. i4i. The baths of Baden and
Scknviznach ate next tieferibed. At
Arau Mr. Meyer, a wealrliy ribboii-mer-
chant, (hewed a model of part of Swit¬
zerland, well executed, and fome very
capital piefures of Swifs peafantry, in
tihe coftume of their refprftive cantons,
painted by JoLph Reinhalr, whom Mr.
Meyer has rlelervedly encouraged. The
g’-t at church at Soleurs is faid to hav.e
coft 8 ocoo/. bebcies an addition al ex¬
pence by an akrration in the plan after
the foundations were laid. The vvhok
place lias an appearance of neatnefs and
-comfort which refembles the air of a
Proteftant town. Of Madame Lang-
ham’s tomb, at Hindelhank, Mr. Gray
thinks the defign fuperior to the execu-
t-ion, and the done is crumbling to pieces.
Icreprefcnts a mother riling through the
burfling tomb, at the general refurrec-
tion, holding her child in her arms, and
exclaming, in Haller’s fimple and pa¬
thetic infeription,

“ liter, her, bm ich, vnd das hind Jo du
mir gegeben haji

“ Here am I, Lord, and the child
thou hall given me.”

■Berne is a very handfome towr, and
the ftreets are kept clean by felons chained
with a collar and hook over their l>eids.
The refinement of a rich ancefiry has
introduced more of the French manners
than in othtr parts of Switzerland, l)y
the return of -military men enriched in
otlier countries, with an importation of
foreign cuiftoms, who extend a tafte for
luxury lapidly among .a people, who
reiain a reverence for the nohility which
their anccftois pofteiled, where educa¬
tion has inflilled a fpirit of elegance,
where little literature is cultiva-ed, and
an inconfiderable trade is carried on, in a
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fo badly fituated for communication
with other countries by water. Gaming
is elfc6tually prevented j for, every mem¬
ber of the council takes an oath to in¬
form againft anjr whom he fees engaged
in high^play; and it is in vain to attempt
feduftion ; for, the feducer is compelled
to marry the woman whom he has vio¬
lated. Public brothels are allowed un¬
der certain regulations. Fnhzirg is fill-
edwiih ornamented convents , liaving large
libraries ^without any books or MSS. of
cor.fcquence, and the women arc won¬
derfully pretty with delicate complexions.
The village of Gruyeres is famous for
the cheefe which is exported tVirough all
countries. At Fevay Mr. G. fa^v the
feptennial celebration of the jhe da
•vignerons in ancient chara61ers of hea¬
then gods and godcl.fTes, at which our
prince Augubus and feveral Englilh
gentlemen and ladies allifled. Next
day he walked to Clarence Chaiillard
cable, beautifully btuated on an emi¬
nence. Commanding a glorious view of
the idke, the mouth of the Rhine, and
the diftant rocks of M^i'Uirie. It is
furrounded by delightful vineyards,
planted in an artibcial foil brouglit to
thole h'ils, and fupported by fome walls
led it fliould be carried away by the
mountain torrents. Roufleau could not
have choftn a more delightful fpnt to
de<^cribe with hi^ enchamiug pen. From
Vcvav lie made an txpuibon to Ctia-
mo'jn-'. ‘ It !S a pleafaat circa miiance
tha . tiaveilinc in S vi zerland ■ ne t ve-
yv wherr meets pa ne:, rarnl'bng among
its beautiful ieent'- , v. hich tempt One

to deviate f orn our p an tor th.e (ake of
Rcing in CQU’.panv Icc ne'- tha- are inte
reih"g to k. tog the?” (p >79) Fc m
Agle and B^x be went to the famous kl -
works at Benjiezix, and next morning to
Mart'gvy, having entered the Yu ais at
St Maurice by a r? maittic pa(s over a
Roman bridge, and'bt'pped to contem¬
plate tne beautiful calcade called ti£'e
Vackc, faliiiig from a great height With
j.nuch e egance. From Martigny took
horfes and mules tl'.ree leagues, over
flonv roads and rude hibs, to ’Trient, in
Vadais. in a bottom, fuirounded by
trcmeridou mounsains, covered with
Inovv Among the gacieres, M.Bour-
rit was their guide. At Moudon, tlie
ancient Minno-'ur^um, over the gate of
theHotelde Vide, is an infcription men-
tit)nir)g a prelenc of 75,000 lellerces
given by (i_Elius, pricit of Auguftus,

* This is Hannih.'i.rs track deicrihod k/
Mr. Wlut See p. 546, iioii.

[Juir,

to found a gvmnafram here or at
Avranches. It is interefling to fee bill
exiding chara^lers of liberalifv inferi-
bed 1 8 centuries ago. p. 188, Near the
caftle at Averche are remains of a Ro¬
man pavement, tire fubje6i Bacchanab',
C. Caylus was allowed to take away
two fatrys admirably executed, but they
were Imoken in the carriage. Lortl
C-— p — n who is often here on a vifrc
to his father, has tudered the remainder
tobe icclofed to prekrve it. The effe£fs
of the conteded ehft'.on are fufhciently

recovered to enable Lord N - n to

return ; but he is now fo habituated to
the climate that it is probable he will
never leave Swiizerlairvf, \?here an ami¬
able daughter reconcr’ies him by her
filial attention to an abfence from bis
country, and a'leviates the fufferings cf
a difordered conditurior, wliicli he has
long fudalned, p. 190 ” Palhng by the
lake of Moral, and the charnel fo full
of the hones of diaries the Hardy’s ar¬
my, Guimene, Berne^ ‘Thun (dilappoint-
ed at the fail of Stauhhuch ) , Arhobig,
Ttfnne, the if] and of S-. Pierre, to whiclt
Rouiitau retired, and was driven (.ut
by a fil’y fpirit of perb eurn n from
the government o!" B.de, or iginating in
ndii vv policy. Wc lamented that his
genius was not allied to a purer judge «
rntnt and better princ’iclcs. T ihe ima-
g'naMon be not confined within fttihfer
ix.unds than its own fancy mav pre-
ferihe, it will often not into coarfe and
bcencious indule^encc. Roufieau in all
ids woiks gave the icin to an intempe¬
rate f;Ui't ; but in bn Confeffions he dif-
plave- ! a wild phienz' , which tore even,
toe Ik rts that fliould -cover human na-
kednsfi, and wantonly exh bited every
(lef'ormity'’ (p. 196). Neu/cba/el iecxns
happv under the Pruflian governtnent,
the municipal immunitie; and indepen¬
dent piivilegts being fecured by very
important regulations, accepted by-rbe
houfe of Brandenburg before it was in-
vefted with the lover eignty of it. At
[,0.1c the watch-trade goes on brifkly.
The printing houfe at Tverdun is fa-
mou'-. At Orhe, Mr. Venci’s brother
lias fuccefbl ullv, by a gent’e iind gradual
procefs, refioted diliorted limbs, h(?th
in young p-rfons and adults. The
waxen reprefentations and plates of
cures muff furnilh fubje^f of l;ope to
the moff difordtrtd. The college at
Laufanne is .a la^ge buihting, witli a li¬
brary of many rhoufand volumes., of
which the Englifh -are alloucd the ufe,

Compton,

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in confequence of many donatians by
Snglifhmen. Mr. Gibbon pi of- ties to
have loved this country from his earlieft
youth, and to enjoy here, under a mild
government, arnidHa beauteow"^ landfcape,
a life of leifure and independence, and
the varied pleafures of rethement and
fccietv, amidft a people of eafy and ele-
ga t manners. His fiiend Lord Sheffield
is now with him. Many Englilh reflde
here, and fomething of Engliffi manners
pievaiE, The belf company is to be
feen at Mr. Sargent’s, to whom ftrapgets
cafilv piocure in'rodu6Vion, p 20^. "At
Copt>al, w l-rarnnv in 1 he bailliage of Nyon,
ft tides M. Ntxkar, in the houfe of 'the
feigntur e, which lie purchafed not long
ago, and to which appertains fome of
the vioevards fn-in 'voich the Vin de
la cote, fo famou- in SivitZ'^r'and, is
made. We paffr-' ’■'00 ■ h the paltry
Frei'ch to'" ot Vtrl'iy. e hich is called
Ckofful s 't- aulfc hui't 'V that mi-

niHer o. up.-.'.'fi'ion o ' n.’’ p. Z04.

“ Gmi- v O' the chi f fea' ofCalvnr.a. r
we wiihed to (ee if m i.s ftronge i i .pic*
feniatioos, .^nd the lav ahei o t a rr a*
being one f ':lie hmr great te^i, -vc
went to lome r.f the ciuir'-hes, which
w.ere much rioutltd. We Uehe d in
them lome Otony 'taits of the C.ilvi.ii!-
tical ‘.'oaifrn fs in the feemirig mdirfer-
cnce of the p op'e to the place or wor-
fliip, and in their ir attention to th.e mi*
nillr-r” (p. 205). Mr.G. ipeaks highlv
of the rnilif.a, and as unfavourabiy of
t'ne placinij young Erw^liffimen with pro-
fc!lhrs wiio have no rGiralnc upon them.

File fccond-rate dcfcnp'i ’n of men, as
far 3', I cuuld judge, appiear t > have very
gtmera'ily adopted the epliemerai philo-
fjphy, which is now' brcodiiig over fuch
a breed of venomous inf<. 61s for future
niifchitf to the world ; tliev are ihailow
and leif-fufficient ; in lelieion, Cal-
viniilsj in pol ticks, Repufihcans'’ (p.
209). Voltaire’s houfe at Fcmey con¬
tains nothing vxry intereUing ; his heart
lias (>een removed to Paris ; his memory
, is grcaclv refpecled for his private cha¬
rities. T!ie theatre was creeled on the
return of the aritlorra'ic il paity? 17^2,
'The h’olier women have much iry-

proved in the elegance of their manners
fiy aifociaciiig wult fo'tigners. They
detell the Fre.ecu, and wilh i hope, el-
caps the corruption of wldch the women
Of thit r. adi.nn arc accu'^ed. Tiie c irili-
tution IS llill unfectled, and tlic hbeoties
of the p.ople unciehned. Tlie tndea-
voufs of tl.e republican fpirirto pa n ad¬
vantage over the aiiftocratic iufiuciice

excite difeontent and contefls that may
again endanger the general fecurity.’*
From Geneva Mr. G. traveikd rhrougli
Cliamberry to the Grand Chartreufe, in
Dauphine ; where, among otiicr marks
of fpoliation, we mull regret tiie lofs of
the Ode of our ttelehrated country¬
man, flolen probably lately from its
Alburn. Mr. G. (peaks of the inflitu-
tion and fpppreffioii of monalleries as
every reflecting candid mind always
will.

Our traveller paffies over Mount Ce^/s
to If, according to lome hiilo-

rians, Hannibal to /k this route, he may
be prefuined to liave (hewn Lombardy to
his troops from a lofty mountain in its
neiehbouthood.

Turin is a fmall but very regular and
handfome city. Science begins to be
cultivated there, though the Court is
occupied entirely by miliia’ v affairs and
rievetiun. The nobility live with the
exterior of fplendour, which they dif-
play in their palaces and equipages.
Thty feldom coliedl libraiies or pic-
tu s, though the cameos, inraghos, and
pitf ues, of tlie cimnundante Gtlofo
de rve to be mentiontd, and the fine
lihiarv of M. Durando comte de Vtllu,
r.cn in cdi'ions of the Clafficks, wouid
piociuce a large fum in England, whi¬
ther his heirs would do well to fend it,
if they are apprized of the produce cT
the Pinelli col effion (pp 235, 236).
“ The prcfcnt king, Victor Amadeus, is
much and umverfaliy beloved, even in
Savoy : poor as are its inhabitants, when
they complain and talk of lefufiog to
pay accuftomed tribute to their lords,
tliey except the king’s dues (p. 23S).
Tae royal palace contains a veiy fine
coilcTlion of pidlures, partly puiclufid
out of Prince Eugene’s cabinet bv the
late king (p. 239). His country refi-
dcnce is at Monecarlieu, five miles from
Turin, in an ugly little town, from
which it is not (eparated bv any fafli-
dious walls, or barriers of (ecluded
ilate. It is furniihed with great tafle
and elegance, particularly the apart¬
ments of the princefs de Piedmont We
law the king dine with Itis famdy,
whicli is as rcipeflable fer virtue as for
rank (pp. 241, 242). The building
molt cuiious IS the Superge, a magnifi-
cciit mauloleum, on a. very lofty hill, a
league and an l.alf from Turin, ureGed
tor Victor Amadeus liy Coilini, a living
archuc^f, now in Frulfia. Here is a
chapter of 12 canons, who enjoy a co.ui-
♦ra'jle revenue. The church is very

grand,

€.38

g;rand, and t1ie fuUterran&sn depolitory,
which contains the “ monurnenta re-
is well contrived and aweful.
"Fhe lad: king’s tornh*'^ is always placed
in the centre of live apartment, and re¬
moved for that of his luccelfor at Ids
<leath. This muft be a Oriking fight to
the monarch who enters, 'f'he monu¬
ments are handfome ; the infcripcions,
which are in Latin, did not appear to'
have any peculiar merit (p. 243).

the antient Pons, now i-. a defert-
€d town, with 15 convents. The whole
country Teems covered with ecc'efiafticks.
Jliexandruz is a town full of (oldiers and
monks, with a haodfonie theatr-e. Over
the gates of Nonji is inferibed Lii>ertos \
ir is a Imall free town, under a 'governor
appointed every two years by Genoa.

(ro he continued.)

114. Medical FaHs and Obfervatiom. Volume
the Second. %vo.

f i.onchided from p. \

Article X. Oi?jern)andns on fame ebi-
demtcal F^ffedis. By Mr. William Bli-
zard, F. R. S. and S. A. correfpondtng
Member of the Royal Sodeiy of Sciences
of Gottingen, and Surgeon to the Lon¬
don H'jf petal.

For this valuable paper, which (hews
tire author to be an attentive and accu¬
rate obferver, we mufl refer our readers
to the work itfelf, as it cannot well be
abridged.

XL Account of a Method of curing Burns
and Scalds ■ By Mr. David Cleghorn,
Brenjcsr tn Edinburgh. Communicaied
in three Letters to John Hunter, Efq.

. F. R. S. Sungeon^general to the Army,
and by him to Dr. Simmons,

\\T have read tins paper with great
fatisfahiion. It is evidently the produc¬
tion of a plain, fenfible, well-inforrTied
man, who candidly gives us the reluit
of his experience, and who communi¬
cates it to the publick from the ninft
benevolent motives. We fnail here give
his own account of his mode of treat¬
ment.

My firft application and moft power¬
ful remedy is vinegar. If the injury is on
the fingers, hands, or lower parts of the
arms, the application may very properly
be made by an immerfiou of the parts.
Formerly I ufed alfo to immerfe the feet
and lower part of the legs, when injured,
in a pail contaiivng vinegar ; but, although
no ar terial bad confequence enfueJ Lorn
■tlvis prailice, I found that, by placing the
bgs in a perpendicular pofture, the fores

Qii. coffin This, if we miftake cot,
war the pradlice at St. Denis.

were more ant to fwell and inflame rlian
wl\en tl'iey w'ere laid up and fupported in an
horizontal one. When, therefore, the feet
or legs are injured, or when the injury falls
on tl’.e thiglis, the body, the face, or head,
where immeifion would be inconvenient or
irapradh cable, the methcxl I follow (and
which I find very effedhaal) is to pour
feme vinegar into a plate or fiat-edged difli,
and to dip linen rags in tlie vinegar, and
lay them or let them drip on the fores.
This operation of alternately dipping the
rags and laying them on the parts affecled,
is repeated fo quickly, that the parts are
kept conftantly wet, or rather overflowing,
with the vinegar., and the plates are plac.ed
fo as to receive or catch as much of it as
polfible ; and I continue to ufe what falls
back again into the plates for fome time,
till it has become fomewhat vapid, when I
throw it out, anti poxir into the plates a new
fupply of freih vinegar. I have known two
Englifli q,uarts of vdnegar ufed in this way
to a large fcald on the legs in four or five
hours ; and, if the fores have a Luge fur-
face, and are on the l'>ody, under which the
plates cannot he fo placed as to prevent it
from fpill :ng, a larger quantity fiill of the
vinegar will be needed. So cooling and
grateful are the elfedts of this applicatioii
while any confiderable 'degree of pain oi'
heat remains, and fo immediately does the
uneafmefs return wdion it is too early dif-
continued, that the patients themfelve^ fei-
dom fail of giving tlieir adlive aibltance in
this operation of wetting the parts affedled.

In flight or fuperficial injuries, by which
I mean fuch as are attended with no exco¬
riation, but With pain, heat, ot inflamma¬
tion, ai d perhaps wditli fmall bUflsrs, the
vinegar, if early and conftantly applied, is
fufiicient to effedf a cure w ithout any other
applicaticn. It almoft inftaatly gives re¬
lief, and in two nr three hours, and often
in a much ftiortcr time, tlie patient wnll be
quite at eafe. The applicati 'n of the vine¬
gar may then be intermitted ; bur, as fome
degree of pain and heat m.ny poffibly return,
and if not attended to might yet produce a
fore, the vinegar muft be applied as often
as any painful fenfation returns; and, to
make fmo, it ought to be continued now
and then for a day after. In fhott, it is al¬
ways prudent, even in thefe fligi't cafe.^,
to ule the vineg,-.r long, and in abundant
quantities.

In moft Inftance", fuch. fliglit injuries
as thofe 1 now fpeak of are iieale<i v\ ithout
ever breaking out intii a fore 5 if, however,
through negledl of uflng the vinegar fpe“di-
ly, or not con’ inning it long enough, and iiti
fufiicient quantiue.'^, from lomerhmg pecu¬
liar in tl'.e patient's conflitutior, or any other
r.auie, the injury fhouUl t'ege-erate into a
fore, it will readily be hefted by the appli¬
cation of chalk and poultices in the manner
hereafter ua be mentioned.

Rrukw of New Puhlimthns

« In

*794‘] Rtvievj of New Publications,

In fevere burns and fcalds which have
recently happened, and w'hich are attend¬
ed with large blifters, excoriations, or lofs
of fubflance, the vinegar muft be conftant-
ly applied till the heat and pain nearly ceafe,
xvhich will happen in fia m two to eight
hours according as the injury is more or lefs
fevere. The lores muft tlien be covered whth
rags or cloths weir wetted, which, as often
as they dry, or any fenfation of pain or heat
returrs, muft be wetted afreih with the vi¬
negar for two,, tlirre, or four houi s.

“ In the u orft cafes I have ever met with
the pain became tolerable foon after the vi¬
negar was applied; and in ten,., or at moft
twelve hours, the patients w ere fo much at
safe, that in gei eral they fell into a found
fleep.

When 1 firft began this praftice 1 ufed
to keep the wetted rags on the fore?,, with¬
out any other application, foretimes for
two or three days; but experience fhew'ed
me, that, after the pain and beat peculiar to
burns and fcaU’s were removed, the vinegar
excited fmarting in the tender excoriated
Ikin, and was in fadb of no fai ther ufe ; [
therefi re never employ it longer than
twelve hi.urs, excepting on the parts round
the edges, or our fide of the fin es, which I
foment witli it for a minute or two before
the dreftangs to be afterwards mentioned, as
long as they continue in any degree fweiled
or inflamed,

“ The wetted rags- being removed, the
fores muft next be fiealed with other appli¬
cations; and the hrft drsffiug 1 ufe is a
common poultice made of biead and milk,
with a little fweet oil t'r frtfh butter in it.
1 lay the poultire clofe to the foie, and ufe
.no gauze or cambric b tween them. Ti e
firlt dieffiog ftiould reaiain fix, or at moft
j tight liours, and v/l en it is removed the
! fores muft be covered eiuiiely w itii chalk
! finely poundi cl or fcr iped (for, inOead of
pounding the cba'k, I generally lu Id a lump
of It over the foi and fcrape it wi'h a
I knife upon them.) till the powder has ab-
j foibed ti e matter or ichor from the fores,
1 and appeals quite dry all over therri; a fielh
I poultice is then laid over tl e w hole, and
the fame fort of diefting with chalb, and
poultice, is repeated moining and evening
till the foies are healed.

“In tome cafes, after the fccond or third
I day, if the foies are on a part of the body
wheie It IS difticuk to keep the jioultice
from lliifting, I ufe, inftead i f it, a i hifter,
pre ty tliickly f|>rea'i, of the ukite lead
cintmenf, throuph ii;e day (covering the
jTores pre icufiy with cha^k), arul clialk and
poultices tlji ough the nigh', as already di-
reditd. I aho ufe the lame kind c f vv h te
ointiVicnt, occahouaify . ilu'r.ugh ti c d.iv,
when I think the conftant reuev. ai of
poultices lias foftened atid relaxed the fores
t(/0 m ch ; a cncuniftance whicli, noivvitli-
llanding tiie abfui beat quality ut the chalk,

will, at times, in feme degree, happen.

“ In cafes where there are large bhfters,
before I apply the vinegar, I open them
with a pin or a lancet in different parts, anci
gently prefs t!ie water out of tliern with a
linen cloth. The intention of this is to
bring the vinegar to adt more clofely upon
the burnt fisfti, and I have found it to have
an excellent effeifl.

“ Wlhlft: any of the fkin of the blifters-
rem.ains on the foi e, matter will form and
lurk under it, which cannot he reached and
abforhad by the chalk.. New pundluresj,
therefore, muft be made at every drefnng,
whenev'cr matter (which muft be gently
prelTed out with a cloth) is feen luikingj
and as foon as the fkin has loft its toughnefs
fo much that it can be feparated from the
fore without irritating it, which in general
is the cafe on the fecond or third day, it
ought to be gently and gradually picked off
when the fores are dreffed, and plenty of
chalk inftantly laid on to prevent any bad
effects the air might have on fores in a ftate
fo highly fufce;>tihle of injury.

“ la fevere cafes, or fuch as are attended
wdth excoriation or lofs of iuhftance, when
the vinegar is not applied within twenty-
four houis of the time the accidents hap|)en'j.
it almoft; always gives confidepable pain';
but, if the patient can endure it, the iore.s
may fafely be wett'*;? ail over for a quarter
frr half an hour, o* sven much longer. The.
fmarting is no do .ht a little irklonie, but it
is word: at firft, and, at anv ra.te, goe^ off
irnmeii lately upon difeontinuing the vinegar,
and leaves the fores in a much cooler or lel:^
inflamed ftate. If the patient, however,
cannot or will not bear tl-.e vinegar on tlie
raw and tender parts of the for^, I then
cover tlioie parts clo.ff with a plafter of ilia
white oinrment, and w'et all round them
With the vinegar fot a quarter ’ or ji.alf aut
hou'-,. or longer. The ointment is thru
taken off, and the fores are covered with
the powdeied chalk, and a poultice laid
over all ; /.uul they are afterwards to he
treated, in all reipeefs, tdi they heal, as the.
feverer foit of fo'cs, to u'hich the vinegar
has been early applied, are already direCled
to he, after the pain ami heat have left them.

“ The vinegar 1 prefer is that made of
the heft vvliite wine ; but any fort th:t has
emnigh of acid will anfwer, provided there
be no admixture of any mineral acid. lu
fevere cafes I generally warm the vinegar,
btfore I ufe .it, to nearly blood -hear, efpe-
ci '.lly in cold vveatlier, and where a great
dea.l of i' muft he employed. When it is
applied c.ud, and in great quantities, it is
apt to bring on a cluUnefs and ftiiverlng,
winch I have always removed reatiil'y, by
wettmg the feet with cloths dipped in waiul
water, and giving the patient a little warm
water to drink, wnth fome fpirits added to
it, fo as to be r.ittier (fronger than good
punch. It the arms or Imnds are badly in¬
jured,

640

jured, I keep them, during the cure, always
llimg ; and, if the legs, I euileavour to fup-
port them fo as to procure as much eafe to
the patient as poffible."

In his fecond letter Mr. Clegltorn re-
la’es feveral hiftorits of cafes in which
his medicines have been iuccefsful; and
appeals to Dr, Hay, an eminent plnfi-
cian at Edinburgh (and of too mud) li¬
berality of fentiment, it is obftrved, to
think that a valuable difcoveiy in the
healing art fliould be difrcgardcd, and
the benefit of it loft to mankind, merely
btcaufe it happens to be ftumbled upon
by a perfon not of tlie medical profef-
bon), as having aUvays paid p-itticular
attention to the accounts our author has
given him of his cures, and as having
condefcejided, upon feveral ocrafions, to
viht [he patients, and to fee with his own
eyes the tfteefs of the appli^arions in
quefiion.

“ BefideS many people fcalded with boil¬
ing water, &c. I fiavecnied,” fays the au¬
thor, ‘‘ a variety of Inin s occafioned by
melted lead and bra s, liquid pig in n, red-
hot bar iron, the flames of fpirits, burning
coals, linen, &c. quick lime, and by the
explolion of gunpowder ; and there is no
part of the body that one or other "of my
patients has not been burnt or fedded ou.

“ One child, in going backwards, was
thrown down by a pot (landing on the floor,
newly taken off the Are, and almoft full of
boihng broth, (ind fell into, or rc^ther fat
clown in it, and fCabied, in a very bad man¬
ner, his anus, ferotum, and puts a^ijaceut,
but was healed in a furprifingly Ihort time,
the vinegar having been early apiilied ; and
a hlackfmitli once was rcleved and cured,
who was in great agony fiom ;i fpa' k of
hot iron .which ftew' into hi--' eye from a
piece be was flriking on an anvib In this
cale the vinegar w’as diluted w itu water to
one haJf of iis flicngth, and the patipnt
let feme of it into ih,e e e. He alfo kept
the eye fbnt, and bad.ed it with vinegar of
a full ftrengtho

“ In what m. finer mv anp’icctions adl,
fo as to prevent marks and fcais, i do not
jirctend to exp’ai:' ; but I utiUoimly o'n-
fcrvetluit, w’hen ufed in t.n e, they euurtly
cbeck fuppuration in all flight fes, and that
even in n-any fevers (uies pus or matter is
hardly ever feen. In dc'-p burn' ho, at¬
tended with lofs of fubflance, th.' diich.fge
mufl appear' aftonifuiiigl' 1 fie to tliofe
who have been I’ccufloii ed lee foies
cured in. the ordinary way. It lias be'-'n
crmrricnly lemarked that buins and (calds
ad ‘-r eniaige (or eight or ton (Uu s ; but,
with my ticatrucnr they \ ihbly ta large from
the bsginn’ng. The nwv Ikin kegius to
form round tlie cx'icmiiies of even a bad

fl“h.

fore fometirnes fo early as the fecond day;
and in the mi<idle, where there has been a
lofs of fubftance, tlie new flefb fhoots up
from the bottom wdth rather a fungous ap¬
pearance, the furface of it bsing unequal,
fomewhat refembling heads of pin<:, or the
candying of honey (but of a flefh colour),
and continues gradually to grow till it rifes
to the heiglit Of tlie found fisfl) around it,
w'hen the (kin forms at once witliout in-
cruftation. When I began the praiftTe in¬
deed (I do not (peak of the face, my treat¬
ment of it and the effedls thereof having
been colways much the tame), I ufed the vi¬
negar in bail cafes mucli longer than I do
now, and did not appdy the pou’t^ies for
twenty four horns, or oftentimes more; a
dry fcab, ft.ained by t'ne vinegar of a black
ink colour (eafily accounted for), would
then form over all the excoriated places,
and untler it there was al'ways matter. The
piUiUices which were then tlpplied brought
off the fcab gei’erally in a lump the third
or fourt!) drefnng, and a very render bleed¬
ing fore was thus expofrd, which I mftantly
laid very tlrck over with feraped elia’k and
poultices. .After this the verv fame method
was o*^ferved w Incti 1 now fo low, and the
fores healed wntlmut a fecond fcab or iii-
cruitation, and witlroui. mark or f ar, as
they do now. As I know little i-f theories
[ cannet fay wluther thefe'' circumltances,
when duly c nfidered, wdl confirm or con-
tiariidl, nr throv\ anv new light on the re¬
ceived opinion concerning tlie ufe of (uppu-
rati'on in the proclmft.on of new flefn ; but
this I can fafely affirm, that I have. neither
advanced any thing- that lias actually
liappened in the couife of my long expe¬
rience ; nor have I exaggerated, to my
knowl'idge, any of the circumlt.'inces of
tlie cabs I have related, as 1 truft you will
in due 'ime be convinced of from your own
experience.

“ With regard to diet, I allow my patients
to e.T. bol’eci or ro ftetl fowl, or, in Ihort,
any jdain d.relTed nie.at they like: and I do
no: objcCI to tl e:r taking (with moderation
b.owever) v. ine, water au-d fpinis. ale, or
porter My ap'p-bcat'on^, as-liatli been al-
leauy ubierved, allay pa u a d inflammation,
and ado always either prevent or remove
feveriftanefs ; and as at ihe fame- time (if
(me may judge bauii their effcdls) tlicy have
pov\erfiil antTeptic virtue.^ 1 have never-
1 ad occafion to order bark, ('r any internal
medicines vi hatever, and i have only once
theug! r it neceff. ry to }.-t blood. When a
patjei t is CO' ive,. I ordei' hoil- d pot b.uley
and prune' , or fome ('iber l.*xad-. e u(nu iftr-
iiig food, mad rometimcli an mfedion, but
r.e'. er a* y pin g.-.t ive-. It is d'itti clFing fcir
a patient w'fli had for-..-'^ ro be often going to
Auor. BefideS, I reiii li ked that weaknefs
.-iiid l .nguor (wificb never, iii my ojiinion,
hailea the cure of a-ny lore) are always

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brought on more or lefs by purgatives.
From tlie efFe6ls too 1 have felt them have
on myfelf, and obferved them to have on
others, they do not feem to me to have fo
much tendency to remove heat and feverilh-
nefs as is generally imagined ; and 1 fufpedt
that, conttary to the intention of admmif-
tering them, they oftener carry otf ufeful
humours than hurtful ones. Bat I am go¬
ing out of my depth, and expofing myfelf
to criticifm, by fpeaking on a fubjecf that
I furely muft be very ignorant ofj I will
therefore remrn to my vinegar. 1 have
already laid that I always prefer wine vine¬
gar, when it is to be had ; I have, however,
ufed, with very good effe6l:, vinegar made
of fugar, goofebevries, and even alegar; but,
whichever of them is taken, it ought to be
frefh and lively tailed.

‘‘ I once made fome trials (on a burn I
met with myfelf) of oil of vitriol diluted
with water and of different degrees of
Hrength ; but I found its effedds to be the
very reverfe of vinegar, for it increafed the
pain and heat even when it was pretty much
diluted, I make no doubt that diftilled vi¬
negar might do ; but fince the common fort,
when frelh and good, has in every cafe been
fo efficacious, there feems to be no occafion
to attempt improving upon it ; and, as acids
are of a pungeiu penetrating nature, per¬
haps it would not be fafe to apply one too
Ilrong to a raw and tender fore. Even the
common vinegar, only by being ufed too
cold, affedled two of my patients with
tremblings and chillinefs, which ahrmeJ
me a good deal. 1 removed thefe fymptoms
indeed (as I before mentioned) very readily,
by warming the patient’s feet with cloths
dipped in warm water, and giving them
w-^arm water and fpirits to drink ; but ever
fmce 1 have been careful . to ufe precautions
againft the like fymptoms, particularly in
cold weather, by warming the vinegar a
little, placing the patients near a fire, giving
them fomething warm internally, and, in
fhort, by keeping them in every refpedl in
a comfortable conditi< n.

“ In any flight cafe it is not neceflary to
heat the vinegar, and leldom in fevere ones
if the injury is on the hands or face. Were
it not for the chilling effe6ls, it ougltt to be
ufed cold on every part, becaufe heating
weakens it, and haflens its becoming vapid
during the aj)plicati(in ; wlien ufed warm
It murt, therefore, be the oftener thrown
out and replaced with a freffi fupply.

“ If tlie vinegar is introduced into hofpi-
tals, tubs (refembling l)aihing tubs, hut
Ihallow'er) that would hold a pahent at full
length wou'd be ufeful in cafes of univerfal
bunrs and Icalds. A mattrefs, or fomething
fo(t, Ihould be made to fit the tub, and the
pi.tient ovight to be cyteniJed on it, and as
much warm vinegar poured into the tub as
wmuld wet all the under part of the body
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641

and the Tides, and the upper part might be
wetted with cloths. I never met wfith fuch
a cafe ; but, from the fuccefs I have iinin-
teruptedly had, I fhould not be afraid of
undertaking almoll any cafe/’

XII. An Account of the Cu^r of a pre-
teryiaiural Anus ; with Kt marks on
the Hiftory and Treatment of Cafes of
this kind. By M. Default, Surgeon in
Chief of the Hotel Dieu, a Paris.

For the particulars of this interefting
paper, which is iiluflraied by an en¬
graving, we mull refer our readers to
the volume itfelf.

XIII. Experiments and Ohfervations on
the Matter of Cancer. By Adair
Crawford, M. D. F.K.S. From the
Phihfopbicai Tranfadiions.

The volume clofes with a catalogue
of new medicaT publications ; among
which we obferee an edition, in fix vo¬
lumes, 8vo. printed at Turin, of the
works of Amb. Bertrandi, a celebrated
Piedmontefe furgeon lately deceafed ;
for which the publick are indebted to
profcirors Penchienati and Brugnone of
Turin, who liave enriched ic with notes.

115. Be Legione ManHana ex Livio

(P III- 8,) deferi-pta, C£f Rei mditarts Romss
ftudiofii propofua. Autore Gulieinno Vin¬
cent.

THE conful Manlius gained a corn-
pleat vi61ory over the Latins, A. U. 414.
He drew up his army in three lines of
Hajiati, in 15 companies of lao men,
or two platoons, each ; Principes of the
like number; and a third compofed of
15 platoons, anfwering to the 15 com¬
panies of the two former; each platoon
having two others of inferior order at¬
tached to it, fo that it compofed three
platoons or banners, or 186 men; the
banners confided of Triarit, the fecond
of Rorarii, the third of Accenfi^ or fu-
pernumerafes, on whom there was lit¬
tle clependance, therefore they were
placed in the rear. Thefe two lafl ad¬
vancing, recovered the dav after the de¬
voted death of the conful Decius. Mr.
Hooke (Roman Hiflorv, I. 49o)obrerves
that “ Livy fpeaks of the Rorarii and
Accenji as two corps of troops that were
a kind of fupernumeraries to the Tria-
rii^ hut not foldiers equal to them fer
ftrength or ewurage.” According to
the calculation of the learned mailer of
Weflminfer fchool, thefe two corps
amounted together to 7440 fupernume-
rarits, added to the four legion^ on thi'*
occAfon, A plan of the Legio Manli-

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ana accompanies this learned memoir.
Prefixed is a well-written fhort preface,
in which, after informing his readers that
it was kept ba«k till he was encouraged
£0 publiih it by the importunity of his
learned friends, due compliments are de-
fervedly paid to Profeilbrs Heyne of Got¬
tingen and Porfon of Cambridge, Dr.
Vincent concludes with a perhaps un-
iiecefTary apology for his Latinity.

IT 6. Tixamination of ihe . Age of Reafon, or an
Invefigation of true and fabulous Theology, by
Thomas Paine. By Gilbert Wakefieid,
B. A. late Fellow of Jefus College, Cam¬
bridge.

IT has been no unfrequent praftice
for writers of a particular defeription to
convey their own fentiments under the
pretence of confuting thofe of others,
with whom they in a great meafure con¬
cur. Thomas Paine, of notorious me¬
mory, from the dungeons of French
liberrv, where nothing but his ability lo
ferve the pernicious puipoftS of French
equality has lo long prelerved him from
the juft reward of his labours, difpenfes
his laft poifonous commilhon to mankind ^
by exploding all their beft hopes. Gd-
bert Wakefteld, affebling to counteradl
the poifon, has mixed u-p a doie of fuch
an equivocal nature, and partial effeft,
that it may be, doubted if ‘‘ the friends
of religion, reformation, -and univerfal
peace, 'of every denomination, particu¬
larly the Socinians of Great Britain and
Ireland alfociated for ihele godiike pur-
pofes,” will have caufe to thank him for
** this defence of the religion of Jefus,
affeblinnately devoted” to them by him.
Mr. W. compares Tom Paine to “fome
bird of nobler prefence and more ample
pinion,” furrounded by “ the fereams
and tumults of the feathered tribe.”
"VV'e i'jeg leave to compare Mr. W. to
that little bufy bird who is faid to pick
the teeth of the crocodile for his own
hvine, and to enable that voracious ani¬
mal to continue his ravages. Mr. vV.
prefumes that no man is lo fit as himfelf
to undertake the examin.ation of this
work, becaufe no man elfe is lb unen¬
cumbered by fyftem, fo unlhackled by
fubferiprion, fo fuperior to creed.>. Then,
airain, Pb I'vftem muft be true, becaufe
It is the eft'ufton of a pregnant inte!!e6f,
Ibbered by the meditations of a lo'itary
prilbn, not unattended pioi^ably by fome
apprehenfions of fuch a cataftrophe, as
a -..rifts of things fo novel and eventful
n>ay- daily and hourly be expelled to
ptoduce." The uflections thcjcfore @f

[July,

fuch a feafon, from fo popular a name,
on a fubje6f of fuch univerfal interefi, is
fecure, we may prefume, of conftderable
attention in this country from thefe who
are occupied in the difeuffton of their
cintil and religious creed ; a number
which has certainly increafed of late
w'ith furpriftng rapidity, and will, I hope
and believe, go on increaftng with ac-
cellerated progrefs.” We hope and be¬
lieve Mr. W. here prefumes too much,
and that the acceleration has received
fuch a check as will preferve to a later
p.miod the machine of civil polity, and
with it the pure do6i:rine of Chriftianity,
which it lias been the glory of this
kingdom to profefs.

It is a bleired prerogative of MelTrs.
P. and W. that they fbould find out and
incqlcate, that “ religious duties confift
in ^oing juftice, loving mercy, and en¬
deavouring to make our fellow-creatures
happy enough their feeble voices are
no more attended to than that of the
prophet, who, near 2000 years ago, told
his countrymen, that all the Lord their
God required of them was to do juftly,
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
their God. The latter part of the advice
our modern prophets have dropt, and yet
their flioit compendium of religious du~
ties is not the more reduced to general

pra61;ice ; and, as to particular pratflice,
they are their own examples of juftice,
mercy, and univerfal beneficence.' How'
then fisall w'e truft Mr. W’s aftertion,
concerning what is or is not vvxitten in
tlie Book of life, where, v/ith all his
boafted equality, different underftandings
will find different fenfes and different
dofiirines; and he has no other fubter-
fuge lef; but to lav to the man who dif¬
fers from him, “ yOur underftanding is
not fo clear of prejudices as mine.” In
their abhorrence of religious efta'olifh-
ment, and we are very much miftaken if
they do n»t w'ifli to be underftood of
every kind of efiabliftiment, political as
well as religious, Mr. P. and Mr. W.
are agreed. Both have the ufual cant
ready on the occafion. But, when Mr,
P. takes liberties with P.evelation in ge¬
neral, and puts the Jewilli and Chriliiati
on the fame fooling with the Mahometan,
in w'hicii by the way he only repeats Vol¬
taire and others, Mr. W. takes fire, and
calls “ this ftatement frivolous and erro¬
neous in the extieme,” He talks of
Thomas Paine the deifi and the modern
atbeijis, and boldly affirms that, with¬
out the illumination which has bren dil*
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he Jewifh and Chridian) dirpenfations,
'homas Paine, and other deijls of our
A7n and preceding ages, wlio fancy
lemfelves fo philofophical and intelli-
:nt in their theology, would have known
ill as little of the matter, to fpeak with
lodeiation, as much wiler heads than
leirs among the illuOrious nations of an-
quiiy, deprived of thofe advantages fo
luch continued, and fo ungratefully en-
iVed.” This is faying a great deal for Mr.
V. who, while he boafts of the great d\f-
Dveries of our duty made by Mofes and
efus, will not allow that eiiher of them
lid any thing refpe6fing the knowledge
f God, and divine things, or the me-
iods jof coming to God, and placating
n offended deity, Mr. P. is of opinion
aat revelation is confined to the perfon
9 whom it is fiift made, and is bear Jay
9 all others, “ This fiatement aUo is
laccurate, fallacious, and inconclufive,”
ays Mr. W. “ Mr. P’k notions of the
harafter and condition of the Jewifli
ncl Chrifiian revelation are fo confufed
S to render his account altogether un-
□itahle to the purpofe in view, and mofl
ffeftually impertinent,” This we deny :
or luch ohjtftions are perftdf ly* fuitable
o the principle their author has in view,
vhich, like Voltaire, Hume, S;c. &c. is
o deny thofe revelations bv pofitive af-
ertions, unlupported with the fliadow of
.rgument or fa6f, but his own bare ipfe
iixit. Mr. VV, therefore, though it
;ives him unfeigned forro<vjf well retorts
in Mr. P. the axiom, that God <vifits the
ins of the father on the children^ his far-
raftical rtfleftions .on which feem not a
ittle to have tickled his fancy. Mr. W.
s forced to regret that T. P. Ihould him-
elf be a handing evidence of this im-
nutable difpenfation, whilft he lies lan-
^uifhing in prifon for an accidental at-
achment to the BriJJotine fa61ion, with-
)Ut perfonal or political immorality to
uftity fo fevere a treatment. Does not
Vlt. VV. here feem to infinunte that T.
P’s morals are a pattern of purity, and,
ike Confucius and fome of tlic Greek
ihilofophers, and the Quakers, approach
within a very little of that divine cha-
•after which he has*piefumed to compare
.vith them ? pity T. P. had not

9ut himfelf under the tuition of G. VV.
fithtr at Cambridge or at Hackney ! He
would have made him a finifhed philolo-
9her, would have removed all the diffi-
:ulties of the Chriflian revelation, and,
.vliat is of infinitely more confc([uencc,
vould have pieferved him fiom acciden-
ai atfcachment to any faction in France,

643

and from the continual apprehenfions of
fome catafirophe. He would have car¬
ried him on unto perfedion. We are
impatient to fee how Mr. VV. will com¬
ment on thofe lines of his favourite au¬
thor :

“ In pride, in reas’ning pride, our error
lies,” &c.

If he thinks Tech conceit affumed for
knonfjledge, fophifiry for argument, and
dogmatiftn for intelligent convidlion, wor¬
thy his lerious refutation, we wifh him
better fuccefs than probably attended Dr.
Prieltley’s letter to the Reformers of
France. He admits that T. P’s Itrongeft
objeftions are nothing but “ the hardy
allertions of one who muff be deemed to
have nothing better to offer than hardy
afertions, til! he prefents us with a de-
duftion of particulais, in vindication of
his confidence,” p. 29. Mr. W. recurs
to “ authority exceedingly refpefifable,’*
informing him, that, in the wiitten an.
nals of the Jewifli nation, repofited at
Venice and Amfterdam, t^wo miracles
of Jefus Hand recorded : “ the raifing
the widow’s fon at Nain j” and he dots
not name the other. It were better await
the decifion of \\\e: general council, if he
will (uffer fuch a word, of the Jewifli
doftors, who, report fays, are to affemble
fomewbere in Europe, to try the precen-
fions of Jefus of N.izareth to be the true
MtlTiah, and whether Mefliah'be indeed
come. When Mr. W. lefers T. P. to
the hrtlory of his own good intentions
for the reformation of mankind, and the
ill returns made to him, as they may
both go down to poflerity in comparifou
with thofe of Jefus of Nazareth, it
mull extoit a fmile from the caitifl in his
dungeon, and from all fober- minded
readers. Having gained a complete vic¬
tory over T. P. that man “'of benevo¬
lent intentions, blackened and milVepre-
fented in every corner of the kingdom,”
Mr. W. proceeds to a conc|Utft; over a
blacker perfunage, no lefs than bis Sa¬
tanic rnajelly hitnfcif. It was very na*
tural that T. P. fhould wifh him out of
the way, with every part of the Bible,
but more particularly the Revelations,
wherein his exifience is afierted. But
Mr. W. fiiews the Devil has been dif-
pofed of already among all rational Cbrif-
tians, and that our deiji fancied him'elf
in ftout combat with genuine Chiiflianity,
while he was buffeting a mere phantom
of ignorance and Tuperflition, fo eafy
declamation againll folly !" p. 35. Mr.
W. diflributco the books of the Old and
Nsw Teftament into two cUlics, books

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of/ij^ancl hook^ opinion, and promifes
a work relative to the authenticity of the
Old Tenament. He engages to prove,
3n detail, that the >evidences of

the Bible hiflory are exceedingly fuperior
to thole of any antient records whatever,
whofe authenticity is admitted ; evidences
' of which no man will doubt who does
not inhft on mathematical demonfir ution
in cafes onlv fulceptible of varying pro^
babihty. By thefe probabilities, and the
national partiality of his countrymen,
Mr. W. proceeds to try the hifiory of
Sampfon ; and it may be, when he has
brought all other hiftories facred and pro*
fane to the lame teft, we ftiall have nothing
left but the ejfence and qaintejfence of
liiflory, as he fays we 4iave in T. P’s
book the ejfence and quint ejfence of all
vveaknefs and abfurdity, p. 40, which
is a fmail portion of the abufe and in-
ve6live with which Mr, W. anlweis
Mr. P. through the remaining 18 pages
of his pamphlet, being furely, in the
eye of that “ pregnant inteile6Vp’ as
much under the influence of prejudice
in favour of Chriflianity, however he
has furrendered its outworks, and beads
to hold out the citadel againft all oppofi-
tion, as that tumid and bypertragical
declaimer — that ciow, who prefers a feaft
on carrion and putrefcence,” can be un¬
der thofe of deifm and athetfm. Bv this
teft the pad hidory of kings has been
tried in France, and by this tell we ought
to try that of prefent didiaiors in the
lame country. It will certainly be a
triumph to fuch a man, that he has put
Mr. W. O'A of temper before he has got
half through his anfwer, and awakened
a (pint of f eifecution congenial to priefi-
crajt. Flere then we leave the point at
iffue, between the Fnglilh reprelentative
of a French departmen , and the verfafile
genius who has placed himfelf on a pre¬
cipice, whence he cannot look down with¬
out turning dizzy.

117. The Hifiory of Great Britain, conneBcd
n^vitb the Chtonol'.gy of Enrupe ; ’luith Notes,
bsfc containing Jlnecdotes of ihe Times, Neves
of the Learned, and Specimens of their Works.
Volume 1. From Caelar’i Imjafion to the
Wepoftion and Death of Ricliar.l II. By
James Pettit Andrews, F.N.S.

the plan of Mr. An(ir!.ws’s wotk is
entiiely new. The hidory ot Great Bii-
tainc'cci'pusonecolumn, while tl atwhich
faces It is taken up by the correfppnding
epoch in tl.eanna s oi Europe, of which
it relates eveiy impoitaf t cven^, with a

very dii<fl attention to the chronology.

By this means it has the efFeSl of a uni-?
verfal hidory in a fmall compafs,i efpe-
cially where the Afiatic incidents are
clofely connerfltd with thofe of Europe
(as the Crufades, the conteds between
the Eaflcrn empire and the Turks, See.').
they are made a part of the narrative.
The notes contain anecdotes, which,
though intereding and amufing to many,
ought not (by being mixed with the
text) to be forced on thofe who read on¬
ly for folid information.

At the end of each book are two ap¬
pendixes. The one containing the lives
of fuch authors as have fiourilhed during
the centuries which have been treated of,
and, if they were poets, a fpeeimen of
their works; the other, a concife view
of tlie times and manners, drawn up un¬
der different heads, fuch as religion, go¬
vernment, arts and Iciences, &c. The
index has been particularly attended to,
as it is meant to be a table of chronology
as well as of reference, and has the date
of the year affixed to almoft every ar¬
ticle.

Sorry as we fliould be to appear fafti-
dious o>* ftvere to an old friend, we can¬
not help objedling to his authorities,
fit ft, that they are not fufficiently au¬
thenticated by reference to the volume
and page ; fecondly, that tltey are clofe
copies of modern colleftors, fuch as
Groie, Strutt, Antiquarian Repertory,
Scc. ; thirdly, there is fomewhat of an air
ol levity in the compyation, too much
like the modern French writers, and ra¬
ther too little of the gravity and other
good qualities of authorfhip which dif-
tinguilh the Piefidenc Henault.

118. Mr. Talker’s Letters, continued from

A45^'

THESE Letters, on a dofer perufal,
appear to contain a great and pieabng
variety of literary information ; and the
author, in humble imitation of his pa¬
tron ApoUo, IS ever ambitious of blend¬
ing the arts of pottry and medicine.
With this view, he has not onlv examined
the anatomical and lutdicai knowledge
of Homer, and of the Greek philofophers
and ph)hcians, but alfo of Virgil, Lu¬
can, and Horace ; and of the medical
knowledge of the latter he gives two
or three linking and unexptiled exam¬
ple . Among the Gieek philofopheis,
Ai iftotle is Mr. TafK^ I’s gi cat favourite ;
and, in the language of life Academics,
he Items to be determined “ defendere
Arilloteiem,’' to defend Ariftotle, not
againft the logical dilputants of the aca-

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demicai fchools, but againft fome modern
profelTors in the fchools of anatomy;
in fhort, he tells us, that Homer derived
all his knowledge during his travels in
Egy pr, and that Virgil acquired all his
medical fcience during lus refidence at
Athens, Tlie letters likevvife contain a
criticifm at large on Milton’s Paradife
Kegained : yet the whole cotleciion con¬
tains but one poem, viz an One to the
Spirit of Alfied; this is not devoid of
fpirit, but by no means equal to that
animated Pindatic, the Ode to the War¬
like Genius of Great Britain, which
may be now read with a two-told pur-
pofe, as being hiftorical of the militarv
preparations tor the internal defence of
the kingdom during the fummer of the
year 1778, as well as applicable to the
prefen t.

1 1 9. Sonnets and other Poems hv the Rent. \V.
I>..Kovvles, A. M. late <y'' Trimly College
Oxford.

THE circumflance of this volume
having reached the thiitl edition rentiers
any praife from us lupetfluous. We
have little more to do than to announce
itS' repubiication in a very elegant l}pe
and form ; vet we cannot denv ourfelves

' ‘ j

the fatisfa61ion of infercing the follow¬
ing 1/nes to Mr. Headley, as a tribute
of refprft both to the mcnioiy of that
much-lamented youth and to the talents
of the author.

On the Death of Henry Headley, of Trinity
College, Oxford.

“ To every gentle Muf® in vain allied.

In youtli’s full early mosn Eugenius died !

Ah ! lung had Sicknefs left her pining trace,
Rueful and wan, on each dec lying grace;
Untimely Sorrowtouch’d histliough' fu! mien,
Defpair upon his f iding fmile was feen !

Yet Rfclignation, muring 011 the grave.

When now no hope could cheer, no- pity f.ive,
And Virtue, that fcarce felt iis fate fevere,
And pale Atfedlion, dropping foft a tear
For friends belov’d, from whom fhe foon
muft part,

Breath’d a fad folace on liis aching heart.
!Nor ceas’d he yet to ftray, where, winding
wild,

The Mufes’ path h'S drooping ftsps heguil’d.
Intent to refeue fome negledled riiime,
Lone-bloomiqg, from the mournful wal’e
of time; [to frnile

And cull each fcatter'd fw-eet, that feem’d
Like flow’rs upon fome long-foi faken pile.

“ Far from the murmuring crowd, unfeen,
he fought -

Fachcharm congenial toh's fadden’d thought.
When tlie grey morn illum’d the mouiicain’s
fide,

To hear the fwcet bird’s earlieft fong he hied j

645

When meckeft eve to the fold s di{l.ant bell
Lillen’d-and bade the woods and vales fare"
well ;

Mufrng in tearful mood he oft was feen
Tire iafl that linger’d o'er the f diug green.

The waving wood higli o’er the cliff reclin’rl.
The murmuring water-fall, the winter’s
wind, [fuat.

His te.mper’s trembling texture feem’d to
Like airs of fadnefs the refponftve lute.

“ Yet deem not hence the focial fpirit
dead, [ing? fled.

Though from the world’s hard gaze his feel-
Firm was his friendthip, and his faith hnccre.
And w'arm as Pity’s his unheeded t«ar
That wept the ruthlefs deed, the poor man’s ' .
fate,

By fortune's florms left poor and defolate.

“ Farewel ! yet be this humble tribute paid
To all thy virtues, from that focial Hiade
Where tince we fojourn’d. — I, alas! remaia
To mourn the hours of youth (yet mourn in
vain)

That fled neglefted. — Wifely thou haft trod
The better path; and that high meed, which
God

Ordain’d for virtue, tow’ring from the duft.
Shall blefs thy labours, fpirit pure and juft i’*

120. The Inf arit Vifion 0/' Shake fpeare ; <wilh ,
an Ajiojiro'pbe on the immaculate Bard^ and
other Poems. By Mr. Harriion.

IT would he in vain to deny the praife
of elegance and harmony to theft poems.
They are certainly unequal, and in fj>nic
places hear evident marks of hade, but
they are often animated, and never con¬
temptible, The following may be con-
fideiecl as neither the beft nor worll fpe-
cimen of the author’s manner.

Moral RErLFcnojj.

12 r, Bhe landfrape, a ilida&ic Poem, in Three
Bocks, Addvcfjcd to Uv’cdale Price, Tfjj,
By R. P. Knight.

MR. K’s literary talents are well
known and refpt.(‘ifed as thofe of a well-
informed claflical fcliolar. He now ap¬
peals bcfoic the public for the hilt time

Review cf New Publications*

Soon, beneath the biigliteft Ikies,
Clouds appear, and florms ai ife,
Wlule the heavens, tempeft torn.
Seem with earthly grief to moura.

Where would human folly run,
From the gloom that dims the fun }
Can a fordid thing of day
Soar above the orb of day ?

Silly mortal, not to know,

Ev’ry blifs mufl have its woe;

Ev’i y beam of light its fhade,

Ev’ry tint of beauty fade!

Silly mortal to r'^pine,

That the lot of natuce ’s thme.

Review of New Puhlkatlons*

Sis the chara<51er of a poet. And, if his
■serfiiication is unequal, he has acquitted
himfelf to univerfal fatisfa61ion by the
loHdity of his remarks and the juftnels
©f his precepts. He is a true judge of
the fimpliciry of nature ; and it is not to
be wondered at, that a critic of Mr. K’s
taOe exprelles hinifelf of Sir William
Chambers with acrimony, of Mr. Brown
with contempt, and of Mr. Repton with
impartiality. The truth is, tatle is not
more to be purchafed now than it was in
Mr. Pope’s time, A profelfor of tafte is
a ridiculous animal, and, though he may
cailraie or dilhort nature by artificial va¬
garies and undiftinguilhing loppings, her
elegant fimplicity will rile luperior in
the eyes of men who are not interefied
by wealth, fafhion, or parade, to fubfii-
tute the notliingneis of their own ideas
to her realities. Bv chance perhaps, as
at Blenheim, a tafte- monger may ftrike
out a lucky improvement ; bur how
many naked Dryades and Hamadryades
have been turned adrift, and left to utter
their loud lamentations, without an echo
to repeat them ! 1 here is one unanfwer-
able objeciion, if there were no otlier,
to this inroad into landlcape, by mall'acre
of wood, that furveyois never p.arrt in
the proporticn they cut down. Mr. K.
has illuitratLO iiis judicious obfervations
by two laruilcapc?, engraved by Pouncy
from drawings by Htame, one drefied
in the modern Ityle, the otlier in the
antient or undrelTed.

122. Ob fervat 10713 on the F.ffecl3’of Buxtoil

Water. By Jofeph Denman, M. D.

THE larger part of this tilay confifts
of the hiftory, fiiuation, and climate;
the ftruhlure of the eaith, and ufe of the
Iprings, and the anaiyfis of mineral wa¬
ters in general, and thefe in particular.
The obfervations of a medical man, re-
fident on the Ipot during a practice of 40
years, on their efte6ts, deferve due atten¬
tion, though not drawn up in a very
methodical form. In ftomach and bowel
cafes, thele waters leidorn fail to give
fpeedy and permanent relief; alfo in the
tonic gout, but not in palfy, except as to
tire clebslity occafioned by it : in nervous
caies, owing purely to the weaknefs or
irritab iity, the water and air of Buxton
g nerally prtuiuce fome benefit: alfo in
I'cropbulous diforders, except thofe at-
tentied with fever and atfeblions of the
cheil ; but they are not to be uled in the
fmatleft appearance of hectic. Nephritic
comp'aincs often receive a fudden -relief
from the Buxton waters. Oa the whole.

it is in chronic dlforders only that they
have any pretenfions to celebrity-; and
they are often preferibed to be drunk in
too large quantities. Bathing in them
is ufeful in many diforclers of the flornach
and bowels, many afTe£l:ions of the kid-
nies and bladder, without calculus. Ic
has feklom done harm in the gout, and
is peculiarly ufeful in chronic rheuma-
tifms, though the pains of both are in-
creafed by it for a few days. Little caii
be faid of its effe61s in paralytic cafes,
but many difeafes of the fkin receive con-
fiderable benefit from it. Dr. D. prefers
the ufe of the bath after exercife between
breakfaft: and dinner to the morning.

125. A Four through the Fheatre of the War in
the Months of Novemljier and December,
1702, and January, 1793. Interfperfed
with military and other Anecdotes. Bo which
is fubjoined an exahl and authentic Account
of the Death of Louis XVI. Bhe fecond
Fdition.

ALL that is new in the fecond edition
of this tour, being an appendix, contain¬
ing a ftatement of the temper and re-
fources of the French nation at the com¬
mencement of hoftilicies between France
and England, with fome confiderations
on the relative fituation of the two coun¬
tries, we may venture to gdve one opinion
on both editions, that the articles of be¬
lief in our political creed are not to he
given up as erroneous on aNONY MO us
evidence. John Bull, with all his in-
confiftencies, would be a very weather¬
cock indeed, were he fo led by the nofe,

124. Rcafons for natioual Benitence. Recom¬
mended fr the Faji appointed Feb. 28, 1 794.

WHETHER or not this comes fiora
the fame pen as “ Sins of the Nation,”
on the former faft of 1793, we agree
with our brethren the Monthly Review¬
ers, Xlil. p. 474, that “ writers on both
fides have flievvn no moderation in their
fears. Bhis parry believes the conftitu-
tion to be in the extremeft; danger from
French principles and French menaces';
and that, from fome fevtrities pia£lifecl
at home, not altogether compatible per¬
haps with the Ipirit of a free government.
Our comfort is, tliat the predi^iions of
political feers obtain at mofi but a partial
completion.’*

123. Bhe RetrofpeB, or Ref eci ions on the State
of Religion and Politics in France and GieaC
Britain. By the Rev. John Owen, A. M.
Fellow of Corpus Ck^ijli College , Cambridge.
THE author was of the number of
thole who admired wich enthufiafm the

reformation

794-]

Review cf New PuhlkatlGrts.

^formation of tlie French monarchv by
he events of the firft revolution. Hav-
ng had opportunities of obferving the
ountry at the very diffimi'ar periods
)f July, 1790, and Septecnber, 1793, he
•eceived imprer!K)ns of a very oppofite
lature, and finds motives of abhorrence
o the later revolutions in the principles
hat led him to applaud the firji. The
e{le61ions which enlue were written
.vith no fludied attention to method,
ind were diftated by no influence but
hat of conviflion. They are fent into
;he world in their imperfedd ftate, left
:he delays necefiary to render them more
kvorthy of the public patronage fliould
preclude the ufes they v/ere intended to
ierve. It was judged unneceftarv to
crowd the pages with references to fa8s,
js the recoids of thefe are in the recol-
ledlion of everv one. it it be alked to

what party the author belongs, he can
only reply, that the fpirit of hTs fyftem
is, to jear God, to honour the King, and
to love the Brotherhood', and that, zealous
to fupport the of his profeffiows,

the authority of his Sovereign, and the
rights of \\\% fellovo-fubjeBs, he acknow¬
ledges no party where thefe principles
are not revered.”. . . . “ Whether Mo¬
narchy or Republicanifm be moft favour¬
able to general freedom is a queftion
which, in reference to the reform of an-
tient empires, it muft now appear too
late to agitate. Ere the fatal experiment
was raadevupon that country, whofe
name now revolts the feelings of huma¬
nity, ere the rueful confequences had
proclaimed its inexpediency in letters of
blood, men might have difculfed, with
cool and harmLls dheeptation, a queftion
which ftili remained undecided in the
theory ot politicks. But, at a period
like the prrfent, when, ftained with the
guilt of unprecedented crimes, Republi¬
canifm is ila.king in giant info;ence
over the ruins of a demolilhed Monar¬
chy, when, brandiG>ing a more tlian ty¬
rant !crp re, it is faftening the chains of
unpar;ii!c!e(i baibarifm upon the yield-
int^ ful jedis of its cruel authority ; when
martyred lovereigns heap its altars, and
bUeding patriots adorn its orgies j when
holy faith and Chri Ilian devotion exhi¬
bit their lacerated forms, and fiy before
the demons of its impious idolatry j
when the anticnc profellbrs of eftabliihed
religion are abjuring, with public blaf-
pbemv, the God they fervecl ; vvlien the
hoar: prieft is immolating his antlent
fundtions to the Baals of pretended phi-
lofophy, and demolifliing thofe altars

which once fmoked with the incenfie of
his facrifice ; in fuch a moment, and itt
the face of fuch enormities, to move a
tjueftion W'ere to offer an apoloev, anti
to execrate were a’moft to approve” (pp-
20, 21), _

The impiety and irrelitjion of France
has “ not only fuhverted the (brines of
a corrupted faith, but even prolcribed,
with unrecorded Icepticifm, the untver-
fal principle of an acknowledged Divi¬
nity” (p 26).

“ Viewing, in an eftimate of equita¬
ble allowance, the prominent features of
the Britilh charadler, it will not be found
that religious influence exifts in fo re¬
duced a proportion as is generally ima¬
gined. That Chriftianity fails of its due
authority in conrrnuling the fallies of
fafliionatfte diftipation, and operating the
purity of dignified example, will Readily
be allowed; and thofe who are intereiied
in its univerfal dam nation will fecretly
deplore the o b ft r iTit i o nT" t o its empirdi
yet, admitting the prei'alence of vice and -f f
corruption, admitting the influence of
praflical depravity, the fanflions of
Chriftianity (land at leaft undifputed :
whatever corruptions may tarnifli the
condufl, the fyftem of fa th is at leaft
defended from facrilegious'^ degradation ;
whatever crimes or follies may deform
the purity of pr^ftical charafter, ftill
the bounds of Virtue and Vice are reli-
gioufly prelerved, and the rites or Devo¬
tion are leveied by thofe who are aban¬
doned to the pollutions of Vice and Im¬
morality” (pp, 26, 27). - Mr. O. de¬

fends Ariftocracy, and the natural at¬
tachment Engliftimen have to Monar¬
chy, and (hews the abfurdity of Equa-
li^'^ “ The queftion now no longer is.

Whether the government vve boaft have
any defedls, but wliether it poflefs any
virtues ? The contention no longer is,
whether it def.-rve encomium, but whe¬
ther it be worth preferving” (p. 64).

The ftate of France belore the Revo¬
lution, and the feelings of Britons in
tltat event, are well painted (p. 67, 72.),
and fo are tl.e eftebts fubiequent to it (p,

73, 78, 79 ); and the cha aifter of the
Biitiili nation (p. 75). ” The public-

fentiment has been pgt to the faireft trial ;■
and the refuit is moft honourable to the
fidelity and the vvifdom of a powerful,
nation. The flagrant dereliclion of ho¬
nour and virtue in tiie condutt of our
enemies has taught us to renounce the
enriuifiafm with which vve eved theic
freedom, and tlie confidence we repofe,
in tio.ir policy. The prejudices which

fell

64^ Revhw of He'Uj FuhlicatlQns.^-^n^txJtid\c^\.on\i^^ [fuly^

fell with the falling chains of anttent ty-
janny have now revived with the reviving
fpirit of foreign conqueft: their frater-
nising views have excited our abhorrence,
and their infnlt-nt brides for univerfal
empire ha -e damped tltem the depreda¬
tors of human fociety. Such have been
the feelings of the British puldic ; and
generous refe«trrient has penetrated the
Bano.n’’ (p. Sj, Si). “ Amidtl reftec-
trona of fuch a nauire the mind cannot
dwell wi hout advantage; and Icflons
Cff mob ialutary moment will not f<t}l of
imprebing al! ranks of poiifired fociety.
If the dnad decree of univeifal anarchy
he not gone forth 5 if the wafVmg meir..n-
gers cf fate are not cninpalFtng the dil-
»rganization of Chnftian empires ; the
different orders of focial ebablidiment
will petfeft their wifdom by the events
which have now tranfpired, and confoli-
date tlreir authority by a fyftern oi more
perfefl policy” (p. S6). The rettofpedt
concludes witli application of the feveral
leffbns to be hence drawm by mag: Urates,
Ifatefmen, nobles, the miniftcrs of Chrif-
Eianity, and the inferior orders of fociety,

IZ7. Suhjfame of Lord Morningtnn’s Speech
in the Haufe of Common^., on Tuefilav, Jan.
21,. 1794, ^ Motion to jdddrefs His iMa-

jeJ})/ at the Commencemmt of the Seffon of
parliament. (Seep. ^6.)

THE fubftance of this fpeech has been
detailed in the papers of the day. It is
here republiihed in a correft form, and,
probably, with fome additions. We do
not fcruple to recommend it as the beb:
and mob: comprehenfive view of the fyf-
tera now purlued in France, and its
blefled etfefts, authenticated by the faireft
vouchers, the records of the proceedines
of the Convention and the leaders of the
feveral fadlions. If the eyes of any in
this county want yet to he opened, Lord
M. is an excellent oculifl,

ZlS. Lreatife 07T One Hundred and Eighteen
principal Idifafes of the Eyes and Eye-Lids,
&c. in ’ivhich are communicated feverai neao
Jjtfcoveries reJatiue to the Cure of Defedis in
ViftOTi'y nxt.th many original Freferiptions. By
William Rov/ley, M. D.

r THIS is a new edition of a very
teamed and elaborate work, with the
true merit of which we conceive the
public to be now no firang.er; and it
would be necdlefs for us to dwell upon
its various contents^ which, we make no
doubt, art already vvell known to every
reading varA'X'A and fuigical praff itioner.
But the title reminds u- of a padage in
la very valuable and enttrtaini: g periodi

cal work, which will foon pafs id review
l)efore us, and which, we confefs, we
did not comprehend on the firll perufal,
but which is now pcriefdly clear. “ But
how could you think, Dr, ViLLERSy of
palling /entence of tranfportation on fo
fweet a lady ^ Mifs Pan DORA Dy-
s o ON, ,to be fure, is a charming creature ;
file lias ireen here th fe two hours, and
is but this moment gone.” “ Creature!
malam ? Why fiie is a mere creature of
the brain, a creature of my own imagi¬
nation.” “ No, no, no, Dr. Villers,
that will never do ; I know better; fire
is charmed with the charafler 'of Dr.
Placebo, and intends to confult him
before (he embarks. She has left a card
aifo for Mr. Hawks>f:ye, bavin? been
afniffed, in confequence of a fevere cold,
which fire caught during the late foggy
weather, with 119 difea'es in her left eye
only.” “ Impollible, Mrs. Pridden ;
that is one more than the fu 1 compli¬
ment. The wifeb, the molt learned
head, and the keeneft eye in the college,
never yet pretended to have feen moie
than ONE HUNDRi D AND EIGHTEEN j
and that is allowed by all the faculty to
be a large number.” See the Medical
Spedfator, Vol. I. p. 143.

INDEX iNDiCATORlUS.

No Oculist defires a particular account
of the Nictating Membrane in animaP, and to
be informed why the eyes of fome quadru¬
peds remain unclofed after death.

R. C. obferves, tlaat the fuperllition re-
fpedting Dc ament rings, p. 443, is not con¬
fined to Berkilaire ; he^ lias heard of it in a
county. 100 miles North of Berks, That it
occurs in Glouceflerfhire, fee, in the prefent
month, p, 597. Norfolciens is alfo has
lent us fome inftances of it in Norfolk ; and
A Rustic Swain, of others in Sufl'ex.

OB.ruiAH’s Letter, p. 61c, was printed
before the receipt of his feeond ; in which
he reads Signum finBce falutis, or SigUlum
fanStum facrum de E. Efirnartin.

J. C. is informed, iliat the returns made
by the different parifhes of the particular
charities which they have, have not been
publifhed by Parliairlei't. Eor the counties
of Leiceffer and Dorfe', coptes have been
obtained at a confiderable expence, which
Will be printed in their refpedtive Hiftories.

From the lev'eral Defences we have re-
cewed of Free Masonry we (hall feieCt
one or two for next month. That which
came earlieft is already printed, p. 613.

A Country Clergyman^s hints, wdth
thofe of Chapman Ives, E!c]. are feat to
the Pnbl.Iher of the Provincial Coins.

F. J's View of Coftc)!) Chapel lhall be
tifeu on tlie eaihefl opportunity.

Aristo-

Sete^ Poetry^ jhtient and Modern^ for ] [Ay, l*jg4, 649

Aristodkmus, killing himself on
THE tomb of his Daughter.

T'Owar and vengeance rous'd, the Spar¬
tan b^nd

Rufli forth, and defolate MelTenf 's land ;
Before them Death to flaug'nter points the
way,

And with gigantic arm invades the prey.
Their rage tlie voice of Pity not difarnas,
Kor virgin innocence, nor infant charnr.s.
IVlelfenia thus by uithlefs foes is torn ;

While Freedom flies, afflicted ana forlorn,
Difgracefi’l Slavery, rufliing v. ith her train
Of Tyrants, fwift ufurps the fair domain.
Ariflodennus felt this galling Itate,
i^nd wept, indignant, at his country’s fate ;
Her groans with forrow picix’d his manly
breaft,

On which the p-atriot firmly was im.preft.
Long had he ft rove from Sparta’s iron hand
To vindicate the freedom of his land ;

Oft had hisfword provokM theglorioiis ftrife,
For thirft of Honour quell’d the love of life;
His arm victorious taught his foes to yield,
And rear’d immortal trophies in the field.
But tvhocan (hun theFates’ impending rod,
Or Tcape the vengeance of an angry God !
Blis country ftill is gor’d by hoftile bands,
And tou ring on the brmk. of ruin hands.
The Hero weeps, abandcm’d to defpair,
Conjuring he.iv’n to mttiga'e hiS care ;

Each pious oftic.e he renews, and tries
To pacify the Gods vrith facnflce ;

Then at the L'elphic thrine explores the will
Of Fate, portending either good or ill.

'I'he Prieftefs fpeaks; this anfw erisdecreed ;

A Virgin cf Alcides’ race muft bleed.”
•Thefe words ilie heralds to the chief relate,
And ftamp the fentcnce of his daughtei’s fate;
For he alone did boaft Herculean bUxid,
Winch Plicebus claim’d the price of public
good. [doom,

lie hears the fii'^h announce her Oeftin’d
While grief o’erwiielms hirn with the deep-
eft gloom.

1 his way :.nd that he feels himfelf inclin’d,
And doubt', w'iih ilrong perplexity of mind,
Wliethcr wntli greater face his breaft; lliould
move,

A Patriot's duty or a Father’s leve. [gain.
While thus he doubts, and can no puipofe
Approves, rejedts, but fooii approves again ;
The frantic mother comes, w ith piteous cries
Ifmplores him to renounce the facnflce.

His infant olfspring in this awful fti ife,
Seems with his looks to beg his filter’s life.
Ciofe flands her lover, quite congeal'd with
fear,

And, like a ftatne, cannot drop a tear.

His tongue, wiih horror ftiff, fiqgets to move,
And his eyes darken w' th excels of love.
But file Iwcet vidtini h.ears the gen’ial woe!
'J ho’ w.ept by all, her tears dild.nn to flovv.
What grief, fhe pries, p.-hai terror fliould
i feel }

My bofom burns to prop the public weal j

Gent. Mag.

“ If great Apollo’s w'ill has thus decreed,

I for Meflene am piepar’d to bleed 1
‘‘ But, hark ! I hear my country’s loud ac¬
claim, [flame ;

“ And my foul kindles with a gen’rous '
For, fcorning earth, it foon fliall nobly rife
“ On wings of fame, ti anil...ted to the flcies.”
Her words with ftronger zeal inilnme the
fire,

And fet, like liglitniilg, all his foul on fire :

Vr ith fudden ilart [his country ni g’d his
hand)

He plunges in her hreaff the reeking brand.
She falls, the patriot daughter fmiles in death,
And pours in purple ftreams her fluti’iing
breath.

Ah ! W'hat avails this faci ifice of blood ?

From deeds of horror fprings a Nation’s good ?
Still groans the country with vindidfive foes.
Her wmunds more grievous, more increas’d
her woes, [ming, glare,

Forth ftalks the Plague, w ith eyes thatj^fla-
And poifons with her breath the ftap nant air;
Her progixfs Death attends witn wings out-
•fpread ,

And with his f .uohivin, like a meteor, red,.
Appalls the fick’iiing world, w'hile thoufands
round

In dire fncceflion grafp the burthen’ll ground.
But ah ! within the patr ot’s tortur’d foul,
What frormsof grief in dire coovulfions roll!
Pie fees his country gall’d with fervile chams,
Her fame extirdf, and dcfolate her p am-, j
He hears her cries in every blaft of vcond,

Her pangs he feels with pity too refin’d;

And chains fir ever rat'.le in his ear,

Wiiich grinning fiaver;. forc’d Iierfons tovvear.
Fancy v, irh mimic forms deluiies his fight,
And calls up airy phantoms iri the night,

She bids her colours all his woe' difplay,

And Freedom’s clvampions ieems again to
flay :

Oft ton bis immolatevl child appears,

Points to her hreaft, which w'ounds yet blee¬
ding bears. povv’r

Snell thoughts diftradtion breed; — \vitli fud-
Defpair affails him ! at th'S fatal hour
The tomb he feeks, liis Itoi.y eyes impart
1 lie dark refrjlve that preys upon his heart.
Portray’d fat Death upon h's ghaftly look,
While thus in hitt’reil agony he Ipoke.

O cruel Gods! if, at your dread com¬
mand, [thuid.

Which wretched mortals dare noc to wi h-
My daugJiter by a parent’ poniard bled,
Why Ihould yoqr wrath on my devoted
head

Fall like a tempeft ? do tire Gods beftow
On adts of piety icdoubled w'oe ?

“ O partial Goes ! Iwift 1 uii me tii my doonq
“ Let earth receive me in her gicedy womb!

“ Oh let me die by yi-ur malignant ire,

“ Nor fee my country’s Liberty expire 1
Ere wdth her iron f purge Oppi alien
reigns,

Ere tyranny with carnage gluts tlie plains!

Do*

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Dcteftt;«l tyranny 1 and (hall I ftfive
To lengthen auel all my fame furvive?
“ B'.it haik! a voica 1 hear, L’was from the
tomb, [home,

My murderM daughter calls me to her
“ 1 come, 1 come, no longer I delay,

** Her ghoff denumds my blood, and chides
my flay. [ft^ar,)

Do thou, my (word, (begone a coward
Give ine tliat cafe which is denied me
iiere.’'

He fpoke; his fiery eyes and throbbing
breath

Betray the dire intent of infinnt dea^h.

The tomb he mounts by giief and frenzy led.
While fcream the laveus finh/ring o’er his
head.

The fieel is fcrandifli'd and athn'll for blood,
J^ierc’d a deep paffage for tiie crirnfon flood;
Struck to the heart, he flaggers with the
wound,

And finks a iulien image to the ground.

Henry Brock.

IVe are thaniful to -various Correjpondents for
tranfiatioKS of the Latin verfes in our lajt Ala--
gaxine : among -uAich the follo’wing are much
too good to be omitted.

Cna Kite, -which, after having been tamed,
had efaped from its Alafer.

NGRATEFUL bird ! how could’ fl
thou flee

From h.m, the kindeft friend to thee ?

Who, ever fince that early hour ^

He took thee frorti thy airy bow’r,

Has watch’d thee as the dearefi: gueil^

And fondly nurs’d tin e in his breafl 1
His liberal hand with dally care
Has fed thee with the clroiceft fare ;

He brav’d the terror., of tb.y bill,

And, patient, tam’d tlly favage will ;

He taught thee, now lefs furious grown,

'i o boaft of raannei s nor tby own,

Taught thee to know thy mailer’s look.
And move oLfervant as he fpoke.

He lur’d tiiee oft, w itb accents bland.

To fpOrt and flutter on his h imi,

And fondly cheer’d thee all the while
With mai^y a toy and many a fmile.

And eveiV lender nam.e he gave

V/hich ioveconld p'-ompt,nrfriendfhip crave.

No adt of kindneL he denydj ;

He fmo.ydi’d thy mifled plumes with pride,
And wafh’d the dud upon thy wing
With water from the ciydal fpiing.

If ever Hern Misfortnre's blow,

Or ficknefs, brouglit thy fpints low.
Anxious lie linger’d by thy fide,

And every foftering bairn apply ’d ;

He dreis’d thy hou r, and lull’d thy head
in On IV ber on tl.y ie.d'y bed.

W’ncre porv, unhrppy, doft thou firay
Afiieuukfs, folicary way ?

In what lone field, or diflant wood,

W’ilt thou prr.ture thy fcantv food ;
Untaught, like thy' rap cious race,

With ruthkfs bill the jirey to chace ;
Untaught the ills of life Ihun,

1 he ruflick’s inare, the fportfman’s gun.
Whole thunder foon perhaps naali fly
And hurl thee quiv’nng thro’ the Iky ?

Haftp then (if yet thou canil) to flee ,
From all thefe ills, fweet bird, to me !
Return, and feek tin nati e plain j
Return to former joy again. F.

On thf Flight OF A TAME Hawk.

TiL 1 URS’D from thine opening ftiefl with
tenclc care,

Fondly protected from each threat’ning woe.
Why didfl ihou, fooidh hawk, thv flight
prepare, [wou’dif thou go

Why from th}’' much wrong’d mafter

Think with what kind attention did I hafle
Daily delicious niorfels to convey,

Knowing and careful to indulge thy t.afle
With entrails, dainty food to birds of prey.

Oft ivhen thine .angry i.dons were difplay’d
Jn favags wilb tormenting war to wage.

Oft have 1 met their fury undifniay’d,

Refolvhl by patience to repel their rage. .

Refolv’d thy rebel nature tofuhdue, [breafl^
And tame to manners nnld thy ruthlefs
Soft winning ways I taught thee to purfue ;
Taught thee to live careffing and carefs’d.

Thy downy poll, perph’d on his finger’s end.
With gentle hand thy mailer us’d' to pat.
Call’d thee fond names, poor fellow,’*
“ little friend,” [chat.

Nor fcorn'd to foothe thee with endearinr

■‘v ^ ^

And whenthy ruffled plumes, devoid of grace,
Taniifh’d the beauty of thy pened’d breafl.
Thy mafter fmootii’d each feather to its place.
Or walh'd with c’eanling care thy fpeck-
ied ci efl.

But wlien difeafe affail’d thy little frame,

And all the fpint of thine eye w^as fled,
With healing i emedics thy mafter came,

And ftrew’d witii leaves or downy mofs
thy bed.

Alas ! poor bird, what is thine alter’d fate >
Where dob thou wander through the
weary fpace ?

V/her e thire expedit'd dinner deft thou wait.
Unus'd to kill, untutor’d to Mie chace?

O ! fay, what inftindl prompt^ thes now' to
Ihun

The fuhtle trap or fnare of wily boy ?
How tloft thou flee thc’death-imparting gun,.
Or birdlime- twig well baited to deftroy ?'

O 1 ftrive again thy wanderings to retrace,
By wifdom taught Iiow di eary ’tis to roam ?
Hafte on fwift wings thy mafter to embrace.
Who, fad, recalls thee to thy happieft home.

ODE

Sefe^ Poetry^ Antient and AJoderfj, for July, 1794- ^5*

OPE TO A, LITTLE KITE;

Viloichf Kvhile it was taught to hecome tame ami
gentle, prcjsntly fed away, a fecond Time.

*T T 7 ITH kindnefs Ions caiefs’d and fed,
V V VV'hy haft then from thy mafter fled,
Thou hafe, unpnleful kite?

Ah ! why fuch wanton, ilLtim'd hafte,
Again to tempt the dreary wafte,

And thus tnv care requite?

Whatever for food thou wont’ft to crave
I grudg’d thee not — but freely gave
Of meat both cho'ce and new :

Thy martial fo'm uifpir ng diead,

To feenes of biitrr coiitelt bred,

My favour ne’er withdrew.

I5y means of gentled: kind I ftrove
Within thy favage breaft to move
A temner meek and bland :

A *

My call thou learnedft to obey,

And on my lliouldcr light and play.

Or fettle on my hand.

Thus would 1 foothing arts employ ;

1 ’d call thee oft my little boy,

Mv pretty bird, my friend:

Thy luffled plumes with niceft pains
I ’d finootli, and vvalh their fordid ftains—
Nay, all thy wants attend.

I watch’d thee ’midft thy health and cafe,

1 fpar’d, when preft w^ith dire deafe,

No rrmedy to give :

Full foft and tVanquil was thy bed.

With leaves and downy feathers fpread,

That thou mightft gaily live.

Now, lone, thro’ regions wandering wide,
Thy aukward flight can ill provide
What may thy life fuftain ;

UnfkiU’d to pounce upon the prey,

Or mark with malfacie t!iy way.

By which thy food to gain.

How canft thou ’fcape the fowler’s fnares,
Or know tlie engines he prepares
Thy fpecies to deftioy ?

Tliou, fure, muft meet a haplefs lot,

Struck by the gunner’s fateful flaot,

Or lim’d in f '.me decoy.

Then come wnth fpeed, and thankful greet
Th’ afylum of thy late retreat ;

Thy former errors fee ;

Ilnrave!, with fagacious wing,

Tlie path that will thee homeward bring — •
No happier canft thou be.

llanfcpe, Bucks, June ly. W. Singleton

REFLEXIONS ON A BIRTH-DAY.

OUNTAIN of life, eternal fource of
Heav’n 1

ft hy grace another year to me hath giv’n !
How oft I ’ve fmn’d, 0, Lord ! in that fhort
fpace,

Provok’d thine anger, or abus'd thy grace.

To thee, O powerful Ruler of the fky !

Is known, alas! is fegifter’d on high.

All -bounteous Being ! Author of my days !
Teach me to fmg, and glory in your praife;
luTpire my bofom with the love of thee,
Omnii^otent, all-perfedl Deity !

Now fixteen years have gone their wonted
round

Since i your gracious Providence have fonnd.
Still may that liand, vvliich led me thro’ the
Of infancy, diredl my riper ways ! [maze
Still may your aid my erring footfteps guide, ^
And let the love of virtue be my pride !

Let me be mindful, ever grateful be
To tliofe I love, I Iionoi'ir, next to thee !

On him who gave me life, who oaus’d my
birth,

The kindeft, beftof fathers here on earth,
Kind Heav’n, pour down your choiceft gifts
in (lore !

Oh ! may I fee him bleft — I afk no more.

And thou, pure Spirit ! from amongft the
juft, [truft !

Be thou the guardian of yonr once-lov’d
From where no ficknpfs I'eigns, no pains an-
uoy, [boy !

I.ook with companion on your once-lov’d
Teach him to fhun Ambition’s fatal w'ay,

And from terapta ion teach your fon to ftray ;
leach him thro’ Virtue’s facred, god- like
name.

The beft, thcTafeft road to honeft fame !

TO SPRING.

fmiling Spring! at whofe ap-
J[ proach w'as feen,

To mark thy gay attire, the fparkling eye,

Comellowly forward, rob’d in willow green !
Thy power is loft, thou canft not check.
Uie figh.

No more I fee! thy Zephyr’s gentle breath,-
Soft vernal airs whereon the pei tumesliung

Swept from the brake, the morning's dewy
henth, [fung.

The meads and vales where I my paftioaiL

Mute is my lyre, confign’d to endlefs reft,
Nor love, or wit, or beauty, more it fu gs.

For foriow dwells within its mafter’s breaft.
And falling tears relax its tuneful ftrings.

Sad, and fequefter’d from the fpot I love,
Still Fancy beci-cons to the dreams of biifs.

Entranc’d^ with thee in converfe Iweet 1 rove.
And my pulfe quickens at the balmy kifs.

Trembling, to thee my fuppliant eyes ! raife.
Lean to thy clieek, and feel the mutual glow ;

1 hear tliy voice — in fpeechlefs raptuie gaze.
And lofe in love’s oblivion all my woe.

Ye faithlefs vifions, leading to del'pair,

The treacherous folace of my burfting
heart,

A.w'hile, rnfrdious, ye fufpend my care.

To aid with doubled pangs
fin art I

V £ R S It S,

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VERSES,

Written the Rrv.^ W. SiMOLETON,
On his Bh-th-davy May 19,

ONCE more the crrding year is boni
Around tlie genial earth,

Since, urg’d by fate, this vernal morn
Firrt gave my being birth.

Now, gay, ’mid ft life’s meridian prime,

1 count each feafon paft,

And learn how foon revolves the time
That bears me to my laft.

Hence Wifdora opes her facred page
To charm Reflexion’s eye,

As o’er life’s variegated flags
The reftlefs minutes fly.

To Providence all t^raife is due,

Since, fofter’d by his care,

From childhood up to man 1 grew,

And yet his bounty ftiare.

And if that Power, who reigns fuprerae,
Vouchfafs a, lengthen’d age,

Still may his mercies prove my theme,
And boundlefs thanks engage ;

Till, bleft with many a natal day,

In firmeft duty try’d,

My foul fhall leave this houfe of clay,

In Heaven’s own courts to ’bide.

Bucks,

Thine heir fhall diflipate his woe,

And bid tl>y choicell wdnelo flow
The feflive board around.

Clericus.

HORACE, Book 11. Ode XIV. imitated.
A LAS 1 my friend, the fleeting years

jf\ Rollon, »Hid haftening age appears
in wrinkled horror dreft ;

Not Virtue’s felf, tlie fpotlefs heart,

Can Ihield from Death's unerring dart,

Its dread approach air^ft.

No gifts which other gods approve
Can Pluto’s ftern beheft rsinove,

His tyrant will rtftrain
To the pa’e god’s refiftlefs fway
Peafants and kings obedience pay,

All earth’s unnumber'd train.

The Stygian waters captive hold.

Giants, and kings renovtm’d of old;

For, all fubmit to face ;

In vain war's havock we furvive,

In vain thro’ every peril live,

. St’il Pluto’s realms awaf,

There loft in languid channel, flow,
Cocytus hardly feems to Bow,

Tiieis Lanaus’ murderou' race ; /

\v til 2-fiXiO’. is p3.ui.

Renews his enJlef toil in v.un,

Tliere Ikadowy fpedlres pace.

Thy native fpot, tby chearfui dome,

Thy vvife, and all the charims of Lome,,

For feenes like thefe refign’d,

Shall make thy fo’ l with angiuftr heave.
The keeneft ibrrow rife to leave
Such darling joys behind.

When fprea s its melancholy g’com
1 he mournful cyprefs o’< r thv tomb
With vxrfe funereal crown’d,,.

EPIGRAM IN f. 460.
Palmite, Bacche, tuo nitar — nec, Liber, inU
quum eft — ■

Ut firmes grefius, qui titubat e facis.”

' iMnAiED In English.

Your ftaff, jolly God, ’lis but fair I fiaould
To help me fafe home to my bed, [borrow,
For, when in thejuice of your grape 1 drown
forrow,

My legs are untrue to my head. T. S,
Another.

Your cups, jolly God, make me flagger;

what then } [cLgaiii.

This flaff from ycur vine fets me forward

Mr Urban, Conduit-Jir.Hanov.f^.yuneio,
H E two following arc extraCled from
J a little work publillaed in 1659, inti¬
tuled, Conjedlural Queries, by Francis Of-
borne, Efq.” and,' I conceive, have merit
enough to claim a revival in your valuable
Mifcellany. J. H.

AN epitaph.

Stone, fo long as thou doft lafl,

Let the reader know thou hafl
The drc'lfe of her, once own’d a mind
Contayn’d the wmrth of woman-kind ;

But nc) more : who i'peaks her glory
Mufl have for every dull a flory.

The Authour’sEpitafh on himself?.

1 envy not fuch graves as take up room
Merely witli jet and porphyry, fince a tomb
Adds no defert : Wifdom 1 thou thing di¬
vine,

Convert my humble foul into thy flirine.

And tlien this body, though it want a
flone,

Shall dignifie all places where ’tis throwne.

THE

PERJURED LOVER.
Bv Mr. H(-lcroft.

From Bis Novel juji ^uhlifl.-cd—^^ The Adven¬
tures of Hugh 'f revor.’’

EN’S vow s aie Life, Annette, I owm.
The proofs are but too flagrant grown:.
T o Love I vow’d eternal fcorn ;

I faw thee, and was ftraight forfworn.

In jealous rage, renouncing blifs,

When Damon Hole a rapt’rous kils,

I took, witli oaths, a long fanewel,

How' falfe they W'ere, thou befl canfl telll

By faints I vow'd, and powders divine,..
Nc5 love could ever equal mine ;

Yet I myfeP, though thus i fv^ore,

Have daily lov’d thee more and morei

To perjuries thus I hourly fweVve,

Then treat them as they Well deferye ;

Thy own vows break, at length comply.
And be as deep in guilt as I.

gaffer

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653

GAFFER GRAY.

By Mr. Holcroft.

TT’O 1 why iloft thou fliiver aiul (hake,

^ Gaffer Gray !

Ami why doth thy nofe look fo blue ?

’Tis the weather that’s cold ;

’Tis I’m grown very old,

And my doublet is not very new',

Welka-day !”

Then, line thy worn doublet with ale,

Gaffer Gray ;

And warm thy old heart w'ith a glafs.

Nay, but credit I’ve none,

And my money’s all gone;

Then fay how may that come to pafs ?
Well-a-day !”

Hie away to the hotife on tl>e* brow,

Gaffer Grav ;

And knock at tlie jolly prieft’s door.

** The prieft often prcitches
Againft worldly riches;

But ne’er gives a mite to the poor,

Well-a day !”

The lawyer lives under the hill,

Gaffer Gray;

Warmly fenc’d both in back and in front.

He will fallen his locks,

And will threaten the flocks,

Shoiild he ever more find me in want,
Well-a day I”

The fquire lias fat beeves and brown ale.
Gaffer Gray ;

And tlie feafon will welcome you liter*.

The fat beeves and his beer,

And his merry new year,

Are all for the fluflr and the fair,
Well-a-day 1”

My keg is but low, I confefs,

Gaffer Gray ;

What, then, while it laffs, man, vvs'U live ;
'I he [K)or man alone,

When he hears the poor moan,

Of his morfel a m.or fei will give,

Weil- a -day !

THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING.
By Mrs. Radcuffe.

FROM THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO.

The hum of bees, beneath ffje verdant gloom*

And woodman’s fong, and low of diftanc
herds !

Then doubtful gleams the mountain’s hoary
head, [afar;

Seen through the parting foliage from
And, farther flill, the Ocean’s miily bed, '

With flitting fails, that partial fun-beams
Ihar-e.

Eut vain the fylvan fliade — the breath of
May —

The voice of Mufic floating on the gaie,
And forms, that beam thtough rno.^ning’s
dewy veil,

If Health no longer bid the heart be gay !
O balmy hour ! ’tis thine her wealth to give.
Here fpr-ead her blulh, and bid the parent
live I

CARMEN OL. GOLDSMITH, M. B.

Cui tit. “ Edwin and Angelina,” ^ve The
Hermit,” Latine redditum.

T T ^ ^ venerande fenex ! hue,.

inco’a vallis, ,

Et dubium miferi dlrige cautus iter.

Ad loca, qvia lampas, tremulo fulgore coruG
, cans,

Optatum feffis praebet arnica jubar.

Namque hie dum frutlra vagor, heu ! dum
tardus, anlielans'

Incedo, et vix jiiifi lariguida membra trahw,;
Undique vafla patet, paiet uudique erexims^-
eunti

Ingeminans mceffae taedia hmga vias.”
Sift-opedem, juvcnisl veffigia compriuiie F'"’

(dixit

longtevus) “ volitat perfida imago procul—
Quod cupide fequens nihil eff, uili lubiiLus’
igni*-', < [vap@i',.

Q^iem malefana creant fUgna, aqueufq«e

Hie paregrino iirppi, (juem fors ingi-ata fa-
^ Panditlenotltatjanuaparvacafa; — j ttgal,
It (juaiK^uarB tenviis imhi re.qet curta fupeikx,
Elaud parca tii’ouo, follicitav'e manu _

“ Si tamsn hac meeuhi poterts requiefcere
no£le, [tenet,

Cundla, puer, libi erunt, quee mea ceha-
Et cibus, et flramen fimplex, et amantia vmi,

HOW fweet CO wind the foreft’s tangled

fbade, V'i61ima nulla mihi convivia laeta cmenUt

Sed metuens culii i ruin pererrat ovis —
Hancdocuit legem qjji me forniavir, et iilas:
Ipse mihi pereit— Vivite, molle pecust

« Ergo leves epul-as umbrofi a vertice montis-
Impoao menfis, wjVH:iu)fque cib is —
When ev’ry infant flower, that wept in night, En plenum pomis cahithum, et redoIentiKns
Lifts its chill head, foft glowing with a berbis. [tim.

te^r • Cowpefckqne meam lymplia benigna (w

txpands its tenJer blolTom to the Vght, ,< 11,.^ ffi,, fleSa-:, hofpes conm.'ue re.

-Hid gives Its lucenfe to the genial air. mi’L i'; _ ’ ^ uramque le-

OW fweet to wind the foreft’s tangled
fhade ,

Wlien early twnlight, from the -EalUrn
bound,

Dawns on the fleep'ng landfcape in the glsde,
And fades as Morning- fpreads her blufli
around I

IIow freffi the bi'eexe that wafts the rkh
peifume.

And fwells the melody of waking birds-—

Terrigei :«■ curas font, mihi ert'de, nera<^
PanculafuiTicinnt Imm-m, (jna: poffubu
Ncc (brevis heu! vita eil) p'T.u'xth'a

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Lettkrtoa Sister,

Spotte fua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos^
Mty quod tentabani dicerey verfu^ erat.

Ovid^

HILE Difcord, fiercer than a comet,
rolls poles ;

Tive thunders of the wars, and fhakes the
jAnd, wide^ o’er Gallia’s defolated land.
Pours out her vengeance with relcntlefs
hand ;

Whilfl honour rides triumphant o’er the main,
And every billow bhnhes with the liain !

Say, can a Mufe, unfeafonably gay.

Pour in a Sifter’s ear the wonted lay ?

Still, thoughtlefs, frolic on the joyful ree^^,
While the war rages, and whole nations bleed?
A1 1, no: — Ihe feels a fymp itheuc pain
Melt in the breaft, and glide thro’ ev’ry
vein :

Pity forbids the lighter quill to move,

On the foft fubjeil of romantic love ;

Pity forbids th’ enraptur’d thoughts to ftray
In fancy’s airy realms, where pleafure leads
the w^y. [llrings,

War, horrid War, untunes the trembling
And loads Imagination’s flagging wings.

peace, peace, ye winds, wnthout a mur¬
mur, fweep

O’er the clear bofom of the filent deep ;
Awhile, thou reftlefs Ocean, ceafe to roar,
Light let ihy billows roll, and kifs the fhore.
Armi'Ja mourns ; — along tlie dreary coaft,
Adud fvvening furge, her fon, her hufband
loft 1

‘‘ Perifli the tbirft of glory and of fame!
Pehvflve bubbles, beings of a name.

Curft be the Wat 1 that urg’d them thus to
roam [liome.

Far from thefe widow’d arms, and native
JuH tho’ the War, tho' Glory led them on,
Ah, what avails my fon, my hufband gone !
Gone, — gone for ever! — ye remorfelefs waves
Ope wide, and whelm me in your horrid
caves 1

Kow tho’ the breaft, at fuch u tale of
woe.

Bids the fofc tear of kindred nature flow ;
P’en whrfe the drop, (as dew, at evening
fhed, ,[head,)

palls on the drooping flower, and bends its
P’cn while the drop the fltiking foul weighs
down ; fown.

' Xliank heav’a the mournful fate Is not your

Far from the din of war, dpmeft'ic ftrife.
And all tiie'caios tbath.tng on public life,
\Nhiere flicial Comfort, unexhaufted, pours
l?er bhfs around in ever-fruiiful Ihovvers ;

We 'ive : as in a vale, whofe humble plain
Be.u-s the lotvJ temofcft roar, and roar in
va' n •

And fee;, Genre, the Wafting lightning play
FUhfram tiw burftiug cloud , a-nd die away.

And, now, may every joy, that hcav'n
can fend.

Light on your head, and all your fteps at¬
tend !

And cheerful Virtue, hleft with iuw.ird livht.

Smile on thelownng gloom of ftorm- created
night. N.B.

PARODIES OF SHAKSPEARE, No.XIV.

In the report of Wealth
Lies all diftinglion now, a fortune got,

Poets and players, fillers, painters, quacks,
Tradefmen, mechanics, graziers, am' un-read.
The hard and foft, are all EJquites. akin.

How many ftrutting coxcombs dare intrude
Into the foremoft rank, making their way

With thofe of nobleft birth ! -

But let the Heralds-oflice once be rous’d,
Gaiter at Arms with’s powerful Purfuivants,
Marflialing all, lliall frown the bafe away;
Andwho hath valour, high defeent and yirtue.
Shall, rich in honour, ftand unmingled
“ Like cleared founts.” Where’s the faucy
upflart,

Whofe bold unblufhing front but even now
Qutftarcdgreatncfs ? — eitberto fliop fent back,
Or made a bankrupt in the fad Gazette.

TuoiLus.i. 3;

I do remember an Apothecary,

And hereabouts he dwellsj whom late I noted
In fcaiiet fnit, at monthly town aflembly,
Mafter o’ th’ ceremonies : fmiling his looks.
Soft flattery bad dimpled w’ell his cheeks ;
And in his parlour hung a fet of comic prints,
A Macaw fluff’d, and other birds
Of rareft plumage; and upon his chimney
piece

A circulating novel, ivory boxes, [mades,
Green cafe of inftruments, too h-picks, po-
Remnants ofcourt-plaifterjdiftiH’d rofewater
‘‘ And permaciiy for an inward brulfe,”
WTre neatly ranged, and made up a fhew.
Noting this elegance, to myfelf 1 faid.

An if a lady need fome lip-falve now,

“ (To guard thefe rubies, yet unparagond!)
Here waits a gentle fwain will make it up :
Being market- day, — he’s fare at home.

Romeo, v. i,

I f Lobfters be the Guce for Turbot, heap on
Give me another plate-; — that fo tlie appetite
May gormandize before the feafoii’s out.

Tliat fmack again it had a lufeious relifh;
Oh, it came o’er ray palate like fweet jelly,
That doth accompany a haunch juft touch’d.
Stealing and giving odbur : enough, — no
more — [^ft,

O pamper’d taft.e ! how quickly cloy’d thou
That, notwlthftanding my capacious eye.

Is bigger than my paunch, nought enters there
Of what hig.h price and rarity, foe ver, fgout.
But turns to chalk-ftone, and the gnawing
Even in a minute! fuch ]-)ains do lurk linfeea
In difties feafon’d high, fantaftical..'

Twelfth Night, i.i.
MASTER SHALLOW.

MINtTTES

C 655 ]

riNUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS of the NATIONAL CONVENTION or

FRANCE, continued from p. c6 1.

Vec. Convention' ordered, tliat the

It. i Adminiftrators of the National

)om3ins fhould ?^ive an account of the niea-
ires they had taken to put in the hands of
lie Nation the property declared, acquired,
nd confifcated for its advantage.

Cimon demanded the fuppreffion of the
ureau inftituted for the purpofe of granting
e wards to converts. It is ahfurd,” faid he,

' and unworthy of a free peo|)le, to pay a
ew becaufe he becomes a Chriftian. Con-
'erfion is a matter of confcience, which
night not to be influenced by hire.

TheConventionfuppreffledallpenfionsgran-
ed as an indemnity fvir ecclefiaflicalbenefices
o perfons under twenty-four years of age.

Montaut propofed to icaufe the Farmers-
jeneral to give an account of the flats of
heir fortune, when they entered upon their
jffice, and to take as the proof of the accu¬
racy of their accounts, and the honefly of
:heir conduit, the comparative flate of their
fortune at prelent. H® obferved that they
:ould only legally gain an advantage of ten
thoufand livres annually, and that whatever
they had beyoind that ought to be reflored
to the nation. It was notorious that fome
individuals had gained, in this fituation, ten,
twelve, and even twen'y, millions,

Gambon faid, that meafures had been ta¬
ken to bring hack foveral hundred millions
into the colters of the nation. It would be
eafy to prove that ihefe great fortunes were
acquired only by great robberies,

Romme fubmitted to the convention a plan
of public inflruition propofed by the Com-
mittee. — k w^as onpolsd, as tending to de-
ftroy paternal authority, in order to fubfti-
tuteihat of pedag!>guss.

Dec 14. The Convention pafled the fol¬
lowing decree:

“ Eveiy Frenchman, who either has ac¬
cepted or fliall accept any public place in
thole provinces of ti;c Republic which are
invaded by the confederate pqw'ers, is to be
reputed an outlaw, unlefs iie be able to
prove, that he has been corupelled to its
acceptance by an irreliflible force ; and that
his patriotifm is publicly acknowledged.

“ All Frenrhmen, eitlier employed in
the fervice or the Republic, on-enjoying any
emolument from the public, who, after the
invafion of their places of abode, fliall have
continued in the exercile of their functions,
and not returned into the territory of tiie
Republic, Inall ;.llo he deemed outlaws,
iinlcfs they can prove, that I'y nr invincible
force they have been leftrained from re-
turning.”

C .ruot propofed to prohibit all k n.l of
ti aflic with arms, and to order all Citizens,
poll*, (le i of mulk ts, to deliver them up to
the Muuioi]) nity .

Joyau compla ned, that the manuf,.aory
of aims at Paris, which fliould furnifli
2 000 mufkeLs ^ day, did not fulfll its cun'*

Carnot anfwered, that this ra^nuf.ifilory
did already furnilh too pikes a day, and that
in the fpace of fix weeks it would be able tc»
furnifh 1000.

Gambon announced that the afguats with
the royal image of 200, 300, <00, and
1000 livres, Ihould no longer circulate after
the ifl of January; and that ihofe ef
100 livres and inferior amount only IhouM
remain in circulation.

He afterw’aids made a long report con¬
cerning thofe ajfjgnats wliich had been
thrown out of circulation, and the return of
which W'ould procure the nation an advan¬
tage of 31c; millions. Cambon propofed on
this fubjecT a decree, coafifling of jS arti¬
cles; and anaouncetl, that among 1300
millions of ajf gnats hearing the King’s 'ef-
whicli had been taken out of circula¬
tion, only one million had confifled of falfe
ones.

Dec. 17. Lecointre faid a Courier was
at the door, who had been flopped, and his
difpatches taken from him, by an qgent
of the Executive Council of bt. Germain.
A number of complaints of the fame nature
wei e made, and a long debate followed,
on the irregularities of thefe agents.

Bourdon oj Oije. — I move that the
Committee of Public Welfare prefent a mode
of feconding the Revolutionary Government
without the intervention of tlie executive
council. If we do not do this, we ihall ne¬
ver accompiifla our revolution. Tiiey com¬
pare us to the long Parliament of England.
They barrals the citizens, and throw upon
us the odium of tlieir nufconduct.”

The Convention ordered llie perfons,
againft whom complaints had been made,
to be apprehended, and the Commil'ee of
General Safety to report upon their conduct
witliout delay.

Decreed, that the executive council fli.iM
give an account of the 01 den given to ics
agents’, and to the coiilnruted apthoiilies;
and (hall lay before the CommitteKiof hub-
lie Welfare, wdthin twenty- four liour'^, a
lifl of all the agents fent to the departments
aOvl to the armie*, with notices of wha
and what they were before the Revolutiuu,
and the purpoies for which they were not;
that Vincent, Sfccreiary General of the
War Oflice, Maillard and Ronfion, Com¬
mandants of the Revolutionary Army, Ihall
be ai refled, and feals put upon their papirs.

Dec- iS. The executive council came 10
give an account of their conduct with ref-
Ifect to their .agents, in obedience to the de-
ci -e palled yeflerday. The mialflers for
foreign affairs fpoke for the refl He re.id
an ordei of tlie Commiitee of Public W'ci-
fai e, dated July )5ih, direClirg the ininiflcr
at 'vv’'ai , and ihe miriiflei tor the liomc
depai tment, to take inflant meafure-s for
Itopping, at the fecond or third poft from

Paris,

Proceedings of the National Convention in France.

Paris, all couriers arriving or departing,
examining the number and the quaniuy of
their paQkets, and taking from them all
thofe not deferibed in their palTports. In
conformity to this order, the ex-miniiler
Garat wrote to each of the municipalities
around Parrs to chnofe an agent for its exe¬
cution. T he minirter at v/ar cTiofe his own
agents, and gave them the necelTary orders.

If any of thefe agents had tranfgrefled the
limits of their inftructions, the Council
wmuld recall them to their duty, or bring
ih'cm to trial. The Council had heird witli
grief the charge made againll: it, -of vvifhing
lo rival the power of the Convention, it
had never rivalled any thing but the zeal
and patriotifm of the Convention, and en¬
deavoured to fectire to the Reprefentatives
of the People the refpett and authority
neceffary for accomplifhing the grand vvork.
with which they were entruhed. “ We
all derive our authority from the People, ’
faid the Minifler. Hoes not every body
Know, that, if we refemble tyrants m our
powers, it is only that we may combat ty-
tants ? Have nut we been called to our poll;
by the Reprefentatives of the people ? One
fingle word— -our name, of Miuifters, has
■jtroduced all the complaints againft us. This
magic word makes us envied and fufpedled.
In our Government, every thing, even our
Lurguage, muft be regenerated ; and, fince
you have pafied a law which defines the
authority cf all Public Fundlionaries, let a
ucw denominntion be given to our dunes.

Chrniier alked, if the Executive Council
had given orders to flop the Reprefentatives
of the People ?

The Minider replied, that the Council
felt as much indignation as the Convention,
when informed of the offence committed by
one of its agents; and that ail thofe who
had exceeded their initrudlions wftuld be
puniiihed. ^

Ordered, that the Account given by tlie
Execu'-ive Council be inferted in th.e bulletin’,
and referreil to the Committee of Oeueial
Safety to j unidithe guilty.

Dec. 19. A decree was paffed coneern-
jng the Pv.evolutioiiary Governinent, which
confifleil of (everal articles.

’ By fome of thefe articles, Members of the
Municipalities, or Judges, guilty of negli¬
gence in the application pf the laws, (hall
he deprived of the riglic of Citizeofliip for
four yeais: apd be "fined in a firm equal to
tlie fourth part of the me uhe of each per¬
son that had. been condemned for one year .

General olTicers, guilty of negligence in
execr.tirg tbeir rniutaiy opeiatiows, llaall be
deprived of the right of Citizens for eight
ye i**, and the h.-h of their fortynes fnall be
con h '"cat d.

' The CommiCloners, named either by the
Committees or the Reprefentatives of the
People to the Armies, who fh ill be found
lo have exceeded the liinits of then povser,

or negletffed their duty^ ftiall be put in irons,
for five years.

The otiier inferior agents of government
at the head offices, Secretaries or Clerks
to the Convention, of tlie Executive Council,
or any other public ad miniif ration, IhaLl be
puuiQied for their negligence vvith the fuf-
penfion from the rights of Citizens for three
years, and with a fine equal to the tiurd of
the income cf the perhui fo condemned
for the fame time.

All infradlions of law, or a'xufe of autho¬
rity, committed by any Public Fuudlionary
receiving a talary, lhail be puuifhed by hi*
being put in nous during five years, and ha¬
ving tlie half of his fortune confifeated; and
thole who receive no falary, guilty of the
lame crime , fiaall be punifhed by the infs
of the right of Citizen for fix years, and
the confiication of the fouith of their income
for the fame time.

Wlioever (hadf counterfeit the bulletins of
the laws fhaU be puniihed with death.

Any negleift in expediting tlie hulhtim
of the laws palfed, either. by thofe employed
in the PoIt'Otfict?, or any other perfeu,
firall be punitlied with five years iraprifon-
ment in nous, unlefs when prevented by
force, which mull; be legally proved.

Tlie fines arifing from th fe confifeations
fhall be paid into the Public Treafury, af¬
ter indemnification lhail have been made to
thofe who have been injured by the abufe
of authority.

Boiruet gave an account of his operations
in the departmen's of Ardeche, la Drqmc,
du Card, and Herault. “ The South,"
faid he, “ is rellored to the Republic; it
now receives the true friends of liberty, the
true fupporters of their country ; and knows
how to diftinguilh het.veen thefe and men
wdio are only wicked or factious. Fanati-
cifm is deltroyed. Catholics and Protef-
tants, forgetting their former animofirie.s',
unite in the fame w'orfhip — that of liberty
and the laws. The altars of Chriftiamty
are replaced by altars m re lioly. Ti e
vvhtile people vvrl foon alTemhle before them
each decade, lu render homage to liberty," '
Cambon, in the name of ilis Committee
of Finance, prefented the jilan of a decree
on revoking the alienation of national d.o*
mans; by which plan two thoufand millions
of hvres, it was computed, wool. I be
broug'-.t into the rreafuiy. Tlie Couveatioa
adopicd the greaier pait of the plan.

Cambon announced, that tire competitors
for labfcribii'g to the volunmry loan, were
adiudl/ quavieling for priority about the
treafury doo.rs ; that aUignats and fpecie
w'ere this day at par; that many of tbe
felfilR moneyed men, who had before hid
the r fpecie in peiiars, were now bringing
facks fufi of filver crowns 111 exchange for
afljgnais ; and that the purciiafers of natiq-
nal piopevty preferred paying in money tq
paying in paper, yTo be contlu/ied J

^79^0 Inicrejllng Intdligetice from

Foreign News.

Genoa, April j8. Our Government has
on a fudden been deceived in their hopes-
A column of io,oco French prefented itfelf
on the qth inft. on the confines of the Ge-
nt'ele territoiy ; and, on heirj informed that
the Republic would gr-ant no paiTage ihtough
ifie Genoefe territory, the Genoefe Comman¬
dant received for anfv er, That I'.e could’
rot hindei it ; but ihat the French affured
tl'.e Genoefe tliey would fbi(5lly refpedl the
perfons, property, and religion, of the Ge¬
noefe, as thev had promifed by a printed
'proclamation.” The officer of the Republic
formal yprotefied againftthe paffape through
its territoiy, as an adf contrary to the
neutrality of the Genoefe Republic ; but he
iudge-d it prudent to fpare the effufion of
blood, as, from the etiormous difproportion
in point of numbers, a i-efffiance would have
lieen iifelefs. Complaints were immediately
made to M. Tilly, the French charge d’af¬
faires in this city, and Government has fentin-
llrudlions to Paris to make fuch remonfti an-
ces as the importance of the cafe requires.
It has alfo informed the different Courts of
tliis unforefeen occurrence, and of the con-
dudl of the Republic, which was not in a ftate
to prevent it,

Lijhon, May ^T. Out of 51 merchant¬
men which failed hence the 5th inftant,
under the convoy of two Dutch frigates, 1 1
have returned to this port, w hich are Dutch ;
there were 13 Englifh veffels with the con¬
voy, of which w-e have had no news. 1 he
frigate, whi( h efcaped beii’g captured by the
French fiigate and a brig, had been at Crdiz,
and had onlxiard one million of hard dollarsj
fbe is now arrived in Americ.a.

Naples, June 17, On the T3th ult. at ten
e’ clock at night, all Naples was fenhble of
the ffiocV: of an eaithquake, with a horizon¬
tal motion, which laRed about thirty fe-
conds. On Su’.day laftj the 15th, about the
fame hour, the eanhijuake was repeated,
which was followed by a violent eruption of
■Mount Vefuvius. The mountain opened in
two places towards the centre of its line,
when columns of black fmoke, mixed with
liquid inflamed matter, iffned from each
mouth :foon after, other mouths were open¬
ed, and in aline towards the fea. The ex-
i plofions from ail ihefe mouths, louder than
I thunder, mixed with fharp reports, as from
I the lieavieff pieces of artillery, apeompa-
I nied by a hollow fubterraneous rumour,
i like that of the fea in a ftorm, canfed all
th.e houfes to fhake to their very foundations.
The lavas gufhing from thef® mouths, after
having run four miles in a]j hw hr urs, de-
ffroyed tb.e greatefl part ( f the town of
Torre dtl Gieco, about a mile from Portici,
atid made a confiderable progreis into the
fea, w'here it formed a promontory about
ten feet above its furface, and near a quai-
Gent. Mac. July, I794-

various Parts of the Continent. 657

ter of a mile broad, having heated the water
to fuch a cb gree that a hand could not be
borne in it at the diffance of 100 yards
from the lava. It cannot yet he afcei tairred
how many lives have been lofl in that city.
Many families are miffing ; but wbetlxer
tn?»y have efcaped, or are buried under the
ruins of their houfes, is not know^rr, Na¬
ples is covered with affies. and every objctft
is obfeured as in a th ck fog ; but Vefuvius,
though not vifib]:", continues^ very turbulent,
and more inifchief may be experffedi
although the lavas are all Popped at this
moment. The head of St. Januarius was
carried in proceffion yefferday, and oppofsd
to the xMountain by the Cardinal Archbi-
ffiop of Naples, a tended bv many thoufands
of tlic inhabitants of this city. Loml. Gaz.,

Bruffeh, June 23 . We have been for thefe
two days in the moff alarming fitualion.
The French are in great force at Nivelles,
fix leagues from Brulffls. Their ad vanced
pofts are at Gemappe, four leagues and a
half from Rruffels, and their patroles have
pufhed forward whthin three leagues, Eve¬
ry perfon is retn ing with his property. The
city is almoft a defart. The greateft part
of the Nobleffe are already departed, and
the few that remain are bnfily employed
night and day in packing up theff moft valu¬
able effeds. The magazines and ammuni¬
tion have been fentaway, and conffernation
is depicted on the countenance of eve-
ly one.

A report has been circulated this morn¬
ing of a vidtoi y having been gained by gene¬
ral Beaulieu, who hus forced the French to
retire. But this report obtains little n'edit,
and the people believe that it is circulated
only for the purpofe of quieting their minds.

Of.end, June 23, eight 0 cloele in the evening.

The French were this day at noon at Se-
vecote, only two leagues and a half from
Offend. It IS expected that they will m ke
an attempt againft thi? town to-morrow.
Every hou-fe almoft is deferred.

The baggage, &c. has been fent away by
the canal of Bruges, and the troops aie to
follow immediately. We expeaed fome
fuccours front England, but none have yet
arrived.

Various accounts have within thefe few
d.iys been circulated relative to Ypres; That
it has furrendfired is at length acknowledged
by every one. The garrifon were made
prifoners of war : the Auffrians were fent
to Lifle, and the regiments of Heffims .
Caffel. The town has received coafi leiabie
dtimage.

As foon as the Frendi took poireffion ov
it, their C.feneral ordereil a civic ‘et^' t ns
celebrated, atwhicli all the iniiabaa -.foB:-
ted. They dined in the open air, aiiu' c.ei-
wards danced aud fang republican foi vf .
the evening.

65S Inter eft tng InteUigeytcg from

Copenhagen, June The combined D,i-
nifh and Swedi(h beet fVill rennains in this
road, bvit will, it is faid, fail Ihortly to Elfi-
nenr. The Countefs Von Wachtmeiflcr,
the wife (T the Swedifh Admiral, is arrived
here. Our government has given ordea s to
fit out, exciahve of tl'e fqnadron alreailv
united with the Sv/edifh divihon, 8 fliips of
tlie line an.d t, frig''tes. More are alfo fitting
out at Sweden— If the Ruffian fleet fhoiild
make its appearance in th:s latitude, there
will be. 60 fa 1 of tlie line in the Baltic.
Baron Stael, the Swediila autbalfadcr, is re¬
turned to S.ockholra.

jPcz rtlcular^ of Lc rd M a c A R T n F Y ’'s Embas¬
sy to //je -Em P F RO R of Cui N A .

His Lordffiip arrived on board the Lion
man of war, acconapanied by the jackad
brig, and Company’s Ihip, Hindofl.ui, at
Macao, about tlie middle of June. His
Lordffiip did not inmedkately land ; I'ut Sir
Ceorge Staunton, and his ion, a remai k-My
accompliflied young man, and eminently
converfant in the Chinefe language, w^ent
on.fhore; where tliey faw Mr. Brown, Mr
Irwine, and iMr. Jackfon. Lord Macait-
ney afterwards proceeded on his embafly,
and reached, without accident, Lirapo. on
the coaft of China, a little to the fouthward
bf the Yellow River. Tw'o Mandarins ot
the higheft order went off to pay him the
firfl vifit, and communicate the Imperial
welcome. His l.>ordfi:iip returned their vi¬
fit on flicre. He th^n proceeded with his
ftaff and fuire, civil and military, in boats,
up the Yellow River on hisw^ay Fekin.

Tiie forms of audience benig adjufled in
the mofl; honourable manner for the Br.tifli
embafly, his lordfhip was received by the
Emperor with the higheft marks of diflinc-
tion and refpeft, and ha ! the honour of be¬
ing Rated on the left ham! of his Majeftv,
Tiie prefects, wliidi are fuperior in value
and variety to any that have ever been
known on fimilar occafions, were mofl gra-
cioufly received ; and the hufmefs of the
embaify was commenced with the fair? ft,
appearances of the moft favourable ifl'ue,
and the eftablifltment of folid and extenflve
advantages to Great Britain.

Tlie Lion and Jackall Itad returned to
Macao, and the Hincloftan was daily expec¬
ted from the ifland qf Chulan-

Lord Macartney was to come by land
from Pekin to Canton; where a maghificent
houfe was iwepanng for his reception.

The average price of aitton, had been
about re. c : — but it fell, before the, ftiips
failed, to 9. a.

Ctir NA So^UADRON.

On the lytli of November, the following
veflth took their departuie from Macao;
eleven under the command of Captain Har-

ihe EaO: Indies, he.

die, of the Bombay Marie, v, ho hoifted his
pendant on-board the Travancore : — Ships,
Travancore, Capt. Hardie ; Jehargeer,
Phil ps ; Sarah, Smart; Hern, Taylor;
Snow E'ancy, and the Benefit, Grab, bound
for Bombay: — the Amelia, Anna, and
Abercromby, for Bengal ; and the Concord
and Pinang Caftle. The five former arri¬
ved and anchored in the n'ads the evening
of the 2 1 ft inftant; and the Grab was hour¬
ly exp' died ; the three B‘’nga} flrips par¬
ted oflf the Nicorbars, and proceeded on
ilieir voyage; the other two remained at
pi'ince of VVales’s inand.

At Malacc"', the C hina fcpiadron received
the • difagreealde intelligence of the fuccefs-
fui cruize of the French piivateer,. Dumou-
rier, C.'rtain de Fourg, having' taken the
Canton (American (hip), the Venus, Pearl,
J:c. and a Dutch cruizer, which the Du-
moufier had manned and armed, and moun¬
ted with i§ cimw

Ihe Duaioui'iev ’ had been in polTemoa
of the Streights for forne time, and the
Dutch and other veffels were hauled on
ftiore at Malacca. Tp ade, liovv-e'. ( r, being
of no party, was carried on for the mutual
convenience of the French captain and
Dutch mercharts. The privateer was very ‘
rich from herfeveral captures; and tb.e cap¬
tain, in confjquencc, ypry anxious for_
peace, to realize them.

The King of Rio had reported to the
Governor of Mai; pea, that he had feen.^
large China ffiip clilmafted. and taken by a
French privateer. Stie is fappofed to be the
Narbudda, that being che only fhip that had
left Macao for fome time before tlie dppap-
ture of the fqu:.fdron.

The Rcfoluton, Carfun Green way, wag
alfo taken, but ranforo'^d by the Captain.

The Dumourier and her prizes, vvhicl^
were to be lent to V!;nnitius, were wondtng
and watering off Cape Ricardo, wdieo the
fquadron w;)S at Malacca ; bi^, on receiving
intelligence of their at rlv d, the ftood away
to Fulo Varella, on tlie Sumatra coaft.'

Account; had been received of two French
frigates to the eaftward, cruifing, it was
funpofed, for the Company’s China fhipshut
that one of the frigates had been taken by
the Dutch.

Friday^ Jiitie 30, The -/dmericansy with
the beft difpofition to prefei ve peace, are
making great and vigorous preparations fqr
war ; their ports are fortifying ; a large bo¬
dy of troops is enlifting, to hold themlelves
in readinefs for immediate fervice ; and the
militia are to he completely armed and
ftriftly difeiplined. From t;ie wifdom of
qur mtnifters, fiowever, -w'eh.avc every rea-
fon to hope an amicable a<ljuftment of mat¬
ters between the two countries, and a psr-
fePl refloratioii of that harmony which is
ft) effentiai to the I'eal inlerefts of each.

IN-

*794*] r 659 J

INTELLIGENCE OF IMECRTANCE from the LONDON GAZETTES.

'Tf

Whitehall^ June 20. Tlie following vbf-
patch was ihis morning received from the
Duke of York by the Right Hon. H. Dun-
das. Tournuy ^June 17, 1794*

Sir, it is with the greateft fatisfadlim
that I have the pleakire to inform you, that
an officer is arrived this evening from the
Hereditary Prince of Orange, witli tlie ac¬
count that he yelterday attacked and defeat¬
ed tlie French army, which had again pair¬
ed the Sambre, and taken up a pofition
near Joffelits, in order to cover the hege of
Charleroi, before which they had already
begun to open trenches. 1 he enemy’s lofs
is computed at above 7000 men, as well as
22 pieces of cannon, 35 ammunition wag¬
gons, and a confidei ahie number of horfes
and baggage. They retieated in the greateft
ccnlulii n acrofs tl:e Sambre.

I am, 5cc. Freoekick,

Admirulty Office, 21. Letter from

Admiral Fail' Howe to Mr. Stephens, fup-
plemeiitai V to his Lordlliip’s of the 2d inft.
(/re/). 56S.) _ _ _

In the ext rail of the j-’urnal herein inclo-
fed, the proceedings of the fi et are flated
from t|ie time of leaving Sc. Helen’s on the
2d of Irift month to th t of the firlt difcovery
of the French fleet on the 28th of the Lime.
For tl'ke farther information of the Lords
Commlffiouars of the Admiralty, 1 have now
therefoie ti) relate the fubfequent tranfadf ions
nut aliecdy commur.icated in my difpatch
of the ed inflan', t ) be delivered by my full
Cap’" in Sir Roger Curti).

Early in the morning of the 28th, the ene¬
my were difeovered by the advanced frigates
far diflant on tlie weather bow ; the wind
then frelh from the S. by \V. with a very
rougli ha. They came denvn, for fome
time, in a loofe order, Seemingly unapprized
that they had tlie britifh fleet in view.
After hauling to the w'ind wlien they came
nearer, th' y were fome hours befoie they
could completely ham in regular order of
failing. Tl'.e time required for the enemy
to pM-fecl their difpol.tion had fac litated
the nearer approacli of his Majefty’s fleet to
them, atul for tlic feparately appointed and
detached part of it commanded by Re.ir-
A.dn;iral Pafley, to be placed more advanta-
: geoufly for making an impielfion on tl'eir
I rear. Tlie fign.als denoting that intention
I being rhadt, tlie Rear-Adtnual, neai' upon
the clofe of day, led this divifion on with
pecnliar firnine's,and attacked a three deck¬
ed fhip (the R iwJuiionaire) the fierr.moft
1 in the enemy’s line. Makii g known foon
after that he liad a topm.aft difabled, affif-
taucew'as directed to he given to him in that
fiiuation. The (piick approach of night only
allowed me to obferve, that J^ord Hugh Sey-
' mour (Conway) in tlie Leviathan, with
equal good judgement and detei mined cciu -
1 puttied up alongflde of the Uuee deck¬

ed French fliip, and vvas fupparted, as it ap¬
peared, by Captain Parker of thfr Audaclons,
in the moft fpirited manner. > Tlie dark ii'Ts
w'hich now prevailed did not admit of my
making aiiy more accurate obfervauon on
the condutft of thofe Ihips and others con¬
cerned in the fame f@t vice; but I have fmee
learnt that the Levi.ithan ftretched on far¬
ther ahea'J for bringing tliefecond lliip from
tlie enemy’s rear to action as foon as her 1 ir-
mer ftation could be occupied by a ficceeding
Britilh ffiip ; alfo th.it t!ie three-decked fliip
in the enemy’s rear as aforefaid, being unfuf-
tained by their other ffiips, Itruck to the
Audacious; and tint they parted company
together foon after. The trvo opponent
fleets continued on the ftarboard tack in a
parallel direction, the eaetny ftill to wind¬
ward, tiie remainder of the night. The Bri-
tiflr fleet appearing in the morning of the
29th, when in ol der of battle, to be far
enough advanced Lir the ffiips in the van to
make fome far-.'uer impreffion on the ene¬
my’s rear, ticked in fact elfion with that in¬
tent; tlie enemy wore hereupon from van
to rear, nn.l continued edging down in line
ahead to engage the van of the Britilh fleet.
When arrived at f.ich diftance as to be juft
able to re.ach our moft advanced fhip", their
heaJmoft ffiips, as they came fucceffively
into the wake of their refpedlive fecond*
ahead, opened with that diftant fire upon
tlie headmoft ffiips of the Britiffi van. The
fignal for (gaffing through their line, made
when the fleet tackej before, c's'as then
renewed. It could not be for fome tima
feen, through t le fire from the two fleets
in the van, to what extent that flgnal w’as
complieil with. But, as the fmoke at intervals
difperfed, it w'as obferved that the Caefar,
the leading ffiip of the Bruifh van, after
being about on the ftarboard tack, and
come abieaft of tlie Queen Cha Icdte, had
not kept to thevviiui; ami that Uie appointed
movement would confequently be liable to
fail of I he purpofed effcCl. The Queen
Charlotte vvas therefore immediately tacked ;
and, fol'owed by the Bel'erophon, her fe-
cond aftern, (and foon after joined by the
Leviathan,*) p.dfed through in aCfion, be¬
tween the ftfih and fixth ffi ps in the rear
ol the enemy’s line. She was put about

. * Inftead of the Leviathan, we uiuler-
ftaiul it v\’as Llie hlai H'oiciugh tliat followed
the Beller'jf’jori, the l.e'niathan being at that
time in the van clofely engaged, and fetting a
moft gallant example to the reft of the fleer,
The glorious manner in which Capr. Berke¬
ley’ defended tJhe Marlborough v/hen tot'diy
diftm.aftetl, v.nth a French 74 on each fide,
and a three-decker clofe on-board her ftern
is above all praife; and the honour of his
Majefly’s colours were never moie nobly
fupjiorted tli.in they were by him in fo
try ing and difficult a fituation. T rut Briion.

;^aia

66o Inter efilvg Intelligence from the London Gazettes.

again on the larHoard-tack .forthwith after
the enemy, jn preparation for renewing
the a(5tion with the advantage of that wea-
thermoft fitualion The reft of the Britifti
fleet being at this time palling to leeward,
and wi hoot the fternnooft fhips, inoftly of
the French line, t'le enemy wore again to
the eii'iward m (uccelfion for fuccouring
the difabled ftjips of their rear ; which in¬
tention, by reafon of the difun ited ftate of
the fleet, and having no more than the
two crippled fhips, the BeUerophon and
Leviathan, at that time near me, I was
unable to obftru<5l. The enemy, having
fncceeded in that operation, wore round
again, after feme diftant cannonading of the
neareft Britlfli fliips, occafionally returned,
and ftood away iu order of battle on tlie
iarboard-tack, followed by the Britilh fleet
in the fame order (but with the weather-
gage retained) as foon as the fhips coming
forward to clofewith the Queen Charlotte
were fuitably arranged. The fleets remain¬
ed feparated fonie few'- miles, in view at
times on the intermifliop of a thick fog,
w hich lafted moft part of the two next days.

The commander of a fleet, their Lord-
fhijTS know, is unavoidably fo confined in
his view of the occurrences in time of battle
as to be little capable of rendering perfonal
leftimony to the meritorious fervice of offi-
cerswho have profited, iu a greater extent, by
the opportunities to diftingniih Ihemfelves
on fuch occafions. To difeharge this part
of my public duty, reports wei e called for
from the.flag-oflicers of the fleet, for fup-
plying the defedls of my obfervance, under
the limited circumftances abovemencioned.
Thofe officers, therefore, who have fuch
particular claim to my attention, are the
Admirals Graves and Sir Alexander Hood ;
the rear admirals Bowyer, Gardner, and Paf-
ley ; Captains Lord Hugh Seymour, Pakeii-
ham, Berkley, G.ambier, J. Harvey, Payne,
Parker, Henry Harvey, Pringle, Duck¬
worth, and Elphinftone. Special notice is
alfo due of Captains Nicholls of the Sove¬
reign, and Hope of the BeUerophon, who
became charged with, and well condulfted,
thofe fhips, when the wounded flag officers,
under whom tliey refpedfively ferved there¬
in, -w'ere no longer able to remain at their
pofts ; and the Lieutenants Monckton of
the Marlborough, and Donelly of the Mon¬
tagu, in fimilar fltuations. Thefe feledlions,
however, fliould not be conftrued to the
difadvantage of other commanders, who may-
have been equally deferviug the approbation
of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admi¬
ralty, although 1 am not enabled to ntake a
particular ftatement of their merits. To
the reports from the flag-officers are added
thofe required from the feveral Captains of
the fleet; whereby their Lordlhips will be¬
come more particularly acquainted with the
meritorious fervices of the feveral comman¬
ders, and animated intrepidity of their fub-
©rdinate officers and fhips companies; to

w'hich the defeat of the enemy, with every
advantage of fltuatiou and circumftauce in
their favour, is truly to be afenbed. To
the like purpoit I beg my teftlo>ony, in be¬
half of the officers and company of every de¬
fer! ption in the Queen Charlotte, may be
accepted.

Whitehall, June 28. Letter received
this morning, from the Duke of York, by
Mr. Dundas.

Sir, . Renal x, hj une 1794*

Col. Craig had fet out upon his journey
to England ; but unfortunately, upon lus
arrival at Oudenarde, he found that the
enemy had obliged Gen. Clairfayt to retire
in fome confufion to Ghent; and that. the
communication between that place and
Oudenarde, unle^ by a great detour, wms
entirely cut off. Thinking that it was ue-
celTaiy I fhould have this information as
foon as poffible, he returned in the night.
This movement of the enemy, by forcing
General Clairfayt to retire, and bringing
them nearer to the banks of the Scheldt,
rendered the pofition before Tournay (which,
flnee the departure of the Prince Cobonrg,
had always been hazardous) no longer tena¬
ble ; and I therefore quitted it this day, lea¬
ving only a Garrifon in the Town, and
marched, with all the Britilh and part of .
the Heffiaii Troops, to this place, in order
to be in veadiiiefs to fupport Oudenarde,
which was menaced, and a6iually fummon-
ed this day. lam, &c Freukrick.

By the articles of CapituLition, for Y pres,,
the garrifon will march out with the honours
of war, as well as ^!I its military attendants ;
in teftimony of the brave defence it has made:
it flrall depart by the gale of Menin 24 hours
after the flgning of the capitulation ; fliall'
lay down its arms and colours, after having
paired the glacis ; and ffiall be fent pi ifo-
ners of war to fuch part of the Republic.a8
ffiall be affigned to it.

The garrifon alone to retain its perfonal
effedfs ; and the officers their arms, horfes
excepted, which are to belong to the Re¬
public, but the value of which fhaH be re-
imbutfed to them, according to the eftimate
w'hicli ffiall be made. Horfes and proper
carriages ffiall be provided gratis to trauf-
port them to tlieir deftination.

The fick of the garrifiin ffiall be treated ,
as the French, and lhall become prifoners
of war on tlieir recovery,

The inhabitants of both fexe‘=, now in the
town, or who have taken refuge therein,
the public officers, and all other perfons,
lliall have their honour, their lives, and
properties, preferved.

Anfwer. Granted, the French emigrants
excepted.

Whitehall, "June 30. By a letter received
from the Marquis of Hertford, dated Ni-

velies,

7<54*] Iniereftlng Inielltgen'e from th London Gazettes, 661

elle?, tie 26th inflanf, it appears, that,
fter an uafncee^'sful attack rr'at'e hy the
l ince of Cobourg'on the wlmle chain nf
lench ports at Goffelies, I'ienrus, &c. the
utrtfians were obliged to retire v.dth con-
ckrable lofs, and t!.e enemy remained in
odeihon cf ihe field of battle. The i'riii: e
f Cobourg was reflecting to a ftrong pofi-
ion near H.d, account has jurt been*

ecei' ed at No elles, ’that Chtrleroi had fal¬
sa into the hands of the enemy

imtehalJ, July y. Letter from the Duke
if Yoik to Mr. Dundas.

Sir, Rffiaix^ ^794-

Having received intelligence, on Tueulay
light, that tl e enemy had moved forward
n gi.c it force upon Gen. CTaii f.ivt*s pofition
ind that tliey hai detfched a cotps to attack
Dudenarde, I found it absolutely necel^ary,
or the defence of the Sd'.eldt, to march
rhmeduittdy to this place, as lienee I
tiiuld, with greater facilitv, fupport that
’ihce, and move ui.on any point at wliiih
[hey m ght attempt to force a paihage, i 1 e
enemy obliged Gen. Clairfayt to abandon
his podtion at Deynfe,. and f dl back upon
hdient on VVednefday, vGiere they again at¬
tacked him tlie roKt day, but were fo' tu-
li'nttly lepulfed. This reneat of Gen. Chiir-
favt lendereJ it impolhble for Gen. W'al-
niod.en to iunport tiimieU with fo frra’l a
body of troops under liis command at Bruges,
He t! ertfoie found it nece.T ry to abandon
li.at place on Thnifday, and to hd! back, to
Landraaick, and join Gen. Clairfayt’s right
flank. 'i he -conh qr.enc-^s of rhefe laid
niovements, tlioiigh netelfary, aie exceed¬
ingly unpucafant, as .'dl immediate commu-
lucarion with Orteiid is cut ofii.

Yefierduy the enemy made another at¬
tempt upon Oudenarce. which they canno¬
naded the who’e day, and even carr'ed 'in
the afternoon the.F. uxbh'urg ; but were dri¬
ven out again in the nig'i', and have now
retreated to a fm.all dilinnce. Yeherday'
evening I received the difagt eeabie intelli¬
gence of the Prince of C’ob'iurg's havii g
failed in iiis attack upon the Ihench xarmy at
Goll'clie;. and Meuiuy as well as of the fur-
render of C harleroi. Inch led I tuid a
tranflaticn of ifie account which 1 have
received ficm the Prince of Coboin g.

1 awi, ice. Fredlkick.

AIuiLii:-, "June z(), 1794.

Altliough there was great realun to
rtifpebl tliat Chaileroi w^as already in the
hands of the enemy, yet, as no cettain in¬
telligence could pollibly be protured, the at¬
tack, which had been determined Vipon for
its relief, became ueceffary, to prevent tlie
fate -of fo imj ort..nt a place as Chat lei oi
being left to diance. In confcquenc e, the
arniy mai ched on th.e 25th in five columns,
and eady in the morning of the 26th attack¬

ed th.e enemy senti'enched pofitlon between
Lambufar, Efpinies, and Goffehds. 'l'k«
attack, whic!i was executed with great re-
I'oU.tion, was every where fuccef. ful, and th«
em my’s advanced corpi-', altliough protS'S-
ed bv rtrung r'-dnubts, were driven b.ick.
In the evening the left wing arrived at the
principal heights on this fide the Sambt's,
The ground liere forms a gentle declivity*,
whicii the enemy had forhti.'d by a vcfy*
extenfive line of redoubts, in v\ditch ther
had brought an irameiife number of cannon,
Notw’ithrtanding thefe 'obflacles, the left
wtiig .attempted to force t!'e enemy’s pofitr-
on wMlh fixed b.ayonets. But the furreiider
of Charleroi, which took place on the eve¬
ning of the 25th, having enabled i he enemy
t) reiiif./ice themfelves with the befieging
army, and thus to bring the greatert pa-rt
ot their force ag.aiiift our left wing, tii-s ad-
vautage, added to thofe of their fituatioci,
and ot tli-e cpMiitky of lieavy aptillery, cnabl-i
them to repulfe our attack. Tiie' U'ocqis.,
revet thelefs, formed again under tlie fire ot
the enemy’s guns, and would have renewed
the attack with the fime refolutioO, had
not the certainty of the fill of Charleroi,
rtovv confirmed by the rep u ts of prifoners,
and by fevend other circumrtances, determi¬
ned our general officers not r.o expofe thvir
brave troops any farther. Tliey halted, to
remove the wounded, a.rd t<? f’lve the Infan-
t»y time to rert j and tfiru began t! eir re¬
treat, which urns efiedLed, with th.e great-
ell Older, as far as N'faba-s, where the armv
palTcs this tiiglx, and wdl rn-.ircii to Nivelks
to-ni(Miow, to Ci.'ver the cuuntiv as far as is
polfil-de, and to profedb I's.-.mur. Our h'fs
IS not very (■•')iir;dcra’''ie, ana may perh.aps
amount to 13^° men. No cauno:;' iievs
been io!l ; h..;t a hovviticr and one colour
ht.vd been t.dicen fi'Din the enemy.

h'h-jchdilly July r. By a letter receive-i
from Lieut, uen. the Karl oF Moira, dated
June 29, it appears that his Lordifiip and
the troops under Iiis cofiimand had arrivevl
at Malle, 4 miles from Bruges, on the grecjt
caufevvay to Gliet't. It alfa appears, hy %
letter from col. Vyfe, dated at Grteud on
the fiinie day, that he was then erxihaiking
the 8th, 33d, and ^;4th, regiments, and tb<5
red of the troops, arcrllery, and fiores, in¬
tend ing to evacuatx that pLce,

July 13. The fo'low’i''‘,g h tmr
h.cs berii reel’, ed horn liis Royal Highi.efs
the Duke of Yoi k by the Right Hon. ii,
Duida'’. ' '

Sir, Ilsad ijuarten, Ccrtyle^July ro, 1794^

Sijice writ u.g my lart letter, 1 received ii
report fiom U.rd Moira, thar, on the xmorn-
iug of tlie 6tn, the enemy made an attack.^
upon the out-ports a^ Aloft. The picquats
being driven in, they penetrated into tb.e.
townj but, upon his lordlhip advancing with.^

662 Inter ejt'ing InieUlgence from ihe London GazCtt?es*

a reinforcement, tlie enemy retreated in
toiifiifjon.

Lord Moira fpeaks higl>ly of the condudt
and fj’ir'it of t!je ofFiceis snd men who were
engaged upon this occafion, and particular¬
ly of Lieutenant colonels Doyle and Vande-
leur, who uere both wounded. The tro{ips
under my command quitted their camp, ’at
Sempfl", on the 8th at night, and arrived
the next morning at this polition.

lam, Frederick.

Whitehall, ^uly 16. This morning lieu¬
tenant colonel Whitelocke arrived from
Port-au-Prince in the iflaiul of St Domingo
with a difpatch from hrigadier-general
'VVhyte to the Right Hon. Henry Duiulas.

Sir, Port au Prince, yune 8, ^794*

In tlie letter, which 1 had the hctionr of
vLriting to you fron^ the Mo'e by the lart
packet, I acquainted yru of the-very ciitic,4
fituation in wdiich. 1 had found this countrv, and
of the numberlcL detachmei/sthatwereohli-
ged to march' fur the defence of the different
poffs: that the neighbouring parifnc-s of
Bombarde, hz-. to the Mole had defiTted
our caufe ; and tliat with the fmall body (;f
troc’ps wdthin, tlie garrifon, t‘a)UgJi Itrong
to a degree in the fea front, was totally de¬
fenceless to the land. Having obiaineci this
defence, by a chain of redoubts and fleches,
which defended each other, and feeing that
two frigates, with a garrifon fufficient for
the fecunty of the - Mole, was all that was
wanted there, 1 determined on bold and
decided meafures to fave the country; and,
with t!'e concurrence of commodore Ford
and lieutenant-colonel Wliitelocke, who
had corttmanded here wnth fo much credit,
I refol ed to attack Port au Priii'-e, the re-
ftdence of the commiffioners, and the* capital
of this lide of the ifland, aru! proceeded with
the three regiments, viz. the 22'!, 2pland
4111, (ex<ept their frank companies, which
had been left at .Martinique,) in their tranf-
ports, with a detachment from tire flank
companies of the regiments here, in all one
tlioufand four hundred and lixty-five rank
and file fit for duty, efcorted by one 74, two
64, one 5c, three frigates, and three Hoops,

1 left the Mole for that purpofe. The com¬
modore was unfortunately ieized with a
fever foou after our failing. We picked up
v<fhat fmall craft- we could along lluu'e, and
arrived in the bay of Fort au Prince on the
3 ill of May, where feeing the fituation fa¬
vourable to our plan of attack (which was
cn both flank ami centre at the iame time,
as near as circum fiances would admit) the
mihtia cavalry of Leogane was ordered to
more from their tjuarteis, and to advance
on the Bizotton road, where the right at¬
tack was to be made ; the 1/Arcahaye Ca¬
valry by the left, to the Salines, were the
enemy was polled and entrenchedwith can¬
non. This difpofition having been made, I
ordered Major Spcnrer, with three hundred

Eritifh and fome of the Colonian troops, to
land within one mile of Fort Bizotton, co¬
vered by two floops of war. As foon as the
two line of battle fliips and a frigate, order¬
ed againfl thfi, h.3d filenced the fire, which
they efFeiled ih Four hours, the troops land¬
ed, and advanced through a different road
towoardsthe fort with little oppofition- On
their arrival within a fmall diftance of the
fpot, a violent thunder-fform took place j
and, taking advantage of the lucky minute
afforded to them by fo favourable a cirenrn-
flance- the advanced troops rulhed forward
with their bayonets, and carried the place by
affault. Unfortunately we loft a gallant
young man, Captain Wallace, of the zzdj
and Captain Daniel, cf the 41ft, was wpiin-
ded.

This great point being.carrIeJ, I repaired
{with lieutenant-colonel Whitelocke, whom
1 ordered to take the command of the cen¬
tre) to the oppofre fide of the Bay ; and, ha¬
ving landed Major HandfieLl with two hun^
dred Hntifh troops, tofupport the attack on
the 1 oil of Salines, (the frigates fcounng
the beech, and enfiiadii'g fhe entrench¬
ments.) he attacked and carried th* poft
without loF, and, continuing his march, the
next day he turned the batteries wtiich de¬
fended the landings near to arnl on the left
of Port au Prince. The enemy being thus
hemmed in on all Tides, excepting in the
rear, and pmeiving numbers ftioving out
by the n 'ad called the Chaibonifler, we de¬
termined on a general aflault, ailld the fleet
and army advanced ; when the enemy, per¬
ceiving our motions, ftruck their flags, and
abandoned the place, having previoufly fpi-
ked their caniu)n on the land defences ; and
the two commiffioners from France, Polve-
rele and Santhonax, with the black general
Monbrune, (who was wounded with a ba¬
yonet at Bizotton,) efcaped, and I have not
fince been able to learn any certain acaiunts
of them; but being informed that a body
of I he enemy had affembled uear to this place,
with nine pieces Pf cannon, I gave orders to
attack them, which was accordingly done ;
theyweic foon difperfed with the lofs of
theii' guns. Another party at the Croix de
Eoucjiiet, ori the farther Tide of the i plain,
and bordering on the Spanifh territories,
was alfo difperfed. 1 he inhabitants of this
p. rc of the ifland infulir.g on the Britifli co¬
lours being ere(fled, it was accordingly done.

Ttie importance of this conqueft to Great
Britain you, Sir, muft know : there is
more fugar now nearly ready 10 cut than in
all Jamaica.

I was fent here with difcretional orders by
Sir Charles Grey, and deflred to convmum-
cate w'ith major-general Williamfon. The
orders of the fleet were to aflemble at Tibu-
roone Bay, and, if no orders had been arri¬
ved from Jamaica, they w'^ere to pmCeed
there : but, comparing the different reports
received from the Mole, as well as what I

iawr

^794*] fntereftlng Intelligence from the London Gazettes. 66?

raw of their danger at Tihuroone, I called
upon the cotnmanding officer of the fleot,
and requefted he would immediately fail for
the Mole : from the reafons I ftated to hirn,
he mod readily acquiefced, and \ve wee
welcomed on our arrital there bv all ag their
deliverer^. I hope. Sir, my conduct may
meet with my Sotereign’s approbation.

Allow me, Sir, to exprefs how ft-nfible
I am of the zeal and activity which the navy
and army have (hewn op this interefting oc-
cafion, and h(rw r.mfvjf m their unanimity has
been on every occafton.

Lieutenant coloi;el Whitelccke will have
the honour ty deliver this difpatch, and ttere
is none can give more real iuformatioir of
this country : he has commanded here with
infinite merit, and acquitted himielf <11 in i-
ny aiduous and trying occafion? in a raanner
which has contributed to the good of the
King’s fervice, and to his own liononr. He
has done the dutv of quarter-maflcr-g^neral
during the expeiUtiv^n, and, for colonial rea-
font, I gave brnn the rank of colonel. I
have alio given to major Spencer the rank
of lientenant-coUuiel, meaning to appoint
him deputy qnarter-mafier-general. He is
an officer of great merit, and h;'.'' diftinguifl-i-
ed himfelf on many occafions ; bur, as it be¬
longs not to me to give ranh, I hope their
merits may he conlidered by his M ijefty.

Having taken this place on his Majelly’s
biith-day, I honoured the Fort with the
nam.e George ; the port. remains as before,
1 have the honour to be, &c.

John Whyte, Brig gen.

Commanding at St. Domingo.

Lieutenant-colond Lena x is jufi; arrived
W ttii eigiit flank companies from Martinique.

PROCLA.MATION

OJ hii Excellency Bagadkr general JVhyte^ com-

tnarulmg Ixs Britannic Majejl^s Forces in St.

Domingo.

The commlfljoners and their agents, in
order to carry into execution thofe pei fidious
deftgns which have proved fo fata! to the
lives, tlie law-^, ’the liberty, and tlK I.appinefs,
of this once flouiilhuig colon' , have every
wiiere calumniated the Brltilh Government,

General Wtvyte, who ha-: the honour to
reprelout ius Kruannic Majefly, alfures the
inhabitaiits of Port .lu Prw'ce and its vici¬
nity, that the oly’ca of his Majefly and of
his goverqnitnt is to refloie peace among
every dafs of inhabitanis.

1 hole parts of the colony, which have al¬
ready placed themfelves um’er Ins Majefty’s
proteifion, can bear a faithful leflimony that
tliere is noMiii g oppreffive in the behaviour
and laws of tlie Englifh.

A coivf.derable part of the people of St.
Domingo has been feduced from its duty ;
thefe perfons are hereby invited to return
to their occupations, to lay dowm their arms,
and to forget every caufe of refentment.

"Ihe Englilh government demands, an^

will obtain by force if necefTary, tliat peace¬
ful obedience which is due to its mild and
jufl laws.

The Mulattoes w'ill find,ipi the general arul
the government, every difpofition to favour
their intcrefls; they are confidered by the
Englifh, who are and will con.inue to be
their friends.

The Negroes, who have been fo long the
dupes of tlie vile artifices of the Commitho-
ners, will foon be convinced that the Engliiii
difdain Ldfehood and deceit,

f.et them, ri Iving with confidence on the
genei'ofity of tlie Britifh peojde, return to
their makers, lav down I'heir anus, and en¬
joy the advantage-- of a life devo'ed to induf-
try ; their prelenc fufferings whll foon be re¬
lieved, and thelav;s will protedi them againfl;
cruelty a: d oppreihon.

The forces, wdiich are now in thi^ colony
tofuppoitthe happinefs of the inliabitants^
and the glory of the Englifei nation, ara
but a part, even a fm.dl pait, of the army
deflined for its fervxe; it being his Maielly’s
refolut'on to punith, in a manner as certain
.as fevere, thofe who will not accept the of¬
fers of this and of the preceding proclama¬
tion'.

All perfons w’ho fhall repair to Port-au-
Prince, .and to the Englifli general, within,
the delay of eight days from the date of tld';
proclima'ion, except thofe who have been
guilty of muider, or of tik:ng .a part in In-
furredlions, will be received and pardoi ed j
but all thofe who are t.aken in arms after the
abo'v’cirientioned period will be put to death
as traitors.

Dune at Port-au-Prince, the Sth of [unc,
1794. (^'gtied) John Whyte,

Brigadier-general Commandant.

Admiralty-Offite, July id. A letter from
rear-admiial Ford to Mr, Stephens, dat-td 111
Port-au- Prince Road the 9 th of lafl month,
was received .at this office lafl night, by cap¬
tain Rowley, of his Majefly’s fliip Penelope.

In my letter of the zad ultimo, per Cum¬
berland packeq I acquaiuie 1 you, for the
information of the lords commiifioners of
the, admiralty, that brigadier general Wfiiyte,
with the 2 2d, 23d, .and 4ifl I’e'giments,
(flank companies exceptcr!,) h.idatriied at
the Mole, with the Irrefiftihle, Belliqueux,
and Fly flcop ; anti ttiar, notvv ithftandiag the
difficulties we had to lui niount ( he raitiy
feafon being fetin, tl^.e fiiips and troops fick-
]y, &c.) it v\'ns the intention of the general
and myfelf to proceed immediately agaiufl;
Poi t an- Prince, and evei'v exei tion wuas ufed
accordingly, it was tliought expedient for
the fhips of war and tranfpoi ts to rendezvous
in L'Arcahaye rode, on the north fhore of
Port-au- Fritrce, wliere tliey arrived on the
2 3tt), in order to colledt .rtnl jnepare the
f mali craft arul boats luxelfary to lam! the
troops, and to t the Colonial troops, both '

Ini.

Inielltgcnce f7'm the London Gazettes.

CJo'y.

€)v\ t!ie fu^e of Leo'.’.nre and L’Arcahnyo, in
to co-o)'ierare''vvi‘ 1; tha arnay ;
oorupleted by llie t!ie fcuadron

fiiifid at noon On ttyat day, and I proceeded
IB the Ejiropa, wall the irt c^idiiMe, BeJh-
tvraepx, Sceptre, arui I'l-, tloop.witiy adetxcli-
rrx^rt of the Briiifn and Colonial troopr,
m the advanced poft of EizoUop., on the
fouth fide; while Cara flilh, with tlie Her-
stpionoj I'phigtrfH, SwriPy and Marie Ai;toi-
riitte Bclior.fierj vveiii on, with the tranfpoits
sn-d iho yr?!!ini body < f rhe troops, to I'ourt
Saline, where thty anchored the laaie even-
ioi-iT. The whole force bein" thns coIledC. c',
the operatioas rc :dy to comruence, a
Flag of Tspce was fent, (ni the fol'-owdog
fn-orninh, ro demand ihe furreiuler of t!ie
|j.!,vce 5 hr(% on appcnac'iiii/ the Iruiiour, the
c/fheer charged with tiie difoatch was infor-
iSTiCd that no flag of truce woodtl he adm.tted,
^nd the letter was eonfequendy returned
mn-opehed,

As'the general concurred with me in oni-
mon t’lat the poffefinn of F'ort Bizzatlon
was an thiecl of the tt fl ce-rifuiei atifin, t!\e
Beniqneim and Sc-eptre were ordere-..i to at¬
tack the, fea front; the Penelope, at tiiefnme
Imhs, to anchor etofe to the ihor'e, to fiaiik
s ravins to the eaftwatd, on the back of tiie
forty while a party of troops, under ihe
camrn.iAd of 'ientenant-eolo-iiel Silencer, of
the nttl’i regiment, were t> be lauded juft;
ftutof gviu-fnot, to the weft ward, in order to
on th.e moment, according to tlye exigen¬
cy of ferv ee ; arufat half paid eleven o’clock,
A. M. on the ill inft. the fsa breeze fettting
ki, Caprain- Brine and Dacres, the comnian-
kersot the tw'o firft-nnentioned fhips, cveigh-
ed per fignai, and pi iced tdienhelves wdth
the utmsoft prcci'fiOn againft th.e foit, and
immediately commenced a vary brilk and
r®.etUdireCfed tire againft it, .nnd the Pene-
k-i -e, rn the fame manr.er, ujjon tlse ravin'e.
Tite Europa and Irrcftftiljle nlfo weighed,
and kept under fail, to throw'- in a broadfde
when opportunity required,, as well as to
Ijeep off a body t.f the eaerayT herfe, and
fonte brigands, who appeared, diijmfed to
?nnoy the landing of the tro>>ps. At five
©’clock, the de'-achmcni was wftiolly uifenn-
karked, under the diredl on of C iptain A.f-
ot the Fly floop; and, although the
Sort returned tSie fire of t’ne ftiips but flowly
after they were placed, and fometimes ap¬
peared quite filenced, yet the colours w'ere
fidl living, and a flrot now and them fired
till fix o'clock, P. M wdren a moft tremen¬
dous thuudei -ftorra and deluge of rain put an
end to all firing; and, about half an hour
paft eight o’clock, the fort was ftormed and
cairied by. Captain Daniel, of the 41ft regi-
Tnenq w-ith 60 men, who was foon after
jtiined by lieutenant-colonel Spencer and his
detachment ; and in the morning the Britifh
colours were hovfted.

On the evening of the 2d, a party of 200
Bntilh, under tine command of colonel Hamp-

field, were lauded at Point Saline ; and ear¬
ly next morning the Kermione and Iphige-
Ilia were under fail, firiiig on an advanced
poft of the enemv, named }>jrnadon-, in or¬
der- to divert their attontion from colonel
llampfield's detacAimeut, wlihe he eftefted
a junftinn witli a body of Coionial cav.'iby
commanded by heut ;nant-colonel f.a Poin-q,
as -i.veil prepare for the landing of the

grand body of the troops with which the-
g-eneral intended to difeuibark, and fiollefs
irimfelf of the lieights ah.ove Fort Robin, and,
after fecuring the advanced pofts of E.dfe .
and Dim.inche, to attack that fort, while
the fliips were to engige tiie fea-batteries ;
and lieutena*it-coionel Spencer was to make
a diveifion from Bizzotten atlifted by a b >dy
of Co'mnial cavalry: but the weather proving
bad in the evening, tlw troops on the norti*.
fide could nut be difembarked, though the
enernv fliewed every ap>pearance of fear noxcl
confufioil ; an-.l . during the night I received
information, by fome defeiters bom th.e
town to the Europa, tliat the cominilfaries,
with the priiicipal part of their force, had
made their efcape towm.rds Aux Cayes before
they were fuTounded by our troops, by
which means the town atuf fhipprng w-eie
taveJ, as they had fitted feveral merchant
fliips with combuftibles, moored exptefly
for the purpofe of fetting fire to the whole.
As foon as the fea bieeze fet in on the 4th
inft. the Blips of w;rr got under fail, and
hoifted the Britifli colours on the fea batteries,
while tlKi general landed at the north part
of the town, and lieutenant-colonel Spencer
marciie.d in on the fouth at the fime time,
and took polfelfton of the principal pofts,
without much oppofitic.nur Ini's : upon which
1 (’idered a roy^i! fdare to be fired, in honour
of the d.ty, and of the important advantages
gained over the enemy, I liave the moft
he.ai tfelt fain faeftinn n alTnring their Lord-
ftiips, that a cordial and tliftinguilhed zeal
prevailed between the army and navy, and
that the captains, offisers, Teamen, and ma¬
rine'-', under rny command, ponduefed them-
feb es in a manner truly fpirlted, adlive, and
commendable, and deferving the name of
True Britons. - i

A.11 the Blips in the harbour, to the amount
of forty-five, are in our poffeliion.

Whitehall, July 19. A letter of which
the following is an ext raft, dated Coiityck,
July 15, 1704, has been received from his
Royal Htghnefs the Duke of York, by the
Right Hon. Hen. Dumlas.

On Saturday afternoon, the enemy attack¬
ed all the out-pofts occupied by my advanced ^
corps in front of the Canal leading from
Bruffels to Antwerp, and, being greatly fu-
perior ill numbers drove them into the town
of Malines, upon whicli place they like wife
fired ; but, upon a reinforcement arriving,
under the command of the Earl of Muii'a,
the enemy fell back, with fome lofs.

This

s;94l

This morning, iiov\ever, they reneu-ed
thea'tack : r,’' i liaring hic effJe.! in oM ging
ttie poils on the ief: of M .hnv!- to ah:’nJi',n
the Cnna', and to retreat from the Dvir,
lieutenant-general Da.lwig thought liimhlf
t)'i^hged to f:d' back co 'v\ whci e he

has takeri v>n a poiition, to cover tl',at pafs
tof tl'.e river. 1 have a!etach( d Lord ''loira
to take O' iT'lIion of llie vd age of Dntlel
\lpon his left; ar 1 Genei'd Walhnoden,
vviih the Hanover ans, i"- at Lierre.

IJ hifeha!'!'} ‘J'uly 22. • Tlte f( Rowing I'-tter
ha*-: >)een received by Mr. Duni!:>‘^, from Sir
Gilbert Elliot, Bart, dated [une 21, 2794.

“ Sir,. 1 have the honour to acquaint you,
tliat the Union of Corfioa to the drown of
Great Britain E finally and formeily conclu-
<led : and it is v.-iththe moll; fir.ceie f.ati.sfac-
fion tliat 1 find mvfelf gnabled to alfure you,
th.at no natirnal adl was fcv«r faiKRit»ned bv
a more un.an nlous proceeding on t!ie pari of
tltofe will) were auth' rized to do it, or by a
moie iiniveiTal approbati' n, amom ting, I
m.'y ihy, to eiuhnfuilm, on tt'e part of the
Eeople. 1 h.ive ah eady had 'he l4oai>ur < f
tranfmiuing to you a copy of the letter ad-
dii-lffd by his exceileiKy my land Hood
ajid mvfelf to his excellency General Pauli,
dated the zifi; of April. I iiavetho lionour
to tndofe to-day a coov of the circnl ir letter,
addidfed by General Paoli to Ids Country¬
men, refei ring to that xvhicli he h;ui recei¬
ved from us, an Italian tranllation of which
vv'as .annexed. Letters of convocation were
fuon af er ilfued for the Alfemhlv of t)ie Ge~
neuil Cwfu't to be held at Corte, on Sunday
the 8th of fnne, and was fo framed as to
procure the molt general reprefentation
known in this Ifland ; every Community,
•which is il'.e fmalleft Territorial Divifion,
having lent its Repiefent itive, and the flate
of j-iruiierty be ng fircli, that .^though none
but Landholders vvei e Lle<Tt)rs, every man,
almuft without exception, has voted. The
Letter.-: of C^mvocation fei forth the occ.ifion
of tb eii being called together: and the mi¬
nutes »f Kleflionin evet y com nuniiy^ exprel-
ieu the general nature of tlie meafure to
which tlic deputies v\'ere antliorized to con-
fenr, fpecifying diftindtlly the Union of Cor-
fica with Great Britain, and the tender of
the Crown to his Majelly. I have tlie
honour to inclofe copies of thefe pn.ccedings.
7 lie deputies met at Corte, in fiifhcient num¬
bers ty conllitute the Aircmhly, on Tuelday
th.c loih of June. Some days were employ¬
er! iB verifying their powers, and determin¬
ing controverted eleilioiis ; after which they
chofe Genei fd Paoli as t'lelr Pi'eful^nt, anJ
Mr. Pozzo de Bat go and Mr; Mufelli their
Secrct-uics. On Sa'urday tlie iqtLi inflant,
Gen. Paoli opened the Alfeiinblv by an excel¬
lent and eloquent fpeeeh, flating cunci.ely
the principal events which had occurred,
GrNT. Mao. Julyy 1794*

66s

.ind I be principal me.Tmes adopted by him-
felf fir.ice tile (epa'-ation of tlie lalt General
Confub ip May 1795, the occafion of their
pi clent ct'uvocation, and the ie. ding points
on which tlieir deliberations Pmuld turn.

I he A'Jlrpbl v votS'‘unaiiin; o'-tfly tbeir thanks
to G n. Pan'', and a hr ,'.au en.ire appro¬
bation of all he had d rw, by virtue (if tlie
po.vers f rnr u'ly vetted ia llm by the Ge-
ner.il Coidulc of leq:;. they then, i(f, de-
cLred Via .nirnouily the feparation of Corfica
from France: • nd 2diy, with the limes
unanim and u iih th“ Itrongeft demoufira-
tirns of uii.vcrfal fati.sfabtion and joy, voted
the Union of Corfica to the Crown ot Grea^
Hi itaia. A committee 'w is then appointed,
to prepare th'' ru tides of Union, and to con-
fidcr tt'.e pro! er mode of tendering the Crown
to his M.q'efty. It was declared, that all
who came Ihould have voices ; and, in fat^,
Gvenil pedlins of chat ader .and talents, who
were not even Members of the Afiemblyj,
were admitted to tlie deliberations, and
took a lliare in the difeufiions of the Com¬
mittee. The Articles imder-vvent in the
Committee a very full, fi'ee, and inrelligei’t
difculfion ; •iich as woul ! have done honoiu:
to any Alfembly of public men in anv coun¬
try, and fuch as flamped the refult with the
fanefion of a deliberate and informed, asw'eU
as a free and independent, affent. The Re¬
port was voted with unanimity in the Cinn-
mittee. It w.is prefeuted to the Affembly
0:1 Thurfday the lyth, and on that and the
following day was opened, and raoft rdily as
well as fully expounded to them by Mr.
Pozzo de Bargo. It was adopted with una¬
nimity, and with univerfal applanfe : and
two copies of the Adi of Union were figned
by every member of the Cot fnlt. On Thurf-
day the 19th of June I received a Deputati¬
on from the All'embly, prefenting to me a
co 'y of the .Adt of Unioir, and inviting me
to return with them, that the Crown mighc
be tendered to his Majelty by the 'llfem' iy"
itfelf, in the moil folemn and authentic
foim. I accompanied the Deputation; and,
ill prefence of the Affembly, received from
the Prefident, his Excellency General
Fao'i, in the name of the People, the ten¬
der of tile Crown and Sovereignty of Corfi-
ea to his Majefly. His Excellency’s adJrefs
tome is contained in the Miaates. Afer
addrefhng the Aflembly in a manaer which
appeared to me luitable to the occafion, 1
pi onouiTceal, in his Majefly’s name, the ac-
eeptatum of the Crown, according to the
Articles contained in the Adi of Union. I
tlien took, in his Majefly’s name, ttie Oath
p'.efcnbcd, “ to maintain th« Liberties of
Corfica, according to the Cnnllitution and
the Laws.” 7 he Prefident t'liu took and
adminiftered tlie Oath of A.iegiame and
Fideii'y ; after which I figned and lealed
the Acceptation ajmexed ti.; both Copies of

Jntereflini Tn'AUgencc from the London Gazettes.

)

666 Intelligence ^from the Gazettes ; anci Country NewSy

the Aa of Unior. cne of which [ have now
the ho' our to tranfmit. 'f he th'.y fo!l:AV:ng
(yeihe.rJa>) Te D.z/wwas funs hi the C.,ihe.
cha’, accompanied by the difcharge of artil¬
lery: :md prave'-s were offered op for his
^!aje^ly, liy the name of ‘‘ Geo) ge tiie Tlard,
K.'ngofG\ea* B' it'on old Lonica: In the

evening the tovi fi was lilu'minatedj anri the
people' demonflrated their loyaltj and j y
by every means tn tiieir power. The Affem-
b'v has votrd,th'S day, an addrefs to his Ma-
jjffy, exprelffve of their gratitud-, b yalty,
and attachment ; aivl have deputed four ref-
P‘ ftable rentlemen to prafent it to his Ma-
jelly in London. 1 cannot conclude this
difpatch wirhout offering my very bumble
congratuhil'ions oti the fortunr.te teirainvituiu
of tins important aiirl interefting affair, at
once art van' ageons, as 1 uuft, to the eon-
tracdjnr oartieSj luinourable to his Majefly,
and -gratirying. m every view, hi liis royal
feehnes,’ as well as to lliofe (if his Bntiili
fiihieils. The true fonndaffon and bafis of
this tranffdl'on has relied on the confi¬
dence ir.fsdred by his Majeffy’.s piincely vir¬
tues, and the exalted reputation enjh'yed
throughout the world^ by the Britiih nation
for eveiy hononraVle* and generous qurlicy.
The people of Corfica have, on one hand,
done iiomage to thole virtues, by confiding
and tendt'r'ng, even folicitouffy, tlie fove-
reignty of their country to his Majeffy ; they
have, on the other hand, heightened the
value of tliat confidence, by evincing that it
cornts from men who have rejedled with
honor the poifunous and counterfeit liber¬
ty of France, wnihout being ignorant or
c.trelefs of a w-elLordered and couffitutional
Freedom. His Majeffy has accpiired a
C'tywn ; thole, who heffow' it have acquired
.Liberty. The Britifli Nation has extended
its political and commei clal fpbere by tbe
accellion cT Corffca : Corfica has added ne v
fecurities tO' her .ancient poffelTi in.^-, and has
opened frefh fields of profperity and wealth,
bv I'.er liberal incorporation wiih a vaff and
povxeiful Empire, 'Ibis diipatdi will be
delivered to you by Mr. Fetriconi, a young
^gcHileman of this country, who has ferved
wnth'diflindion thiough'.ait the war, under
the orders of General F. oli, and paiticular-
iy in the ueges of Baftia and S'. Funenzo,
I beg leave to refer to him for any partinn
l.u's which I may have omitted, and to re¬
commend him to the honour of your attention
tiuring I'.is rtTidence in England. 1 have the
lioonni'tobe, &c. G i l- « r w T Elliot.
Sir Gile. Elliot’s Speech^ in our next.

G'ountky New-s.

On Thuifday, May a?, an almoff ineef-
fant heavv firing, not unhke ti e rep<'rts of
fhftawt tlnii'der, was eliltinhtlv heard at
Blean, Hardres, Waltham, Brabourne, and
upon other highlands in l-ajt Kent, v\ hich
c-'otinued fron- .ahoir. feven in the morning
till near nine at rncht. This being fo
well auth«Lticatcd by th^ evidence c»f various

perfons of credilullity, w'e have not the leaffc
befit.-.tion 'n pronuiaicing rh'.fe exjdofions to
be occafioned by tlic tremendous difch irges
of artillery in the engagement which took’
pi ‘Ce on tlie m' rning of that day betw’een
Lie Comhinui and French arn ies oe irTou' -
nay. The wi- d being Eaffwimd was fa¬
vourable for ti e conveyance of found fropi
that pirt of the Continent. Though the
diffance of between, 90 and ion m ies may
fhake the belief of forne of our readers, u a
again affeit as f.idl, that fuch rep ’rts were
heard at tlie. time and places aUo, e flated.,,
Thefe acconnis, in onr ojrinion (notwith-
Cand’ng Come oi the Jhrenvd paragr.qdi-ma-
kevs <>t the metro'viiis then pi onounced the
mfoi’mation unfoanded and impolhble),
prove incon'etf bly the affenion: of our Do¬
ver coi I'efpondents, dated tire :th a- d 7th
of July la!*', Fating, that, a heavy cannona¬
ding had been he.ird at that place fir three-
days fucceffiveiy, \A-hxh th(-y had every rea-
i'on to believe proceeded from the batteries
in and befoie Valencienne'’, then clofely be-
lieged wiili a numerous arn'lery.”

Kmtifo (ju:zett( , Mav W.

The biOiOp of Lincoln, on' th“ iflrh if
June, confecrated ths bf;iuiul-..um which
Mr. Felhain has ereff^'d to tlie men ■or')'^ '
of his Lite vwfe, near his feat at Brocklefiy
in idncoUifhire, It is eheemed the ffnell
building of tlie ktiui in this kingdom, aud
is luppof-il to ha'/e cod neai'L ^OjOocL

EnJiBid, "june 23, Tlie extenfion of the
Penrry-poft liithcr took place, regulnly
adopted bv tJre Foflmader General, under
the authO’ !ty of a late ad; by whiclt let¬
ters and parcels are delivered here at the
houfes of the ini. a itants, tor two pence e.ich,
three times every day; at eigh.t, twelve, and
four, excejd Sunday, and on rl at day onl ,
at eight in the morning, and returned m the
receiving office at the Rofe and Crownx in
Church -Ifreet Edmonton, as often each clay
except Sund.w. By tlte aforefaid aiff , lettei 5
and parcels are regululy dtLvereti fix tinies
eveiy day ;n London and vvith.in 'lie ddlance
of the old eft. blifhrneht. The three Gene¬
ral jxifl offices in Throgmorton- flrett.B'ai k-
man-ffreet, and Chicheffer rent,", are aho-
lifbed ; and two (ur'y are apwom’ed, one iti
Abchur ’.li-l uce, the other in Gerard-ff reet,
at vvliich laft the Deputy Cwmp'.rol'er of thu
Penny poll refides.

Fortjrnouth, lune 28. The fo lowing moft
ex'raonlinary and unp'ccedei'ted exertion
0-1. ht to be recorded to the honour of the
Artiffceis of our Dock-yard. The Prince
of Wales of 98 gun®, went olf the flocks,
this day at ii o’clock, came into the wet
d( ck next tide, and w'as completely caulked
and coppered in 9 hourG in order to Ihew
his Majefty the operation !

Tsrtfmoutb, July 30. The King and Ro.y-
al Family left this place, pei feiUy.. (atTfied
■w'ith their vilir, after a rcffdence t.f four
days, and an infpeiflion of the fiaeft navy
in the w'^orld. Oil

1794-] ^ of th ' i’ate viclent Siorm^ July (iaid^. 667

Oa Sunday evening;^ July 6, there a
‘vioh'nt itmm 'h inder an<1 hg!unii\g at
MiiU.n in Ellex, vviuc*', moved in a nurth-eafl
dii'et^ion. Mie lig' tning, u tiich wa awfully
iole.ulid fct fire to a tvu n upon i(ie farm
ttall d Moan!; iiUi, ttear Tiptrte Heath, and
entirely <!ehioyed the fame.

A', //(f’r^yW, the fame afiernoon, tl-'cre was
-a very i'eaw fall of rain, attended by thun¬
der and {ighfiii ug. At Goodrich, in tl'aC
ro.iiity, ua tiie mod: dreadful liorm ever
ttj<p nenced hy the okleil inhabitant; the
rain fell iti (uc!> torrents, and was accompa¬
nied with inrh thunder and ligitniiig, as to
•©cvafion a nencra! alarmi. Tiit-ee fheep he-
long ng to a farmer in the parifli were kil-
leil t)y the lightning, w'hirh fiiivered in pie¬
ces a large elm that grew near tlie chtircli.,
and k I'ed frveral fmall buds that had taken
1 efnge ,n tim tree at the coramei-Krenveut of
'tlie llotm. Confiderahle damage li.'.s been
done af vai ions oflter [daca^s, patt.culaily at
Sbrcwjhur]i, and throughout the conbty of
Salop, wfiere tlic ftorm f.dl withiauful vlo-
le ice. Jn the neigliboiirhcotl of Ludlow, a
farnser h al three tiorfes kdled by ttie hght-
jnng ; numbers of ihrep luffered a fimilar
fate ; and we are fcarhil that luhfequent ac-
€oun’s wi'i fpacify rtdl far'her devaftation.

In the neighbourhood of Salijhury there
was mu-h tbiunder and lightning a'tended
{partially) with very heavy {forms of rain.
Great damage was den j bv the lightning at
Ji^any pdiccs; and at in , that county.,

a vi(>lent t'borin of hail fell, which was very
xle'tiudfive, pcUtlcidary to all tire glafs that
was op^'O^ed Co its .direfiion. Some -of the
flones meafnreJ five inches round.

The pariili cluiroh oi ^lleenh&mi in Va-
Jence, JB'^fks., of which a weii-kuou n writer,
Mr. Stackhoufe, was fo many yeai s vicar,
was confupied by lightning.

At Northill, Bedford, a large tree was
fhtvered i i a moft exiraordmary manner
ty the lightning, between fix and feven
cdclock on Monday morning, large 'p .n-
,ters being dri en to the di nance of n'^ar -50
yari.!s from the fpf>t, riiree men were
fianding under another tree in tiic Ihime
field, one of whom was firiicl% down and
appeared iilt-iefs, for a Ihort time; in the
co-irfe of about three or four hours h;; to
far recoveret! as to be able tt) walk ; but is
Itill incapable rd going about his bufin fs-

At Ilu’hf.fn, near Hoahaniptuu, a re-
rn irkablc fine <xtk was Ihivered to pieces,
and the bark Ifrhp'ed off the butt of the tret,
and icattered in dfifereut xhreCtions from 30
fo 40 yards diffancG.

I At Miii'ht ddirhurough, about y P. M.- fe-
vera! fla'he suf lighiumg, m difrei eoc tjuai ters,
but piinf'pd.y in Mie Oouth and South- Vv'eff,
accompanied with diftant thunder and fmart
Ihowet', were obierved, which ab'mc
m dnight intreafed to a t'-rrible ftorm. The
Jightning llruck the b-’ortu fine of the ffeejde
ol ’.he paroj lial chapel, a tevv feet below

the upper window in the fpire part, wlteic
it made a penoration, and fhiveied mmy
conrfts of the (lone- work wiilitii Tide, ex-
ttniing the vviiole Ineadth of the I'inrth,
and to the adjacent No! th-Eaft, and Nor.h-
Weft fides, and made a fnluie of confider-
ahle Icng-th through t'le N'oith-Weff • angle.
In Its palfage dow n the Weft fide of the
fpire, it tore off' a large piece of an oak.
fi;ame, tour niches fqn.are, wlucli was
placed m the low er wiiKiow of it : a few
feet below v\hich window, it wrenched a
Hone fe eu inches tiiick from it.s bed,
ieiving it projecting a full inch from the
furf ce of the w di ; it then fliattered the
vvheel of the fixth or tenor bell, and forced
i" into an oblique direeSaon totlie Hock, fo as
to beat' upon the Ikirr of the bell; and fin.aoy
thre V tha axi of one of the clock harnnicis
out of the boucl'es, o" vertiv.ds, by whkli
it was fup^vu'ted. The paffage of tins
moff poweifui and very awful agent can
be traced in th'^ infide of the fteeple walls;
for neat ly fifty feet, and the expkifion, at
t'le time the perfomitio 1 was made in the
Heeple, was tremendous indeed!!! Tire
lightning alf.i Carniibed a part of th^ minute
circle (from 38 mtimfes to 8 niinutes) and
the hour figure of XIL of the handfome
new Hone iial. 'I bough tlte outward
damjge tlie fieeplehas fiiH;hned is apparently
but fin. dl, it is fuppoied the expeace c.f le-
pairiog it will be f aind Confiderahle. The
H-irm continued at Harboiough, with great
vioien c,. .-,nd witli little nuermiifion, until
about fix o’clock on Mouday morning.

X.ie inhabitants of Leicejier vrtrd alfo
much al.ii med ny a iTioH tremeudjus 'Horm
of i. fin, thunde’, and liglituing, wh'di laf-
ted burn a!)out eight in the e.vevnng till af'cr
fix (I’ciock in the morning. It paffed in a
liu erfioii al:ou North by Eail ; and ns near-
ell approach to Lemellsir appears to h-.vs
been t^v.) or three miles At Honghton, a v.l-
L.ge ab.uit fix rn ks Eaft of LeiceHer, a
birn was burnt.

The lightning threw down tlte cliimney
o^ J ifejDh La'-chword’s hout ■, at iiundjworthf
nep Birraingiiim, and f r-ed its av into
ihv.- 1 )wer room, wheie it Kide i a dog lying
neir the door ; niu.e [teiions were in the
houk, but none vv^rntr hurt, - x- ept (>ne
ii.glitly in Ins foot ; the w dows vvtre
broke, and fomc tiling c.irr ed to a di'ft.inee.

T'/'V I"'. As lome wuikmcu w'ej'e uu-
dcTU’ aijig a hm '-pit in the liberty (T Siavri-.
ton Ha'oid, a large Hone, wnich ^ to; ced
to a great, ii. oglu in ilie air, in defeend ng
unfortun rek aI up.m Wm. bmiih, ay.r.ing
rm'% vvho tvas pa til 'g along the top ot tne
jut Vv th a bu ulle of h.^y uii liis arm, a d
k.l c ' him un.an iy.

y/i/v 21. A fire liappened at li^ajfmgton^
CO. Nortiia npturi, by whictu uirltt n .i'welung-
h ‘ufe- w.it deltro}eJ, and a great nu.n.) r
of iiov- .'s tpid other linUdings au)>j;uiig,
w'itfi nearly the whole of the propeuy f

ti.e

668 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. [JiWy,

ihe inbabiiants, ^vho were all uninfured.
The lofs is ( oajputecl at .from 300CI. t<t 4CO0I-.
I'Wd tlie fituatldn of moH of the iuliererb is
leudereci piiial l.' inoeod. ’

H I ST O R I C A !. Ci H lUD N I C L E .

TucfJay, June i 7,.

At a Court of Comnion Council, the Lord
Mayor irTonued the Court, lie had called
them together, for the piupofe of confi ei -
iiig 'of aa AdJrefs to his Majefly, o-i the.
g'orious and importi rA vidlory ( bt.iined by
Lidnairal Eail HoA-e, (uerthe I'-ench ft et.

Mr. Syrns nio'ch, 1 liat tins Co"iC do
agree to addrefs his Majefty 00 the fucctfs
of bis Ma'ielly’s arms in diftb‘'«ht pa its o'-
l!'e world, and ciiCcia.llv un the gl a laus
Vidory obtain 'd by the Bntilli fie-'t nnfbn' ■»
the command of Earl ilowe, over that of ilie
French ;'’ which w s fcc-a- • by Mr. De¬
puty Leekey, and nnan muolly agreed) to.

Mr. Syms then moved, that the ihj.oksof
the Court he given to Eaf l Mowe, a.iiu, the
oftireis and faiiors in t e fle< t under his
comuimd, bn- the imy^ota.'rt vichmy ov< r
the Fiencli fleet; and 'hit ihe freedom of the
city he prefented h oo in a g')ld box c.f ,■ 00
pu'neas value. Wliith was unaiumoufly
ragreed to.

Mix Dixon moved, that the fum of yo-'L
be paid into the hailds of Mi. T..y!o', i\E,-
ller of Lloyu's Coflee-houA, as the* fu'--
feriptinn of the City fur tb.e ri iiaf of the
vi'ounded petty olhcerr, fjlditof, aii'.l fen-
rrien, and the widows auvl cluldrch (tf thofe
win fell ui the late action with the French
flevt. Cna.ninni'ntF agieral 10.

Sunnay, ‘j!‘h *3-

7'his afternoon, vt flve (/clock, a Are
broke out at the hakehonfe ; n i w.irelK.vi'fe
of Mr- .Aldei tman Curt S) winch .v“as unfor
tuuaiely hurrir to th.e ground. A digar-
houfe adjoining likevvife caught fire ; hir, by
the t !ca cxerti-.ms of tli-r firemen, a lonh-
derabie pan ofi' was preEivcd.

yVeda^fday, y^!'/ 16.

A-t a Court of fommou C.ounci’, the
I.nrd Mayor laid before the C onr’t his kik-
iefly’s an.fvver to the addrefs lately prefeived
. to him on tlie vidlory gained (u er th.e Idench
fleet, by 1. arl Howe; aiu! alfo cir.nauini-
cated a letter received from A 'mira' lavrl
Hoave, exprefliRg 111: grateful ;>ck iiow ledg-
mcnt^ fo>' the Innotn ContL-rrod on him by a
vote ofxhanks, ard the fieed nu of the City
and th he Ihouid c. ke the eat hell oi>;H»tu-
riity of making the cer,e' ''lcat grant < f ;oo!.
to the bounded, pe ty olfleer.-, .'eamcn and
folders, and th.; widows and children of
thofe who fell in the f.iid adlioii, generally
knowm throvghout the whole of the fleet
UH'.ler his conimaod.

A pe'it.on from Martha Middleton, fpin-
fter, a line 1 de cer.dant ( f Sir'liug'n Midr
dletoii, (feev )\. LXIi. /y>. 42 n j 'vVhO iin-

\#erto k fo bi 'ng the New River to London,
praying the bciievoience of the Court, w’as

re:"’, and referred to the CotrraiiF'e fop
Gen- era! Fiirpofe.> to exarni e irpi rc^pory. .

The Loi d Mayor c.im nun rated a p.Tohw
tion of the C uit of E'eviteinnc-v, agrfeii'tp
on Vlond.ay laid, when v>. a.s retail; If.ring^
tluit tin y entei tamed the liigl eft leiife < f the
cordial fupiiort ! eceiv* d hv tlicpi fiom' the
Coi potation of ihe i 'ny t { L, n, ur-, ai d re-
cjU'lb I g his Loit’ihdp to liV. bch re tins
Conimon-ci'Uucil the Act ot I’arhitn enc
la'' Iv piditxi for ttie' better regulatii'g the,
Loodetn 'rcdiria ^

AljlraSd of the ijiojl mu'ctUil CLiuJcs in the

L'b N t 0 N M ■ L 1' 'J I rt B ( L r. ,

(Tnufe ill, a<k atid r(b I’ow or ' gran’^CM
to the Gornmid ortfi .s !oc/..l] foi'tji, arm, aP'd,
ari :’y, &< . and ro aoppm! oflic. r' , who are
to h<- cu-slTfl' d iiv'hetbine manner :r in il.e
cititn, which me Cfnin'i s of tnemfelve.'-} hy
the ihth Geo. A— [ Every enrnn ilflored oil
flee:' to pie a flrvina'' of 1 .ojnion.j

'llaufc 4. , ' V, o legio e t^- of ten comj a-
riles e d'l, Vheiudii'^ Greny ief.s aad light
rnflmti'A ’ * '

Clniie 6. PTiva'es to be chofen by bal-
loN lio'^i'eh-.ddtrs, Guilhi, Coi;;>or. tc B'O-
tie's, Rrotherhocuis. Ac &c, to fl-'d a nian
01 men, ..ccordi) g to tfie E’and tax Allelf-
nicnh The fum of co’. one iT'aii’; th.t of
1 Qc k I wo iri-en ; t'le funi'of 2c©k, ihrecTren ;
Eod’ie; P-oliiic, Corp.Miiie, <.kc: to And a,
full propoj ti,()ii, to tdic cX'eut of the L nd-
fax, Aldeimen and 'CoiTmcfti Couuc 1, to
nmkf: out a ti'ue lift of luGi as are liab’e.'

■'t l 'iifes 7 and 8 fet ie Ini mode of ballot¬
ing, ihe o.th‘, :.nd rhl’me'hod od prc'vidfn’g
ft bfiit'jte* , V, .ho ai e not in have n-ore th.-.ir
(MIS child bom in wedloc'k, an<' to reflde iif
the city, or Within thr' e miles of it : vvl.en'
.aO]Moved, td'ferve as a pi'ivafe five, yf-ru-s,'
M cancies to be ftiied up by. a frefli halb.d.

Ciaufe (;, ir, and 11. Qyi:,kers, nr other
perfoi'j.'-', bemg ch-a.en Ij- lodlli^ and neg't-dt
or rehifo t(; :.pponi', 01 jnovKie a fidfti'ute,
flia’l foi felt 1 1. to b lev !e<l liyMliilrefs. A'
pei'flir, once fer'. ing, lhall not be habo'od
for again, until it ('(jmes to hi.i turn. Cler¬
gymen an'd licr oled iBacbfti'S are exempied.

’ CUuife 14, Aldermen, &c. may eoro'l
volunteers at a ''on'nty dot exceivling fix’
guinea:, to le radVd by ah e(n,ial 1 uitfl
1 liofe who liave Gi ve<l not to coati’drUte.

Claufeiy, Oflicer'- ('Ut tied r,;> bad- payy
'who accept Cnmniilhoi s, not to foi leir. it. ^
‘ fy cj'nclJay ^uly ■

A dreadfijl fli« bivike out at Rrtclilfe,
at 3 o'clock ill the rdtc.ri;oon of ibh day,
wbi.h 'uas confiiflied more hmiRs cliair
any one confl.a,2;ratii'-n has done flnee lb(?
n'emorable fire of l.ondo'i. It began at
Mr. Clowes’, bai'ge-buUder, at Cock -Hill,
rear Raicliffe ; and v.xv.s ocrafloned by
the bojlidrr over of a pitch- k: tile t^ at

’ -n •

fToo i nndei' hi. w arehouh, vvhicli was con-
I'uM.ed in :r ver’,'- flici t ' ime. It thencom-
munic .tt d to a barge, it being l>w w.-der,
lying adjoining the ptemifeF, laden with

I794-1 HISTORICAL

ril'-pv'trt; a >d odier iiores. This occafioned
the co-i6a;ir;nia > to fprrad wid-*]. in very
Ihort time.. Several o^ilrar vcTels arid fmall
grafts, iying near to the harjri, lonn after
toox fire, vvlthru.t any paii.h liiy of getting
them off. The hlo .ing up of tlje fak petprj
the barge, occafrjnsd large f. ikes ijf
fire t: i fall on the warehmife^ heh'ninng to
the r iff India Compniy, whence the fa't
r-e'fi; was rem ivi 'g to'-'lie TOwer (20
I ai; of 'ibich lia.l been h)i thin ■'tel/ taken
tne orccG l.ng dav.) Tiie 11 inie^ fonu caugiit
t e vv<ti enoule^, and here the Icene became
J euh’iil; th'ewh di of t’loro Iniihhngs were
comu net!, w.t \ aU their c 'iiten's, to a great
no int. Tiie uind hlovvi ig ilrong from
t!i; Sont'n, and ti'e High ff recc of Ratclilfe
being narshivy, both fi les cau ht fire, \vhic!i
p.'evciVred tlie eng ri 'S from being of a >y
yjreiit;..! fcryxe ; and, in the coui fc of the
eve lingh it ocended itl'elf to the premifes
b* M r. [of ph rianks, ti iiher-mcrch'int, in
To-'don-ffrc; r, u fierh 't again rage. I m(K\

^ :r'-H!llv, and cpmnminica ed to f|atch r*
r:nv, the wlude ut Llie 'Veft and ]>’irt of the
Kart fije oM:-/'iicii was (xv'l'unied. The
fi'-e f'len ti).'k its coiirfe ui fi aiok-ffrea'',
ptcp ev'Canfeway , cangh; tlie' pierniks of
^Ir. ShakeLjV’a e, lop'-nt'ker, and burnt
Hiroiigh to tlVo fields on i fie o le fide, and
the u holy of ;he dwellings dn the other ;
f .rmi g alpirethdr a fipiare of g’ eit extent'.
\Vli’t is Very pcm.-irkabic, the d v^fhng-
of Mr. Beir, an extenfive building,
altlYoueh’ AiriOinded hy the fiimes, was far -
tuonialv preferveil, w irhi ut tloe leaff injary.

Mi. Dcviynrs earned a'l account of this
d'culful fire to the cabinet mmi'fers, who
sv -’le affap.ibied at !>ord Grenvilie’s; andmep,-
I'urc^ were imn'.ed'oteiy taken f>r giving
fevery afilff’oce in the power of 'Goveni-
hient, fi)v’ extingulfi'ing the ami

pr"fervi'ng order an-J ti a 'fpnU.ty in the
midff of f xh a d eadfiil cahiini' V,

A forvey iias been t ik’-n hv the Warden
and othei Office's of tl'*© Hamie", whofe re¬
port w'o, tiut o'lt oL I 2 JO honf.-s, of w’ldch
the liamlec x-.nfifted, no: nmie than 570
Were prefer vedi from gener >1 confi igi'.uinn ;
and, w hat is in >re to be legrettevj, the greater
liumher were tlte principal contrihut.M's to-
\v li ds the inppori of the p nuh It Iiaving
fie 'll rtr'por cd tlf.t the fii e wa< m' heionfiy
rice 1 ‘in; ltd , upon tl'C niofl rrpnntp tefiqui'Cv
)t i,'-. clearly afgar'amed it h'x’ps enfirely acci-
de itai, fioin ‘t .- C >ufe a!>ove-menrioaed.
It la^ed wrtli fo m.ch'vio'.ence, that it was
witli the gren'ell difftcu'tv Mr.Ciives and
111' fervaiT-.s efcafx.fi one of vvhoru war tta ri-
blv Mfnt, and '’'Haw in tlie Lon bn jdof-
pita!; aid !r. s'loves biirif lf bad unfor-
fiin.Uc ]y h’s a m b -fil<^e,an i rs o'Jiei w i‘e nucJi
h I’t, Tint l.ime id-a nni he 'o med of the
vciy gre.-t 1 )ls l.iffaineil by ihi' uuforuit.ate
even , the wareiu utesof Mr 'A hiuig rju-
faiiic.j f ,ga r 'o I >' <'.mw ml of up ' ards of
4', pooh will h ' 'ere cn irely dboved.
Tlic diffiefsuf the miferab'e nihab tan's ex-

C H R O N I C L F. 6-^9

ceejed all defcriptioti. In the fqrrounding
fields were dep 'fpLed the few goods, con-
fiftirig cliiefly tif heddiijg, they were ahltj
i ) fave. Stepney churcii war ojiened f r
theii- reception, and above a thoniand peo-
p’ewere obliged to remain all night in the
fields viMtcIpng tfie r.o nna'it of' tfieir pro-
p rty. Cluldren crying f >r tiieir lofl pa¬
rent'’, and parents lamenting the fate o‘’
l''eir chiMrc'i, added to tl.e Imi- nrs q
R no not eqn.d'ed during the proiem cen-
ti.ry. At Ic iff ..poo peop e .T e thrown on
the'jiqbUc benevolence. Sv the humanity of
Government, th u'e were on th * 2 ■ tli ahonr
T 50 tents pitched in an in lofed jvece pf
gr mi.d adjoin'ng to Stepney ci'U'xh yard,
f r tije reception of tfie pour faffer'-rs, and
breau was dillrihuled from the veffry for
tlieir relief.- The tents be- n.g found infufli i-
fc'it to contain all tiiofe w-'o I. ive lie ni thus

10 fuddenly -'eprive.! cf th ir habitation? 5
a nunbn- of rover-e 1 wag;uirs Irtvj feen
font from the Tower, to acco'riinoda’e tlie
rema’iuler nf'thefe diftreffed ooj 'Cl;'. — The
nuni ier 0; fprcl -tors to vi^'w the ruins of
th 7 late fire at Ra'.chff crofs, an ! the en¬
campment of the poor inhabit. uvs, whoni
this linufual confi 'gration iias diivt-n ' i live
in tent '., is wonderful. — A meeting of the af-
fnient 'inh ibp: ints of theC ’'/ was he'd at t'lc
Conrt-houfe, W.-dU] ife-UjiKU'e, on the -rnh
to take into confi 'emtiQn toe moff eff dlu d
Iirmns n'- vi:ti"g the dillrefi, when a
film very Irtle fiiort of looofi was imrnedi-
nteiv fnhrcribeil ; the Faff India ; om 'any
give 210'. On tfie fin-e d.w, the fubjcCl
Wa' taken into co- .hderation at i.l yd'h-, and
.ah Hit yoofi Col'eclsd Several Irim me gen-
tierner, wh 1 tvere- at the U'ermlofe-fipiare
m-tLing, h'v - fince attended af the dffrereat
av.nneM'-a-i rg t.) ih > defi dated feen foV
th.'- pugp de O' lolic t ng the ben^voimice of
tliofe pm! )!!' Wiiofi; curiofit.' led them tn
Vs itneff; the dift efuis <»f their fellow cre.itu: eSt

'Th// 1 / lay J 3 ; . ‘

On the Gcnt.nent t:ie d"if ffrous f.ene
wludi h;5 for feveral vveekr prtfe ited I'rfel'f
to ns bee lines shnly m re cal m t.ius. Tne
FrcTich are now' in complex poif (finn cf tlie
mchole of - he ^-nff^ian Netherland„s, and rg?-
nace, ir a miff a! u'uiing degree, n it <Vnl\''
Uie Dutch Netl'.er'a'uis, but even Mo' land
itfelf ; for the defence of which, hov'eve'-,
filch me in': .are p'l. filing as will he pr idnc-
V'Ve f 'h.i d (comfiture of the fivui e ranaci-
oiis vie.vs of „ii j ivetnaie and determiiKd
en-emy On the Rhine, the profpe^t is mit
lefi alarming, tli- Ctvribined amms Iiaving
been d'iven acrofs the river; and, mffead of
being able to follow up the appai iint’y bi il-

11 in l-ncelles " iffi whicli they ('por'-il t!ie
c.wipa gn, ha\ e h. en under the ni-ce.fiiry of
relimj lifiiin II the adv iita xs Mi-y had
gamed. .<n ■ -e no'V fl/ii'g i 1 evetu di e. t-
lon. Tfie obiCCs of theii' fn'tne op^[- .tions
mull (hr Tore be the dsf nee of G-nniirv,
ir. vlnch w, fnicere’y u iiR th-rn [ha‘ fiio-
cco- tncii Cauie io vi s-ii ual .rve''.

• / y

670 jUddziio'm and Coyrefdlom. -

P. 499, a. 51, read tite compr,-und in-
tevert,” 4:0.

y-. 571, Gol. 1, 1. 8, for iSruT^-! alfo in-
.dnlge Ihumlelv’ts in Qontemi' 'ii, ev^n to
txoef;,” r. l.et nor (iic!( mduif^e
itvemfti v«s in con-teniion, even wdli .tlieir
(tonc’;ue';.” '

P. C73jad. 2, r, " Tuf!:idiiyj June 10.”

P,. kt:is.

I'Tivw T yienn.i, Pie, Ernprjsfe a/ Ger-
" c. n-oH’y, a prin- c6.

J .at.iy , Kirr ei ’C'’, I.^ady WeKP.'-r, a dao.
AiTvrin^’.bam, K-iokSjtiie Lady o!' William
Prats.!, 'efcf. n d:uighter,

'July z. At liis i-)tufe in,B.ik-er-f';'t"( tj
!a‘ran-kjOa, Uie ivfidypit j ,S. I-iyde,c<q. a dan.

.^3 At hio.Lou.fe in Ca.arle'- nretr, ileike-
ley-fau-a. t!'.c l.advcf ILdd-nie, a dan.

M'e Lady of Rich, Dou n^^efq (xmker,
of H irtlmiun'i \y l.me, adaught

KLi'S. W i , ! i .ims, .of f irdbury - .place, M oor-
i?.elds, a chmg'ater.

6. A\ his feat at Rntiam, near Audover,
the l.ady ef Pc.eti.nxl O.v.-.ir, efcj. a fon,.

8- f h.e f.auly of i hemao Graham, efq. of
Claphaen, a fon.

I I. TiiC L.aly.of Thnra.is Welf m, efq. of
.Clay-hd', Lnliefl, a riatigii-ter.

j.’.. A.,'" fjiT t.p' fe in 0 larges-fii eet, Lady
,of fohiT Chaidin MihArav e, j^fq a fon., '

16. Tlie Ladv o! Gh nie^ l)i u.yimond, efq.
of Ne-w-llreet, goring- gardens, a daughter.

Ac his Loiallbip’s hnnfe in CavendfUi-lqu.
tfie M n'ohio.nefs of Downfhii'e, a daugiiter.

je. A.t. his horde ni Pnrtl.pd fdae, tho
] :i'.iy of Tiioma'- Booth.hy p-rkvi-is, efq. M.
P. a fon ; winch di-^d on tlje : 2d

2z A,t l.i'' Loiainaip.'s houfe in Eorkeley-
fquare, the C.oun:e!s C.an len, a datigiiier.

25. 8iddons,. a dvaghtor.

27. At Ins lumfeio Queen-lciua? e', the Lady
of Wi’l'am Fi afer, efq a danghtpr.

At Mil ford- huulr, t’e Lat of Mrs. We^b,
Mrs. P. S. -VVehb, the La !y of Caph W . of
the (hneen’s dragoon-gn.-n d.s, now Rrving
With ins regiment in Llandei'S, a fon.

M A K R 1 A C F S .

ylp>i!\y EV. Mr. Owen, only fo.n of Dr.

. . . . £ ^ O vicar of Ldmor.toiq to Mifs
G‘. edahq dauy liter of Capt. U. ot Sodolk.

'4. At iV ariboi'orgh, Ahlts, Rev.
ro. Moore,; (..f Bdley, co. Oluucefler, to
},IiL L. Wan-ier.

25, At i.i iR Canfield, Elfrx, Mr. Johtj
rucL!), of Ware, heits, to Mils Mary-Aitiie
B. oauif y, of Dover-.

26. At Long Sutton, CO. Lincoln, Mr.
diicimrd Dedcmei'e, to Mifs Alicnby, daugh.”
<}f tl ie l.ite hi in rr.-n A. efq.

At IP ni.lingi ia rpe, co. feicefler, Rev,
R. W, P.tiii. h. of liavtn'jy, to Mifij .Si-
rri' n', of hrrnt'ngtnoi'pe.

28. ’ VL, liar , fnigeon, of Pcince’s-Rreet,
fo Mifi M ry 'U'diran-fon, d.uichtei of Ti¬
mothy W, Aq. ('f d;- a? KniRg.RiecU

—^Bh ihs and jiBarriages^

29. At Grerna-green, Mr. Gmene, jm
of I'l-inity-eollog^, Cambridge (lori of V)i
■G. of York), to Mffs Roberts, of Tiieiforo
daiighter c-d Mr, R. 1 te of Enr . ^

yo. Rev. T, L win, to Mils Ramfderi
Loth of Scai-Lorong!'.

Llr Vv'm. Trotniaiqof Camhiidg -, to Mir
Eli?.. R.tndaU, o,nL d.iughter of the late Rev
M'-. R. of .stinsford, Dorfet.

La{'[\, (/erald Fitzg/jr.dd, cfq. of Men
rioa-fq.u.ii e, Dnldun, t(-> Mifs Ifabelhi S'apie
d,ingh''v:i' of Sir Ri'Ih rt S. barf, and iucc.e 11

Lot d VilcoJint de Vrfei,

At haringdon. Berk*, Rev. Mr. Barme
reitor of D.^tdcc.to', in tiiat couiity, to Mi:
Ri ince, of F /rinadon.

Mr. S'larp-q mr-ihcian, or Stamford, cc
I.incoln, to M fs Sharpe, of i.ondon.

At Hull, Mr.- Bennifon, to LLfs Y/riglr
of the rnaxjor hoarding Ichool.

At Bi'ton, near Rqgby, c Warwick, af
tci- a conrtfh p of neap 30 yeiifs, Mr. T!
Reader, of Faalton, to Mifs Vt r.ight, of tR
formei' p'ace-

/ t h ewe lOle, jofeph ForR^r, eU\, of Ses
ton Burn, co. N.y Inr.-nbe; Iriod, to .MifsScotr
da-ag!re:' of Llem v S efq. of Kewcyittle, ai
uiv,:ce to SirWm S, ki-it. indge-iulvoc-’Ce-ge:
.ne.; ah and to Sir johiiS. knt. attorqey-gei e - ai

At Wirciieft.;!', jidin Ikingdi.rm, .eUp t.
the Navy-olFire, to MiL Spariho'.t, only dav.
qf Henry S-- ekj of that place.

Mr. I eonard, i nd-fr ryeyor, to Mifs La
boui ir, daughter of TUpmas L. efq. of .Gateft
head, co. Dnrliam.

j. Gibfon, efq. of ipfwich, to iMifs .Am
lyah'eiL. ILo.me, u.uigh'.er of the late Rev
R.!plu.i'd E. of the Lime p’ace.

Charles Montagne O. mlh?, efq, M- P. i:
the Jinfli parliame'-t f r the bon.ngh of Dir
ieek, to Mifs Knigdouiy, daugliter of Thu
K. ^dq. of Dublin.

Near Rliavader, co Radnor, Mifs Lew
LI )d, ('f Nantgwhllr, a yonng lady -wiifi
fortune of 20,occl. at her cAvn difnofal, ti
Mr. john [.evvis. her own hnncfm.in.

Mr. Fr. nc s idO|ikh-ifon, an emii.ent fur
gewi, ( f I'etei borough, to Mifs Whitiliey
of E rough fen.

'J/zU I Lieut -ci'l. Gafpoyne, of 'he C< Id-
flream repiment of giun's, io .M.fs WMlianr
fon, eUleff d ugh. and one of the colreii elfa
of John W. efq. late of Tuby-h-.ll, co. L ini

Mr. Claik, merchant, to M fsMarv---^nr
Oke, 2d daugh ot Mr Rob. O. me; chant

Rev. M’*. R. Lomas, minifter at flalifaT^
to Mifs M try Barkei', of Nlan liAfer,

2. Mr. Janies Holt, manuLidfui er, of Man
cliefter, to Alifs Betty Markhindj of Lymm
in Cl'efhire.

By fpecial licence, Rev SirTlm BiougH
ton, bait, of L'od'Jirgton-hall, t-i Mrs Scot
Jackfon, widow of Thomas Scot' J efq. I'li
one oi t!ie diredhors (d the bank of rngl.'ip.d-

3. Mr. Wxn. Forfler, attorney, Norwicl
to Mil's Peevnr, dap., of Dr. B.ot fame plcc:

3. By ipeci.il Leciice, Lord Vifc'-'unt Ci

n\ ng' lami

Alai ri^^ei and T)e'dths ff co^ji UrahU

igbamp) to Mits Benifon, d. ugtiter of Jo-
;i IX e.*q. of Deiibits, cu. Suriey
\i<;h:^rd Smith Apbieyard, e'q of New
mond-hieef, to Mifc Hal', only l aughrer
lieiate Mr. Syl' a»^usH.of Paternodei - row.
Mi-. iX.'uriT, nf Alh, to M\fs Jane GiRord, '
.Mnrg,.tc.

6. Mr. John Rackliam, b'>oi- feller, of.^
ifv, to \IiR Lear hord ale. of DKs dauch. of
il.are Mr. L. of Har’crton, co. Nor^)tk.

7. At Chatham. Mr. Pe’er Burdol', of 'he
cife oftlci at Rochiflerj to Ivlifs Jai>s
arp, of til? t city.

10. At Path, Robert Dirrfdde, efq to
ifs Pye, dauc,bttr of Charles fh clqt of
^adley, Herhs.

joho 'Vilfoii, M. D of Spalding, to Mifs
GilliaOj of Louth.

Rev. Eikv. Mahby, ^ Mifs Harvey, dan.
jereraiah Ive' H.efq. of Cittrw. co. Norf.
James S:ner, jun. elq. of Rithmt : id,,Sur-
y, ro M'fs Anre Pli»rpton, daughter of Mr.
ich. 'Lot VViidernefs rou', Clei kenwell.

Samuel Hunt, -efq. C'f Newbob-i, co.
L'rwick. to Mifs F,r^>'F, or'y filler of John
efq. ' f Enys, co. Cornwall.

At Ripp.ix, Mr. Hai.cox, forge(>n,of Dcr-
y,\o M fs S Smith, of Adilcy, cm York.
Air Lockwood, jun. di a]i!er, of Leicelter,

) Nlifs Palmer, of Kinibolion.

15. J<ihn Ewart, efq. M D. of Hath, to
liL d’ Aguilar, fifler to the Lady of Ad-
hral Sunrt.

17. iV'lr. Wrigh*-, attorney, to Mifs Sophia
varc, daughter of th.e late Tho. E. efq. mef-
liant, (,f Hembu'gh.

Mr, Parker furge-'ii and apothecary, to
■lifs ih'ockt'in botli of Newark.

Mr. John 'A Iharas, to A’ifs P Hz. Craven,
oth of VX'ymondhamJ co. Leiceder.

10. At VVmcheder, Gorges Lowtber, ef^.
A P for Rati ath, in Ireland, to Mils Julia
'ahenrdin Hungerford, niece to the War^
en of WincheRer-college.

Mr. [oihua Tiimmer. of Brerrtford, to
4 fs Lliza Th'iiTipfon, of Clufwick.

1“ t Gieat i'e. khampdead, vir. Prentice,
urgeon, of St Alb,'»n’s, to Mils Heaisy, d.au.
if Mr. H. lurgeon, of the former place.

17. Mr. Marechnux, furgeon, Bedford-
•c'w, toHifs Palmer, clq. of Red Lion ftrect,
-ki ken well.

Mr. G. Morg.-w’, of Selling, to Mifs Ch.j^-
mn, of Faveiih.am.

zr. At 3 ith-houfe, Piccadilly, by frKcial
icence, Sir Jamrs Murray, hart. M. P. Icr
rVeymouth, to the R’ght Hon. Hennctta-
I.auia l^ultcney B-aioinfs Bath, and only
laugh, of Wm. P. ekj. M P. for VVeycuouth.
5ir James has fmee obt-ired his hlajelly’s
royal Jicem e and author ty to alumie thu
icme and bear the arms of Pultency.

Rev. W'llliam Her, lenior vicar and pre-
y ndary of Liticoln, and rcn5lorof Mevis-Ea-
detby, CO. Lincoln, to Mifs Crowder, of
Palernoftsr row.

Z4. Camber Gafco'gne, efq. M. P. for

67 I

vernoo!, to- Mifs Price, daiightef of viie late
Ch ii'ios P. efq.

■ At Stamford, eo. LXnCnln, Rev. C. Plvlnot,
rei^or of Kin(de, Kent, to Mils Lafargue,
f Illy daugPt'T of Rev P. L.

a6. Mr. Jclin Dobois, of New Bafingball-
fit eet, rrerchan' , to Mifs Sophia T owfe'^,daa.
of the late Cfia. T eh], of Wantage, Bdi.ks.

D E n r H s .

Tinf \ T Bomb.'iy, Lieutenant- c( lon^!
. Francis Skelly.

Mav At St. Domingo, Patrick Sinclair,
e q. of Dun .an, captain of the Ipbigenia.

S. At hl.rtiniqnc. Ed” luid Proudfuoty
efq. of the iilarid of Grenada.

iS. Atthe maofeof Rogart, co. Suther¬
land, in North Britain., the Rev. vEneas
Maclfod, miniPer of tliat parvlTi, I 'ae chap¬
lain' of t'le fecond batt.-djon of the late 7 ;jd
regiment of foot, and only br.other of tho
Re*’. Hugh Mac!e"d, D D prefiru : pnFelf r
of cliurch hi“^ory in the unlvei Mty af Gl 'f-
gow. Mr. M. was a genheman lughly ef-
teemt'd .uid refpefted by all h s acqnai nu¬
ance, fev his Prong natural good fer,re,,hbe-
raliiy of fent' • nr, and horp tahty. He Ini'-
ceedetl to this Im.dl living rather -lAe m life,
when he married an elegant young lady.
Mil's Jane M ’ckay, -who furvives h'm, W'it'i
eight young ch.ildreu, 'their off p'dng. Both
of them were in an nncomrnon degree ge¬
nerous and fricndlv, and pr.uRifed more ot
the antieat holpit^l ty (lo common rjmong

■ the clergy 'h the Highlands of Scotland) rrt
a living under lool. a-year, than, it is much
to be regretteu*, at prefent diflingudh many
even of tire "d gnified clergy in this part of
the united kingdom.— The writer of thts
fkctch curnot c 'uclude with.out earnelllr
vv’lhing and ho'dng that bis amiable widow
and promifing ctnlciren njay meet wdth that--
proteflion and friendiinp in .he world which
h:s bt-revolcnce and virtues give tl.ern fp
Ibrong a claim to.

zx. A? lea. on his return from the Weft
Indies, Richard Hf;nry Buckeridge,efq lieu¬
tenant colonel of the f4th regiment. He
conimanded, during th« campaign, tlie thud
grenailier battalion, wth dillmguifhed g.il-

l.mtry and condufl. A fever (moft proba¬
bly the coi’.iequeive of exci flive I, f gue)
felted bun foon after -trmbarking for Eng-*
iaru!,, and proved f.itat in a few day'.

24. At Spanilh town, of an 'inflammattny
fever, ten davs after liis arrival in Jama'ca,
Mr. T. Vv'hite, eidei't fon of Mrs. W. of
Grantham, to Lincoln,

31. At Naplei^, Mr. BilUngton, hufband
of the celebr.'ted fmgsr. He had dined, ap-
p.arently, in p^rfecl ite'a’yh and fpirits ; and,
in troit g up llairs for bis hat, in ortler to
accompany his wife to the theatre, fe'l mo-
tionlel's, and never after utro- o'* a word.
This event happened the day t v. ... the
firft appearance of Mrs. B. in the g .a.d
theairg of St. Carlo, at N..plcs.

672 Ohliua^y of confiiUrahle Pe''fdns ;

'Junf ... * At his houfe at ' Wig more, id
Bronil' y, Jt)hii Wells, efq. ail eminei't Ih'.p-
hullJ.cr, and eh eil fun of the late xibrahr m
W. eui*

Suddenly, Mr. 'Witl. W'noUo''!, anotlie-
cary, of fyower Brook-ifieat, Gi'oiv'Ciu'r-
fou.Te. Mr. W; bid been lent for t') hloed
a'huiy.j and vvlu'd he rctai'iiejl ho ne die

4/10 the W Ctt Indies, Gen.Th . Diin..-1.;s.
He was ih' zed with tlie yeiiow fc/er, .nil
d'ed ot' that fatal diforder, after an dlneG of
four days, lamented by all who liad br.en h;s
cc-nmaniOns in tiie field, (?r his actjnamt.'inee
in pnva e life. Four ot'ver ofric.-rs wcie
bnraod on the fame d. y.

I At Rdinlimgh, Mr. Wm. Gilpillaii,
late fui gepn. of tlie i8th veg. of foot.

Suddenlv, Wr. Wiilnm William.^, liaber-
dallaer, of M-nket-ifreet, St. Jaans’s. He
had be. n :diii<t1ed with flight bleedings fn ,n
hi'^ nofe and moutb, winch, at tnis leanra,
is no nnarual fvmjroin of attendant Hver.
On this morn ng ( nnd .y) he Iiad been
blooded; ;\iter an lionr he lai occ.ihon to
go back 'ards; with a gnih of hlood to
aw'-xul th.k nis friends dteaded lome exter¬
na! came, he d ed on the feah .

17. .Ac frook green, Hammeifniitb, in
his, 66tb year, Mr. John lie 1, b: '.' k'ayer, of
Long- A' 1 -A Mr B, on the mo **1 g of his
deatii, had taken his ufu il walk t na ngli h s
pleafure-grounds, to al’ appe.irance m good
and wrs preparing for a ride to Lon¬
don, hut was foddeniy taken ill, and expired
vvithont a groan. Few rreii, in liLs hue,
ever aci'iuiied lo large a pr< pcrty with more
indiiftry or integrity. It \t Lrd that he
was' potleUed of between 4 and ,00 leifes
of ! oufes, wliir.h he had taken, principally
from cor cerate and o4her puhlic bodi -s, m
2nd about this nivitropohs. Ti efe homes he
they'd up and re Itt, and thus became i ind-
lo d over a very numerous lenantiy.

zo. In her ySth year, Mrs. .Abiali Dirby,
of Coalbr.iok-dale, a very eminent Ipeaker
anno"g the peoide called Quakej s.

At i'l piiead,. m Scoil nd, Cipt. Patrick
Stew'art, la'e oVihe 10 ^d regiment.

In London, lu Iden'y, Mr. G. LoiT)as,cot-
ton-mannfoMui er, fount rly of M anchelier.
At thv'^e ficli ck io the aittrno.rr he went
to a f ofcoCton, quite, well, and at five
was dead.

2’. At his ho’if^ in M 'rtimer-fdreet, Ca-
vendifh-fqu'U e, aged 68, Sir Archibald
Murrav, hn t llis title devolves t > his ion,
|obn .Viurr.iy, of tlie 46th n gimeiu, at
Cork, in Ireland.

24. At his apartments in Wekminiler,
Charles Pigott, elq. author of “ The Jockey
Clab,” in two p uir, “The Female Jiichey
Club, '’“.All a lu esupoaldurke.,” “ Treachery
no Crime,” and many other vvclTkno v n p,ulr-
licatioiis. His remains were interred in the
family - vault at Chetwynd, Shropfhire.

At tire George iun in Bui lord, on hiarC'
tan> from Briilol, Richard Walls, eiq.

wiA rr.phl:al ^fnccdoUs, [ Tu I ’

25. At Leatherl’cad, in h.is 66hh yebn
[ohn Wo hI ward, ehj. formeily an emiiuaii
'}i?Mckwc!l' hall f ail h g but liiul rctiied ft<Jry:
bnlijieCs Lipwai ds of 20 ydais.

In 'rirj^pbaUl s p u ky Mrs-. Coring, agei
St,' oC which ifVe liad h -en tT years totalh
hli'ul, vvife of Mr, G. farmer; a id, oh th*
i.t'iof July, ibe was Infi ie I in Che'huir
e'liirth yartl, in a bhiek grave 9 fdec C
nn.lus dre]).

26. in his 4 th yi.nr, Mr. Jairifs Alb'on

of Dar'f-ord, m’Kc it, at which pHce he h.ul
been fnperv for in t!ie exciie f.ir feVeral
years; and,'f''oiTi ins excellent qn.ilities, h'c
lived and d e.l refp 'died and I.unvnied. His
temper and difpofrion, joine-.l witli a feitik
genius, and Piidlhonedy, jullae, and liu-
ra .nity, in an unwearied apphcar on to the
duties of his oflicC ren 'ered him tliereir
ecjualed liy few, and excelled by none. Hii
ge I’Tis VV..S c.ap b'e of any iiteravv attiin-
moot ; but whoever fulfiPs the duties of hi^
( ifice as 1 c. dn! will he entire'y lepri'ved uj
d;ery amufenlhit, :m-d it wa^ this that pre¬
vented hi.m'from engag’Hg in domelf ic hap-
pinefs. Hisi'eitli was raiher fudd'm, occm
li .mod liy a p ein liy ; by which the revenue
of ex-:ife lias loil .in invaluable officer, and
his c'nmt.iy a firm fidend. /

A: Tie r.eafov.as, in S’Vopfliire, Majui
jolin li.iliiday, brothe; -in la.v to the Ear!
of D.-iarc. He was well koowm througl:
the kirg !om f)!' the.itri:al trflenp, vvTlh.Ii I c
frcqueuily difjilaved foi charit.ible pui jxrfe^i
and to his rricnd,s for conviVial talents’, vvliicf
he pi irelfed in an iin.;omnV>n degi ee.

At fir yton-liall, co. Cnnibcrland, in Jn:
85th ye-", greatly and worthily elFoemei.
by all w1h> knew him, Sir Gilfnd Lawion
bu t. He is fucceeded ifi h’S title and eftatt
by his only fon, n-nv .S'.r Gilfri-i L. hart.

27. In Hnrifwick -row, Qyieen-Uiuare
Bloo oibury, Mr?. Bunough, wife of Jame
B. euj. a barri.ier at 1 ov, and cumindiione]
of ba .ki u ts.

In hark-iireet, lamented hyall who knet^
lie , Mifs Mico'E, daughter of 'lie late Dr
Samuel N. reHor of -t. J ane-, Weitminller

At Lee, in Kent. Mrs,, Hoy field.

At Edifihurgii, Mr. Thomas Scott, write'
to tli-a lignet.

At Hn’i!, Mrs. Brown, wife of Mr. Eldrei
B. dniggitk

Rev. W. Cole, many yens paftor of .
Baptifi congregation at Long Buckby, cc
Nortliampton.

2?.' In it. George’s fquare, PortfinouMi
"ReaT-admir il Balfour, who fb eminent!;
diftinguifned hifiifc-lf at Louilbourgh, vvhei
he cut out tlie Bienfiufant, of 74 guns, will
his boat’s crew'.

Suddenly, at his Itoufe at Hoddefdon, cc
Heits, in I'lis 4:,th year, Wm. Mather, efii.

29. At his honfe in Bridge-ftreet, Black
frlairs, Alexander Bramler, efq. late Iheii
of London and Middlefex. He was born 2
Eigdi, in the fhiie of M-or.iy, in North Bn

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1 794-] Obituary of confider able Per Jons \ with Biographical Anecdotes, 673

tain, June 20, 17x9, and fettled early in life
in the metropolis, where, for a leries of
years, he earned on, with uncommon re-
I'pedlability and fvtceefs, a vr ry exrenfue
commeice, particularly with Spain, Portu¬
gal, the Mediterranean, ^c. He was many
years a member of the common council, and
alw'. ys evinced himfelf at once the friend of
his Kirg and the rational ad' oer^te for t!ic
libeities of his' country. Called by the una-
uiiTidus voice of his fellow -citizens to the
important office of one of the ffiei ifls of tltis
city, be dih'harged his duty with fuch I'pirit,
judgerren'', attention, and liberality, that his
name will long be .remembei ed with re-
fpeCl. To Ills indefatigable exertions in tiie
duties of liis office, indeed, the fatal event
whic'a deprived fociety of fo valuable a
member is, w’ith too much probability,
aferibed. Among other inflances of his
attention, it is only necefiaiy to relate one.
At a time when a dreadful contagion pre¬
vailed in the goal of Newgate he ventui ed
(contrary to the perfuafions of his friends)
to enter and inipedl the fick ward, in the
hope of alleviating the diftrelfes of the un-
happy fufterers ; and it was obferved, that
from that moment he ceafed to enjoy Ins
iifual health. In him Merit ever found
fupport; and from him Diftrefs was never
feat away without relief. He lived refpecl-
ed by a numerous acquaintance, and died '
with that ferenity which is only the lot of
the fiiicere Chrillian.

Mr. Stephen Barbut, of Spital-fquare.

At Hufbands-Bofworth, co. Leicefler,
aged 68, Mr. Andrew Buchanan, a native
of Glafgow ; who, during co years that he
travelled with goods in the Midland counties,
fupported an unblemifned integrity.

Near Hull, aged 74, Jercmiali Turner.
He had been county -bailitf near 50 yetir^ ;
was originally a tailor, and went to work
at 4d. a-day. He acquired upwards of 400CI.
by the molt rigid parfimowy, and has left
80c 1. as an endowment to tlie chapel of
Sw anland, in Yorkfhire.

Drowned, in bathing in the Thames, at
Brocas field, Eton, in his icth year, William,
earl of Waldegrave, born July 19, 1784.
He w'as only fon of Geoige the late and
'4th earl (who died 06t. 17, 1789), by Eliza¬
beth Lama, eldelt daughter of his uncle and
piedecellor, James, third earl, and the Du-
chefs of Gloucer>er. He went o ’t to bathe
with two of ids fclioolftllows ; had come
Out of the water, and was putting on his
tl aches, when his two companions thought
preptr to fwiin acrofs the rivn. fie llrip-
jif-u himfelf again, and plungeil into ibe wa-
trc to folUivv their example, when lie un-
toi tunately nink, and never role again.
The body was not fotind till not morning,
dole by th« place wheie he funk. His le-
mains were depofited in tlie chapel of Eton-
XoUege. Tlie funeral was conduclcd witli
Gunt. M^g, July, 1 79+.

the greateft folemnity. Dr. Heath and Dr.
Langford pieceiled ihe coipfe to tlie.church,
wlioe it was met by the fellows of the ced-
lege ; fix nohle.nen fupporteii the pall ; ihe
wdiole fchool . tCcnded the meL nclioly ceie-
mony, and on their count nances were vifi-
bly pichni ed the fenfations they f(?lt for tiis
lols ( f a comp-anion vvlwife promifuig i^rtues
and Iweet tiirpofiiion rendered him juhl/
beloved by'all who knew Inm. Di . F irf-
ter preached a inoB excellent and afteding
fermon on the mel tncholy occafv n, the day
after the funeral. — HisLordOdp leaving only
a liller, one year older than himfelf, the ti¬
tle devolves on his uncle William, a captain
in the royal navy, and juft created a rear-
admiral in the promotions whir.ii took place
on the royal vifit to Portfmonth.

At Poi tfmouth, aged j53, of the wounds he
received in the glot ious vidorv of June i,thc
gallant Captain Jn. Harvey, late commander
of theBrunfwick, .a 74 gun-ffiip. He was the
third ton of Mr. Richard Harvey, an l was
born at Elmtoa, intheparilh ofEythom,
9th Jnly, 1740. He married judith. a daugh¬
ter of [V'lr. Henry Wife, of Sandw ich by
wliom he has left three fons and ttiree
daughters, the fecond fo 1 now a mafter and
commander in his M.'^jefty’s navy. He lirft
w'ent to tea, in 1755, in the Falmouth, a
50 gun-ihip, with Capt. Brett ; was maile a.
lieu'enant in Sept. 17 59, through tlie intereft
of Sir Piercy Brett, fecondfed b^ the recom- ,
mendation of Admiral Holborn, who was
particularly pleafed with his tUl gence and
attention to the fervire ; w'as made mailer,
and commander in May, 1768 5 a poft--
captain in Sept. 1777, and appointed Ad-'
miral Duff’s captain in the Pantlier, a 60
gun-fhi'p, being ordered to the Gibraltar
ftat'on, wliere he remained until lu'y,
1730 ; during which tinr e he had many op¬
portunities rf ibevving that hnguiar com age,
and attention to hvs duty, which lias ever
maiked his conduit through life— having
fu'tained and defeated a formidabie attack,
from feveral fire-fiiips of tlie enerryp, and
fome time alter brought his Ihip ! ome fafe
to Enflaiul, though furrounded by a power¬
ful ffirce. In November f-illowing 1 e failed
under the command of Sir Samuel (now
Lord) Hooil to the Well indies ; where, by
his unremitted attention to the fervice, he
pxquired the particular rt'gard of life late
Lord Rodney, who, immedia'ely after the
capture of St. Euftatia, lelected him, with

* Captain Hai V' y, who for feveral yca-is
bef -re his de.iih refu'ed at Sandw ch, w.»s
eleiled a jurat of that town in 1772, and
execired the office of mayor io ' 7“4 (fee
Mr. Bays’s ColleClions, p. 729) — On the
day tif his inteiment moft of ii’e n habi-
tu ts of this town appeared in n ou'ming,
as a nniik of their refpeetd for Ihs menioiy.
t See Gent. Mag. vol. L. p. 391.

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two more fliip?;, to undertake the purfuit of
a large tonvOv, ihcn lately tailed Fcp Euiope,
which w as pei formed with tlie greateft ef-
liaving captured the whole of them,
with tlie Dutch Admiial*. In Auguft fol¬
lowing he returned to England witli a large
convoy, under the command of Captain
Dougla^, of the Triumph, the whole of
which they hronght horn- fafe. In the be-
ginningof the year fallowing he was appoint¬
ed to trie Sampfon, of 64 guns, in the t han-
nel fteet, under the command of Lord Howe,
wdto very foon honoured and diftinguiihed
him with his particular notice, which Cttpr.
Harvey had the happinefs to poffefs until the
moment of his deaths His appointment tp
theB.unfwick was at his Loidihip’s parti¬
cular requeft, and was his fecond llaip alfern
in the glorious battle of the rft of June.
From tlie period of Captain Harvey’s firff
entering the navy his reputation was daily
increafing. His abilities and his braveiy,
on every occahon, proved fully adequate to
the fervice he was allotted to perform. In
what elf imaticn he was held, previous to the
late engagement, may be inferred from the
honourable fituation lie filled in the line, as
fecond to Ins Lordihip. truly he WaS

worthy of the confidence repofed in him, the
general voice of the nation will befl explain.
It but too frequently happens that men
cm.uently dillinguilhed for their courage,
and for thofe talents^w'hich are calcnl .ted to
draw dow-n the applaufes of the w oild, have
t.'irniihed the luft' e of their public charabler
by a vicious, indecorous, and unlbcial deaiea-
nor in private life. Of the illulfrious fab-
jedl of thefe memoirs it may ti uly be faid,
that his death is not more an objecf of na¬
tional regret than a private niisfoiiure,
wicely extenfive in its effecfs. VVheiever
he was known h« was beloved j his concili¬
ating manners and the goodnefs of his heait
wei e eminently confpicuous on every occa-
fion, and converted an admiration of his
bravei y into elfeem for his perloii ; an ef-
leem which has followed him to the gr.ive,
and will aliimilate with his memory to the
remoteft period of time.— T!ie captain of a
man of war, like an abfolute prince, is but
too often contaminated w th tlie luff of
jiower, and governs his fhip’s crew with a
i'way the molf. arbitrary and defjiot c. The
natural goodnefs of Capt. Harvey’s heart
would liave relfrained him, if highei' and
iTioi e praife-v orthy motives had not deter¬
red him from ialling into this error. As a
naval commander he regarded the welfare

Gent. Mag. vol. LI. p. 145. Capt. F.
Reynolds, of the Monarch, had tlie com-
niafi*-! nf this detached fquadron, who, in
hiS let'er to Lord Rodney, [uihlilbed in the
Gazette, writes, “ By the aCliv.Ly (jf Capt.
Harvey^ind my Lord Charles Fitzgeiv.ld
(captain of the Sibyl) we were enabled to
(take potfeiLu.n of the whole.”

and happinefs of thofe adling under him
with the fohcitude of a parent. A Britilh
fallor is never deficient in gratitude ; the
kindnefs of his fuperior is always repaid
with intereft. Thofe failors who had once
feryed him never defcrted him, whilft an
option was left to follow their inclinations.
On his appointment to the Brnnfwick, tlie
numbers that ^ocj^ed to his Ifandard, who
had failed with him befire, muff tiave af¬
forded much gratification to his fvelingp^
The enthufiafm arid attachment of hisfhip’s
company will beff beeftimateu from the no¬
ble manner in which they fecnnded his ef¬
forts in the late glorious aflion. He h.^d
truly Iqarnt to comm.'ind their lives thio*
the medium of their aifectious.’’ His cou¬
rage, fl vving from the pur-ft principles of
loyal'y to his King and duty to his Country,
W'as of 2 very exalted nature. Op the me¬
morable firit t>f I one, whilft he w'as fuf-
taining the tremendous file of three hne-of-
batcle thips, and deftrudlmp. le nieti to me¬
nace him cn every fide, not ilie deiTl agita¬
tion or confafion was vifiiile in his deport¬
ment j but he gave his cuumiaods w i.h the
fam^ ferenity and compofure as though he
had been firing a royal iahite on a il^v of
public rejoicing. When the unfot inu te
wiiich fliattered his arr*.' oblige ' bum to quit
the deck, he gave the ftrufteft uiiun6'tions
that his Blip might not be give^ up v, iulft
flae floated upon the w iter- It is needlefs
to add, that ins orders were moft rchgioufly
obferved. When taken mto tlie cockpit,
hi? care for his own rnislpruine was in-
ftaiitly obliterylad iri his concern for thofe
around iiiin ; a numbgr O' poor failors, torn
and mangled in the mofl Ib^king manner,
W'ei-e then under tlie hands of the fu' geons,
and others every moment bringing lu ; yet
tins u'orthy man would fuffer no part of the
attention which his fel'ow fufferers flood in
need of to be diverted to himfelf, till it was
his regular turn. HiS arm was amputated
below the elbow, and there were ho-pes of
his recovery ; but, owing to the great eflu-
fioa of blood, by his refufing, for a long
time, to, quit the quarter-deck, and partly
to the fatigue of the adfion, and the wind
of balls, hiS whole frame had received inch
a coucuffion that it w sfoon apprehended to
be a dt-fperate cafe.— When it is confldered
what a terrible conflidt Capt. Harvey fuf-
tained during this memorable engagement 5
tliat his fhip fingly funk one fuperior in
force, and left two others abfpKite wrecks
upon the water, it will be admitted that his
individual bravery and faiil coiUnbuCed very
materially to th.at complete and decitled vic-
toi ^ upon which tlie fa:e of tliis country in
a ^eat meafure depended. His Sovereign
was higiily fenfible' of his meritorious fer-
vices, and meant to have revv;u‘cled tliem
the itioft diftiagu.lhed manner ; but tlie
laurels which were intended to decorate his
triumph mult now cover bis tomb. He has

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fhewn what a Brixifh commander can ac-
complifh ; and we truft the remembrance
of his example will have the moft falutary
effects in the Biitifh fleet. In this hrave
man the pnhlick h.is lofl a meritorious offl-
cer, his family a w'arm and fincei e hiend,
and the W'orld a getitlenian of unhlem fhed
character and iionour. He has left

a large number of very near relations to la¬
ment his lofs, a wife and feveral children,
the eldcll of whom, Capt. ]ohn Harvey, is
a ma fer and commander, an t the youngeft
under four years of age ; a fatt er and mo¬
ther, both advanced in life, and married 60
years Feb. 20 lafl, and now living at Sand¬
wich ; four brothers and four hflers. Of
the brothers, the eldeft, Richard, is vicar of
Faftry, in Kent ; and the fecO-'d is Henry,
late captain of the Ramillie^, novv a rear-
admiial of the Blue, who is fuppofed to
have loft a foil, lieutenant on hoard the
Arv'cnr, believed to he fllip wrecked near
Corflea; and his eldeft fun, a fine youth be¬
tween 18 and 19 j was drowned frorh his
father’s fhip, the Convert, on the New¬
foundland Ration, being the only one loft
of 1 5 who fell overboard when the Ihip was
under fail — Capt. Harvey’s remains were
interred a' Eaftry, near Sandwich, in Kent,
5th of July, liaving been attended to the
gates of Pui'trmouth, on the 2d, by Earl
Howe, and the principal officers of the fleet,
with e^ery honourable folemnity. The or¬
der of the proceflioa, at Fortfmoutli, was
as foilows :

Chaplain and Surgeon.

TheB o n Y, the pall fupported by fix Admirals,
Mourners,

Earl Howe, his Brotlier, and Sir Alex. Hood.

Captains, tw o and two.

Oilier Officers of the Shijr the Deceafed
commanded.

Band of Mtifick, placing Solemn Dirge.

Marine Ofliedrs.

* Marnes.

7.0. Mr. Eyr<?, brandy-mefeh. Leicefter.
Mrs. Gritfi'lis, of Great Bartholomew-
clofe. Weft .Smit'ffiield. '

Mr. |ohn Tuwnfend, late of Stamford-
flteet, B'a-'k fners n'ad.

Lauly, at Clvna, |oti!i Wentworth Tra¬
vers, ef'[. one of the I'upci cargoes at Can¬
ton, (<nly fun of J. 1'. efij. dueftor of the
company,

In the Weft Indies^ of llie vellow fever, to
the great griet of his paie t-, Mafler Wki
AA'atfon, feco.'nl fan of David W. efij. of
Stamford, co. Lincoln.

In the ifiaad of M.ti iinique, Capt. Artliur
Tyrrel, of the Royal E ifli artillery.

On Ins paff'ge to Englmd, in the home¬
ward-bound fleet, Whw. Smith, efq. of the
ifland of Jamaica. '

At Feteifburg, Connt Anhalt, adjutant-
general of ilie Empiefs, heiuenanc-gentral
of the army, and chief of iJra corps of cadets.

At Mallow, in Ireland, Anihony Jephfon,

efq. fo'Toerly M. P. for that ffiSrongh, and
brother of Denham J. efq. the prefenc M. P,

At his fim’s, at Braithwaiie, Richard
Wordfwoi th, elq. colleftor of the cuftoms
at Wtrtehaven. ,

At Wifbscl), M^. Charles Stewart, eldeft
fon of R ev. Mr. S. of Melford.

Rev. D. Simpfon Haynes, vicqr of Hal-
ben-on, Devon-

FaiLliTiouth, — Defmcrgne, efq. a
Swediffi merch iat.

Aged 79, Mis. Etheridge, widow, of
Southrepps

At Burton upon Trent, Mrs. Hofkins, re-
lidl of Abraham H, efq. late of Sheafto ie-
park) near LichflelJ.

At Hiil-lioufe, near Swanfea, Mrs. Elan-
corne, wife of Rev. Thomas H.

At Bedtord, Mr. Wing, architeft, of Le.l«
cefler.

At her lodgings in Poland-flreet, the
Marcllionefs do Marnefia, an emigrant, who
enjoyed a diftmguiftied rank and a.ffiuence
in France before the late Revolution. This
lailv policffed very great talents in painting,
and has ieft forre beautiful fpecimens of her
fkill. She painted a fine likenefs of the
Queen of France, fhortly before her execu¬
tion, whicli was engraved for Mrs. Robin-
fon’s pathetic Monody to flie memory of
that unforturate Pnneefs. Tlie Marchionefs
was one of tlio'e elegant females who pe-
riflled in oblivion ratl^er tiun court tfie eye
of vulgar commiferation. Tit® delicacy of
her frame, agitated by thp fa.i cltrage in the
ftate of her conntiy, was too much for lier
feelings, whicli, after a lingering ftrurgle^
overcame her, to t!ie regret of all w'ho knew
her virtues.

In hi^ 6ift year, tlie Rev. James Clarke^
retftor of Nortnburough^ and curate of Eye,
both near Peterb.rrough.

Of the wounds he received in the engage¬
ment with tlie Ehench fleet on the ill of
June, Capt. HiUt, of the Queen man 0/ war.
His remains were interred at Gofport, wi h
the fame military honours as tnofe paid to
C.ipt. Harvey’s remains J and tlie Honfe of
Commons have fince voted a monument to
their memories, to be eredded in Weltmin-
fter-abbey.

Mr. Waddelow, of Lit'lsport, in the Ifle
of Ely, was accident^} y killed Ky a fad from
a .!i>ife, whicii had ji.ft before proved ref-
tivc with a vvoman vviio Was riding thereof j
and whicli he jhad liun anely rr.ounfed, and
given tlie woman his jilace in a cart that he
was driving.

yuly t. Ill her yOtli year, Gertrude Du*
cl'efs-dowager of Bedford, tldcft daughter
of folia Earl Gower, by hfs firft wife,
daughter of Evelyn Duke of Kihgfloa. She
was fecond wufe of fohii fourth' Duke uf
Bedfordf to wdiom flie was TT.aiiiuJ 1737,
and by whom file hail iKue Francis MarcjuiS
of Tavifloak, died E767 ; Jolin, <!ied an in¬
fant ; gad Caroline, married to Geo g- Duke

6/6 Olituary of confderahle Pcrfons ;

of Marlborough. Slie was l;ft a widow
in 17 -I ; and has' been ever fmce diftin-
guiAied by a remarkable goodnefs of heart,
atren ied by a cbearfulnefs not very common
at fo ntlvanced a period of life.

At. Bui ford, co. Oxford, Mrs. Chavaffe,
relidf of Mr. C; furgeon.

At Mountforvbl, co. Leicefler, aged 93-,
Francis Bi'uxby, gent.

At Oundle, co. Northampton, aged up¬
wards of 90, Mrs. Hodgkins, relidl of the
It^Xe jofeph H. gent.

2. At her apartrpents at the Houfe of
Commons, Mrs. Betty, who had been
keeper of the lower rooms upwards of 50
years; fo tliat, literally (peaking, and aci
cording to her own id .a, file wnis the oklefl
member in the Honfs.

At his houfe in Sloane-ftreet, Chelfea, Sir
Hew Craufurd, bait of jordan-hill. I'lie
late Sir Hew, his father, di^d Aug. 8, 1766.
His ekleft fon, notv Sir Kobei t C. bai t, was
married at Chellea, in Augufl lafl, to Mai's
Mufket, only daughter of the late Dr. M.
formerly phyfician general to the Britifh
forces in Germany. Mifs C. a daughter of
his, was married in 1775 to Major-general-
Henry Campbell, of Boqnl’ian.

At Cadiz, Mr. |araesiFinlyfon, merchant,
of that place. Bathing in the fea, he waded
out of his dfrptli, and was unfortunately
drovtned. His charadfer as a m.an was juib
and exemplary ; and, as his chief ftudy wtis
to pleafo and ferve his friends, his lofs will
be long regretted by all who had the happi-
nefs of his acquaintaniiie.

Of a mortification in liis bowel.'^, Mr. Jo-
fiah Eniery, w’atch maker, CockfpuV'ftreet,
Charing-ci ofs ; native of Switzerland ^ and a
rnan much refpedted.

At Thetford, /after an illnefs of four hoars
only, Mr. Parker, polt-mader of that pi ice ;
much refpebled for his aliidirty in the dif-
charge of the duties of his office, and for his
exienfive intelligence and ready communi¬
cation.

At the fame place, in her 9ifl year, Mrs.
Maigaret Cock, aunt to Thom.as Paine, au¬
thor of The Bights of Man,” &c.

Without any previous indifpofition, as lie
was walking in his garden, Mr. Williams,
furgeon, of Makeney.

3. At Elnrley-lodge, Rev. Jjpthn Waldron,
M. A. cliaplain to the Earl of Coventry, rec¬
tor of Hampton-Eovet and Rulhock, co.
Woi'cefter, to whicli laft he was prefented
jn 1768. He Was liighly rerpedied by a
numerous and re(pe<flable circle of friends.

At Hnntingdcn, in liis 67th year, the Rev.
John Trollope, vedlor of Saw’try St. An¬
drew, and vic.^r of Hartford, both in that

COLipty.

At Henl'y, in Iiis' S-jth year, William
Skyiiner, efq, bi odier of the Right Hon. Sir
|ohn S. of Great Milton, co. Oxford.

At Ins feat at Eee, in Kent, after n ffiort
illnefs, Trevoi Charles Roper Lord D.icie,

with Blogfaphical Anecdotes »

Elis Lordfhip waas a mod benevolent worthy
charadler. The poor in his neighbourht)od
experienced daily proofs of his beneficence,
aud they vvill have caufe to deplore his lofs
as that of a generous protedlor and friend.
His remains Were interred at ’Lee. He has
left no ilfue.

At Whitwell, Rutland, aged 92, — ■ ■
Cham-berlain, labourer.

4. Mrs. Eliz-iheth Hunter, fecond daugh¬
ter of Wm. Dealtry, efq. of Gainfborough,
CO. Lincoln, and wife of Dr. Elunter, of
York..

After -an illnefs of fome months, Mr. Jn.
SaltnuH, curator of the botanic garden in the
univerfity of Cambridge.

Mrs Doyly, wife, of Mr. D. attorney at
law, of Sr. Edward’s lane, Cambridge.

At Wetherhy, co, York, Mrs Strickland,
widow of Mr.'Walter S. and only filler of
Rev. Mr. Kay, of Wetherhy. -

Rev. William Mafters, M. A. vicar of
Watei beach, cb. Cambridge, only fon of
Rev. Robert M. redlor of Landbeach, in
that county. He was educated at St. Paul’s
fchool; admitted penfioner of Benet college,
i77s; proceeded B. A. 1780; failing of a
fellowfhip in that college, 1782, went to
Emanuel college. His father refigned to
him the living of W’aterbeach 17S4, which
was in the gift of the bilhop of Ely.

At his luoufe in New-ftreet, Spring-gar¬
dens, in his 32d year, of a gradual decline,
Henry Di ummorid, efq. M. P. for Caflle-
Rifing, Norfolk. He was the only fon of
Henry D. efq. of St. James’s- fquare, by
Lady Elizabeth Compton, the fourth and
yourageft daughter of Charles Earl of North¬
ampton. Henry Drummond, efq. the elder,
and his brother Robert, now both living, were
nephews of Andrew Drummond, the elder,
who was formerly a filverfmith in Fleet-flreet,
and died at his houfe at Charing-crofs, Feb 2,
1769. blr. H.D married, inFebrnary, 1786,
the fecond daughter of the Ibight hbn. Henry
Dundas, by whom he had fix children, three
fans and two daughters of v. hich furvive him.
He was buried at the Grange, near Alresford,
his father’s feat, a mile or two behind Strat-
ton-park, formerly the feat of the Henley s
Earls of Northingtou, where a fiiler and child
of his were lately buried. In the latter end
of his fhort life he ’■'ad been foms months
very feverely afflicted with complicated
difeafes, proceeding from obflriKfiions in
the vifeera. Mr. D’s great unci?, Andrew
D. efq. alTove, was coiffia to the late Duke of
Perth, and was the founder of the refpeflahle
banking-houfe at Charlng-croE, where his
grand-chiidiea and kinfmen arc joint pro¬
prietors.

5. In Gay-flreet, Batli, in her 86th year,
Mrs. Anne Legh, filler cl the late Pet.r L.
efq. of Lyme, in Cbeihire.

At his apartments in Dublin, "Sir X'efev
. Cotcknigh, hart. M. P. for the bcrcugh of
Enniiconhy', co. ^^'e:?furd.

Mrs.

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Mrs. Tun well, cook, of Emanuel- coll.ege,
Cambritlge.

At Limerick, in Ireland, Right Hon. and
Right Rev. Dr. William Ctcil Eery, Biron
Glentw'orth, and Bifhop nf Limerick, He

fiieceeded in title and ellates by' his eUleft
fon, Edmund- Henry, now Lord Glentwor(h,
one of the I eprefencatives in parliament for
the city of Limerick.

6. At Mallow, in Ireland, John Blenner*
haffet, efq, M. P. for the county of Keiry.

At his hnufe in Francis-ftreet, Bedford-
fquare, aged 62, folm Harvey, ehi.

7. In Queen-fquare, Bloomlbury, Mrs.
Tyfon, relidt of Edward T. efq. receiver-
geneidl of the county of LeicePer, Who died
Auguft 29, 1784 (lee vol. LIV. p 716).

At Aberdeen, in his 73d year, Jas. |upp,
efq. of Cotton, who for many years filled the
ofiice of chief magillrateof that city.

At his feat at Milliuhope, co. Salop, Ro¬
bert Pembei ton, efq. one of the aldermen of
the Corporation of Shrewfbury, and who
filled the oPice f)f ch'ef magiftrate in 1781.
He lat' ly retired from huhnefs, after having
pradtifevl as an attorney in Shrewfbury, with
reputation, for about 40 years.

At Inver, near Dunkeld, Mr. Andrew
Cow, mufician

8- At Fiixton, near Manchefier, aged 95,
Mrs. Hannah Dane, wife of Mr. John D.

10. At Pinkie-honfe, in Scotland, Sir
Archibald Hope, hart, of Craighall He
was fecretary to the Board of Police in Scot¬
land for life, and received a compenfation on
the abolition of that board. His anceflor,
Sir Thomas Hope, of Graighall, was king’s
advocate in the reign of Charles the Full,
who had the privilege of pleading before the
Court of Seflion with his hat on; winch
privilege his fnccelfnrs have enjoyed ever fince.
Sir Thomas left four lo.<s (three of whom
W^ re lord:' of fellion at one time), who all
married, and had ilfue, vz. Sir John Hope,
of Craighall ; Sir T hnn as tioj e, of Kerle ;
Sir Alexander Hope, of 'Iraatoun ; and Sir
James Hope, of Hopt;t;)uo.

Mrs. Robinfon, wife of Mr. R, furgeon,
in Parliament-fiicet.

At Alberbury, nearShre'v ftury, age.! toC),
Edward jones, w’ho has left a widow novv in
her 99th year.

ir. At Richmo;i<’, Surrey, Joint Palmer,
efq. of S'.ratton-fii ee't, Ihccadll'y.

Drowned, vvhde hatliing in the Thames,
op'pofite Somei fi-t-houi'e, ri young genlle-
ma.o, brother to Mh. .*\fpenha'l, an attorney,
of SuiTcy llreet, Sir ind. A gentleman, lev-
mg hil# iramerftd in the tide, inltantlv mai^e
an eftort to Ipve his life, by dlvmg af er the
boJ , u hich, after iome time, lie four.d, and
brought to the lurf.ire of the vvalrr, but was
fo exhaultcd as net t<) be able to lonvey it
to the Ihorc. Ke was tlieiefure under the
nccellity of lett’ng it fiirk from iiim.

12. /it Appl'ebyj co. Leice.ler, of an
atj'ophy, abfoluuly fiarved to death, Mr.

John Henn, fome years ulher of that fchool,
and a correfpondent of Mr Urban. See, in
vol. LXIlL p. 408, acuiious communication
refj'ecSling Dr. Johrifon, which received Mr.
Borweil's particular acknowledgements in
his fecond edition ; and in our prefent vo¬
lume, p. 203, an animated charadler of Sir
EyreCoote, in which Mr. H. deferibes him-
felf as having left Bengal, half al w, fo long
fince as 1779. Mr. Henn has alfo favoured
us, in feme of our former volumes, wntli
fi'me valuable art cles in topography (fee
vol. LVI. p 933; LVIII, 859, 973, 1050 ;
LIX. 301, 397, 703, 795 ; LX. 420, 493;
LXl. no; LX II. 205, 795); and has fur-
nilhed the Hiftorian of Leiceherfhire with
an accurate and amplr defcription of Apple¬
by ; which, had the Rate of his health per¬
muted, he would have extended to feveraJ
of tile adjacent vDl iges.

At Iiis houle in Salifbniy-fquare, Fleec-
flreet, aged 66, Mr. Robert Wells, mer¬
chant, formerly a printer of confiderahle
eminence, at Charles-town. South Carolina;
hut had retired thence info this country, as a
Loyalifl, on the eftablilhr.ieat of the ne-.v
government there. Mr. W. was a man of
letters, and a poet, evinced hy a traveflie of
Vircil, wdiich he v.’rorean.' publdhed wliilfi;
at Charles-town. He has left a ^on, a phyfi-
cian, deferved'y rifing into eminence, in
London ; and two daughters.

At her houfe at Wandfworrb, in her 78th
year, Mrs. Brook®, relidi of Samuel B. efq,

13. Mrs. Mallefmi, of Callle Hediugton,
CO Eli'ex.

Mr. Wm. Lyon, of John-fireet, Totten¬
ham- court- road.

Of a para’ytic llroke, aged 86, Mrs. Ehza
Wu gfiekl, a niai<len lady, of Stamford, co»
Lincoln. She lived juft to fee rebuiF, at tier
ovvii expenre, the very ancient and l-ngular
church ( f TickeiiCdte, in Rutland, in . a fh le
of archi'edlui e as near the original as peitiaps
could be condrudted by a modern artid,
under the direction of Mr. Cockerel, ftir
veyor, of Saville-row ; am! execution < f
Mr. Heyite®, mafon, of Stamford, .she li ft
the bulk of her firtune to her npphewq
Jolm VVingheld, of the manor of Tickencote;
and a handfome fortune, with her lu ufe tn
St'mfoiai, and capital colleClit n of family
jiortraiis, to his brother, re&or of the church.

At Bedfo.d, Rev. Mr. Crow, curate of bt.
P, 111, in that town.

14. Suddei ly, Mr. Walker, ryder-merd:-
ant, in PiccatliMy. He h.id jufi: ordered
a pint of po'cer, and before he had receu'ed
It he died.

13. At Brillol hot wells, Mifs Gale, dau.
of Hei'ry G. eh;, of Scrutoi', co. Yi rk.

At Greac G' lmlby, co lancoiri, aged 73,
Chr; iopl'er Clavtoi:, e;q. high ltew..rd a^d
fenior alderman of tiia' horong''.

A.fcer a puntul ill iefs, Mro. t^a Gran.e,
wife of J. B. da G. eiq. vf vVeRmluFer.

At F-'iiham, John Ev.ans, eiq. adm r.d oT

Li.e

6" 8 Ohltvcryof conftderahle PerJcHi \ with Bugf^phlcalJnccdcies. [July^

the Blue, in the ^7th yenr of his age, 6:? of
which he had paffed with honour in the fer-
vice of his covintry.

At his houfe in Southamp'^on-row, Edw.
W iUes, t-ftj. fecond fon of the late Hon. Mi".
]ufti(ie W. His dea'h was occafioned b}'-
being ffyoun out of a chaife, whicli, with
the horte, ft U aipon him as he was taking
tiie air for his health; and though lie was i
bkd in conhqutnce of the accuient, he
furvived it but a few days.

At Dublin, in his 84th year, 62 of which
he v\ as e’et k and deputy in the et uncil-pf-
fice of Dublin-caftle, \Vm. Gieene, elq.

16. At Sheffield, John Shuitleworth, efq.
of Hatherfage, late fenior captain in tlie 7th
regiment of toot, or R( yal Scaitcli Fuzileers.

At his houfe near Leith, in his 78th year,
Alexander Alifon, efq. cafhierof excife.

Mr. William Hollir.gs, of Mount-ftreet,
apothecary.

17. In Naffau-ftreet, liavirg been deliver¬
ed of a daughter on the I3tb, Mrs. Forbes,
wife of James F. efq. of Flutton h;>.U, Effex.

Aged 61, Mrs. Taylor, wife of Mr. Jn. T.
fen. of Heckington, co. Lincoln.

Mrs. Keal, pf Friefton, co. Lincoln. She
lived beloved and refpedted to the age of 87
years, and enjoyed her faculties to the laft.

' 18. ht liie free-lchool, Cheflerfield, in

his 6 id year, after a lingering illnefs, the
etfedls of a paralytic flroke, Rev. Jofeph
Shipfton, many years mafter of the laid
fchool, and affiftaut ledlurer under the mi-
nirter of that church, who is both vicar and
ledlurer. He was born a* Cheflerfteld, and
baptized there April 15, 1734, as appears
by the regilber of tliat parifh.

In his did year, after a lingering illnefs,
Mr. James V^'eatherby, an eminent a t' rney
at law, and keeper of the match-book at
Newmarket,

Mr. Rob. Mai tin, of Crow’s Neft w’harf,
Eaft Smithfield, coal- merchant.

At Woodftock, aged 60, after a veiy long
indifpofition, Mr. Benjamin Read, wlio had
for many years been employed by his Grace
the Duke of Mailborongh in forming orna¬
mental plantations, and enriching the park
and pleafuie- grounds at Blenheim; to which
fituation Mr. Read had been recommended

by the late Caf ability Browne.

I9. At Whittington, co. Derby, aged
about 65, after an illnefs of onlv tw o houis,
ThurRan Pearfon, 30 ye,tr« lervant to the
Rev. Dr. Pegge, redlor of that place, but had
quitted his fervice about five yeais.

In St. Andrew’s- ccurq Htlfom, — —
Hewitt, M.D.

InHalf moon-ftreet, Piccadilly, Mifs Phil¬
lips, daughter of John P. eiq. of Droiiwich,
CO. W’orceiler.

Suddenly, while at breakfaR, having been
Rightly indifpofed forne days, in Ins 64th
year, W’iiliam Ki'.chiner, efq. of Beaufort-
bniidii g«, Strand — Mr. K.came to London
from Hertfordlhire early in life, h.a\ing little

ffiore to introduce him than a good c6r>Rituw
Uon and a countenance which engaged re¬
gard. He found, what fnany good citizens
have done before him, that merit w^ould he
his btR friend, and that ‘^virtue is its own
rewaid.” He began as jrorter at a coal,
wharf, and in that hivrinefs he fncceeded.
By a Ready induRry he realized a veij large
fortune, not lefs than 20c cl. a-year. Being
in the enmmiffion Of the peace {rt Weft-
minRer, he occafionally filled the judicial
chair at Bow Rreet with credit to the bericfi
and to liimleif. He fometimes went down
to 'the watering-places for afeafOn, but kept
no country- houfe. He refigned bufinefs, a
few yeats ago, in favour of two young men
who were his clerks. His only daughter,
by his firR wi^e, wlio was dead, w'as feht to a
hoarding- fchool, where was alfo a young lady
nearly related to a noble Marquis and to the
Lte Rev. Wm. Cecil Grave, rector of Biffiops
Ha'fielo, Herts. An acquaintance thus com¬
menced, was kept up, aiid in due time thele
young friends were more nearly allied. Mr.
Kitchener found ^his gentlew'oman deferv-
ing, and married her. By this lady, who
furvives him, he lias left an only Ton, now
16, and a promifing youth, on whom, it
is faid, he has fettled 30,000!. About
three years ago he unfortunately loR an eye
by a dangerous boyifh cuPom, too frequent
at fchool, of Uii owing a paper arrow, armed
with a pin, at each other. By an advan*
tageous coniradt with the Earl of Salilbuiy*
he has a clear 300! a-year from acoal-wiiarf
on that nobleman’s eRate — -Mr. K. wc'is
buried, on the 26th, in the vault of his
parifh church, St. Clement Danes.

22. At HainpRead, Jolm KenRngton,
efq. hanker, Lombard Rreet.

Suddenly, Mis. Deakin, of Fowfel, ea*
WorceRer. Sire was crolling a fol '-yard, to
feed fome chickens, when fhe dropt down
and expire.! immediately.

At her houfe on Till ner’s hill, Chefhunt,
advanced in age, Mrs. Cooke.

23. John Fry, a farmer, near Taunton.
He was, with leveral others, clofe to tire
river, and, having juR caugb.t a falmcn in a
net, before he to()k the fifh out of tire water,
he fuddenly fell down, and had power, but
very indiRinclly, to inter “ The Lord have
mercy!” when he expired.

At the Leaiowes, mar Birmingham, in
confcqnence of imprudeaily bathing, .Capt.
James Stanley.

At MoitLike, in her 9 2d year, Mrs. Maiy
Athawes, w'idow of Edward Athawes, Efq.
foimerly a Virgin a merchant of this city.
To a found underflahdiug ffie joined fim-
plicity of manners, {dacidiiy of temper, and
redtitude of heart ; llridd in the performance
of her i\ Litive duties, as a wife, mother, and
friem', ffie w'as exemplary aiTil excellent :
pundlual, juR, and charitable, ffie was rc-
fpedled and hiTuved in her neighbourhood
— .an unaffedted piety crowned her charac-.

ter ;

H*] Circuits^ — Theatrical Regijler. — Bill of Afortality, 679

t through the vnle of years, and under ft]uare, Gen. Bigoe A rmftrong, captain of the
languor of decay, ir enabled her to main- King's or 8lh regiment of foot,
an unwearied ferenity of mind ; hei- life, 27. Ac his houfe in ClvefterfielJ-ftreet,
Ligh long, was witliout blame, and ilie re- in his 720 year, Win. Burch, efq. father of
led it withm;c a h^h, Randall K. efq. M. P. for Tlietford.

,4. In Upper Wimpole-flreet, Cavendiflw Fromotions, fee. feV. in our mxt.

CIRCUITS

THE

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VV E S T E R N .

Northern

y. Grofe,

B. Thomfon.

J. Rooke.

J. Lawrence

Winchefter

Kiiigfton
[upon Hull
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New Sarum

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Dorc-hefler

Exon & City

Durham |

New call Is j
[<Sc town;

Bodmin

Carlifle |

Wells

Appleby

Bnilol ;

Lancafter

Home, Nurfoi-K. Miul.4nd, Oxford.

UVTMER

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1794.

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Huntingdon |
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THEATRICAL

h New Drury-Lank.

. The Country G\i'i~The Glorious Firji of
June.

. Lodoiika — -HighLife belowStairs — Ditto
Ditto — The Liar — Ditto.

. Ditto— The Irifli Widow— Ditto.

. Ditto — All t!ie World's a Stage — Di.to.

tly Hav-Market.

. AH in Good Humour — The London
Hermit — The Flitcli of Bacon.

. A Qtiarter of an Hour before Dinner —
The Suicide — Ail the World’s a Stage

. rU tell You W hat !-^Catharii:e and
Petn]chio.

. Inkle and Yarico — A Mogul Tale.

.The London Hermit — The Liar.

. Piety in Pattens — Heiglio for a Huf-
baud ! — Rofina.

. All :u Good Humour — The Suicide — •
The Flitch of Bacon.

16. Iiik'e and Y arico — Tit for Tat.

17. The Sun'cndrr of Calais — Deaf Lorer.

18. The Battle of Hexham — All the World's

a Stage.

19 The Fiit'di of Bacon — A Mogul Tale —
Tile Children in the V\'ood.

21. Half an Hour aft.r Supper — The Moun¬

taineers. [Village Lawyer.

22. Peeping Tom — The Dead Alive — The

23. Alim Good Humour — TheMountameers.

24. Th^ Surrender of Calais — TheDead Alive

25. A Qiiaiicr of an Hour before Dmuer —

I he Spanifh Barber— Tit for Tat

26. The Deaf Lover — The Village Law¬

yer — P.ohin Gray,

28. Tlie Mountaineers — Ditto.

29. All the World 's a Stage —Peeping Tom

■ — The Son-in-Law.

30. Piety iq patcens-^The Spanifti Bai bej' —

Auld Robin Gray.
Th.e .Mountaineers —

Chrittened.
a'es 731 ^
m.des 7 1 3 i

444

Buried.
Males 7217
Femaks 6>.8 \

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The Gentlemaff^, Magazine

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Gkjstehal Even.
I.loyd’s Evf niiig
St.James’sChron.
London Chron.
London Evening.
The Sun — Star
Whitehall Even.
London Packet
Englifh Chron.
Courier — Ev.Ma.
Middlefex Journ.,
Hue and Cry.
Dally Advertlfer
Times — Briton
WTorning Chron.
Gazetteer, Ledger
Herald— -Oracle
M . Poll & World
Publicans Advert.
1 3 Weekly Papers
Bath i, Briftol 4
Birmingham z
Blackburn
Bucks — Bury
1!1ambridcs z
Clanterbury z
Chelmsford
Zlhefter

AUGUST, 1794,

C ON T A

rhs Meteorological Diaries for July and Aug. 68z
Defcription of ilie Hague, its Curiofities, Sec. 683
riie Dutch vindicated — rVillagc of Schevehng 684
Fhe Military Punifhmentsin Holland defcj-ibed ih.
3eneralChara«5feEof£heNatives — Dr. MacleaniS 3
VIrs. Macaulay vindicated from unjnft Slander ib
nftancesof Prefenceof Mind in Gen. Arnold 686
>ome Queries relative to Family of Aglionby ib.

AnUnion withGallicanChurch impradlicable 687
ifland of Corficadefi^nbed by Diodoi us Siculus ib.
^ccountoftfieLeagCJe againd France in i^ni 688
ip. Lloyd’s Letter on Geoffrey of Monmouth tb.
fhe Geftes of the Fitzvvarines where preferved ib.
fhe fine old Cathedral at Aberdeen de'’cnbed 689
V Letter from Dr, Hales to Bishop Hildeflsy ib.
fhoughts on Dram-drinking, and the Scurvy 690
"oimder’s tyin at All Souls College, Oxford 691
')r. Cave’s Writings — Sandys of Fladbury 692
trenfliam the Birth-place of Samuel Butler ib.
jieta Bridge Infcriptions— Heraldic Doubts 693
'luirch Notes from St. Giles's, Shrewlbury 694
.10(1011160131 Infcriptions for M r. Clarke, &c. 695
Inion with GallicChurch--DilTenters Pfalms 696
Lruui.lelCafl'ledefcnbed — W.ChillingworUi 697
I very, remarkable Lirrie-tree at Edmonton ib.

Embelliflied with Pcffpsiflive Views of Arukixel Castle,
Abekdefn, and St. Giles’s Church, Shrewsbury :

Coventry
Cumberland
Derby, Exeter
Gloucefter
Hereford, Hu 11
Ipfwich
Ire land
Leeds z
Leicestbr z
Lewes
Liverpool ^
Maidilone
Alaucheder z
Newcaftle 3
Northampton
Norwich z
Noitingham
Oxford
Reading
Salifbury
Sco'tland
Sheffield z
Sherborhe %
Shre’/flbury
Stamford %
Wincheftcr
Whitehaven
Worceftet
York, a

I N I N G

A Vindication of the Principles o'F Mafonry ^99
Letterof Dr. Young — -CluHow’sMeditatioos^yoo
Onhree-thinking — Colliufon’sS' iiierfetlhire 701
Delcriptionof Mells — ThvFarley Infcriptlon 702
Aflinityof Languages — Q U)LdMountmorres704
Kentifli Antiquities — Nicliting Membrane 705
Taprtum — ■VVakefield’sRemarksojiD.of Yo: k "06
The Particulars of the late Ernbalfy to China 70S
Shaw’sSta^oi dfhire- Cnnmiunicationsforliimyi 1 1
Church Notes from Cauhlon ami liandfu orth 7 1 2
Stacpooles — Chief Baron M acdonaki’sCharge 716
Remarks on Robinfon’sCafe of Hydi ophobia 718
Dr.Prieftley’sDeparture — ^Hiftoiyof Puritans72o
Apology from Mr. Toulmin to Mr. VVatfon 721
Particulars of the ll^te Riots in City of London 72 a
’Proceedings of tiielaft Sclliim of Pai li.iment 723
Mifcrfellaneous Remarks — Index }T^lir<it(^rius, '728
Review of New Publications 729 — 7^4
Select Poetry, AntientandModera745— 750
Proccedingsof NationalConventioninFrauce 751
fTnportantIntelligence from London Gazettes 7(;4
Hi^oricalChromtic— •DomefticOccurrence.N 76 i
Marriages, Deatlis, Prefciments, &c. 764 — 775
Theatr. Regiilcr — Monthly Bill of Murtiliry 775
Daly Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 77b
the old Cathedral at
a MonuWent at

Shrewsbury; and Miscellaneous Ken/i ish An tiq^uities.

STLl^JNUS URBAN, Gent.

Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero’s Head, Red-Lion Pallagc, Fleet-ftrect j
wlierc all Letters to the Editor are dtfired to be addreffed, Post-paid. i794e

6S2

Mifeorologtcal Dlarhs for July and Augul! 1794.
Meteorological Table for Aug u It? ^794*

Heiglit of Fshrenh

eit’a Thermometer.

Height of Fshrenh

•-’I *

eit’s Th

lermometfT.

D. of

Month.

^ 0

0«

Iz;

\jr

Barom.
in. pts.

Weather '
in A.ug.- 5794.

D.of

Mon?h

• ♦ 1

^ £

525

<j *-

Barom
in,, pts

'Vl'^«ather
ill Aug. 1754,

fiZ

50 ,10

fair

ylug.

I 2

30 ,26

fair

70,

,oS

fair

to {

>3^

fair

7 3

29 ,9.r

fair

,12

fair

,82

llioweiy

60 .

29 >93

Fair.

,72

1 6

■' 7.6

>97

Blower^

>54

{bowery

, 66

30 ,01

fair

\ 63

■5T

fhowery

, >02

fair

1 65

>71

fhovvery

■ 73'

,01

fair

' 4

,3i

(Ixovvery

>13

fair

>71

cloudy

60 ,

>19

fair

,68

rain

2' 2

>15

fair

j5i

ihunderanJrain

>14

fair

';6

30 ,or

Ihowery

61.

2-9 ,94

fair ''

,22

111 ow cry

-5«

5-6

,85

Ibow eryr

,21

fair

■ . ,87

fliouery

I'l

, 62-

: 69

>^5

fair

W. CARY-, CTptrcian, No. 182, near NorTo'.k-Street, Strand.

<n (

!>s

D !

Wind.

.V hEf-ygrom.

^arom.'- Therm . .. ^ ° .

feet in.

* ! t

State of Weather -in "July, 1754.

I'l

SIW gentle

19 >9.0

14 r .9

dark morning,., clears up, fine day

vV calm

30,1-7

2 .1

dear expanle, fine day

MW brilk

. 64

I .9

sloudy, clears up, fine day

5 W cal m

251

2 -3

slear expanle, very fine day

5!SE gentle

I'n

"dear fine day

6iV^^ brilk

29 ,88'

clear, thunder fliovver P.M..

J 1

S calm i

81;

67 ■

I .6

cloudy, fukry, fine day

giW calm

3 *^ y 9

2 .1

oveiGail, clears up, fine day

r I

N brilk

2 2-

•3'

mottled Iky, fine day

3 0|S brlfk

•4

dear fine day

jjiw moderate

, 64

overcall, gloomy day

1 21

S calm

29 ,92 j

cle ir expanle, fine day

SW moderate

•4

lear, cloud-- of duA

SW brilk

9.0

•5

clouds, fine day

1 1

S moderate

•3

tlark Iky

W brilk

aher a flic^hi Ibower black Iky

W calm

■ -9

A, aids, daik day

S calm

•5"

blue' fxy

W calm-

blue Iky, w-Iute clou 's

jtojS. genile

•4

white clouds, very fii^^bt fhowep

SW brilk

•7

iho-wery, very laile rain

!s moderate

• /

rain,, clears up P.M.

E calm

I *5

after rain overcall, thunder fhower

,NVV brilk

! 62

black Iky, flight fhowers

\V gentle

1 60

2 .0

wiiite clouds, fair

S calm

1 60

I -5

fmail ram, cleats up'

VV moderate-

. 74

2 .t

dark Iky, heavy ram

NW cairn

^ /

I -7

bl;ick clouds, ram at night

29|SE cilm

.1 62

iraali rain, very heavy l aiu T’.M.

N A calm.

1^'

1 64, .

0.4

fmail rain, clears U|i, rajii ^.t liighC

W calm

1 62^

fmail rain, clears up

1 3. Arr veJ, after ao excurHon, at Walt )n fouml t!ie paUures quite brown an 1 burned
\n) ; no apt'C-iraace i)f eediUi upon the naeadows ; hay liarvetl ae.nly n-aiilied ; the crops
good, and \ve I got in. The leaves of funae trees witbered and deftruyeil, [)ai tis-ularly pri-
ve't and goofeberry. Latter-fowa bean crt)ps deflroyed by the d: otight and fcxjrching Inn,
not a laigle pod upon the (Vems. Pot.itoes very I'mali. Fruit injuied it i s fl ivour. Oats fut-
t'-o iog, and *"f^ginn!ng to change colour. Wiieat crops g.iod, but hahen iig loo tall loWafds'
M'Knnry, as is the tafs vi-i ii bailey. No appearaace ax prelent of fecoad wiops of c’ovcr.

Oatde

For AUGUST, 1794.

BEING THE SECOND NUMBER OF VOL. LX IV, FART II.

' Mr. Urban, Brunf^mcky Aug. 12.

with an account or ‘triy

w AT w arrival at the H'^gu^. J
was condu6led to an inn
called the Marechal ds
T urenne, where ! foucd
good entertainment and
civil ireata^ent; but I was obliged to
eat and ileep in the fame room, a
comraon pradtice in Holland. T was
likewife obliged to hire a valet-de place ;
in other words, a perlbn w hofe 'bahnels
it vvas to brufh my cloatlrs, to wait upon
•fre at table, and to attend me when •[
went out. A perfon of this defcription
is neceffary to a (hanger in a large town,
at leaft for the firli two or three days. My
•valet at the Hague cod me at the rate of
half a crown a day. 1 was told that
there were twenty of the fame deferip-
tloii in the town ; and that none couid
a6t in that capacity without a licence
from the Ma^iftracy. T hey are foid,
in general, tobea fee of worthlefs vaga-
bends. I was futticientiv dilpuded
with the drefs and manners of the valet
'Who attended me. He had very much
the appearance of an afFedled French
jnonkey of the old fchool, and 'Wore
Tilk dockings and ear-rings. You,
friend Urban, who know my ta<fe and
habits of iife^ can ealily conceive how
difagreeable (uch an attend%ntmud have
been j but there was no doing without
him.

The day after my arrival at the Hague
was occupied in (urveying the principal
ftreets, buildings, and curiof.ties, of tliat
delightful and magnificent place. It is

called a village, although it is foppofed
to contain al>f)ut, forty tlioufand inhabi¬
tants. The air is pure and healthy, the
furrounding Iceaery is clnrming. The
directs are clean, and the town is diverfi-
lied with canals, bridges, iliady walks,
and.fplendid public buildings, in a man-
ner^that baffles my powers of defcrip~
tion. 1 was Brd conduced from the
Marechal de Turenne, through the Pa^
■rod^y to an immenfe fquare called the
yVy’Verbiirgy which is adorned with a
'fine balcn of water, in fthe.centie of
which is an vfunfi. and it is (haded with
rows of trees. Tiie north end of the
Vyverburg leads to the ’Foorhonty a
•gro-ye of lofty trees, through the mid¬
dle of which runs the malt. Theie is
a long ftreet, called the iPrince Graft,
wiiich deferve.', notice ; and alfo a mag¬
nificent row of houfes, called the .Prin-
cefs Graft, facing the wood. Th-e
buildings which cpmpoiethe court con- >
tain the Siadtlu/Ider's palace, together
with the chambers wher^e the bofinefs of
the States is tranfiifiled, and juftice is
adminifiered ; but they have been al¬
ready fo minutely defenbed by travellers
as to render any account that I cculd
^ive of them luperf.uous,: (office it to
lay, that I vvas highly gratified by the
fine collefiiio'n of paintings of rhe Dutch
and Flemilh fchools, which I (aw in the
palace ; and by the various fpecimens
which were (lievvn to me of tjje take and
ingenuity of the Pnneefs of Orange.
The cabinet (T natural hiftory belonging
to the Prince of Orange is well worth
the attention of the curious. There are
three churche> of the eftabliffied religion

Cattle diftrelfed in many places for want of water j w'hat i.emains in tlie ponds, putrid.— ^
18. Wheat in bloom.' — 19. Lightning from the Lad in tlie .evening. — zy. O its cut at Wal¬
ton. N. B. A traveller had ob erved oats cut at Kegwor tii and Cavendilh Bridge, lu Lei-
ccllerfhire, the nth, and at Hill Cliff, in Chefhire, t!ie 141I1 of this month. — 30 VVafps
abundant and veiy troublelome within doors. — Since the rain, the paltures have begun to
change their hue, and vegetation appears there and upon the meadows. Fruit recovers its
llavuur. Piivet foliates again as if tpring leafon.

Fall of rain this month, 3 inches 6-iot‘iis. Ev.ipoi atioii, z inches y-ioihs-
Waltm near Livcr^oolf J. Holt.

Defcrlpiion of the H^agoe, and of the Village of Sclievellng. f Aug.

'684

at the Hague, which are ferved by nine
f:Icrgymen. In the great church is the
tnonument of Admiral Opdain, whofe
fhip blew up in an engap.ement with the
Engliih fleet under the Duke of York
in 1665. The French church brought
to my recollection the famous Saurin,
who was the paftor of that congregation.

During my flay at the Hague, 1 liad
the honour of an invitation to dine with
a General in the Dutch fervice ; who, I
think, faid, that he was near fourfcore
years of age, and a more refpeClable-
looking veteran I newsr faw. The war
was the principal fubjeCf of converfa-
tion. I faid, that a general fufiucion
prevailed in England before I came
away, that the Dutch troops had not
done their duty j and that, in particular,
I had heard their conduCl in the affair of
Idncelles feverely animadverted up .n.
The whole company feemed to feel in¬
dignant at wflat they made no fcrupie
of pronouncing a foul calumny. The
General affured r^e, on the btll authori¬
ty, that in no inftance had the Dutch
iarfeited the charaCler of brave foldiersi
jpnd he added, that he heard, with no
jefs concern than furprige, that the
'groiltfl mifreprefentattons CQtaccipmg
them were daily propagated by newfpa-
pers avowedly in the ipterefl of govern¬
ment,

I took the firft opportunity ofwalking
to the Prince of Orange’s houfe in the
wood ; a fpot of which the inhabitants
p_f the Hague are juftfy proud, Tne
wood wa.s regarded as facred even by tfle
latellires of Philip the Second of Spain.
To^yart|s the end of the fixteenth centu¬
ry, th^ir High Mightineffes were bent
Upori cutting it down for relieving the
exigencies of the (late ; but the inhabi¬
tants of the Hague, unwilling to be de¬
prived of fuch an ornament, paid the
purchafe-money ; and, fince that time,
the wood has beep prtferyed with tfle
greateft care,

[ took 3 walk to the village of Sche-
■veling, about two miles from the Hague,
^nd which no fl ranger Ihpuld omit fee¬
ing. You walk from the Hague in a
flraight line fhadied with thick rows of
trees, with the ileeple of Schcveling in
•view all the way. In this walk f met
a number of little caits Jra'.^n by dogs.
The Village itlelf is efean and neat, as
all ihf- Du ch villages I have feen are,
and is Tuf of toy-fhops. In palling
through It, I faw’ an 'aims houfe vyith
the fi> lowing in''-,ipci^n :

Ingeuteis coelo Tlie‘auros crede repouis

Larga tiui miferis fublidiaris ope.

At the farther end of the village, the
fea, covered with veflels, all at once
opens to the view, and produces a flri-
king effeft; and the coaft, as far as the
eye can reach, exhibits huge mafl'es of
find, which ferve as barriers againft the
encroachments of the ocean. The
whole Icenery filled my mind with great
emotions. I looked with a'figh towards
that quarter “ where England’s glories
fliine j” and, while I flood on the bsoch,
1 thought of the following lines in
Goidfmith’s Travdl er :

Fir’d with the found, my genius fpreads her
wing ^ [fpcitig ;

To wliere Britannia courts the Weftcin
Where lawns extend that fcorn th’ Arcadian
pride, [s’-’de ;

And brighter flreams than fam’d Hvoafoes
Where all around the gentleft breezes tf ny :
Where heavenly mufic melts in every fpi ay.
Creation’s mildefl charms are there combin’d;
Extremes are only in the mafl;er"srnind.

Pride in each port, defiance in each eye,

I fee Liie lords of human- kind pafs by.

I was alone ; my patriotic feelings
were wrought up to a pitch of enthufi-
a fm that I had fcarcely ever experienc'td
before ; I cafl many a longing lingering
look towards England before I could
prevail on myfelf to leave the fliore ; and
I returned to the village ol' Scheveling,
faying to myfelf, If I forget thee, O
blefied land ! let my right hand forget
her cunning : if I do not remember
thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth !”

While I was at the Hague, I had art
opportunity of feeing the Dutch made
ofinflifting military punifliment; which,
in my opinion, is greatly preferable in
evey refpeft to that which prevails in
the Britilh army. The foldicrs, whom
I faw p-unjfhcd, had been guilty of de^
fertion. When they had ftripped, they
were made to walk up and down a lane
formed by two rows of foidiers, each of
whom had a r d in hi« hand, which he
appliedto t'ueCulpnt’s back as hepafled.
There \v. re d; ums beating all the rime^
With the accompaniment of fifes, in a
brifk lively fti un, which might lead
pae, at a little difl mce, to imagine that
the poor fellows were dancing a jig for
the entertainment of their coinpanions,
inftead of undergoing the difcipline or
flogging.

Finding myfelf on this occafion in a
vaft: crowd, I began to fecure my pockets,
when I was alTui ed, by a gentleman who
accompanied me, that my precautions
were unoecefiary, as the lower c als of
people in H^'lland were not addi61ed tq

Mrs. Macaulay vindicated from an Injurious Afperjion. 685

i7<54-]

pilfering and picking pockets as in Eng¬
land ; and he added, that, although
they were extremely fond of money, and
of driving bargains, as we fay, yet he
was inclined to think that, upon the
whole, fo! fobiittv, indurtry, and good
morals, the common people of Holland
would bear a companfon with any part
of Europe. As a proof how little they
are afraid of burglary at the Hague, rny
!iod allured me, that I might venture to
ileep on the ground- floor in perfect fe-
curity, without having my windows faft-
ened; which I accordingly did in the
midfl of that large town.

It would be unpardonable to leave the
Hague without rnentioning the learned
and worthy Do61:or Maclean, the mi¬
ll iflcr of the Englifh church ; a flation
which he has filled many years with
diftinguilhed reputation. , His name is
well knowm in the literary world by his
tranflation of Molheim’s Ecdeflaflical
Hiftory, and by other writings, which
juflly entitle him to an high rank among
Chriflian philofophers. I was happy in
forming the acquaintance of a gentleman
for whom I had long entertained the
higheft refpe6i ; and I flmuld hare
ihr.ught my felf amply repaid for my vi-
fu to Holland, had it afforded me no
other gratification than the converfation
of D--. Maclean. My next fetter will
introduce you to the city of Leyden.
Jn the mean time, I remain

Yours, &c. Clericus.

JtTr. Urban, Aug. 13.

Mr. D’lfraeli has lately favoured the
publick with a work, which he
calls “ A Diflertation on Anecdotes;”
jn which the following heavy charge
againft the late Mrs. Macaulay is to be
found :

I fhali not difmifs this topick, without
feizin; the opportunity it affords of dif-
cloing to the public an anecdc)te which flioulJ
not have been hitherto concealed from it.
When tome Hiftorians meet with information
in favour of thofe perfonaj^s whom they
have chofen to execrate a? it were fylfema-
tically, they employ forgeries, intcrpol 'tion^,
orftillmore effedtiul viilatiies. Mrs. vLic-
aul.ty, when Ihc confulted the MSS at the
Britifh Mufeunr), wasaccnftomed in her hif-
Loncal refcarches, when Ihe came to any
p,.lf.ige unfavourable to her party, or in fa¬
vour of the Stuaits, to defiroy ih: fags of the
Ms. Thefe dilapidations were at length
Dciceived, and Ihe was watched. Tiie
tlarleian MS. 7379, will go downtopoflerity
IS an eternal tetlimony of her hiftoncal im¬
partiality. It is a colledion of flate-lectcrsa

This MS. iias three pages entirely torn out ;
and it has a note, figned by the Principal Li¬
brarian, that on fuch a day the MS. was
delivered to her ; and the fame day the pages
were found to be deflroyed*.”

In examiming the number of the Har»
Ician MS. to which he refers, the fol¬
lowing memorandum is lo be found :

Nov. 12, 1764. Sent down to Mrs.
Macaulay. Signed, E, Morton.”

Upon applying to Dr. Morton for
farther information on this fubjeiQ:,
(who is at prefent, I thank. God, alive
and well), he was kind enough to fend
the following very fatisfaflory anfwer ;

the Rev. VVj lliam Graham, No. 71,

St. Martin’s Lane, Long Acre, London.

Rev. Sir, f'-wichenhamy Aug. 9, 1 794.

Having received ycur letter of the Stli
inflant, and having alfo examined the Har-
ieian MS. No. 7379, together with the pre-
fent worthy Keeper of the Manuferipts, t
fin b that the note inferred at the end, dated
November 12, 1764, does not contain any
evidence, that the three leaves wanting at the
end were torn out by Mrs. Macaulay : and,
on the contrary, it rather appears to me, that
the faid three leaves were already avanting
when the Manufeript was fent down to the
reading-room for the ufe of Mrs. Macaulay.
Your obedient fervant,

(Signed) E. Morton.”

Thus, Mr. Urban, have I laid before
you a plain ftatement of fa61s ; and
leave it to the public to judge of the
candour and impartiality of this Mr,
D’ffiTo li.

N. B. The Stamp of the Mufeum,
which is put on everv book and manu-
fcript as loon as by prefentment or pur-
chafe it becomes the property of the
publick, appears on the firft and laft
pages of the particular MS. in queftion ;
an undeniable proof, that it was precife-
ly in that Cfondition, with the prefent
appearance of leaves torn out, when it
came to that houfe.

An OLD AND CONSTANT ReADER O?

THE Gentleman’s Magazine.

Mr. Urban, Aug. 12.

HE following account of General
Arnold’s efcape from Guadaloupe
may, perhaps, be worth preferving. He
went to Foint-a-Petre, with about 5000I,
cafli, to fpeculate in fugart, not knowing
it was in the hands of the French ; when
he found it w'as, he palled for an Ame¬
rican, come to buy a cargo. He knew,
however, that he mufl foon be dilcover-

^ D’lfrAeli’s Dilica..tioii ou Anecdotes,

686 Great F refence of Mind of General Arnold. — The Aglionbys [Aug,

•ed, and concealed himfelf near the fhore,
where he conilru6ifcd a raft; and, taking
the opportunity of the tide, and a favor¬
able breeze, he floated part the French
llrips, and reached the Englifh. A fi-
milar prefence of mind faved him when
'Ire deferted the American caufe.

On turning to your vok for 17S0,
when the afl^air happened, I do not fee
that you have recorded the circumfian-
ces ; they were to the following e|fe£l.

■ When Andre was taken, and the papers
fouiad upon him difcovered Arnold’s
cotrefpondence with the Engiifli,
Walliingtofl was under Tome difficulty
iiow to fecuie- him. He had 4000 men
at Weft- point, and it was not known
whether he bad brought them over to
his way of thinking. 'I'o attack them
w'ould, perhaps, have been dangerous.
Washington, therefore, and Rocham-
beau ( who ccmmr.nded the Fiench for¬
ces), determined to go with a few attend¬
ants, and endeavour to fecDre tlie out-
pofts whihl they feized him on their
iiuerview. They lent their aid-de-
-C^nips a little before them, to fay they
were coming to dine with him. One
who was with them Hipped a very fmall
piece of paper into his hand, on which
w'as drawn the angle of a fort which he
■bad gwen to Andre, Ke then perfetf-
Iv unde) flood h>s fituation ; but, not, ap¬
pearing in the leatt affeefed, received
the aids-de-camp with great familiarly ,
turned to Mr.s, Arnold, and laid, that
Wafliington and Rochambeau intended
to honour them W'ith their company to
dinner ; that they rauft take foldiers
fare, but llie ffiould endeavour to add
isome^hing to their dinner; and then
!'aid, “ Wei!, gentlemen, in the mean
fme I will ffiew you that I have
been idle flnee 1 law you iaft ; 1 will
iiiew you feme works I have been carry¬
ing on.” He mounted his horie with
ihem, and led them to a ditch he had
opened towards the lea; and laid, he
bad been impeded in the work by a
fprtng which rofe on the other flde, and
vviffitd their opinion hovv to get rid of
it'. He (hewed them a bridge by which
they, might pals, but (aid, he thought
bis horfe would leap it ; and fpurnng
birn, he cleared it. They chofe 10 go
to the bridge ; but in the meun ciiTtc he
was g,ot to the (ea-flde ; and, finding a
liuall vtflel, ordered the man. to put
Cipflji’n' (a.i ; the wind was favourable,
and he put off. They were by this time
got to the (horn, and halloed, l)ut to
no purptde. Wc was, however, oblige‘d

to go by a fort on the oppofite point,
where he was called to by the officer,
and told that he muft flop. He faid, be
was going on very tirgent bufinefs to
the fhip (the Vulture), which lav off
there, and could not flop. The officer
in,flfted he Hioald, and that he wou^d
fire if he did nor. Arnold pointed to
the Aids-de camp who were in fight,
’ though too far off to be heard, told
him they had juft brought the orders,
and he muft go. The wind and tide
both favoured ; and whiift he kept talk¬
ing, the Ihip had made fome way. He
kept on, and reached the Vn'Iture in
(afety. X.

Mr. Urban, Au^. 25.

Y loferting the following queries
concerning two gentlemen, both
eminent in their times, you will much
oblige A Constant Reader,

The Scotch Encyclopaedia now pub-
iifhing Cays,

John Aglionby, an Englifli divine, chap¬
lain m ordinary to King James I. a man of
tinivcrfnl leaining, wlio had a very conflde-
rable hand in the tranflation of the New
T eft ■•tment appointed by Kf. James I. 1604.”

Where was this John Aglinnby born?

Was he imm id lately defeended from
the antieni farndy of Aglionby, of
Drawdykes caflle, or Carl fts, in the
county of Cumberland, or from a coi-
l-ateral b^'anch ?

V/hom did he marry ^

Had he any children that outlived
him ?

Are there any defeendants from him
remaining?

V/as this the Came John Aglionby
who was principal of St. Edmendb?
hall, Oxford, and reftor of Iflip, in that
county, who was buried in the chancel
of Ifiip churcl], and who had an in-
feription put up to his noemory on the
E^ift wall of the faid chance! ?

Does the inCcription ftiil remain, and
what are the words of it?

In a Book, intituled, A Deferip-
t'ron of Ail England,’’ under the article
Cumberland (amongft the famous men
that county has pjoduced) mention is
made of

rf Wi'liam Aglionby, of the Aglionbys of
tills county. He was a gentle uan well
known for his polite learning, and was Cent
by the bite Qii^en Anne as envoy to the
Swifs Cantons.”

^V’■htle and when was this gentleman
born ?

Was

1794-] Aglionbys ? — Galilean — IJland of (Zox^ic^. 687

Was he immediately or collaterally
lefeended from the Aglionbys refident
n Cumberland } Was he ever married ?
IVhere did he die ? EJld he haM any ( »
:her often (rble office under Government ?

Was he the fame William Aglionby
>vho publiffied a book in 15.85, intitu-
ed, “ Painting illuftrated,” which he
dedicated to William, Ear! of Devon-
fhire, and to whom he feems to have
ireen ftrongly attached from his vouch ?

In a colle6fion of letters, publifiied
fome years ago, there are feveral from
\ Do^or Wtliirm Agltonby, F.R S.
iated from 1685 to i6gi, principally
ivritten from d lferent parts of the Con-
rinent. From the date of the book, and
dF thefe letters, I fuppofe they muft
have been written by the fame gentle¬
man ; and it is not improbable but he
was allo the envoy into Switzerland.
Perhaps fame of your readers will be
able to afeertain this, as alfo the time
and place of his bitth; which, as no
mention is made of him. in the pedigree
•f the Cumberland family of that name,
muft, I think (.fuppofing the. two laft
Wii ■ iams to have been the fame perfon ),
as well as from the author of the book’s
early attachment to the Earl of Devon,
have been in fome other part of England.

What profeftion was DoSIor William
Aglionby brought up to, and where did
he take his degrees ?

1 ftiall be obliged to any of your
readers who can anfwtr the above que¬
ries, or give any account concerning
thel'e gentlemen. A. C. R.

Mr. Urban, Aug. 15.

"yf/^AV I N G' the controverly with
^ » JR ll'?. p. 607, on the DESIRE-
ABLENESS oj an union bet'iveen the Eng -
Lijb and Gjillican churches ^ and on the
benefits to be expebted from it to the
eternal and temporal njoelfare of man¬
kind, if once tfttdfed; and, laftly, on
its compatibili.ty with Protefant Princi¬
ples as profcfttd in the Church of Eng-
l'ind,and (anciioued by Apoftolic Pro¬
phecies (p. 512); waving, 1 fay, ail
controvei ly for the prefenc on topicks
like thele, on whi h Ihews a

Wonderful averfion to enter i i. will hum¬
bly requtft his attention to the folunv-
i.ig queries on the pruthcabi.iiy of the
inealure.

Wiitre is the Gallican Church now
to be found r

If found in the palace at Winchefter,
and likely to remain there for fome
time; would it not be an inlult to its

members, and to cornmon fenfe, fb pro-
pofe an union under fuch circuniftances ?

The great objedt of the prefenr war is
the deftruPtion of the Jaiobin government
in France". When that object is accom-
plifiied, as it is meant to be, this cam¬
paign or the next ; are we to undertake
another war, that the Religion of the
Gallican Chuich may, as heretofore,'
exalt her mitred front in courts and par¬
liaments ? Or, if all this cannot be efteSf-
ed, what expedient then remains (mark,
this, ye yet unidignihed and unprovided
minifters of the Pnigliffi Church !) to
accompliffi this happy confummation,
bat to prefer cur Gallican brethren.^ into
all the vacant benefices of our own efta-
bhfhment, and thus produce an
beyond’ espe6latioo intimate and ffec-
t ve? In the mean while, let me fuggeft;
to ^3. that, in the anfwer to thefe and
my former queftiohs, more perfons than;
txvo are concerned ; and that, if ke ftill
perTift in his blent inartention to the pu->
riianical peevijhnefs oi ihei Querift, your
readers, Mr. Urban, are too inteiligenc
not to make the foiotion for themfelves.

A CONSISTENT PkoTESTANT.

IMr. Urban, Ang. 25.

BSERVING the other day in your
eiKerraining publication an account
of the prelent ftate of Corfica'^, I lend
you a lliort excraff from Diodorus Si¬
culus (Book V. chap. xiii. and xiv. of
Wtffclmg’s edition) of its antient ftate,
B'he tranflation is perfeftiy luera!,

‘‘ About 300 ftadia (nearly 38 Roman
miles) from the illand of T-cbalia-f there is
an illand which the Greeks call Cyrnon, but
tlie Romans and natives Curftca, Tins ifland
is not dangerous to land on, and has one molt
excellent harbour called Syraorufium. There
are two cities in the illand worthy of notice,
Calaris and Nictea ; the Phocseans bu:lt tl'e,
former, and, after having inliabited it tor
fome time, were driven out hy tlte Tyrrhe¬
nians, or Tulcaus. 1 h.e Tuicans founded
Niexa when they enjoy'ed the foveieignty o£
the lea, and polTelfed the neighbouring
ilhnds. As long as the cities in Corfica were
lubjcdltotherri, they received, as tribute frona
* iVl. S. ohfervts, that “ Bnfching, in
fpeaking of Coifiaa, reckons by German
miles, to that the difF.;rence between him
and B )l\V'Tl is very trifling.”

f uEtlnila, or llva (the modern nan e
Elbai), is a Im.all illand near the coal! of
Tulcany ctlehrated for its ii on .mines. Du -
odonis Siculus gives fome account of it ; and
Virgil notices it in iEne d x. 173 :

Aft ilva trejenti s

Infula. inexhauftis ebalybum geueiofa me-

688 Corfica defcriled, — League agatnft France In 1521. [Au^«

the natives, refin, wax, and honey, which
are found in large quantities. The CoiTican
flaves, whether it be owing to fome particu¬
lar gift of nature, are faicl to excel all others
fordomeftic purpofes. The ifland is of con-
liderable extent, a great part of it very
mountainoup, abounding with woods, and
■watered with little rivers. The natives live
chiefly upon milk, honey, and flelh, which
the country produces plentifully ; and in
their general behaviour, both in regard to
joflice and humanity, mucli excel all other
Bai'barians. The honey, which is found in
the hollow trees among the mountains, is al-
■waysconfidered as the property of the finder.
The fheep are diilinguifhed by particular
mark?, and w'ander about without a fliep-
herd in perfedl fecuriiy. The Corficans, in
all the concerns of life, each in his particular
ftation, obferre with wonderful flridtnefs the
law of equity and juftice. They have a
niofl Angular cuftom when their children
are born ; no care or attention is paid to
tlie woman wdio lias lain in ; but the hnfband, ,
taking to his bed, palfesa ceitain number of
days in that manner, inflead of his wife, as
if afflidled with fome bcxiily complaint.
(Strabo mentions, tliat this ridiculous cuftom
prevailed arrmiig the Northern nations). The
box-tiee is very common, and of fuperior
(quality ; which is the reafon that the honey
has aivvays a bitter tafte. The Barbarians,
-who live in this ifland, make ufe of a lan¬
guage which is elle where unknown, and is
difficult to be underftood. Their number
exceeds 30,000.'" W. C. K.

Mr. Urban, Aug. 20.

S a fequel to the few thoughts I
troubled you with on the League
of Cambray, p. 41 7, perhaps the foilow-
lag on the war which ahaoli imniediately
followed againft France (the; moft pow¬
erful among the Confederates), may not
be unacceptable. Senue rb iking lines of
Salnaonius Macrinus induced me again
to confult thehiftoi y of rhofe times,

“■ Tota Europe Intftuofi
Uorridis belli quatltur proceilis,

Tomitem accendens odii Sc furorum
Saevit Eiyo,

Gallias, anno ferus atque Cimher,
Gallias, Angli jaculis timendi,

Gallias, fumaia fibi ope allaborant
Subdere Iberi.

Qviid quod occultaque domeflicaque
Clade vexamur nuferi r"

The above paflage is extrafted from a
fmall o£lavo volume of Odes, in four
books, printed at Pans in 1550, and
probably w'as written about the time
when countiy thought herlelf me¬
naced with utter deftruilion, in conl'c-
<|ueQce of King Francis the Firfl, being

defeated and taken prifoner by the Im-
perialifis at the battle of Pavia.

The Antigallican confederacy w’e are
now fpeaking of was entered into by
Charles the Fifth, Emperor, and King
of Spain, England, the Pope, the Duke
of Milan, Genoa, Florence, and after¬
wards by the Venetians, whom France
had fo lately menaced with ruin.

Rapin thus fpeaks of Henry VITT :

The king w'^as then wholly intent on
one affair ; the war he had lefolved to make
upon France, as if his glory and grandeur
liad depended upon the defti'u6lion of that
kingdom ; whereas his true intereft was to
fupport France agamft the Emperor, who
was now grown too toowerful. In all ap¬
pearance, France was going to be reduced to
a very fad condition, it being hanlly poflible
for her to ftand againft fo potent enemie;-,
who were to invade her from feveral qu.ar-
lers." I'indal’s Tranflation, VII. 2 i6, 8vo.

After tracing the final refult of this
hateful confpiracy, we flial! be juflifieci
in adding one more to thofe various in-
ftmees of baffled malice and ambition,
which fo clearly mark out the fuperin-
tendinghenirnityof a Divine Providence.

Far be it from me to irritate the nicer
feelings of our independent Senators and
mild Ecclefiafticks, ever anxious for the
credit of their predeceffors, by delinea¬
ting the haughty adminifiration ofWol-
fey, under which thefe tranra6Iions rook
pUce, and fhewing how not only Peers
but Priefls, mingling with fyeophants
who haunted that Cardinal’s anticham¬
ber, either proftrated rhemfelves at his
feet, or, when they refumed an erect
pofture, forgot their Chriflian profelflon
lo far as to “ blow the trumpet in Zion,"
and found the war-whoop of carnage in
the ears of their beggai ed and deluded
countrymen. L. L.

Mr. Urban, ^^^g' ^ ^ •

T would be doing s moft acceptable
piece of (ervice to many ci itical read¬
ers of Englifh Hiftorv, if any one of
yourOxford correfpondenrs would tranf*
niit you a copy of Ij^ihop Lloyd’s Letter
relating to Geoffrey of Monmouth, pre-
ferved among Tanner’s MSS. No. 94,
and cited by Mr. Warton, in his fiift
differration prefixed to his Hiflory of
Englifh poetry, fig. b. It is prefumed
that this letter has never been printed.

Pieafe to inform the ingenious author
of “ Remaiks on the Reliques of An¬
cient Piretry, p. 614, that the “ Gt‘lU.s
of the Fit zwarines”, after which he in¬
quires, are ftiil pieferved among the
Harleian MSS. Yours, &c. S. E.

Mr.

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CATHEDRAI. CHURCH OE OHD ^\RERHREN.

1794-1 Cathedral at Aberdeen. — Letter of Dr. Hales.

Mr. Urban, Au^, i.

ERE WITH I fend you a drawing
of the old cathedral church of
Aberdeen in Scotland.

King Malcolm the Second founded a
bifliopnck at Mortlick, a country pa-
rifli about thirty miles North-weft of
this -place, in the beginning of the ele¬
venth centurv.

This biftiopr'ck was tranflated to Old
Aberdeen by David the Firft, In 1163,
this church was built to the memory of
Sr. Michar. by Matthew Kininmont,
bifliop of Aberdeen, who obtained a
new charter from Malcolm the Fourth,
with many large donations. This bi-
lliep began to build a cathedral ; which,
being thought too fmali, was pui'ed
down by anotlter biihop of the fame
name in 1757, and in its place the one
now partly remainirig was built. This
magniftcent pile was almoft deftroyed at
the Reformation by a multitude from
New Aberdeen, led on by fome zealous
reformers from the neighbouring county
of Kincardine. That part which is now
ftandmg (fee plate 1.) is 135 feet in
ieiigth, and 64 feet 8 inches in breadth,
infide ineafure. It has a noble window
in the Weft end, over whicii rife two
conical ftone fpircs 112 feet high.

The roof of the nave is of oak, in
fquare panneis, painted with the arms
of thofe princes and nobles who con,tri-
buted to Its eredfion. Tlie arms are ar¬
ranged in three columns.

There was a grand crofs aile from
SuUth to North with a high tower upon
it, which ferved lor fea marks for fhips
coming into the harbour of Aberdeen.
'I'he tower was furniflied with 14 bells.

The great tower fell to the ground
May 9, 1688. The occafion of the fall
was by Oliver Cromwell’s foidiers ta¬
king away the walls of the chancel,
which guarded it upon the Eaft, to build
the fortifications of the Caftle hill at
Aberdeen. By its fall the reft of the
church w^is much damaged. This ve¬
nerable pile, which had fufFered fo much
at the Reformation, did not efcape the
fury of rhe Covenanters in the unfortu¬
nate reign of Charles the Firft.

The high aitar, a piece of the fincft
workmanlhip in all Europe, had till
tliat time remained inuolate; but, in
the year 1649, was hewed to pieces by
order and aid of the minifter of the pa-
rilh, and a carpenter employed for that
purpofe. The wainlcot ng was richly
carved and ornamented with different
Gent. Mag, Auguji^ 1794*

kinds of crowns at top, and admirably
cut; one of thefe is large, and of fupe-
rior work man fhip.

There is a very full and curious ac¬
count of the town and church of Aber¬
deen in the Btblioibeca Dpegrapkiea
Britannica, No. III. ' L.

Letters of Doctors Hildeslev,
Hales, Leland, and Mr.. Sa¬
muel Richardson.

(Continued from p. 596.)

LETTER III.

Dr. Stephen Hales^ to Bijhop
Hildesley.

My good Lord,

‘Teddin^ton, May t6, T758.
AM much ob!it>ed to you for your
kind letter of Aptil ii, and for the
favourable reception of my book ; in
which I hope there are many many
things of lb great benefit to mankind
as will hereafter have a confide able
influence on the affairs of the world
for the better, efpecially in relation to
thofe rnightv deftroyers, drams ^ and
that, not only of the lives, but alfo of
the morals of mankind. With a view
to which, I have (ent ftxteeen of this
book, wuh its firft part, to feveral nar
tioos of E.urope, efpeciaiiy the more
Northern, as far as to Peterfburg;
and am juft going to reprint the rirft:
part, fo much abbteviated as to bind up
well with the fecond part in one fix-
fhilling book; principally with a view
to fend two or three hundred of them,
at the firft opportunities, to all our co¬
lonies in i\merica, from the Southern
to the mofl Norrhe n.

As the iate occafional paitial refrain
took its r le from the great fcarcity of
corn, 1 cannot forbear looking upon it
as a great blelhng from Him, whom
the midf of judgement rtmembers mercy i
for, the happy event has been the al-
nioft half curing of the unhappy dram-
nyifts. The reafon why felf-abufe of
every kind Teems to be paramouni to
the power of human laws is, that wt
have loft all dhciplinc in Chu/ch and
State, as the iate excellent Bilhop of
London cblerved in his laft Charge to
us clergy in St. Maitin’s chuich;

* Writt -n, at fourfeore ! in a clear, but
lhaking hand. ' “ Bleft with ferenuy of
mind, and an excellent conftitution, he at¬
tained to the age of 84 years, and died, after
a fhoit illuefs, Jan. 4, 1761.” See Biogr,
in 12 vols. 8vo.

whence

Dr, Hales <^n Dram- drinkings and on the Scurvy.

[Aug.

v^^hence he inferteci, that tl'C parochial
dcTj^y ought therefore to exert iheiH-
felves with the more zeal in their paro
chi’s! duties.

As to your ohfei vation, that I have
lived U) So without drams, it puts me
in mind of an obfer vation of the late
Bilhop Berkeley, viz, that “ there was,
in etery diltri6f, a tough drammift, who
was the devil's decoy^ to draw others in/’

Upon the whole, the ('pen public tef-
timony that I have for thirty years pad
borne againft drams, in tieven dift^^rcnt
books or news papers, has been matter
of greater fatistaifion to me than if 1
were afl'ured, that the means I have
propofed to avoid nox ous air (hould
occafion the prolonging the h< ahh and
lives of an hundred mill ons of perfons.

I h ive here inch'ftd a very ufeful re¬
ceipt for making yeft, v\ hich Mr Pringle,
furgeon to the firft regiment of (ruards,
gave me, which 1 pul>tifhed in the
news-papers the beginning of laft
Match, and which is probably in the
Magazines, where I guefs you may
have feen it. But, for greater certainty,
I fend it, and, with it, what I did not
fee till I was cutting the receipt out of
Lloyd s Chronicle, •yiz. the query,

Wheiher it be right for truly Iciious
perfons to vifit on Sundavs?”

As to your queries on tlie raufes of
ihs icur^y \ as we are wrought out of
materials that have a (irong teudeocy to
putrefaction, and as the Icurvy is a pu¬
trid malady, the principal caufes of it
in fli ps are the very putiid air and wa¬
ter which liiev there breathe and dnnk.
Another caufe is the long-falted fiefli
which they eat ; which, though it d(.ts
not appear putrid to the tahe and fmcll,
yet is julf on the borders i.f putrefac¬
tion, as appears by tlie following jiidi-
cic;us txpeiimen'-, which Dr. Adding¬
ton t<jld me he had made, 'Vt%. he put
into a glais of water a piece of faked
beef fit to b,,il ; ami, into a like quan¬
tity of water, he put a piece of rrefb,
raw, unialted beef; when he obfcrvcd
the faked beef to'lfink fiift ; which
llievvs that it .was very near a ftate of
putrefa£fioi:i,, tlux^gh the la.t concealed
it from the take and fmeil. And when
fuch faked flelh is, in eating, mixed
vv th our drink, and other juices of the
body, and witlial heated in the lodj, no
wonder that it liiould tend to bieed the
fcurvy, which fait from the falt-feller
cuies and prevents.

i look on lea air to be very whole-
forne, unlefs near muddy (hores, where

the vapours, being putrid, make the air
un vvbol'-Tome, as is evident on lon>e
parrs of our fiiore j but, where that
lliore is (andv, it is conffantly healths'.
If fea air were un wholefome, the fea-
port towns would be mod h.kly wlien
the wind b'ew from the fea ; which f
never heard to be fo.

The too great quantity of flefh which
we eat in this ifland is, doubtkTs, a
principal caule of the prevalence of the
fcurvy among us, which is the reafoo
why r always begin dinner svith plain
pudding, to prevent my ^living on all
flelh, of which I never eat any at night,
but milky Ipoon meat, which occafions
me much fweet fleep.

Cold, damp, inclement air, may pro¬
bably occakon the fcurvy, by checking
too much the perfpirable vapour, which
has a flrong tendency to putrefaftion,
and which may alfo be the reafon of
the cutaneous dilorders to which the

more Noithern countries are obferved

✓

to be fubjeiff. There is alfo anotiier
reafon why they aie fo fubje^l to the
fcurvy in very cold Noithern countries,
VIZ. the ihutting themfelves much up
in clofe rooms, where they breathe very
putrid air. As a remedy for this, 1
propofe the having fmail tiunks pak up
through the roof, with turning copper
cow s at the top, f'jr the motl put id,
and theiefore light f, air continually to
pafs off.

1 guefs the flrong winds are hurtful
to your trees, &c. on account of the
great quantify of marine fait with which
the air is impregnated, which is a com¬
mon Cile on our fea lliores. However,
I find vuur Ciiincite is in the main lem-

perate.

This is a long letter for mei hut my
fiuceie defire to do what I guds will
be molt acceptable to you has urged me
to lengthen it. I am, my Lord, With
the greateft tfleem, your Lordfliip’s
obliged humble fgrvant,

Stephen Hales.

P. S 1 had forgot to mention a thing
which 1 have long intended to write to
you about, ‘Vtz. whereas you complain¬
ed that the duty of your large church
and congregation had incommoded your
voice; it has been found, by the ex¬
perience of many, t that drinking tar-
water very much deterges and opens the
lungs, and thereby gives a very fenfibly
greater eafe in fpeaking. If you Iha l
think fit to try it, you may ufe liie
common tar, which is Ibid in every
town for the ufe of farmers; which I

have

Founder'* s Kin at All Souls College, Oxford. 69!

»794 ]

have known uA;d with as good efFcft as
any.

The Bifhnp’s [Berkel^^y] prefcr’ption
is, a quart of tar ftirrcd fix minutes in
a gallon of waier; bnr, if there be
fomewhat lefs tar, it may do as weH,
efpeciaily at firft, to try how it fits on
you.

You may take about one-fourth of a
pint, at four feveral times, at a daedif-
tance from meals. It will be a good
time to begin in fourteen days. You
may continue it for fix or eight weeks,
as you find, I took it thus in the early
fpting with good effc£I, and intend to
begin again in 14 divs.

f 'Tc be eontinued. )

Mr. Urbam, July F9.

N youi 'a I volume, vou were lb
good as to infcrt an enquirv, which
I was defirous of making into the tru' h
of a report, that the Warden and Fel¬
lows of All Souis college, Oxford, hid
rejedled a founder’s km, though bound
by their ftatutes to ele6f fuch a claimant
in preference to all others^. Several
of your correfpondents very obligingly
anfwered me, ^nd made it too plain that
the college had a'Sed jn this manner f.
1 exprelTed my feelings on the occafioo,
with a hope that, if I mifconceived the
hufinefs, or if it had been imperfectly
Hated , 1 might be ftt r'ght No mem¬
ber of the CO lege having condefceiided
to prctice what has been (aid, it is fair
to prelume that they feel themlelves
unable to anlWr tfie obfervations ; your
publication is too geijeraby re^d to al¬
low a luppofuion of ;ts not having been
ften by lotne />f that body., it is a mat¬
ter in w'hich fo many are interefied,
that I will b.eg leave once mere to bring
it before the tribunal of the publick, by
ivino; d fhott (uiumary o^ what has
een Itatcd, and whuh, not having been
fontrad !£led, ir.uft he rajceii a? true;
and tpen I will tnmble you no farihex
than tp evpitfy my v-dh that, if th.’P
colleg,e IhaH again prefer a granger to
one of their founder's km, tire ma’tef
mas be once more difcuffcd in a court
of jufiice. It i< of great and weighty
concern to the univerfittes, as well as to
the publick at lar^ge, to know whether
politive fidtu'fcs Can be thus got rid of.

Jt appears then,

I'hat the founder, bv his ftatutes,
fxprelily oidered that, in elections of

* P. rcT. f Pp. 195, 196, 7ii,

t !'• 5S5-

fcholars, fr'mcipnliier et anti omnes alios
iHi qui fknt Vb.f, ErUNT de cor,fan^ni->
nit/xte nofli d et gerrere, fi qut tales
eium fi/it reperti ha biles et tdonei fecUnduns
cmditiones — eligantur'^ ;

That the members of the college take
an oath to obferve the flatu'es ;

That, ffi 1694, the college (for the
firfi time, at lead nothing prior has been
dated) attempted to get rid of the kin¬
dred by a fide wind, but that Archbp.
Tillotfon compelled them to receive
the kinfman f ;

That, in 1722, the college openly
preferred a firaneec, but were compelled
bv Arclib'fliop Wake to admit tli^^ rela¬
tion of the founder, and were told by
him, that they had done the young
gent’tman great injuftice t ;

That from , this nine the college ad¬
mitted the claims with great relu6t-
ance ^ ;

That, in 1761, they applied to Abp.
Seeker, to detcimine whether the coba-
teral kindred whs to be confidered as
fubfifling without end ; that tie refufed
to anfwer the queflion, no calc being
before him ; that they foon brought a
cafe before him, by dealing a ftranver
in preference to one of the kindred ;
and that he, like his predecelibrs, de¬
termined againft the college § ;

That, in 1776, they again preferred
a firanger, and that the then archhilhop
was prevailed on to allow their proceed¬
ings, and to interpret that (latute, by
which the founder declared that hi*
kiod.ed, qui funt *vel eruntj (hould al¬
ways be preterred ante cmnes aliosy to
rivean, that only acertain number (liould
be prefei red [j ;

That, in 1791, they again rejeded a
kinfman, and that the aichhilhop, or
his affrlfors, have confirmed this re-
jedion

And It does nor appear that the oath
is aboliflted by which the Fehows fwear
£0 obey tlie flatutes of rlieir founder.

Yours, &c. A. B.

Mr. Urban, July

PUR correfpondent p. 496,

IS not accurate in his rep'^tlentaiioii
of the negleft of the editors of the Bio-
graphia Brttannica as to Dr, Cave’s

Scriptorum ecclefiafticovum plilloria
literaria.” The jail note on his life
mentions, that “ a new edition of it was
lately printed at London, by fubferip-

^ P. 518. f P. Ill, t P, 7^9'

§ i’* 5 ‘9* 11 -97-

iion

Dr, Cave. — Fladbury and Strenfliam. — Butler. [Aug.

tion, ,with very large additions and
emendations throughout the whole,
made by the author during the lart
twelve years of his life.’* For Lon¬
don” we fhould in ihat note read “ Ox¬
ford i” and for “ lately” we Uliouid ^ub-
ftitute “ 1740.” The new editors of
the Btographia fhould undoubtedly have
noticed thefe circunriftances j and

fltould know that C was the ori¬
ginal fignature of Mr. Morant ; the
initial letter of whofe nan»e is now fnb-
joiiud in its dead to this life of Dr.
Cave, which was written bv him.

P. 508, col. I. Your Stratford cor-
jeTpondent ntay find the infeript ons,
\v!»:ch his friends would not allo'v him
time iv copy, printed in Dr. Nafh’s
very val >iible “Collefdions for the Hi!-
tory of Worcf’fterdiire j” in the firll vo¬
lume of which^ pp. 44^> 7* ’* given

an account of the water-works of Mr.
William Sandys, of KJadbury, in com.
Wigorn, on the r ver A; on, begun in
thje year 1635 ” appears that, “ 8
Charles 1. a leafe was granted by John,
biiliop of Worcetler, to Sir Wm. San¬
dys, and Wm. Sandys, efq. his fon, of
the office of bailiff of Fladbury.” From
Dr. Malh’s fecond volume, p. 391, we
learn that the celebrated Samuel Busier,
author of Hud bras, was a native of
Stienlham, where he was chriftened in
February, 1612. In the courfe of iafl
vear the Do6lor publifhed a moft fuperb
and fplendid edition of Hudil)ras, in
quarto; to wloch is prefixed a Ihort ac¬
count of the inimitas'le author, contain¬
ing alfo a general critique on hss poem,
and other prefatory matter. A volume
of felefted and or ginal notes is iike^
vvife fubjoined.

I*. 5; 5. The pa’ ticulars refpe.fling
Abp. Williams bring to recollc ftion his
letters in the polfelhon of your corre-
fpnndent in p. 99 of your lafl volume.
When will he perf rm bis promife of
communicating them tt IMi. Urban?

P. 528, In Ms. Gilbert Cooper s ar¬
ticle in the Biographia Britannica^ here
referred to, all that is fa d of “ Wini-
freda” is, that ” the admiters of jisriple
and eleg int poetry are not a lutle oUli
ged to the authoi [->1 Letters on Tafle]
for bringing them acq,iaun.ed witn the
S(in>> 10 Winilrtda, ’ Do thefe words
po nc h^m out as ” the auttior of tuis
preitv long?”

P. 530, col. I. W. W. B. may not
perhaps lec. lLbt, chat the “ excias^ts
fiom tlie w. Kings of Dr. P itfiley,
ivhich were read in court at the aifizcs

at Warwick,” and afterwards printed
feparately, are fubjoined as “ an Ap¬
pendix” to an admirable pamphlet, in~
tituled, “A fmall Whole length of Dr.
Piieftley, from his printed Works;”
which you judicioufli' recommend to
general perufal in p. fq'S, of your laft
volume. SctCUTATOR.

Mr. Urban, July 28.

AM going to tranferibe part of a
Itrter from a learned friend of rriine,
which, I hope, will be acceptable to
ysiu, as every word he writes or fpeaks
i.s to me. Yours, &c. J. C,

“ Feh. 20, 1794.

I ought long ago to have complied wuth
your requelt, by giving you fonie remarks
on the coin and infciiptions at Greta bridge.
As there was a neat and corr^dt drawing of
the latter publiflied in the Gentleman’s Ma¬
gazine, for Decemb'^r laft, p. 1073, whicb
mufl have been taken about the time we
faw them, I need only obferve, that tlie ta¬
blet is infcr.ibed to Severus and Caracalla, af¬
ter the latter was declared Auguftus, and to
Ceta, as united with theni in the empire, af¬
ter his beii g declared Caefar, by Lucius A'-
finus Senecio. tfieu' ligate lieutenant, leo,
Eoi' UM PR. PR. It appears from Vegetluq
De Re MilitAYiy and fi'on*! many inferiptions,
that thefe two offices w'ere frequently held
by one and the fame perfon ; and it appears,
bo'h from a and from an infcription on
the fnagment of a ftone found in the fame
place with the tablet, that L. A. Seneciv>
was an officer in the fixth legion. On the
coin are the wmrds leg. vi, vict. p. f. le-
g/o fexta njtSlrix pi a Jldelis \ and leg. vi;
vicT. may be made out on the fragment al¬
fo, from which unfortunately the letters be¬
tween SUB CURA and lrc. vi. vict. are
broken off. On this fragment is, in letters

plain enough, l^bs for laps. For, in very
many infenptions we find lahfum for lapjum.
it is probahL tlie letters preceding denoted
w'hat w as fallen i to decay, and was repair¬
ed ; and, from the only reaiaining letteis in
the two laft. iinei', I vyonld infer, that it was
between tlie fort and the bridge, citaa
Ponf?.Mt c'ltra pontem. The tablet by L. A.
Senecio records the time, when the affairs of
the Romans in this ifland were in fo dif-
rraiMed a ifate, that it was become neceffary
to repair and build forts, and efpeciafly in
t! e Nortlaern pai ts, while Geta was only
Cacfir. You finit this fixth legion in conftant
emi loyment durlrg the wiiole leign of Se¬
verus. Long beture ti e time I am fpeakmg
of, even lo erndy as wiieii his fon Ballianus,
nickna.t.ed Caracalla, was only Caafar drjti-
natui, part of tins hxtli leg'on was employed
in building or repairing the foi t at llkl.y, in
Yorkfhire, under Vinus Lupn.s, his legate
lieutenant, vik. lyp. leg. pr. pr. Ano¬
ther

7g4‘l Infcrlptions at Greta Bridge. — Heraldic Dovlis.

her part of it was employed in building or
ep iiring rhe fort at Brovtgh, near Afki ig, in
rkfliire, by this fartie L. A, Senecio ; and
I have little doubt of his having been, with a
iletachrrent from the lame legion, on the
fame fervice, neai Greta bridge; for, he
he u v-'uld hardly have written svb cvra on
;he tablet if he had had nothing mere to do
:here than to command the garnfon of Gle-
nove. The head quarters of this legion were
at York. Whether it contained a greater
number of mafons and carpenters than the
other legions would he hard to fay ; hut,
certain it is, you find it more employed in
repairing and building than any other ; and,
when Severus became more provoked than
ever at the iiruption of the Caledonians,
LFG. VT. V cT. was agaiii and again em¬
ployed on t! e walls both in England ahd
ScoMand. W’ y Geta’s name was erafed may
be eafily accounted for. When L. A. Senecio
wrote this infeription' Geta was no more
than Ca?far; and, though he was created
Auguftus before his father’s death, this new
honour W'as by no means a meafure of leffen-
ing Caracalla's hatred of him, but increafed
it to that degree, that he murde^;ed him in
the prefence of his mother very foon after
the death of Severus. Now, as Caracalla’s
hatred of Ge a * as no fecret to the legions in
Biitain, anU commenced with ilic time that
Severus created him Caefar, is it not proba¬
ble that the fixth legion might be mote in
the interell cf Caracalla than of Geta, and
that this L- A. Senecio might order Geta’s
name to he erafed, and by forae negleft, or
perhaps by the ignorance of the Bone-cutter,
GtV^’s addendum of nob. oaks, might be left
Bamiing } 1 hefitate the lei’s in hazarding
this opinion, became tins is not tlae only m-
fciiption in wh eh the name of Geta has
been erafed. There is one at Brough, near
Afkrig, and another at Hexham ; on both
which L. A. Senecio has made the fame era-
fure. See Camden, and Hoi fley’s Britannia
Romana.”

Mr. Urban,

TAK.E your Magazine, whicli con¬
tributes pleafure (after my day’s
work) to perule. Some articles are
abo»e mv underflanding, yet from
others I rtctive plealure and improve¬
ment. It repa'S, theiefore, mv monthly
txtra'vagarcey eh is only id a week ;
and, as 1 do not vili; anw clubs, neither
Whigs, Tones, Jacobins, nor Levellers,
1 think 1 am not fo bad ; I'u: mv Even¬
ing Monitor lays, 1 had befter Hick to
mv Uft and mind my end, and not read
Magazines and old rr.uliy booKi,. As
molt men have their hobb>, rnin- is the
C :j,tleman’s Magazine, a few llera d.c
books, and that cld-falliicxied book
Called the Bible.

I am aftonifhed to find rbat no Heral¬
dic gentleman in London (and I am
certain there are many) has anfwered
the queries of the Student in Heraldry,
Vf)L LXIIL p. Soi, upon the term
mefifs, &c. from Leigh’s Accedence of
Arrnorie, p. 78.

P. qii, NormannuSy in anfwer, favs.

May nolnujks have the fame meaning
as tlie word mafcles, a term well known in
Heraldry, a lozenge voided ?”

Norm.^nnus might as well fay they
were miifclgs as mofcles. Therefore,
how a gentleman will anfwer in your
valuable Repolitory of information,
without confulting the author quoted, ii
amazing. I, as a workman, can fpare
a few minutes to look to the author
quoted, and return the anfwer in the
author’s own words. My edition is
i597» P- 78 :

Now I wil fhew you of nine fundry
mefles, which are fo called becaufe they en-
termeddle the one within the other, contrary
to the plaine partition : i. party per crolfe ;
2. partie per pale nebule ; 3. party per bend
batiled embatiled ; 4. party per bend linifter
chatTfipian } 5. parted per fefs deted ; 6.
party per cheveron embatiled ; 7. parted per
faltier vndade ; 8. parted per pile envecked ;
9. party per baft bane miere.”

Mr. Urban, I think this is a poficivc
proof that majles are not mafcles.

The term ler, tally (fee Leigh, p. 79),

parted per fefle detend ; this is called
hntally which modern Heralds term
dancet e.

** Geules, femie de crolTes flurte, Or. If
there were but vij. and that the half of fome
of them were out of the fidd'^ (as appeareth
by the efcocheon) yet it fhould be called fe-
mi- But if there were x. and al within the
e<iges of the efcocheo, they fhould heuium-
b.ed. But when they may bee numbred,
then it is called of olde herelxaughts, gerat-
ting.'*

The terms vtnired and dentod I can¬
not explain ; but, 1 truft, fome Heral¬
dic gentleman, who has more leilure
than Normannus, vdll explain.

If the Heraldic Student will cai. at
the Pewterers and the Founders Com¬
plies, he will there receive informa¬
tion from the blazons of their arms, and
be no t ouble to your Heraldic corre-
fpondents.

I am lorry to obferve, your Heraldic
correfpondeirts are eagei to receive an-
fv\ ers to their cjueries, but inatrenrive to
q i( l ies of an Heraldic Student ; no en¬
couragement given, but ielt unanfwercd

^94

sod unnoticed in the G^^ntlerran’s Ma¬
gazine. Biufli, Heraldic eemlemcn !

Yours, Sec. A Garraterian.

Mr. Urban, Salop, June

HE inclofed (fee plate 11. i)
is a faithful view of St. Giles’s
ffhurch, Shrcwjbury, luuated at the end

the Abbey Foicj^ate. By tradition,
is IS the oldfcfl church in ijhtewihury.
There is nothing particu arly worthy of
remark in the bui ding; and, as it is
BOW only an appendage to the pdriHi of
Holy Crofs, fervice is perlonned in it
l^ut feldom- 1 have never feen the

foonumental in<cri;?<tions noticed by any
one who has vilited this cliurch (even
IkU. Fhillipj. in h s Hihory and Anti-
talkies of Shrewfhury, has' omitted
Sftem), 1 ha'ue rranferibed the moft par-
ticnisr In the church and church yard.

Within the church.— jin the chancel
ficwr is a tfone which leems of great an-
trejuity, of which I fend you a flight
fcut eorrefl drawing. The legend on
she edge is much defaced ; but I hope,
from what is here reprefenttd, forne of
Mr. Urban’s coi relpondents, verfcd in
Antiquiries, will be ab e to give a latis-
fadfory account. See fig. t.

Againft the South wall, on a plain
fio-.ne, is the following inferiprion :
her* i.yi th the Boi y of

W A L T E R N 1 C C 0 L L S ,

WHO iJt PART ED THIS LIFE
THE 8^^' DAY OF NOVEMBER,

TlSr THE YEAR OF OVR LORD COD l685-
STYR NOT MY BONKS^ W HICH ARE 1- AY D E
IN CLAYF, [day.

»OR IMVST RISE AT THE RESURRECTION

Aeainft the North wall, on a nsat
marble tablet :

Mar t h a,

uxor Gulielmi Gorfuch, cler.
efflav L animam

. Mail 1761, aet. 56.

Etiam,

GuLTELML’S Gorsuch,
bujns paroch ae vicariiis 31 ann.

Ohiit

Nov. 1781, aat. 73.

In the chuich-yard — On a pedef.a!,

‘ wh'ch luppoits a beautiful urn, is the
following mfcripv.cn :

Uc neirini noceret mortmi<^,

Qrri unicuique pro re iMta luccuirere voluit
vivu‘;,

Hie extra urbem fefe contumulandum piaeci-
piebat

Cheney Hart, M.D.
Warringtoni in agio Lancaftrieufi natus
Nov. 17 — 2.8, 1726.

[Aug.

E fchola ibidem publica rudimenta literarum
Immaniorum haubt;

Exinde ex celeb. Glafgu® ncademiam ad-
mitfu', et dcvflrinis

liberaliier iiikituius, j/hif ifuphiae curfurn
abfulvit ;

Edinam dein fe contulit ;

Ubi feientia; aiutomicae, biitanicae, chemicaej
et rherapeutice.s.

Ope rani dedit, et

Gradum dodforatus in rnedicina adeptus,
Londini demiim proxi clinica uki'a im^^utus,
Ai tern falntarem apud Salopienfes exercuit jier
annos xxxni.

Diem claufit extremurri, letatis fuse lviii.
Menfejunii, aimo mdcclxxxiv.
Conviva fatur;

Integer vit*, vir honeflus;

AmicuE, civis, maritns, pater, op'imus de-
fideratiflimus ;

Medicus fag.'ix, perituc, fdot'fer ;

Pacts cur ator in cwmit. Salop, affiduus, ftde-
lis, asquus ;

Libertatls publitse viudex vigilans, O.yaniius,

’ probus ;

Veri unius Dei in nomine Jefus Ghrifti fair
vatoris, cultor pins, conlf.ins, fincei us,

Ut moi iens yiveret, vixjt ut moi irurus
A. D, O, M. denique renoyanduR.
ledlor, et tuas mortis memor efto j
Virfus At tibi famae decus,

Hora namque, dies, annus, cum tempore fugitj
Manet unica uhtus.

On one fide a handfeme tomb, incIo«
fed by iron palifades, is inscribed,

Sapred

to the meiiHory
of

William Pongreve-, efq. of Shrewfbury,'
formerly lieutenant-colQiiel of the 17th
regiment of foot.

Who, after a life confcientioully employed in

the

uniformpraifl iceoftholevirtueswhicl'makeup
the character of a good man and fincers
Cliriftian,

died 8th [une, 1779, 79,

defervedly regretted by his numerous friendSj
and fincereiy lameiited by the poor,
to whom he was a generous
and moA humane
benef.idtor.

On the Of ht r Ade :

Mrs. Jane Cong REVE, reii6f of lientemnt-
coloiiel Congi'cve, died 8th of April, 1790,
aged 84.

On a targe tornb on the South Ade the
cliurch, without name or date, may be
feen,

“ Compofita folvantur.”

Yours, &c. D. Parkes.

Mr. Urban, July

^ H E (cholars of Mr. Clarke, w ho
was fueceliively mailer of the

grammar-

Churth Notes from St. Giles’s, ShrAwfbury

(/ •

^794'] A'fcnuTncntal Infer ipt^ions for Mr. Clarke, Mr^ Jones, fffr. 6(55

grammar fchools of Sliipfon, Beverley,
ind Wakefield, in Yoikfhire, liave
very recently eit61ed to his memory a
monument in the church f)l Kirby Mif-
perton, in the Eaft r'd ng of the fame
county, the place of his nativity, at the
EXpence of fifty-five guineas; and a
marble tablet in each of the Tchools over
which he prefided, at the expeuce of
20I. I have inclofed an engraving of
tlie monument and infeription, and alfo
a copy of the infcriptinu on the tablets;
which, polfibly, you may not think,
undelerving of a place in your Maga-
2iiir. DisciPULUS.

Inscription on t h e T o m b .

Near this jdace are depofited the remains of
the Reverend John Clakke, M. for¬
merly Fell'm' of

Trinity College, in the Cniverfity of Cam¬
bridge,

and fucceffively Mafiercf the Free Grammar-
fchor ls of

Shipton, Beverley, and Wakefield, in ifcis
county.

^He was born iti this village, May 3d, 1706,
and died Februaiy 8tb, 1761.

To an accurate and extenfive knowledge of
clalFic literature he joined a corrcdl judgement,
a refined anti elegant tafte
The mildnels and unafiedled humility of liis
difpofit'on,

tl.e guilelefs firrpliciiy of his life and manners,
his diffidence and genuine modefty,
endeared him to his pupils ;
whilfl a faithful attention to their improve¬
ment

in learning commanded their efteem and
venei a' ion.

They have cavifed this nmnumenttobecredlcd
as a teftiruony of iheir
aftetfion.

Inscription on thf Tablets.

}ih faltcm acctm:Jem donii^ et fu/igjr inant

hiuricre^ V i k c ,

M. S.

Joannis Clarkf, A.M.

Qui

Huic fcholae pra’pofitus
Surnm^ cum omnium i.iude ac prasdicatione
Juventuiis inftituendx provhnciam atlornavi' :
Intima Latinarum et Graccarus-n literarum
cognitione inftruftu'^,

In opiimis urriufque lingu» Icnptoribus ex-
plic.indis et illuftrandis
dilucidus, folers, perfpicax.

Mores hiunanitaie adeo temperavir,
tit difcipulos fuos, in glorix fpem edura'os,
Increiiibili qxuklam facilitate ad dodbinam
alliceret,

Ii'dtifiriam excitaiet atqne acueret.

Ex vultn modefio, obtutuqne fuavi pbc’do
Ammi candorem lubentililme conjiceres
Erat enim, fi quik alius,

rnculpabili vitse integritate ornatilfimiis;
Immo perpulcln am pi imrevae iniKiccniiae
exempkim.

Piget, eheu ! referre qnam virnm fmne
0 -',tirne de republic a meiitum,
^runuiisconfedlum , fine lionore, fine prremk5>,
Faupertate et inop a tauium non opprclfum,
Ji'grata mtas et \iderit et neglexenit.
Kaius in villa de Kiiby Mi^veiton,

In comilalu Fboracenfi,

3 Mail, A . D. 1 706,

In eadem villa fepnltus efl
II Fcbi uai ii,' A. D. 1761.

T.Z.

Mr. Urban, July 25 .

J ATELY there has been pEced a
white marble flab on the infide of
the South wall of Eroxbnrne churcib,
in the county of Herts, with the follow¬
ing infeription on it :

Near this place Iks interred
the body of Thomas Jonfs, Efc:}uire^
lam one of bis MajeEy’s judges
of the Ihpreme court of the province of New
York,

in North America.

Who, having fuffered fevere hardfhips, aiil
great

perfomd injuries, during the troubles, io
America,

for his firm attachment to the Britifo Con-
Ihiiution,

and unflir.ken loyalty to his prefeRt Majcffy,
(under whona he had held different ciwS
cornmiffions,)

came toF ngl and for the recovery of h-s heakfs j
and being, by m aik of attainder pasETed in the
State of New York, deprived of his iarg^e
rvropeit'’,

and prevented from returning to his native
country,

fettled at Hoddefdon, in this pariffs;
and havkg, by the polite and friendly atteo-
tions of

the inhabitants, found it a moft defirable rc-
fidentc,

he died there July iK, 1797 y aged 61 year?.
/Li ‘wido'Wf J'lom tender rifpeS} to hii
ertdled This fnonument

to an affediionate ond wnji indulgent hujhiind.,
a fin cere friendy
a kind rnafcTy

a benevolent member of focktyy
and a loyal fuhjedl.

By ftrangers honoured !

By ftrangers mourned !

In the bnrying-ground belonging'

St, Margaret’s chapel, near Haddeldon,
is the following on a grive-ftone ;

Here lye interred the body of Capt.

Hen RY Gr avfs,

who departed this life the lyth tky of
Auguft 1702, in the 521! year of nis age.
Here iji one grave more than one Grave lies;
Envious Death at lafi hath gain’d his prize.

6q6 Union with GdXWcm Church Impraillcahle. — Dijjduterf Pfulms. { Aun

No pills or potions here could make Death
tarry, |

Defolv’d he was to fetch away old Harry ; ^
Ye foolilli dodlors! could you all mil'- |
Carry }

Great werehisadlionson thehoifl’rouswavesj
Refihlefs f@as could never conquer Craves.

1 Colchefter, lament his oveithrovv I
Unhappily you loll him at a blow.

Each marine hero for him Ihed a tear;

St. Margaret’s too in thisnuifl have a fhare»

Mr. Us BAN,

OR God’s fake, Mr. Urban, what
are you doing ! Have you not feen
enough of the fpi. it of leformers I Are
you not fufficiently read in the intrigues
of 'Popery ! An union between the
Churches of England and Rome ! As
well mav oil and water unite. 1 have
no doubt the needy Emigrtir.rs, who
have al eady by rheir fall’c repiefenra-
tions milled a generous nation, w'ouid
be happy to fliare our eccltfiaOical re¬
venues, or to throw us into confufion.
Even the inhnuatiog p.neftof rdiis coun¬
try, who perhaps little del'erves all the
favours lately obra ned to his f'edf from
an enlightened legillature, would wiflx
to bring oui Clert^v to acknowledge that
clement pontiff Pius VI.;” but that
the Dignitaries of our happy Ehablifli-
ment, or on'y one “ Prelbyter of the
Church of England,” fliould even in
idea encourage fuch a feheme, is to me
wonderful, and pall hnding out. I
I'cruple not to affirm, that that “ Pref-
byter” deferves furpenfion who would
attempt, by words or wiiting, to bring
us half way back again to Popery. The
gulph is 6xed — vtjiiiita nulla reirorfum.
The Pdpid may leap over to us if he,
pleafes; but worfe than Gothic igno¬
rance muft overipread this land before
can make the leall retrograde move¬
ment to Popery. Superlbtion has had
its day. Popery has always led to
Atheifm ; and, as the refolute high¬
wayman is more rel'peifable than the
private thief, fo much is Arheifm, with
all its horrors, fuperior to Popeiy.

You are a worthy man, Mr. Urban,
and an excellent lubjtif. Let, me then
requefi: you will put an end to all dif-
culhuns in favour of a religion dyed,. in
blood, and marked with del'potifm.
Some alarm is already gone abioad.
Our religion is the religion of Scrip¬
ture ; our articles are all founded on
this fure bafts, and may be proved
thereby. This is not a time to fport
with eftablifhments, or hazard experi¬
ments. Let every man worfliip God

according to the dilSfates of his ow
confcience ! but let not vain attempts a
uniformity remove eftablifliotl land
marks. Latimer, Ridley, and H loper
fpeak in their afhes. They will in(lfu6
their (dns to all fucceeding «rgcs, evei
were hiftory filent.

Another Presbyter of the
Church of England.

Mr. Urban, yu// 22.

LEARN from Tome of our literary
Journals, that Dr. K'ppis, Mr. Jar¬
vis, and oxh'fs, are now preparing a
co'leilion of Pi'alms and Hymns proper
to be u trd in Diffcinting congregations j
and, under their ran6fion, there cm be
no reafon to doubt that fuch a colle6fioa
will foon be populaf.

W 11 you give me leave to alk tliefe
gentlemen, or any of your correfpond-
ents, why the fxfy Jourth Pfalm is not
to be found in Dr. Watts’s Pfalms? I
have examined as many old copies as E
could find, but that Plalm is uniformly
omitted. As no re non is given for this
omilfion by Dr. Watts in his Preface,
and as [ am not able to difeover anyr
bom the nature of the Plalm itfelf, [,
ffiouid be glad if fome of your oldeft
readers, who perhaps may remember
the eariifft publications of this work,
would attempt to ^fatisfy curiofiiy on
this point. In all fuch cafes, I know
of no channel to which 1 can refer with
fo much hope of fuccefs as to the Gen-’
tiernan’s Magazine. C.

Mr. Urban, Grange, April 2^, •
HE antient baronial caftle of A«
ruodel was founded before the
Conqueft, and is faid to have been in a
flourillimg itate in the time of the Sax¬
ons. Ac the Conqued, it was granted
by Wil.iara the Fi.Tt to Roger de Mont¬
gomery, fiillearl of Aiundel, whore-
built the greater part of it. On the re¬
bellion of his Ton Robert it was confif-
cated, and remained in the hands of
the Cl own till feiried by Heiuy I. on
Cfuten Aii.eli-za as pHj^c of lier dower.
Oa t tie tie -it h of the - king, Ihe made it
-toe place of her refidence, and here en-.
tertained the Etnpreds Alaud on her firij
arrival. On the marriage of the queen
dowager with William de Albint, that
notilemau was c eared Earl of Arundel
by the Emprefs Alaud. On the failure
of the Albini family, in 1252, it paffed
to tlie Fiiz Alans (eatls of Arundel);
and, that family being extinft in 1579,
to the noble family of Hovvaid, the pre¬
lent

a794‘] Arundel — Lime-tree at — Fres-R-hfanry,

fert pofleflbrs of the caftle and title.
The iith of Henry VI. it was decreed
in parliament, the poffefiTor of the caftle
ihould be Earl of Arundel withowt any
other creation. In the civil wars of
Charles I. it was garrifoned for the Par-
lianient; but, being furprited by Lord
Hoptoun, it received a garrifon for the
king. The ce!-ebrated Chillingwerth,
having taken fhelter in the cafile, fervtd
as engineer. After the royalitls’ quar*
ters were beaten up at Alton by Wal¬
ler, he marched to Arundel, and the
caftle furrendered upon- quarter. Chil-
jingwoi th, being taken prifoner, was car¬
ried to Chichefter, and died there from
ill ufage, andwas buried in the cloifters
of Chichefter cathedral ; where is a
fnural monument with this infeription :

yirtuti facrum,
fpe certiffima refurre^iionis,
hie rediicem expeclat animam
Gulielmus Chilling wor th,?

A. M.

Oxonii n'atus et educatus,
collegii St. Trinitatis
focius, decus, et gloria;

-omni literarum genere celeberrimusj
tBcclefise Anglicanae adverfus Romanam
propugnator invicliftimus ;
^SCclefl3eSalifburi.enflScancellanusdigni^^lmus.
Sepultus Januar. rnenfe, A. D. 1643-4.
Sub hoc marmore requiefeit, '

Nec fentit damnum fepiilchri.

The caftle (lands in a lofty bold fitu-
ation on the North fide 'of the river
Arun. It is defended on the South
and Eaft fides by the natural precipice
it hands on ; on the North and Weft
-fides by a deep fofs. Jiut little of the
antient fortrefs is remaining : the mort
finking is the keep, a large round tower
on an artificial mount, commanding an
extenfive (ea prorpe6i, backed to the
W^eft by the Ifle of Wight. There are
alfo two or three towers, a gallery, a
few lofty apartments, and the gateway
at the entrance, which is between two
iquare towers of flint and (lone. The
other part of the building is modern.
One of the towers is called Bevis’s :
here that hero feems to have finilhed his
career. About a mile to the North, in
a deep bottom dole under the hill, feen
(with a tree on the top) in the back¬
ground of the (ketch, is a large oblong
Iquarc barrow, called Bevis’s grave.
The tree on the top of the hill is named
Crown-afl). The tower, letn on the
jight-hand in the flcetcli, was built by
.the pre(ent duke in tire fummer of
Gent. Mag. Augupy 1794,

1792; who, fince the was rakera,,

has pulled down the remainder of the
South front, and has began to rebuild it
on a magnificent plan m the GfHh.ic
ftyle, with a fquare tower sj each cor-
The prefent duke has alio greatly
enlarged the park by inc ofing part of
the down, vvhicii comrnantU moft beau¬
tiful and extenfive proipedis both to ft a
and hand. The a n nexed (ketch, pi. II.
fig. 3, was taken in 1792,

Mr. Urban, _ Jvly zi.

^1 HERE is, in Edmonton church-
-S- yard, a lime, or linden- tree, j be¬
lieve it is the tilia feemina foiled P!£ijorg^
which jfljeds its lejf%'es twice eyery year.
It is about 30 feet high, and 56 inches
in circumference, and has, within thefe
three oays, (bed its leaves ; and ihe new
buds will burft in about a fortnight, the
leaves from which will be died’ at the
ufual time with others of the fame
Ipecies.

This tree, and others growing near
it, will be cut down this winter, to wi¬
den the road leading to Enfield ; there¬
fore, pofiiblv, fome of your readers, who
are Naturalifts, or Botanifts, may wiih
XQ notice this (to me) a curioiity, ^
Yours, &c. J. A.

Mr. Urban, ^ July z'o.

TN your Magazine for June, p. 491,
* I read a letter addreifed to you froui
Winchefter, with the initials J. M an¬
nexed, (lacing, that an opinion was pre¬
valent on the Continent, that the myf-
teries of Freemafonry had in a great
meafure contributed to thofe changes in
fentimeni and morality, no lei's than in
government, which had brought -ibout
the French revolution. To C( froborate
this opinion, we arc favoured with (ome
account of the Freemafons, taken (rofii
a work printed at Paris, intitued,
“ The Veil withdrawn ; or, the Secret
of the French Revolution explained by
the help of Freemalonry.” A Mr. he
Franc, the late fupeiior of the Eudifts
at Caen, who was butchered at Paris
on the famous 2d of September, is (aid
to have been the author cf this ira£t ;
and J. M. ru)(trves, that it is much
efteemed by the honefi part of the French
nation, and has pdiTed through two
editions.

In what part of the Continent fuck an
opinion iS he dates could prevail, i am
at a Jofs to conceive, as the principles
and tenets of the Ma(un;c inltitiition

ar^

69S

Vlndicaikn of the ^Principles of Free- Mafonry^ fAug,

are too well known to give it the lead tion ; nor do tV»e regular patrons of thQ
k^nilion ; and I can freely declare that, Craft ever fan6tion impollure.

after a regular inrercoiirfe with the fra¬
ternity of Mafons, both at home and
abroad, above thirty years, I have not
been able to difcover the lead fimilarlty
between their myfteries and the cere¬
monies recapitulated in J. M’s letter.
I'Jay, I will go fatther, and affert, that
^he whole account which he has taken
the trouble to tranflate is fabulous, and
mull by every enlightened mind be
treated with contempt.

There is, indeed, no occafion to life
the medium of a literary journal to an-
fwer the queries of j. M. as, by a re¬
gular application to the Ibciety, which
is very generally fpread, and the doors
of which are open to every man of pro-

Whether the conftitunon of Freema*?
fonry be of ant ent or modern date, or
whence its appellation is derived, are
points I will leave to others, who ar^
better informed, to determine ; in my
opinion, they are to the jiublick ol little
avail. But whether its eftablilhinent in
a civilised country be injurious or bene¬
ficial to the government is a prant of
far greater importance. To remove,
therefore, any irnpreffion from the
minds of the prejudiced and uninform¬
ed, which the curfory penifal of this
correfpondent’s letter might occafion, I
think it my duty to refer your readers
to Mr. Urban’s Milcellany, vol. XXIII,
417 ; in which they will rind a carious

bity and honour, he might have fatisfied old record, intituled, “Certayne Quef-
himfelf as to the truth of every particu-? tyons, with Aunfweres to the l<»me,
lar he wilhes to know. Had he adopted concerninge the Myfierye of Ma^onrye j
this meafure, in place of wafting his written by the Hand of Kynge Hen rye
time and talents in tranflating a work the Sixthe of the Name, and fay thfullye
for which nobody will thank him, be copved by me Johan Leylands/Antiqua-
tvould have fliewn more difcernment, rius, by the Commaunde of his High-
and have proved himfelf a better friend neffe.’* To this MS. the learned Mr,
to his fovereign and his country. Locke has annexed feveral valuable ex-

The conftituiions of the Freemafons planatory notes, and is faid to have
have been in pretty extenfive circulation • tranfmitted it as a, great curiofity in a

above eighty years; and the ableft wri¬
ters, both in the laft and prefent cen¬
tury, have expreffed the moft favour¬
able opinion of the inftitution ; while
the moil dignified and illuilrious cha-
Ta£iers, botn in Church and State, in
almoft every country in Europe, have
given it a faiiblion. and continue to pa¬
tronize and protefl the regular affem-
bl ies of the Fraternity. Now, can it for
a moment be fuppofed that, under fuch
aufpices, any ratafures could be planned
or encouraged, which either were cal¬
culated, or had the leaft tendency, to
produce the changes in civil and reli¬
gious affairs which have lately taken
place in France I Such an idea is abfurd
in the extreme.

That there are, and have been, im-
poftors, who have introduced modern
fanatical innovations under the (anblion
of fecrecy, to deceive the credulous,
and miflead the unwary, is a truth be¬
yond Goniradi^iion ; and that fuch irn-
poilors may have intruded thernfelves
jnto the affemblies of Mafons, may be
alio true. But, [ will rake upon me to
iav, that fuch allocations aie uncon-
Bc£ted with the genuine tenets of Ma-
fonry, which, according to the univer-
lal Ijliem, never countenance decep-

letter to the Earl ol Pembroke, by
whom it was carefully preferved. This
valuable paper gives a very fatisfa6lory
account of the Mafonic inftitution, and
has been reprinted in almoft every pub-*
lication on the fubje£l of Freernaionry
lince its fiift: appearance. Had J. M.
confulted this original document, he
would have had no occafion to have in-
creafed his fufpicions, or to have trou¬
bled the publick with his obfervations.

To prevent the evil confequences,
however, which may arife fronv-the vi¬
rulence of the poilon his letter is in¬
tended to fpread, I Ihall, for the fatis-
fa6lion of the publick, and to remove
any groundlefs caufe of alarm againft
the Mafons, ftate the nature of the Ma¬
fonic inftitution, and the employment of
the Fraternity in their various clafles.
1 ftiall then fpecify the charges they are
bound to fupport; and endeavour to
Ihew, that neither the tenets of the Or¬
der, nor the principles of the Brethren,
are compatible with the rneafures wliich
have fo recently convulfed the French
nation.

According to the genuine Mafonic
fyftem, as univerlaliy eftablilbed, the
Fraternity are divideo into three dalles,
ef which the privileges of each are dil-

tindf.

31 794*1 VlnScatton of the Principles of Pfee-Mafonry^

lTn£V. The firft clafs is compbfed of
worthy men, fele6^ecl from the commu¬
nity at large, on account of their ac¬
knowledged probity and honour, for
the purpofe of promoting moral and fo-
tial viitue. In this clafs the duties c(
morality are taught, and the art of uni¬
ting, for a time, men of oppofite tenets
in one theme, the glory of God, and
the good of man. The fecond clafs is
fele^ed from I'uch members of the ftrlf
clafs as have, by perfewerance and dili¬
gence, merited the good opinion of their
brethren, and who, by the proper ap¬
plication of their talents, have eftablilh"
ed their claim to preferment. In this
clafs fcience and philofophv are explo¬
red, and every exertion made to embel-
lifh and adorn fociety, by the culture of
learning, and the improvement of ufe-
ful art. The third clafs is compofed of
members fele6led from the fecond clafs
for eminent talents, exemplary conduct,
or diftinguifhcd rank. Among this
clafs the whole fyftem of antient lore is
preferved, and the improvement of the
underftandipg enriched by correft rea¬
son, found judgement, and fage expe¬
rience. From fuch an arrangement what
beneficial eft'efts may not be derived ?

To fubmit to the powers that be, to
obey the laws which yield prote6lion,
to conform to the government under
which they live, to be attached to their
native foil and fovereign, to encourage
indufiry, to reward merit, and to prac-
tife univerfal benevolence, are the fun¬
damental tenets of Mafons : peace on
earth, and good-will to man, are their
lludy ; while the cultivators and pro¬
moters of that ftudy are marked as pat¬
terns worthy of imitation and regard.
Friends to Church and State in every
regular government, tluir tenets inter¬
fere with no particular faith, but are
alike friendly to all. Suiting themlelves
to circumftances and fituation, their
lodges are an afylum to the friendlefs
and unproteiffed of evciy age and nation.
As citizens of the world, with them re¬
ligious antipathy and local prejudices
ceafe to operate, while to them every
nation aifords a friend, and every cli¬
mate a home. Flence the unfortunate
captive in war, the Ihip- wrecked mari¬
ner, and the hclplefn exile on a foieign
Ihore, have realon to glory in fraternal
afteTion ; vvhile the dilcoiUolate widosv
and her difiredcd orphans ate cherilhed
by the bounty of Malons.

Such is the nature of the Mafonic in-
ilituiion, and fuch are the advantages

refulting from its eftablilhment ; ir muft,
therefore, furely be‘ no trifling acquifi-
tion to any government or flate, to have
under its jarifdicfion a body of mea
who are not only loyal and true fub-
jetts, but the patrons of fcience, and
the friends of mankind.

The bell inllitutrons, it is true, may
be fubjeft to corruption, and the moll
ftrenuous fupporters of right may err;
but, in favour of Mafonry, it may be
averred, that ir countenances an error
in no individual. VViurever tends to
fub •v'erc order, or foment difcoid, is
flaunned, while the genuine aim of the
true Mafon is to he happy, and to dif-
fu!e happinefs. Hence, in every coun¬
try, they endeavour to flrengthen the
fprings of government by purifying the
motives and animating the xeal of thofe
who govern, to promote the virtues
which exalt a nation, by rendering its
inhabitants good fubjefls and true pa¬
triots, and by confirming all the rerpe61'-
able bonds and obligations of civil fo-
cietv. Such are the principles they
inculcate; and furely thefe are very in¬
compatible with the meafures which,
brought about the French revolution.

Had the example of Mafons, or the
influence of their tenets, a proper weight
in the fcale of government, we fhould
not fo frequently witnefs feenes of dif-
fenfion and difeord. It is to be regret¬
ted that the efforts of the vvifeft men,
and of the moft illuflrious princes, have
been unable to extinguifli that unhappy
fpirit of fanaticifm, of whofe deplorable
etfeols a neighbouring country has ex¬
hibited io finking a piilure. But ler it
ever be imprefled on the mind, that,
without religion, there can be no tie;
that it is the natural tendency of infide¬
lity and licentioufners to dilfolve the
mofl; (acred obligations, to remove the
moft powerful tnccives to virtue, and,
by corrupting the principles of indivi¬
duals, to pollen the louices of public
order and public prolperity. Such are
the evils incident to the mofl judicious
nieaiures when earned to excels; it is
our duty, therefore, to beware of low¬
ing the feeds of difeord in any country,
and exciting jealoufies for which there
are no real foundation.

The niifcondudl of a few individuals
can never operate to the extin6lion of a
laudable inflitution : while Fi eemalonry,
therefore, is conducted on its puie and
genuine principles, in fpitc of all its op¬
ponents, it Will he found the belt cor-
retlor of mif^uided zeal and unrcllrsiM-

LdUr sf Dr. Youi^g.— -How. Charles How’s Mednathns

e4 licei^tiotiafeefs, as w€;il as the Clrongeft
iTafaport of ■every well regulated govern¬
ment;

J F, Loose OF' Antiquity.

M r„ U a B A K ^ Sbe^eld^ Aug. 5 . ^

H. f£ title of the book mentioned in
Dr. HildeSey^s letterj pi 595,
S'CoordiKg to my copy,

<s‘ DevfRit Meditations t or, 2l Coileflion
<5f Titoiighisupm?. religioirs and philofophical
S!.ihie-i5fsj hy the Hon<i Charles Ho'w, efq.”
id edkion, Eimo. Edinburgh, printed by
jBamdton, Ealfojir^ and Neill, ij^z.

FrekKed to the work is the following
letter from Dr, Young to Archibald
Afac AuKsy^ eft|. lord confervator :

Kurd and Worthy Sir,

•f* How thaii i fufitcietnly ihaiik you for
'eh£; favour and honour of your very valuable
prftfesat ?

The book of Meditations I have read, and
BTSore than one® ^ and £ fhall never iay i£ far
out sf mp reach r for, a greater dernonldration
of a found head and fincere heart i never faw.

Dear Sir, I cannot but return to my fa¬
vourite Meditations; for, in truth, I aivi
fohd of them. I think, you was a lucky man
in meeting with the manufcript; and I
know you w'as a worthy one, by bringing it ■
to the prefs. The wbrlJ is your debtor for
it. My part of t)'’e debt I will pay as far as
hearty thtanks will go towards it; and I wifh
S could do more. Bat I am furprized that
che author’s name is fappreffed ; for, I know
810 name lo wliicii that work w'ould not do
an additional credit ; and why a man’s rao-
defty iliouid rob him of his juft honour,
w^hen, by that honour, his modefty can be
Eio more offended, i know not. I whh you
would confider this with regard to future
editions, i defirsi you. Sir, to infert me in
the lift of your friend,s i, for, Inch I am, and
foch I am obliged to be by your unexpedfed
and unmerited favour. I ann, yours, Sec.
PVelzjayn, fan. 19, t752.» £. 'fouNG.’»

In the Advern(em«nt to the hrft edi¬
tion it is fa id, \

■ The author himfelf, who attained to the
age of 84 years, v.^as a geuileman of good
fo.vaine and of a conhderabie family, which
has Soeen ennobled in feverai of its branches.
He was bora in GlouceRenhire, though his
family was of the ihire of Nottingliam, in
the year 1661 and, during the latter end of
tiie reign of King Cliailes If. was much at
Court. About the year 1686 be took an op-
porton ty of, going abroad with a near reia-
tioa, vs no was feat by King James II. rm-
baifador to a foreign Court. The ambalih-
dor died ; anffour author, by powers given

* Qa- Whether related to the gallant Lord
How ,e i

to him to that effefl, finilhed the bnfinefscf
the embaffy- He had the offer of being ap¬
pointed fuccefl.br to his friend in his public
chara6ler : but, difliking the meafures that
were then carried on at Court, he declined
it, and returned to England, where he foon
after married a lady of rank and fortune ;
tvho, dying in a few years, left behind her
an only daughter*'. After his lady’s death,
he lived for the moft part in the country,
where he fpent many of his latter years in a
ciofe retirement, confecrated to religious
meditations and exercifes. He was a man of
good underftaanding', of an exemplary life’,
and cheai ful converlation.”

Yours, &c. Edw. GoodwiNo

Mr. Urban, Co^vhlt, July io»

f SHOULD hope Thomas Paine’s
pamphlet, mentioned by Eudoxus,
p. 403, will meet with no better recep¬
tion, from the folid fenfe and found
judgement of the Britifii nation, than his
book upon politicks has done. This
deiftical attack of his upon Chriftianity
puts me in mind of Satan’s converfatioa
with Beelzebub in Milfon, I, 160;

But ever to do ill our foie delight,

As being the contrary to bis liigh will
Whom we refift.

And here I lhall beg leave to cite ("as
appofite to my prefent purpole) what
the Guardian fays, vol. If. No. 88,
where he is fpeaking of men of T, P’S'
defeription :

** But in a church,^ where our adoration is
direfted to the Supreme Being, and (to fay
the leaf!) where is nothing either in tlie oft®
jecl or manner of worfhip that contradidls
the light of Nature, there, under the pre¬
tence of free -thinking, to rail at the religious
inftitutions of their country, liheweth an un-
diftinguiihing genius, that miftakes oppoft-
tion for freedom of tliought. And, indte-*,-
nocwithftanding, the pretences of feme few
among our free thinkers, I hardly think
theie are men fo ftupid and inconfiftenr with,
themfclves, as to have a regard for Natural
Religion, and, at the fame time, ufe their
iitmoft endeavours to deftroy the credit of
thofe Sacred Writings, which, as they have
been the means of bringing ihefe parts of the
wmrld tothe knowledge of Natural Religion,
fo;| in cafe they lofe their authority over the
minds of men, we ftiould of courfe fink into
the fame idolatry which we fee praitifed by
other unenlighrened nations. If a perfon,
who exerts himfelf in the mouern way of

* His grand daughter mairied George
Mac Aulay, probably a relation of Arctn-
bald Mac Aulay, to whom Dr. Young’s letter
was addielfed; as appears by a letter pre¬
ceding the Doiftor's from G. M, to A. M<
dated To anJ "ft reel, '231.1 May,

free-

Remar Jis on Free-ihinhln^.'^

Free-thinking, he not a ftupicl idolater, it is
nndenrable that he contributes all he can to
the m .king other men h), either by igno¬
rance or defign ; which lays him under the
dilemma, I wdl not fay o*^ being a fool or a
knave, but of incurring the contempt or de-
teftation of mankind.

Yours, &;c. J- M.

Mr. Urban, Aug.

OUR infertion of the ftri^lures
which I fent you on Mr. Collin-
fon’s Hiftory of Somerlet, together vyith
fome additions to his account of the vil¬
lage of Farlcy-Hungerford, induces me
now to trouble you with fome fimilar
remarks on what he has faid in vol. II.
pp. 461, ^ feq. of the large a-id popu¬
lous parilh of Mells, a parifh which of¬
fers a variety of objs£\s to the notice of
the Antiquary, the Painter, and the
Mineralogift.

P. 461. He begins, as ufual, with de-
feribing the fituation of the village and
the afpeft of Nature about it, which he
has delineated faithfully, and in a plea-
fing manner. Then immediately (uc-
cecds an account of the encampments
and antient military works, in which
Mells is uncommonlv rich ; but of this
part of his tafn our author has not ac¬
quitted himfelf To happily : the detail
which he has attempted (though it reads
plaufibly enough to a perlon unae-f
quainttd with the feveral fpois) is gi-'
yen in fo confufed and indiftin6t a man-
r.er, that it is nor in the power of a few
flight verba! correftions to fet it right ;
nor am 1 able at prefent to afford you
any better information on the fubjeft.
Repeated and attentive furveys are in-

-CoUmfon’s Somerfetfhlre. yoj

difpenfably neceffary on fuch necifums 5
and thefe 1 have not had fufficient op¬
portunity to make.

P. 462, occurs the cox\ct\x of parochim
mslltSj tlie parifli of lionev,” which b
jufily expofed in yourLXlII. jrp*. Iw
Domefday, the name is written Mulls'^
and, from the fame venerable record^
we learn that her.e was then a mill of
five (hiiiings rent. This mill moil pro¬
bably gave name to the whole parifh i
and, in rubfequent times, when th«
number of Jihefe firuftures increafed.,
the plural termination was a-dded: M lb
being, however, by fome means or
other, for which I cannot account,
eorrupted and varied into Mells. The
ipelling of the two iaft centuries of
eouiTe was Melles ; and that of earlier
ages would naturally be Meilb, as every
reader of Chaucer and our old writers
muft be well aware.

The next page furni fires a fiiort, and,
I fufpedt, not quite accurate, pedigree
of the family of Horner, beginning
with the purchafer of the manor temp,
Hen.Vni. and continued to the pre-
fent proprietor, Thomas Hoine:-, eftj.
of Mells Park,

P. 464, 1. 2.. To the arms of Horner
add— Creft, on a wreath a talboi fcjan,t
Aratnt, collared and lined Or. Motto,
Twi? tryeip troth. Thefe arms and creit
vi-^^ere granted by Robeit Cooke, Cia-
krtneeux, July 4, i ^84, as appears from
the records of tiie Coiiege of Am^s,

The iucccediTig page, which is tbe
lafi that concerns this pariih, contains a.
very fuccin£f defcripiion. of the church.,
and tranferipts of fjme of its tnemot lals
of tlie dead, with an extraft from Leland

* Where alfo the very idle and ill-founded derivation of Nu/fiey is defervedly anitna.l-
verted upon. — By tiie way, ihere aie numerous errois in Mr., C's account of tliat parifii ;
and I much queflion the correefnefs of his defeription of the old t'>nibs in tire churcii. Tne
church-windows contain many armoiial be.n ings; all which, with varioir: other part colars
which ought to liave been noticed, he lias wlioily overlooked. Bv the way too I ohfu''ve
that, in tne page julf referred to, among other “ excerpth” from u.'ollmf on, tiiere is one re¬
lating to a crofs-legged effigy on a tomb in Whatley church. Of this figure 1 !i 've to re¬
mark, that the iierfun whom it reprel'ents is traditionaUy faid to have been one of the
keepers of the foreft of Mendip, winch is fnpp< fid to have coitended Eaifward aln.olt as
far as Ffome. The bucks heads trn tire chevron on Iiis flrield are very oddly diipoied ; the
middle oat; being upright, the two others bendwife, fo'Urwing the lines of the chevron.
1 he fame arms are cut in Jione on a modern parapet at the foot c»f the fpire. A lar ge old
gabtl-ended houfe, belonging to the manor, but at prefent occupied by a farmer, is htn.ate,
.according to the gudd old cultom, hard-by tiie chui\.h ; and the couit-yaid of tins li.iulc is.
entered through a'n arched gateway, manifeldly ot much greater anhquity than the lionfe
itfelf, and now in a ruirujus condition. 1 Ids gateway is commonly reported to Inve been
part of the Eaftern lodge of Mendip foreft, and the refijence of the kmg'it wlio.l . s under
tlie ahovemenlioned tomb. The redlor of VVliatley in 1789, to whicli period Mr. Collmlon
profelles ids names of innumbents to he corredded (lee vol. 1. p. 275), vvas not 1): B. ’u.p,
as ftated by him, but the Hon. and Rev. Charles Strangways, vvho was prefented in tiiat
year, and Bill holds it. Retwetn Dr. E fhop and Mr. Stra.igways intei vci'iCi t'oi. Rev.
John Buirougli, D.D. Felluvv of Magdaiute college, Qxfuid.

tht\/Wa

/ JQ2 Topographical Defcrtpfion of Mells, In Somerfetfliire. f Aug;

thrown into a note. But Mel’s church
is in truth a very ftarely edifice, and
Avell deferved a more patient inveftiga-
tton than Mr, C. chole to allow it.
There is on the South fide a porch
which merits particular notice : its form
and ornaments are fingularly graceful;
and it is quite pierleft, except that the
mullions of the window, and the fiatues
which heretofore peopled the riches, are
BOW deftroyed, whether by the hand of
Time, or of “godly thorough-refor¬
mation,” I know not. On the fummit
©f the wall which divides the nave from
the chancel hands a kind of lantern tur¬
ret, in which hangs a fmall bell, now
tifually rung as Toon as the officiating
minifter is in his place, to give notice
to the people without that the fervice is
about to begin : but this, doubtlefs, or
fome tinkling predeceffor, was originally
the fanSIus, or faint’s bell, “ fb called
(fays Mr. Warton) becaufe it was rung
when the prieft came to theCe words of
the mafs, SanSIe, fanSie, JanUe Deus
Sabaoikf that all perfons who were ab-
fent might fall on their knees in reve¬
rence of the holy office which was then
going on in the church.” (Hilioryof
Kiddington, note on p. 7). Thefe little
campaniles ate by no means infrequent
ID country churches, though it is not
common to hnd them lo well tenanted
as this at Mells.

Our author concludes his hlftorv

both of this church and parifh wnh in¬
forming us, that, “ in the chancel is
,a handibme monument of white and Si¬
enna marble, with an elegant and jull la-
fcription to the nicmory of the late wor¬
thy re6for,” &c. Of this inicripttoa
Mr. C.’ ought (urely to have inierted a
copy; and I wonder he did not, confi-
deling tlie high opinion vviiich he feems
to have entertained as well of the com-
pofition ideif as of the truly reverend
pcrlon whom it commemorates. It is
S.5 follows :

Spe ceita refurgendi
Juxta clorraiunL reiK]uife
’i pAGKT, S. T. B.

PJujus ecclefiae per annos
Tr'ginta fei e quatuor redloris ;

Qui lioiTuriif, civ is, clerici, rnynera
Non iinplevit mudo, led et oiuavit onmia ;

Eratemm

Vir iugeru.us, probus, pius,
rafior Cl uditU' , lededus, beneticus,
Dum gregi luo hdeliter invigila: et, '
rt, corpore, laborantes,
t (iolilic, aue, c bo iuvand.)s
I'b'n Ic om voiuii, fi d ttipde curavit.
ifcverit ia ihcuiugias itudui, ,

Quibiis prascipue incubu't,
Humaaiorum literarum elegantiis
Ita ftiiciter temperaverat ;

TJt fuavitate morum,

Et officio bene praeftito,

Bonos omnes fibi devinxerit.

Ita demum in omni re fe geliit,-
Adeo decorum mifeuit honefto,

Ut, in' vita amabilis, in morte flebifisa,

Cariffimam fui reliqnerit memoriam.

, Obiit fecundo die Januarii
A.D. M occ LXXXIIX.

.iSltatis, Lxxvnr.

An altar-piece of marble was ere£led,
and the whole chance! fitted up, in
1785, by the prefent munificent re6lor,
John Bdhop, D.D. On the South fide
of the chancel were three of thofe feats,
with ornamented canopies, which are
vulgarly called tabernacles y and whofe'
original ufe has been the fubjeft of fo
much Antiquarian difculfion. Thefe
unfortunately were either removed, or
are now hidden or filled up by the
plaftering. In the windows are a few
feraps of painted glafs; and, in the fide-
ailes, tlie reliqaes of fome very hand-
feme old fereen-vvork, adorned v\dth
carving, richly painted and gilt.

At a fmail diftance from the churchy
and probably on the fire of the “ praty
maner-place of flone” mentioned by
Leland, Hand the remains of what was
for feveral generations the principal feat
of the Horners, who inhabited it till
the prefent Mr. H- enlarged the houfe
in the park, and made that bis conftant
place of refidence. In a journal of King
Charles’s marches during the rebellion,
pubfiffied in Gutch’s ColleSlanea Curioja^

13 this article,

“ July, 1644, Wednefday, the i7tb,
Meils, Sir Jobn lioiner’s, the king’s by at¬
tainder; [filaid there] two nights.”

This Sir John makes a confiderable
figure in Lord Clarendon’s Hifiory. hie
and Alexander Popham were the only
pen Tons of fortune in the county (which
the fame noble hifiorian ftyles “one of
the richeft in the kingdom”} who eipou-
fed the Parliament’s caufe. When the
king’s affairs declined, Sir John, 1 pre¬
fume, regained poffdhon of his cha¬
teau ^ and, dying before the Reftorai
tion (in 1659), the attainder was per¬
haps forgotten, certainly not enforced,
Plowever that were, the zealous and ac¬
tive loyalty of the prefent reprefentative
of this family makes ample amends for
the failing of his ancefior. Half of the
old houie is now mouldering in ruins,
the refl is occupied by a farmer, it

was

J 794*1 Topographlt^al Defcrlpilon of Mells, In Somerfetfhire. ^03

was one of tbofe capacious and fplendld
rnanfions which arofe towards the end
of the 16th century, and the ftvie of its
architecture was fuperior to rnoft of that
age. The porch has been afcrlbed to
Jnigo Jones, but without fufficient rea-
lon. In all likelihood, the artill, who¬
ever he was, that planned the porch,
defigned the whole facade, to which
this porch is in ft riCt conformity ; and
that the body of the houfe is of a dare
I'omew'hat prior to the works of Inigo,
pertain infcriptions, which w-ere lately
exifting about its*vvalls, undoubtedly
prove. The door way of the porch is
decorated with two fluted three-quarter
columns, of the Doric order, fupporting
an entablature, above which are the fa¬
mily arms ; the whole much enriched,
and well executed. In the metopes are
the creft and other devices.

Round about the houfe are many lofty
elms and horfe-chefnuts. Indeed, the
foil of the whole parifli is remarkably
propitious to the growth of all kinds of
timber. There are many very large
trees in the park ; and the principal ap¬
proach to Mr. Horner’s houfe is through
an awful grpve of aged beeches, won¬
derfully (olemn and magnificent. An
internal view of this grove, which is
about a quarter of a mile in length, can
fcarcely fail of bringing to the behold¬
er’s mind the idea of a vaft cathedral,
^nd almoft tempts one to fubfcribe to
Bp. Warburtcn’j fanciful hypothefis on
the origin of Gothic architeCiure. It
ought here to be recorded, in juftice to
the tafte of the prefent owner, that the
natural beauties of this park have not
only been preferved with all poffible re-
fpeCl by a determined abftinence from
the ax and fpade, but have alfo, in
many inftances, received additional em-
^elliftiment fioni various extenfive plan¬
tations.

Leland tells us, though Mr. Collin-
fon does nor, that “ Melles bathe bene
a pratv townelet for clothing.” (Itin.
■vol. VIJ. p. 99), No nianufafture of
this kind is now carried ©n here; but
there are leveral houles in different
parts of the panfli which appear to have
belonged formerly to perlons of opu-
itnce.

Tw'o much- frequented fairs -are an¬
nually holden here on a very plealanc
Ipot called iVIells-greeij. It is ‘‘a plat
of tifing ground,” covered with a^beau-
tiful verduie, and lhacitd ufith avenues
of tall and ip.eading elois, under whole
branches the bouilii arc iet up, and

parties of pleafure aflemble, exhibiting
altogether an appearance extremely
cheerful and gay.

The old parfonage-hoiife, which cea-
fed to be inhabued about forty-four
years ago, is an ivy-mantled ruin. It
wasantient and fpacious, having in it a
large hall with an oriel window. The
modern rnanfe is a well-bui'r dwellings
and the territory around it has been
laid out in an agreeable manner by Dr.
Bifhop. In levelling the earth for a
garden, the workmen rrset with a Ro¬
man coin of brafs. No more of the
emperor’s name is legible than the ter¬
mination . AN vs, but tlie counte¬

nance rcfembles that of Adrian.

Ivy-leavtd toad-flax ( anitrhinrjjo.
fymballarm) , a plant very rare in this
part of England, and, 1 believe, not
common any where, grows luxuriantly
on feme of the old walls in and about
Mells. A botanift, I am apt to thinks
would find plenty of amufement in this
neighbourhood, Mells too can boaft a
falutary fpring, which has been found
efficacious in fcrophulous c^les ; but it
is little attended to, and 1 know not
that it has ever been analyfed. The
folfil produ6lions of this parifti are duly
regiftered by Mr. Collinlon.

And now, Mr. Urban, hoping that
your partiality to topographical re-
fearchfcs will excufe the length of this
provincial prattle, 1 remain

Yours, See. 3R-

M r. U R B A N , Afig. 7,

BEN I difpatched my bit fheet
of Nuga Parochiales two days
ago, the petulant attack of E. C, (p.
621) on my former communication had
not reached me ; otherwife, moft pro¬
bably, I fhould have then employed a
few introdu6tory fentences in vindicating
myfelf, and pointing out the illiberaluy
of his reflexions. But now, Mr, Urban
(pat don the ftalenefs of my quotations),
nefcit ‘Vox miffa reverti-, and ffiould
you, in Ipite of E. C, think proper to
print my uninterefting ftufl, litira jcrip-
ta manehit^ and my exatntner will Hill
remain unanfwered. If, therefore, i
take any notice nt all of his remarks, it
inufi be by tioubiing you with a fecond
epiftle. I fhall, hrnvever, beg leave to
fpare mylelf the u klome labour of enn-
troverly, to which a particular defence,
though in itielf fatisfacfor y, might
chance to lead, and fliall reft fatisfied
with obferving in general, that the un-
fdiiTicfs ol that gentleman’s cruicilins

vvdl

704 Farley Infcrlpilon, — JlffinUy cf hanguage^^ l^c. [Aug,

gu^ges, particularly thofe of the Eaft ;

u’ill be fufficiently and readily feen by
snerely comparing them with the letter
to which thev refer.

One circumft^nce rerpe6ting the Far¬
ley infcription I will juft mention,
though E. C. will undoubtedly think it
€00 trifling for the public eye. You
frave engraved the firft word miimat
io alfo your coirelpondent F. M. (p^
^97) read it; and io unqueftionably it
ought to be read in order to make any
thing like fenfe of it. Yet I perfe6lly
well reco!le£l: that, when I viewed it,
the third letter appeared to me very dif-
tindfly not an N but an M. This, I
sremember, puzzled me a little at firft;
but, after fome debating with myfelf
about the matter, I fagacioufly conclu¬
ded, that it muft be a blunder origina¬
ting from the ignorance of the ftone-
cutter; and, chafing to pofTefs an exa£l
Jac-funile^ in the true fpirit of Antiqua¬
rian fcrupulbfity, which E. C. fo much
defpifes, , 1 faithfully tranfcribed into
tmy copy.~Another word, and I have
Aone. D. H. (p» 617) is certainly
right in faying, that “the letters are
ynuch older than the time of Henry
VI.” To be convinced of this, F. M.
need only look at any coile61:ion of
coins, or the great feals in Speed’s
Chronicle and Sandford’s Genealogical
Hiftory. Indeed, the church itfelf is
at. leaf! as antient as Henry the Sixth’s
time, and perhaps hilf a centurv more
fcr. Yours, &c. SI. Ipi.

Mr. Urban, lug. 4.

R. GLASSE’S affertion, on the
fubjebl cf which your correfpond-
ent p. 621^ makes further en-

cjuiries, has, no doubt, a reference to
the Emprefs of Rufiia; under whofe pa¬
tronage, it is pretty generally known,
that a literary committee (-having Pro-
feffor Pallas at their head) have been
for fome years inveftigaiing, with much
fpifit and fuccefs, the various languages
of her almoft innumerable fubjefts. I
have feen fome detached pieces which
they have already publifhed as a fpeci-
inen of the moie ample detail they are
prepanng. The refult of thefe enqui¬
ries, it may be prefumed, will eftablilh,
on dill firmer ground than it has yet
been placed, the originality of the Hc-
bre w tongue.

In England, the learned author of
the tlillory of Sumatra has pubfifhed
jeveral ingenious papers and memoirs
on the lubjeiSl of the athnity of iaa-

and we underftand that an unfortunate
and rnifguided man, now a prifoner iii
the Tower, has formed a magnificent
colle6iion of data on a topick where he
is confefiedly allowed to fiiine, and to
which we earnedly wiQi he had exclu-
fively devoted his talents.

Your correrpondent Scrutator, p. 600,
will, I am fare, pardon me for giving
no more than a qualified aflent to hi©
decifion on the fubje6l of the papers of
“ Common Senfe,” which I pointed out
in the month of May as probably belong-i
ing to Johnfon. When we recollebi:
that the Sage, at his firfi introdu6i:ioni
to town, was, on his clean -Ibirt days,
familiar with the Herveys ; when we
confider the cxa6t fimilanty of politicks
between that family and Lord Chefter-
field ; and that furious ftyle of oppofiticn
in which the author of “ London” be¬
gan his literary career; it is, I think,
by no means improbable that the paper
in queftion was fubpaitted to the eye^
and perhaps to the pen, of Johnfon,
'wlro here and there might ftrengthen a
fenriment, and put in one or two of his
ardentta verba. Perfons who are ac^
quainted with the literary hiftory of
thiS/ country, or who have read “ Le
Seigneur Auteur,” will not think this
conjefture ftrained or far- fetched. There
are cafes, in which “change of names’*
conftitutes a proof of friendlhip, in other
iH mds befides Qtaheite.

1 beg to be underfiood as by no means
attempting to fet afide any part of Scru¬
tator’s remarks : but I have, in my time,
iluclied both Lord Chefterfield’s ftyle,
and Dr. Johnfon’s ; and, uniefs I could
meet with, pofitive evidence to the con¬
trary, 1 muft ftili think that,* in feveral
paftages ol the performances alluded to,
■“ the hand is the hand of Efau.”

Yours, &c. E. E. A,

To the Right Honourable the Lord
Mountmorris.

My Lord, , Aug, 10.^

Not having the honour of being
perfonaily acquainted with your
Lordlhip, and as the occafion of my
prefent addrefs to you arifes Lorn your
being a member, and. a very valuable
one too, of the Repubiick of Letters,
this application will, I prefume, be in
cbara6ler as a member of the fame bo¬
dy. 1 take leftve.to obferve, that you
have, in your laft inftrusftive and enter-
uiuing Hiftory of the Infh Parliament,

C'>1 •{?' HI '■'icT 7U9{) S m JT^ H Xll 0 1 X Xl ^ I

1794'} Letter to Lord Mounimor ns. — lLtn\\9ci Antiquiihs, 705

a pafl'age in which you feem miftaken,
1 allude to p. 197, vol. II. wherein you
are pleaTed to inform your readers, that

“ The Chanrellor Windham was the only
high-fteward ever appointed in Ireland ; a
circumftance noted in his epitaph in Salif-
bury cathedral.

if your Lordihip will take the trou¬
ble to turn to pp, 227, 228, 11. of vol.
VI. of the Rev. Mr. Archdale’s im¬
proved edition of Lodge’s Peerage of
your own country, you will find that
Charles the Firft conftituted Francis
Lord Aungier high- fieward of Ireland
for the trial of Edmund Butler, Lord
Dunboyne (a peer of that kingdom,
who had the misfortune to kill a Mr.
Prendergaft), by his peers. I apprehend
that the trial in quefiion was in the
court of the lord high fteward, and not
before the king in full parliament; on
which lafl trial a lord high fteward is
alfo appointed; hecaufe there were only
a filed number of peers who fat on the
trial (the names of whom the authority
quoted has given us), and becaufe the
Lord Aungier, the lord higli-flewaid
on the occafion, is not among the peers
who pafled fentence on the noble pri-
foner at the bar. The farre reverend
writer gives us fome more particulars
than your Lordihip as to the trial of
Lord Sautry ; who was, as I dare fay
your Lordihip well knows, Henry Ber¬
ry, the fourth lord of that heufe and
title.

I take leave to add, that I have no
great opinion of the veracity, confe-
quently lefs of the authority, of epi¬
taphs; for, you will find that the age
of Sir Gilbert Dethick, an eminent An¬
tiquary, on the monumental inlcription
of his fon William, is 4.8 infiead of 84.
See Introdu61:ion to vol. 1. of Archso-
logia, xvii. n. Again, fee what is laid
of the epitaph of Sir William Brabazon,
in Archdale’s edition of Lodge’s Peer¬
age ef Ireland, vol. I. p. 26S, n.

If Windham’s epitaph (for I never
Was in Salilbury cathedral) records his
being the only lord high -fteward of Ire¬
land, I might profellionally fay, “ 7iul
tiel record.^* R. J.

Mr. Urban, yedy 30.

F the incloltd plate of Kentilh Anti¬
quities, drawn in 1788, Ihould prove
worth your acceptance, it is at your
fervice. Yours, &c. T. F.

Pla*e III. fg. I. Font at the Weft
end of Cowling church.

Gbnt. Mag. Ju^i^ , *'’94*

Fig. 2. Bull in the wall of one of
the chapels on the South fide St. Mar-
garet’s church. See Hiftory of Ro-
chefter, 1772.

Fig. 3. Head on the impoft of the
center arch of the front of the antienc
chapter-houfe at Rochefter.

Fig. 4. IMarble-Ilab lying in the
pavement of St. William’s, or Merton
chapel, in Rochefter cathedral, conjec¬
tured to be the bafe of a Ihrine or altar.

Fig, 5 and 6. Two IliieJds on the
fpandrils of a ftone gateway at Dart-
ford in Kent.

Fig. 7, Form of the arch of the
above gateway.

Fig. 8. Monument in Maldftone
church-yard refembling a Ihrine, In¬
lcription on the top in old Roman ca¬
pitals : Tkyrej ore prepare to follow me.

Fig. 9. Norman or Saxon capital in
the wail which feparates the body from
the North aile of Shorne church.

Mr, Urban, Southnjoell, Aug.
BSERVING, p. 648, that a Qus-
r.ft, who conceals his real name
under the lignature of “No Oculift,”
defires a particular account of the ni£li-
ting membrane in animals, and to be
informed why the eyes of (bme quadru¬
peds remain uncloled after death 5 I
fttall take the liberty of giving him the
beft explanation that my luperficial and
confined knowledge of comparative
anatomy and pbyfiology will enable me ;
and I undertake riiis office with the
more pleafing fatLlaflion to rnyfelf,
from having paid fome attention to the
fubjeft of the human organs of vifion,
compared with thofe of quadrupeds and
different animals, during my refidence
in town this laft winter. I Iliall confide
in the candour of the Querift to excufe
any oniillions^ or anatomical mifiepre-
fentations, which may too numeroufly'
appear, and which it is fcarcely pollibfe
to avoid from the very great portion of
my time which my profelfional avoca¬
tions muft neceffarily occupy; and I
have fome reafon to conjedlure thar,
notwithftanding the quenft may be
“ No Oculift,’’ his anatomical attain¬
ments are by no means defpicable.

All anatomifts agree in opinion (and
it muft be evident even to a fuperficial
obferver of Nature), that all quadru¬
peds and other animals have, at the in¬
ternal canthus of the eye, a ftrong and
firm membrane with a cartilaginous
edge, which may b« made to cover

lom«

yo6 ^h$ Nl^ithg Memlrane tn Animals elucidated. [An-g*

fome part of tbe eye j and this is greater
or lefs in different animals, as their
eyes are more or iels expofed todanceis
in (earching after their food. This
piembrana ni^itans. as it is called by
Anat'omiffs, is but fmall in dogs; but in
horfes and cows it rs io large as to co¬
ver one half cvf the eye like a curtain,
and, at the. fame time, is tranfparent
enough to allow abundance of the rays
of light to pafs through it, and fall
ripon the retina. Fillies have always a
cuticle over their eyes, whicli is alio a
Piembrana nuftilans, and particularly
ufeful to them, as they are ever in d.in-
ger in that inconllant element. We
may therefore remark, that this mem¬
brane exifts in almoft every animal, and
there is a fort of regular gradation in us
thicknefi and firmnek, accommodated
to the fize of the animal and the ufe h.u*
which it is intended. I believe that the
tifes and intention of Nature in beftow-
ing this •peculiar membrane are very
well known, and have lieen very accu¬
rately deferibed ; but I think it lerves
another important ofiice bihdes defend¬
ing the eye from external injuries. 1
have reoeatediy noticed in horfes, cows,
and different animals, that, wlien any
extraneous body has lodged in the eye,
they have the power of removing it
much more fpeedily than is in the power
of the human eye independen't of ma¬
nual or inftrumenta! aHilianee. I there¬
fore conjecture, that the mernbrana me-
titans ferves the double office of pre¬
venting the a dunJJtOH of, exuarieous bo¬
dies, and of removing them when infi-
nuated. It is, indeed, compatible only
with the wildoiii of N^tuie to luppofe
that fhe would fupply fome fubduute
to the brute bead, for the performance
of thole offices which we can accom-
pdfh by our hands. The anatomy of
the eye of a cock, with its membrana
mdiitans, is well wojthy notice. We
perceive that the interior part of its
tyes (inftead of having the fcleroti,: coat
contained, fo as to make near a fphere,
a: in us) turns, all on a fudden, flat; lo
that here the fcle^otic makes but half a
jpheie, and the riles up afteiv

being a portion of a very Iniiil
iiitd diltinft Iphete: lo that in this
crtaiuie {.here is a much greater differ-
tijce l^twua the Jcle> otic and cortSea
iiidii lu u,. cieijce iheit e\'cs do not
TUt out of iheii licadb, as in man and
othti Ao i-aoit o[ ciiCit* cr^a-

luics Ct'Tt CoiltlWciciilji t!riTiU\wCl rii
c* ^ I [l I C I'v w- 1 b ^ I li C i 1.- i O * V/ ^ tfcinC

their eyes might be fecured from thefe
injuries, as well as from too much light
when ffying in the face of the fun.,
there is a very elegant mechanirm in
their eyes, viz. the membrana niElttant.
This membrane rifes from the internal
canthus, which, at pleafure, like a cur¬
tain, can ba; made to cover the whole
eye, and this by means of a proper
rnulcle that riles from the fclerotic coatf
and, palfing round the optic nerves,
runs through the mufculus acitli attolUns
& palpebra, to be inferted into the edge
of this membrane; whenever tbis muf-
cle ceafes to aft, the membrane, by its
own clahicity, again difeovers the eye.
This covering is neither pellucid nor
epake, both which would have been
equally incon venient ; but, being fome-
vvliat tranlparent, allows as many rays
to enter as to make any objeft juft vill-
bis, and is fufficient to direft them in
their progreliion. It is by means of tlie
membrana niSitans that the eagle is laid
to look at the fan. — -Haying anfwered
the firft part of the interrogatory of ths
querift as well as lies in my power, I
think very little need be Hid on the
lubjeft of his iaft; queft'ion, viz. “Why
the eyes of i'ome animals remain, un¬
ci' fed after death Perhaps it may be
deemed unfair to anfwer his queftion
bv alking him another; but, as I can.-
not but luppofe it will fatisfy the gene¬
rality of my anatomical or phyfiolngi-
cal readers., 1 fhall take the liber rv of
requeftuig him to inform me, “ \Vhy
the a ft', on of euery mufcle in the animal
machine is dejlroyed by death?” He
Will, I funpole, fay, that the mufcles
have loft every principle of vitality,
that alt vital energy is gone, and that
cyery mufcle mu ft remain in the fame
ftare in which it is Left at the clofe
of lift, unlefs moved by tome mecha¬
nical power. I muff therefore fay, that
the eyes of all animals, even the eyes
of the human creation, may remain un-
clolecl after death, unlefs fome mecha¬
nical power of the nurle clofes them.
I c^n very eafilv' imagine that this que-
nft’s motive for afemg thefe queftions
vvus not the obtaining information. I
doubt^nor but he has fome ingenious
and plaulible theory to oppose to the
fentiments of thole who anfwer his
queries; and, if tliis be really the cafe,

J ftiail ftfcl ir'v.ftlf happy in knowing
bis ideas on ttie fubjeft, which is ce;r-
ta.Mi'v no: cmij-'-a curious and entertain¬
ing I ne, but Vvhicb, if fan her cxphii ed,
louy i c n t'^ tiiuhiaie ai.vi iriiovv looic

new

'1794*] Tlipetnm. — Wakefield’s Remarh on Duke of York, 707

■new light on the phi’ofophy of vifion,
and the organs neceffary to the com¬
plete produ6lion of that fenfe. — That I
may not vvafte my paper, I fltal! farther
■encroach on the limits of the Gentle¬
man’s Magazine, by mentioning the
iapetum, winch is the pofterior part of
the choroid coat, and is different co¬
lours in different animals; for, oxen,
feeding mohly on grafs, have this mem-
1)i'ane of a green colour, that it may re-
Hei^ upon the retina all the rays of
light which come from objects of that
colour, while other rays are abforbed.
Thus the animal fees its food better
than it does other objeiffs. Cats and
owls have their tapeium of a whitiHi
colour, and, for the fame reafons, have
the pupils very dilatab'e, and their or¬
gans of vifion acu’e. And vve iliall find
that all animals fee more or lefs dif-
tinilly in the dark, ’according as their
tapeium approiches nearer to a white
or black colour. ThuS dogs, who have
it of a greyifh colour, diltinguifh ob-
J els better in the n ght than man,
whofe iape'um is dark brown, and who,

I believe, fees more indaftinflly in dark
than any ocher creature. The differ¬
ence, then, of the colour of the tapeium
.{as, indeed, the fabrick of any other
p>art in different creatures) always de¬
pends on Ibrne particular advantage ac¬
cruing to thn animal, in its peculiar
manner of life, from this fingularity. —
Fearing that 1 have already encroached
too much on your kind and indulgent
patience, I remain, yours, ckc.

B E N j . Hutchinson, Chirurg.

Member of the Corporation of Surgeofis.

Mr. Urban, July 28.

P /TR. WAKEFIELD, in his “ Re-
marks on the General Oiders of
the Duke of York to his Army,” juft
publifhed, tells u*, in a note, that “ Mi-
rabeau, being in London about nine
years ago, aflced a fnend of Mr. W’s,
if it was true that TWENTY young men
had been hanged that morning at New¬
gate ? To which his friend replied,
that, if the daily papers afferted it, there
was no lealon to doubt the ailertion.
On which Alirabeau replied, with gieat
warmth and fui prize, the Engliflr were
the mod mercilels people tie had ever
heard or lead of in his lifej” Admitting
the truth of fuch a number of ciiminaL
being executed, though your M;fcel-
Jiny records only FifTEEN at once
about that time, has Air. W’s huma-
iiity fo blinded the eye of liis rcafoning

faculty, that he can fee no difference
^ between the duties of public jufltice and
the_violence of a bloody ufurpation ?
Can he charge with cruelty the execu¬
tion of the rioters of 1780, whofe num¬
ber exceeded that above dated, though
not at one time or place, and, without
being “feelingly alive all o’er,” pafs
unnoticed the gul-Iotining of THREE
hundred per Tons, of all ages and both
Texes, in Paris and other towns of
France, within the Tpace of TWO days?
Can he parallel the cruelty of the
French nation in pad and prefent time,
and reproach his countrymen with a6is
of judice in putting out of the way, in
the mod fair and legal manner, men
from whom focietv had no farther good
to exp£6l } Will Air. AY. aferibe to any
interference or provocation on the plfc
of G-eat Britain the mafficre of prieds,
to whom had been granted liberty of
removing themfelves and tiieir property
out of the kingdom ? A vvar of fetf-de-
fence will judify the taking and killing
r.ppofing troops ; but, in what law of
Nature or nations is it diieifled to mur¬
der perfons in co.ld blood ? And \vhac
will he reply, if it be tru6 that tlie
whole crew of the A'cede frigate have
been foot at Bred, or the prifoners taken
from Lord Moira., or to the linking the
D-jtch fi filer- boats with all their crews,
unlefs he chool'es to fay that the plan of
darvatiop puts it out of the power of
France to maintain her prifoners, when
Great Britain provides lb amply for
thofe taken by her, whom nothing but
the different fituations of hoft-.'lity and
perfecution puts on a dilf^menr footing in
the degree of liberty allovvcd to the one
beyond the other? If this be the me¬
thod of civilizing mankind, and redo-
ring them to liberty, by daughtering all
who aie not inclined to receive their
boafied improvements ; wherein do the
prelent times dider from thofe of the
the mod fanguinary perfecution, or the
depopulating cruelties of the Spaniaids
in America ?

Let then this profeffor of peace, whom
d ifappointments in tivo colieges has mads
an ddvocite for an exterm'-nating nx>i:r
on the part of France, take this cme ar¬
gument, in anivver 10 his profelhon of
rnafiacre and extei mmation as the Ihort-
elt ineiliod of procuring peace, in the
words of the felf-condemning Jehu :

“ HehoM ! I confpired againd my m.ider,
and flew him j but who dew ail ibele ?”

There were thofe in France who con¬
fpired againd both God and the king, to

iha

7o8 'ParUc-ular Norraiivs of the late Emiajfy to China. [Auo-,

the extermination of religion and roy¬
alty; but TX/iro is now, with the public
profefiions of the reftored belief of a
God, and of the immortality of the foul,
and that morality and virtue are the
foundation of the Repubiicl^ decreeing
the murder of their own countrymen
and their enemies by wholefale ?

Yours, &c. B. B. B.

Particular Narrative of the
LATE Embassy to China.
FTEK palfing the banks of Sunda,
the EngliOi veffels made Tome un-
fuccefsful attempts to explore the idands
of Banka, and the ftraits of Malacca.
They flopped at Pulo Condore, and
thence proceeded to Turon Bay, in
Cochin-China, where they found a
young prince eftablilhed upon the throne
after a civil war of twenty years conti¬
nuance, which ended in a revaluticn ;
for, fuch events, it would appear, are
not peculiar to the Weflern world. A
confiderable number of rniffionaries had
once been in Cochin China ; but they
were all gone, having followed the fates
of the royal line expelled by this revo¬
lution, and which dill retained poffef-
don of a fmall corner of the kingdom.
In their voyage they v.fiied Macao and
Chufan, the Eafternmoft extremity of
China, and at lad reached the mouth of
the river Tiendn, in the bottom of the
Ptcheli gulph, on the 26th of July,
5793, wheie they found the water fo
fhallovv, though they had no fight of
land, that they caft anchor m fix fa-?
thorns watey.

Hence they difpatched a brig to an¬
nounce their arrival, to requed that vef-
iels might be fent to receive the prcfents
intended for the Emperor, as the Eng-
lifh veffels coqld proceed no farther for
want of water; and alfp to folicit a fup-
r!y of fjefh provifions. On the firft of
Auguft, a number^of fmall yeffels ar?
lived frotri the fliore, having on-board
fome principal Mandarines, with a mod
magnificent fuppiy of every kind of pro-
Vifions : 20 bullocks, upwards of ipo
fheep, as many hogs, a great number
of fo\y!s of various kinds, an immenfe
quantity of the riched and fined fruits
of the country, feveral cheds of tea, fu-
gar, china, &c. &c. and a large fuppiy
of dour, inillet, bread, tics, and other
ai tides, in great profulion.

The different prefents being put on¬
board the Chi'nefe junks. Lord Macart¬
ney, on the 5ih, went in tlie Clarence
biig to Tacao-, a few miles up the river,

where the goods were obliged to be
transferred to ddl fmaller vedels, to
convey them to Tang chu, about ten
miles from Pekin.

The Embaffay left Ta cao, where
every accommodation was afforded them,
on the 8th of Augud, and arrived at
Tienfin on the iitli, where they were
fplendidly entertained on diore amidd
thoufands of people. After the enter¬
tainment they got a prefent of viHuais,
in' name of a dinner, fufficient to lad
the whole of them for a week — each
officer got, befides, two pieces of filk — .
and even the foldiers, mechanicks, <5cc.
had a piece of filk and cotton.

Tienfin is fituated at the confluence
of three large rivers, and is a place of
large and ex'enfive commerce. Its po¬
pulation is not to be counted by thou¬
fands, but by millions— the burymg-
ground only, an immenfe plain, extends
farther than the eye can reach, and ap¬
pears only bounded by the horizon.
The other fa<^s relating to this place,
which they left on the iitb, wou d ap¬
pear incredible were they recorded here.

They next went to Tong-chu, to
which place they were conveyed by wa¬
ter in veffels dragged by men. They
reached it on the i6th. Here the pre¬
fents and baggage were landed, and de-
pofited in houfes eredled to receive
them.

On the 2ift, the Ambaffador and his
fuite let out for Pekui — Lord Macart¬
ney and Sir George Staunton in fedan
chairs; the officers, &c. in two wheeU
ed carriages ; the reft in a kind of co¬
vered waggons. They reached Pekin
about nine o’clock that morning.
ftreets are not paved ; the longeft are
about fix miles, croffing each other in
right angles, as m Philadelphia, and
from 90 to 100 feet in breadth. The
houfes are only one flory high. The
walls of the city are an immenle height;
and the principal ftreets terminate at
the gates, which are very magnificent.
Sumptuous apartments are provided fo-r
the fuite, and every neceflary of life are
furnillied to them without purchafe.

They remained here till the begin-,
ning of September, when Lord Macait-
qey and fuite fet out foy Gehpl, the
country rehdence of the Emperor. His
L-ordfbip went in an Engiifh coach, the
other gentlemen oti horfeback; the lol-
diers, &c. in waggons; fo that, with
the baggage train, the whole cavalcade
was of very grei t length.

Gehol IS about 130 Englifh miles

ft cm

1794-1 Particular Narrative of the late Etnhafy to Chinas

709

from Pfckin. They were a week in go-
ing thither. On the fouith day of their
5ourney they reached the famous wall
which forms one of the barriers of this
empire, their wiy lying through a gate
called Canpe-Rieu. There are only
four fuch pafies in China. This wall
was built upwards of two hundred years
before Chriit ; from which time, for
1400 or 1 500 years, it lerved as a com¬
plete defence againrt every enemy ; bur,
at the end of that period, Gengis Chan
invaded the empire, and got pofTeflion
of the throne, it is about 26 feet high,
and about 15 thick at the top, which is
well paved, and has a parapet on each
fide; the bafe is above 20 feet thick.
At every diftance of about 90 or 100
yards, there is a tower upon it, about
15 feet each in height, and 45 in length.
In feveral places theie aie other wails
within the main one, which take in a
fweep of ftvcral miles, and then con-
iie6f again with it, fo that, fhould the
outer one be forced, the inner remains
as a defence ; and theie again are co¬
vered by other walls within them; but
this is only at the four principal pades.
The ground over which this immenfe
fabnek is carried is, in fome places,
very rugged and uneven, moi'e fo than
the mod naountainous parts of Cumber¬
land. Tl'his waU is more than 2000
miles in length, without allowing for
the bendings over mountains and thro’
valleys. The towers are about 45,000
in number.

When they reached Gehol, fome
milunderftanding tefpedling the mode of
prefentation prevented the ceremony
from taking place till the 24th. Lord
Macartney infilled that the ceremonies,
required to be by him performed before
the Emperor, fiiould be performed by a
Chineie of equal rank before the pi6lure
of his Majelly. One of the Prime Mi-
nillerii, of whom mere are five in China,
ftyled Calags, having cornmittedf fome
niillake, in reporting that Lord Ma¬
cartney had agreed to comply with ce¬
remonies to whmh he had not alfenied,
was degraded fome Heps in his rank,
and forced to wear in nis head-Jrels a
prow’s tail inftedd of a peacock’s, which,
it feems, anlwer there to our liars, gar¬
ters, ribbands, and other inlignia of
nobility. Chin-ca-gin, one or theie
]S'Lmllf:rs, on finding what hindered the
Liilineis trom going on, very Ihrewdly
remarked, that he thought it Arange
tliat an ambalfador, who had come Inch
8 great diilance profiiredly 10 compii

ment the Emperor, (hould commence
his bufinefs by contending about forma¬
lities. It was at lall, however, fettled,
that his Lordfiiip Aiould pay the fame
relpefls to the Emperor that he paid oa
approaching the King of England.

The fuire were received in a large
tent. The Emperor was carried thither
in an open chair borne by lixteen men.
As he pafled to tlie tent the Englifii
kneeled on one knee; every one of the
Chinefe proArated ihemfelves on the
g.round. Being all arranged in and
round the tent, they had a fumptuous
repaA, which was followed by mufick^
tumbline, vvreftling, and other cxer-
cifes. The Emperor paid great atten¬
tion to Lord Macartney, and he and all
the gentlement had prefents of filk,
purfes, fans, &c. The entertainment
being ended,_ the Emperor defeended
from the throne and walked to his chair,
and was carried away in the fame man¬
ner in which he came. The crowd of
Mandarines, Princes, and other people
of rank, which attended this ceremony,
was almoft innumerable.

Next d^v (the 15th) the Emperor
again law Lord Macartney. He came
in the Came manner as on the preceding
day. He told hb Lordliiip, that he
was going to a pagoda at Come diAance,
but that he had given orders to his Mi-
niAers to attend upon his Lordlhip, and
Aiew him tlie palaces and gardens.
When the Emperor was gone, the fuite
were conveyed to an lAand in an exten-
five Iheet of water, where ihev found a
large building, in alrnoA every apart¬
ment of which there was a kind of
throne, and alCo a number of curiofities
of Engiilh manufatflure. On the left of
each throne was a large agate, in a bat¬
ten form, depolLed there as an emblem
of peace in the empire. From this they
were conveyed by water, and after¬
ward Ihewn a number of other build¬
ings, where they were entertained with,
fruits, fweetmeats, &c.

The 17th, which was the Emperor’s
birthday (he is 83 years of age), they
vifited the palace before the morning
dawn. They waited till daylight in a
large apartment ; after which Lord Ma-
caitncy and the high Mandarines were
admitted to an inner court ; the officers
of the i'uite were in the fecond court,
and tiie Mandarines of inferior rank in
a ihiid couit, ouifide the other two.
The figlic of flags, banners, &c. of em-
broideitd lilk floating in the air, was
grand bryoud the povNcr of language to

dclc.ibt.

710

P articular Narrative of the late Emhaff to China.

[Aug.

defciibe. The Emperor was not pre-
I'ent. All the people kneeled, and bow¬
ed nine times with as much folemnity
»s if they had been woifh'ping a deiry.
This ceremony over, they were con¬
veyed through other parks and lodj^es,
the gardens laid out in much the lame
manner as in England. They 'were
lumptuoully entertained in one of the'e
buildings, and afterwards carried th?o’
forue magnificent pagodai; or tern pies.
One of them was larger than the build¬
ings of Somei-ret-ltoufe, but higher, and
in tire fame fquare form, open within
the iquare, in tire centre of which svas
a building of confrderable height, co¬
vered with /olid gold. Tire infide front
of the fquare is imthe form of galleries,
one over the other, in four rows, n:oif
iplendidly de-corated, and fupported
with pillars of gold. In fome of the
apartments hundreds of prie/ls were em¬
ployed in Tinging. The images of dei¬
ties, &c. in thele buildings, are almolf
innumeralrle, and many of thenij of gi¬
gantic fize, larger than Gog and Ma¬
gog m Guildhall. They are, however,
of the fame materials, wood richly gi.t
and ornamented, irumbcisof them lym-
bolical reprefentations. In many of the
religious ceremonies a lefemblance of
the Jfewi/h rites was obftrvahle; Others
were limiiar to thofe of the Roman ifts.

On the i8th they were admitted to
the Emperor’s theatre. It is a fquare,
open at top. The Rage extends along
one fide of the fquare, and tho/e who
are honoured with admifiion to fee the
performances are placed under piazzas
in the other three /ides. In front of the
llage, about hfty feet dillant, is the
throne, from which the Emperor views
the pei/ormance. The lefi of the area
is ornamented with /lower-pots. Lord
Macartney was led to the throne, and
received from the Emperor’s hands a
copy of verfes, made by himftif for his
Biitannic Maje/fy, in a box of great
value and antiquity, made of black
wood carved very neatly. The ambaf-
fador had al/b the honour to receive a
copy of verfes for himfelf. Here the
iujte was beaitiiy tired for levetal hours
wuh a performance, one word of which
they couid not underhand, and v^idch
was accompanied with a confufed noife
of gongs and bells ; afier which, as was
u/ual every day, they leceived preients
of filks, fans, china, &c.

The two next days were employed in
pitparations for their return to Ptkin,
v\heie they arrived on the 26th. On
3

their journey they were much furprized
to find a very great number of men em¬
ployed in levelling the road for the ac¬
commodation of the Emperor on his rt-
turn from Gehol, which be was to quit
in a few days. The whole road, a
fpace of I'o miles, was covered with
men about 60 feet afunder, and a ciftern
of water for each man, for watering the
road on the Emperor ’s approach, fo that
the number of rnen and ci/ferns exceed -
ed 13,000. The road for the Emperor
is as fmooth and level as any walk in
the gardens at Kevv ; no per/on is aU
Jowifd to ride or travel upon it, and it is
guarded night and day.

On the 304.h, tlie emba/Ty fet out for
the palace of Yeng- Ming- Yuen, whi¬
ther all the preients had been fenr, that
the Empetor might fee them together,
'I’hey refted that night at Hmg-Min-
Yuen, and fet out next morning to a
hou(e about four miles diftant* whence
they walked a little way, and met the,
Emperor ; who, learning from the prin¬
cipal Mandaiine, who attended the em-
halfy, that Lord iVlacurtney was indifpo-
fed, dtfired that his Lordihip might re¬
turn to Pekin, for the lake of better ac¬
commodation. Thev returned the /'ame

day, and indeed it would appear that
the Chineie by this time wi/hed their
departure altogether; for. Lord Ma¬
cartney had an iDtervitw with the Mj-
nifters the fame dav, in the cour/e of
which thev recommended to him “ to
toke the benefit of the good weather for
his departure, as he would not travel
comfortably if he allol^ed the winter to
overtake him, the more efpecially as
he was but poorly in health."

From this time rone of the rru/fion-
aries, of whom there are a number in
the country, were allowed to go near
our countrymen ; and the atiendaiu
Mandarines, under pretence of friend-
fhip, firongly urged them to propofe
departing, as a change of treatment
might not be found quire p eaf?int. It
fhould be rematked, that by this time
all the prefents had been delivered.

On' the 3d of September, Lord Ma¬
cartney prefented to the Minilters a
number of propol'als and requifuions re-
fpediing the objedl of his million. His
Lordlhip had intended fraying nil
March, hue it was now thought advile- '
able to take the hint liiat had been gi¬
ven. On tlie he requefied permil-
fion to depart. The Emperoi’s pe mif-
fion was with him by next moining, and
the /tcond day a/iCf .was appointed.

The

Ernhajfy to Chin^.—

The Chinefe, however, were very con-
Gderate in one thing. The warning
^'^as fliort, they therefore gave them a
great number of men to affift in pack¬
ing up; and they were fo induftrious,
that every thing was in complete rtacii-
nel's by the time fixed*. On the day of
departure, the Ambaflfador had an in¬
terview with the Minifier, and received
an anfwer to the propofitions he iiad
made on the -^(S^they nvere all rgfufed\
and the embalfy left Pekin very much
mortified at their want of (uccefs : after
which Lord Macartnev and his fuite re-
turned to Canton, where they fpenc
their Chriflmas.

The failure in this bufiners cannot be
eafily accounted for. Perhaps the Man¬
darines who attended the embalfy were
not addreff^d in the feeling manner they
expelled. Pretty things for the Em¬
peror w-ere only (hows to them, and
they might wilh for fomething fubftan-
tial for themleives. It is however fup-
pofed, that the want of luccefs is chiefly
to be atrributed to fome evil impitfiion
made upon the Chinele Court by fome
of tlie Native Princes of India, telling
them to bew'are how they allowed the
Englifli to obtain a footing among them ;
and flrengthening their admonition by
fetlfely dating, that the fame people had
fiitf, as triends, obtained fmatl' lettle-
rnents in India, wiiich they aftei wai ds
incrcafed by repeated wars, driving ma¬
ny of the original owners from their
dominions, and eftablilhing upon their
ruin an immtnle empire for themfelves.

We areliappy, liowever, to add tliat,
when the lall accounts left Canton,
fome arrangements had taken place
which indicated a more friendly dilpo-
lition on the part of the Chinefe; and
that fi/tne hopes bad begun to be enter¬
tained that it was yet poiTtble to obtain
the objeft of the voyage, though not
perhaps without confidtrdble trouble.

Mr. Urban, Han/hcrn, Aug. 9.
T has ever been far from my incli¬
nation to trouble you merely on ac¬
count of fome tiifling inifprtnt bv the
redundancy or deficiency of a ietttr,
which every candid leader will make
proptr r allowance (or in a peiiodical pub¬
lication of fo mifcellareous a nature.
But, v\hfn the fenie is dcftioyerl by tiie
accidental omillion of (everal lines, it is
incumbent upon everv cm erpondent, as
well for his own credit as that of your
valuable iMagaz ne, to endeavour to
rtdtify fuclr miliakcs. W'hac i now al-

i Prog^efs In StafFordfliire,

lude to is in my StafTordfliire article, p,
604^ col. 2, 1. 8, where is a confiderable
lapfus verhorum ; which, 1 trulf, you
will thus let light :

Bv Richard Wliftworth, efq, I have
been piomifed much information in the vi¬
cinity of Stafford. And, in tlie liilfory of
tiie pottot^y-, 1 am ftattered by the valuable
alTillauce of lofiah Wedgwood, efq. Like-
wife of the extenfive works, w Jiich I lately
infpedfed in the South-Weft part of the
county, I hope to receive a full account
from the great projedfor, John WflkinfoiTj
efq. And of the coal-ifiines, manufadlories,
and otlier curioWs w'orks, which have fo
long enriched tfie fame populous vicinity, f
am promifed every necelfary information
from the principal proprietors/’

Here too allow me to add my obliga¬
tions to Phineas KufTey, efq for the
contribution of a plate of his pidurefque
old manfion at Little VVirley. The
great number of fueh liberal embellijfli-
ments already contributed, and otheis
which I ftill hope to be honoured with,
b::fides a variety of other fubjefts en¬
graved at my own expence, will render
the Hiftory of Staffordfh. re highly orna¬
mental, and, I truft, worthy the notice
of a long iifl of fubfcribers the prefent
number of which may be feen in a new
circular let er, and at the principal
bookfellers. S. Shaw, jun.

Mr. Urban, A g. 12.

NDULGE a cnnftant reader and oc-
cafionai correlpondent witli a Jittie
room in your ulefu! Mifcellany. Tlie
confiderable progrtls alieady made by
Mr. Shaw, p. 603, in colle^ling mate¬
rials for his intended County-hiftory,
united with the unremitting affiduity
with which he muft necefTariiy have ap¬
plied himfelf to the work in queflion, do
certainly entitle him, not only to con¬
gratulations on what he hath hitherto
atchieved, but likewife juftly claim for
him every aid from fuch as may have it
in their power to contribute aliqu-d utile
aut diilce. Having, during fome time
paft, amufed myfeif with collecting a
few Church- notes and defultory re-
ma’ks from different parifhes in Staf-
lordfhire, 1 now (end you fome of them,
W'hich are at Mr. Shaw’s feivice. The
general. ty of them, you will perceive,
a'C rather of a trivia! nature; if, iif)w-
ever, they can be of anv ufe to the Staf-
fordlhire Hillorian, orafti rd fome 1 tile
auiulemcnt to your various readers, my
end IS cotti plett 1 y aufwered.

Cauldon, a (null village in t! e bun¬
dled

Church Notes from Wlgley, tn Staffbrdflure. [Aug

712

dred of Trotmonflow, fituated on the
lefi hcle of the turnpike- road leading
from Afhbourne to Leek*, fhall ferve for
our firft aiticle. The church, vvhich is
plealantly htuated on a hill, confifts of
a nave, wherein is one aile, lately re¬
built of ftone, and an antient chancel,
Separated from it by a low arch. The
Gontraft between them hatli a pretty tf~
fe£f. The body of the church, which
IS neatly feated and paved, is in length
about nine yards; its breadth hx yards
and a foot. At the Weft end is a neat
gallery, under which a door opens into
a fmall fquare tower, wherein hangs a
fmgle bell. The chancel is from Eaf!:
to Weft about fix yards one foot; and
the contra' y way it extends five yards.
From a flat ftone near the communion
rails I noticed that there was a brafs
plate miiiing. In the church-yard, re¬
latively fpeaking large, on different
upright ftones may be read the follow¬
ing infcriptions. — On one ftone ;

Here lielh

MARGATiET MAfriFOLD,

aged feven times (even
years okl.

So xvas George K, e n t ,
her own clear father,
lying in one grave
together.

July 31ft, 1750.-

On another :

Here

lie the remains of the
Rev. Mr. Thomas Prince,
minifter of this place,

who died . . the

15th, 1757, aged 74.

Who lies here ? Reader, ftay ;

I, Thomas Prince, lie in clay —

And he that reads think, of me,
iind of the glafs that runs for thee.

Amidft a variety of other meiroriah
to the former inhabitants of this village,
not worth tranfcribing, fix more parti¬
cularly engaged my attention, by their
recording that the feveral perfons, whofe
memory for a few years they may chance
to preferve, bad all fiirvived the rare
ps-riod of threefcore and ten years. Some
other particulars relating to this village,
as well as notes concerning many more,
muft be tlie fubjedf of another letter 10
Mr. Urban from one w fio, for the fu¬
ture, will fubfcribe himlelf

Medevkldiensis.

Mr. Urban, *4*

ANnSWORTH is a village in
Stafford fixiiie, four miles WTh. from

Birmingham. The church ftands on
the dope of a hill fronting the Eaft, and
confifts of a nave with three pointed
arches, and a little clereftory oppofite
to the pulpit, and two ailes and a
chancel.

At the Eaft end of the North aile on
an altar-tomb is a man in plated ar-
mou<r, like fcales on the arms, and like
flounces on the body ; head on helmet.
Againft the foot of the tomb is fixed a
fkeleton on its fide in a fhroud. Arms
above, Barry of (even O. and G. ; in a
dexter canton, G. a gauntlet O. hold¬
ing a crofs whofe tranfverfe only is
fleuri. Creft, a flag’s bead. On a black
tablet above, ten lines in capitals alinoft
illegible, part of which are
SIC MORS SEU . VE SENIS QUI

Aga nit a South pillar, an oval tab.er.
In

memory of

S ERG! us Swellengke»ei., efq.
lately refident in the fervice of

States of Holland at their lettlement of
Boethecomba and Bovvthamo,
in the Eaft indi'-s, wlio died in thisparifh
on the I ^th Aug. 1770,
aged 39.

Gules, a fleur-de-lis Or.

On the South fide of the nave a tablet

has, A. a crols . between foi/r

others G.

Over a recefs and door of the South
chancel, behind the pulpit, a double
wooden carved cornice, and
lOHN PIDDO^J
THOMAS OSBOtCN

c. Wardens
1701.

Againft the South wall of the chancel,
a white table for Richard Walter, gent,
died Aug. 3, 1788, aged 50.

A fels ingrafted O. between three
fp.read -eagle!* A. impaling, A. two bars
G. a lion paffant guardant.

In ccsb fp£s mea over the figure of
Hope

In the South wail, two ftone feats and
a pifeina.

A locker in the Eaft wall on the
North fide.

On the fame wall, a mural monu¬
ment for

archdeacon of Stafford,
canon of tlie cathedral v>f Lichfield,
and parfon of Handf-
worth, deceafed
Sept. 1636, aged 71.

Th ree crelccnts a chief Erm. ; or, S.
a chevron between three crelcents A. a
chtef Lrm, Morr ?nthi liu ru^u-

I could

1794*] Church Notes from \\zndk.(wonh^ /« Stafford (hire* 713

1 could net diftinguilh tbe firft linfc ;
but this is ror John Futnciby^ precen¬
tor of Lichfield 1608, archdeacon of
Stafford 1614, prebendary of Gaia Ma¬
jor and B. D. 1605, and reffor of
Handfworth and Aldrich, c Stafford.
In his u ill, dated Dec. 16, 1629 proved
Nov. II, 1636, he names no place of
burial, but gives a legacy of 30 1. to
Aldrich and Barre poor, making his
wife executrix ; and fo was prob bly
buned at Aldrich. Willis, Cath. I.
406, 419, 446. See Topogr. IV. 254,
an erroneous copy.

In the North aile window :

G. fix fleurs de lis A.

O. two lions paffant guardant dexter

Az.

The firft is fuppofed an antient coat
of the WyrleySy and the other a later.
According t > Mr. Walker, in Topogr.
IV. 255, r. they frequently changed
their coat.

At the upper end of this aile, on an
altar-tomb of freeftone, a man in the
fame kind of armour as the former in
hard blue ftone ; gaundets, hair crept,
bare-headed, lion at feet looking up,
fword and dagger, creft on a helmet ;
a woman by him in a dole cap, ruff,
long fleeves, clofe gown, dog under her
feet. On the front of the tomb thefe
coats ;

A. a chevron ingrailed S. between
three bugle-horns G. tVyrley, quarter¬
ing S. two lions courant A crowned O.
another coal of Wyrleyy impaling A. a
bend S. between two rofes G.

The firft fingle. Creft, two wings
on a torfe. Quarterly, i. 4. the bugle-
horns; 2. the lions; 3. the bend and
rofes impaling S. a fefs between three
ducks A. At the head. Quarterly, i.
the horns; 2. the lions; 3. the bend
and rofes ; 4, the'fefs between three
ducks, impaling V. fretty A.

On the floor ate two freeftone fiabs,
on which are cut-in in black lines a
man in plated armour, ruff, helmet un¬
der his head, a Hon looking up at his
feet, and this infeription round the
ledge :

V^zxz Ivetl; burieu tfie bohy of Slolfu
ulivrUy, efqmer, anB CSooBitl), \)is idfe,
niodjsi* of cfqutjr.

'QlT)e fain liofin DexeaffO
in JFfbtuacie, anno D’ni 1594,
fa ID

CSooBitl; in 3Bioher».hei 1622. bau

l)^fUi££u tljun tlehcn fonnxjsauo feaheu
Bausbui-js-

Gent. Mag. *794*

She lies on a taffeled cufliion in the
veil head-drefs. flovv.ng gowOj and la¬
ced petticoat The other is fim iar, and
has this inferip ion :

ff)erctieti) buricn tbe hotiie^i of ®boma<>
Odprlye, efq^. anh iDototbi??, bjjs toffr,

taugb^'et^ ot ?;)iictb fpai'^^on ( Harmon

£fq. €b£ f?‘iB €bontajg bub 2)’ju
7 ';83, tbe faiB 2)0-

rotbi?c fn Ila^niarp, r!;97; ani! rbep baB
tenn fonnjef anB eictbt Baugbtet;&' bc-
ttoten them.

The figures are finiilar, but laid the
reverfe way.

In the Eaff wall above are, Quarterli’^j
I. O. a chevron G between three lions
rampant A. ; 2 the horns ; 3 the li¬

ons j 4. bend between rofes. Creft, the
wings, as before. Below, the chevroa
and lions rampant impaling A. on a
crofs S. a flag’s head between four

hcathcocks, Harmon, rp the che¬

vron and lions rampant impaling Barry

of four Peyfo

a . per pale indented quarterly

A. and G.

Atchievement, with the bugie-horns.
Birch. Motto: A plefance.

The font is a grey ftone bafon, hexa¬
gon, on a pedeftal of niche-work.

BenefaBioyis.

Sir William Wtiorwood, knt. gave
15I. fer annum for ever to charitab e
ules ; of which 5s. to the poor.

Henry Coke, gent. i\. per annum.

Thomas Hedgerley, gent, ditto.

Elizabeth Piddock, widow, 1!.

William Piddock, of Smethwi
gent. 21 James 1. 6s. 8d. per annum for
600 years.

William Lane, gent. lOs. for ever*

George Birch, gent, to the poor on
Handfvvoith fide 13s, 4d. per annum^
and 6s. 4d. to the minifier for a fermon
on 25 Dec. for ever.

William Hodgitts, yeoman, 6s. Sd*

Henry W ilHs, yeoman, 4s.

Roger Ofbourne. yeoman, il.

Henry Oft>ourne, of the Spont, 6s*
for ever to the poor of Perry Bar.

Henrv Gibbons, and his brother
G.bbons, to the poor of ditto for everj
one clofe, now valued at 25I. per auft.

Thomas Bromwich, to the poor of
Handlworth, Perry Bar, and Great Bar^
a dole, valued at il. per annum.

The manor was held, 20 William the
Conqueror, by Wrlliam Fitz Aufculph;
temp. Hen, 11. by Paganus dc Panes

till,

714 Ham pftone Perry

till the reign of Msnry VI. when the
beirefs married Comberford. Joan de
Someri, wife of Thomas, Lord Bote¬
tourt, had demefnes here 8 Edw. HI.;
John Hardlo, Lord Burnell, one-third
of the manor 8 Hen. V, vvhich devcl*
ved, temp Edw. IV. on James Boteler,
Earl of Wilts, who was beheaded, and
his efiate forfeited.

In this parilh, Wei! from the church,
is Hampjiane hall, the feat of — Byrchj
eiq. heir to the Wyrleys, here buried.
Alfo Berry hail, an old brick manfion,
moated round, and having a park of
about forty acres. In the reign of
John, it was the feat of a family named
Bery ; in Erdefwick’s time, of the
Sta^ejards ; and, from the reign of Cha.
IL of the Goughs. ^It was purchafed,
1669, rf BeJj, by Sir Henry Gough,
knt. who married Mary, daughter of
Sir Edward Littleton, of Piilaton, in
t'uc fame county, and is now the pro¬
perty of his great grand fon, J ohn Gough,
efq. (Camden’s Brit. 11.

From Perry to iValfal fix miles by
turnpike into the high-road; Wilen-
liale, from the bridge, two miles to
^Vol verhampton. At the fiifl turnpike
the road turns to the right; to Coven¬
try 29, Tamworth 15, Lichfield 9
miles. A turning to the left to Stour¬
bridge and Shrewfbury, 60 miles from
Wolverhampton. Walfal is a very
large, footy, ih-paved town, having a
large church with a tower and fpire,
and, at the end of the townT^
boul'e newly built,

Wtlenhale is a firnilar town ; the
church re-built,of bntk.

WoL^erkamptan^ or, as it is commonly
called in the country, Hatnpt&n, is a
large, populous, paved town, having
a mar ket on Wed.ntiday, and a great
manufa£\ory of locks and buckles. The
old church is handUanely built of ftone,
embattled,' with a tovver, and fpire in
the centre ; a nave with two aiies and
chancel ; South and North ftone porches ;
a ftone pulpit of iiiche-work againit a
' South pillar, a fweep of fieps round it,
and, at foot of them, a large lion fit¬
ting. The nave rtfts on five pointed
arches on oftagon pdlars, and has a
double cieieftory. The S juih door of
the fteps to the rood loft lemains-

At the Raft end of the South aile, an
altar tomb with a m.t..’ and woman of
the time of E'izabeth, much damaged.
A man and woman at the Norch fide
holding three baneii, or Az. 3 laurei-
leavti O impaling Bairy

—Walfal, Wilenliale, ^c, [Aug*

of 8: l^he fame in a garter. The
three hands inrsp. cheque quartering . . •

. Ac the head, three mulletsj

in the centre, a trefoil. Three hands,
each coat fingle, and encircled with an
inlcription. This is laid to be a monu¬
ment of the Le‘vefons.

The font at the Eafl; end of the North
aile is o£lagon, adorned with rofes,
fpriirs, tulip, bell, crols, flowers. On
the fhaft. Lints Anthony, Paul, Peter;
one with a palm-branch and fliield, one
with a club, one with his hands ele¬
vated.

An altar tomb for

Thomas Lane, of Bentley, in this county o£

Stafford, efquier, and Katheryn, his wife.

Three griffins heads S.

A chevrcMi between three mullets.

The iaft coat imp. the firft in a circle*

IN Dvis ^ be to God ...... .

Over the feet : Quarterly,

1. Per fefs O. and Az. G. a chevron
between three mullets G.

2. V. a lion rampant G.

3. ' Barry of eight.

4. A fefs fretty between heads

5. A fcythe.

6. The gr.ffins heads.

Over it a Latin infcription for John,
eldeft (on of Thomas Lane, of B . . . .
bred to the bar, died of a fever in Ire¬
land, 17S2, aged 60. This monument
was erected by Isis wife Sarah, daughter
and co-heir of Fowler, of Pensford,
died 1784. Creft, a bearded figure.

Another monument for John Lane,,
who preferved K. Charles 11. at the
battle of VVorcetler. His fon Thomas
had an augmentation of the royal arms
in a dexter canton. He was born 1609
died 1667; and would have been bunedi
by the king in Weftminfter abbey if hei
had not on his death-bed refufed thei
honour.

In 1751, the number of houfes ini
Wo! veriiampion were eftiraated at 1440,1
people 7454. (Gent. Mag. XXI 1. 347).'

In the church-yard, alrnoft fronting;
the South porch, or principal entrance,,
is a round pillar, about 20 feet hjgh,i
covered with rude carvings, divided in-'
to leveral compartments. On the North-'
Weft face, at bottom, in the fpandrils!
Of a kind of arch, are cut a bird and!
bead looking back at each other. A--
b(»ve, divided by a narrow band, arei
other fimilar figures, or drogons with:
fore-feet and long tails, in lozenges.,
Above them, a band of Sjxon leaves,,
and, hi. lozenges, birds and refc5» Overt

' tUefe,!

794*1 Church Notes from \Yo\wtih?iVn])X.on. — T7;<? Stacpooles. 71^

hefe, a narrow band, and then, in lo-
enges, beafts or grifRns. Another
land, and a compartment of rude tar¬
ing, and then a regular plain capital.
A^hether it fupported a crofs is uncer-
ain. The bottom of the pillar has
lone;mafonrv worked ipund \t to keep
t uptight. Whether this is a Danifh
>r Saxon monument is not exactly de- _
ermined. There is one fomewhat like
t in Leek church-yard (Gent. Mag. 1.
167); and others ruder in that of
!];heck!ey, in the fame county.

Two miles from Wolverhampton is
tetenhalej a pleafant village on a hi!!,
)n the top of which are feveral good
loufes, and on the Weft Hope of which
lands the church, confining of a nave
vith a clereftory and two ai!es, a chan-
:el with its South aile, which has been
e-built, a high ftone porch on the
jouth fide of the nave, into which you
lefcend by one ftep, and a fquare em-
aattled Weft tower. The Eaft window
dF the chancel is light and beautiful, of
ive days of different heights ; the round
ingle pillars within wuh ring capitals
arojefling, and having an interval be-
iween. In the South wall of the chan¬
cel, an high pointed a.ch with round
pillars flopped up, are two ftalls level,
a third Eaft of them railed higher, and
a pile na in the angle above. In the
arch Weft of this are two more ftalis
level, but not contiguous. On the
North fide of the chancel two pointed
arches, flopped up, with floweied ca-
piials^ the tail of the communion-table
tuns on both fides and in front, at the
dillance of i6 feet from it to the Weft
to the fteps. On the North wall a mu¬
ral monument of a woman kneeling in
a gown. Arms : Krm. a martlet, in
chief three roundels for Joan, wife of
Richard CrtU’well, of Burnhurfi, 1590-

The South aile of the chancel is the
burial pUce of the Fuwleis of Pinfold,
and the lower part of it that of the
Wightwicks of Wight wick. Dander,
Caftleacre, &c, in this parifh, in which
is a mura monument for one of them,
repa red >77^; ancthtr for Wrliiarn
Smith, a.chiefd, 1724. In the Eaft
part of the North aile is an altar tomb
with the figures ol John WrotlulUy,
elq. and Elizabeth^ his wife, with this
iulci iption :

Jpere 1^2 tfje of Jioi)n tlZlvot-
fley, efq. anu (Slijabetl;, Ib.s loy'ir,
ibftjicl) io1)n ‘oecffsn U)e ^uiiitb Cap of
i|Bch£’b£r» a° D'ui 15721.

At the fide a nun and woman fup*

portingthree piles G. in a dexter canton
Erm. impalement gone. Eight more
figures, and an infant in fwadiing-
cloaths.

At the head :

Cilfabetl) raufet’ tfjiJei tombe to
be ma'oe i58t>*

A ci'^quefoll O. impaling Barrv of
eight. Wrotheftey impaling it, and fin-
gle. A dog rampant on her gown.

In the Weft window of the North
aile, Az. or G. two lions paflant guar-
dant O, In the South clereftory win*
dow an infeription too high to be read.
In the South window a griffin in a
round. R. G.

Mr. Urban, j^ug. 15.

I SEND you the infqriprions on three
prints, which may perhaps be new
to you and your readers, and were pre-
fenred to Mr. Throlby of Leicefter;
where I fa w them. ,

I. “ Sir Richard Sracpoole, of Pern-
brokeffiire, who was knighted by VU:1-
liam the Conqueror, The different
Welffi hiftorlans, and the old recoids
of that principality, mention him among
the moft relpeiflable men in the year
1091, being the fourth year of the reign
of King William l^ufus. He married
Margaret, fecond fifter of Sir Richard
Turbervile, Lord of Coyty, and died
without ilTae. Robert, the only bro¬
ther of SirRichaid Sfacpnole, married
a daughter of Sir John Sitlylt, or Cccili,
ancfcftor to Sir William Cecill, Lord
Burghtey, and lord high treafurer of
England in the reign ot Queen E iza-
beth. Sir William Stacpoole, hiseidtft
foil, married a daughter of Howel ap
Lhe!, lord of Rous and Rywonioc, now
D-nbighland. Said Sir Wi liam had a
command in an army railed in the
reign of King Stephen againft David,
king of Scots, but died young, leaving
thiee fons and one daughter. H s e delt
fon, Sir Richard Stacpoole, of Stac-
poole, in t’u :■ countv of pembre ke, mar¬
ried a daughter of Sir Henry Vernon,
of Hacldon, in the Peke. No menrioa
is made of the fecond Ion ; but Robert,
the younoelt, encouraged by his couhn,
Robert P’i z Stephen, went over to Ire¬
land with Richard, earl of Striguie,
known by the name of Stronghow, &nd
was a Captain of archers in that divifioa
of the army which Fitz Stephen com¬
manded under Strongbow^ in the vear
1 1 6b, being Ur e 14 h veai of K. Henry
the Second. The laid Robert after-
vvafds fettled in Ireland i and from him

^i6 The Chief Bar oris Charge to the Grand Jury at Lelcerter. [Aug,

the Stacpoolcs of the county of C!a e
are clefcended. The old manhon of
Stacpocle court, i.nd a large cftate in
Pembrokelhire, defcended to a er^^pd-
daughter of the fecond Sir Richard
Stacpoole, and is now the propetty of
the fon of the late Pryfe Campbell* efq.
who was member for that county.”

Sf^ulla pmxit, from a portrait on a
monument. "James IVijhn fecit.

2, JohnStacpoole, elq , of Cragbrien
cafile, in the county of Cl^re, who de¬
parted this life the nth of April, lyyif
at the advanced age of 97, repining to
that late period the molt eminent abili¬
ties, joined to the grea'ell philanthropy
of heart ; fo th t it remained a queftion,
whether he was moft beloved or admi¬
red j and though his manfion was the
feat of the moll unbounded hofpitality,
his coffei s ever open to the indigent and
deferving, and ji’s indulgence to a nu-
meious tenantry fcemed more like the
parent than the landlord, to the eftg-
blifhment of manv families yet he in-
cre fed his patrimony to that degree,
and purchafed fo m..ny and extenfive
tra'^^ of land, as to leave behind him
one of the ia geftand heft circumftanced
ehates in Ireh nd ; and fo far ^\as he
from fak ng advantage of any one’s dif-
trefs, that ail who evei dealt with him
acknowledged him as the faireft and
moft liberal of purchafers.

If learning, eloquence, and graceful eafe,
Senle to advife, and fpriglitly wit tq pleafe.
And every inn'ate virtue Heaven e’e>- gave,
Could make immortal, he had ’fcap’d the
grave.’’

Barrett pinxit. James Wafon fecit.

3 , “ P h 1 1 1 p Ct over, elq. of Wifping-
ton, in Lincolnlhire, a fteady diiince-
refted friend, who never courted popu¬
larity, bur was ever deferving of it.”

John Ruffeil pinxit, crayon-painter fo
his Roy ! Highref^ tut- Priace ot Wales.
James W a’Jon fecit, from tlie original
pi6ture in Hie pollelhon of George Stac¬
poole, e(q. at Groivenor-place. I|. H.

^he Lord Chief Baron M acdonald’'1i
Charge to the Grand Jury of the County
of LejcllSter, Aug. 14, 1794,

printed, at iketr Kiqufji, by the Chief
Baron's Perm\(fwn,

Gentlemen of the Grand Jurv,
TXT'E are here aftemblcd, in cur re-
V V Iprftive dfpartiner t.s, to exercile
the moft awful fund ons which Piovi-
dence has permitted to bel.mg to man¬
kind j no lels than that judging

pian.

It may not be unprofitable fo? us, at
a lime when there are to be found thofe
who wf)u!d vilifv and degrade ^ou. an-
tsent and approved fvftem of Gw and
government, to contemplate for * mo¬
ment that vital part of it, upon the ex¬
ecution of xvhich we are now about to
enter.

At a time when fome men are endea¬
vouring to dazzle the ignorant, and ini-
pofe upon tile unwary, by holding out
to them fpeculative advantages and im¬
provements ; we owe it to ourfelves and
to pofterity carefully to examine that
which we polTefs, for that’ it is which
will be hazarded. When we fee that
burfting the bandi of all law and efta-
bliflied government le ds immediately
to the wanton and unceafing elfufion of
human blood ; we cannot, perhap.s, em¬
ploy a few moments of ou’ time more
profitably than in contempla.iog the eT
fefts which flow from the lyftem of cri¬
minal juftice long eftablilhed in this’
kingdom, the means adopted for afeer-
taining truth, and the /c'upulous cau¬
tion and tendernefs prelcribed wherd
life and liberty are in queftion.

To you. Gentlemen, it belongs tq
perform that talk which is the kait
p iiniul, and which ihe extreme circumr
fpe6ii()n and provident care of our lavy
has allotted to you, nimely, that of
fliielding a feliovv-fubje£l: from anfwer-
ing n improper accufation.

Such is the tendernefs and delicacy of
the Cl irriinal jurifprudence of this coun-r
try, that not even ifte tranquillity and
peate of mind of any fubjeft whatever
is luftered to be interrupted, bv anfwer-
ing the charge of any iiulividuaj, un-
lels a maj .rity of the grand inqueft of
the countv fiiall fee reafonable ground?
to make that fubjefi account to a petty
jury for the conduft imputed to h'm.

Of the Court is required, by the fame
fyftei];| of cautious juriipi udence, to
take elpecial care thas cr’.me.x, diltinft
in their nature, be not confounded ;
thar charges affe^ling th life and li-
be ty of man be ftated according to the
precile p ovifions of the law j mat evi¬
dence, in its nature leading to ambigu¬
ous oi falfc conclufions, be excluded ^ that
a w<^tchfui anxiety be oblerved relpedf-
ing tlie, general rights of the acculed j
and that the duty of the lovereign of
iiicle realms le practicaby oDlejved by
executing in mercy.'

It is the petty juiy which is to con-
ftiture the fadt j our habits are to look
for the piefervation, in an eminent de-

gree.

1794'] Chiff Barents Charge to

gree, of every thing which is valuable
amongll us. In what remote period of
our exi gence as a (ocial community
th s mi)ft fimple and moft efficacious
prote61i n againft oppreffion and wrong
was firft promulgated, it is difficult to
prop iince. It is an eafier talk to re-
colleif what have been the extenfive ef¬
fects of It, and to alTure ourfelves that
thefV efferSts will continue fo long' as
their purity, fiimnefs, and impartiality,
Ih all continue.

The inffitution itfelf is grounded in
the two fr:oft powerful fprings of a6fion
in our nature — felf-prefervation, and
fellow-feeling. That meafure which
the juryman metes to his fellovv-fubjeft
to-day may be meafured out to himfelf
to-morrow y it imports his leif preferva-
tion, herefore, that fuch mealure be a
juft one. The juryman, in like man¬
ner, when called upon to pronounce
what were the motives which di6tated
the conduit proved upon a prifoner
(as malice, and many o‘hers), muft
pul himfelf for the moment in that pn-
foner’s place at the time of the a6t im«
puted to him, and confider from what
motives fuch an a£l would or could
have proceeded had he himfelf been the
a6for. In a word, you, the conirolers
of the accufer, the Court, which is to
bear an even hand between the publick
and the accufed, and the petty jury,
who are to look into the evidence of tne
a£lions of men, and thence into their
hearts, b ar feveral and diftin6f parts,,
all cojoperating, as far as humau wii^
dom can pomrive, to make public fecu-
rity conflft with ftri£f juftice toindividuj-
als, and with truth.

Such is the general refuitof that com¬
bination of funftions and authorities
which unite and conftitute the pielcnt
folemnity.

Thus are our lives and perfonal li¬
berty guarded and protected ; and, if
we examine the tffe6fs which have flow¬
ed fiom the fecurity which we enjoy
with refpefif to property, we fhall hnd
that this (tcurity has llimuUted the ef¬
forts of the buJharidmaTiy and h,as been
the parent of that induftry and ingenuity
which diftules our commodities and
nianufa6tui es over the known world.
In.agine, for an inffant, that tiie period
were arrived when life and libe ty were
fported with, a^d property were a thing
no longer ex ilmg, you muft be fatished
that commerce, manufaiture, agricul¬
ture, arts, and learning, wemd aot long
futytve.

the Grand yury at Leicefter, yiy

Can any one among us, who bears a
part in the preient folemnity, or who
beho ds it, refrain from turning* his
thoughts towards fume confiderations of
the moft effi'ntial' confequence at the
prefenr moment ?

Were public notoriety infufficient for-
the purpofe of convincing us, th At cor¬
ruption and contagion have found their
way to fom.e part of this great and (hi¬
therto deemed) wife nation, the labours
of the two Houfes of Parliament, etcci-
ted by his Majefiy s paternal care^ muft
put it beyond all queftion, that there are
thofe amongft us who would annihilate
th^ bleffings which we now commemo¬
rate, and every other blefhng which
flows from an antient and approved fyf-
tem of Jaw and civil government. We
owe much to the watchful care of every
branch of our Legiflature, who have
afforded us timely notice of the exiflence
of fome internal enemies ; of the de-
ftru6live means intended to be ufed by r
•.hem ; and of the flimfy pretexts under
which their machinations were t ) be
carried on. It is a matter of confolarioti -
to think, that the principal aft rs in
thele fedicious p^aftices feem to lie — the
idle, the profl gate, the infolvent, the
bankrupt, and thofe who burn with a'»
rejilafsy not with an bonourahtey ambi¬
tion, Thefe men conlpire to delude*
and reduce the unwary and lefs opulent
part of their fellow- fubj efts.

By thefe men the very order of hu¬
man nature, as appointed by Providence,
is, in liieir writings, imputed as nr»atter
of blame to our fyllem of government*
The very difparity of human condition,
with refpeft to the greater or lets attain¬
ment of opulence, which is fuppofed
(not always Juflly) to confluute woildiy
happinefs, is, in like manner, held
forth as a vice in our laws and govern
ment; let it, however, be recollefted,
that this very difparity'is the foundation
©f a*I the r'-.lative duties of a human fo-
ciety, upon the oblervance or negleft of
which all merit or dement in liiisour
piobationary ftate urainly depends.

Notions lo repugnant to our nature,
and to the ulti'uate purpofe of our be¬
ing, can or,lv be prop gated for the pur-
pofe of mifehief and confounding. The
objeft of fuch men ca«> onl) be, wiiti
refpeft to the more cr-'fty and uifiJious
among tiiem, the violent alfumption of
unbridled power, or Jeroiioui tyranny
and, with refpeft to the heedlcfs and rhe
defpei ate, the objeft muft be, the gorging
themlelves with a Ihort lived plunder,

uawiiiing

T^he Chief Bar on^ s Charge.' — on ths Hydrophohia* [Aug.

unwilling to rscolle^V, that its fure at¬
tendant mull be a long and univerfal
poverty, in which they mull themfelves
participate.

It is however, 1 trull, an experiment
as vai!>t as it is nvicked to attempt to
exchange laws and government, gradu¬
ally improved in a courfe of ages, check¬
ed, balanced, and counterpoifed, in the
wanner which we this day contemplate,
jf)rodu6live in experience of <voealihy
happinefs, and profperiiy, for confu/wtiy
Tcipiney pr^jeriptiony and blood.

To you, gentlemen of this county, it
xnult be a fource of much fatisfaflion to
conliderthat you have already provided,
not the remedy^ but (what is more im¬
portant) the prenfenti-vel which is now
dtlFufing itlelf through the nation at
large. A (eafonable attention is given
to an evil, fomewhat more than in its
infancy, which has gotten a degree of
method and coniiftency, and which is
fupported by the declared enemies'of all
fociai order; that atrention is guided by
the nored cbara^let ifticks of the people
of this kingdom — -found fenfe and perfo^
nal rejoiution.

An orderly and dignified preparation
by the yeomanry ^ in other words, the
pith and lubliance, of this county, to
refill external force, or to refill la-whfs
outrage by legal internal Jorcey vve fee
and look to with gratitude and confi¬
dence.

When we obferve that this protedion,
which IS heid ouc xo ©ur laws and con-
mitutiou of government, comprifcs the
names of perlons relpeftable as much
from pnvate and perlonal chara6ler as
from lorrune or from rank, we may
rJafonahly conclude, that the dark ef¬
forts of men, who have eveiv thing to
gain, and ntjthing to Icfe, and of thole
who for a moment may be milled by
them, mull be abortive.

On the part of the civj magillrates of
every defenption, their duty mull be
cloffciy attended to, in order to antici¬
pate the neceliity oi availing ouife.v.es
of the ^nerous exertions of our aimed
prouito, s in the tali extremity.

Vigilance and adVivity, tempered with
prudence and moderation; promptitude
iind vigour, regulated by a co'nlcieniioas
attention to the principles of our law ;
wi I i>e rec|u)itd of hint. The exertions
of all men, throughout the fcale of civil
magiltiacy, luppo ted by the prepaia-
t du of ihe anued fiifeiigtn (if tfie ?ejpec~
table yeomatiry (whole bell iiitcrefis hie
Uiltparablv intei woven with ihoie of
6 ' •

their country), we may be confident will
call a powerful fiiield around this na¬
tion, the centre of a mighty empire.

Gentlemen, it cannot but llrike me
with fome furprize, that this county
furnifhes fo {lender a calendar as that
which is now before me, wliich calls
for no particular remarks. This well
accords with that fpirit of good order,
and manly determination to lupport our
antient law and government, which are
fo llrongly manifefied among you.

It only remains for me earnefily to
hope, that the exertions of the/magif-
tracy, and the zeal and fpirit of the re-
fpeftable yeomanry, may prefeive this
county in that orderly Hate in which I
have the happmefs to find it ; and may
long fecure to it, in common with the
reft of this great and opulent commu¬
nity, the blefting of thole laws and that
conftitution of government, to which
(not unfeafonably, 1 trull,) 1 have at-
tradled your attention.

Obfer‘vat}ons on Mr. RoBINSON’s re¬
markable Cafe of Hydrophobia.

Mr. Urban, Aug. i^.

HAVE been a member of the Royal
College of Phyficians about the fpace
of a quarter of a century, during which
peiiod I have enjoyed a pretty large
fhareof profelfionalemployment. Know¬
ing, however, that there is frequently
much difficulty to rife in practice early
in life, it hss always been my cullom,
whenever I difeovered ingenious young
men, either as phyficians or apotheca¬
ries, to afford all that patronage wbjch
lefults from recommending them tt>
their patients and friends upon every
occafion in my power; and, when 1
have deemed their pra6lice reprehen-
fible, which has raiely happened, to
give my advice to them pruvately. I
was induced to fay fo much from the
perul.d of a paper in your laft Maga¬
zine, p. ^98, intituled, A remarkable
(Aife oj Hydrophobia, by G. North Ro-
binfon, Surgeon, Chip Norton, Oxforc -
fhire,” cvmcerning tfie p!a6i!te of “ a
young gentleman of the facuiy, nvko, aj-
ter the ufe of the knije and the caufiicky
unjorlunately underiook to cure, or pre^
n.,snty the tjfe^i of the %yound by means
of fali vaiiur/y in prejerence to the ufual
and mojl e_ffe£tual remedy y the fea-njjaierS'

All the partus are peifeCtly firangers
tome; bur, alter none ing a miinomer
in the title of Mr, R<)bin(()n?» paper, as
lilt re u n.,thing remarkab e in the cafe
of the hydrophobia itlated, i wftl ven¬
ture

1794.] OhfervaUons on Mr^ Robinfon’s Cafe of Hydrophobia. yig

ture to declare, that the treatment of
the young medical gentleman, though
unfuccefsful, was judicious, agreeable
to all the knowledge we poirefs, which
is ftill but little, of thrs dreadful ma¬
lady. I will venture to appeal to any
member of the College of Phyficians in
proof of it, and particularly to gentle¬
men who have written upon the bite of
rabid animals, as Dr, Vaughan of Lei-
cefter. Dr. Hamilton of Jpfwich, Dr.
Percival of Marcheher, Dr. Haygarth
of Chefter,. Dr. James Simsof London;
and I will predi^ that each will fupport
my opinion.

Mr. Robinfon gave bark, I fuppofe,
as a tonick. Why was the patient b'ed
if tonicks were indicated ? The late D' .
Fothergill did indeed recommend bleed¬
ing*, but, if Mr. Robinfon had read a
late performance by Dr. Meafe, on the
bite of rabid animals, he would there
have learned the futility of fea-bathing,
and of all his fcarifications, and that the
hiflory of medicine does not afford one
cafe of recovery after bleeding.

The following cenfure is unbecoming
any man in giving the prognofis a dil-

eafe : and ftill more cenfurable refoedt-

• >

ing a dileafe of which we know nothing
I’atisfaifory as to the cure :

Though this cafe proved irrecoverably
loft, from the patient’s ftrength being fo
nearly exhaufted, w'hich he had notperfeftiy
recovered fince tiie procels of fahvation, and
from the unremitting violence of the dlfeafe,
until the opium united witli camphor, by
being more often adminiftered, abated the
fpafmodic convulfions of Nature > yet, had
this been fooner effedled, I fliould have flat¬
tered myfelf with a more favourable ilTue.”

If the patient’s ftrength was exhauft¬
ed by fahvation, why, I repeat, did Mr.
Robinfon bleed him ? It was the laft
weakening medicine employed ; and
certainly it would have been more can¬
did to ha ve introduced the cenlure upon
this rather than upon the diftant appli¬
cation of mei;cury : befides, lavourab e
relat'Ons have been given of mercury
in the hydrophobia, but not one in-
ftance of recovery after bletdinp. Fa¬
tality has been uniformly the refuit as
far as I know.

In (lioft, whoever the young medical
gentleman may be, 1 approve his treat¬
ment, and conftder the unfortunate
event as very extraordinary ; but, in-
(tead of hafty cenfure, I deem the cafe
worthy of future aiteiutve inveftigation ;
and, fhould thefe remarks of mine ever
be cjcdd by this gentleman, I tliould be

very happy to have a minute detail of
fa6ls (my name being known to the
printer), not with a vew to cenfure any
individual, but, if polfible, to dear up
doubts in medical fcience, and to lead
us to a rational and fuccefsful practice,
of which, unhappily, we are vet igno¬
rant. I'/IeDICUS Londinensis,

Mr. UstBAN, 8.

AD B. B. B. p. 617, pofTelTed a
fpirit of candour, he might have
alFigned the beft of motives for Mr.
Toulmin’s letter refpeding Dr. PritSl-
ley’s departure from England. He was
defirous of removng an ill-grounded
infmuation, and of vindicating the ho¬
nour of your M'fcellany, which a ma¬
levolent correfpondent had evidently
abufed. 1 am aware that great elFe^s
often proceed from little caufes; but 00.
man, who has heard of the treatmerft
Dr. Prieftley has rr et with for the iait
three or four years, can be at a lofs for
a reafon why he Ihould prefer the fots-
ety of the inhabitants of America to
that of his own countrvrnen. Whether
perfecution be exerci fed ag' inft a Pref-
byrerian or a Roman Cathoiick, it is to
me equally detefiable, as I confider r»o
man to be refponiible to another for hts
religious opinions, not even to the ci¬
vil magiftrate, provided his actions do
not interrupt the tran'quill itv of the
State, 1 have even been offended of
late by the illiberal traih with whicti
fome pages have been difgraced on the
fubject of Dr. Geddes, a man who
ftands high m the opinion of evejy
fcholar, whatever may be the fentiments
of an angry brother. Your Magaz oe
has long been re.'pe6led as ilie repolitory
of ufeful and entertaining iitetature;
fuffer not its ihcets to be occupied witti
perlbnal reflexions. More than once
you have laudably determined not 10
admit fuch communications ; keep iita-
dy to your ie(o‘ution, good Mr. Urban,
and conftgn to the lire every Jeciti ^
that contains abufe, wluther written tiy
a friend or a foe, a Chatch-of-Iiog'and
man, or a DilfenTer, a bhoiar or an
unlettered knave. Bv this coiiduff your
Miicellany will toacinue 10 md,iuaiii its
acculloired !e[)acation.

An equally praile vi,orthy motive may
be alfigned for Mr. Toulrain’s uoet/-
laking to republifii Neal’s ililiory of

*' Alas! our correfpoiu'cnts iittlc know
HOW MiVNY of that delbiip- on arc daib’. io
tonluiraid ! Lnjv.

rhe

720 Neal's Hijtory ofthe^mtzn^.

the Puritans. The book, is a book of
importance^ and it was become fcarce
and dear. Foreigners have referred to
it as a work, affording the mod ample
information on that part ©f the-Eoglifh
hiftory which it comprehends. The
Diflenters aie a confiderable body of
men in this kingdom, and have fent out
numerous colonies to foreign parts; and
there are many inquifiiive perfons, both .
at home and abroad, \sho may wifii to
have an account of their rife and pro-
grefs. Their cunofity will be graviiied
by the perufal of Neal’s book y and it is 3
of very little confeque^^ce, to a- mind
that thirds after knowUdge,. whether
the author a Cal‘vinijlic Indepeadenl^
or the etfitor a Socinian Bapifji. If jwe
are to reje^V all literary works that are .
not written by perfons of the fame reli¬
gious opia ions with ourlelves, the dielvve^
of our libraries would be dripped of
many of their bed books. In fuch a
cafe, >the -member of the Church of
England mud part with Lardner’s Cre¬
dibility of the Gofpel Hidory, and Le-
Jand’s Rsply to the Deids ; and the
Didenter mull banifii from his dudy the
truly valuable works of a Cave and a
Burnet, and every ufeful work that has
been written on -the fubjeft of reiig.ion
by the followeis of the Fapal fee - But
a true fcholar has no prejudices of this
kind; he will conlult every book that
prom lies to give him infoj mation. He
rviil exprefs his gratitude both to Mr,
N.eal and his Editor, legardlefs ©f ihe
opinion, and defpi-ling the tnfinuations,
et B. B. B.

_ The iad paragraph of your corre»
fpondent-s letter, which is a mere echo
to the cry of another on the fubjefil of
Mafonry, 1 fhall leave to be animad¬
verted on by the gentlemen of the Fra¬
ternity, obferving only (though without
knowing any of \\\& areata a y and not
thinking, with the learned Dr Srukeley,
that it contains any remains of the Eleuf
finian myderies, except the injuniSion
of irfence), that I have always confider-
ed jt t© be a peaceable, benevolent in-
diiution. Many of our princes would
mot have honoured it with their names
if It contained the feeds, and far.6lioned
the principles, of anaichy and conlu-
fion. It ctnainly has no relation to the
French revolution, which has proceeded
troin ether, but very obvious caufes,
which at prelent 1 fliaU not undertake
t© develope, and lias been conduced by
vtiy dijFerent aget,ts frona the BreLhrtn
fij ib4! Crajt, Thefc Uft gentlemen,

,^Dr. Prlefl ley's Departure, fAu^.

though friends of rational freedom, and
confequentlv of the Brit'fh C^nd lotion,
would think themfcives vj.rofTlv infulred,
if it could be fuppofed <^or i moment,
- that they would pa ticipate in the bloody
feenes with which the , lad dages of the
French revolution have been unhappily
attendf'd.

The .fqregqing driftures are/,ofFered
,bv one vvho is not acquainted with Dr.
,Pried!.ey or Mr, Toulmin, nor has the
lead connexion with any one of their
friends or ctirrefpopdents. Thev are
rdiila-ted bv a ipirit that has a due re¬
gard to truth and juflicej tljat can ac¬
knowledge merit wherever it is found,
>.whore indignation is roufed at the very
unhand Tome treatment which the above-
;,mentioned gentlemen have received.

Yours, &c. N. L.

i This letter fuperfedes that of T. W.

Mr, Urban, ' Aug. 14,,

HATEVER merit may be due to
M . Tbulrnin for the defence o£
an abfent friend, I think he hath con¬
tradicted one part of mv letter (fee p,
430) with too much afperity. I faid I
h-ad heard that Dr. Priedley, to avoid
the mortification wfiich he expe6led to
meet with in your Magazine for^the
month of March lad, went on board
fhip jthe very day it, was printed; but
it appears, from the fatisfa6lory tedi-
mony of Mr. Toulmin, that he preach¬
ed a fermon in London a few days after
that time. But, whether true or falfe,

1 can affure Mr. Toulmin that the re¬
port was notorious, that Dr. Priedley
did go on-boaid on the laft day of
March ; for, even the public papers an¬
nounced this great event to have hap¬
pened on the abovementioned day ; and
1 have heard it coniirn»ed by private re¬
port. It may, therefore, dill be matter
of curious enquiry, whether the learned
Chemid really did draw in his horns in
this manner, and tl»en venture abroad
again upon finding ail fafe. It is, how¬
ever, at bed but a very trifling circum-
ftance, not afiefting in the lead the ge¬
neral charges which my letter contain¬
ed. Mr. Toulmin will certainly allow
that Dr. Prieftley’s departure was very
fudden, without the fmalled defence of
hinifelfor his chemiftry, notwuhdand-
ing the charges againfi him were ferious
ones, and grounded on matters of fadl.

1 think, Mr. Urban, you mull agree
with me, from the anxious manner in
which Mr. Toulmin hath defended his
ablent friend, that, if either he, or any

01 her

1794*1 JDr. Prieflley’s

other of the numerous friends whom
the Do6lcr has left behind him, had
been able to offer any thing, in the
fmalleft degree palliative, it would not
have been negle^ed.

One of your correfpondents, I per¬
ceive, afcribes the Doftor’s leaving
England to parental affc£lion ; to which
much may certainly be due; but it
ought to be remembered, that that rea-
fon had exifted long before, and could
hardly have operated almoh inftantane-
oufly at the time that he had -rebuilt
his elaboratorv ; a circumftance at
which he exprell'ed fo much pleafure
and happintfs after the mortification of
having been two years deprived of it.
To this Ihould alfo be added the fa6l of
his having jufi taken a long leale of his
houfe ; and the whole being attended
with great and very incpnvenient ex¬
pence. Ft is lurely very extraordinary
that he fl)ould abandon this houfe, and
this elaboratorv, at the very moment
that he was exulting and publilhmg
to the world the great importance of
his fuppojed difcoveries (adlually made
(as he ajjerts) in this verv elabo-
ratory ; after promifing the Chemical
'World that he would flick to the fub-
je£l ; after raifing fuch wonderful ex-
pe£lations ; after leiling us that we
m’ght expefl to hear from him often
and regularly, he having then materials
before him for another publication on
the fubje£l. But, unfortunately for this
celebrated DtscoTERKR of the com¬
ponent parts of the atmofphere, 1 re¬
peat it, Mr. Urban, Dr. Harrington’s
Nenxj Year's Gijt to Dr. Prieflley made
its appearante in your Magazine with a
celerity which did him infinite credit,
and which Ihews that he will luffer no
man to purloin his deai ly- earned difco-
veries with impunity. To this publi¬
cation, fliort as it is, I once more refer
your readers ; and once more declare,
that it has totally biafted every hope
which Dr. Prieflley can entertain of
preferving his reputation as a difcoverer
of the true formation of air.

Whether the fear of encountering
another paper of this kind, or any m^fit
ferious dre-jd, might preponderate in
the Dodlor’s mind, I know not; but
certain it is, from this moment we have
heard of nothing but his departure; not
a word more of his discoveries; not
a word in defence of hiiofelf or his che-
ml iry. But Mr. Tou'min will cer¬
tainly allow that much was necefiary in
Gent. Mag. Au^uJ}, 1794,

Apology from Mr, T oul min* 721

both of thefe refpefls ; and T wifh lhat
he were able to defend the Dorflor ftrim
thefe charges with the fame fucce^s that
he has defended him from the other. I
certainly confefs, that it is of little con-
fequence whether Dr. Prieftley em¬
barked in the end of Ma ch, or the be¬
ginning of April. Cambriensis.

Mr. Urban, Yaimton^ Avg. t6.
AM concerned to find that your
correfpondent J. R. fliould conftrue
my corre6ling a mifiake about the real
author of “Intimations and Evidencts
of a future State” into an imputation,
even only a tacit and implied one, of
an intention in him to injure the repu¬
tation of my lace friend, Mr. Thomas
Watfon, of Bridgewater. The work,
poffcfies fuch merit and excellences
that it will do credit to any name. Mv
deceafed friend, I doubt not, would
have efleemed it an honour to have
been confidered as the author. But it
would have been remote fr. m the pu¬
rity and integrity of his mind to have
kept any part of the praife it deferves
ftom its real author. That gentleman
is perfe6lly unknown to me ; but I
fhould hope that he has not feen my en¬
deavours to iiave the work alEgned to its
true author in the fame liglii in whicK
they have appeared to J. R. He and
inyfelf, I am perfuaded, are equally clear
of any intentions to depreciate a publi¬
cation, the dtfign and execution of
whicli en»itle it to be efleemed and read.
If it be not impertinent, I u ifh to fay
this, through the channel of youa* Mif-
cellany, to reflify the apprehenfions of
J. R. and to convey mv iefpe6ls to him,
and Mr. VVacfon, of Whitby.

Joshua Toulmin.

A JloTt Jlatement of the Riots'which took place this

month, Jo far as refpehis the City of London,

Oa Wednefday, Aug.zo, at two P. M.
information having been given at ti e V?an-
fion-houfe, that a riot w as beg'nnir>gin Shoe-
lane ; orders w^ere given to all the conftables
to‘be immediately on duty, to keep tf's peacj
of the city ; and, while ti ey were afTembl ng,
the two city marihals proceede<l to Shoe-
lane, where they found the mob adlually
breaking Into a houfe in Smn^cutrer lireet,
which hecks .on Nt'. >2, Shoe lane, which
was a hou'e of rendezvous. W’th < ifficnl y
the city marlbals tamed out thofe w.o had
entered the hnufe ; hut, for r^'ant of force,
could fecure none of them. At hreeo’clock
the Lord Mayor came on the fpot with a par¬
ty 9f ^gnflables, and endeavours were made,

wiihoui

722 Pahhular Detail of the Riots in the City of [Aug,

without effe£l, to clear the ftreet, and com¬
pletely to difperfe the people. At this time,
the mob were no otherwife mifciiievous than
in refufing to depart, and in faluting the
chief magiftrate and peace officers, at every
effort they made, with hiffing, hooting, and
hallooing. The Lord Mayor, having learnt
that other places were threatened, returned
to the Manfion-houfe at five, and inftantly
lent to the artillery company and to the light
horfe volunteers, to defire that they would
affemble under arms as foon as poffible, and
join him in Shoe-lane. Learning foon after
that the mob had increafed, and finding there
was no time to lofe, he fent to the Tower, to
re-qiieft the aid of a detachment of his Ma-
jefty’s guards, and remrned at fix o’clock to
Shoe-lane, where the mob had affembled in
great numbers ; and although there were loo
conftahles prefent, who were zealoufly aided
by the Common Council and principal in¬
habitants of the ward, it was found, after re¬
peated eff()ns, impoffible to quell the riot.
Sometime after feven, the Lord Mayor, hear¬
ing that the guards were at hand, read the
riot-adl in three different places, in doing
which he was faluted from fome of tlie
houfe', and from the mob, with hooting and
hiffing. The detachment of his Majefty's
Coldffream regiment of guard.'?, under the
conduit of Captain JBrice and Enfign Lloyd,
being arrived, they cleared the place, and
the avenues leading to it, of the mob, with
lit.le difficulty, and xvithout doing the leaff
injury to any one. Soon after,, the artillery
company arrived, under the command of
Sir Watkin Lewes, their colonel, and were
defired by the Lord Mayor to proceed im¬
mediately to the Manfion-houfe, and to bend
their attention towards the Eaftern part of
the city. About eight o’clock, information
was brought, ihac a powerful mob was de-
molifning a houfe in Holborn, oppofite to
Caille-ftreet, upon which the jL,nrd Mayor
proceeded thither, w^ith Capt. Brice, and
part of the detachment, being preceded by
Mr. Hollier, the city marfhal, with fome
conffables, who found the rioters in the very
adt of forcing t!ie door and windows of the
houfe. Mr. Hollier feized txvoof them j but,
being violently affaulted .from behind, was
obliged to let one go, and w'ith difficulty
fecured the other till the military came up.
The mob here was very unmet ous and
daring, fome of them throwing ffoues, 5iC.
at the peac -officers and military. The Lord
Mayor read the riot-adf, and with fome dif¬
ficulty, though without tlie leaft hurt to any
one, the guards drove the mob back, and
peace was in time reffored. About nine
o’clock word was hrouglit, that the mob was
in Bride- lane, a' tempting to demohlh a houfe
there. From the number ..nd turbulent
temper of the people in Holborn, it was not
poffible for fome time to qnit that fitintion ;
but, as fo.on as there was an appearance of
quiet there, tlie Lord Mayor, with the city

marfhal, moved towards Bride-lane, attended
by Captain Brice and a divifion of the
guards, leaving parties in Holborn and Shoe-
lane. In Flcet-ftreet they were met by Ad¬
jutant Dunlop and a divifion of the light
horfe volunteers, who were ordered to go
to Holborn. The crowd in Fleet-ftreet was
itnmenfe. 0n coming to Bride-lane, the
Lord Mayor heard that the rioters, after
dellroying tlie houfe there, were gone to
Long-hne ; he followed, and, in his way
meeting with Captain Herries and another
divifion of the light horfe volunteers, defired
they would attend him. On coming into
Long-lane, they found that the mob had
guttetl the houfe, and were with great cele¬
rity gone to another in Golden-lane, which
being underftood to be out of the city, the
Lord Mayor was obliged to deflft from the
purfuir, and to return with Captain Brice
and his divifion to the reft of the detachment
in Shoe-lane, leaving to Captain Herries to
purfuethe rioters, which he did v/ith equal
gallantry and fuccefs ; for, though they
were gone from Shoe-lane when he reached
the place, he fet off with his divifion at a
fmart trot, and overtook them in Moor fields,
in ihe aft of demoliffiing the Saffi public-
houfe, in the fight of a number of tlie county
conftahles. Here the mob attacked the light
horfe volunteers with brick-bats, &c. not-
withftanding which. Captain Herries forced
his way to the houfe, in doing which he re¬
ceived three violent blows from brick-bats
or ftones, and caufed his two center files to
alight and enter the houfe, where they feized
five rioters, who were by the divifion con¬
veyed to, and fafeiy lodged in, the Shore¬
ditch watch- lioufe. Having done this fer-
vice, Capt. Herries returned to Moorfields
after the rioters, but found they were gone,
and, It was faid, towards St. Mary Axe j to
which place Capt. Herries immediately pro¬
ceeded on a full gallop, and got there before
any mob arrived. After having fo done,
and examined the ftreets in that part of the
city, finding every thing was quiet, he went
to meet the Lord Mayor, and continued with
the light horfe volunteers to patrole the city
till they were difmilfed at two o’clock in the
murning. When the Lord Mayor returned
to Slioe-lane, he leceived advice that the
mob intended to come from Moorfields to de-
nioliflr the Ship, in White Crofs-ftreet ; be
fent to tlie Manfion houfe to defire the ar-
tillei y comp.^ny would proceed thither, un¬
der the command of Sir Watkin Lewes, re-
ferving ihe guards to proceed with them to
that or any other part of the city, w'hen it
could be afeertained whither the mob was
gone. Sir Watkin accordingly marched,
W’ith the artillery company, to White Crofs-
ftieet, and arrived at the critical minute,
ihe mob being then aftually proceeding
thither from Moorfields, but were effeftual’y
prevented by Sir Watkin from doing any
mifehief in tliat part of the city j and, find¬
ing

*794] '^articular Defail of the Riots in the City ^London. 723

ing themfelves likely to be attacked, the
rioters retired, and the city was quiet the
reft of the night. On Thurfday the Metro¬
polis, and particularly tlie city, rang with
reports of what the rioters meant to do.
Lifts of places were handed abcuit, ofhoufes
and public buildings marked out to be de-
molifhed, and of perfons deftined to be mur¬
dered : the whole of which had eviiiently no
other objsdt than that of harraffing, per¬
plexing, and terrifying, the magid races and
peaceable inhabitants. As, however, real
attacks were made upon the conftables fta-
tioned in Bride-lane and Shoe-lane, the
Lord Mayor thought it his duty to fend to
the Tower for afliftance; and at two o’clock
he received a party, commanded by Capt.
Boulton, who in fome hours after w’as fol¬
lowed by another party under the command
of Capt. Brice, whofe gallantry and humani¬
ty had on the preceding evening appeared fo
confpicuous. The light hoile volunteers
were on duty by three o’clock, and the ar¬
tillery company at five. Multitudes of idle
and diforderly perfons were in the ftreets,but
allfeemed quiet till about tenthat night, when
advice came, that the conftables in Shoe- lane
were hard prelfed by a mob with bludgeons
and ftones ; upon which part of the arallery
company marched thither, and part of tiie
guards took poll in front of the Manfion-
houfe, and the reft of the guards and artil¬
lery company remained under arms ready to
march on the ftiorteft notice. The artillery
company got to Shoe-lane juft as the mob
had overpowered the conftables, and per-
fe6lly fecured the place, being alTifted by
Adjutant Dunlop and a divifion of the I'ght
horfe volunteers, who were, in fo doinv,
very much infulted by a mob in Fleet-ftreet.
'i be rioters, finding the city too well guard¬
ed for their purpofe, flew into the county,
and demolifhed a houfe in Gray’s Inn-lane.
No other rioting or tjaiichief was attempted
to be done in the city that night. On Friday
iiopes were entertained that the rioters would
difeoutinue ilteir outrages, and accordingly
no militar/ force was afked for befoic it
became dufk, when a fmall detachment,
under the command of Capt. Fuller, came
to the Manfion-houfe, and w ere followed by
the artillery company. The light horfe vo¬
lunteers were alfo on duty. No difturnance
of any kind happened in the city, unlcfs xve
notice an attempt, made by an anonymous
bill, to have a meeting at Founders Hall, fnr
the propofed purpofe of “ taking into confi-

deration the appealing from the militia a(5l, *
which by the Lord Mayor’s orders was ftopt
from taking place, and thofe who met in the
ftreet, after ineffedlually trying to pei fuacle
the inhabitants that the Lord Mayor ailed
illegally and tyi^nnically, departed quietly
at eight o’clock. The only alarm that took
place any where that night w'as towards
Clerkenwell, to which the light horfe vo¬
lunteers, on a requifition from the magi-
ftrates, marched with great alacrity, but
found the danger was over; the rioters had,
however, attempted to demolifh a houfe at
B ittle Bridge, but were diftui bed in the
ail by the peace-officers, who witli fome dif¬
ficulty fecured one of them, and difperfed the
reft. There being no appearance of farther
riots, the Lord Mayor, on the Saturday
morning, informed the Duke of Portland,
Secretary of State for the home dep.artment,
that he thought ttie city was perfeilly reftored
to peace and gootl order, and therefore de¬
clined the fnrtlier aid of military force. Too
much praife cannot be given to the Chief
Magiftiate of the City; or to the officers
commanding, and men compofing, the fe-
veral d‘=tachments of his Majefty’s guards,
for their order, temper, and good behaviour,
during the whole of this difagreeable fei vice.
The readinefs and fpirit with which the ar¬
tillery company anil the light horfe volunteers
ftood forward in fuppoi t of the civil power,
and the eminent fervices i endered by both
corps, juftly entitle them to theapplaufeand
gratitude of their fellow- citizens and the
public. The two city marfhals, Mr. Clark
and Mr. Hollier, behaved from firft to lafl
with that vigilance and intrepidity which dif-
tinguilfi g®od and able officers. The Com¬
mon Council of Farringdon Without, anJ
of Cripplegate Without, very laudably and
fpiritedly exerted themfelves in fupport of
the magiftracy. The citizens at large
fhewed a juft abhorrence of the wicked
and nefarious attempts to renew the terrible
Icenes of i’tSc. And it is but juftice to the
city confiables and watchmen to tledare, that
they in general behaved well. We have no¬
ticed the fervicesof Sir Watkin Lewes : and
have to add, that Mr. Alderman Newnham,
hearing in the country what was paifing,
came in great hafte to town, t ok his poft
as Lieutenant Colonel of the artillery com-
p.iny, and attended, and rendered material
affittanceto the Lord Mayor in tliatfituation.
Several of the Aldermen vvere equally artive
in their refpedlive wards.

PROCEEDINGS IN

H. OF COMMONS.

March 17,

T v'as ordered, on the motion of
Mr. Burkcf that it be an inflru:tion

PARLIAMENT, 1794.

to the Managers for condui'iling the trial
of Mr. Hafiings, that they fhould en-
quiic into fuch circumflances as have
Unded to prolong the trial, and to re,

port

^24 ‘ parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons In 1794.

port the fame to the Houfe, with their
opinions theteon.

Mr. Minchin prefented the report of
the CotTi..iitree on the bill for augment-
'’ing the militia; which, after feme con-
verlation between iMeffis. Baker, Powu^Sf
Chancellor oj the Exchequer , and C>en.
Smith, vvar> agjeed to bv i.lie Houfe.

Mr. Secretarv Du.rdas prelented the
new alien bill j which was read the hrft
time.

The order of the day, for the third
reading of the flave-trade bill, being
read, and the qutflion put,

Lord Sheffield wiflud to poftpone the
thi'd reading of the bill till Ftiday, in
order to give tlic planters an opportunity
of offeniig their ientiments to the

H ule on the fuhjedl,

Mr. Udibirforce obferved, that the
bill had been a long time before the
Houle, and twice committed ; and ih.,t
tveiy deicnption ot peifons interelled
haa had ainple opportunities of exptef-
fing their opinions of the meafure,

Ms Fox fpoke on the fame fide of
the quefiion, and deprecated all farther
de ay. He wifiied gentlemen to confi-
der, that the bill was about to go to
another place, a Houfe of flow pro¬
ceeding.

Melf. Ca'uithorrse, H Bro’uune, Deni,
N ivnbam, &c. having delivered heir
fentunents, the Houle divided; and
theie appeared m favour of the bill 74,
againit it 34. Majority 40.

Gen. Fitzpairuk moved for an Ad-
drels to his Majeiiy, hating the opinion
of the Houfe, that the detention of
Mellrs. de la Fayette, Larneth, &:r. by
his Majefty’s ally, the King of Prulfia,
was injuiious to the caule'of the. Com¬
bined Puuers and btleeching his Ma-
jefty to Intel cede with the King of Pi uf-
iia for their releafe, in fuch manner as
he may deem molt expedient.

Col. Earleion, after a very fine eulogy
^ on the chara6fer of M. La Fayette, re-
prefented, in feconding the motion,
the exfieme impolicy, as well as impro¬
priety, of treating with lo much feverity
a man taken in a neutral country.

The Chancellor ef the Exchequer faid,
that, in the prHent inftance, there was
not a cafe made out ftrong enough to
wair/Ht the interpofitiun of the Huufe.
lit Hated the particulars of the French
captuic, which was by no means extra¬
ordinary; the general of an hoftile ar-
rry was found within the lines of ihe
enemy, and accordingly taken prifoner.

In his opinion, the whole was perfe£lly
confident with the rights of war and the
law of nations. Neither did he agfee
with the Hon Gentleman in thinking
that M. de la Fayette’s conduct, or the
conlequences of it^ defe ved well, either
from his own country or mankind in
general. Fie begged to difclaim that
this country had any power in the dif-
pofal of the chara6fer in queftion ; and,
Yievving the queftion as lie did, he mud
refift the motion.

Mr. Fox argued in favour of the mo¬
tion.

Mr. Burke fpoke warmly again ft the
motion. He confidered M. de la Fa-
yette as the chief author of all the h mrid
calamities which had refulted to France
fince the Revolution. In fubftantiating
ihefe allegations, he went fomeAh .t into
detail. He contended that La Fayette
had no claim whatever on the compaf-
fion of his Majefty ; forgivenefs for his
condudf towards this country in the
American war was all lie hatl a right to
exped, and that, he believed, was al¬
ready granted him.

Meffrs. Grey, R. Thornton, and IV,
Smith, fpoke in favour of the motion.

Mr. Ryder was againft the motion ;
and oblerved, that the oceeding, c?,r-
ried to the length the hon. mover wifti-
ed It CO be, wou d go to imply a full
approbation, on the part of the Houle,
of the ^y^^em for which M. de la Fa¬
yette had fuffered.

Several other members fpoke; after
which the Houfe divided ; for the mo¬
tion 43, againft it 153. Majority no.

H. OF L O Pv D S.

March 18.

The Earl of Guilford defired that the
heads of ihofe treaties which had been
entered into with fcveral foreign powers
might be read : which being done, his
Lo dfhip entered at great length into
the lubjedf, and moved, “that the trea¬
ties made with fore'gn powers had an
obvious tendency to make us principals
in the war, and adopt and fupport thofe
views which fuch powers might have
had before we entered into it; motives
which had been difavowed repeatedly
by his MajeftjL Miniflers.

After a long uninterefting debate, the
Houfe divided. Contents 9, Non-coil-
tents 96.

In the Commons, the fame day, Bel-
lical’s naturalization, Hone duty, For¬
far

Parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1794. *7 2 c;

far roads, Bedford poor, and Chefier
bills, were read the firft time.

H. OF LORDS,,

March 19.

The Duke of Clarence prefented a
petition from the Committee of mer¬
chants and planters, to have counfel
heard on the fecond reading of the flave-
trade bill. Ordered to lie on the table.

In the Commons, the fame day, fe-
veral road, inclofu'e, and canal bills,
were read in theii different flages j after
which the Houfe adjourned.

H. OF LORDS.

March 20.

Lord Auckland moved, that there be
laid before this Houfe, accounts of all
the fhips cleared out of pons in Great
Britain to the coafl of Africa, with the:r
tonnage, from the yeai 1 7S8 to the lateft
period they can be made up. Alfo, ac¬
counts of the number of Negroes import¬
ed into the Weft Indies for the fame
period. Ordered.

The Duke of Clarence prefented a pe¬
tition, on behalf of the merchants of
Liverpool, sgainft the bill now depend¬
ing for preventing the (upply of foreign
leiritories with flaves in Britifh fhips,
or bv Britifh fubjeds. Ordered to lie
on the table.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
bill for augmenting the ini.itia was read
the third time, and palfed.

H. OF LORDS.

March z i.

The Duke of Norfolk prefented a pe¬
tition from Mr. Howard, praying leave
ior a bill to brtmglu in to diftolve the
marriage of the Lid Mr. Howard with
Jiis now wifej and leave being given,
his Grace brought in the bill ; which
was read the firit time.

In the Commons, the fame day, a
n efTage was received from his Majefty,
acquainting the Houfe, that his Majefty
intended to appropriate the dwelling,
formerly occupied by the auditors of
the Exchequer, to the ufe, and for the
future rtfidencc, of the Speaker of the
Houfe of Commons for the time being.
An addrefs was verted to his Majefty,
returning the thdnks ©f the Houle for
tlie above communication j which pafT-
ed new. con.

H. OF LORDS,

, March 24.

The Marquis Cornnvallis took the
oaths and his feat on his promotion.

The Lord Chancellor faid, he had the
honour of informing his Lordfhip, that
the Houfe had pafl'ed an unanimous
vote of thanks for his gallant conduct
during the war in India, and for having
concluded it upon fueh advantageous
terms for the country ; and it being alfo
part of that vote, that he fliould receive
thofe thanks in his place in that Houfe,
he therefore had the honour of com¬
municating thofe thanks by reading the
vote.

Marquis Cornwallis exprefted his gra¬
titude for the diflmguilhed honour thus
beftowed upon him; at the lame time
begged to affure the Houfe, that the
fucrefs of the plans was owing to the
exertions and fupport he received from
the officers and men.

The Houft; ordered the decree of the
Court of Selfion, in the appeal Innes
againfl Leflie, to be affirmed.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
report of the Committee, on the bill for
funding part of the navy debt, was re¬
ceived; and, with a cUufe fuggefted by
the Cdancellor of the Exchequer, en-
a£fing, that no navy bills ftiould be made
payable at a later date than 15 months
after April nexi, was agreed to by the
Houfe.

Mr. Thompfon moved, “ that there be
laid before the Houle, a lift of all the
foreigners ordered to qun the country
under the powers of the alien bill j”
which, after a Ihort debate, was nega¬
tived 'without a divifton.

Mr. Sheridan moved, “ that an Ad¬
dicts be prefented to his Mdjeftv, pray¬
ing that he would order to be laid be¬
fore the Houfe, a copy of a letter writ¬
ten by the Secretary of State, dared
Whitehall, March 14, to the lords-
lieutenants of the feveral counties, with
the plans thereto annexed, &c.

Mr. Martin, in feconding the motion,
expreffed his difapprobation of the con-
du6t of Minifters during the prerenc
war.

Mr. Wejiern fpoke in fupport of the
motion; and took the opportunity to
animadvert with great feventy on the
condaif of Minifters in the prefent in-
ftance.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer ob-

fv-r ved,

^^6 P arliamtntary Proceedings of Lards and Commons in 1794.

fcrved, that, when the papers were be¬
fore the Houfe, it would be beft known
iiow to decide on the condudl of Mi-
niders in the inftance alluded to. The
motion was agreed to,

H. OF LORDS.

March 25.

Lord GrennjiUe prefented a mefTage
from his Majehy. the purport oLwhich
was, “ that his Majeriy had thought it
nec^lTry to make a farther augmenta¬
tion of his arrrty, and to adopt other
plans for guarding the fea coaft, and to
enable him to call a number of troops
fpeedily together, to repel any attempt
the French fltould make to carry their
avo>ved intention of invading this coun¬
try into execution ; and trufting to the
iupp^rt of that Houfe, and the ejfcertions
of his people, to carry the fame into
elfea,”

The above being read, Lord Greti-
<vUle moved, that his Majehy’s meffage
be taken into confideration to-morrow,
and that the Houfe be fummoned.

Ordered.

In the Commons, the fame day, a
new wilt was ordered for Perthfliire, in
Scotland, in the room of (Jen. Murray,
deceafed,

Mr. Secretary Dundas prefented a
medhge from his Majedy, fimilar to
ttiat delivered to the Houfe of Lords by
Lord Grenville ; which, on the motion
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was
ordered to be taken into conlideration
next day.

Mr. Adam prefaced a motion on the
Scoich law with a fpeech of confiderable
length. His principal objeft was, to af-
hmi'ate the criminal code of Scotland as
nearly as poffible to that of this coun¬
try j and to allow the former the bene¬
fits which refult to the Ltter from its
excellent and admirable fyftem of cri¬
minal laws. He cone uded with mo¬
ving to the following effeft ; that a <e-
ie6f Committee be appointed, to take
into confideration fo much of the cri¬
minal law of Scotland as relates to the
crime of leafing-makiiig, or fedition,
the right of appeal, of a new trial, the
competency of witneiles, Lw of evi¬
dence, power of the Lord Advocaie, the
propofition of introducing a grand jury
into that ryfttm, &c. and to report ihe
fame. With their opinions thcieon, to
the flouie.

M,. S-cietary Dundos deemed it his

duty to oppofe the motion, as it tended
to introduce a fudden, dangerous, and
moft extenfive innovation into the fyf¬
tem of laws by which Scotland had been
governed for a very great length of
time, and under which the people found
themfelves perfe£ily happy. Fie com¬
pared the legal fynern of both countries;
and contended that the laws of Scotland
were better adapted for that country.

Mr. Serjeant Adair, at fome length,
contended for the propriety of irjftitu-
ting the Comrnitiee.

The Mafter of the Rolls replied to
Serjeant Adair.

Several other gentlemen delivered
their featirrients : when, the queftioii
being loudly called for, there appeared.
Ayes 24, Noes 77.

H. OF LORDS.

March 26.

Lord Grenville moved the order of
the day, “ that his Majefiy’s meffage
Ihould be taken into confideration f
and the fame being read, his* Lord.Uiip,
without any farther preface, moved,
“ that an humble Addrefs fhould be
prefented to his Majefiy, thanking him
for his moft gracious communication,
and expreffing, that the Houfe would
moft heartily fuppoit his M-iJefty in the
nrieafures propofed for profccuting the
prefent Juft and necelTary war.’’

Lord Lauderdale objeiSted to the latter
words, as being no part of what he un-
derflood to be the purport of the Nob e
Secietary’s morion ; and, though he did
not mean to objeLl to an unanimity of
Parliament in fupporting this country
againft its enemy, when the Crown had
avowed the intention of that enemy to
invade us, yet he could not let this
matter pafs without obfervation.

Lo.'d Sidney conceived it rather lin¬
gular that, when Pailiament had voted
their fupport to the prefent juft and ne-
celfary war, any Noble Lord fhould
ftand up in his place, and defire the
Houfe to undo that which they had k>
immediately done.

Some ether Lords fpoke on the quef-
tion ; which, being put, was carried
unanimoufly.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
alien bill was read the third time, and
paft'ed.

Mr. Secretary Dundas moved the or¬
der for taking his Majefty’s moft gra¬
cious mdfage into confideraiicn ; which

Le.ng

'Mifcellaneous Remarks, ^27

1794] Parliamentary Proceedings.

being read, he prefaced a motion for an
Add refs to his Majefty thereon wuh a
Ihort fpeech, in which he touched
llightly on the topicks mentioned in the
melTage. He obferved, that it u as di-
refted neither to alarm the country with
groundlefs apprehenficn, nor to lull it
into ideas of dangerous fecurity. The
preparations on the French coaft, what¬
ever might be their objeft, was exten-
five, and of fuch a nature as to render
it necelTary for this country to be on its
guard, and to be amply prepared to re-
lift any attacks that might be made. He
then moved an Addrefs to his Majefty
to the following effe6t “ to affure his
Majefty, that the Houfe would moft
chearfully concur in fuch meafures as
may be necetTary to guard againft any
attempts of the enemy to attack or to in¬
vade this country ; that it is ready to
make provifton for the farther augmen¬
tation of the land forces; and alfo for
an additional force to a£l in particular
parts of the kingdom as circumftances
might require ; that the Houle would
fupport his Majefty in the profecution
of this juft and neceffary war, in which
it would be alfifted by the exertions of
a brave and loyal people,” &.c.

On the queftion being put,

Mr. }ioney<vjood took the opportunity
to exprefs his approbation of the prelent
proceedings ; which, he laid, would
enable him to go to the meeting of his
county, and contribute his aftiftance to-
wards the defence of his country in a
legal and ccnftitutional manner.

Mr. Fsx obferved that, with refpeft
to the general tenourof the Addrefs, he
had no objc61:ion to it. It was certainly
wife, in the prtfent pofture of affairs, to
be prepared agamft the worft ; but he
thought the Addrefs promifed too much
in luch unlimited allurance of fupport ;
for, until the plan and effimates which
were now before the Houfe weie conli-
dertd, the Houle CvUld not pledge itfelf
how far it would go. He m -ved as an
amendment, that the words “juft and
neceflar)” be left out of the Addrefs.

A converfation eft forne length took
place, between Mcft'rs. Flit, Dundas,
iSberuiati, and Grry, of wh^i was im¬
plied in the Addrefs ; and alio re-
fpeCting the propriety of introducing
tile woids “juft and neceflarv” into u.
The queftion on the amendment was
risen put, and negatived w'ithuut a di-
vifion ; on which the Adrliels was put,
and carried.

H. OF LORDS,

March 117,

Heard counfel on a Scotch appeal.
(To be continued.)

Miscellaneous Remarks for.
Augus t.

Mr. Urban, Aug. 15,

PERMIT a friend, Mr. Urban, to
offer a few mifcellaneous remarks
on certain particulars in your ufeful pub¬
lication for the two laft months ; which,
from its mifcellaneous natuie, he trufts
will not be unacceptable.

P. 528, b. Your correfpondent Der-
ventio’s account of the fucedfton of the
lords Howard of Efcrick is very imper-
fe6f. He will find a much fuller and
better account in the Chronological Di¬
ary, attached to the Hiftorical Regifter
for the year 1715 ; on the 29th of April
in which year the laft noble perfon pof-
feffing that title died without iffue.

P. 592, b. There are iwo errors in the
copy here given of the infeription on the
monument of the Chauncys, the firft of
which puzzled me exceedingly : for
April 30, 1763, read 1783 ; and for Jan.
29, 1790, re. d Jan. 2, 1790. ' if .my of
your leaders wilh for a farthtr account
of the family, they may find it in youc
Obituary of the laft of thofe dates,

P. 595. 1 he ladies to whom the reve¬
rend vicar of Hitchin prefenced his book.
v\ere probably 'daughttrs of Bencdi£f
Ithe'l, efq. lord of the manor of Tem¬
ple Dinflev (formerly belonging to the
Knights Templars) in that panfii.

P. 612, a. Aiay 1 be permitted to hope
that r fliail ciofe the contsovetfy about
and P]uvia/i*£lp» by offering a
word for a rain-gauge, or mraiurer,
which Philoiogus will not be zngrv with
as “ mongrel unclaftical jargrin,’' and
which, J humbly conceive, will be more
to the purpofe ihan (as the

primary frnfe of c(a,(o^o; is rather imber
than plu'Via)^ namely, vflo^sl^ov, a hse-
lometer ?

P. 615, a. I vvifh it were in my power,
which it IS not, to inform your refpeff-
abie correfpondLnt W. and D. of the
time of the birch of George Siingfby.
fiat, if my account be right, bis father
was not Sir George, but Sir Guilford
Siingfby, whofe eJdeft Ion was Gilbert
Slinglby alio.

P. 621. b. 1 mofi heartily concur with
yovr correlponcient .n -K in wiftiingfor
an explanation, and an “account of the
progiwls and lelult of the enquiries” be

Ipcaks

Mtfcellaneous Remarks, — Index Indicatorias. [-Aug.

728

fpeaks of : but I beg leave to fuggeft,
that both the learned Society from which
he quotes, and himfelf from them, feem
to have miftalcen the perfon who was the
author of the letter referred to, who was
not Samuel Glafl'e, D. D. but his fon
George Henry Glaffe, M. A.

P. 623, b. note. I think I have not fo
far forgotten my lingua paterna as not to
be able to alTure your correfpondent Pro-
toplaftides, that his ideas of the mode of
pronouncing the word Balmeiino, or, as
1 have fecnit in fome old wiit, Balineri-
noch, are right; and that, if the learned
Doftorhad not been a true-botnEnglifli-
man,’’ he would never have thought of
accenting it as thatverfe requires. Let the
accent be laid upon the f, and let that be
pronourced accordingtothe Fiench mode.

P. 676, b. Who fucceeds to the ba¬
rony of D^icre of Hut ft Morceaux (or of
the South, as it ufed to be called) ? Is it
the late lord’s fifter Gertrude, wife' of
Thomas Brand, efq. ^ (The Earl of
Carlifle is the reprelentative of the an-
tient family of the Lords Dacre of GiU
Itfland, or of the North),

Ib. Mr. Henry Drummond married
Mifs Elizabeth Compton, daughrer of
the Hon. Charles Compton ^ and fijier of
the late and prefent earis of Northamp¬
ton. I ftiould be glad to fee a pedigree,
which would explain the relation cf this
family of Drummond to the Duke of
Perth and Lord Vifeount Stra.hallan, of
which we have often heard. E.

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

P587, coi. 1,1. 16 from the bottom,
. for “erudiie” read “ erudition.”

P. 589, col I, ]. I. As a farther ex¬
planation of 1 Cor. viii, 3, fee (dal. iv. 9 ;
1 Cor. xiii. 12 ; Nahum 1. 7 ; Pldl. iii . 1 2.

lb. col. 2, 1. 7. The error in tins
place feems to arife from a mi hake of
“ miles’’ for “ leaeues.’’ (See p. 68S).

P. 590, b. Your Qyiondam corrttpono-
ent may be afl'urcd that the Calpian fea is
fair. Afli tit extiaft from the Ttave’s
of that verboi'e, voluminous writer whom
lie mentions, voi. 1. chap. xxiv. will, 1
have no d ubt, be thought dtcifive on
the lubje^l :

“ Here (fpeaking of the water near the
iliore) it begins to be felt, as in tlie body of
thefea,auduotfreni, as fome have imagined.”

P. 591, col. I, I. 6 from the bottom.
Inftead of “ to be” read “ to have lieen”
Ib. col. 2. Is this Mr. jolinfione of
the Drury-Iane theatit ?

P. 597, col. I. 1 advife Clero-Medi-
«us, who feems fo pirfc6l!y well ac-

quainted “ with the nutritious qualities
of cerevifial potation,” and is apprehen-
five of being fuppofetl “a lexiphanic pe¬
dagogue,” carefully to read over the
14th chapter of the firll Epiftle of St.
Paul to the Corinthians.

P.60 I, col. 2. For “inforn”r.“inform.*’

P. 602, col. X, 1. 5 and 6 from the
bottom. For “ all all” r. “ all.”

P. 606, col. 2. Is it pofhble for a per-
fon always to go flraight forwards ? ! !
I prel’ume M M. M. was only fpeakirig
hy perbolically.

P. 626,, col. 2. No perfon can be fur--
prized to hear, that F. C’s ftory “ is re¬
lated with w'onder and aftonifhment in
every company,” when it contains fuch
a chain of cui ions and miraculous events.
Tliofe parts of it which treat of '■^Jiurdy
dogs” and ‘' gathering a fparrow from
the ground,” and “ making a piefcut ef
it as a bro=von Unnet,^’ are not the leafl
ftrikir.g; and, 1 fanev, it is the fiift time
any of your ccrrelpondents ever heard of
” young y/)«2rr(?xt; didendi.ng '\x% melodi¬
ous throat.” Wlien Sterne made ufe of
the expiellion, Ttmilar to that which F.
C. mentions, the fubje6l was refpeSling
an ” ajs” and not the feathered race. I
concede, therefore, fomewhat after his
own wav,

Equidem credens, quod fit mirabile F. C.
Ingemmn, pUirr.is inopens, quod paffer et ifte,
Kara avis in terris fit, habens forraamqne ni-
CarduellL” [g^lh

Yours, &c. P. H.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

Without entirely acquiefeing in the opi-
rion of our Mara z ion correfpondent as to
the mnfenficality of the epithet he alludes to,
he will fee that we have adopted his hint.

Biograph icus requefts to be informed
of any particulars refpedling Sir Richard
Raynes, wTo was living about 1732.

P. H. afks, to whom is the invention cf
that curious clironometer, called the alarm^
aferibed ? is it to him who invented clocks
(but I prefume not, fnppofing the invention,
to be more modern), the honour of which
has been fa much difputed for ?

We thank K. ; but the Certificate,”
ihougli cm lous, is common in almoit every
parochial regifier.

VVe continue to receive a multitude of
letters every rhontlq whicli it is impolfible
for us to print, or particularly to acknow¬
ledge. Many of the e are regulai ly returned
to the Fob-office ; and others tlefiroyed.

A’Fi iend ro Mr. Ur iian, and the “ Qviery
rel.'.tive to the Church of England Clergy¬
men in Scoliain',” fhall ccitainl/ have place
in our next ; withG&AicuLus; a letter £0
Tr. Doddkidgx ; kc. kz. Uq.

129. 7bs

1794-]

L2q. The Hiflery of Devonfhire. In Three
Volumes. By the Rev. Richard Pqlwhele,
of Polvvheie, in Coniwall, and late of
Chrift Church, Oxford. Vol. IT.

TXrE have heard much of this hiftory
V V from all quarters, and of the ill
ruccefs which attended two former un¬
dertakers of it. They had little elfe on
:heir hands, y^t failed of accomplifliirg
:he great defign. But the prefent un¬
dertaker, a protelfor of the Iciences of
Rhetorick, Poetry, and Divinity, has
[looped to the arduous, unentertaining
toil of the Antiquary; and, as if he felt
himlelf bewildered in “ the vafl and he-
Lcrogeiieous mals of materials which are
with difficulty heaped up to his hands,
feparated and regularly difpoled,*' has
begun his publication in an inverted or¬
der, and given the fecond volume firil.
When, after long waiting for a few pic¬
tures, the book was put into our hands,
we doubted if it were not a trap for
Reviewers, who would not know the
extent of Mr. P’s plan or execution, and
find fault before they had heard him
out. Left it fhould prove fo in the end,
and fearful of being thought ‘‘mechani¬
cal without connexion, artificial without
elegance,” he tells us he has compofed
his firft volume of the “m@ie curious
and (Iriking particulars, that ary ufually
interwoven in the general texture of
county-hiftories.”

To underfland this, we muft refer to
the propofals firft publiftied, fans date,
for one volume in folio, or two volumes
in quarto; according to which, vol. I,
part 1. was to contain a general deferip-
tion of the county ; book II. a furvey of
towns, principal buildings, See. ; book
in. hiftorical events; vol. II. books I.
II. ill. the Eaft, South, and North di-
vifions, wiih a new particular furvey,
parochial, See. The whole to conclude
with an appendix, containing lids of
pariffies, flieriffs, genealogical tables, fa¬
mily papers, authorities, notes, &c.
Whether the woik appeared in one vo¬
lume folio, or two quarto, the price was
not to exceed t<Tx>9 guineas. In a circuhii
letter to his fubicribers, addrclTed to
Mr. Urban, Apiil 13, 1789 (vol. LIX.
p. 41 1), -Mr. P. honeftly tells them,
“ lie flatters himfelf they will net (brink
from the propofal to extend the work to
X'u-'o volumes in folio. Each volume, in
this cafe, muft unavoidably coll invo
guinea? to a (ubferiber, and to non-fub-
feribers confiderakly more f' and in a
“ prolpe^tus’' annexed to the firft vo¬
lume of his HiJIorical Vit^is (of which
GtNT. Mag. Auguf. 1794,

7^9

fee vol, LXIII. p. 1028), the price of
THREE volumes folio was fixed to FOUR
guineas. In the preface to the prefent
volume we are told, that the btll of the
materials w'ere extrafled for the firfi.
volume, and only a caput mortuum left
for the fecond. — “ By thofe readers who
have no relifh for topographical delinea¬
tions, accounts of landed property, ge¬
nealogical memoirs, deferiptions of pa-
rifh-churches, the refiduum of the work
before us muft doubtlefs be confidered
as vapid and dead.” It is fo confidered
by us in its prefent ftate, where not half
is faid on thofe dull fubje£ls which it is
the faffiion of modern antiquaries to
evade as much as poflible. Mr. P. ac*
knowledges that his deferiptions may
frequently appear fuperfluous and defec¬
tive ; “but they cannot appear either the
one or the other to thofe who compre¬
hend the defign of the nvhole nvorky and
to thoft who do not, I addrefs neither
explanations nor (|poIogies.” Under this
haughty referve Mr. P. may fliehcr
himfelf as long as he pleafes. We flialt
proceed to review what he has indulged
as with ; and, judging no farther than
from what we fee, we pronounce that
Mr, P. has not fulfilled what w'e con¬
ceive the duty of a County His¬
torian, and what, from the Ipecimen
of it reviewed in p. 150, we have hope
will be better performed for the county
of Derby. Mr. P. I'eems to think re¬
ferences to original records a deformity
to his neat page.

The-volume opens with a very ffiort
account of Exeter ciev, and the epitaphs
in the cath;.dra!; a lift of dignities, and
the prefent occupiers of them; an ac¬
count of the diocefe and bifliops, ftom
H^right's Heylyn, Then follows the arch¬
deaconry of Exeter, comprehending the
deanries of E.vetery Cadbury, Dunsford,
Kenne, Aylejheare, Plymtree, Honitotty
Dunkifsxelly and Tiverton-, a general
chorographical defeription. Tfie fcveral
pariffies in the archdeaconry are treated
of. We ffiould have preferred the dtvi-
fion by hundreds.

“ The wardens’ pew, at the W^eft end
of the church of Sc. Stepiien, in Fore-
ftreet, Exeter, has a confpicuous appear¬
ance, which is the cafe with feveral other
churches in Exeter;” and is a wonderful
difcovery, but by no means peculiar to
Devonffiiic. No lift of incumbents is
given in any patifn in this volume.

Is it pofiible there can be no better
derivation for Heavitree than the tree or
cummon gallows ?

Review <tf New Publications

P. 43,

730

P. 43. “Tn Edward Id.”

P 49. “Little Fulford, fo called in
contrad/Vtion with Great Fulford.”

P. 79. What is a knight of the\5’flr^2-
cen order ?

Shcu'd not the font at Alphington
have been noticed in its proper place,
pp. 104, T05 ? where wa ate only left to
infer that it has been already deLribed at
fome length.

P. 113. “No wooden coffin ouijide
thi‘.”

Mr P. fuppofes the Courtenay fup-
poiters became two hogs, or boars, from
their intermarriage with Huddesfield,
before which they had t^^'o dolphins.

P. 1 14. Certainly aneres is a miftake
for cmeres ; and Mr. P. need not h ive
ffiewn his knowledge of Greek becaule
another epitaph in the lam^ church has
a Gre^k line, by faying “ unlefs
from he intended.’* We appre¬

hend, in that cafe, it wmuld have been
AvA«sc; but as that could not agree
with the metre, fuppofe we fubditute,
boldly, AV5cres.

Conie6tur/yL

Mr. P, like other modern checks. Is
very free of his jokes, which a poor epi¬
taph cannot elcape. “This fillv old
fellow complains, it feera^ becaufe Gotl
did not vbuchfa‘e to give him the reafoii
vyhy, and the time when, he mull die.”
No, Mr. F j M?jder Whiting was not
Inch a fool as that neither. Let the
reader judge from the four lines :

“ O cruel Fate ! how^ fickle art to me ;

Firlf fraile, and then bring me to mifciy.

Sa we are torn, and prefeutly we die,

No hour given, no reafon given wiiy.”

Anv msn of common candour would
have faid tliis was only the common
moral’zation on the uncertainty of iife.

In n. 93. we have GwiUira’s filly ex¬
planations of the meaning of arms.

P. 116. In Dunchidiock church S’r
T. Paik has e.re6!ed an hpnorarv monu¬
ment to General Stringer Lawrence.
There is a medallion of the General in
white marble j under which, on a black
marble table, we have the following in¬
fer? prion :

“ Fordtfcipliae ef abliflred, fortrelTes pro-
t?efled, frittlements extnidedj French and In¬
dian arm is defeated, and ptace concluded in
the Carnatic.

Mom^nent h]i Kafl India Company in
WefitninjUr-ahbey d '

[Aug,

Major-general Stringer Lawrence,
who commanded in India from 1747 ‘ 767,

died 10 Jan. 1775, aged 78. The defpe-
rate fate of affaTs in India becoming pro-
fperous by a feriesof vidfories endeared him
to his country ; Hifory has recorded his
fame, the regrets of the worthy bear teffi-
mony to his virtues.

Cui Pndor& Juftiliae foror.

Incorrupt! Fides niuiaque Veritas,
Quando ullum invenient parent I”

Under all, on a black marble table, we
have thefe verfes :

Born to command, toconquer, and to fpare.
As Mercy inildyyet terrible as War,

Here Lawrence lefts ; the trump of honeft
Fame [name.

From Thames to Ganges has proclaim’d his
In vain this frail memorial Friendfhip rears j .
His deareft monument’s an army’s tears ;

His deeds on fairer columns ftand engrav’d,
la provinces preferv’d^ and cities fav’d.

More.”

Mr. P. (p. 109) very properly ceii-
fu res “the faffiion of the country in
whitening churches and ftecples, to make
them picfuiefque.’*

P. 1 1 2. “On the North fde of Ex-
minfter church zxz i^y-%'sjied walk, evi-
dencly the remains of fome religious
hotife ; they have gyeat marks of a pe¬
culiar fyle of architeSiured' Should not
Mr. P. have taken fome pains to afeer-
tain them ? Perhaps this- is done in an-
ot.her volume..

IbM. “Figures kneeling as the plate
is now placed are all looking towards
the Fad.” How could the plate have
been changed, unlefs from one. fde of
the chut h to the other ? and what rea- ■
Ion is there for fuppofng this?

P, 1 15. “ Ideftone conffts of four te¬
nements j and in ihe whole pariffi are
‘ 17 foredopis,’ as a corrjf'ponder. ex-
prelLs it;,’’ and Mr, P. is di'poftd to
take up with his expreffion, without
anv explanation'.

P. 117. We have piSures in gilded\\
frames on a monument—- are they por¬
traits on wood or canvas, or bulls ?

- ibid. An infcription memorijees.

F. 1 19. Portraits at Ugbrook, by Sir:"
Peter L//ly, fhould have been examined.,

P. 128. “Fixed imbedded in the wall!
a pi61ure,” &c.

P. 139. LVir. P. contents hinnfelf with:
Prince’s account of the monuments ini
Haccombe church, and even iranferibeSi
his prefs-errors : “ he iiad acu ely beenl

Review of New Puhllcathns.

Pelow, on a winte marljie table, is
'nlcribeo,

O' Sqo rnona»i*vut :ii vlfeituiufter abbey.”

A miftake for H;
bemg the vvidter.

- — t

Mils Hannah iMii

1794.]

or vowed himrelF a foldier in the Holv
Land,” where the fenfe would liave
ihewn that Prince wrote aSiually.

P. 14^. “ Stokeinteiynbead church is
fuppofed to have been built near a
fand years ago.” What proof is there
of this fuppofition ?

P. 150. “At Old WalU, in Bilfhnps
Teingmouth, ftood an hofpi'al built by
B fliop Grandifon, as an afylum for de¬
cayed clergymen.'" Would anv other
antiquary have thus exprelTcd himself
about a foundation of the 14th centui v,
tor which we are left to take his ipfe
dix'i? for, as to his reference, See
Dnpdale,” wc may hunt all Dugdale’s
woiks before we find it. I'hete is as
litt'e true information in the account
t^iven by the proprietor of I-udwell cha¬
pel, that he heard his father fay, “it is
pr^-yed for in Roman Catholic countries
by the name of the holy chapel of Lud-
fix-ell d' a ftory which an ignorant coun¬
try efquire or farmer may tell of every
old cuapel in the kingdom, and which
one wonders a man of Mr P's ptnetra-
ti.)n did not fee through. But he is fond
of recording vulgar traditions. So at St.
Kwe, p 163, n. ; at Witliicornl)e Ra¬
leigh, St. John Baptifi, or, as thr^ inlia-
bitants lav, to St. John in the W'ilder-
nefs, p. 213. As tood is he of his own
poetry, pp. ip6, 167*.

In the defciiption of his own church
Mr. P. might at leafl have been particu-
larf; yet he contents himfelf with tell¬
ing us, that “in the North wall there
are feven w'ndows, with a wii.dovv at
the Eaff and a window at the Weft end
of the North aile. In the South wall
are fix windows, and a window at each
end alfo of the South aile. in the chan¬
cel is a very large window over the com¬
munion-table, and two fnialler windows,
•one on the right and the other on the
left fide of the altar.” A country win-
do'v. peeper could iiave tohi us as much.

Yet he is ciirelefs how \\Q points that of
others :

Surpafting the philofopher’s, this'llone.”

“ That of her chdJ ; was both t'ac fate and
tomb.”

4 He is mo e than fufficiently fo, in de-
feribing the colour of the paper with which
th.e apaitments at Powderiiam caftle are
fitted up, when he feels no rsgret that tite
chapel, ufed by the prefent proprietor’s
graiK4faiher, and rehnilt and b'autihed in
1717, is converted into a 'very elegant draw¬
ing-room (p. 170). Sir Francis Drake has
turned iris at Newton into a library (p.
210).

131

No wonder “it h luminous church.”
We are at a lofs to underftand wh.^t he
means by faying, the rood-lofc “ is a
ra'fed altar, to which we afeend by three
fteps.” Whether Mr, P. has refigtied
this vicarage, or euer held it, we are noc
told.

P. 162. We now difeover that the in¬
fer iptim in the Rt-v. Mr. Swete’s fum-
mer-houfe at Gxton (fee our vob LXl If.

PP* 593> 7f2) is inertibus, and front
Horace.

P. 198. The Infcriptlon -on tlie fereen
in Rokbeare church, relating to Sr. Ni¬
cholas, is no proof that the church was
dedicated to him; even admitting that
Browne Willis, who aferibes it to the
Virgin Marv, was not infallib’e. The
hiftories of other faints befides the pa¬
tron v^ere painted on the fereens of
churches.

P. 203. Speakingmf the old Latin re-
gifters of Farmgdon parifh, Mr. P oh-
ferves, not only the names but-the occu¬
pations of all who were buried are care¬
fully entered. And when the minifier
was at a iofs for a Latin word, he had
recourfe to his mother-tongue without
cerem.ony. Deceaftd memoranda are here
alfo interfpeifed — foinetimes very cu¬
rious. This is the cafe with many of
our regiftcfs in Devonfhire, which, at
their commencement, and niahy years
after, were kept with much mo e care
than is difeoverabk in the regifters of the
prelent day. That of Ciyfl: Sr. George
has been kept from the reign of Queen
Pvdary, even without intermilTion through
the period of the Commonwealth, to the
prefent time (p. 206). We will not
luppofe that Mr. P. does not feel the
force of this remark, but has tranfmitted
to pofteiity thefe expreffions of the at¬
tention of his brethren in a remoter pe-
liod, before their minds were involved
in the frivolous puTuits or modern
tinies, which has pervaded all ranks as
well as the clerical. We are much
afraid we muft convi61: our hilloiian
himfelf of jrivolity, in a bote nor far
diflanc from the above fenfibte remaik.
We fhall be willing to find that the
nxagf'Jh gentleman who rcficicd at Cb. ft
Sr. George in 1768 was only diverting
himfelf wiih Ids neighbours, witliout an
intention to impoie on future antiqua¬
ries : and, when we (ay this, we only in¬
tend a friendly cenfure on the wit and
humour-loving travellers and antitjua-
rkb', from Capt. Grcle in one line to
Dr. Cogan in the other. But, fijould
Mr. giandfaiher buepitch be a true cha-

ra6tcf.

Re%ylew of New PuhVicathns,

73^ of New Fuhlkatiom. [Au^.

ra£!er, W€ could match him with HaRings
of Woodlands in Dorfet, in the laft cen¬
tury, and the wretched Horne in Derby-
Ihire in the prefent (fee our vol. XXIX.
p. 6a8).

P. ai8. Gabriel St. Clerc, after he
had wafted Iris eftate at Budleigh by ex-
cefbve hofpitality, began to take his
houfc to pieces, and fell the timber,
•ftone, apd glafs, affirming, that neither
he nor bis pofterity could profper (o long
as one ftone flood upon another of an
houfe wherein fo many fins had been
committed.^’ Apply this to the Duke
of Ghandos^ houfe at Canons in Middle-
fex, in the prefent century, and compare
the different chara6iers; the one taking
down his houfe, perhaps, by a voluntier
effort, to fatisfy his creditors ; ‘ the other
compelled by his creditors to fee it done
for him.

P. 219. What <1 profound remark has
Mr. P. ftept out of his way to make on
Sir W, Pole’s book, which, as a feries of
genealogies, has merit j it is a good col-
]e6iio!i of pedigrees. It claims no higher
title. “ Jf it pretend to any thing more^
it becomes an objeSl of critic fm^ and then
«ive muji pronounce it fat, jejune, infpidf
He fitould have added, that it contains
the defeent of Property as well as of fa-
milies. But the truth is, Mr, P. at¬
tempts a topographical work in a fupe-
rior dyle, and will be difappointed if he
does not receive compliments for the
execution of ir^ though npt half fo good
as Sir W. P'S.

P. 220. A writer lefs attached to vul¬
gar traditions than Mr. P. would have
hefuated to inferc that about Ralph
iNode, and have endeavoured to afeertain
whether a perfon of that name did or
did not live or die at Eafl Budlcigh,
without ’Si phaetonical jaSt.'’’ But this
is of piec^ with that vague information
which tells us that a Mr. White and a
Mr. Drake were married pr polltlTecl
propeity (p. 22s* u.) “Tradition lavs,
the nuns of Ottertoh priory ufed to go
through a palTage into the chancel of
the chute h, c('mn)unica:ing with the Je-
0nd (lory hf the cell, to thtlr orisons”
(p.|3l;. H ow could there be mais in a
priory of black monks? and did Mr. P.
over hear of pallages into churclies tiorp
the upper ft'o y of a religious houfe }

From the n'Ue pef. annexed to burials,
in the regifer r6ix, Mr. F. fuppofes
they, i. e. liie burials, died of the plague,

though Izacke does not mention that
diftemper as being in the neighbourhood
at that time.” Does not Mr, P, re-

collefl many entries in parilh-regifters
not recorded by better hiftorians than
Izacke >

P. 258. “Thomas Jenkins, efq. is the
prefent lord of the manor of Sidmouth.
This gentleman (as a correfpondent in-
forms me.) hath realized a confulerahle
property by putchaftng pitftures in Italy
and felling them in England.” Mr. J.
reftdes st Rome “ a banchiere ah Corfo
Roma"* f his houfe is the general re-
fort of the Englifti. Both a man of bu-
ftnefs and a lover of the arts, he is hof-
pitable and g/nerous. Coins, flatues,
pi61ures, are judicioufty fele6ied by Mr.
J. from a vaft variety of every kind ex¬
hibited continually at Rome; and what
he fele^fs with judgement he purchafes
with advantage to himfelf and friends.
To him they apply on all occafions, as a
guide in bufinefs and in tafie,”

Ibid. Even Rifdon’s errors are copied,
“ VJ andragius (Rifdon fays yiandra-
gilts)?* an obvious error of the ccpvill:
or compoftror. It is not cafy to fav what
he meant by a ^tarter college at Ottery
(p. 241). Tittle enough is (aid hv Mr.
P. about it or the church; but wc are
told Sir Walter Raleigh’s houfe “ has
ahogether a monaftm/«/ air” (p. 240,
n.) The monuments in the church are
left in Rddon’s quaint, unuut!]iuii)!e
defeription, and the epita phs trufted to
the prefent vicar to copy by halves. In
fliorc, in this as in other pariflics, vve atq
referred backward and forward to dif¬
ferent volumes, till we are quite bewil¬
dered. So at Columijton we are h. ft to
Mr. P’s correfpondent, who “ leeius to
think that fire would have no effift on
the hale of the rode or crofs fiili remain¬
ing, and appearing to he made of Eng-
lifh oak, now fo haid as to turn tlie edge
cf any iron inftrumenr that fiiouki daie
to cut it.’- Amazing difeoyery ! “The
feree n-work cnclofing the chancel is full
of the arms of many great families” (p,
255). Why not recount them ? “ 1 he

preicnt vicar is John Veryand Brutton;
ins predecelfors, ^ilktn recolLedion,
Manning, Wilcocks, Darby, Dicks.”
Did Mr. P. then go and aftc the parifh-
cleik, or the oldeft; inhabitants, who
Vvere vicars before the prefent ? and did
he truft to their inforniation alone ? or
dees he intend to give us a fuccellion of
incumbents in (omc otlier volume }

P. 260. Of the building of Broad-
hembury church there is no date, unlels

* It is clear Ivlr. P, does not underftand
Italian.

a ftorq

*794-]

a Hone in that part of the chancel which
heloni^s to the vicar, with the infcription
Vicar 'ms 1614,” have any reference to
this circumOance.” But if it was clear
the i-i^ermenc of a vicar in his chancel
implied the l)uilding of any part, it
would racier refer to the chancel than
the church. Mr. Incledon, of Pilton,
cop’ed, 23 yeais ago, a Latin infeription
here, now def eed; whicit we fuppofe is
among the paners wliich he refufed Mr.
P. See vol, LXI. p. 30S. Yet the ac¬
count of Pi Icon hvjfpital, Pent to the So¬
ciety of Antiejuaries la(f winter, Ihcws
that Mr. I. is neither incurious nor un¬
communicative.

P. 164. “ In the lower pannels of the
fereen acPiymptree are figures of various
faints, painted fom^thirg like illumina¬
tions tn antient Popijh MSS. On the 4th
bell is an infeription m old Britijh cha-
ra6ier. On the Weft fide of the tower
is a mutilated llatue of a woman and
child, Juppofed to be the Virgin and
Jon."

P. 276 We have the tradition of Ifa-
bel de Fortibus to deteimine throwing a
ring in a little miry place, thence called
the ring in the mire. More probably,
perha,)^, a lircie of earth in the mere, or
boundary, thrown up by tiiC parifliioners
to maik their bounds. But Mr. P. does
not tell us whether there be fuch an
earthwork, or whether he has been upon
the fpot.

P. 285, n Is not ^oifeountefs an im¬
proper tranflacion of vicecomitijj'a, in the
i2th century? A‘'e!iza was filler and
beiitfs of the Jheriff Devon, and, con-
Icquentiy, firciid^y/, if we may ule i'uch
a term.

P. 287, n. If the infeription in Ford
church detei mines the monument not to
belong to the Cobharns, to whom does it
‘appropriate it ? Should not Mr. P, or
his correjpondent, have told us? But
Mr. P. leeins to iiave been nrore occu¬
pied in counting the windows of Ford
jjlrbey than in afeertaining the monu¬
ments in the church., or dcfcrihing the
arms in the houfe. “ The church is
fi.uatfcd on high giound, but not fo high
as the thorn i. e. “ a remarkable thorn
rear the combe,'’ which gave name to
Thorncomhe.

P. 292. It is well that Mr. P. gives
up, as a 'Vulgar error, the application of
tire monuments in Axrninflre church to
Saxon lords, or princes, Lain in battle in
King .^thelfiane’s time. We can af-
iuve him, on undoubted authority, no
Ids than that of Mr. Carter, that tirey

735

reprefent a lady and a prtefl. See our
vol. LXIII. p. 996, and a view of the
church p. 881.

P. 314. ‘‘The regifler of Colcombe
is [aid to begin fo early as the year 1538.'*
Why did not Mr. P. take the pains to
infpeft it ?

P. 311;. “ Monafl^'r;'/?/ buildings.”

Thus far may luffice as a fpecimen of
the execution of this part of the Hiftory
of Devonfliire, which we do not hefitatc
to pronounce a compilation from Rifdon,
Weftcor, Prince, Pole, and other anti¬
quaries, who have been, for the inoft
part, already printed. Not a fingle Rot^
Pat. or Rot. Clauf. Efc. h.q. poji mortem^
or other mark of a true antiquary, is fuf-
fered to deform the fplendid page. Now
and then a letter jrom a correjpondent is
given as autliority. But no regifler,
genealogy, or fucceffion of landholders,
no lid of incumbents, are admitted into
this modern defeription of Devonfliire-

Of the 24deannes into which thecounty
is divided, this volume of near 400 pages
comprehends only 9. Exeter, Cadbuiy,
Dunsjord, Kenr.e, Aylejheare, PLymtree^
Honiton, Dunke/nvell, Piverton How
the remaining 1 <; are to he compreffed
into another volume, or how the author
propofes to diftribute his remaining ma¬
terials, we are left to conje61ure. As we
cannot anticipate his intentions, we will
not prejudge therm ; only, comparing
them with what is under our eye, wc
(hail exprefs a fear for his progrefs, left
his fuf)je£l: overwhelm him.

The p’ates in the prefent volume are.

Views of Lindridge, Haldon, Kitley
houfes, Colcombe caftie, H art land abbess ■,
Kenton chvirch, and the monument of
Judge Glanviile in Taviflock church,
all (except Kenton churc'u) drawn and
engraved by Mr. Bonner. A poor com-
penfation, in point of number, for the
aifurance, that all tlie 20 views as vet
engraven were to be given in the fccond
volume. Wc do not pretend to pene¬
trate into Mr. P’s motives ; but he has
fliifred his ground as often as forne of
his brother topographers, whom we iiave
had occafion to notice f.

An index, at leaft of places, fljould

^ It contains, however, one archdeaconry
more than was prnmifed in the lall pro-
fpedlus (fee vol. LXlll. p. 1028).

•j- On the covei of the Cr tical Review
for laft month we obferve the firil volume
of the lliftory of Cumberland, by Mr,
Hulohinibn, advertlfcd as J>ji publijhed,
when, it we miHake not, we rcyieweJ it
btl winter (LXI II. 1197).

Review of New Puhlications

have

Rivkw of New Ruhlications*

fcave been addec^, as they are not tiiftin-
m ihe running-title, and hardly
IB the federal pri£>es.

^^Qme sxtro.Es Jhall appear in our next.)

X 5 0. ^Letters, durinf^ the Courfe of a Tour through
Germ:'n'y and ^'witzerland, in the Tears 179 r
iT.nd Kuith Repetitions on the Manners'^

iLiterat7/.re^ and Religion, of thofe Countr/es.
By Ko'''e!'i Gray, M. Jj. Ficar cy'Farrirg-
sion, Berks. (Continued from p.

GiU lx :ngcn50us traveller next finds h’m-
feif at Genoa, the city of fpltnnid palaces
snd crowds -of poor ohjcfits, wl;ofe doge
e:a)ii40't go iiuo public, except on certain
without an exprefi>decree olitained
■from his coilcaguts, htu nriuft, “ clok;
con-fined in his own palace, flecp,” and
that -vvirheut his wife 5 a lefisihl’icn ne-
C.eff;irv> h’-y fonsc, if the former regulaiion
is “ t(.j he lefpeftc j’’' (p. 251). One
looro in the hclpitai was filled v.ith prr-
fens who had been firivck with the fiii-
ieito. Other public inflitutioris are the
J^lbergc, or houfe of indu'firy and cor-
rtSion, and the public bakehoufe for
the poor. The women are prettv, but
prsie, sad very uninforo'ed, like the rtil
©f the fi x in Italy. The court is with¬
out women, and the nobility have not
the efigance of high bijth. The rich
Bobb.s are axononsifis in general, though
they fometioies entertain a firanger with
fwnaptuous oftentation. A ft: anger way
alToeiate here, to much advantage, with
the niercbanto of the fafilory. The mer¬
chants of Genoa, like thofe of Tyre,
ase princes. No lefs than 150 afi'aflina-
tioas are conimitteci, upon an average,
every year at Genoa, chttfly among the
Imwer ranks, from jpaiuuly or revenge,
notwitiiftanding the patrole and feme
■ilr v?i in difguife, A ruffian, who can
fxstske intcreft with a nobis, or rails ito
jor 200 hvres, to biibe the officers of
jufttoe, is fure to efcape.

Pa^V'.a dice the feat of the kings of
L.ombardy, has the appearance ot a de-
Arred village, not oi-iC-tiiird within the
walls tnhaltited. The botanical garden
is large. Spallanzani is ftili piofelfi r of
experimental phtiofophyj and the iini-
verfity which can boaft of him and
Scarpi net u not lin'd down its head.
Scopoli died fucldenly four years ago.
Aiilronomy is much liudied heie, and all
over italv. The cathedral is rot btAU-
tilul; the Augullin convent is tup-
pte fil'd f and thie monuments removed.

Milan is not a haiuifcrne town, and
has tew prominfcnt beauties. Tite ca-
liiedral is as unfinilhtd, extern ally, as in

the time of Addifon ; it is a vaft edifice,
the nave and long-drawn aiJes very fine,
and the oirfide crowded with fculptured
figures, and the tower commands an ex-
tenfive profpefif. The loppone, former ly
a lazaretto for perfons affiihied with pef-
tilential diforders, is now converted into
one for cattle. The MSS. of the Am-
brofian library, founded by Cardinal
Fred., Borromeo, are faid to amount to
14 or 15,000; but few have enquiring
eves to examine them, and there is, I
■befieve, no printed catalogue of them.
Al'Hte Bianconi, with fome affiftance, is
now preparing a biographical and hifto-
rical account of engravings, and of the
art of engraving, vvhicli, I doubt nor,
will, from his exreiidrd refearches, be
well executec!. 'I'he jmofefibr of aftro-
nomy is an intelligent jefuit, and not an
unworthy fucctffirr to Bofcovich, v/hofe
obfervatory is w'cll furnifhed with ma-
tbematicai infirurnents of every kind,
rnoll of uhicl'i are brought fronr.i Eng¬
land, and are cor.hdcred as incompara¬
bly (upevior to thofe of all other coun-
tties. 'i'he brafs-uork of fome of the
iefirurnenrs has been made at. IVIi’an ;
but tl'iC ylafs is alwa'/s fupplied Iry Isng-
land, as it cannot be made fo good here,
even' if the materials wire exported. I
talked concerning Herfchei, to whom
the ProfelTor gave defet ved pi aife. 7'he
Italians do not admit our Sovereign’s
claim to give a name to the new difeo-
verecl p'anec. It i; called Our anas in
Italy. Tire profe-ftbr had heard of the
dsfeovery of its two iatcllires, and of the
two additional ones of Saturn (p. 269—^

*7 rv ^

i y J •

Trie fpring rear Corifo, which Pliny
defenbes to h.ave ebbed and flowed three
times a-day, we weie told, continues to
do fo fti'l. Tlie fpring near Henly
iOmetimes flow's for two years togeilier,
and tlien fails for p^rhap-san equal pt -
nod, with reciprocating fuccefiion. Pli¬
ny’s ftatue, vvitli a Latin inicription,
oafed *499, is the only rnonument of
him which the town retains. In the
fiippreffied Auguftin convent filk-millsare
erefiled, The Carmelites are forbidden
to lecedve any more members into their
fociety. If this had ,bten adopted as the
only mode of luppttiTic'n, we fhouid
have liau fewer mutsnn'rs, and jofeplr
IL might have perhaps ftill lived and
reigned.

Rice grows in the neighbourhood of
Milan ; and the low wet ['arts in widcli
it is pi oduced being, even in dry feafims,
kept flooded, are reputed to occafimi

dtvpA

«794-]

Review of New Puhlicaiions,

tlropfy and contagious diforders (p.
284 — 286).

Flacentia is Rill a verv handfome
town. Parma dees not imprefs a ftran-
ger at its entrance; there is neither mag¬
nificence nor much appearance of trade.
The theatre, huiit of wood, 1618, is ca¬
pable of containing 12 or 14,000 per-
funs, and is fo well contrived that found
is ddlributed equaliv over every part;
and it has been occafionally converted
into .a Naumachia, and water admitted
from th.e river Parma. It is falling to
decay, but the duke intends to repair it.
'I'he modern thrarre Js a hideous houfe,
built like the huik of aflVip. “The duke
of Parma has the credit ot being the patron
of Bodoni, whofe beautiful printing vou
muft have often admired, and of wdrich
Edwards, who, with a man at Touloule,
purchales from him almoft every thing,
has feveral fpecimens. His Horace and
Virgil are well knowuj. The copies on
vellum are much too dazzling to look at.
His types are certainly unequal. He is
ab(iut to print Homer, Pinuar, and the
Pindaric odes of Grav. 1 favv here fome
fiieets of a Latin deferiptive poem of
England, of whicit 100 copies are print¬
ing for Mr, Trevor, bv whole father
the poem was written. If the work he
all equal to the lines which I read, it is
to he lamented that the pnbl.ck cannot
be gratified with a fight of it — and whv
print but 100? Mt. T’s friends, I atn
lure, amount to a much greater number”
(p. 249) -L

Modena is a very elegant but not Lrg?
town; the ftreets regular and remarka¬
bly neat, but the painted boules we did
not admire. The (ircets of Bo!c:^na are

narrow, and darkened by arcaucs. Ef-
taces here are equally dim ed between
all the children. The Initituto has a
fii.e collciffion of aftronomieal inllru-
ments, purchafed from tlie effedts of
Lord Cowper. The Uoiverfity bill re ¬
tains lome of its antient reputation as

* We have been favoured with a tran-
freut fight of this fpleniiiJ fpecimen of tire
Bodoni typography, wdrich is in frrlio, and
tonfifts of three poemSj Britannia, Lathonos,
and a third, whofe t tie has efcaped us. Ttie
firlf of thefe is a moft brief and compre-
benfive delcription or lift of the principal
objects to be feen in Br.tain, explained , on
t! e oppofite page. It feems, the poems had
tire honour of being approved by his Ma-
jefty, to whom they w'ere fhewn, and who
recommended the prit'.ting of them, and to
him they arc_d.,dicated. Mr. T. In re mea-
tioaed is tire late vifcount’s fecond fou.

the chief fchool of civil jurifprudence,
cultivated in conjunfifion wick the ele¬
gant parts of literature..

At a little diftance from
which is four fro Ids from Bologna, is a
little volcano, which appeared, at fomc
diftance, to be compofed only of a ftamc
of imall circumference, affording a kind
of glow-worm light, which required
the contraft of darknefs to produce a«v'
tlTeiff. The f! >rne is a barometer to tire-
neighbours, increafing on the approacii
of bad weather, anti when fiercelt por¬
tends a ftorm. Some years hence this
volcano maybe dangerous to this neigh¬
bourhood; at prefenc it is only an oh-
j-ect of curiofiry. Thus even at the’Ap-
p-mnines begin the volcanic fires of italf
(p- 3C.O-

Flo’e^^ce well deferves the prailes ic
has received. Trade and the fine arts
Item to fmurifh there in union. Mr..
G. prefers Leopold to the Medici. Wc
believe, ho'wever, the puniftrmerit of
death, which he abolifhed, has been
reftored ; and perhaps his prohibition of
inculcating anv dodir’ne contrarv to dre
eftabli'ftred religion, which is the Romats
Catholic, under pain of hard lai)our’ix>r
a time, or during life, boideis too
on peilecurioa. “The chara^er of
Leopold, after all that has been faid up¬
on it, certainly deferves to be ranketi
high in the records of good princes. IF
he failed when removed to the Imperial
throne, to a government involved in diL
hculties by die precipitate meafuues an4
injudicious conduft of h:s predecelfiir, k
ftiould not leilcn our admiration of his
virtues dirpiayed in th6 fmalier field of
h.i' Florence dominions. The country
certainly pro-fpers under the operatioa
of his meafures, and, relieved from un-
necelTary expenccs, it is recovered from
the wafte and depopulated Rate which
former travellers reprefent it to have ap-
fjeared in from the elFedf of its* burdens.
IJe aboliliied luperficiai parade, civil an4
mil tary ; he gave encouragement to ma-
nuratlures, which now flouriih, parti¬
cularly thofe cf Wool and fiik ; and he
fatfered the poor Jews, the great agents
of trade, every where opprelfed, and
driven to a felhfii and vinciidfive hatred
of others, to enjoy fome indulgence,
'fhe tower ranks, v.dro felt his paternal
care, all [peak of Leopold W'th aft'eFtion.,
The nobduy ftiil regret the departed
fplendor of the Medici ’ (p. 309 — 311).
in his account of the famous gallerv,
Mr. G. piefcrs modern painting, which
exhibi.is the mikler afteffions and tiuj

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inflication of Cbnftian virtues, to antient
ftatuary, which exhibits the exprefhon
of ftrong paffions, the difplay of which
It is* probably of little moral ufe to ad¬
mire. The librarian has collated forne
MSS. of the LXX. for Mr. Holmes, of
Oxford*. “We obferved here a man
painting in imitation of old illuminated
MSS, an art which the duke willies to
revive.” The chapel of St. Lorenzo
Hill remains, an unfinlflied monument of
the Medicean family, extinfit in its chief
linej feven dukes have been buried in
it. The fchemes of the Medici were
grand and impofing. The trade and
profperity of the country declined, but
the arts and fciences no wiiere flouriflied
more than at Florence, Mr. G. fp; aks
with great fatisfa£tion of this delightful
city, which, he fays, ftrangers who fettle
in Italy will do welt to prefer to any
other place. His remarks on the female
fyftem are very pertinent and Juft.

Lucca has no very chearful appear¬
ance, for the houfes are all loftv, and
jhut up with grated windows, and the
Hreets are fomewhat narrow, but it is en¬
livened by the bufv aflivity of the people.

Pi/a is a remarkably fine ftately city.
In the Campo JantOj a cemetery fo called
becaufe the earth within it is faid to
have been brought from the Holy Land,
are the infcriptions defcribing the ho¬
nours voted by the Pifan colony to Lu¬
cius and Caius Caefar, fons of Au^uflus.
To Lucius is decreed a black ox and a
black Ihecp, adorned with blue fillets.
It is direfled that the facrifices lliould be
burnt, and urns of milk, honev, and oil,
poured on them. Caius, who died of
wounds received in the fervice of the
republickjis to be lamented by a general
mourning, with a fufpenfion of all bufi-
Eefs and amufement; and the aift of
February is noted as an inaulpicious
day, in which no facrifices, fupplications,
and efpoufals can be made, and no games
but thofe of funeral rites performed. In
ibis cemetery is a rrionument recently fet
\ip in honour of Algarotti (p. 340).

Leghorn is a fmall town, and the ap¬
pearance of trade in it not great. Eng-
lifh goods, ufeful and ornamental, of
every kind, are expofed in the fliops,
fome of which are very handforae, in
the ftyle of thofe in London, and con¬
tain a great variety of articles. The
poft, the cuftom-houfe, and particularly
the lazaretto, where quarantine is per¬
formed with fecurity to the town, and
convenience to individuals, are well ap¬

* See our p. 744.

pointed and dire£led. Not far from
the lazaretto is a burial-ground, efpe-
cially interefting to the Englilh traveller,
as appropriated to the reception of his
countrymen. We noticed feveral hand-
fome monuments and names familiar to
onr ears ; among others, that of Marga¬
ret Rolle countefs of Ou^ford baronefs
Clinton, who died in 1781. You will’
recolleft the fingularity of her chara£ler,
and particularly her unhandfome indif¬
ference toward the Houghton colleftion.
The infcriptions are not often clafilcal,
and fometimes favour of mercantile fpi-
rit. It is recorded on the tomb of A —
L— that he induftrioufiy collefled fta-
tues, piftures, and coins. We faw other
names, and virtues recorded of other
perfons who travelled into Italy in queft
of health or riches, and who have all
died far from their native foil. In read¬
ing monumental infcriptions we cannot
but regret that we become acquainted
with many virtues only when it is too
late to enjoy them, and are introduced
to excellent parents, hulbands, children,
and friends, but to lament their depar¬
ture, and bewail their lofs” (p. 343)*.

Sienna is fomewhat of a folitary town,
lituated in a very beautiful country.
The Ene;Hlh often chufe it for a refi-
dence. Jt retains the reputation which
it had in Dante's time, — that its polite
inhabitants fpeak ilie Italian language in
great purity j and hence it is reforted to
as a fchool in which are ftudied the
graces of that tongue. Society is ob¬
tained here with little difficulty, but the
ladies are faid to be dangerous, and to
abufe the freedom which they enjoy here
more than in any other town in Italy.
In the church of the Francifcans is a
very antient pi6lure on w'ood, by Guido
Senefi, which difputes the claim of anti¬
quity with that at Florence (p. 355—
3 57)*

Proceeding along the Via Caffia, Mr.
G, at Ponle Centtno^ entered the pope’s
territories, which were inftantly charac¬
terized by the appearance of idlenefs and
dirr, and haftened over the defolate
places of the Campania, whet e is fcaicely
a ruin where Rome muft formerly have

* To this objedlion Mr. Urban finds him-
felf obliged to fubferibe, in refperi; to the
charadfers with which his Obituary would
be loaded by tiie partiality of friends or flat¬
terers, w'ere he not to lop off their exube¬
rancy. As it is intended as a 1 eeord of dates
and fadls, he takes this opportunity to fug-
geft a wilh that every thing elfe migtit be
h!>ared.

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1794-3

lavifl-ied its ornaments. St. Peter’s was
feen towering 15 or 16 miles diilant, hue
Rome itfelf difplayed no magnificence on
approach till after parting Tibur by the
Ponte Molle, Mr. G’s comparative re-
fie6lionst5n Rome are fo novel and can¬
did, that we find with regret our fcanty
limits unable to detail them, as well as
his hirtory of the ftatc of the arts, and
the patronage afforded them by theEng-
IHh and ’French. The prefenc pope, be-
fides enlarging the Vatican, to receive
tlie antiquities which are perpetually dif-
covered, and encouraging the revival of
Mofaic work, has completely drained
the Pontine marfhes 5 but he had neg-
leftedto encourage the peafantry on tlve
deferced Campagna to fee -up a regular
and ftri61: police, and fair and fpeedy ad-
rninirtratien of juflice, abolifh monopo¬
lies, and reform the clergy. To luch
undertakings the prelent pope is une¬
qual. With good intentions and fome
exertions he aims not at fuch avduous
labours, but is contented with publicly
kiffing the foot of St. Peter with tfie
Eeal of a pilgrim ; with officiating grace¬
fully on the great days; with improving
his inufeum, and with cultivating facred
literature, the caufe .of which he has
ferved by publifoing, in 'J 784> a fine edi¬
tion of St, Maximus, with a well-writ¬
ten dedication to Vidlor Amadeus, and
■by extending fome countenance to men of
diftingui-flied talents. Many of his ful>r
je£ls, not fatibfiecl with fuch pretenfions
, to -their favour, feein to feel little regret
at a paralytic a’rte^tion under which he
now labours, unhfs, indeed, from a,p-
prehenfion that he may not outlive
-carnival, Many think that the papal
power VMiil expire in 1dm ,; and ohierve,
with -apparent plcaftwe, that the niches
4n St. Paul’s church are now filled up,
except one deftined for the reception of
the portrait of Brafchi. Severe epigrams
are often affixed on the ftatues of Mar-
phone ( Marforto ) and Pafquin, bn which
the libels of antiquity were hung. Di(-
curtions are common, in whicli the lup-
pieffion of convents in the neighbouring
territory of Florence is pronounced to
be deferving of imitation ; and the wii-
•tings cf the Reformed Chuich, in (pite
of intcrdidiions, make their way. E-t
us hope, when reformation comes, as
b' gin It mutt, it may come gentlv, that
it mav facilitate a reunion with tfie Ke-
fotiiitd C'liurch; — .1 conlumniation de¬
voutly to he wiflred, to wlitcli the
Chuich of Envjland is fincerciy inclined,
G«iNT. Mag. AugnJ}, 1794.

737

and bends with increartng favour, anxious
only to fee the caufes of feparation re¬
moved, and palpable errors given upj
which may be thought, indeed, the more
pra5licahlc, fince many cf the Romlili
writers have almofl explained a wav the
otfenfive part of many of their doifrines,
indefenfible as phey are, and often refuted
astliey have been. See a lenfible treattfe
on this fuhje61, bv the ingenious Mr.
Dutens, Sur I'eglije du Pape' (p. 374—
376).

We muft pafs over^ the road to
Naples, which city rtruck Mr. G. be-^
yond any place he had ever feen. The
beauties of the bay are numberlefs ; and
Europe cannot ffiew a more delightful
w^aik, in which he admired thxi Tauro
Farnefe, w-hich, we are afterwards told,
being an heir-loom of the king’s, is now
remtived hither, together with the Far-
neie Hercules, now at the Palazzo de gli
fiudi publici, intended tor the antiquities
rtill expofed to danger at Portici, where
it has hitherto been deferibed. The pore
and pier are likewife very beautiful }
but the general dirtribution of the c;t5r
is not firiking. Mr. G’s charafler of
the inhabitants, of either fex, is by no
means favourable. “ The king is a fa¬
vourite with his people ; the qualities of
his heart are good, but he feldom puts
his fubjefls to the bluffi by the difplay
of fupeiiority in acquired knowledge.
He conciliates their aitc£lions by conde-
feenfipn. His dominions are badly go¬
verned, they abound with people infuffi-
ciently eritployed ; few exeitions are
made to counteract the natural indolence
of the natives, whicn might be done by
the fimple encouragement of avowing
the exportation of com. No meafures
are adopted to luppreE their crimes by
a rigorous adminifiration of jurtice ; and,
as poverty is very general, notwtthftand-
ing t!i= fertility of the country, it is un-
fate to travel in Galabria, or indeed any
where but on the public roads” (p 401).
“The king is fond of obliging all ptr-
fooS, and particulatly .civil to the Eng-
iifh. Our amhartador is di fiinguifhedi
from among the reft by every mark of
kmdncfs ; and Mr. A[61:onj ih pume
ininifier. Should we ever have occnfion,
iheretore, tor the a ill ftan e (;f ihe Nca-
ptrlitans in the iVled tei ranean, it may b-i
pielurncd that the counlcis 'would be m
oyr favour” (p. 4C0). 'I he prefenc
cliief magiftrate of tiu c tv appeal s to
have been routed bv the extt ncol crime-,
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manner to fupprefs them, and the effects
of his endeavours are fufficiently vihble.
The gov’ernment is fupporced by a ftrong
military force, improved in their difci-
pline by general Sails. The king wiilted
to increafe the navy, but has been dif-
fuaded” (p 403).

Mr- G. dee'ines repeating wliat has
been I'o often laid of tite environs of Na¬
ples, or of Pompeii, Plercu’anearn, or
Portici. We have feen the epitaph on
Vi rgil’s tomb thus pointed :

^dcinsrss? tumuli hac 'Vejdgiai con-
ditur olirn [ducis.

Vie hoc qui cfcinit pafcu2, ru^ety

The various iofirurnents preferved at
Portici bear fuch a refemblance to mo-
dern ones as proves that necefiity always
operates by the moil fimpie contri¬
vances, and fugoehs nearly the lame
means. The Caliduria, with heater^,
firk fuggtked the idea of tea-urns; an
uncommon trumpet is fuppofed, by Dr.
Burney, to be the antient clangor iiiba-
rum'^, Mr. G. fays, two of the MSS
found at Herculaneum have been pub^
lijhedy and a third treatife is foon to ap¬
pear. We wldi he had told us what
ihefe are.

The pilgrims and votaries of the Vir¬
gin at Lorelio ciecreaie in rank and num¬
ber; iollead of repairing there in crowds,
to make offerings, they come individu¬
ally, to requeft charity. The liberalities
of antient adoration are kill ollentatioully
ciifp’’aved, theugh the dimnefs of their
precious Hones often excites a falpicion
that their value ts exaggerated. The
town depends for its wealth on the re¬
putation of our Lady’s miracles (p.
429).

A^icona has flouriOted bnce it was de¬
clared a free port by Cement XII. ;
yvho, w'ith a liberaiitv fcarcely fhewn by
any former p'rpe, ailowed a general tc-
ieraiion in religious matters, 'Fhe mole,
the po't, the triumplral arch of Tr.-jan,
the chearfulncfs of commerce, and the
indications of fuccelsful induftry, ren¬
der the town very interelling.

Sefsigai-lia. is a large and flouriTning
town, with a cathedral enibetlilhed by
the prefent pope, (f whole munificent
p)ii:ty mav be feen many proofs in Italy.
Rtmini is ft handiome but irregular
town, dtcorared witli a fine old arch.
Cafena is B dlor^rsa in miniature. ¥er~
raruy once fiourii'hirg under its dukes,
is nt)w fa!''oundtd by a enun ry of de^p
c!av and ftiff mud, and its agriculture

^ Doss not I'.v?. Doclor miitake the found
fur the in ll rum cut L o i t .

and trade pine beneath the influence of a
papal legate, who is changed every five
years, and the city has the appearance of
decay.

Our agreeable traveller has now
brought us to VenirOy of which, he fpeaks
rather un.h'vouraldy. The doge has
only the exterior qf royalty, anti few
privileges, except that of divefting him-
felf of hts official dignitic, and feme-
times appearing as a private man in the
evening. He is. fubjedl to the trouble-
fome and fcrutimzing auth rity of the
inquifltion, who can fearch h/s palace at
pleafure, being accountable only, with
every member of the Hate, to the coun¬
cil of ten. Nobility declines, but the
nobles aie more intelligent than in the
relief Italy; the execution of criminal
jullice is generaliy equitable though
flritft; and tlie people are kept in good
order, and not extravagantly taxed.
Commerce Hill flouriflies. 'Fhe lower
c'alTes are but little inliru£lecl, even on
the moll important rulvjc6ls. Ecclefiaf-
licks, being fulpicioully excluded from
all aurhority, are little revered by the
inferior ranks. Literature is not culti¬
vated fo nruch as it has been. Liberty
of opinion on political and religious
fubje£ls is much circumicfibed. The
age of true poetry is loft 'at Venice, as
elfewhere. The carnival concluded with
beheading three bulls, in allufton to the
beheading a rebellious patriot of Aqui-
leia 8 or 9 centuries ago.

¥udua is in a depopulated ftate; the
fchools, however, are kill frequented for
le£lures. Botany appears to be much
attended to; among the very curious
plants is the nux ^ernix, the account of
which would incline one to credit what
Dr. Darwin, in the notes to his poem,
reports concerning’ the poifon-tree of
Java (p. 448).

Vicenxfz is adorned with various build¬
ings by Palladio and Scam.mozzi. The
O’vmpic theatre, built on the principles
of Vitruvius, from a defign of his great
imitator, Palladio, is a molt elegant and
claftical work. At Verona our traveller
left many things unleen; and hallerj-
ed, through the Tvrol, 10 Trent, where
he heard an incomDaiahie o’'gan at the
ca.hc'.lrai ; tlience, through grana fccnerv,
to Injpruck, ne.m winch, on the road, is
this infcription:

Anno, 1785, quo Pius VT. pont. m.ix.
Vienna redux Aiuiponti A, M. Elifabetii
A. A. hofpitio hoiioiifioe exceptus Tir-dnn

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f«o numine implevit, iz Id. Mali heic
trajecir.”

Suo numine was a Rvoiig exprerHon,
however pioufly defigned, to conf'ole Ids
holinefs tor the dilappointment he had
experienced in his journey to Vii nna.
“ Here they firft lieard (^f the emperor’s
death, under ftrong (ufpicion of an acce¬
lerated fate by the hurtling of a blood-
velfel. Many virtues may be inferibed
©n his nionurnent; and we may hope
that they are regiflered where they will
not be forgotten” (p. 43-G). Hence he
carpe to Au>}JhurpJj, a very convenient
town, the head of a Imall repuhlick 5 tlie
principal obje6t of attention is the li¬
brary, in which, among other rare books,
is a copy of an Itinerary, made in the
time of Theodofius, the original of
which was bought by Prince Eugene,
for 300 florins, and is now at Vienna (p.
461). This is the Peutingerian Table,
of which fee our prefent volume, p.
159'-^. Mr. G. returned through Ulm^
famous for its fleel manufaftuie to
Bruflels. Pie concludes with condemn-
' ing the im'poUtic meafure of the Empe¬
ror Jofeph, in difmantling the tonified
towns in the Low Countries.

Such is the refult of this ingenious
traveller’s obfervations, publifhed “when
■fome of the feenes which he vifited are
disfigured bv devaltation, or clouded by
the terrors of approaching fiorms, when
he who forfakes Eimland muft mark

whereve'- he mav travel the track of ar-

mies, and behold I'u^picion and diftruft,
anci the influence of evil principles in fo-
ciety, where confidence and cheaifnlnefs
formerly prevaiiecl.” He “ lias endea¬
voured, to the beff of his abilities, to
impart to others as much as lie could of
that pleaiure which he experienced in
tlie tour; and, whatever may be his fuc-
ctis, he has at lead wilhed to dirt£l cu-
f;ofity to intetelling fubje^s, and to en¬
liven the vacant hours of life by inoften-
five if not indru6live communication.”
If he advert to the I'ght and tinpry no-
' tions which bubl)lt<l up in the fotitCies
which he faw', it is only to point out
their, frivolous and tranfient nature.
We mav add, he has gratified our curio-
firy. without irifuhing the manners or
peculiarities ot foreigners bv <zjuit{y and
Jmart obltr ations anvl cnticifrns, which
clifgrace too many of our later travellers,
and h«s kept up the dignity and mora-
liiy, if we may lb Ipeak, ohtraVelling.

131. Cf/nfj derations en the Caujes and 'EffeBs of

* Where it is mifprinted FitwCrt^gerikUi.

the •prefent War.) and on the NeceJJity of cent/-
nuing it till a regular Government is rfab/Jh-
in France. By Wrliiam Hunter, Efq.

MR. H. goes over the old ground of
French politicks, and their conleciuences ;
and, after taking a review of the laft
campaign, and the condu^I an, I errofs
of Admmiftration t!urir*g it, concludes
with exhorting us to “ continue to fight
til! at lead there is a profpeft of clofing
the hoitile (cene with fafety and fuccefs.
Anarchv and Atheifm cannot flourifii
for ever. Enthufiai'm may perl'uatle men
to fufler numberlefs hardfliip^, and brave
every difficult/, for a certain time; but
what is trefted on the balis of dilorder
cannot be liable, and common fenfe mull
in ihe.end triumph over mad fpecula-
tion. I already think that I perceive
fome gleam ot returning reafon. The
people begin to fee through the mum¬
mery of a government which has deluded
them fo long. They feel that they .do
not enjoy the happinefs that was pi'o-
miled them. They know that every
thing is over-ruled by force ; that fear is
the main ipring of the macl.rne ; and that
they groan under the moE ahjeft da-
very. They perceive that the fydeiTi
which governs them is a compound of
artifice and cruelty; that it is built oa
pernicious anti fugitive principles; and
that it mud, fooner or later, mortify with
difeai'e. The period is, perhaps, ap¬
proaching faft when this averfian, which
they are contracting by degrees, fiiall
break out with an impetuofiry which no
eftbits can reiilt; and we may then lee
their government dilTolved as ipeedilv as
it was framed. . The rich without irflu-
ence, the manufaClurtr without emplov,
the poor without bread : thefe are dread¬
ful but convincing arguments. Fooliih,
mifguided people!” (p'). 57, 5S). Ytt
chele e.de61s are, by fome cruakers among
us, aicfibed to the comlrination of the
powers of Europe againd France.

132. Xenophon’s D fence of the Athenian
Democracy) tranfated fiom tbs GifcEei) nouh
Dotes, aud an ^Ippendix containing Obje>~vu-
tions on the Democratic Pa’t of tjoe Britrih
Govet mient, and the exijilng idonJUtulioti of
the Houfe of Commons.

“A FRENCH tranfl^tion of this
treatiie of Xenophon was pubhfhed in
Lemdon laft year, which inducing the
prefent editor to confider the original
with attention, he found fo ttriking a
rdemblsnce between many of the fea¬
tures of the democracy of Athens and
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tViat he was tempted to undertake the
tranClation which is now prelented to the
publick, with feme remarks, as well on
the work itfeif as on the notes of the
French editor, and (ome obfervations oa
the democratic part of the Rritiflt Con-
ftitution. The French tranflator is very
anxious to protx that this treatife was
written by Xenophon before his baniHr-
inent from Athens ; but this (terns to
be of little conleqiience, as it cannot be
conhdered as a lerious defence of tlie
Athenian Conftitution, (ince he expreil-
ly declares, that a wifh to live under a
democracy is itfeif a proof of an evil di(-
polirion ; and he defends the meafures
of the Athenians on the (ole ground of
V their being well calculated to preferve
that form of government which they had
chofen ; a defence which may be made
for the contrivances of pickpockets and
robbers. This treatife has evidently
come down to us in a very mutilated
idate, and fome doubts have been ex-
prefled of its being the work of Xeno¬
phon. But it muif be remembered that
the fame notion, obvioufly erroneous,
has been entertained, on more plaufible
grounds, with regard to the Anabahs"'^;
and one French cririck f has had the
boldnefs to declare all the Cladicks fpu-
rious, except Virgil’s Georgicks and the
fatires and epiftles of Horace. The in¬
ternal evidence is ftrongiy in favour of
its being genuine ; but, in any cafe, it is
obvioudy of high antiquity, and , the
compofition of a perfon well acquainted
with the government and manners of the
Athenians. However applicable thefe
obfervations of Xenophon may he to the
prefenc htuation of France, part of them
hold out a very juft and ferious warning
to this country. Britain, like Athens,
derives all her power from her maritime
fuperioricy, which is both the caufe and
the confequence of her poirefting large
dominions beyond her own limits, and
having an uninterrupted commerce with
every pare of the world. Tlie lofs of
this fuperiority, which muft- inevitably
happen if flie were in a fituation like the
prefent (late of France, would fink her
very low in the (cale of nations. Sup -
poftng France to continue in her prefent
a^narchy fora length of rime, her colonies
loft, and her navv annihilated, whatever
her immediate humiliation might be, her
internal lefources are fo great, fo inde¬
pendent of external contingences, that a

* See our vol. LXUF p. 422.

f le Pere Hardouin. . [His authonty is
hardly Wwfth quoting. Edit.]

few years of tranquillity, under any gO“-
Vernment, would reftore her confe-
quence, and, under a free and well-re¬
gulated government, fuch at’ confequence
as would be very formidable to her
neighbours. But Great Britain, de¬
prived of her marine and l>er commerce,
would be completely ruined ; it would
not be Delenja but DeleTa esT
Carthaco.”

“The idea of a fovereign people is an
abfurdity. It is, in faft, another name
for anarchy-^ its exiftence and dreadful
effeifls are fully deferibed in this treatife
by Xenophon, as they are ftrongiy ex¬
emplified in the prefent Conftituiion (if
it can be fo called) of France” (p. 17,
note).

“ In their jealoufy of the better and
more refpeftable citizens, how e«a6lly
the Athenian and French democracies
agree ; — another ftriking feature of re-
femblance is the capricious puniflrment
of military leaders. How perfeft a
counterpart do the fates of the French
generals exhibit to thb execution of the
naval officeis at Athens. There can be
no doubt, I think, but the manly oppofi-
tion of Socrates to that infamous mea-
fure was the real caufe of his own con¬
demnation” (p. 2S, n )

“ Whoever, not being in the rank of
the populace, chafes rather to live under
a democratic government, where the ad-
miniftration of the laws is^ in fewer
hands, muft do it for the fake of com¬
mitting crimes with impunity, as well
knowing tha^t evil a£lions are more eafily
concealed where the government is in
the hands of the multitude than when it
is adminiftered by a few only.” On
this the French tranflator has this note:
“ A democracy is the afylum to which
every one flies who has commited, or in¬
tends to commit, crimes. It appears that
Xenophon, by eflablifliing this maxim, in
feveral parts of this treatife has (hewn,
himfelf nc)t only a profound obferver,
but, in fome meafure, as infpired by a
(pirit of prophecy ; for, every fucceeding”
age, and even our own, have confirmed
this truth. Not, certainly, that I think
‘ all the democrats ot the prefent hour arc
uien eftentially bad y but we may eafily
rernaik, that every man etTentially h*d,
without exception, has taken refuge
among the democrats” (pp. 29, 30).

1 lie tlnglifli tranflatoi’s note on r.e-
form (p. 37), which he recomme»'ds to
be gradual, and amendment of evils ei¬
ther already felt, or of immediate and
obviuuis apprehenfion, and not preven¬
tive

17$4'1 of New PuhiiiaUom<r 743

live of imaginary ills, that the wildnefs
of fanciful theory may fugged, deferves
to be tranfcribed in its length, if we had
room. The fame apologv mud be mada
for the comments on the French tranfla-
tor’s notes, inferted in the appendix,
conhmending the Britifh Conditution,
It is obferved, p. 56, note, that the only
indance in the annals of mankind, of a
real government actually carried into
execution that had been pl'an-ned by a
fpeculative philolopher, wa-s the Con di¬
lution of the province of Carolina,
which was framed bv Locke j yet the
fruit of this experiment was a form of
legidation and jurifpTudence incapable
of execution, and produftive only of evil
in the attempt.. The appendix is franaed
of many excellent obfervations on the
Britifh Conditution, and the fnexpedi-
ence of reform, which befpeak the wri¬
ter a mader in political fcience, and that
every line of his work deferves the ma¬
tured confideration. One of the llrong-
cd arguments againd parliamentary re¬
form, next to the happinefs of the peo¬
ple at large, is, that the indant the
Houfe of Commons declare their own
Conditution radically defe61ive, they
mud ceafe to legidate j and the confe-
«]uence mud be, that the great quedion
©f parliamentary reform will be uUi'«
luately decided by the fword (p. 104).

133. Conjiltution of the Athenians ; containing
surious and interejiing Details of the Methods
adopted by that antient People to preferve a
Spirit oj Democracy in their Commomuealth ;
and exhibiting a fi iking Contrajl bet%veen
the Bleffmgs of a limited Monarchy and the
hideous DoBrine of fanatical Pepublicans.
Tranjl&ted from "the Greek of Xenophon,
'i.vith a Preface and Notes. By James Morris.

SUCH is the paraphradic title afTumed
for Xtnophon’s modefl one, “ Concesn-
i»g the Athenian G>vernment.” The
red is a verbatim trandation from t’ne
French trandation before mentioned,,
with the omidaon of a'i the critical
Eotes on the text of Xenophon.

134. Prahls pPitoIogicaf, critical, and mifella-
laneous, by the late j. Jortin, D.'D A>ch~
deacon of London, ReBor of St. Dunftan
in the Eaft, and Vicar of Kenfington ;
confijiing of Pieces, many before publijhed fe-
parately, ?nany annexed to the JVorks of learn¬
ed Friends, and others noxu firfi printed from
the Author's MSS. [agree ibiy to a foggef-
tion to his fon, in our voi- LVlIl. p. izr J.
In Tiue Volumes.

WE cannot forbear adding to the re-
?ievv them, voi. LXIl. p. 934, this
5

farther account of their contents, by a
correfpondent. ^

The fird volume comnrehends
Lufus Foetici. Numbers XVI I, XVIir,
XIX, XX, X,XI, now fird pub-
lifhed ; lines to Bp. Hayter; re- /
mark at' the end of the fird book
of Ecclefiadical Hidorv; epitaphs
on a cat'-^ and Dr. Hales; and
infeription intended for the foun¬
dation of the new building at
Cambridge.

Remarks on Spenfer.

* Additional Notes, anonymous.

Remarks oh Milton.

Sermon at the Confecration of Bifhop \
Pearce. This was publifhed ac
the Archhi (hop’s command, and
printed at the end of Birch’s Life
of him.

Remarks on Archbifiiop Tilloifon’s
Sermons.

^Scriptural liludrationsf,

^Stridlures on the Articles, Subfcrlp-
tions, Teds, &c.

^Curfory Obfervations.

"^Anecdotes.

’-^^Tranflations from the Lufus Foetki.

Vol. IL

Letters. To Mr. Avifon, on the mu-
fick of the antients. (From Avi-
fon’s Effay on Mu heal Expief-
fiorv, 3d edir. 1 7^5. )

From Bp. Sherlock, acknowledging
his ptefent of the Life of Eral-
mus; and anfwer, thanking the
Bilhop for his Sermons.

To Cafpar Wetficin, critical, on
J. Wetdein’s New Tedament.

To a Lady, who defined hi$ opinion
on forne theological work of one
cf her friends.

To Dr, Neve; remarks on Mr.
Philip’s Life of Cardinal Pole,
printed in the Appendix to the
New Animadvei fions on that
Life

Ciltical Remarks on Greek Autlinrs.
Among thefe are new ( ncs on A*ci-

The epitaph on a favourite cat w.is
tranflated in our vol. LXII. pp. 263, 364,

3^5-

"h Tlie Codex Britannicus, cited by Beta
on I John v. 7, is the Codex Montfortii,
and the MS. of Dublin (p. 414-) Beta’s fa¬
mous old iVlS. whicli we h.ave at Cambridge,
and on which my friend W. [rjn. Water-
land ?] laid fo great a drefi, is tlie work of
a bold fellow', wbo is perpetually explaming
the fenfe, and endeavouring to amend the
flyle. See Le Clerc on A<5\s x. ^5, and
5i iron, Lettres choides, 11. let- 26. (p. 438.)-

phi on,

Revlevj of New Ruhlicatiom,

phron, Aracreo'n, Anthologia, Ar'Oo-
phanes, Hefiofl, Homer, jofephus, Lu¬
can, Menander ami Philemon, Sophocles
and Theocriais ; on Latin one's Amo-
■hius, Brixus (an author con temporary
with More and Erafmub), Cicero, Ciau-
dian, Corneli’us Nepcs, Dolecus (criti-
cifed in our vnl. LXL p. 434), £raf-
mus’ poems Frienfliemiub, ot whom
an excellent chara^h-r is given ; PIo-
race, Juflin, Jultinian, Juvena', Lac-
tancius’ epitome additional, Lucan, Lu¬
cretius, Meurfii Reliqua Attica, Ovid
(on v^hom, Cicero, Min. Felix, &:c.
much is left unextrafied from tlie Mif-
eellantous Obfervations on Autliors,- fee
11. p. 290) ; Phtedius. Seneca (from the
Prelent State of the Republic k of Let¬
ters, Augufl, 1734, 9)5 Tertullian,

Yirgil (enlarged), Caiaubon, Bifhop
'Chandler, Pope, Thirlbv, and Voltaire.

Maxims and Reflexions.

This publication cotnpietes the coliec-
tiori of Dr. Jortin’s v/orks ; fee our vol.
XLVl. p. 495; LVIL 197; LVllL
604. A charaXer rf him and ills wri¬
tings is given XLVH. 593, from Mr.
Knox's ElTays. A cruiepee on his ler-
mons, which were frequently tranflations
from the French, and fliould not ha^e
been printed as fits, LIV, 86, Sz6. Kis
nqtes on Genelis (LVlii. 604) and M.
Mufgrave’s edition of Euripides (ibid.
121) are not inferted in this coileXion.
A tranflation ol his poem on'the Nature
of the Soul may be ften LiX. 744, and
of his third ode ibid. 746. His “ lupe-
rior method of treadng the dogmancal,”
LIX. 822 ; an epigram'of his, XLVill.
^79; tranflamd, ibid. 383; fome parti-”
cuiars of him, XL11L-3S7, 438.

123. The lAonuments and Va’inted Glafs hi One
Hunctred Churches^ CS'<r. G-^c,

MR. P. tells us, in the introduflion,
that, being bbhgtd to nde on horleback.
for health, he took, for an ohjeX to en¬
courage perfeverance in thus r'mt'dyS re¬
peated vifits to the churches liere de-
feribed, in which he palled many ngrte-
ab’e hours. Of ihefe he aXually vifued
67, and obtained accounts of upwards
of AO more from the ofneiating clergy,,
wliole names are fulrjoincd thtieto.
tie mgh many were dead before tins pab-
Jic acknovv'cdgement. We join in his
legi'ft and indignation at feeing f^esuti-
ful and veiierable memorials lo often
iiiamt fully negle6ded and broke in
churches, as well as very frequently
' falling to pieces and unregarded in the
haiis anci LtlcliwUS of fat m*

where once they were the honeff pride
and plealurc of our ancellors ; as aifo
that Somner, Wcever, and other anti¬
quaries, pals by epftapfis-and monuments
becaufe not antient, wlierelry many va-
fuable then modern ones have been lofl;
and deploring the lofs of io many braffes
and other monuments fince Weever’s
time, by the hands of Sacrilege, in ths
civil war. “ May it never be the fate of
my work to be fuch a proof of horrid
profuflon, by becoming a repofitory of
monuir.enrs defaced or demoHfhed by
facrilegious plunder. Yet, alas! if the
fhocking feenes are ever aXed here,
which are now fatally exhibited in un¬
happy France, fuch may be its lot. Buc
1 will neither enlarge upon nor enter¬
tain the painful idea. May the God of
mercy avert from us the horrors now
reigning there, and in his goodnefs fpee-
ddy put an end to the calamities of that
wretched people!” The cofleXor fpeaks
modeftly of his own induffry j and “for
the work — -it wd! fpeak to every heart,
at lead to evt*ry feeling heart, and, of
confequence, give pleafu^e ; amufement
anrl infl:iu£\ion will, L prdume, natu-
. rally follow.''

Vv'e mufl: content ourfelves with
giving a hit of the feveral churches. '

I. Churches examined by Mr. Parfons:

, St. A ndrew’s, Canterbury ; Afliford ; Ald¬
ington; St. Alphage, 'Canterbury j Allfiints,
Canterbury; Eoughton Aluphj Boughton
felean ; Brabor.rnj Kadlefmere; Biiliopf-
bourne ; Chaliock ; Clrariiig ; Chartham j
Chart magiia; Chart parva ; Chiiham ;
Crundall ; St. Dunfean’s, Canterbury j Eafl;-
ling.; Eaflweli ; Elmeftead ; Fordwich ;
Godmerfham ; Gra eney ; St. Geo'rge's,
Canterbury 5 Hackingtou ; Haflingly ; Har-
drefs Upper; Hinkflrll; Hothfield ; Hor¬
ton 5 Holy Crofs Weilgate, Canterbury ;
Kennington; Lenliam : Leveland; iwaipnej
St. Mary Magdalen s, Canterbury; St.Ma’-
garet’s, Canterbury ; . St. Mary Bredman’s,
Canterbury ; St, Mary BieJin, Canterbury j
Merflaam ; St. Mildred’s, Cifuterbury ; Sc
Maxtiivs, Canterbury; Mo'alb; Nacking-
ton j Nevvnham ; Nortiigare, Canterbury;
Petham-; FofUing ; Fluckley ; St. Pptpr’s,
Ciinterbury; St- Paui,C.aiiterbury ; Ssllin’ge;
Selling; Sevington ; SlKlbvich; Smeed ;
Stalisfield ; Steiling ; Stowting; Stm ry ;
Tlrrowley ; V/altham ; Weflbeer;, Weil-
vveli ; VViileroorougii; Wye,

2 .. C tfu rch,- s corn m u ni cated :

A/kiiam; Barham; Betherfden; Bongh-
ton‘ Mounchelfea ; ‘ Broohland ; Breuzet ;
Bridge; Chillec; Doddmgtoll ; Eadry; El-
I'am ; - Elmftniie ; Headcorn ; High K?d-
den; Kipglnotll; Kingtfonj Lyafled.? New

, . Romney ;

17^4-] Review of New Puhlicaitons, » 74^

Romney; Newington; St.NicholasatWade ? and his friends will make that ufe ot it.

Norton; Ofpringe; (7ld Romney; Patriclcf-
bourn; Prefton near Faverflrara ; Rainham;
R ing would ; Saltwood ; SandhurH:; Seven-
oaks; Sha.^doxhurft ; Smarden ; Stone in
Oxney; Swingfield; Teynham ; Ulcomb ;
Upper Deal; VValderlhare ; Warehorn 5
Woodchurch ; Wymenfv%'ould.

3. Appendix :

lladlelgh ; Lavenham ; Dedham ; De¬
tached Epitaphs; Notes.

136. A Sermon, delivered nt the Bow Meetings
houfe, Exeter, July 7, 1794, before the So¬
ciety of Unitarian Chrijtiam efiahli fl:>ed in the
Wcji oj' England, c£fr. Vubliji^ed at the
Ref^nejf of the Society, hy T. ReyneU. To
nvhich /t prefxed, the Correfpondence hefnveen
Ccunfc'lor White and M*-. T oulmin, relative
to the Refufal of George’s Meeting-houfe,

. Exeter, f.,r the- Religious, Service uluaily
held on the Day of the General Meeting of
the Society. ^ !-j

IT appears from this correfpondence,
that Mr. Toulmin, on June 29, 1794,
gave notice, in George’s tneecing-houie,
that On the Wtdnefday foliowing,
being the day appointed for the annual
meeting of tiie Society of Unitarian
Chriflians, eftablifiied for promoting
Chriftian knowledge and the praiiice of
virtue, by the diftribution oi books, a
fermon will be preached on the occahon
in this place,” &c.

Mr. White, the fame morning, re-
quefts Mr. Toulmin, in a note, to in¬
form liim whether “ th£ notice was gi¬
ven hy permiliion of the truhees.” He
anTwer-s, that he received the notice
from Mr. Kenrick. “Mr. White de-
fires, as one of the truhees, that he
won id requeft Mr. K.'^ to contradiff,
in the afternoon at the meeting-houf e,
the notice that had been given in the
morning'; and that he intended to cab a
meeting of the truftees the next day on
tiie fuhjeff.” Mr. T, returns for rn-
fwer, that he cannot comply with his re-
queff, as Mr. Tv, was then at Crediion. —
The next d.ay Mb a!rea>l)Ies the

tiuftees, and inf /rrns Mr. T. of tf:e re-
fult of their conference — “shat they
were u ianimviufiy of opiinon, that the
Itouie fiiould not he opened on the occa-
fion, and that they had giv< n rinirdi-
rediicns accordingly.” Then foi’ows a
rote “fiom ihe rruflce> arnl othcis of
the Bow rncetitg.h&u'e,” dated the Hr
of Ju'v, requeuing that “ Mr. Ivenrick

* Mr. Kenrick, we un.-'erfland, is t!ie
rniniller of Ge< rge’s me^’hog lioulb in Exe¬
ter; aid Mr. Touimm of aiiull^of meetmg-
huufe in Taunioti.

on the morrow, which their ancefiors
have been accufomed to glory in [and
may they not continue the eufomP \ viz*
vvorHiiping the great God according to
the dictates of their confcience,”^ 'Ehis
correfpondence, the cream of which wc
have endeavoured to whip off as care-:
full y as poBible, c includes with an
traft from the minutes pf tlie Society of
Unitarian Chriltians, expreding their
thanks “to the cruftees and other rnem- ,
bers of the Bow meeting-houfe, for the
very liberal and ha'nulomc manner in
W'hicii they ofi'eied them the ufe of the
houfe fur the religious fervices of this
dav.”

\\''hy this important bnfinefs feould he .
brought before the world \ve cannot,
guefb, unlefs it is given as an indanc'e
of p.rfecution “ by jalfe briibrm f lor,
we find it is pv.hhiheci “ agreeably to die
unanimous refolution of die Uriita isa
Society.”

We cannot, however, be the leaf]:
inapropriety in the condurf of Mr. White
and the other rruflees of George’s meet-
ing-houfe, but much that delerves cen-
furc in that'bf Mr. T. and Mr. K, whe*,
appear to have trea ed them with great
di(iefpe£t. The latter could have no
right to authorize the former to ofRciate
on a peculiar and unprecedented occatioa
without permifllon of the ts uflees, 'and .
the ocher muil have known it. Had the
aani verfary , of this Society been ufually
iblemnlzed at George’s rneeting-houfe, .
as at flip, from a little ambittuicy in ihc
title q’'-<ge, we were led to fuppofe, the
cafe would have been altered; but vve
arc told, that “ the hril jiuh'ic Icrvics
[of this kind] was held at Crediton, in
Septeinbei, 1792, the year in which the
Society was iirft iiiftiiuted ; the fecoucl
at 'Taunton, Sept. 3, 1793-’^ This is
not the only inl-fance Mr. K. has given
of his zeal’s ftepping bevond the bounds
of (fbci etion.- — 'The dKcoiirfe, though on.
the fame principles as tiiofe he main¬
tains, is not of (o outrageous a nature ?,s
his, Mr. ReyneU does n">t, like him,
call upon bis “ aidive and courageous,
aflociates to exrirpjtc hcrefy and error,”
but from the texf (Titu-> ii. 10), Adorn
the dofirine, exhorts ids audicoce ro the
pracl ce of all modern viitu s. “ Ti e
errors of a julfe creed,'’ (avs lie, wt:
mav I’.ave had opporiuo tics of obicrving,
are Ibinecitnes, in a man.ner, f-wabovved
up in rl'te virtue of its tolio'.veis, and
men have been led 'o einimace abiuroicy
Horn the purity of its proHiiors. A"d

^44 Review of New PuhllcaiiGns. — Literary Intelligence* [Aug*

if the difFulion of error, witli all its dif-
advantajres, is thus in fome degree ca¬
pable of being; e^e61ed by the morality
©•F its difciples, the fame caufe muft, in
a far greater degree, afTifl in extending
the dominion of Truth. ^ We know
Bot what falfe creed Mr. R. alludes to,
but are glad to fee him, in the following
pa;ffage, allow that even Unitarians may
be miftaken : ^ To check a dogmatical

and fupeTcilious chara61er, it is of ad¬
vantage for men to refleft, that, how-
sevey .confident they may be of the truth
of their principles, however firm they
siiav imagine the ground on w’hich they
aire eftablifbed, it is, neverthelefs, pojfible
shat they may be in error. Perfons of
the firft talents have been extremely de-
cifivc and diftatonal, and have after¬
wards been reduced to acknowledge
their prefumption.” We hope this ob-
fervation will root itfelf deeply in the
minds of his Unitarian brethren. The
pride and weaknefs of human know¬
ledge have never, poffibly, been vnorc
ffrongly exemplified than in their great
apojlle^ Priefiley* The phrafe will not,
we prefume, appear too exalted in the
eyes of Mr. Reynell, who ftyles him
the great regenerator , under Gad, of
the Ckrijiian <world in modern times P*
Yet the religious opinions of this won-
tlerful being have materially varied at
^iflferent periods of his exiftence ; and
an orthodox follower of him now would^
BOt have been confidered as fuch twenty
y^ears ago, nor probably will be fotwenty
years hence. — —The idea of peifecution
conveys with it a fecrec charm tp the
minds of all genuine Unitarians. Mr.
K. fpeculates largely on it. The perfe-
cution of Dr. Prieftley is an inexhapdi-
ble fubjeft. And yet what peifecution
has Dr. Prieftley received on account of
his theological opinions ? Mis “ unforced,
reluBant exile” cannot be owing to any
ill treatment he experienced on their ac¬
count. He preached and pubiiOied (nor
was he abftemious in ufing the permitfion
allowed him in a land of liberty) what¬
ever he pleafed, without any oppofition
from the rulers of church or ftate. If
his political opinions difgufted the Bir¬
mingham mob, they have, though not
in the degree this boafted extmplar “of
the genuine fpirit of forgivenefs” vvilhed,
anfwerecl for it. If he pays not more
refpe^l: to “ the Powers that be” here¬
after, he may poifibly be lels complai-
fantly tieatetl, not by the mob, but the
Icgiflators in America.

In regard to pei fecution, however, Mr.
R. has not fuch ardent hopes as Mr. K.,

feems to entertain. He exhorts his au¬
dience, indeed, to “ be firm in times of
peril and diftrefs;’* and obferves, that
“ the blood of martyrs has been the feed
of the church.” — “ Happily,” he add&,
“ for us, perhaps my as indivi¬

duals, Perfecution, with ftakts and
flames, does not now hold over us “ her
red arm of vengeance. “ Tet the name
ought Jjiil to be written on our fatuies ;
and it is to be feared that the fpirit ftill
lurks in the hearts of fome of our
deluded fellow-citizens **

Much is faid to the fame purport |
but we truft Mr. R’s fears, and Mr. R's
hopes to reap the benefit of “ aa. a(^ive,
perfecution,” are equally groundlels-
Let the Unitarians a6f like good citizens,
and the loyal part of the community w ill
never perfecute them for their religious
fentiraents-

iLirER^RY Intelligence.

We have the plealure to learn, from
the account of the fith annual account of
the collation of the LXX verfion, by
Dr. Holmes, publiflied at Oxford, up
to Marcii 25, 1794, laudable

undertaking has been attended with very
great fuccels ; that the lums fubferibed
amount to 5757I. ; and though at pre»
fent the expences exceed the receipt by
near 80I. as the annual fubferiptions for
the four laft years exceed 600I. the pro-
grefs of the collation has been fuch, that
-64 folio volumes of it have been exhi¬
bited before the delegates of the Claren¬
don prefs, and then depofited an the
Bodleian library j and that there has
been laid before the board, drawn out
into the forms requifite for printing, ac¬
cording to the I'pecimen of a printed
page, exhibited iaft year, the copy of
fuch variations from the Vatican text as
appear in 4S MSS, 4 editions, and the
Coptic, Sclavonian, Armenian, and
Georgian verfions. MSS have been
collated at Florence, Milan, Rome,
Evora, Madrid, Copenhagen, Lorrain,
Paris’^, Molcowfj Cher/on, Moldavia,
Bdfil, Vienna.

* Mr. Coray has noi^ as far as it a'ppears,
haen yes prevented from continuing tire col¬
lation of MSS in the Royal library. It may
therefore be prefuraed that he will continue
to adf, even ihouglt it ihould he impoliible
for epiftolarycommunicat.on to pafs between
him and Dr. H.

It is pleafant to fee the little influence
the Metropolitan of Mofeow, or even the
Holy Synod, has over the Patriarchal library,
tkeir leave for collating its MSS. bein^ to be
fohcited from the Emprcls lieilelf.

Sele^ Poeiry^ AntUnt and Ulodern, for Auguft, 1794*

ttJE TO THE KIMG, ON HIS ARRIVAL AT
WEYMOUTH, BY THE KEV. W. T ASKER*
FIRST WRITTEN IN I789.

The Nation’s loyal vows Ihall not be
vain !

Gotldels of Health, Hygeia! from the main,
Waited by healing breezes, rife.

Aid the mild influence of the Ikies;

Expand thy Zephyr’s gentle gales
O’er Dorfet hills and Melcombe’s vales;
Pure air from ftrength’ning Ocean bring,
Fragrant and frefh from Britain’s King;

Pure air inftindl with native power,
tJufoil’d by noxious herb or flower.

God of the Sea ! (whofe torrents ceafe to
roar;

And in flow tide
• Delighted glide

On Royal Melco'mbe’s * circling (bore);
From hidden treafures of thy wealth,

C7ive that nioft precious jewel — Health :
And yield it as a tribute free,

Great Ruler of the deep, from Thee,
Fftablilh’d Healih—moft brillihnt gem.

That can adorn a Monarch’s diadem.

III.

God of the Sea! fince George has deign’d
to lave,

In thy fait dream, and vigour- giving tvave,
Brace to new flrengtli his feepter’d. hand,
IStrongly to gralp the Enfign of Command,
And raife it high ! till didant realms obey
'And court the umpire of its righteous fway :
Second to thee,* let him controul the main,
iBut o’er his fubjedls hearts without a rival
reign.

IV.

Gre.at God of Healing, Heat, and Light !

O Sol ! elate in beaming car,

In radiant courfc confpicuous far,
pifpel the envious fhides of Night,

Kefume thy wonted fplendors bright;

Kid the ripe corn flekls laugh and fing,

In ioyful fympathy with Britain's King;
j )ifhde o’er Charlotte’scheekthe lading fmile,
T lienee let the chearing beam illumine Al¬
bion’s Xfle 1

Ye Maids on Pindus’ flowery top who dwell.
Attune to dulcet notes the founding Ihell:
Exert your magic power, and charms divine
Wiihrofy finger’dmorn,harmoniousNine! t
Round George’s patriot brow the wieath J
‘ of health to twine. J

The antient name of Weymouth was
Meicombe Regis, or King’s Melcombe.
Gent. Mac. 1794.

VI.

While nobler Bards may ftrike the lyre
Impregnate with extatic fire !

Permit thy humble votary to bring
His mite of fong to thee, O King !

E’en as the gentle rivulet of Wey

Rolls his fmall current to the Monarch Sea!

UPON THE VICTORY OF yunS I, 1 794,

Comp'-tfed at Drury-iane^ June- 1 5,

BY LORD MOUNTMOR RES.

Cuju% ora non funt fi^ay Jed aliena. S r L D e n •

. I.

BEHOLDwhereBritain’s Fair triumphant
meet,

With w'ell-earn’d praife their favour’d Chief
to greet ;

To place th.e laurel on the Conqueror’s brow;
To celebrate the fkill and name of Howe.

11.

Aufpicions be the glorious happy hour,
When Britain re-afferts her antient pow’r |
Her Naval Trophies far difplays, ^

And emulates Eliza’s golden days,

III.

To cheer and animate a fupine race,

O may it live in Hiflory’s page;

Like Grecian Sal'arais in antient lore.

Or Solebay’s far-fam’d celebrated ftiore,

IV.

Still Britain’s antient Glory lives,

While Nottingham in Howe furvives;

In Paifley and in Bowyer wake
The fouls of Ruffell and of Blake,

V. '

When favage fwarms tlie Mufes land Invade;
And direful fears Athenian breads pervade ;
The fage Themiftocles mod timely c.ils
To place tlieir confidence in Wooden Walls.

VI.

Proverbial be thofe words to Britifh ears !
Their hopes to animate, and quell their fears.
Long to preferve their wide domain ;

And wave their trident o’er the main.

Mr. Urban,

I .Should not have attempted a verfion of
the following well-known Sonnet of Pe¬
trarch’s, beginning with,

S’’ Amor non e ; che dunque ^ quel ch' i' fento ?

if I had ever feen any tranflation in vvliich
the following lines weie properly nytic.^d:

Fra Jt contrari venti in f'ule barca
Me trovo i'n alto mar Jcwza governoy
Si lie-ve di favery d' error Ji carce.”

If ’tis not love, what is it then, I feel?

I f ’tis ; how palling drange, ye powers above I
Jf Love.be kind, lo deadly w'hy its deel?
But, if ’(is cruel, why fy pleafing prove *

^4^ ^ele5i Poitryy Antleni and Modern^ far Aiiguff, 17(54;

tf'Vjy my choice, why weep, or figb, or
'plain ?

EiU, if ’tis not, wVvat hoots it to lament?
Oh living death ! delicious' difcontent !
Againft my will caufl thou extend thy reign ?
But, if I yield, 'tis juilly I ’m diftrefs’d.

In ftormy teas, while rudderlefs is toft
My bark, fo frail, by adverfe winds fo croft.
With knowledge freighted light, with error
prefs’d, [know;

Kor where I drive, nor what I ’d have, I
I fi eesein fummer, burn in’ winter’s fnovv.

W. H. R.

STANZA.S ON DISAPPOINTMENT.

H 1 who (hall hope that time relief will

give.

When bleeds his bofon vvith Love’s aching
wound ?

Say, ftaall not memory bid the anguifti live.
The bitter recolle<!ilion ftill be found ?

Vain is the thought to banilh Love’s controul,
Or feek his rofy fetters to unbind ;

The recreant god will ftill poffefs the foul.
Imprint the fairy image on the mind.

Fondly we tread the flowery paths of Love,
And drink the poifon’d fountain’s chryftal
ftream,

Till, reafon captur’d, we incautious rove.
Nor wake till miftry roufe us from the
dream.

So the lorn traveller, from the fultry way.
Flies to th’ embowering wood’s fequefter’d
111 ad e.

Content in liftlefs indolence to ftay.

His toil, till evening’s cooler hour, delay’d'.

Alas ! when evening comes with feafon mild,
Lo 1 varying clouds the jocund feeae de¬
form,

Then night arrives, and o’er the wide heath
wild

Darts the blue Uglitning in the murky ftorm.

Now dire difmay, while threat’ning thunders
roll,

Th’ imaginary phantom’s viewlefs courfe,
Strike deep their terrors on thefuffei ing foul.
And wake th’ unwary wanderers to re-
mo rfe.

Thus he, who loiters in Love’s mazy bow’r.
Intruding reafon ftlenc’d and i eprelt,

Shall live to anguifh, and the ve-nom pow’r
Of ill-requited paflion rend his breaft.

Clekicus.

THE AMOR FUGITIVUS OF MOSCHUS,
TRANSLATED BY N. K.

CUPID is fled, the Cyprian goddefs cry’d)
Ungrateful boy, to quit his mother's fide !
O ye'wbo chance his heedlefs fteps to fee.
Mine is tlie vagrant, waft the news to ms t

No kind return my grateful heart will fpard i
The kifs of Venus lliall reward your care x
But, fhould fome happier Iwain my child re-
ftore,

His not that kifs alone, but fomiSthing more.

Mid twenty youths the charmer you may tell.
Unerring figns deferibe his form fo well;

High glows his cheek with beauty’s piaqds

^'ye,

And keen and piercing is his fiery eye;
Smooth are his words, but treacherous is
his heart, [part;

And far his thoughts from what his lips im-
Soft flows his voice, as Hybla’s honey mild,
And meek the manners of the feeming child ;
But woe to him whom fond belief beguiles
To fliare his favours, or to truft his fniiles 1
Deceitful boy ! fiir Friendfhip’smafk beneail?>
His fpoits are cruel, and his paftime death ;
Still prone to torture, his relentlefs rage
No tears can foften, and no prayers ali'uage,-
Flis infant brows luxuriant ringlets giace,

But wanton malice marks his roguifh face ;
Involving garbs his polifh’d limbs clefpife,.
But tenfold veils^ his pltrtung foul difguife ;
With nimble wings, from breaft to breaft he
ftrays.

Lurks in the Iieart, and on the vitals preys..
Small are his hands, yet well thofe hands can
bend

The twanging bow, and many an arrow fend 5
Slender that bow, yet far its arrows fly,
Reach Pluto’s realms, -and pierce the lofty fky;
Well ftor’dwithlhaftshis golden quiver hangs.
Heart-piercing fhafts ! iaflidUng bitter pangs;
Nor rank nor fex their general fury [pares.
And e’en thefmart this wounded bofom iharcs,
All, all are cruel, but, ftill more than all,
That little torch, the torch of Love w'e call;
With power yet keener than the folar ray.

It fires the breaft, and melts the heart away.

Ye roving nymphs, the wayward boy who find,-
Secure him well, with-trufty fetters bind.
Let neither tears nor fmiles your pity move,
Thofe tears and fmiles alike deceitful prove
But chief his fond embrace^ and ardent kif-
fes, fly ;■ [die.

Thofe lips are poifon, they who tafte them
Accept thsfe gifts, the youth, perhaps, will
fay,.

My harmlefs weapons at your feet I lay ;
Touch not his gifts, nor let your hearts defire
Thofe dangerous arms, thofe arrows tipt with'
fire.

SONNET,

To THE RIVER LEE, IN HERTFORDSHIRE

OLee, thy verge, acclivous, oft I prefs’d»
The rural riot, joyous founds, to (hun.
For folitude; what time the finking fun
Slow pour’d its golden glare adown the Weft,
Or lav’d me, fanciful, where on thy breaft
His laft beam linger’d 5 and anon was worl,

■As

SdeiJ Poetry, AntUnt (tnd Modern, for Auguft, 1794.

747

A s fhadows folemn fpreat), to ->76 thy guei|t
Dark Hilly Niglit — an iinproteifled one.

Peace fmirdy my friend — the Ijoliday of life
Was paffing then ; for, youth fat on mybrow,
Unknowing time’s irrefragable blow,,
Which rends my heart, poor vafhU ! bent to
ftrife,

Tliat oft, dejected mourns.' Ah ! vain 1 moiirn-^
Thy tranquil feenes in fancy but jreturn.
Conduit -Jlreet. J. H»

Sonnet,

I To the Duchess of Marlborough,

On the building nnd endowing jidlms-Houfcs J or
Six P«or PJ' idows.

XN deep AfRidlion’s rigid fcience ’bred,

J[ Bent by Calamity’s oppreffive rod,

.How many fink the meek-lubmirted head,
Hopejefs of l^elp — ifave only from their God !
'The widow weeps, the orphan droops unfeen.
While Fortune’^ favourites Hand with cold,
avei ted mien.

Yet know, ihef elnlh breaH, That cannot feel.
In vain for pkafure leans on wealth or Hate:
Ne’er was the bofom Hamp’d with Ti anf-
port’s feal, [fate.

■Th?t heav’d .no figh, nor felt for Mifery’s
I'isthisjOiVlAR LBRo’,thatwill gild thyname,
I hy heart delight whth retiofpedlive view ;
Gain virtue's meed, give pure and laHing
fame; [in you !

For, want and widow’d age a refuge find.

CARMEN OL. GOLDSMITH, M. B.

La TINE RE DDITUM.

( Continued f>sm f. 653.)

ESPERE ut aellivo defeendit rofeidus
humor,

Hand aliter Hillant moHia <licla fenis—
fnflexo juvenis teHatur coi pore grates,

Et blandi comitis geHit adhe. domum.

Valle fub umbrofur virgultis obfita denfis,
BylveHris tuguri ruHica te61a jjcent —
Saepe iiic confilium petiit vi<-inia lupplex ;

Auxilium fupplex advena faepe petit.

Non Ihc regales gazae, nitmmive fuperhi,
(Solliciti domini fplendida cura) intent.
Obice fnhian>, converfo et cardine, porta
Hofpitium puero dat, pheidoque duci.
Dumque alii feHo celebrant convivia luxn,
Dumque alios fonmi dulcia vincla tenent^
Add)t ligna fenex, lopitum fufeitat ignem,

Et moeilo comiti gauJia ferre Hudet.
Jamque paratur oius — jam profert munera;
menfam

InHruit urbana fedulitate pater— [nignq
Prifeornm memoranda canens, fermone be-
Allicit, et no6lem fallit amoena loquens.
Felicula interea ludir, faltatque jocofe

Holpita feHivi blanda, comefque fenis— ^
Tu veteres* cantus, habitator grille caminl,
InHauras — gratum, torris aduHe, crepas 1

- - . .i».i I. .. .1..

* Tiie word is applied by Virgil to a mo¬
notonous found :

Et vetcrem in lirao ranae cccinere querokm.

FruHra — nam puero manet alto pedloremoi-
ror—

Nec reqnies mifero, nec medicina datur:
Curarum irigenti prsecordia mole laborant,

Et teneras lachrymis immaduere gense.

(To be continued.) H, G, B,

Ae Amtcum, \ulthnis NoRT HUMERI^®
Pcgionibus fpontefud exulantem.

( A TranJJation is requejied. )

ERGONE ad imperii fines, loca vaHa,

( malignum

Limen, et extreme regna fepulta finu,
Qiia nive perpetua, folioque gelata minaci
pTo’Tf't H y E M s, fixo pondere faxa premen's,
.Ergoue laetus abis ? — nec Te tenuere moran-
teni,

Imm’^rnm ! amplexus, ah trepida^rte manu;
(Qnaeque, ingrate, pudet) vix peaore mur¬
mur amico,

Confeia vix iterum girtta repreffa genis ?
Lsetus abi; monrana s alus, fpirabile coeli
Lumen, et aerius qoa vocat ire vigor :
Primus et aude iter, curfuque accenfus an-
helo,

Aude, intempefli nubila fperne [ovis;
llo, fakitifeiis fulgentes excute faltus
Roi ibus ; seHivae fcande pericla nivis.

* Ter felix, cui iuterdum ingens tremefecit^

hianti

Gurgite aquas, rupto monte, rninacadens!
Ter felix, cui multnm a.deo ludlata procellis,
Eruta fuimineo turbine fylvajacet!
Magnificas audilfc clades, miracula rerum,

Ut juvat, et Iseto mille ptricla metu !

Ah juvat lijc revocare dies, cum, iufanior
Omni

Turbine, dvilis coiatnlit arma furor 1
Ingruit eccealto, per arnica cadaverarumpens,
Fraterna, infatsdum ! raifia fagitta manu s
Defixnm afpexi cognato in vulnere ferrum ;

Et vix divifo fanguine -f- pluma madet,
Lugentes campi 1 — nec vos oblita filebit
I -Vufa, fenulchrales dofta fonare modos.
Majorum alvete umbrae, fortiflRma divUni
Progeiues, nulla gens ruitura clade !
Salvete, imperii fines, loca valta, fuperbunj
luttus^ et ArdfoQ ipaxima regna finU-i

Tq the Memory
of

JohnDela? Halliday Efq.

Who

With a princely fortune.

And fl. mind
Of equal magnitude,

Enjoy’d the fmile of all who knew him.

Of the fubbrne horror of a mountain-
Horm, or catarail, tli,? inhabitant of the plain
has no conception.

f ** The grey-goofewlng,thatwas thereon,
** In his heart’s bl#od was wet.**

:J; The Author of * Clie\'y-cuact* ,

748

SeleSf Poetry^ Antunt and JlAodern^ for Aug\i9:, T794*

With tafte

And fenfihility endow’d,

He was tlie friend
of

Genius,, Indig knce, and Woeth ;

Nor oflentatioufly affum’d a merit to hirofelf,
In adding '

To their happinefs and eafe.

His eccentricities
Wei-e virtues in difguife,

And fprang from fociability alone.

Whatever courfe he took,

And various v\as the fphere he trod,
Philanthropy^

Wasneareft to his lieart;

Nor could Ingratitude

(That haggard oiTsiiring of ‘ a vicious mind).
And he has oft’times -•

Met heron his way,

Suppi’efs his liberality of foul,
Orchage

The intent benign his bofora felt.

A hove the woi hi ,

He triight be deem’d a living referveir of
wealth, '

That pout’d around
Its golden ftreams to blefs mankind.

To pidlure

Wliat he w^as, demands a mafter’s hand —
For thofe

Who knew him well
Will heave the involuntary figh ,

And fay

** We ne'er fhali look upon his like again.”

TRANSLATIONS from the
Latin, Spanish, G f. I t alian.
By W . H A M I L T d N R E 1 D.
Cupidinem ex Iridcy non VenexCy natum ejje,

JdJonyeji^ faWth Hie quern putatisy
Po'eta!f ' Veneris puer Gupido^ '

Ilium nam auricomi thoro Favoni
^unEia Iris genuit :

Uinc patris placidos rlfert fufurrosy
Hinc matres mdrios rejert colores.

Ci^pid horn of Irisy not of Venus.

Peceiv’d is liie Poet, whoever he be, .

Wh® fuppofes Love’s mother the Nymph of
the fea ;

Not (lie, but thegolden-hair’d Iris, ’tis plain.
Was the mother of Lbve, bur fweet pleafure
and pain : [defe,

As file once to the Wefl did her bofom dif-
She was kifs’d by Favonius, whence Cupid
arofe ; ”

Kis fire endow’d him with whifpers and vvi’e":,
Hismotherwith beauty, 'and blandifhiugfmiles.

.7 A'/ Sepulcro de un Ipn^no.

Faze el gran Bonana a quien
Sera ejin piedra no leve ; ■

Ffee un gufano ian fnpeney
Se lo irago que al enano . .

Z.C fobra, onas^del .gufano * ■
a forms de la Vallen&a ,

Upon the Fomh of a D-xuarf.

Eonana lies here, a minikin wight,

To whom this grave-Rone can by no mean?

be liglit ; ■ [pain

For, fo little his bulk, that a worm without
May fwallow him whole, and his body con¬
tain, [difown us.

With much more convenience, or Heav’n
Than the w’hale chat once gobbled the body
'of Jonas.

Ein Gelehrt Man,

Gelehrt iji User vdn Efeny
Er hat die Meffiaele dutchgelcfen:
j^llein ’XJerjland'er auch wol diefs gcdicht ?
fa 'y Hiber Gott I das ‘wets ich nuht.

A Learned Man.

In F, - a learned rwan we view,

He ’as read the whole Melliah through ^

Eut does he underfland it, pray ?

Why, in God’s name, I cannot fay»

Eahbra de Fuoco,

.i^el iuot ■vermigli Eabhray
Lilia non fon cor alii y
0 rub inly 0 cinabrl ;

Con quel finto color mi prendi agioco
Sana, feno dl fuoco
Elifero lo eomprendoy

Che quanto piu te bucio to pin ni aecoido^
fhe Lips rf Fire.

Thofe lips, that feem Vermillion biiglit^

Are not, nor coral in my fight j ' ’

Nor cinnabar, nor ruby’s ray, i-
To my admiring eyes convey r
No feign’d pretences I admire,

Thofe lijis I know, are lips of fire ;

By fad experience tliis I learn,

The more 1 kifs, the more 1 burn 1”^

H U M A N I T Y.

AN ODE.

iLOW, blowy ye winds! with heavier

__ S' ft ■

And freeze, thou bitter-biting froft !
Defend, ye chilly, frrfothering fnows !_

Not all your rage, uinted, fhews
Morehaid unkindnefs, unrelenting,
Vengeful malice, riurepentmg,

■ Than heav’n-illumin’d Eian on brother
Elut beftews ! - -

See Rein OpprelTion’s iron lip,

See mad Ambition’s gory hanil,

Sending, like blond-hounds from the flip,
Woe, w'an", and murder, o’er aland!

Even

■JT - In our world. Death deputes

Intemperance to do the work of age !

And, hanging up the quiver Nutuie gave him.
As flow of execution, for difpatch
^ends forth imperial butchers; bids them flay
Their flieep [the filly fkeep they fleec’d be-

• fuiej • . .

... And

Sele^ Po^iy, A/iilenl and Mod^rriy for

Even in the peaceful, rviral vale,

Truth, weeping, tells the mournful tale,
^Tow laixury, witli Flattery by her fide,

‘ The parafite empoifoning her ear,

With all the fervile wretches in the rear.
Looks o’er proud property extended wide f
And eyes the fimple lowly liind,

Whofe roil upholds the glittering (how,

A creature of another kind,
pome coarfsr fubftance, unrefin’d.

Plac’d for her lordly ufe thus vile below !
Where, where is Love’s fond, tender throe,
With lordly Honour’s lofty brow,

The powers you proudly own ?

Is there, beneath Love’s noble name,

Can harbour, dark, the felfifla aimi,

To blcfs himfelf alone ? -

Mark maiden innocence a prey
To love-pretending fnares :

This boafted honour turns away,

Shunning foft Pity’S rifing fway,r
' Regardlefs all of tears, and unavailing
prayers.

Perhaps, this hour, in mifery’s fqualid nefl,
She ftrains your infant to her joylefs bread,
iAnd with a mother’s fears Ihrinks at the
rocking blaft ! ' x '

'■*= Oh, ye ! who, funk in beds of down,

" Feel not a want but wh'dl yourfehes 'create^
Think, for a moment, on his haplefs fate,
Whom fnends and fortune quite difown !
lll-faiisfy’d keen Hunger’s clamorous call.
Stretch’d oa his ftraw he lays himfelf ro
fleep, [wall,

While through the ragged roof, and chinky
Chill, o’erhis An mbex'S, falls tire drifty heap!
Think on the dungeon’s grim confine,

Think on the terrors of riie mine.

Where guilt and poor miTortune pine I '

‘ Guilt, erring Man, relenting view 1
Nor let thy legal rage purfue
The wretch, already beaten low
By dire Misfortune' s undeferved blow !
Airlidllon’s fons are brothers in diftrefs;

A brother then relieve, and God the deed
(hall blefs. ' R. B.

ODE.

FROM THE ETHIOFiC.

Y T U S H’ nis the fury of the wint’ry florm

Melodious murmurswarble through the
wood ;

Tlie p'ain no longer fhakes
Beneath the torrent’s roar.

O Thou, wdiofe bounty bids the meadows
fnmle

With verdant bounty and w'ith fragant flovv-

And tofs him twice ten thoufand at a meal.

Young’s Confolation.
C17 havoc, and let-flip rhe dogs of wav.
f . Shakerpeare.

^ Ah little think the gay licentious proud,
Whom plcafiii e, povvei', 3ud affluence fin -
' round, &C. Thinfon,

V/ho deignefl to adorn
All Nature wltli toy 1 o\'e !

T Hou, whofe high mandats fun and flars obey,
Sow'in oui' bbfoms ihofepioUfic feeds

Whence fpriug? the Jieavenly flower
Of gratitude divine.

From the full fountain of thy crack bedew
Our fpirits ; fo the bloflbras of thy love
Shall flotiriflr in our hearts
In never-f.idmg blcom. '

And while the mUrraufing bee fropn flower
to flower, -*

Afliduous, o’er the breathing garden flies^

Or fits on balmy Uiyme,

ExiraCllng vernal fweets

Still more alflduous in mellifluous itra'ns
This proflrate heart thy . goodaefs would
' hearfe.

And with th’ adoring world
Would glorify thy name !

' Selim,

Proud If my verfe may catch refe&ed light
prom the rich J^lendours of a mind fo bright.

H A Y L E Y , it pit Romance^
AN ODE. / '

Urban, whofe delightful page.
Ingenuous youth, and learned age^

W itti equal warmtir admire :

’Tis yours, to dip th’ afp.ring wing, ^

And bid a youthful poet flag,

And fan the rifing fire.

Excufe a youth whofe daring f6et
Approach your Mufes’ hallow’d feaf,

With lyre difeordant llru!*- ; — .

While foft a Mufe from hcav’n defeends,
(Whom every fmiiing grace attends,)

And takes the name of Y o u n c .

Whether on Fancy’s airy wings
She flies fublime ; or, (looping, fings
The lift’ning groves among :

Or, if the bids her numbers flow
Refponfive to the voice of woe j

W ho ciiafm sflike Julia Young? >

The dream that thro’ the valley glides,

Tiie flowers that deck its flieiving fide^,
Ne’er learnt fo fwcet a fong.'

Echo, enamour’d of tfie drain,

Delights to warble o’er the plain
The notes of j u l]a_ Yo un c.

Thus the f iveet Poetefs of yore.

Plaintive, along the Lefoiao (hore.

The melting Sapplfo fung. —

Ev’n flre, the maid, whofe daring lyre
Out-rival’d Pindar’s rapid fire ;

Might lid to Julia Young.

But fav, ye Maids, whatw^eighty caufe
Your new- created fifter draws

From Urban’s tuneful throng?

Afic why the fun in darknefs lie-,

With brighter blaze to mount the (kies—
Then thmk on Julia Young. N. K.

SONNET

Poetry^ Antient and Modern^ for Aiigufl, 1794*

SONHET 7 0 SLEEP.

Y fick^iing clouht,hycold neglefl oppreft»
Reludl^-nt Sleep.; 1 woo thy magic

pOVv'S',

^G»-calra the tumult in my troubled 4rw'eaft,

A-Ud chafe 1 efiedlion from tlie filent hour.

eomed apd round my throbbing temples
bind [tlevv ;

Thy ctadlure, fteep'd m ;fweet Oblivion’s
gentler vifioiis foothe my rufRed
aiind,

And ope thy fairy profpedbs to my view.

1 f court thy balmy fw-ects iti ;

Intrufive Mem’ryihyaiiid influence Icorns,
fWkb envious hand fhe breaks thy filken cliain,
wound s my 'bofom with her keeneft
thorns j

Tears^thy fofc fillet from my burning eyes,
M’iiiiie^flirinking from her touch, each bright^
illufiou flies.

HORACE, BOOK III. ODE XII L

Stmtixas alternately tranjlated by nqo
UshuJbeySy the eldcji under fij teen years of age-)

SOFT Blaiidufui! glafly water 1

Gr:-u;’dwuth flow’rets, grac’d vvithwinel
iPoirn' lhall view the lambkin’s flaughter,
Offspring of a fportive line.

P'hat tlxs’ noxv his antlers, growing^,

Prompt to love, to war his fou! ;

Skopi' hrs purple blood (hall flowing
Tinge tliy waves that cooling roil.

When- tile dogftar’s beams are beating^

Mild tliy -t~ts unfuliied glide ;

Wea^tkd oxen, flocks retreating,

Cool them in thy grateful tide.

of founts ! to fame unfading
1 the giant Oak (hall raife,

Pide tire hollow rocks o’erlhading
Whence, thy fpring loquacious plays.

THE NEW AllRANGEMENU
goodly Fabric ofiihe State,

^ Thveat’neJ vvith GalliaE fallen fate,
^'Jacobins o’ei thrown;

The Guardian Genius of our ifl<?,
fave the venerable pile,

Ettc’d it vvi'h Poi il.uid-ftopo.

impromptu. (Sec July ^ y>. 612, if
N 2S much out of fenfe as of lea-

' fon [reafon ;

'■fhm .Paine names this age as the tru:^ age of
lut if right 1 can judge, or if right [ can fee,
liETreafon he means, and he’s right to a T,

JIn T.xplanation of the follow ng probably
MonJdJh Rhymes h required.

Tolle caput, currit.

Ventrem conjunge, vo'abit,

Adde pedem, coaied.is.

Et fuie ventie bibas .

THE MELFORD DISASTER,

A NKW BALLAD, TuilC, ‘‘Tblfl of Bc

LL in the land of Suffolk,

At Melford the unwary,

On .the fide of a bark
Was play’d fuel) a prank,

By a Devil yclept Vagary,

To look about thes, Bury,

(Tliy ladies ai;efo charming)

Pc! have tflee begin;

For, the Father of Sin
Gets a tafle that’s quite alarming.

Melford’s reputation
Fm‘ fcandal we did take it,

Wiien ’iwas talk’d with difdaih^
Among the profane,

That the ladies there go naked.

’Twms early the morning.

Juft a'? the fun was pee])irig,

Three daughters of Eye
Got up without leave,

To a farmer’s poiid to creep in,

Kpr, look ye, w'ere they Naiads,
Isor, mind ye, were they Graces t
Fo!', tlie women of old.

By Ovid we’re told.

Waffl’d nothing but their faces.

Long time in Nature's buff-fuits.

Not mudi oppi’cE’d with bluflaeS|
Now in and now out,
q-j^gy paddled about,

Liks- ducks among tlie ruflies.

Nor did ye dream, ye Fair-ones^
When .taking *Och a frolic,

That tlie fweet Weft wind,
Tho’ it blew fo kind, 1
Could give a maid the colic.

.tjhi-)

dlam^*

While thus, in fportive humour,
They flounc'd about — God blefs ’ent?
Tliat villain Old Nick
Was playing a trick.

On pnrpofe to diftrefs ’em.

Three things as foft as pillows,

V/ith ftays and caps togetheiq
This cunning old wag
Put into his bag,

And flew away hke a feather.

Cloaks, petticoats, and ’kerchiefs^
On Satan’s back fufpended,

With ftockings and llioe3,|

And eke furbelows,

Clean out of fight afeended.

I'd fin^ the fequel folemn,

Did ■ viodefty allow it ;

But a dock-leaf veft
Is buf ill expreft,

By Painter or by Poet. — —

Let Coventry be no longer
For fights like iflefebe reckon’d |
For, Melford, thy fame,

Has got thee tlie name
Of Coventry the Iccond.

f R O-

r 751 ]

’ROCEEDINGS of the I^A'TIONAL CONVENTION of FRANCE j 55C

Icc. \ Deputation ®f the inhabitants of
20. Lyons heinc; admitted to tlte bar,

he Orator read tlie fol|bvving printed
P ET ITi O N.

LFGIS LATOR3-,

“ Oar repentance lias preceded the mo-
nent of the fall of the rebels. The cou¬
riered applauded the emry of the conquer-
.»r?. VVc faid, (lie reiga of Defpotlfm is
■iver; that of Liberty begins. Plunder and
Tyranny are ready to yield room for Mercy
and |uilice. The denunciations di(?lated by
aatred will be no longer received : the Jud¬
ges of the Nation will rejedl all the eviiicnce
which refentment, hatred, or intereft, fhalV
fuggell. Thefe w^ere the motives which
made us defire the end of the war. The
vv;u- Ins ceafed, and our misfortunes have
been rendered worfe; Two Commiffions,
the formidable inftruments of the vengeance
of the outraged Republic, have been efta-
Mdhed : four hundred heads were ftruck
off in one month, by virtue of their refolu-
tions! Soon after, other Judges appeared,
who complained that the blo'ad did not
ftreamin fufficient abundance ; and a Revo-
hitionary Commilhon lias been appointed.
That new Tribunal received orders to repair
to the prifons, to judge in one ar?d the fame
moment Che great number of prifoners with
which they were crammed. That Com-
miffiou pnn(S;ual!y fu'filled its rigorous or¬
ders ; and no fooner Iiad it pronounced fen-
tence than the cannon arrived, and a thun¬
der of cafe-lhnt was difcharg«d upon the
condemned ! Struck by the fatal fii e, the
yidlims of the laws fell in heaps upon each
other; and, frequently, but mutilated;
they were only half-killed by the firft dif-
chaige. Thofe viilim';, who Irad dill breath
left in them after that punilhment:, w'ere
difpatched with the fword or mufket. Even
the pity of a weak and feeling fex has been
eonffrued into a crime; two women were
dragged to the pillory for having implored
meicy for their fathers, bufbands, and
children i All tears, all commiferation,
were rigoroufly forbidden. Nature has
been forced to ffifle her juftelt and mod
generous emotions, under pain of death.
Pour thoufand heads are now devoted to
the fame punilhment, and will be druck
oft' before the expiration of this day! Sup¬
plicating Petitioners cannot be confidered as
acaifers; their defpair has reached the
higlied pitch; ln>t refpecl forbids our letting
it break forth : we only bring moans into
this fantduary, and no murmurs.

Legiflators, we felicit.ite you upon the
Decree which ordains that Lyons lhall exid
no more ; but let Vi lie ^jf'runchie (Freed
Town} exid, and be worthy of its name.
Dedroy the form of Lyons, but preferve

the elements ; regenerate, Lht do not dedtmy.
You wMihed, Legilators, that, the Jaw
fliould hold the rigoic'us fword' v/hkh was
to immoki^:<e them. You wiflied, that, while
we dreaded that law, we fliould likewiSii’'
revere your Judice — in diort, that a prop
of innocence, and a guide of v/eakuefv
diould be found in the arm which IkuA
down upon guilt.

“ Y ou wanted to give an important ener¬
gy to national' vengeance, heightened by
fierce Republican dignity ; but not a charac¬
ter of low and ferocious atrocity, whieda
would in tome manner have difgraced t'l*e
cradle of Liberty ; foi',-, judice dies where-
ever Cn&elty commences.

“ It belongs to you, who have -meditsteiS
upon men and events, who have comparcui
the revolutic/ns of antient ages with ther
modern,- — k bekiugs to you to let us knfiw
what you mean by coufpirators. You'
know, that c!ie fecrets of a confpiracy arsr
frequently contained in a few' heads onlyj.
and, when tlie fword of the Law lias drock.
thofe fil'd head'-', r«afon, humanity, prudence^
and intereft, pardon the reft of the deludeJl
multitude, and can direvSl their force
wards an ufeiul patriotic end. We thei'efoi«'
demand mercy — not for guilt ; its authors
and agents are ncy more; but mercy for
cere repentance, for deluded wea'icnefe—
niej'cy even, and we durd fay it, for dif-
claimed innocence, for patnotifm impatieiia:
of making amends for its error?

I'he Orator n-ow demanded, that the peo¬
ple of Lyons be permitted to rife in a mafs^
toffy to' Toulon, and toredoie that place
to the Republic.

The Convention referred this petitioa X9
the Cominictee of Public Welftire.

On the motion of Roberfpierre, the-Cort-
veuttoif now paffed the following Decree:,

1. Tire National Convention decrees,
that the Committei of Public Welfare and
General Safety dial! afuioint Commililnners,^
chofeu from its own bofom, to concert meanA
of fetting at liberty thofe patriots who may
have been incarcerated.

2. Thefe Commiftaoners diall ufe, in th»
exercife of their fuiudion, the feverity requi-
fice to prevent the enervation of the energy
of the revolutionary meaUu'es conimandedl
by the public weal.

3. The names of thofe Comm.ifRoners-
diali remain unknown to- the Public, to pre¬
vent the dangers of requeds.

4. They ffiail fet no perfoii at liberty
from their own authority : they lhali only
prelent the refult of their inquiries to the
two Committee-', who lhall definitely refolve
upon the iiheration of tliofe perfons wlio
lhall appear to them nj have been unjudly
put undef or red.

Defourny,

y *• ■ f • ^ ^ ^ t*j :

Proceedings of the National Convention in France. f Ayguf!*^

Dcfourny, ia the name of tlie department
t)f Paris, unravelled the manoeuvies wluclr
the pretended Philanthrophitts exercife, for
ihe pnrpofe of dividing France, and dehaling
tlie Nauonal Reprefeatatioji. fie invited
the LegifUitors to remain on their poft, and
not to diminifli tlieir meafures of vig our ;
but ratlter to wnitch tlie pretended patriots
who exceed thofe meafures, and make the
mofl ..zealous friends of the Revolution groan
in irons.--^Applaufe.

Several other petitioners were- admitted.

Cruihon compl linev', tliat alrnoll all the
petitioners addrelfed the Convention witli
their h.ats on their heads. ‘‘ This remark,’’
laid is not quite fo trifling as it might

be fancied ; and the cuftom againft^wfltt^lt I ■
am now ipeakii g belongs periiaps to .the fyf-
t*jm of debaflng the Convention-’’

Rohcrjpier.re if all men rre equals, one,
man cannot be ecpial to feveral. fie ougirt
re. er to. forget, the aue.ntion and re.gard due
to the company in which he is ; and the more
realon has he. not toTeviaie fro.m .the, re-
f )ci> due to the people in the per Ton of their
Rep>releutative-. It belongs to. the Pi efldeat
to put tlie petitioners in mind of their duty,

.1 demand the execution of tlie regulation,
by which any, Angle member of the Conven¬
tion is prohibited from addreffing the Con¬
vention with his head covered.” — -Decreed.

Dec. 2^. On the motion of .Merhu, of
IDouay, the following decree palfed :

The National Convention, having heard
the report of its Committee of Legiflation
reipsdfing the pfocli-'verhal of the .Committee
of Vig lance of Noyon, dated Dec- to, from
which It refuits that the i’opular Society of
tliat Commonalty pretended to oblige the
. Me mbers of that Committee to .produce
certificates of Civifrn — confidering tliat Art.
4, of the law. Feb. 5, 179^, recpiire.s certi¬
ficates of Civifrn only on the part of tliofe
public fundiionaries who are not eledlcd h.y
the peojile ; that the Pi)pular Societies are
ft.Jiotud iiv ar tlie cooflituted Authorities,
as it were, like [entries to watch them, but
not to make tlrem come to terms which lire
law does not require; that that of Noyon
can d.eiK'unce to the fuperior authonties
thofe of ti e Membeis of the Committee of
Vigi’ance of that commonalty vv^iio might
,be guilty of inclvifni, but tliat it lias no right ,
.to fubject them to forms difpenie ! wil-h by
law ; that the pretenfions of that Sucieiy
have occalioned no troubles; and that the
patriotic zeal whioli becomes its motives is a
fore. pledge that ngne Will enfue after the
' knowledge given to tlrat Society by the law ;

tire Convention p.iles to the order of the
day.

Dec. 24. Tlvomas Paine, with all the
other Fin'eigners, was expelled from the
Convention, by a Decree piopofedb) Bar-
rere, and paffed in the f.ill.iwing words : —
“ Every Foreigner is, and ihall be, e.xcluded
“ from the National Reprefentation-”

Dec. 27. Some childz'en appeared, to re¬
cite fome profe ‘taught tlrem f>y the Public
Inltnidtor. The latter received a very fe-
yere reprimand from the Prefldent, and was
informed that he vyonld do inoch better to
iufli udt the childTen of tlie Nation moral
pnj-iciples, thari teach them to gabble like
panxxpists.

, yan. 4,' 1794. Deputies frorn the de-
.partment of .Allier brought patriotic dona¬
tions. They prayed the Convention to take
ipto their cqnfideratioii the bbfervations
vvh,ch they had made. on tl.(e.e4fe6i:s of the
decree w hich fufpends the colle.alion of the
revolutioixtry taxes^impofed on the depart¬
ments by the Reprefentatives of the People
and the Revolutionary Coni mi ttecs. Tliey
declared, that in tlie dep irtment of Allier
the taxes fixed by F'oviche had been (lefiined
for tiie public works which fopported the
SciHirculottes ; that, thefe taxes having ceafod
to be levied, the works were difcontinued,
and that the needy .citizens will be idle,

Refened.to Committee of Pu he VVelf. re.

.„ Merlin of Thion/ille obfei;ved, that there
.were.diflbrent qhjeiiions made fix ilie Pvevo-
lution.iry taxes. Some Citizens complained
that they were not proportioned to tlieir for¬
tunes : others, that the produce of thefe tax-^
es was nor ex.idtly paid into the Public Ti ea-
fury. 1 demaiul,” faid Merlin, “ that
the -Revolutionary Committees be obliged to
.caufe to he prinmd and pofted uj> a detailed
account of the fums which have been raifed
and paid into the Public Trqafury, to the
end that each citizen may be .tble to verify
whether the fums railed had been paid.”

Thefe propofitions were decreed.

Tlie Commons- of Paris came to the bar*
The Spokefman faid, “ Amongft tlie efta-
blilhmen's entrufled to our immediate in-
fpedlion, one of the mofl; iiiterefl;in.g4S the
hofpiral of the natural . children of our
country.- — In confidering tliis eftabliihment,-
two things occur to us— the prodigious uirm-i
lier of children which-are brought to it, and
tiie penury of the nurfes : this jienury be¬
comes daily mqre afiliCiing. By a- refplutioit
we have augmented the falary of the nurle--',
in proportioning it to the la vv of the inaxe-
niut}i, witli the view of bringing them to
fuch hofpitaU'. We propofe to have tbe^®
childi'en attended by lying-in women, who, ,
to the prefent time, have only bce.n admitted
into the hofpltals deflgned for the fick.

T hefe me.ans, however, are iafuflicient : we 1:
now propofe a meafure, which, in our opi¬
nion, is the onlyone proper to obtain the end
defil ed. The great numlicr of children aban- -
doned by their mothers is to be attributed.-
to poverty, and the fliame of an unl.iwfulll
ilfiie, A.ccprdii)g to your- wife decrees, tnisi'

. is no longer a crime. Thera only remains!-
Che diificulty arifuig from poverty, Orga—
jiize the fii.ccpqrs., of the domicile, and yo.ui
will eafily iupply tlis want gf uurfss.‘ — Yeu!

will

1^94-] Proceedings of the Nathnai Convention in France. 7^^

will do^more — you will give to children the
mirfes that Nature n-.eant to giant them,
and you will preferve to poitcrity number-
lefs generations of which anabufe has depri¬
ved them,” Referred to the Committee of
buccoui s.

Thuiiot caufed thd follov^ng Decree to
pafs : —

I'he National Convention declare, that it
does not intend to comprehend, in its decree
relative to the Repiefentatives of the people
born in Fore gn Countries, ilie tons of
Frenchmen born during tlie iri'ffion of thicir
Fathei s by the Government; nor the fons
of Proteiiants ()hli!;^ed to qu't France on ac-
coui't of their religion, and fince returncJ
under the toleration or expi efs protedlion
of the law.

Tlte Ali'emhly \v?s then occupied in orga¬
nizing tile Cavahy.

yan. 6. Some unfortunate female citi¬
zens of the Section of Bondi, whofe hi.fbands
w'ere 'fighting for liberty, reprefeiiled tiiat
the refources of their fedlions weie c xhauft-
ed, and claimed' tiie relief ordained for
them by law.

On the motion of Jean Bon Sr. Andre, the
Convention has decieed, that all the forma¬
lity of certificates to obtain rel'ef be ai)o-
liflied. “ I move therefore that the depart¬
ment of Pans do order a lill to be made of
all the relatives of li e defenders of the coun¬
try, who have a right to relief, which fnall
be granted them on the fight of that lift.”

Ducos — “ Certain turns have already
been put at the difpofal of the M miller,
with the principal inftrudlion*; relative to
tlieir diftiibution ; but a iinguiar ohftacle
prevents the parents from enjoying that le-
luf, Tlie law leqmres of each of them a
certificate, to prove that tlie defender is
either dead, or remains on his poll. I
move, that the Committee of Pu' 1 c Welfare
be charged, during ihe prefect fining, to
pialent a 1ft; of the Mciobers who aieto
compote tl’.e Com mill: on charged to fuper-
intend t!:e diftribution of thofe fum'^, and
leceive .all claims and all complaints relative
to that objtdf.” — Decreed.

The Convention having referred to the
examination of iheCommi ree of Legifl.ation
the queft'.op, whellier nv ni.t citizens, whefe
fottune exceeds '200,000 livi es, ftiould par¬
take of tlie benefit of the law whicii ordams
the equal thare of fuccelTicn fince july 14,
1789, received the obfei various ot tlie
Committee, prefented by Relier, v\ho fta-
ted that fuch a meafiue would oblige tbe
nation to make icftitution of confiderable
fumy which it had jullly acquired by the
emigiwtions.

Tlie Convention therefore pafTcd feveral
articles, relative to ihe plan of Canibon,
upon collateral fuceeflions.

ya». 8. 1 he Minifter for Foreign Af¬

fairs lent to the Convention the geucfri v.cw

CliNT. M.^g. jduguji) 1794.

of the Foreign Trade of France during, the?
wliole year of 1792, whicii,- he fays, belongs
to the political and oeconomicnl hiftory of
tlie Republic. It refults from it, that before
the Revolution there was a balance of be*
t-yveen 60 and 70 millinds in favour of
France : “ By wh.at magic then,” continued
the Minifter, “ find wt this balance increa*
fed in 1792 to 2^4 millions.^ The relnlt
of cur foreign purchafrs is eitimated at 496
millions ; compared with our exports, it is
valued at 720 millions.” — The Conventioa
ortlered this view to be printed.

g. Vouiand m ide a report of the
Er glifti and Sjianilh w ho were taken prifon-
ers at roulon ; they are as follow ; General
Clmrles O’Hara ; jVlajor Archibald Camp-
hell, of tlie 69th regiment; Thomas Grant,
a midlhipman ; Richard Lamplc-vsy a fer-
jeant ; William Graham, a dodlor; Andrew
Bond, a furgeon ; Gens Envin, John Jogden,
and Antoine Griffots, ferv.ants and Rapliael
F.lfcharbarn,a Spanilh c lonel, Aiae-de-Cam^
to General Gravina.

yan. 14. A long decree was palled for
the organization of the National Cavalry.
By this decree, the dragoons are to confift
of 29 regimerirs, making altogether a total
of 20,41 6 men. Tiie light- hoi fe are to con¬
fift of 54 regiments, each of 1410 men, and
making a total of 76,140 men. The whole
of the cavoilry ( f the Republic w‘iU thus
am- Hint to 96,; 56 n-ie.i.

yan.- 16. Bourdon of Oife — I demand,
agreeably to a motion of order, that the
decree, which baiiifhes all foreigners from
the boforu of the Convention, be finally
executed. 1 here is ftiil in our iK'fom an in¬
famous man, who has betrayed his country
and his duties — a Lutheran Pi ieft, -w ho by
unfair means obtained a decree to be fent
as a Comrnifiloner to Landau, where ha
per fecuted the Patriots, threw them into
prifon, and even carried barbarity fo far 33
to have a very patriotic Colonel put into an
iron cage. It is nccellary that fuch a man,
who has to long polluted tlie National Con¬
vention, be expelled : his name is Dentze!,
born at Duikheim, a Principality with
wliicli the Republic is at vv ar, ’

Dnnion moved tlie provifioi al aneft of
Dentzel, and that the denunciation aga'infc
him be ixfirved to tb.e Cominittses of Gene¬
ral Safety aiul Pul;lic Welfare.

David, in the name of tiie Committee cf
Pubhc InPruction, prefented a lift of all the
abufes exiftlng in the org:u;iz,;ticu of the
Ccmm.iflion of th.e Arts. Thofe who corU-
pofe it are ignorant men, V' ho pur copies
inftead of originals .n'o the faloon, and {po'i~
led the mailer pieces wliich they pretended
to dean.

On the prepofirion of David, the Commlf-
fion of arts was fupprelTed, and another in-
llituted uu'.kr the title of the confervatory of
the arts. he cofitimed.J

INTEL-

[ 754 ] [Aug

INTELLIGENCE OF IMPORTx\NCE from the LONDON GAZETTES.

General Paoli’s Svkech at Furiani,
M^/V' J 794- (See p. 665.)

Most dearly beloved Counirymen,
The un.ihated confidence with which you
have lionoured me, and the folicitude I
have ever had to i)ronu)te your interePs,
and to eufurc your liliedy, prefcribe to me
the obligation of Hating to you the prcfcnt
fituation of public atfairs. You remember
how many cruel and treacherous arrange¬
ments were madi by the tliree Cora mi f-
fioners of the French Convention who were
Jent over to our iflaiul ; and in what man¬
ner they attempted to concentrate tlte pow¬
ers of Government in a fm.iU number of
their fatellites, dedincd to be the inftru-
ments ot thofe violences and cruelties, which
were to be exercifed agaiuf^ all well-mean ■
ing perfons, and agaiiiH the nation at large.
Tlie unjuft decree which ordered my arreft,
and my transfer to the bar of the Afiembly,
was the firft attempt diredled by tliem
againft your libeity. tYou unanimoufly
declared yomTelves, and humbly remon-
ftrated againft an ad dcfigned to facilitate
the execution of your enemy’s plots. Finally,
you, in a General Allembly, declared your
indignation at this ad cf injuftice ; and you
adopted, at that moment, fnch refolations
as were confillent with your dignity and
with the public welfare. I accented, as a
diftinguifliing proof of your confidence, the
comraiffioo you were pieafed to confer on
me, for providing, in ihofe critical circum-
jftances, for the maintenance of your fafety
and liberty: anxious tliut you Ihou'd not be
expofed to any danger, unitis indignation
and neceflity commanded you to refift. I
tried every means which prudence and mo¬
deration fuggefted to me at that time ; but
neither your juft reclamations, nor ray in¬
nocence, were fufiicient to recall to fenti-
rnents of reditude and humanity a violent
and fanguinary fadion, irritated hy the no¬
ble refiftance you had made, and refolved
to acconiplifti your deftrudion ; for which
purpofe the fubverfion of the Government
was ordered, and tlte members of it pro-
fcribed, conjointly with many other zealous
patriots : the nation was declared m a ft ate
of rybeliion ; orders were given to reduce it
by force of arms, and to treat it with the
bloody rigour of revoluta nary laws. Roufed
by thele canfes, by the endlefs fnccefllcHt of
deftrudion and rv.in \a hicli cliaraderizes the
condud of thofe perfons wlto exercife the
powers of Government in Praiice; and by
the deftnidton of all religion and of every
form of worfhip, enforced and proclaimed
among the people with unexampled im¬
piety, every Corfican felt the necelfity of fe-
parating from tiie French, and of guarding
againft the poifonous influence of their er¬
rors. The ad'ls of hoftility committed by
'the French, and thofe Corfican traitors who

had taken refuge in the garrifons of Caivi,
Fiorenzo, and Baftia, compelled us to repel
them by force of arms. 1 have feen, with
infinite fatisfadion, during the coarfe of a
whole year, that your antient bravery and
attachment to your country were not in the
leaft diminilhed. In various encounters the
enemy have been defeated, although nume¬
rous,' and fnpported by artillery. You have
treated the pnfoners, taken ki the heat of
battle, with generofity ; whilft the enemy
have, in cooliilood, maffacred our prifoners,
who were fo unfortunate as to fall into their
hands. In all ihefe agitations we have kept
ourfelves united, and exempt from the hor¬
rors of licentionfnefs and anarcliy ; a happy
prefage of your future fate, and an irrefra¬
gable proof that you are deferving of true
liberty, and that you will know how to
preferve it unfullied by licentionfnefs and
dilTentiors. In fuch a ftate of things, a be¬
coming diffidence made me, neverthdlefs,
apprehend tliat the enemy would increafe in
force, and attempt to carry into execution
the deftrudive plans they had formed againft
you. Under thefe circumftances, I felt'the
neceffity of foreign alhftance : and, in con¬
formity to your general wiffies, and to the
public opinion and univerfal exped ition, I
had recoui'fc to the king, and to the gene¬
rous and powerful nation, which had, on
other occafions, protedei tlie remains of
our liberty ; a meafure didated by the pub¬
lic f.ifety, and which 1 took only when
every conciliatory offer had been obftinately
rejeded, and every hope of obtaining mode¬
ration or jnftice from the French Convention
was extind. His Britannic Majefty’s arms
have made their appearance in your lupport :
his ffiips and tioons are employed with y ti
to drive fiMm our country the common <.ne-
my, and the blood 6f Britons and Corficans
is conjointly flicd for the liberty of this ift md.
Our (j-ntcrpi ize has already been crowned
with happy event‘d, and draws near to a for¬
tunate completion. Th.is pleafing afped of
affiuis has determined me to turn my
thoughts to the moft efficacious means of
eftablifliing a permanent freedom, and
of fecuring our ill.uid from the various
events, which, till this moment, have kept
us in agitation. Tlie protedion of the knag
of Great Britain, and a ptditical union with
the Ericiih nation, of wliicli the profperity
and power, uniutenupted for ages, aie to
the umverie proofs of the excellency of its
Government, have ajiiiearecl to me to ac¬
cord with the happinefs and fafety of Cor-
fica. The univerfal opinion on this head,
evinced by the unreferved inctinatioa you
have Ihewn,, and llrengtliened by your gra¬
titude for benefits received, appears fortu¬
nately to concur with mine. I have there¬
fore made the proper overtures to his Ma-
jefty the king of Great Britain, with a view

I to

V94‘J

to eftablilh this defirable union. With a fa-
tisfa<5lion never to be erafed from my mind,
X now behold our wiflies anticipated, and
our hopes realized ; the memorial which has
been tranfmitted to me by their excellencies,
the Admiral commanding the fleet, and tiie
Klinifter Plenipotentiary of his JMajefly, af¬
fords us the opportunity of eftahliflring this
union in the manner heft adapted to the be¬
nefit of both nations, and to the honour of
his Majefty. I cannot better make known
to you their Excellencies fentiments than
by a faithful tranflatioii of their memorial.
The nature of the prefeut Addrefs does not
permit me to enlarge upon the benefi's of
this union, which tends to conciliate the
mofl; extenfive Political and Civil Liberty
with perfonal fecurity. You are convinced
of thefe truths, and will regulate your conw
du6l accordingly ; I neverthelefs avail my-
fclf of this opportunity to declare to you,
that, in taking the Englifh Couflitution for
your model, you will proceed upon the
moft folid principles that philofophy, policy,
and experience, have ever been known to
combine for the happinefs of a great people,
referving to yourfelves the power of adapting
them to your own peculiar fituation, aif-
toms« and religion, without being expofed
nereafter to the venality of a traitor, or to
the ambition of a powerful ufurpt-r. A
matter of fuch importance ought neverthelefs
to be difculfed, and agreed to by you, in a
General AlTembly, at which I entreat you
to affill by your deputies, on Sunday the 8th
of theenfuing month of [une, in the City of
Corte. The Provifionai Government will
then fuggeft to you the form and mode of
the elections. I befeech you to imprefs
yourfelves with the great importance of the
affairs on which you have to determine;
and, on that account, let it be your care to
feledl perfons of real and acknowledged
probity, and, as much as may be in your
power, reputable heads of families, inte-
refted in good government and the profpe-
rity of the country. Let moderation and
propriety of condudl prevail in your alfem-
blies, that no perfon among you may have
the m.ortificatiou to remark, any diforder in
the mofl; happy m.om.ent which has occurred
in thecourfe of our Revolutions, and in paf-
fing the moft important act of Civil Society.
In the mean time, let every man fuggeft
whatever he may conceive moft ufeful to
the country, in order to communicate his
opinion to itie nation, legally reprefented and
alfembled. Corfica is now juftly regarded
by foreign powers as a free nation ; lier re-
folutions will, 1 hope, be fuitable to her
fituation, and di61ated by wifdom, and by a
love for the public good. With refpeft to
myfelf, my dearly beloved countrymen, af¬
ter having devoted every moment of my
life to your happinefs, I fliall efteem myfelf
t!ie happieft of mankind, if, through the
means 1 have derived flam your confidence,

7SS

I can obtain, for your country, the oppor¬
tunity of forming a free and lading Govern¬
ment, and of preferving to Corfica, its
name, its unity, and its independence,
whilft the names of the heroes, wlio have
fpilt their blood in its fupport ami defence,
will be, for future generations, ohje61s of
noble emulation and grateful remembrance.

(Signed) Pasq^ual£ de Paoli.

T^etter from their Excellencies Eonl HooJ and

Sir Gilbert Klliot, Burt, to Gcnei ubBaoli.

Sir, ElGory, April 21, >794.

Your Excellency having been pleafed to
reprefent to us, on bclialf of the Corfican
nation, th:4 the intolerable and perfidious
tvranny of the French Convention having
driven that brave jreople to take up arms in
their own defence, they were determined to
lhake olf altogether the unjuft dominion of
P'rance, and to aflert the right of a free and
independent nation ; but, being fenfible'’thac
their own efforts might he infuflieient to
contend wifli France, or other powerful na¬
tions, who might undertake hoftile attempts
againft them, and confiding implicitly in the
magnanimity and princely virtues of his Bri¬
tannic M.ijetty, and in the bravery and ge-
nerofity of his [>eopk, they were defirous of
forming a perpetual union with the Britifh
nation, under the mild and equitable go¬
vernment of his Majefty and his fucceffors,
for the better protedfion, and for the perpe¬
tual fecurity Naud prefervation, of their inde¬
pendence and liberties : and your Excellency
having, on tliefe confidcrations, folicited, in
the name of the people of Corfica, his Ma-
jefty’s prefent afliftance, and his Royal pro-
tedlion in time to come ; we took the fame
into our moft ferious confideration ; and
knowing his Majelly’s gracious and affedfi-
onate difpofi' ion towards the Corfican nation,
and his readinefs to contribute, in every way
which is confiftent with juftice and the inle-
refts of his fubjecls, to the happinefs of that
brave people ; and being invefted with fuffi-
cient powers for that purpofe; we determined
to comply with your requeft, and have ac¬
cordingly furniflied the aid of His Majefty 's
Naval and Military Forces in the Mediter¬
ranean, towards expelling the common eae-
my from the ifland of Corfica. We have
fince been honoured with more fpecial pow¬
ers and auth.ority to concert with your Ex¬
cellency and the people of Corfica, and
finally to conclude, on his Majefty ’s behalf,
the particular form and mode of relation
which fhall take place between the two na¬
tions. It is with the moft lively fatisfadlion
we acquaint your Excellency, that we have
it in command from his Majefty to allent,
on his part, to fuch a fyftem as will cement
the union of our two nations under a common
Sovereign, and, at the fame time, fecure for
e . er the independence of Corfica, ami tiie
prefervation of her ancient Conftitution,
Laws; and Religion. Wilh whatever fatis-

faiftion

InUrefting Ini eJll gene e from the London Gazettes.

^^6 Inierejtlng Intelligence from the London Gazettes. [Aug.

fa^Hon Ills Majefly has gracioufly affented to
propofitions, which proraife, perhaps for the
tirft time, not only to afford to this ifland
the prefent hleiiings of tranquillity and pea.e,
and a hidden increafe of profperily ^nd
wealth, but alfo to ellablith its national in-
cleoendence and happinefs on a fecui e and
lalling foundation; his Majefty ha’, howeveiy
determined to conclude nodiing witliout the
general and free confe-nt of the people of Cor-,
ilea : We therefore requoft your Excellency
to take the proper heps for hibmuting thefe
important matters to tlieir judgment ; and
as the fmall number of the enerav at prefent
invefted by the Brituli and Corhean troops,
and which mvift foon eiilier be deflroyed or
yield to fuperior force, can no longer give
any nneifunefs to this country, but the free¬
dom and deliverance of Corfica is in effedt
accomplilhed, we beg; ‘leave to fufemit to
your Excellency, whether it may not he de-
fitahle to take the earlieft meafures for ter¬
minating thefe interefting concerns, and for
adding a more formal fanefion to that Union
which is already eflabl'ifned in the hearts of
all our counti ymen. We iiavethe lionour, (kc.

(Signed) Hoon.

Gilbert Elliot.
General Council, charged with the VroDin-

cial Go'vernment y/’ Corfica, to the Municipal

Oficen, Curates rj Parijhes, and their Fel-
hiu- count ''ymen.

Beloved Countrymen.

The God of Armies, protedlor of the moll
jafl. caufe, has favoured your efforts. 1 he
audacious army, whofe fury Mid violence was
excited by the impious fadlion which pro-
pofed to !tfe]f to abolii’h all order, cuftonns,
and religion in Europe, will lliortly be re-
jmoved from our terrirorles. To fecure a
lYioie fpeeCy fuccefs, Providence has given
you the fnpport ( f a powei ful nation, accuf-
tomed to refprdl laws, and a legitimate power;
w'hich has generoufly alTiiled you to extri¬
cate youfeives from the tyrannical anarchy
of the prefent Republic of France. That
nation and its King otfer you tli© advanta¬
ges of a lafting union and conftant protection.
The happy influence of our gd^i'ious coun¬
tryman, General de Paoli, aided by the re-
'fources of his genius, and excited by the dan¬
gers of his own country, have accelerated
this happy event ; in fhort, brave Cor ficans,
IVe ar§ free / By our conftancy, hrmuefs,
and c:mrage, we have acqhired the enjoy-
meiit cT the advantages v. e iutient from our
anceftors. Liberty and Religion. However, it
would be but little to have regained this no¬
ble fncceffiqn, if our effort''', and prudence
were unable te fecure it for ever. To infure
the fuccefs of Ihofe etfoiis and to diredf
our prudence, a jicrfedf union is neceffary ;
our general refolutioiis mull be Formed with
a' view to our prefent fifuatian and our future
expedlations. The Corficans mart there¬
fore preicribe the form of adminiflration
and government they chtife to adopt, euua-
• a I

ciate, or approve of ; and the principles on
which it is to be eflablifhed, or on which
llieir legiflation is to be fixed. Finally, belo¬
ved countrymen, the moft important objedt
is, a fjieedy union of the people ; and the
lad a6l of the provifional admiuiffration you
adopted, ordains us to fupport the paternal
and patriotic intentions of General de Paoli.
In this invitation we can give you but a faint
idea of the important functions you will
confide to your reprefentatives in the next
affembly ; however, you no doubt know th©
indifpenfable neceliity of adopting meafures
for the maintenance of internal tranquillity,
and of a form of government adapted to our
cufioms, powers, and fituation, and finally
to tlie various relations that will hereafter be
eftahiilheil between Corficans. The Englifh
nation and their King feel, even more than
others, the necefiity that fuch deputies fhould
be appointed among our countrymen as fhali
have given evident proofs of their patriotifm,
and of their defire to aft with a zeal adequate
to the nature and importance of their mif-
fion, for eftablifiiing and fecuring, by the
new order of things, not only for the prefent
but in future, public felicity-. This laft con-
fideration, in cafe you arefenfible of it, will,
we are in hopes, determine you to prefer
one of the moft refpsdlable heads of families
in each of your refpedlive communities, as
a reprefentative on fuch folemn and impor¬
tant occafions in. council. In this union,
Vf'liich will form the moft memorable crifis
of our annals, the objedts muft be treated
with that form and order due to the dignity
of the reprefentatives of a free people. The
antient alfemblies of our nation, at the time
of the glorious government of us defei vmg
general, were only compofed of one deputy
from each community. Finding it necellary
to avoid the inconvenience of repeated elec¬
tions, we have tho iglit it expedient in this
c rcumftance to invite you to adopt this anci¬
ent cuftom, chiefly refledfing, that as har-
veil is approaching, the abfence of chiefs
from their families, added to tiie expences of
the journey, and timp fpent in the eledfion,
would he of prej'udke to their affairs, and
doraeftic interefts ; the people will there¬
fore eftablifli coiiftitutionaliy the number of
its reprefentatives for the fucceffive re-uni¬
ons. 1 he zealous and good citizens wdll,
however, be enabled to lay before the coun¬
cil Uieir kuo .vledge of all important fubjedls,
wiiich will be taken into confideration and
difcuffed accordingly; but they will have no
part in its dehlierations. The general coun¬
cil therefore invites all communities of Cor¬
fica to af&mble on Sunray the ift of June,
each to appo'nt, according to the form of
eledtion iiereunto annexed, its reprefentative
at the general council ; and the general af¬
fembly of the clergy to take place on the Sun¬
day following, the oLh of June. The Mu¬
nicipal officers and pariflies of the refpedlive
Coinmuaiiies are chai'ged with, the publi¬
cation

*794-]

Cation and diftribntion of both General Paoli’s
circular and this.

Corte, May 9, 1794.

[Then follows the form of eleiflion with
tVie Articles of the new Conftitntion.]
Continuation of the Seffion of June 19, 1794.

All tlie Members of the Alfsmbly having
individually figned the Confliuational A6t, it
was propofed to prefent it to his excelloiicy
Sir GiUert Kllict, his Britannic Majefty’s
Commiflary Plenipotentiary, in order that
it might be accepted in his faid Majefty’s
name. The Allembly, having adopted this
propofition, decreed, that the faid propofiti-
on lhall be made by a deputation of twelve
members, vr ho were chofen and commilTion-
ed for this purpofe. After which the depu¬
tation, having executed the commiffion af-
figned to them, re-entered tiie hall, and
With them the laid Sir Gilbert Elliot : the
members of the Allembly ftood up, during
which he approached the Prelident, and
pronounced the following acceptation. “ I,
the nndei figned Baronet, Member of the Par¬
liament of Great Britain, Member of the
Privy Council, and the CommilTary Plenipo-
teiitiary of his Biitannic Majefty, having
full power, and being fpeciatly authorized
for this purpofe, do accept, in the name of
his VJajeny George the Tlmd, King of Great
Britain, the Crowai and Soveieignt) of Corfi-
ca, according to the conllitution, and the
fundamental la\\s contained in the a6t of a
general allembly, held at Cone, and defini¬
tively fetthd this fame day, the r 9th of June,
and as fuch offered to hii Majeity ; and, in
his Majefty’s name, I fwear to maintain the
Liberty ot the C<.rficaii natuai, according to
the Conftitution and to the la as.” Thf|}re-
feiv acceptation, and oath, is by us figned and
fealed. Gilbert Elliot.

T he faid acceptation and oath being read,
Sir Gilbert Elliot propol'ed to the Prefulent
and to tb.e all'embiy the conftitutional oath;
which was taken in the following words :
“ I fwear for niyfelf, and in the name of the
Coificaii nation, whkTi I reprefcnt, to ac¬
knowledge for my Sovereign and King, his
Majefty George tiie Third, the King of
Great Britain, tcj yield him faithful obedience
according to th© Conftitution and the Uuvs of
Coi fica, and to maintain the faid conftitution
and laws.” 1 he conftitutional ait being en¬
tirely complf-tfcd and finiffied, the Prefulent
adjourned the feflion, and figned the above,
as did aho tlie licretaries, the year, month
and day ahove-ineiitioncd.

PAstpuALt nEPAor.i, Prefident.

Carlo Andrea Pozzo de Bar go. Sec.
Gio Anukea Museli, Secretary.

Sir Gilbert Ellio i’s Speech in the Gen¬
eral ^JJernbly of Corfica.

Gentlemen,

In availing myfelf, for the firft timie, in
the midft of the Corfican nation, of the
privilege of calling you Bi others auU Fellow

757

Citizens, a refle6lion, which will’naturally
occur to every one, excites in me the raoft
heu't-felt fatisfaiStion ; independent of the
reciprocal poli'ical advantages which we may
derive from fo clofe a connedlion, I feel, on
the prefent occcafion, every thing that can
render it more precious and more eftimable,
by the fentiments of confidence and of.affec-
tion, the firft and pure principles of our
union, which they will for ever continue to
cement and coafolidate.

This remarkable truth, which it is ira-
pofiible to overlook, cannot be mentioned
without a ftrong emotion of fenfibility and
joyn Our two nations have, for a long pe¬
riod, been diftinguifhed by a reciprocal and
remarkable efteem. Without anticipating
the happy end to which this inftinctive
partiality, this fyraparheMc attraction, may
fome day lead us, we have given to each
othei; inliances of confidence on every occa-
fion, yet no relations have hitherto fubfifted
between us ; except thofe of reciproca 1 and
voluntary got'd offices. Our minds have
been prepared by Providence for the fate
which awaited us, and the divine goodnefs,
intending our union, has ordained that it be
anticipated and brought about (if I may fo
exprefs myfelf) by a fimilarity of charac¬
ter, and by a conforuiicy of views and prin-
cipb:, and, above all, by a plcifing exchange
of fneiK ly fervic' s.

Ttiis laci ed compaCT, which 1 received
from your hands, is not a cold and interefte J
agreement b-'tween two p.inies who meet
by accident, and form a contract founded on
the impulfe of the moment, or on a felfilh.
and temporary policy. — No; tlie event of
this happy day is only the completion of
wilhes we had previoufly firmed; to-day
our hands are joined, but our liearts have
long been united, and our motto ftiouid be
“ Amici Sz non di ven’ura,”

However feducing this proffieCl of our
happinefs may appear, I truft (and it is
important for us to know it, as we alTured-
ly do) that it does not depend on fentiment
alone ; but that it refts on the folid bafis of
the true interefts and permanent felicity of
the two nations.

1 will not mention to yon the interefts of
Great Bi train upon this occ fion ; not that
they are of little confequencoj but, being of
a nature purely political, the fuhjeCl would
he too cold, too dry, tor this important day.
Befides, it is not neceliary on this occafion
toappieciate tliem tn detail, I fhall con¬
fine rnyfelf to this remark, that every polfi-
ble advantage, which Great Britain could
have in view fi oin her union with CoiTrca,
is elientially attached to your political and
ahfolute independence of every European
power, and that thefe advantages are mtc
(Wily compatible with your interefts, but
cannot for the moft part exift, and ftili lefs
fiourifti, but in proportion (o your prof^^e-
rity.

Interejling Intelligence from the London Gazettes.

Interejting tntelUgence from the London Gazettes. ' [Aug.

On jmur part, what is necelfary to render
you a happy peopled 1 will tell you in two
wai'ds— Liberty at home, and fecurity
abroad.

Your liberty will not be expofed to any
encroachments from a monarch, who, by
his own experience an-d the example of liis
auceflors for feveral generations is perfu ;ded
that the liberty and the profpenty of his
anccftors for leverai generations is perfuaded
that the liberty and the prurperiiy ,of his
people is the only foundation of the power,
the glory, and the fplendour, of the throne.
A King who has ever governed according
to the laws, and whofe feeptre is at once
^l engthened by the privileges and embellifh-
cd by the happinefs of his I'ubjedls : here I
might expatiaie on the auguit virtues of
that monarch wliom you have chofen for
your own ; but they are known all his
luhjedts i you will therefore become acquain-
teil with them by a happy and certain expe¬
rience, and this teftimony will be far more
faithful than my weak voices

It would not, however, be right tliat
your liberty ftuuild depend folely on the per-
lonal virtues of the monarch. You have
therefore been Gareful to enfure it by the
wife conftitution and fundamental laws of
©ur union, which, in my opinion, conllitute
fo ejdential a part of the aCt you prefent to
me this day, that 1 could not (without vio¬
lating the confidence repofed in me by my
foxeie gn), agree to a lyftem which might
have degenerated into tyranny ; a condition
equally unfavourable to the happinefsof him
who cxercifes it and of thofe who endure it.

If his M.'ijefty, therefore, accepts the
crown whicli you have agreed to offer him,
it is becanfe he is determined to protect, and
never to enllave, thofe from whom he re¬
ceives it, and, above all, becaufe it is given,
and not feized upon by violence.

Fo»* external fecurity, you w anted nothing
but the conftant and adfive alliance of a ma¬
ritime power : Tliis a6l enfnres it to you ;
and whilfl yon enjoy at home peace and
tranquillity, which the enemy will no lon¬
ger be able to interrupt, you will fbare
with us the treafnres of trade, and the fove-
reignty of the fe.as.

From this day therefore you are quiet and
free. To pteferve tbeie hlcliings, you have
only to prefei e your antient virtues, cou¬
rage, and the facred love of your country,
thefe are the native virtues of your foil ;
they will be enriched by thofe wh ch accom¬
pany our union, and which you will derive
from our indutf ry, from our long experience,
(that true fource of political wifdom,) and
from our love of liberty, at once enthnfiaf-
tic and enlightened. 1 fpeak of that liberty
which has. for its obje6f to maintain your ci¬
vil rights, and the happinefs of the people;
not to ferve ambition and vice; tliat liberty
which is infeparable from religxu), order,

refpe6t for the laws, and a facred regard
for property ; the firft principle of every hu¬
man fociety; tliat liberty, which abhors
every kind of defpotifm, and efpecially that
moft terrible of all defpotifm, which arifes
frorn the unraftrained violence of the human
palfions. Such are the virtues which belong
both to you and me ! on their happy mixture
and influence on each other depends the
profperity of CoiTica — Immediate liberty,
and a progrelfive and encreafiag profperity.
Such is the text ; to which 1 hope and ven¬
ture to predict that our behaviour to each
otlier, and our common dellinies, will always
offer a faithful and a fatisfactoiy illuflration.

Admiralty -Office, -^ug. g, Extra6t of a
letter from fir John Jervis, to Mr. Stephens.
Boyne, off Psint d Petre, Gut'idaloupe, ffune

At 4 o’clock, the morning of the 5th inlt.
a fehooner brought an account from Capt.
Rofs, commanding his Majefty’s fhip the
Refqurce, that a french fquadron had appear-
eil off Point a Petre, on the 3d infl:. with a
body of troops, which were landed and mar¬
ching to attack the fort of La Fleur d’Epee.
I did not lofe a moment to order the Ven-
ge.mce to get under fail ; ^nd, being joined
by the Winehellca and Nautilus Hoop, 1
pufhed, with a prefs of fail, for Balfe Terre,
Guadaloupe, and arrived of that pl.ace at
two o’clock P. M. on the 7th, and was join¬
ed by the Refource ; and liaving put General
Grey, his fuite, and baggage, on board that
fhip and the VVhnche fea, to he landed at
Balfe Terre, and ordered Captain B.ayntun
of the Nautilus to proceed te Martinique,
with orders from the general for a re inforce-
ment thence, I made fail for this road,
and perceived commodore Thompfon, with
the fquadron from Martinicpie, coming round
the Point of Vieux Port : On their joining,
I ordered the Solebay and Avenger into
Balfe Terre Road, to carry the generaPs
farther orders into execution touching re-in-
forcements from the uiflerent illands. I
then proceeded hither with the remainder
of the fquadron, and anchored at noon the
following day, with the Vanguard and Ven¬
geance, having given orders to the Veteran
to cruife between Manegalante and Defirada,
in order to apprize me of any re-inforcement
of the enemy which might appear in that
quarter; and for the Infpe6tor and Bull Dog
to cruife to the windward of the fquadron
at anchor, within reach of fignals. 1 per¬
ceived two french frigates, a corvette, two
large (hips appeared to be armed en flute,
with two other (hips, whicli, being within
the land, we could not afcei tain, but took
to be tranfports at anchor in the Carenage of
Point a Petre, and that they were in poifef-
fion of laFleur d* Epee, conre(jnently Grande
Terre; of which I immediately fent intel¬
ligence to the general by different routes.
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cd on-board the Boyne, and expreffcd a de-
fire that the flank: companies from St. Vin¬
cent’s and St. L.ucia miglic be fent for. On
the loth I difpatched a fchooner, with or¬
ders to the Veteran to perform that fervice ;
the Winchelfea arrived the fame day, with
the flank companies of the 2 ill regiment,
from Antigua, and on the 1 ith the Solebay
arrived from Martinique, with brigadier
general Symes and the fl;ink companies of
the 64^11 regiment, as did the Nautilus, with
the two flank companies of the 15th regi¬
ment, and the alfurance from Grenada, br.
Vincent’s, and St. Lucia. The fame unani¬
mity, ardour, and enterprife, which carried
the troops and fqualron through the former
part of this campaign, Hill pervades every
department; and I liavc no doubt of a glo¬
rious termination of it.

IhvnCf 0^' Point a Petre, Gitadaloupey
June 14, 1794.

IN my difpatches of lall night I omitted
to acquaint you hi’ the information of their
Lordllaip*", that, on notice of a body of troops
havinghinded at Grande Terre, Guadaloupe,
the legillature of the ifland of St. Cliritlo
pher’s under the diredliun of Governor Stan¬
ley, and the Legillature of Antigua, under
that of Mr. Prefidcnt Byam, had diftinguilh-
ed their loyalty in a very fuperior manner^
by inftantly raifmg a conflderable body of
volunteers Lir the expedition, and fent them
hither in Ichooners at their own expeace.

IJorp Guard , M'hitehall, -^lug. 12. Ex-
tradls of letters received by Mr. Dundas from
Sir Charles Grey, dated ‘ Guadaloupe, June 1 1.

“ We received an exprefs at St. Chi if-
topher, on the 4th inftant, with the unwel¬
come news of the deceafe of Major-General
TundaL who died of a fever at Guadaloupe
'afier a few days illnefs ; and in him his Ma-
jefly and his country loll one of their bra-
velt and beft officers, and a moft worthy
man. I, too, feel feverely the lofs of fo
able an affiftant on this arduous fervice,
and a valuable friend ever to be lamented.
Before day of the 5th, another exprefs ar-
nveJ at St. Chriftopher’s from Guadaloupe,
with intelligence that feveral fail of French
line of battle fnips, with frigates, tranfports,
and 2000 land forces on-board, had appear¬
ed off Point a Petre, Grande Ter-'e, on the
3d inftant. The admiral made immediate
fail for Guadaloupe, and we reached Baffe
Terre in the afternoon of the 7th inft.uit,
receiving farther intelligence that the enemy
had landed, forced Fort Fleur d’Epee before
day of the 6th inftant, and w-ere adlually
in poffeffion of it, with Fort Louis, Fort
Government, the Town of Point a Petre,
See. and their Ihipping anchored in the
harbour. I landed immediately at Baffe
Terre, and the Admiral proceeded, with
the Ihips of war, to Point a Petre, where
he anchored at noon of the 8ih inftant,
during which I continued viffting the polls,

and giving t!ie neceffaiy orders at B.die
Terre; and in the evening of the 9th fol¬
lowing 1 leturned to tlie Boyne, to concert
meafures with the admiral for regaining
Point a Petre and Grande Terre. We have
fent to the different lliands, to colledl all
the force that can be fpared, in iianicular
the flank companies, part of whom are
already arrived ; and as every effort lhall be
made on our part, at the fame time that
we can thoroughly depend on the bravery
and exertions of our uoojis and feamen, I
hope IbcMi to render a good account of this
fecond expedition, having their ffiips coro-
jrletely blocked up within the inner harbour,
which ai e now found to coufift of two fri¬
gates, one corvette, two large ffrips, ap¬
pearing to be armed eu flute, and two other
llti[)s within land, fo that it cannot be ex-
adlly difeovered what they .are. Their
tioops confift of about 1500 men, joined
by fume mub.ttoes and negroes, fiace laud¬
ing of courfe. 1 tranhnit herewith the re¬
port and returns of lieutenant-colonel
Drummond, of the 43d regiment, who
e immanded at Fort Fleur d’Epee and Point
a Fetre, at the time ot its being retaken by
the French; which Arraanent that retook
it failed from Rochefort about tite 25th of
April lail, liaving had a pdlfage of foity-
one days.”

‘‘ Sir, BaJJe T'erre, June 9.

I embrace the earlieft opportunity to in¬
form 3 on of the arrival of a fqiudain of
French men of war at the Ifland of Guada¬
loupe, and of the lofs of Fort Fleur d’Epec,
which was taken by ftorm on Friday tlic
6th inftant. OiiTuefday the 3d, I received
intelligence from Capt. M’Dowall, of the
43d regiment, at St. Anne’s, that nine Slips,
bearing the national colours, of France,
were then off the town of St, Francois, and
feemed to be failing along the coall towards
Point a Petre, This leport was confirmed
foon afterwards by the arrival of other ex-
preflesfrom different parts of the colonies;
and, at ha.lf paft 4, the French fquadron,
confifting, as I am informed, of two lhi[>5
of 50 guns, one of 40 guns, armed en flute,
one frigate, with five tranfports, came to
anchor about a mile and a ha.lf beyond the
village of Cozier, and immediately began to
difembark their troops. On the receijit of
Capt, M^Dowali’s letter, I inclofed a copy
of It to Major-Gen, Dundas, and on the
arrival of the French fleet 1 lent a fecojii
exprefs to Balfe Terre, explaining the na-
tm e of my fituation, and retiuefting a rein¬
forcement, as it was generally fiippofed
the enemy meant to attack us in the even¬
ing of the 4th; and, as I had received no
anfwtT Co my le ters to Major Geu, Dnn-
dat, 1 fent to Cai.t. Buchanan, of the 39th
regiment, who, I w;is informed was thea
at Mary gat with 70 men, to diefire he would
march with all pollible expediticMi to our
alliftance j but the anfwtr i received to

thofe

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thofe applications was one letter from ma¬
jor Maitland, faying Maj-or-Gen'Dnndas
was dead, and that he had commnnica’ed
my difpatches to lient-col. Bfundel, wit!) a
fecond from the lieutenant-colonel, expref-
fing a doubt whether it would be prudent
in him to afford me any alT'ihance or not
1'he communica ions w'ere f .conded by ills
two inclofed letters, which Vv’efe put into
my bands a few iiours before the enemy
attacked the fort. On the evening of the :>d
inflant, I took every precaution to hrength-
en the pofl of Foi t Fleur d’Epee, and to
make the heft polfible defence, in cafe oFan
attack, that the nature of our ruuation
would allow. Ail the detached companies'
of the 43d regiment were ordered in; tlie
inhabitants were affembled, and ariived in
tlieir feveral 'pariflies, as well as all the
Englihi mercliaats and failors at Point a
Petre; and at 6 on wednefday morning, I
was happy to find I had a body of ne u’
300 men at the fort, which I was in hopes
would have proved formidable enough to
counteradl any offenfive operations of the
enemy, till I could procure a militau'y rein-
foi cement from BatTe Terre. During the
whole of the 4th and 5t.h inflant, the enemy
contented themfelves with plundering and
burning the houses and eftates of fome
gentlemen in the vicinity of Cozier. 1 had
every reafnn to believe, from the informa¬
tion of the pai'ties fent out to reconnoitre
the enemy on the 4th inflant, that the-
whole of theii’ force did not amount to
more than 300 men, and that they v\ere
not only woin out by tlie lengtli of their
voyage, but fatigued alfo wnth the excefs
they had coramittetl from the moment of
their landing. Imprelled with this idea,
the royalifls in the fort w^ere anxious to
march out, and, if ])o!hble, furpriza the
enemy at their pofl, by which means we
might have cut olt' their communication
wnth any difafiedle i people in tlie colony,
and probably have foi ced them back again
to’ their fliips. I was perfuaded fuch an
attemjit might be of fcrvicc, if effeded
with refolution ; and, at the impeated folici-
tatiuns of the royalifls, I permitted them to
aflemble 186 volunteers, and put tfiern un¬
der the command of Capt. M^Dowall, of the
43d regiment, who ofTei'ed to diied their
opei a ions. The party marched fiom the
fort about 8 in the evening ; but, 1 am fer¬
ry to fay, my hopes of the benefit we
might have derived from the fuccefs of this
attempt were entirely defea'ed bv their
want of ilcadinefs and difeipliue. lu march¬
ing along the road leading to Goz'er, a few
Ihot were fired, probably liy a picquet of
the enemy, from the bufhes at the fide of
the road : the moll fliameful panic inllant-
ly prevailed throughout the wliole party :
a general dilcharge of mufquetry commen¬
ced 5 many of them threw away their arms,
and delerted to the tovvnj feme few' relum¬

ed to Fleur d’Epee, and it was with the
greateft difficulty Capt. M^Dowall could
C'dledf about 30 of them together, whom he
marched fome minutes after into the fort.

1 am forry to add, that the next morning
we f.)uud three of the royalifD d -ad, and
four wounded. On tlie morning of Tliurfday
the 3th inftant, the enemy landed 13 boats
crowded with failors, and, from the infor¬
mation of a larifoner brought into the fort,

I learnt that it was their intention to attack
us that night, and that their numbers
amounted to from twelve to fifteen hundred
men. As I fawq fi'om tliC condu6l of the
royalifls on the preceding night, that 1 liad
very little to hope from their fiea<iinefs and
refolution, I took the jirecaution to defend
the gate, and line the weakefl part of the
work with tire foldiers of the 43d regimen*',
keeping a fm;. 11 body as a corps de referve,
to a6l on the approacli of tlie enemy. At
II, a party of horfa, that had heon fent out
to recoraoitre, returned, and informed me
the enemy were on their marck and in pof-
feffion of the village of Gozier. At one
o’clock on Friday morning, the advawced
picquets came into the fort, and w e then
diflindly heard the approach of the enemy
along lire road leading from the village. We
intlanily commenced a fire of grape fhet
from one twenty-four pounder and two
field- pieces, which tlirew them into gie.-c
confufion, and muft have been attended
w'ith confiderable etFeiSl. The enemy halted
for two or three minute'', and then, at the
pei fuafion of their officers, marched on to
the foot of the hill, and beor.n to florm tbs
work. We kept a very heavy fire of ranf.
quetry for about 15 minutes: the enemy
were evidently repulfeJ, and I am perfuaded,
that, had the royalifis a-iled with refokui; n
at th.it moment, we might have maintained
our ground ; but, on the filing ceafing,
numbers of tiiem concluded the place loll,
anti, abandoning their polls, ran in crowds
towards the gate. It was iii vain for the
foldn-rs of the 43d regiment to oppofe tlieu'
progiefs; the gates vveie laid open, and
nearly one half of the wh )Ie body defei ted
to tire town. The gates-w'ere again dofed
as U)on as poffible ; and the fma'd body of
the 43d pgiment, which 1 had kept in
referve, moved on to tlie attack. Tliey op-
pofed the entrance of the enemy for fome
time, but, one fide of the work liaving beep
abandemed and left entir-ety defencelefs, vve-
found ourfelves nearfily funaiunded, and £
tlien Oideied the foldiers 1 had with me to
chaige their bayonets, and retire a few pa¬
ces to a fpot were we might he better able
to defend ourfelves. Here v\ e halted, and
received a volley ff mnU^uetry horn a num¬
ber of the enemy that had foinied themfelves
in a body in our fionf. The crowd of
people, that now came l uffiii’g fwim every
quarter towaids the g.ttc, reniJeied ever/
elibrt of the foldiers inelfeciual. Oveipow-

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ered as they were, they found themfelves
difperfed, and obliged to retire. I confulted
with two or three oflicers, that continued
at my fide, upon tlie polllbility of rallying
once more, and hill defending the place ;
but it was their general opinion that the
fort was no longer tenable, and that we
ought to retire ; 1 therefore permitted the
gate to he opened, and ordered a retreat to
Fort Louis. Un my arrival at Fort Louis I
airembled the foldiers, with a refolut.on to
defend ilie poft; bat, finding that I had not
quite 40 mea, and that it would be impof-
fible to hold out againft the enemy, I thought
it more prudent to retire, and fave tlie re¬
mains of the regiment, than to furrender
them prifoners of war. I, in confequence,
ordered the men to march ; and, colledfing
the detachment at Fort Government, with, the
foldiers that had efcaped fingly from Fleur
d’Epee, proceeded to Petit Canal ; and, ha¬
ving embarked in two boats, fet fail from
Baffe Terre, where w'e arr.ved at 1 1 yefier-
day morning. Inclofed I have the honour
to tranfmit to your Excellency a return of
the prefent flate of the 43d regiment 5, but
it is not in my power to determine the
number of our killed and wounded : neither
can I form any opinion of the lofs fuftained
by the royalifls at Fleur d’Epee ; but I am
apprehenfive it mud laave been very confi-
derable. 1 am forty to add, that Capt. Suk-
ling, of the Britifh artillery, was wounded
w'ith a bayonet in the bread, and left at
Point a Petre. 1 cannot conclude this letter
w’ithout expreffii'g my approbation of the
condiud of the offictrs and foldiers under my
command ; their intrepidity in meeting any
danger, and their exertions in rallying our
force, v\ ere confpicuous in the extreme,
and fuch as w^ill ever claim my warmed ac¬
knowledgments. I have the honour to be, kc.

James Drummond, Lieut. Col. 43dreg.

Sir, Terre, "June 14.

I have had the honour of receiving your
two expretfes, and have f )rw.’.rded them to
his exlellency hr Charles Grey, in hopes
they ma/ find him at Antigua or St. Kitt’-S^

J am lorry to inform you we buried Major-
Gen. Dundas th-s imorning. 1 have the ho¬
nour to be, Sec.

Bryan Blundell, Lieut. Col. Com.

Sir, St. Marie, June 5, One o’clock.

In confequence of your letter to capt. Hu-
chanan, which col. Blundell has jud feen,
the colonel has ordered about 80 men of tlie
39th regiment, now alTembled at Maryg .t,
under the command of Capt. Bell and Capt.
Buchanan, together with about 20 inhabi¬
tants of this didridf, as well as fome from
Capederre, to move this evening,, with tlie
utmod difpatcli, to } our relief; astheywill,
if poflible, be all nuaunted, I expe^f they
will be with you to-morrow morning. This
force will be fiipported by three companies
of light infantry, likewife mounted, who

Giiwf. Mac. 1794.

avill march from Trois Rivieres this even¬
ing at five o’clock, and will not be long
afier the fird reinforcemen^ A quantity of
ammunition went through tliis place nn hour
ago for you, I expedl more will foon fol¬
low. The colonel is forty he had no intima¬
tion from you of your fituation, as, if he had,
lie might have taken rneafures for your relief

I have the honour, &c. R, S'. Don ken.

A61mg Major of Brigade.

Point a Petre, Guadulou^e, June tj.

I have fome force already at the town
and b..ttery of Petit Bourghj and fliall make
a landing on the fide of Fort Fleur d’Epce
and Point a Petre in a day. or two; and
I lope to regain our conqned before any
leiigtn cf time c.an e'.apfc, as every effort
will be made to accomplifii it fpeedily.

Point a Petre, Guadalou'^e, June 1A.

The enemy liaving crolfed the mouth of
the harbour from tl;e town of Foint a Petre,
and encamped at the pod of St. Jean, or
Gabaree, the oppofite point, I judged it a
f.ivourable opportunity of attacking them,
which was done accordingly at eleven o’clock
lad night, un ler the command of Brigadier-
Gen. Dundas, who executed this fervice
with fuch fpirit and good conduct as to kill
a confidcrable number of them, and the
others fled in the utmod condernation,
took to the water to fvim acrofs the har¬
bour, in which fituation they were fired on,
and many more killed. Bievet Major
Rofs, of the 3 id regiment, who was with
the light infantry, behaved with great gal¬
lantry and good condnd on this occafion,
as be had done on every other. The ene¬
my’s camp, colours, baggage, &c. with one
piece of cannon, fell into our hands, but no
prifoners chat 1 have vet heard of, a party
was liowever in purfuic of thofe who had
not thrown themfelves into the water, and
fled with equal precipitation by land. A
ferje.ant, coiporal, and eight privates, of
cur light infantry, are wounded, but not*
one killed. This report is jud brought
to me by captain Ogle, one of my aide-de«
camps, wvlu) was prefent. la judice to
the legifiature of St. Cliridopher’s, with
Prefident Stanley at their head, and that of
Antigua, with Prefident Hyam at their head,

I have to report the mod laudable exertions
in them to raife feamen for the navy on this
fervice, nor have they been unfuccefsful.

I ■mill

Country N ews.

The fire at NaJJlngton was not occafioned by
an inceiuhary, asat fird imagined. (p.6by.)
S.ifpicion fell upon a poor old man of the vil¬
lage, and lie would mod likely have fallen a
facrifice to the refeniment of the red of the
inhabitants, but for the humane interference
of a neighbouring Magidrate, who commit¬
ted him to Oundle bridewell as a place of
protedion as well as fecurity. Upon invef-
tigaling the unfortunate bufinefe, the old

man’s

ySa H I S T O R I C A L

man's innocence was cleaily eflabliriicd, and
the fir« clearly proved to Ivwebeen occahon -
ed by a boy, who had been keeping the crows
and o'.iier birds off the corn, unprudenff/
fnooling at feme pidgeons unon a barn, the
thatch of vvhicli unmedi '.te'y t.,ok fire fir m
the waiting falling upon it.

At afiizes, Francis Eoydall, con-

vivffed of fiieep-ffealing, received fcntence
of death ; VVa?. M^e, ccmvidled of perj-ury,
was fentenced to be tranfpoiced for levcn
vears. It appe r s tint Mee Inu! fworn toif.c
dcliverv of an ejodlmeut upon whied^ lie ob-
la’p.ed j idgement by default aga.ind the p .r-
lies, w'ails, cn tiic contrary, evuicMu e was
exhibited to tlie f.llsfidlion of the Com t,
tilt the ejeeffrseut was never fervsd, and on
th’S ground i.'4ee was con’ddled. The eit:;tes
nv.hjcli imnnediatelv gave, rife to this trial are
the property of a very sefpedtablc genllerr.an
in A.merica, of tl e name o*^ Mafter^, and
are fitnated near Codnor Caitle, Der’>y.
They areclaimed by Walker, Mee’sbrothcr-
in-laiv, as beuig part of the eifa'C of the late
S r fohn Zoucii, of Codnpr Caftl^, winch
Wa.iker and Mea attempt to prove, were let
, f'U lo'ig leafes, now expir*^', when Sir J,
Zouch, in the reiginof Charlrs il.h.ft Eng-
j.,,l.ind and went to refide in Ireland. Mr.
Mahers’s are nrt, liocvewr, the only eftiTss
in difpnte,'as the whole of the cl.um extends
to property httls fhoit of iCj-socl, a year.

. Long-hUlp-d Jiigufi d liree young la¬
dies ot this place, one of wh-in is vu"/ rnneh
celebrated for lier mental as well as I’erfonal
acC'-nTiplirinme' ts, agreed, a few dar-'S fince, to
bathe in a river, about Irdf a mde uiftant
from tl'.e town, there being no private acconi-
moilutinn for tluU. pnrpofe in the neiglibonr-
Inxuh An early lionr, at w- liich they would
be the leaft liable to bsdifeovereJ bv ftran-
g-ers, w'as detei rained on; and at four o'clock,
ill the-morning tl'.ey prccs-jd'jd to tlie appoin¬
ted pidee. As tliey walked tlwough tf.c
they were eP.ied by a bl.-tckfmith.
Cnrioffiv prompted Idrn to fi.id cut whither
the fair-oues were, bound : ^hut lie did n it
difco'cr himfelf to them till they were in
the river, the perfcdl images of their nr'ra;-
tive mother Eve; wlwn, perceiving him ap¬
pro, ch,, they fcre.imed out and prudendy let
down in the water. The modern Vulcan,
dead to the diflreffes of the Venufes, deter¬
mined to divert his nnc.cmh fancy by carryuig
off Lheir cl tlies, wi'h which he did no: re¬
turn. In this niti.dde filiation they were
-tibbiged to remain r near tin iioni y wl.en

a poor woman p; ffing liiat wav, on ! e.ir-

in ■ the rn ’e behaviour they had experien¬
ced, and their confequent ernbarrafrneaf, pro¬
ceed them fuel', neceiiary articles of appa: rl
as enabled them to get home, (dee p. -xzj
yhi». i6. A hre broke our, in the uork-
fnon b- longing to the Proprietors of the new
Uriildin.gs at Souih-Erul, EHex, and in a fhoi t
tb.e workiliops, with the u'enfils, and fume
ilubiing adjoining, were eatirc.’y deffroysd.

C H R o N 1 C L F. fAui^.

U O

Happily no dwelling received airy injury.

A number of iugeuio rs French Emigrants
Irave found emolovnient in Buchinerhamfhire
Bedpni/hirc.) and other adj.'cent counties,
in the m nui'affory of lace ; and it is
expended, that thrri’ the means of tliefear-
tiHcers confulerable improv"men’'S wi’l he
introduced into the methods' of making
Ei’.glttl'J lace.”

—— »'3^sgOEc*»-~-»' *

HISTORTCAh CHRONICLE.

Tloyal Vi fit to I'ortfnoutb, ^une r6.

TIisMaiefty was rncei' e i by tlr; Governor
and Lord Ifowe, and condudled to the Dock¬
yard. wlioiic ■ he proceeded to Spicltead wnth
t!ie Rova! family. Lord Howe’s flag was
Pdffed. to a .ffigate, and tlie royal ftanda>d
l.oifltd on b.varil the Queen Ciiarlotte, on ,
board whicii hi- Majeiiy and the Royal
Family remained tiil hx o clock. Tlie lords^
of the admirahy hoiffcd tlieir flag on board
'the O^ueui, Admiral Garilntr’s flag being
remoTud on the eccafiou. Tiiewhoegar-
) ifon was under arm y the concourfe of peo¬
ple was immsiife, and feotimeir..s of loyal¬
ty and attachment hurO: forth at every in-
flant. Ti e King with , his own h.and car¬
ried a valuable diamond- Iiilted fwotd f:om
the Commiilioner’ s lifuife (lovvn to the boat;
which he prefented to Eari Howe, on board
tlie Queen Charlotte, as a mark of Ins fatis-
faffiun and entire approliation or his conduct.
His MajeAy alfo prefented a gfidcli.ain, to
which a medal is hereaher to be annexed,
to Admiral Sir Alexander Ho:)d and Rear-
Admiral Gardner; the like iaonour wa.s con¬
ferred on Lord How'e’s' firA Captain Sir Rn-?
ger Cuiti'^. The wounded admirals Bow-.
yer and Paflev, w bo cnnfequftiuly could not
attend, h.ive been diOinguiAied with fimi-
lur marks cif his ETajeily’s favour. The
Rova! Famdy in tb.e, evening, on iheir re¬
turn from Spitiiea L fowled (qi tiie harbour
to vuew t! e fix French prizes, wldch are
at m.mrings the,'e„ On Friday the King
firA g.ave aud'ence to the oih;e:sof Lord
Hovie, and afrenvards indifcrirninateH- to
all odier naval ant! mditaiy officers. Some
m.i’ks of diA’inddion were conferred. On
the Levee being ended, the Royal family
returned to the Commiffioner’s home in
tlie dock-yard to dinner, and in the even¬
ing proceetled up ti>e river to view tlie
Frendi prizes. 7'he town was hnliahtly
ii’u-mn..ted in tb.e evening, and evrfy pofii-
bl.j demo iftration of joy manifuAed. On
Sa'Urtl.iy tiie Royal F.umly attended tb.e
launching of tlie Prince of W.d ’ , a fine
feconJ rale, (fee p. 666 ) F.iur flags v e:e
hying on boai d ihePrinccof Wales uimingthis
cei-ernony, tlie royal Aandard, the admiralty
A g, S r b'eterParker's wiii- effag asportadmi-
t a’, and tlie Union Bag. Tiie c'icering < f the
nuiiiitiide, in honour of ti.e royal vifftsnts,
wdierever they anpeare made the air ring ;
an 1 h; n 's of muhe continued playing in tiie
j ard, and on board the Ihips auU yachts up

tire

J 794

H I S T O R I C A L C H O NM C L E.

76s

the harbour. Imrneeia'el',' nn the Prince of
'Wal'S brought up fo h^r m 0'"ing7,

tbe\r M sjelt.c?, Prince PrneP, a ul the
Fr ncelres, euib'rked in orJer 'to g > on
b ;ard the Aqui'.on frigate, Cipt. Stonfud, at
S )itheaii. A'- the barges app-oacheii lbs
ftiips at Spit’.vead, tivo gan.s from t!ie Queen
Cuarlotte wvere, as on ■. h " former rna''iiie trij>,
t ie fignai for a general (Viutc : every thin m
c infecjuence fire twenty-one. gnus ; and t!ie
crews cheered as the b ir.^es p ifle-l. On their
M -jeftie-i going on boar 1 the Atpuhon, and
getting under fail, the !:lce fa'.u''e was hretl ;
and tire ha ids of tlie difFarun: iliips played
niirtial fy in phonies fir thegre.telF jiart of
the day. ! he Aqnilon, af sr fa l ag round
the fleet, flood away towards tlw Needles.
(»wing to thars being very ii'tle v/iivl,
f)ua aher tlie Aqnihm fi ig t.?'!! id got to the
eiftwarJ of Cowes p dnt, ibeun going about
t >nche t the ground, by whicii accirient ,ney
■were flopped an h vi;- or tw » ; au<i, night
c >ning irq chy r M ijaftif's and ah tbs Roy,d
j>arty to uh to their b.iigus. The Apnilon',
in the, nfnig of t’ls t.de, was got oiT vv th-
<)!!t I'eceiving ni l oage. On -M on lay morn-
i/g their M.ijellies, IVince brne-fl, and the
Ibhocelies, u c it on boa’ d the Niger frigate,
PM I Fiil.id for .Southampt lO, udiere diey
laid.-d in the afternoon, anl iuuinediately
pi oceeded in carriages f.ir vVindfor.

Aiho /ay, 'July 2.8.

Tiis two Rohej fp.nrres Sc. Jufl, Conthon,
A'wtcr, Prefidcut of ihe jacobins, D snuas,
Pi eh ‘en!" fho Revo'utio*! iry. Saci. ty, a id
lev rdothu' M.anbers of the Ctrnrent'on ,
were executed at Paris this p'glit, by torch¬
light, oil t!ia iVu.rr cl-; la R -voiutlou, amid the
Ihouts of an imn.aeiire crowd.

Thuiflay, Aug. 7.

Tlie mod vio'ent itoi'm of rain and hail,
accompftme.l woti thunder and ligh-ning,
took place in t!ie rn.jtr.)p dis, that has hebn
kno-vn for many years. VVe uiuli endeavour
to colleCl t'.ie p.irticulars in our next.

Fr/Vny, I 5.

About two o’c'oek, a tnelancholy accident
ha 'pened in’J ih'P'on’^ c uii t, Charing cro:s.
Geo 'go n'.),A.e, a gciiyeel young man, was
taken to a Recrmting-ofiice there belong¬
ing to the Ea t !n:'ii Company, to be enhf- ‘
ted : and, iiooii attemphng to na iXe his efc.ipe,
Iris li.rids were tied hehind his back, and in
tiia: fr.uaiion he was put into a girret, where
he was not m tny no nutes before he jumjied
from the window, and was initantiy kiile 1
up on the fpot. T'iiis circurn lance very n i-
turally attrad'lad the attention of pairengers,
and prefently a crowd was colledled, who,
fire.l by in tigu idon, palled down the houfe.
A datachnnent of the Guards w'as called in,
an I with diiilcLil'y the mob waas difperfed.

Siiturcia-: , 16.

Tile i'opul.sce ieeme ! inclined to attack
fome o.hir iN-crn’ti .g-hwh'e. in the neigh-
bouiimo 1 of Cnariog-c.uf'''. The Foot
CiU.a'ds had ic.nnued upuu the fpbt • an 1 a

detachment of the HoTc G uards wa^athle 1 c >
th.em, who patroledi da itighhe nig!it round
Cliaring-cruf:, Sr. Martin’s Is-g, and thr-ir
vicinity, — Tile co-onei’s iii iujil, rerurae'd
lliii! evening ahvr a (iehb,'»ration of 8 Isours,
was, tint George Ihiu', the drceafel, Ji.sd
CO. us by irs <ioath in confe.quence of endea-
vonring t ) efcape from il egal confinement
in a houfe of b id fame.

Suudag, T".

Th'S morning, b/.’veen one. and two, 1
fire bi'oke ont on th.e S-ubrev fide of Wefl-
mintlcr-bridge, at Alllcy’s amiihitheatre,
w hich was Toon in a gen iral blase, and ro-
r.il'y deflroved, together wit i feverul houRs
in front of the Weflminflar road ; a pnbhc-
ImuRq and fome other fm.all dwellings down
Sfingate flrsi-t ; anil it was with liiTienltv
preven'e i communicati ng to tlie wd’ieel-ma-
iiiifaTory, the boat builder’s, and a Cunber-
yard in tlie neig'fbourhoo I.

Monday y iS. ^

blrs FI. man, the mirtrefs of the houfe i.a
Johiifoi's Court, was brought to tlie Public
Odi:e, ‘ Qijeen-iqaare ; but, as no evidence
,, latever .was produced to cnmin.ate her,
i n j wn« confec'uen'ly dilch trged. — John
Jacques, 'who kept a Recruiting-o lice in the
ne :c iioihe to that of Mrs. Hana'u, w.is a'l o
examined relative to a pnfon found fic’t of
the fmah pox in h:s houle, who, 01 tlie re-
commen.latirn of iMr. Rrynolrfs, an eminent
furgeon, had lieen fuhfequenily removed to ■
the wmrk houfe of St..M.iriin’s parifli, wl ci'c
tie d ed the nex' morning. The dsfc*nce wois
lo fatii>fadlory, tint he aifo rvas uifcharge'd..

‘Tujday, ip.

The White Horfe (>nblic-houfe, Wiiitcombe-
Treet, Cha' ing crois, (.i rceru tmg -houfe
wdre.eiu £<iward B.UT.n, am uiner, had beui
ill-tre vea), ^vas f.aved t rseyenmg .Dm def-
umilion by the m ter vent i,.m of the military-

IRedneJday, 20.

On *^1115 and tlie folio .son t'dav fome riots
took place ill the C.t'y .(Se.ep. 721)

Saturday, -50.

Tite folhivviug narro'w- efcane of the
Duke of York hath hitheno pailhd uiino-

ticed : - -as he was c; oiling a f na'l ri ver

by mean; of a plank, a ’loldier fuddenly
brulbed by him, and re’clied the opp.ifne
bank. The D ik-i PopiKjJ, Ptruck w,th i.i-.
dignation at the foldier’s rude lef ; but his
i.ulign ilion w ,s quickly turned into gratitude,
when he f.wv t'le man’s ii.:.id talren olF !,y a
cannon Inll as foo-i a^- he iiad left tli ; pl.iiik ’
Public eveiit. cro vd in ui>on us dP.s mon;h
much fuller than we cm detail them. A
revolution lias taken piace in Geneva ; .and
anotner is coufi Jc.rJy t,ilked of in Denmark.
What will be the event in i'nnce of tlie f dl
of Rob-erfpierre and Irs alfociates .1 is im-
jmiri lie to foref’e. At Vienna, and in iIoU
land, t!ie pro'pede begins very coiifidsra dy
to bi iglc.cii. — ..II our next, vve hoi e to det.wl
ou, ho-vcieign s vifit to Weyinouili^ and jus
comfortable le'.urnt:) the cipit.d.

P. r80.

A Miltons and Cor re/^ tons.

P. 580, col. r. Mr. Soaper wa'5 cele-
hraietl, whilft vintier Uis late Mr. Savaj^e,
for the uncommon excellency of his voice
and ear, for brilliancy of execution,, and
con edlnefs of talle. When hi., vocal po'^ ers
declined, I e flill retained a very rerpeclahle
rank in the mufical profeiTion as a comj>o-
fer and a’ performer on the organ. His coni-
pofiiions are but few, but they are fuch as
mud ever caufe the lovers of harmony, and
efpecially of chuicii rrrufick, to regn-t that
his abilities in th.tt.iine were not more fre¬

quently exerted.

Ibid. col. 2, Tempejl.'] See our prefent
month’s Obituary, p. 77^-

P.673. For '^William Earl of Walde-
grave,” read George Earl VValdegrave,”
who was not the only fon of George tire tth
(not the 4th) Earl, there being three fons
now living, befides the daughter. John-
'James is the prefent Earl ; of courfe, Admi¬
ral Waldegrave has not the title. — It is I'e-
niarkable that the widowed Countefs (eldeft
daugh. of the prefent Duchefsof GlouceRer)
has feen the deaths of four Paris Waldegra m
— her t-wo fathers, her hulband, and her '.v’l-

Births.

July A T Southampton, the Lady of Sir

27. Hugii Romp, knt. two fons and

two daughters.

At his Lordfhip’s hnufe in Wigmore-flr.
the Countefs of Breadalbane, a daughter.

At Aboyne-caftle, Lady Strathaven, a fon.

28. Right Hon. Lady Mary Diummond,
wife of Andrew D. efq. a fon.

29. Tl.e Lady of CliriRonher Mufgrave,
efq. of Beach-hill, Berks, a daughter.

ylng- At Skelton-cafile, co. York, the
Lady of John Wharton, efq. a daughter.

9. In Ruffell-nlace, tlie Lady of Wynd-
ham Knatclibull, efq. a fon.

At Lullington-callle, the Lady of Capt.
B. Hotham, a fon.

■*12. Mrs. Gutch, wife of Rev. J. G. of
Oxford, a daughter, being their 12th child.

13. At his houfe in Old Palace-yard, the
Lady of Henry Banke.'^, efq. a fon.

At Wimbledon-park, Surrey, Countefs
Spencer, a daughter.

In L'lnlbiiry-iquare, the Lady of W. H.
Crowther, efq. a fon.

14. At Twickenham, the Lady of N. Da-
vifon, efq. late agent and conlul-general at
Algiers., a daughter.

AA Walifcote, co, Oxuird, the Lady of H.

" Calveley Cotton, efq. a I'ur.

At Sutton Coldfield, the Lady of Shliley
Perkins, efq. a fon and heir.

19. At Lord Catlicart’s, in Alberaarle-
ftreet, Hon. Mrs. Catiicart, a daughter.

z I. The Lady of Henry Crawford, efq. of
How Hatch, Effex, a fon.

24, At Kelfliali, Hertr, the Lady of the
Rev. George Law, a fon.

25. At Brompton-park-houfe, the Lady-
Yifcountefs MountRuart, a fan.

— Births and Man iages, [Augt

Markiag fs.

July \ T Ponfonhy, near Whitehaven,

2 t. after a tedious courtfhip of many
years, Andiew Huddlefione, efq. one of the
ol.lert barrillers and feuior benchers of
Gray’s-inn, to Mifs Fleming, only furviving
filler of Sir Michael le F. bart. of Rydale-
hall, CO. Weftmoi land.

26. At Edinburgh, Charles Irvine, efq. of
Tobago, to Mils Edmonfton, d.aighter of the
late fames E. efq. of Longfaugh.

28. Rev. Mr. Scale, of St. John's college,
Cambridge, to Mifs Goode, of Bndge-flreet,
Cambridge.

Mr. Edw'ards, attorney, to Mifs Cuthbert-
fon, both of Derby.

> 30. Rev. B. Jones, M. A. redfor of Chs-
rlton, to Mifs Price, ol Ifleworth.

31. Rev. Wm. Provis VVickman, nephew
of Wm. Provis, efq, of Shepton Mallet, to
Mifs Annahella Totton, daughter of Stephen
T. efq. of Lincoln’s-inn.

Rev. Edward Baldwyn, of Ludlow, co.
Salop, to Mifs Anne Morris, of Mancheller.

Lately, at Limerick, R. F. A- Benfon, efq.
captain in the 85th regiment, to Mifs Barbara
Lewin, third daughter of Tiiomas L. efq.
of Cloghara, co. Mayo.

John Hdlkett, efq. barrificer at law, to
Mils Anna Todit, eldeit daughter of Wiru
T. efq. of Mill- hill.

Mr. Richard Hogben, to Mifs Elizabeth
Guilliford, both of Dover,

Mr. James Hill, of Peterborough, wool-
flapier, to Mifs Judkins, of Uppingham.

At Hull, Mr. Settle, builder, to Mrs. Gai¬
dar, widow of Capt. C.

At Knarefborougb, Mr. Leonard Green,
to Mifs Mary Tut.tn, 3d daughter of Mr.
Thomas T. merchant.

Mr. John Smith, of Oundle, common-
brewer, to Mifs Staples, of Newington.

At Bath, James jukes Cl. fcon, efq. fecond
fon of Sir Geivas C. bart. to Mifs Mare^aret
Delaney, daugh. of James D. efii. of Bath.

Mr. Megaw, furgeon, to Mifs Proiter^
both of Rye, Suffex.

At Dungannon church, in Ireland, Capt,.
Harrifon, of the Royal Tyrone regiment of
militia, to Mifs Smyth, daughter of the late
Wm. S, efq. of Waterford.

Mr. Wra. Cockell, to Mifs Sarah Benficd,
both of .Milton.

u4ug. I. Duncan Frafer, efq. of Jamaica,
to Mrs. Slater, of Riclimond.

2. Mr. Jas. Warne, jun. of Grange road,
Southwark, to MifsD,.*)wdfvve 11, of Kenfington.

Mr. Peat, printer, to Mifs Garner, both of
Stamford, co. Lincoln.

At Lintrofe, in Scotland, the lion- David .
Smith, of Methven, oneof the fenators of the
Collegeof jui"nce,to MifsEnphemia Murray,
only daugh. of Mungo M. efq. of Lintrofe.

4. At Lakenham, Henry Gunning, efq.
of Chrift-college, Cambridge, to Mifs Ber¬
tram, of Bracondale-hill, daughter of llie late
Mr. Bsnj. B. of Norwicli.

J794']

Alarnages of eminent or remarkahk Per fans.

At Gl:.fgow, Mr. Robert Hill, writ'^r to
the figiiet, to Mifs GeJiiles, daugliter of Mr,
C. meich.Mit in Cupar.

5. At Edinburgh, John Macfailane, efq.
advocate, to Mils CkriRina VVardrobe, d.ui.
of the late Mr. David W. merchant.

Rev. VVm. Wiilcinfon, of Trinity -ct'llege,
Cambi i('ge, to Mib Craddock, of L(;ughharo’.

Mr. |n. Leeinan, of Croft, grazier, to Mifs
M. Nundy,of Addiethorpe, near Wainflcer.

6. Jolhua Capron, elq. of Paulerlper.y, to
Mifs Eliz. Wilcox, of Towcefter.

7. Mr. Giles Lyh i'd, furgeon, of Winchef-
ter, to Mifs Eliz. B’.nfield, 2d daughter of tlie
Rev. Ml'. B. of Dummei', Haute.

William BarlTs, efej. of Tottenham-court-
road, to M T r.u kcr, of Bedfor d row.

S. At Siepheiifon, co. Haddington, Srr
Archi^'ald Grant, hart, of Moiqmulk, to
Mifs Mach'od', ot ColbeTs.s.

■ g. Frui'Cis Jalcdrrat, el>.|. to hlifs Neville,
only ('auahter of the iaie Richard Neville N.
efq. of BiU'riigbear, Ee-ks.

At flyegate, Suney, Cieorge Lewis, efq.
of ih.e corps of i oy.a! engineers, fon of the
l.-’te Col. George L. to Mifs Deacon, dau. of
the late Wm, D. efq. of Eoi tfrnouth.

Ml'. Richaici Holbrook, jun. furveyor to
the Crown, of Keppel- rc'w, New Road, St.
r.iocra', to M fs Eliz. Sh.up, of HampPeHl,

AtBu'uaid’s caftle, lolrn [ohufoiq etq. of
New Pn iR), aged 8S, to Mi'fs E urch-nfon, (>f
the fame place, agevi t-. 'lire bridegroorn
is great iv'cle ti; the bride.

Tc. Ac Noithuood, in the Ifleof Wig' t,

— — - Malcr/lm, elq. maicu' of the ySth-or

fEghland regiment of foot, to IViifs M.ary
D y, 2d dau. of Mr. james D. of Ciwves.

11. Mr. Robe; t Hat ns, of Kingdo i, co.
Suirey, to MiS. Mount, of Carlhahon, in
the Ernie cxiur.ty.

At liarringwordi, George Try«n, efq. to
Mifs Chapman.

Mr. Robert Edmond'^, to Mifs Stubbs,
ynungeft daugirer of ihe late Rev. Mr. S. of
Orton, CO. Huntingdon.

12. Mr. W. Elndgman, of Throgmorton-
ftreet, mercliant, to M.fs Laipent, of Clief-
ter-place.

Mr. Coonibe, to Mrs. Dalby, both of
Leiceder.

.Mr. Rob. Vvithv, of Cnven-ff reet, ibock-
bruker, to Mis. Maiy LupEm, of-Epfum.

Mr. Wm. R..bbeili, to Mifs Kennctt, 1 o‘.h
of Folkdoi e.

At i’oo'e, George Noble, efq. of Nap!e.s,
to Mifs Rebecca Sei'ger, only dangli er of
Janies S. efq- of F'oole.

Mr. Cancim, of BofUm, fuigeon and apr-
thecary, to Mifs M( nk, of Lincoln.

At Nerthwcod, in the Jfle of Wight,
Capt. Gleen, in the Weii India trade, to
Mifs Jones, of Covv'es.

Mr. Ricbai'd Thomn';, je'W'eller, in the
Strand, to Mifs Meymoth, of Newington.

13. S3»iuel Ardrcn, efq. of tlie General

Poll office, to Mrs. Rachel jame.«, of Llan-
dilo, Soutli Wales. 4

76s

14. At Kingflon, Surrey, Mr. Tohn W iL
foiqjun.of Stoke Newington, to Mils Mary-
Aune Furrier, e'dell daughter of the late Ja.
P. e^ of Mincing-lme.

Rev. Win. Hea'ii, vicar of Inkbarrow,
CO. VVorceller, to Mils Coulfmaker, cldeit
daughter of f. N, C. efq. of Hackney.

Robert Templeman, e'q. iT Wadham-
college, Oxford, to Mifs Eliz. Beavun, of
Ratlibone -place.

Mr. Lindley, organiR of Pentonville cha¬
pel, to Mifs VVilkinfon, of Iflington, a lady
in very affluent circum fiances. She has the
misrertune of being blind 3 but her good
feafe is in no frnall degree adm'red in the
choice of her pa: tner, as he is affl died witti
the f.inie unfortunate defedl. Mr. L. is
w^li known as a great prcfelfor of nnifick,
and has given a good fpecimen of his ta-
1 nts hy making Mifs W. a complete mif-
tiefsof that debrable accompliffiment, ha¬
ving been her conflant at endant for fome
time previous to their marriage.

At Evei ton, co. Nottingham, Mr, Thomas
Jackfonjun. of Dull, attorney, to Mils Mary-
Out with, 2d dcUgh. of H. O. efq. of Bawtr) .

At Hatfield, Suffex, Mr. Thomas Henham,
to Mifs Wondham, of Boibi'onk.

1 5. At Redfonl, Rev. George Fhck, of
K bighorn, to Mifs Helen Brown, eldelt
daughter of John B efq. of Edinburgh.

16. Mr. Wm. K ichartls, of Wych-Rreer,
Jyon^lon, to Mifs Richards, of Cardiff.

Mr. Leonard Tovvi e, to Mrs. Hhte, botli
of Grantham, co. Linci.ln. ,

At Dublin, Thomas Prior Ayres, efq. to
Mifs Ga^yTriljOf Hendrick- ftrert, daugh. of
the late Major G. of the 34’.!i regiment.

17. Mr. Ernmbead, Watch-maker, to Mrs.
L} the, both of StamE.rd.

18. Mr. John Cox, mercer, to Mi's Mar¬
tha Heart, both of Stratford upon Avon.

Rev. Marmaduke Allington, of Swinhop-
houfe, to Mifs Emeris, of Louth.

At PrefaddfedJ, the feat of [ohn B.ulkeley,
efq. in Anglefey, James King, efq. of Batli,
to Mifs Bulkeley.

Mr. Daniel Wife, of Borden, to Mifs A.nne
Eagb. s, of Berflead.

19 At Woking, Surrey, Capt. Rd. Scott,
of .bhrewffiurv, to MifsCamac, d.iughiter of
the late John C. ef]. of Gt ecn-mount, co.
Louth, Ireh'.nd.

20. At Hornfey, Mr. Beniamin B.irnard,
banke:-, of Coinhill, to Mifs Holland, of
Ci;eaphde.

john Topham, efq. of Gray’s-inn, to Mifs
Swindon, of Wimpole-llreet.

21. At Dover, Capt. john Razely, jun.
to Mifs Eliza Biggs, daughter of Tliomas B.
efq. of Maxton, near Dover.

At Beac onsfield, Rev. Dr. Walker King,
preacher of Gray’s-inn, Jcc. to .Mifs Dawfoa,
only d.aughter of the late Edward D. efq. of
Long WhaiLon, co. Lticeoer (fee p. 768).

Mr. Robe; t Hayward, to Mil's Anne Al¬
len, bo'tii of Seafalter.

22. At

^56 Obituary of re?na> kc^hle Pefons. ;

At Horfham, Sulfex, Edward 'Smith,
efq- to Mi!? Ducane, daughter ot Ettcr D.
elq. of that place.

2:5. Rev. Edmund Garden, vic.ar of King-
ton St. Ajicliael’s, Wiltlhire, recti, r ot St.
Botoh.dvs, Alder!gite, and aliiRaiit-pi e,,«tlitr
of Gray's inn, to Mr?, .‘^ar-di Dawes, widow
of Rev. Arthur D. of St. Mich-eE?, Cornl)iil.

Mr. Tipi)etts, furgeon, of Spital-fquare, to
Mifs Shti'e, of Gr. Surrey-ftr. Black friets.

26. Benjamin Blopkinfon, efq. of R(;tter-
t]arr',to Mils Lang, of Fir.fbury-fquare.

27. At Ecdefltal!, Thomas Piumeiq efq.
one of his Majefty’s couniel, to Mils i uiton,
fcldeft daughter of John T. clq. of Sugnail-
hai!, CO. Stafford.

Deaths.

3793. A T Vienna, Count Clrrles de
Rcvitlky, comm.ander of the
orocr (,f St. S’ephen, and late cn\'oy extra-
c. r.iina.'T from h’S Imperial Majtfty to the
iking of Great Britain. He wms horn, in
Hungary, Nov, 4, 1737, and was dehreedly
eminent for hi,? clhiical t.Tce and erudition.
With great judgment, and at a confiderabie
expence, he cci'edied a claffical library,
xvhich he fold, during Ins refidence in Lo.i-
ilon, to Earl Spencer, h r tiie ium pf roool,
and an annuity of C-:ol. for his hfe. Of
tliis collsdlion the Count printed, and di!-
tr'.biited amongtl his litcrrry friends, ,a de-
icriptivc catalogue, under the title of Bi-
hli(itheca Gi33ca et Latina, coniple.hens auc-
lores feie omne? Giaeciae et L.tii vetenSj
quorum opera, vel fragmenta astatem tule-
unit, e xceptis tar.tura r-fcetic’S, e't theclogicis
Fatru-rn nunrupa'Oium fcnptis; cam deledlu
odit'<n.u!m tarn p,rimariarunr!, | rincipum, et
r u'iihn'aruir, quam etiam optiraarum,fj)len-
vudiiTm-iarum, atqae nitidilfimarum, quas ufui
meo paravi Fericrgus DcUophilus'T- 8vo, Be-
roiiti', 1784. -It has like wife tlie following
Erenck title, viz. ‘^Catalogue de mes Livres.
Premiere Partie, contenant les auteurs Cl if-
fK|i es Grecs et Latin?, avec des rem.arques
tires de dilTcrens ouvrages bibllograjihiques,
louvent eclaircies, quelquefois redreffees.’'
Prefixed to the work (which confifts of
about pco pages) is a letter, of ten pageqna
E'rench, addrelled to M. L’A. tlvl.

L’Abl c Denina). Eefuks this uovk, the
learned amhor pubiinned anEifay (in French)
on Tvnkh'h TaHic'^, 8vo, Vienna; and
‘‘ Specimen Poefeos Psrficae, f. Mniiamm.e-
tlis Schemfeddini, nctioris agnoniine Ila-
]ihyzi> Ghazelm live odae fexdecirn ex ii itio
Divvaih dopromtae ; nunc primum Latinltate
doiiata-, cum rr.etaphrafi ligata etfoluta, pa-
raplir fi item et notis,” 8vo, Vienna, 1771.

Alt Wingb.am, in Kent, Mr. Tho. Oldfield,

Siipt. ... In China, William Tothill, efq,
pvu ter of his M.ijefly’s iliip Lion.

19. On the M.-.Libar coaff, in his 2Cth
year, the Hon. Richard Molefworth, young-

^ /. e, a curious lover of books.

with Biographical Anecdote:., f Aug

efl fon of Lord ViTount Alolefworth, an
enlign in the hrlt regime'ni of Europeijn in¬
fantry, in the fervice of tlie E. L Company.

29. At Litilehouin, in Kent, Mr. John
Dejane, youngetf fon of Mr. ETe'uy D

Dec 24. t kandivi^ii, m Kent, Mr. Wm,
Jord n, ro'kctor.of tlvi cufoms at tliat [Kirt.

27. At Calicut, in the Eail Indies, after
an illnefs of fome day?, defervedly and uni-
verfally lamentel, A.ngus Maclean, efq. He
is fucceeded in his i.oh of Malabar tranflator
by Lieut. Jofeph Dacie Watfon, in the Bail
India Company’s fervice. The faluy is 1000
rupee? per n.on h, about T50CI. aryear.

1794. pail. 26. At vj-mterbury, in hiS'73d
ye.ir, Mr. VVm. Ruck, keeper of the gaol of
Welt gate.,

2'?. At Leij'fiC, in his 75th year, Air. Jn.
Goltloh Emanuel Ereitkopf, printer.

Fch. ! y. At Captei bury, aged 88, Mr. Wil¬
liam Staines.

19. At Dove-, aged 54, Mr. George Bag-
Rer, mailer of one of the pthfage-vehels a-;
that place,

March 5. A.t Cahterbury, in h.is 91R year,
Mr. WiUi.im it;;des, formerly an officer of
the cufl.'.>rriS in that city.

23. Of a putrid diforder in his bowels, on
board tlie VVorceflcT Eafl Inilia man, in 14'’
6' North latitude; and pD 35' Weft longi¬
tude, aged 38, En ter Hanning':, efq. late
feninr iiierchant in tlie fervice of the E.iffi
India Com.oany at Fort Maiiboiough, on
tise coatf of Sumatra, and fon of Mr. B.
Hannings,^ of Lincoln. He was a very able
and faithful fervant to the Company ; and,
after liaving u.ifciiarged his t’mPc in vari-^us
departments, during 18 years, tntbeeutiio
latisfaflion of his fuperiors, and wiili great
cieJit to himfelf, was on his return to
Europe, in tiie pleafing hope of enjoying,
am,ong' his relatio.iis and friends, the comforD
of a moderate independence, acquired with
an unfulhed reputation ; but this hope was
fruRrated by Death, whole approach Ipe
met, as became a man, with perfeffi calm-
nefs and true fortitude. His filial jiiety was
exemplary ; his heart was fraught with every
focial and manly virtue ; lie had m.any
friends, and was himielf a friend to rnai y.
His opimons were formed upon .'i conipifi-
henfr/e fcale, Lir his firoag underfiamiing
fet him abo\e the ordinary, prejudices of
little minds. Ele was a warm advoca e for
liberty and the general rights of m-ankind.;
and npuproved himreif tb.rougli Lfe a man of
ftridl lionour and undeviating integrity.

Mpril 20. At Littlebi urn-coui t, nearCau-
terbuiy, aged 72, Mr. Keniy Denne.

27. At Fluckiey, in Rent, Mr. Jn. Roffi,
a travelling leClurer pn expei imentai phi-
lofor.hy.

May .... Ait MnrtinicO: Tho. PvudyercL
efq. pay.mafler to the ordnance forces under
the command of S r CharLs Grev.

At Cuadaloupc, of a fever \\ hicn he caught
while la the fervice of li s country, Coliu

Campbell,

1794-1 Obituary of remarkable Perfons ; with Biographical Anecdotes 767

Campbell, efq. fu-rgeoa to the 3()th rfgimcp.t
»f foot.

At the fame pl"'ce, Lieut. William Pi'oby
rfutchinfup, (if tt e foot, only f(3a of

^ohe; t H. ef {. of Dublin.

At the fame i la C;'p^ TL-nry Spencer,
of the 43d reginituL of Brauilcy-gi ange,
CO. York.

At l-er father's hoiife a'- Epfuu, Surrey,

Mrs. Fyler, wife of - _F. efc]. cour,f for

at lar^'. and daughter and (uaiy cl did of f.
I’Aafitu. efq. ho i"'' ?,randfon of Sir 1 Iv nias
I’Aufou, of New Bounds, in I’uubr dge,
bait. See monuirerita! infcrlptions in “(lul-
tumale RofFeu^e,” p. 86c; alfo, HaLed’s
Kent, Vcd. II p. i ; where they are ilylcd
barenetSf bu" we t!o irot hnd wlien ihcir pa¬
tent was grantcvl. Mrs. F. was bjirred in
the faiviiiy-vauli i-r Tuifnn.dgci church..

2. At St. Luci'S Mr. Wm. Speaus.

1;. At L’ Arc .hayc, near P u t -an Prince,
In St. Domingo, in tlie prime of lil'e, after
three days i'luefs, Patrick. Sinclair, efq.
commander of Ids Mrjefty’s fh p Iphigeuia.
He entered into tlie naval fervice at a very
early period of 'if', under the protedlion
of that gdlaiit odirer .''ir John Lockha.it
Rofs. By h'S aclivity, fpintj and profef-
fion d merit, he afterwards acquired tlie pa-
tron a.ge and efteern of the lirit naval cha-
iv.dle.’ S in this kingdom ; and, by merito¬
rious fervice, was jdneed in tlie refpeClable
fitnation he lie’d when he ended a life tliat
did honour to his country. To the open
m.iulinefs and intrepidity of tlie failor was
added the gieateld hilarityi- of difpofi uni ;
and he poirdfed a' heart l eplste witli the
tendered affedlion to his family, and the
w.ii'meil attachment to his friends. One
who knew and loved him from his 'earlieft
yoi.th pays this humble tribute to Ids me-
nio'\', and w;il never ceale to regret Ids
lofi. J*

iB. ^t Pocheder, aged 65, Mr. Edward
Dyne, fnrgcon to the cited at Chatham.

3:. .At La, on board the Powerful man of
war, in his ig'^hye.ar, Lieu-. |oh.:i S^ewait.

7//-JC . At C liv-hill, Epfo.m, Mrs.

Knipe, vyidow of Edward K. efq. of the
fmie place, w’ho died in April, 1786, and
mother uf Samuel K. eU]. who, in January,
1793, married Vlifs SampfoH, d.inghfer of
James 5. efq of D.>ver, Kent; alfo, of Ed¬
ward K. efq. of Mookcfield-gr )ve, near
Epforp, wdiO, on the 2: It of lad monih ffee
11. cyt), was married at Ballito Mils Caro¬
line W'cd ern,' four'. h daughter of the late
Tivnu.'iS W of Abington-liall, Cam uidge-

dnre, efc] hy a daughter of - C .Iveit,

ekp of Al in; y-haf, Hertfoidfldre, whofe
ne -a-hudt lioufe and gr 'nut's at Aba gton-
Jvi 1 have been lately adveitifed Co be let,
fnrniditd, for a tei m of years; and wliofc
fe (Hid daughfer, Anne, was alfo married at
\\k;l.:ot church, Bath, Sept. i6, lyBB, to the
Rev. Clialoufr Bing Buklook, of Milton-
ab'oey, Dorre't,

IQ. Suddenly, of apoplexy, in Ids 4 id
year, the learned father iUlephons Schwat?,
profed'or of philofoiihy and tlieohigy, and
librarian of the Benedi(dine abbey at Baiiz-
lle was born at Bambere, Nov. 4, 1753.

gfu/y S. At Calvi, in Corfic.i, Capr. Wal¬
ter Serocol'.l.

10. AtBerliir, Mr- George DIdier Vender
Groben, lieutcnant-generai in his Prullian.
M:'j'*dy’s fervice, born 06t 2, 1725.

16 At Kinniel, in Scotland, in an .ad¬
vanced age, fobn Poebuck, M. D. F. R.S>.
Load, and Edinb. formerly of Birmin ham,

18. At Gofport, James Lind, M. D. for¬
merly phyheian to the royal lioipital at Haf-
la’-, and deiervedly celelirated as a medical
•write r.

20. At Kil'i.am, much lamented, the Rev.
Richard Ckmenc, vicar of Orilon, co. Not¬
tingham, and many years curate of i liwing,
near Kdh.am.

22. At the Hot -wells, Briflol, the Hon.
Mifs Hewitt, daughter of the late Lord Vif-
connt L’fibrd, loid chancellor of irdand.

23. At Montrofe, aged 92, Capt. James
Kenny.

At Canghley-pl ice, co. Salop, after a long
and painful illnefs, very much lamented,
Mrs. Turner, wife of Thomas T. efq, one of
his Majedy’s jullices of the peace for the faid
county, and long one of the mag’ilrates for
the fr.inchife of Weniock.

At Holyweh, near Northampton, of a
cancer in her breaft, afier a long illnefs,
Mrs. H.’iParook, filter to Mtr,, Abingtoo,
the adtrefs.

24-. AtTlionmy, Mr. Hemmitt, a gentle¬
man much lefpefted and Lamented.

2c. At his houl'e at ChelLa, Philip Soley,
efq. late clerk of the checqne in his Majef-
ty’s docky.ird at Woolwich, which oflice he.
filled for many years, and refigned about a
tw Ivemonth fince, on account of his ill
Bate of heahh.

At Grafton, in tlie Rate of Maffaebufett?,
America, aged too, Mrs. Martha Willard,
reliifl of Major Jofeph W. Her pofterlty
confiRs of 12 chddren, 90 grand-children^.
206 gre.at- grand-children, anJq5 of the 5tk
generation; total 353.

26. Rev. William Price, miniBer of the
Ebenezer dhfenting meeting-honfe at Leeds,.

At Hull, Mr. Richard R'ayner.

At ids lioufe in New Norfolk-Breet, aged'
63, the Rev. Dr. James Burn, long fenior
clergyman at the prefulency of Calcutta, hut-
more exalted by inflixil 1- integrity and dil-
cerning beneficence. Having Ir.ed with
ChrilLan charity, he died with tlie ferene
compofure of Chrifli in hope. On the bafis
of hi$ liberal appointments from the Ealb
Indi.i Company, the relpetlful friendfhip of
feveral eminent rnerchants of Calcutta allo-
ci.itinghim in their mofl.prom'fing and fne-
cefsfui adventures enabled h m honourably
to raife an ample fortune, two thirds of
which weye lolt by bankruptcies of com-

rnercial

76s Ohit.fi firy of r markable Per/cfu; with Biographical Anecdotes* [

merci.^l houfes in London and Lisbon,
tlirough which his property was remitted.
Kveu this heavy rnirsfotnne never extorted
from him a harili word again!! Ihofe hy
■evhom the evil was prodnc'^d ; nor did he
ever lament his lofs,. hnt in this iingle re-
fpe»'d, that it abridged his means of relieving
diflrefs and fuccauring indigence, Vnd of en¬
larging or multiplying thofc a61s of kindnefs
and bounty in which his vtLoie time and the
remainder of isis fortune were habicuaily
employed. The charadler of this truly ex-
eellent perfon afiords one proof, anv.pg
irtnny, tdiat the native virtues of Europe may
invigorate and expand in India; and that
perfons have retvnned thence rich in wealth
yet richer in wortli; wnth minils Oriarpened,
and hearts not hardened ; elevated without
pride, and genercnis without cflvutation.

aS, wells, Briflul, Peter New-

come, efq. fon of the late Dean of Rotheiler.

Aged 4f, as lire was getting into a chaife
to take an airing, Mifs Judith Keymer,
only daugl'jter of Mr. Henry K. land fur-
veyor, (-f Eai! Dereham, Noi'folk.

Rich. Powell, efq. of Heaton Norris.

At Penkridge, co. Stafford, iii his yyth
year, Rev. fames Stafford, vicar of that pa-
riOi, and redder of Farthingfton, co. Elortli-
ampton.

in an advanced age, Richard Hurdman,
M- A. vice-provoff: and fenior fe'lnw of
Worceffer college, Oxford, and vicar of
While Lady Afton, CO VVorcefter, to which
he had been prefented Sept. 13, 1759.

At Oflington, co. Nottingham, the infant
fon, .and, on the next day, the lady, of John
Denifon, efq. merchant.

Mr. Cooper, jev,'el!er and toyman, of
Ch.eapfule.

31. Mr. Ragley, of Northampton.

Tn his Qc,th ye-u', Mr. Samuel Barnlley,
of lh;e Treafury-office, where he fiad been
empdoved aim off from his infancy, and had
acquired an ample fortune.

At his houfe in Briffcl, John Gordon, fen.
eftu merchant.

At Fort George, Mrs, Davie, widow of
Henry D. efq. late commiiiVuyof itores at
that place.

At Bramb.al!, in Clienvire, the feat of
William Davenport, effp the Rev. R. Cock-
fedge, jun. redlor of Wordvvell, co. Suffolk.

Lately, on his paffage from Martinique,
where h,c hpd received two dangerous
wounds while ferving with the grenadiers
t>f the 43d, Capt. Jofeph Graham, of the
9 T ff regiment, nephew to the late Col. G.
of St. Lawrence, Kent, and to Lieut. -col.
Stuart, of the guards. He was. returning co
Europe on promotion.

At {amaica, Edward Morfe,erq. formesly
chief judge of tire province of Seaegambia,
on the coaff of Africa.

At Kingfton, Jamaica, Mr. James Robert-
fon, clerk to the fignet; Mr. Ah xander
Duub. r, late merchaui iu Nairn j and Dr.

John Frafer, eldeff fon of Mr. fames F. of
GJafgov^

!n St. Elizabeth’s, Jamaica, Edward Bad-
nedge, ekp deputy cleik of the pe.ace and
court, and deputy judge advocate for that
parifii.

At Sr. Pierre, in the ifland of Martiniqiue,
Mr. Mallet, fecond fon of Mr, P4 <>1 Leicef-
ter. He was a very promifing young man,
and his de t!i is much regretted.

At Ardfry, co. Galway, Ireland, Mrs.
Blake, wife of fofepit B. efq. and mother to
the Ccuntefs of Errf'I.

At his lioufe in Yo: k-ff reet, Dublin, after
a tedious ilhiefs, John Ait, efq, under ffieriff
of the county of Dublin, and who had recently
been fub ffterilf of thic city of Dobl'n.

Frances Baronefs Dowager Annaly, relid!
of John late Lord Annaly, daughter of
Richard late Vifeount Powerfeourt, and aunt
to the prefeot Vifcount.

At his fen's houfe in Pentonville, aged 65,
the Rev. Gerhardus Lydekker, B, A. late
pallor of the Dutch church in New Y"ork.
He was a native of America, and one of
thofe unfortunate men who, from attach¬
ment to the Britifh Conftiturion, were, by
the American rebellion, obliged to leave a
ffate of affluence, and take refuge in Great
Britain.

At Vyhiitby, in his 109th year, Henry
Webs. He was born four years before the
landing of the Prince of Orange; confe-
quently, had feen the reigns of eight Britifh
raonarchs. Till very lahly he enjoyed a
found ffate of health, ant', as his eyefight
was bad, was led through the ilreets by a
poor woman, carrying on his fhoulders a
fample of mars for lale, of his own making.

Mr. Francis Gordon, fellow of New-col-
lege, Oxford,

At King’s Nymptnn park, co. Devon, the
Hon. Mrs. Fortefque, wife of Capt. F. of the
royal navy,

Mifs Crofts, daughter of the Rev. John C.
of Fakenhara.

Mifs Howes, daughter of the Rev. Tho.
A. of Morningthorpe, co. Norfolk.

Interred at North Rundlon, in Norfolk,
the remains of Mifs Catharine Hamilton,
fecond d.uighter of the late eminent Dr. H.
of Lynn Regis.

At Long VVhatton, in her 70th year, Mrs,
Mary Smith, wife of Tliomas S, gent, and
the only furviving fiffer of the late Edward
Dawfon, cf(|. of that place, .(See p. 765).

At hlnfbami’s-Crawley, CO, Bedford, after
a ffaort illnefs, in her 57th year, Mifs Ship-
ton, daughter of Rev. Mr. S.

In his 7 iff year, Mr. John Grub, pariffi-
clei k of Leorainffer more than half a cen¬
tury. He ufed to boaff that he had “ fung
the old hundredth through and through nine
hundred times.”

At Portfmoutb, of a fever which he caiiN.t
on boaj-d the Sans Pareille, Capt. Jacobs, of
Maidffone, Kent,

r794*^ Obituary of conjiderahh Ptrfons^ ivlih Biographical Anecdotes »

In a very advanced age, - Hicky, the

fpecial attorney” recorded in Goldfmith’s
‘‘ Retaliation.” He had paflfed an enviable
life in the fociety of the firfl literat y charac¬
ters for nearly half a century ; and, if not a
■wit himfelf, was lively, pleafant, and intel¬
ligent ; fo that, if he did not add to the
fplendor, he did not cloud the brilliant circle
into which lie was admitted.

At Cloddock, CO. Hereford, in his lozd
year, Mr, James.

Mrs. Laxton, wife of Mr, L, farmer, of
Emi>uigham, co, Rutland.

Mr, Rohinfon 'Crui’oe, formerly an emi¬
nent upholfterer at Lynn.

Augujl r. Rev Fulwood Senerdon, vicar
of Ottery St. Mary, in Devonlliire, Of the
many amiable virtues which fo powerfully
endeared him to Ids friends, to thofe who
were of that number, a recital would be
wholly fuperfluous. Few men have lived
more univerfally refpedded and beloved, or
have died more fincerely lamenteil.

At his houfe in Pall mad, after a fhort ill-
nefs, Thomas Goddard, efq,

Mr. Andrew Lawrie, writing-mafter in
Edinburgh, and upwards of 40 years pre¬
centor of the Tolbooth church there.

At her houfe in Ifiington, Mrs, Moor-
houfe, relidl of Jofeph M. efq. late of Lom-
bard-ftreet, banker.

In his 85th year, Sir Henry Martin, hart.
ccmpU'cller of the navy, an elder brother of
the Trinity-boufe, and M. P. for the town
of Southampton^

Mr, Hague, mafter of 'the academy at
Northampton.

At Ahinger. in Surrey, Mrs. Hoole, wife
of the Rev. Mr. H. and daughter of Arthur
Young, efq. of Bradheld, Snffo’k.

At the college at Wye, Mrs. Paifons, wife
of Rev. Mr. P.

In the Fleer prlfon, after an imprifonraent
of II years and 3 mcaiilic, in his 67th year,
Beni irnin Pope, efq. He avas nearly as re¬
markable a charather as that of old Elvves,
of ufuiious and penurious memory. He was
originally a tanner in Southwark, and dealt
fo largely and extenfively in this branch,
that his flock in trade was for many years
fuppofed to be worth 60 or 70,000!. In
the latter part of liis time in this trade, and
when he was well known to be worth fo
much money as to he called Plumb Pope,
he took to tb.e lending of money, difcount-
ing, and buying annuities, m rtgages, Sec.
In th’s branch of hufinefs, it appears, Mr.
Pope was not fo luccelshil as in Ins former
trade; for the name of Pipe the Ufurer
every now and then appears in the proceed¬
ings of our courts of law, when ot-r S 'ges
in the liw ctjmmonly diitered widely from
Mr. Pope in their opin on of bis pradlices
in this 1 ranch of hufinefs. The niofl ic-
markable and the ball in (lance of this fort
v\a', w hen he was cad in i ,ncc 1. d.amages
Gsnt. Mac. Plugujl, 1794.

for fome ufurions orJIIegal practices trs foms
money traiifadlions with Sir Alexander
Leitli. 7 his was generally thought a fm.n'rf.
fentence, and perhaps tl'e weli-knowu and
welY fcouted charadler of the man cO' tri-
hut e<l #'ot a little towards it. Mr, Pops
himielf thonglu it fo oppreffive and umjufG
tliat lie never, in alt his bfe afterwards, left
off complaining loudly of it, and even print¬
ed a c-afe, fettmg forth the hardfhipand greaC
lofs he fuflered. At firll Mr, Pope, to be
even with his plaintiff, went abroad to
France, with ail his efledls ami property,,
where a man in bis advanced years, amp’e
fortune, and w'ithout any family hut his
wife, a molt wot thy and refpedled ivoraaOj
might ceitain'y have lived very comforta¬
bly. Put Mr. Pope abroad was removed
from his friends and ciiftomers 5 and, his
money being idle, which was always confi-
dered fy him as a great misfortune, he re-
folved to come home ; and, to fhew his re-
fentment (as he faid) to all th'S nppreflion,
fubmitted to imprifo.nment lather than pay
the money. Tliis he did mod heroically, and
fuffered the long imprifonment of ii years
and 3 months. In the coiirfe of this time
Mr. Pope’s affairs wore very different com-*
plexions ; and at one time he might have
got his liberty for a thoufand pounds, but he
remained inflexible, and fent them word,
that “ this 'W'ould be acknowledging the
iuilnefs of their debt, which he would die
fooner than do and he kept his word, — ’
Mr. Pope, in prifon, had many opportunities
of indulging thofe propenflties he had all his
life been remarkable for. He looked alw^ays
at the pint pnt of fmall beer before he paid
for it, to fee that it was full j a precaution
that in him was fomewhat excufeable, as
the pint 1 died him generally tw'o day.s, wa¬
ter being his common di ink ; and as to
flrong beer, it ufed to be a note of 4idmira~
tion with hisfellow-prifoners when he drank,
any with them at their apartments; but as
for ids fending for any for himfelf, of that
he never w'as guilty. His three-farthing
candle lie always bought by weight ; that is,
had tlie beaviefl of fix, eight, or ten, for his
money. In all this time, near twelve years,
he has never had a joint of meat on his ta¬
ble ; his greateft luxury was a groat plate
from the cook’s fliop, and that generally
ferved him for two meals. But in thefe
points he w'as not much at a lofs .; for his
familv, though living at a gre.at diftance,
knowing of his penurious difpofition, fent
to him frequently a very comfortable and
jiroper fupp'.y ; and on chei'e occaflo .s i e
has even been known, fometimes, to g';\e
fome leavings to his errar.d-girl, or elfe to
fonie diilrelfed ohjedl — 'I'o do juflioe to
flich an eccentric a charadler as !Vlr. Pope,
it is proper to ftate, tliar, while in trade, he
had early begun the benevolent praclicc of
giving away,evei y week, a Hone of meat, and

often

770 Ohiiuary of remarhalle Perfon5\ with Biographical Anecdotes^ [Aug.

often more, among his workmen anf] poor
neighbonrs ; and this pradkce he never ieit
off, net even when !ie was every day weigh¬
ing his candle, tu' looking after the meafure
of his fmall beer, fn money tranfa61.ion3
Mr. Pope fufrered many fiauds and impofi-
tions in prifon ; as he had not that fcopo of
cuHomers in his confined ftate and, always
bent npon making the moft of his money,
•was more eafily impofed upon ; fo that he
is fuppofed to have loP, by fuch means,
more money tlian would have paid bis debt
and coih, large as they were.

2,- At Lancafter, aged 72, Rev. Oliver
Marton, manv years vicar of St Marv’s
church in that town, and in the comm'iflion
Of the peace for that county..

At Halton hall, 'the h at of. W. P,. Brad-
fliaw, efq. aged cz, Capt. Henry Hornby,
late of Norwich, and many years in the (er-
vice of the .Baft Hidia Company.

At S.affron-Walden.. in EOex, aged 73
years, m the laft fo e of which her decay
was very gradual, .Mrs. Wolfe, Wife of Tho.
W. cfq. What w oman IhouUi he, the was.

Aged 32, Mifs M. W. Newton, daughter
of Rev. Mr. N. of Thorpe, near Norwich.

After a fhort illnefs, Aiiguftus Wil¬
liams, efq.

At Cromwell houfe, aged 36, Richard
Eurke, efq. M. P. for tlie borough of Mal-
ton, and life only i n of the Right Hon. Ed¬
mund Bnrke. He had not taken his feat for
the faid borough, having been e’efted tiiere-
to'hnce the proregatic'u of jiailiament, on
tlie rehgnation of his father. — The irrepara¬
ble lofs which hi" country, his friends, and
relations, have faftained by tliis event, is
known! heft to thofe who knew Lhji molt.
His talents, whether for bufineh or fpecula-
lion, were not exceeded by any which the
prefent-or any former .' gc could hoaft. In
that ftiare, unfoi tunately fmali, which fell
to his lot in public affair'g the fnperior abi¬
lities which he manifefted w-ere acknow¬
ledged by the fiVft charafters in public life.
.Perhaps it was- owing to their magnitude and
folidity, difproportior.ed to the currency of
the times, that ti.ey remained without far¬
ther employment. The variety and extent
of his erudition w'as great ; but what diftin-
guiihed him in literature was the juftnefs,
refinement, and accuracy, of his tafte. In
lociety his manners were elegant ; and the
beft judges, both at home and abroad,
thcuglit hirn one of the beif-bted men of
the age. He was, at the fame time, rigidly
-:md fevere'y fiocere. He was of moderate
ftaturc, but of a beau'.ifn! countenance, and
an elegant, and graceful ftgure. He wanted
no accon^plithmem of body or mind. In
the difeharge qf ail the duties of friendthiu,
and in adds of charity and benevo’ence, his
exertions were wit out bounds. I'-liey were
iTten fecret ; alWays, hke all his other vir-
■.tiies, unofteut. tiou''. He had no exjaences
which r..laied to himfeif. W'liat lie wanted

from the narrownefs of his means, was
'made no from the abundance of his heart
and mind ; and the writer of this, who
knevv him long and intimately, and was
himfelf under the moft. important obligations
to him, could tell how many deferving ob-
jedls he aftifted, and fome of whom he
fn, Itched from ruin by his wife advice and
iiidefatigable exertions. He never gave up
a purfuit of tliis kmd whilft it was pofftble
to continue it. But it was in the dearer re-
latioi'S of Nature that Ills mind, iu which
every thing was beautiful .and in order,
ftaone with all ts luftre. To nis fpther ami
mother his afTedlion and afliduity were fuch
as palTcd all defeription, and all examples,
that the writer of this liad ever feeu. Here
every thing of sflf was annihilated ; here
he was peifeift as liumari-nafure can admit.
At borne and to Ids family he was, indeed,
all in all. He lived in and for his parents,
and he expired in their arms. — A fincerdy
afflidled mind feels a moment.ary confolatioii
in drawing this imperfetft Iketcli of his ever-
to be honoured an ! lamented friend. W. K.

3. At his houfe in Bloomfoury-fquare,
aged 84, Henry Wilmot, efq. principal ,fe-
cretary to the Lord Chancellor, and folicitor
of taxes.

At his chambers in Gray’s-inn, Mr. Cha.
Domvilie, of the Stock exchange.

At Eariibkeld, in Ins bqih year, Mr.
W. Stacy. ’ ' ■

4.. At Stornaway, Alexander Gillanders,
efq. jnn. of Highfieid, fadlor on the ifland of
Lewes for the family of Seaforth.

At Ins hnufe in Oat-lane, Noble-ftreet,
Cheapfide, veiy much refpecled, Mi*. Tho¬
mas Hopkins, engraver.

At Gjford Darcy, co. Huntingdon, in his
6 - th year, Wm, Nailour Blundell, efq.

In her 83d year, Mrs. Smith, of Broad-
ftreet bmOings-

At her houfe near Uxbridge, in her 70th
year, Mrs. Anne VVilliams. If Ihe had lived
till the 7th, file was to have been man-led.

At Berfte.icl, in Kent, Rev. Mr. Richard
Jacob, many years vicar of that place

5. At his lioufe in Cbarter-houfe-fquare,
jolin Hariifon, ehp one of the direidors of
the Ba k.

Rev. Wh.arton Partridge, leifturer at the
parilh church of Botlon, ro. I.incoln.

At hiis houfe at Bath, Fran. Rufteli, efq.

6. At his apartments in Windfor- cattle,
Mr. John Edwards, one of his M ijefty’s mef-
fengers in ordinary, and a poor knight of
Windfor.

At I> ith. Mrs. Vigor, daughter of the Rev,
Sir fin'll®' Stonhoufe

At Spalding, co. Lincoln, aged 47, Mr,
Henry Everard.

At his feat at Onkley grove, ne^r Ciren-
cefter, co. Gloucefter, in Ins 86Lh year,
the R iglit Hon. Henry Bathurft Earl Ba-
th.urft. Lord Apfk-y, one of his M.ijeJly^s
moil honourable privy council, add a gover¬
nor
. \

*794*] remarkahle Perfons j with Biographical Anecdotes, yji

. nor of the Charter houfe. His Lordfliip,
being bred to tlie b:ii’, became one of the
judgt^s of the Court of Common Fleas ; and,
on the death of the nev<r Chancellor Yo'ke,
iti fannaryj 1770, was apj^diiited one of the
commilTaoners for the cnitody of the great
feal ; in January, 1771? v/as created l.«rd
i^plley, and appointed lord high chancellor
of Great Britain ; and in 1776 acleii as lord
high ftevvar'd on the ti ial of the Duchefs of
Kingfton. In September, 1775, he fn'c-
ceeded his father in the title of Earl Bathurll ;
and in 1778 refignedthe chancellorlhip, hut
was afterwards piefrdentof tile council for
fome years ; fince which Ire lived chiefly in
retirement. His fon, Henry Lord Aplley,
M. P. for the borough of Cii eucefler, fuc-
ceeds to the title and eftatcs of Eail Bathui fl;.
To the uncommon diligence and attention
of the late Earl, and his Idridt integrity in
the execution of the high office of chancel¬
lor, the decrees he pronounced bear the befl:
teflimony. Finding his health impaired by
the fatigues of his duty, he voluntarily re-
figned the feal, and withdrew from public
life, equally beloved and revered by tlie bar,
and all others who had occafion to approach
him, for his dignity and politenefs (<f m.in-
ners. He declined accepting a penflon ufu-
al’y given to his predecellbrs in ofiice, and
winch was offered to him ; his libei'ality of
mind (ths dillinguilbed characienftick, of
liis life) uifdaining to burthen the public
purfe with a payment to him when he had
ceafed to earn it by Ins fervices. His death
was a great lofs to many within the influ¬
ence of his exteufive bounty and charity.
He was, in very early life, fo grave, fo ffu-
diou"', and fo mmperate a charadler, that,
according to a well-known ffory, his fatlier,
a friend of Pore, at a very advanced age,
ufed to fay to his companions in iheir even¬
ing conviviality, fpeakiug <»f his fon, who
always retired loon, Well, now we will
enjoy ourfelves, fine© the old gentleman is
gone to ired.”

7. fn Newman-flreet, after a fhort illnefs,
Mr. James Perig-d, of the Stamp-office.

Samuel Cartel, efq. one of tire aldermen
of Sudbury.

8. At his houfe in Harley- flreet, in liis
86th ye -r, Jerome Co.ute de Salis, of ihe
holy Roman eaapin?.

At Hinckley, co. Leiceffer, in liis
year, of a ilet;p decline, Mr. Th.o. Crewn,
Ijofier. Riding out gently for , about a mile,
as had been his cuRom aimolt every meu n-
ng for fome month'. I'afr, on a poney which
he iiad flrangt’i enough to rnUlIe hirnfeP, fie
fell from his horle in a hidden fit of weak-
nef'. A neighbour, wlto la.vv the accident,
Iiaflened to ;ds alllRance, but found him
lifelefs. For tite death of one of bn bi others,
fee vul. LV. p. ^ LV'fl.

p. *, hly mother, LX’. I. p. 188 ; and fur
£ general .r’ceount of his family, Libliotlicca
';>pograpliiwa Ciitanuic.a, N'’ Vli. p, 1:4.

At Margate, aged 17, John Carden, elfq.
eldell fou of Sir John Craven C. but. of
the king lorn Pf Treland.

At Wkiymouth, of a fecond paralyt'c
ffi'oke, .Mr. Matravers, an eminent clothier
at VVelihury, Wilts.

At his lodgingsjit Liverpool, wliitlier ire
Iiad gone for medical advice, Mr. Aih-
hurner, printer and iLdioner, of Kendal.

9. At Eaft Ham, in his 75111 year, Mr.
Wriglit Bateman, late of Doffors Common:.

At his father’s lioule at Hackford, co.
Norfolk, aged zo, Mr. C. P. Bircham, of
Caius-collsge, Cambii ige.

10. At Vl'eymonth, Mrs. Gambn, wife of
R chard G. efq. M. P. for the city of VVin-
cheffer, and daughter of tlie late James Jef¬
freys, by Lady Auguila Fitzrov, and filler
to the I)uke of Grafton and Lord Suath-
ampton.

IT. At the houfe of his fon-in law Mr.
Molloy, in Somerlet-rtreet, Portman-fquai e,
aged 83, of a broken heart, in confequenoe
of the unfortunate Hate of his affairs,
Hutchinfon Mure, efq- late partner wkh
Mr. Atkinfon, the great rum contraclor, on
w'hofe death, in 1785, Ihould projieiiy have
been taken out the commiffion not taken
till lately. Mr. M. wa'-' a native of North
-Britain, and acquired a liandfome fortune in
the cabinet and upholftery bufinefs, when
he engaged with xMr. A- and built ah tnd-
fome houfe at Great Saxam, in the iieigh-
hourhoo.l of Sc. Edmund’s Bury, w'liich be¬
ing confiimed by fire p'eb. 18, 1779 (fee our
vul. XLIX. pp. 156, 322), he converted the
offices into a dwelling-houfe. He has left
two fons, who were partners with him,
and a third who returned from the Eaft In¬
dies wdth a handfome fonime ; and one < r
t wo daughters, one married to Mr. iMolloy,
at wluife 1)011 fe he died.

At Dravton, co. Oxford, in h.cr 15th year,
Mifs Therefa Wallkrd, on'y daugnter of
Theophilus W. efq. of the Upper Mali,
Hammerfmith. She was a yt>ni)g lady in
whom genius and bene.olence were very
confpicuoufly united.

At Hallings, Mifs Eliz. Hardey, d lughter
of Charles Maddox H. eiq. of CUarlctle-itr.
Portland place.

12. At Dover, Edward Hall, efq. late of
Clai'e-d reet, Dahl n.

Of a coni'u nptive decline, at hi^ h )ufe in
Hill-flivet, Bei kedey-lquare, VV'inchco.tibe
I-Ieniy Hartley, elq. M.i'. for the county of
Berks.

Ac Edinburgh, Ge'Ug.e S-sliaw, effp wine- ■
merch mt, and late one of the m .gnlnuo of
llia.t city.

After a lingering illoefs, in lier i6ch vear,
Mils I.ouifa llamuiei t -n, ilaughier of Cha.

If. efq one of thelheriffs of /London.

I p At Weymouth, a very fhort ;11-

nefs, aged 65, P.ev. rii' ni is Fifn-.r, M. A.

7 0 yc.fis redtor of E.lhuplirow and Norton-
Bavaut, Wiki.

Aged

Qbkuarj of remarkable Perfonr, Biographical Anecdotes. [Aug.

Age-d 44, Mr, Thomas Bellamy, formerly
cf •'tuhLon, CO. Lincoln, and well known
aroongft the gentlemen of the turf and foJ.

At his feat at Bell-hall, near Belbrough-
ton, CO. Worcefte^', regretted by a large cir¬
cle of friends, Walter Noel, efq. m.'.jor of
the Worcederihire militia. Soi lveted was
he to fiis profellional duty, that it was with
difficulty lie ^vas prevailed upon to quit Ro*
borough camp, u h'ch h® only left a few days
previous to his dilfolution.

Suddenly, at his feat, Wynyard, eo. Dur¬
ham, John TempeB, efq. M. P. for the city
of Durham, foil of Jo'm Tempeft, efq.
who had been for feveral years reprefenta-
tive alfo for that city. He was a commoner
of nearly the firft landed property in Eng-
lattd I and has left no children, having unfc r-
tuiiately loll his only fon al out 12 months
ilnce, juft as he had attained the age of 21
years. Lady Vane, p. 580, is filler to the
gentleman whofe death we are recording.

The Tempefts of Durham are defeended
from the houfe of Bracewell, and the male
line of that branch is now extindt- Sir H.
Tempeft, hart, of Hope-end, in Plereford-
fhire, is the eldefl remaming male heir of
the TetY»pefls of Bracewell. I litre are alfo
two other younger branches of the fame
Loufej j. Tempe(% efq. of Eroughton-
caflle, in Y' rkthire, and the Tempefts of
Rayne, in Kent. Heraldicus.]

14. At Pimlico, Mr. Sampfor, one of tlie
perfons who went round the world with the
expedition in 1743, in the capacity of a vo¬
lunteer on board tiie Centurion-

fn his yoth year, Mr. Jofeph Keays, of
Cock-lane, Snow-hiU.

At Cheltenham, Thomas Hughes, efq. in
the comnnflion of the peace for the county of
Gloucefter.

At Eartun-houre, co. Somerfet, Prancis
Mil er Newton, efq.

At P.iddington, George Colman, efq. fe-
hicr, the patentee of tlie theatie ruy.il,
Play-market. A few hours before his death
he was feized with violent fpafms, which
were fucceeded by a fit of melancholy Pu-
por, ill uiiiffi he drew his iaft breath. He
was buried on the 24111, in th.e vault belong¬
ing to his family, at Kenfuigton, with no
abfurd parade of funeral pomp ; only a few
■ of his old friends atuiiding, to pay the Lift

tribute of ref peel to his memory. - - It has

often been aifeited, that Mr. Cedman w^as
a natural fon '.f the c-lebraitd William
Pulteney, afteiwards Earl (-f Bath; I ut he
was in reality the ion of Tliomas Colman,
efq. Britiffi Rehdent rt tl e Coi n of the
G and Duke of Tufeany at Fifa, whofe wife
V as a fifier of ti e Cnun efs ' f Bath. Mr.
Ge r: e C- was bt r,i at hi r ace, about 1733,
and 1 1 -ced '.t a very e: rlv a; e in VVi ftm nller
iclu'ol, wtieiehefain d-i' i gnilhcd hinyfe'.f
. by tile r;‘pi<.h y of .atciu fit • n, and the dawn¬
ing 1(1 n. our of Ills t 1 ni‘^. In 17 ‘:8 he pe-
niuved to Ciiriil Llmr^h Cclle^^e, Oxford,

and there took the degree of M. A. During
his progrefs at Weftrainfter, and whilft at
College, he formed thofe literary connexions
■U'ith whom be remained in friendftiip till
they fevcrally dropped off the ftage of life.
Llovd, Churchill, Bonnel Thornton, and
othpr celebrated wht?; of a former dav, -were
among the intimate affociates of Mr. Colman ,
and gave eclat to his name, by noticing him
in feveral of their compofitions. Even fo
early as the publication of the Rofeiad, Chur¬
chill propofed Mr. Colman as a proper judge
to decide on the pretenfions of the feveral
candidates for the chair of Rofeius, and on¬
ly complains that he might be thought too
juvenile for fo import int an award. Speak¬
ing of the propofed judges who were fuppert-
ted by the fulfrages of the publick, he fays,
For Colman many ; but the peevifti tongue
Ofprudent Age found out that he was young.
When he came to London, lo ftudy the
law, he was received with great kindnefs by
Lord Bath, who feemed to mark him for
intended patronage'; and this circumftance
gave rife to the fufpicion that his Lordfhip
had a natural bias in favour of young Col-
m n, Mr. C. was admitted into the Society
(>{ Lincoln^s-inn, and was called to tlie bar,
where he pradlifed a very fhort time.
At this period Lloyd addreffed to him a very
pleafant poena on tlie importance of his pro-
fefiion, and the feducements to which he w'as
liable on account of his attachment to the
Mufes. It was not probable that a genius like
that of Mr. Colman could have remained de¬
voted to the dry ftudy of the law, and there¬
fore, when he renounced the bar, and attach¬
ed himfelf to liteiary purfuits, and more par-
ticulaily the Drama, he did no more than
what the publick had long expelled. Lord
Bath left him a very comfortable anrxuity,
but lefs than w.as expe6feJ, owing, it is faid,
to fontie httle d.lLeicnce that prevailed be-
tu een them juft before tlie death of that no¬
bleman. About the year 1 768, Mr. Beard,
being incapable of bearing any longer the
fatigues of a theati real life, and wiftiing to
retire from the management of Covent gar¬
den theatre, difpofed of his prnpeity in that
houfe to Meflis. Colman, Harris, Powell,
and Rutherford. I hefe gentlemen canied
on the mai agement together ; but, in a fhort
tirrie, Mr. Colman appearing to af]>ire to a
greater authority than the otlier patentees,
excepting Mr. Pov», ell, w-ere difpofed iw
grant ■ aud after a fevere iiteiary contell,
w hich u as publifhed ; Mr. Colman fold h s
ftiarc, and retired. Soon after, Mr, Foote,
then proprietor of the Hay-market theatre,
1 aving been induced to withdraw from tliS
ftage, difpofed of his f eatre to Mr. Col-
roan, for a tiandfome annuity, which he did
not long enjoy ; and on liisaeath Mr. C. oh-
tiii.ied tlie licence, ,md from that pei’iod con-
duthed Ll.e tfie.itie wuii great judgement and
: fliduit v,occ..fu)riaiiy h-pplying many dramas
from Ills own fancy, a» well as many phia-

latsC

1 ^94*1 Obituary of remarkable Perfons ; with Biographical Jaecdotes, 77 ^

fant tranflations from the Frer.ch. A few
years ago he was ftruck with a palfy, which
nearly deprived him of the ufe of one fiJe
of his hotly ; and in a Ihort time thereafter
he gave evident ligns of mental derange¬
ment; in confequence of whicl’, he was
placed under proper management at Pad¬
dington, and the condud of the theatre was
vefted in his fon, who, befides many proofs
of dramatic genius, in defervftd efleem with
the publick, has deported him.felf, as a r«a-
nager, with judgement, liberality, and a fpi-
rit of induftry, which is rarely to be found
in men of his lively powers. To him, we
are happy to add, the patent for the Hay-
market theatre has fince been allotted. Lord
Salifbury, in referring this point to his Ma-
jelby’s determination, mentioned Mr. Col-
man, as a perfon recommended by talents,
condudf, and his relation to the deceafed
manager, as molt eligible to the fituation ;
and his Majefty was gracioufly pleafed to

fan61ion the nomination. - The late Mr.

Colman was one of the chief writers in
The Connoiffeur,” and has produced a
variety of mifcellaneous poems and papers,
which he collefied in three volumes a year
or two before wLat may be termed his in-
telledlual demife. As a fcholar, he holds a
very refpedfable rank, as may be feen in his
tranllatio-ns of Horace’s .Art of Poetry,”
and of the comedies of Terence. The read¬
ers of almoft every periodical puhlicntion of
note, and more efpecially of ‘‘Ttie St,
Jame^’s Clironicle,” have been indebted to
him for much information and amufement.
His manners were as pleafing as his talents
were refpeflable. The following is a lift of
the feveral werks for which the Britiin
drama is indebted to Mr. Colman, with rlie
dates of the times when they refpedfively
appeared: i. P(dl/ Honeycomb, 1760; 2.
Tlie Jealous Wife, 1761 ; 3. The Mufical
Lady, 1762; 4. Phdafter, altered, 1763;

Tire Deuce is in Him, 1763 ; 6. A Mid-
fummer Night’s Dream, a'tered, 1763 ; 7.
A Fairy Tale, 1764; 8. The Clandeftine

Marriage, 1766 ; 9. The EagMh Mei chant,
1767; ic. King Lear, altered, 1768; rr.
The Ox<nilan ui Town, 1-69 ; 12. Man
and Wife, iiG') ; 13. Tne I'ortrair, 1770;

14. The Fairy Prince, 1771 ; 13. Comas,

altered, 1772 ; 16. Achilles in Petticoats,

altered, 1774; 17 The Man of jlalinef^,

1774; 18. Lptcene, or, the Silent W'oman,
altered, 1766; iq. The Spleen, or, iliingion
Spa, I7t6; 20. Occafional Prelude, 17765

21. New Bioom., 17765 22. 1 he Sjiandh
Barber, 1777; 23. Mae Female h'hevalier,
altered, 177s 5 24. Randiu.a, aUrr;xh 1778-,
25. I'he uicide, 17785 26. The separate
M lir.ten iiice, 17795 27. The iVIana-er in
T'idreb, a Pida.le, 1780.

15 At Hull, Lieut. Story, lately on the
iinpieL ferv ce at tlrat jioic

1 5. Riciiard'", maltfter, of Not-

tjiigihnna.

17. After a long and painful illnefr, Mrs*
Wiiadus, wife of [olin W. efq. of Chan¬
cery-lane.

'18. At Hayes, near Bromley, aged 95,
Mr. Andrew Batli, gentleman farmer.

At Bath, Mrs. Newcome, relidi of the
late Dr. N. dean of Rochefter.

19. At Cumbernauid-hoiv.e, in Dumbarton-
fliire, John Lord Elphinftone, lord lieute¬
nant of that county, lieutenant-governor o-f
Edinburgh caftle, and one of the fixteea
peers of Scotland in this and the two laft:
parliaments. He is fucceeded by his fon John,
lieutenant colonel of the 60th regiment of
foot, now at Quebec. He was the eleventh
Lord Elphinftone.

While on a ftiooting-party at Knighton,
in Radnoifhire, Thomas Barbord, efq one
of the partners in the honfe of Glover and
Co. bankers in Worcefter. ’

20. Mr. John Clark, of Leicefter.

At Windfor, Lieut. Charles Thatkeryq of
the royal navy.

In his 71ft year, Mr. Charles Broughton,
furgeon, King’s Arras yard, Coleman ftr.

In confequence of a fall from his horfe,
Mr. Rob. Style, jun. of Riding- court farm,
Datchet, near Windh'r.

At Cambridge, 'after a long and painful
illnefs, in her I ’th year, Mifs Merrill, tlie
only child of Mr. John M. bookfeller.

At Congleton, in Chelliire, Mr. Cope¬
land, upwards of 30 years door-keeper to
the Houfe of Lords.

22. Mrs. Hodgkinfon, wife of Mr. H. of
Arundel ftreet. Strand, and After of Mr.
Gibfon, of York ; whofe death will be fe-
verely felt by numbers w’hofc diftreifes her
generofity ever laboured to .alleviate.

At Tunbridge-wells, Mifs E. B. French,
daughter of Nathaniel Bogle F. efq, merch.

23. Aged 73, Mrs. Sufaanah Doggel, cf
Noith-ftreet, Weftrninfter.

24. The Lady of Mr. Pinkney, amhafla-
dor from tlte United States of Am.'rica to
the Britifti Court.

75. At Grenier’s liotel, the Count de
Meici Argenteau. He arrived in LonUon a
few days ago, on an import. mt miiiioii to
our Cabinet from the Emperor. He had
felt hiiTifelf indirpnred on his journey : I'-iit,
among other fingularicies of charadLr, liad
formed a particular itgifnp:n hr hmif.lf
in all cafes of illnefs ; placed no confidence
in pliyficians, and would fniTer none to
called in tdl the 23d mftant, v. lien iie w.as
part hopes of l eco.’ery. He had been arn-
baifador from th.e Couit of Vienna to France
for near 30 years ; and was tiie coaftant ad-
vtfer of tl.e late French Queen, either in
pel fon, or by means of Uiofe whom he
placed about her. He w'as the intimate
frieiui of the Baron de Breteuil, who had
alfc^ gieat mtluence with the Queen on ac-
emmt of Ills att.ichrnent to 'hs Auftrian fy(-
rcm. IIis .advice is foppofed to have had
grc.4 wciglit in engaging tlie C.ibineL of

V..;qna

^74 Ohitud''yof rcmariable Ferfon^'— — Ga^tite Fromoiiom. [Aug,

Vienna in the war witl'i France ; anci, not-
wii! ihituling the ill fnccefs cf l)is politicks
in ibrtL point, he would probably have fiic-
ccC'Jed Prince Kauintx as inime nunifter.
Some of the French einignai'-S do not ipeak
■very highly^ of him. 1 hey impute to him
ihe plan of conquell .adopted by tlie Empe¬
ror, to which, they fay, all the mi; ha tunes
of the war are to be afciibed. liieyalfo
charge him with h.wing bought property
belonging to the French Clergy , parncularly
the abbey of St. Val n’i. Ceicain it is, liow-
ever, tliat he has latP.y rendered eminent
Services to the Grand Alliaine. V\ itliout
iiifa'LiiSlions from the , Court I'd' Vienna, he
took ■. pon himfi-lf to fend orders to rhe
Prince of Cobon: g, in the Emperor’s name,
irot to repafs the Rhine with his army, a? he
intended, but to Hop on the Meufe. The
proclamation iffued by the Prince of Co.
bourg to the Germans betw'een the Meule
and the Rhine was the work of the Count
tie Merci. It w s drawn up, under ins in-
fpedlun, by M. Btllin, wiio was lecretary
la Mirabeau till the day of his death.

26. In Piait-rtrect, bloorafbury, in his
57ti> year, after a long and paiaful illneis,
Col. Thomas Chamlieis, late of Jamidca.

GAiETTii Promotions.

t'^l'ERbER i SA'vVy FR.efq. Sir Richard
J King, baft. Jonathan Fauikn ir, ehi.
■and, Philip Afde.ck, elq. vice admiials of the
Wtiite, to be vice adsuirals of the Red. —
Thomas Fitziierbcrt, e 0. Samued Cornifh,
efq. John B: uhane,fclq. CharlesWolfeley,efq.
Samuel Cranlton Goodlial!, efq. lion. Kuf.h
Stewart, and Ins Royal lliglme's Wiil.am-
Pie.nry Duke of Clarence, vice adunrals c f
the blue; Richard Onll .w, elq. a'ni Robert
Kn-glmiil, efq re.ir-admiials cf the Pvid, to
be vice-admirals of .the Wbiie. — Sir Geci't^e
Collier, knt. George Bawyer, efq. Sh IT’de
Parker, knt, Rowland Cotton, efq. Benja¬
min Cal. well, efq. Hon. Willi.im Cornwal-
l;s, William Alien, elq. Jt-lin Macbi ioe, elq.
a:Hl George VanJeput, eup iear-?.diriii als of
the Red; Charles tnickiiei, ei'u. jonn Cell,
elq. W’ilbam Dickfou, efq. and Alin Gardi¬
ner, efq. rear-a- rmral; of the Wiiite,' to be
vice admirals of the Blue. — Joiui Lewis Gi-
doiiqtfq George Gayt..n, eiq. George IVlui-
jav, eiq Robert Ln zee, efq. Sii J.i i.es W'al-
i.i-.' ■, knt. V\ ilii im Pecre WillianK'-, eiq. and
Tlromas Pafley, elq. rear .u.rairais od’ the
W'iiiie; John 1 C'd. an.'. .Sn Thom s
Rich, bait reru'-admi . ;.'s of tb.'. t.)

be rear admiivls of ti.e Red — Ciiarjes
Thoaiploii, ' fq. J.unes Cumnnug, eni Joim
Fold, eiq J hn Colpoya, clq. ' keituigu);!
l.ttvvidge, elq. Arcii.baid Lb;.ktoa, efq.
George ontagu, elq. i h.rma' iJumaitlq,
•e.q. a.id t le iiu i. .bn Gtor .e Kcth Llplnu-
■ H , R. P. ) e.a-.-.da.ti,' s ■ f lire ..iue, r(;i

) ;■, , .i.'anuad;' vit lire 1 e. - -C i't.aii.i

I •rncs iTgolt, t-H] il-.ai. 'v'Vi.n an V\' tvi -
t'i' .'en, i Uo.iias WJ.a.u»s.c..Z.e, 1 LoiP.aS

Pringle, efq. Hon. Willi.arn Clement Finch,
Sir Roger Cuitis, knt. Henry Harvey, efq.
Robert Man, efq, and William Parker, efq.
appointed-r'. ai-.admirals of ihe Blue,

William Young, t fq. J imes Gambler, efq.
and Loid Hugh Seymour, appoirted colonels
of Ills Majefty’s marine forces, v-i-e Waide-
grave, Fringk^ and Curtis.

Right B.CV. William Bennet, bifhop of
Corkeand Rofs, tranflated to the bifhopricK
of Cioyne, vice Woodward, dec,; aixi the
d!on. and Rev. Thomas Stopfoid, dean o£
Ferns, eledled biflrop of Corke and Rofs.

Right Hon. General Cunnuighame, com¬
mander' in chief of his blajefty’s forces in
Ireland, or the commander in edrief of the
faid forces for the tirr.eb ing, logetlitr u.'ith
the Riglit Hon. james Cufte, tl.ie Hon. Pon-
fonby Moore, Robert Langrilhe, efq. the
Hon George Jocelyn, tl e Hon. Henry Po-
rnei oy, Frederick d ie ch, eiq. and^y,ie Hon.
Vv illiam Cockayne, in the room of William
Haadcock, eiq. dtceafed, add Lieut. -col.
Jobn-Frarcis Craddock, quarter-mafter-ge-
ii^rai of his Majefiy’s force= in Ireland, ap¬
pointed commiliioneis and overlcers ol the
barracks ni that kingdom.

Haviiand Le Meiurier, efq. appointed de¬
puty coramilTary-general of Hores, provi-
fions, and fprage, to the forces Ri ving on
tlie Continent uneler the commaud of the
Duke of York.

Wm. Kay, g;fnr. appoin'ed atEft nt-cora-
niilfary of Hore^, o:c. to the f-aid forces.

Genet al the Earl of Carhampion, appf>mt-
lieotei ant-general upon tl.-e Raff of Ireland,'
vice Luiu.^gfcn. Moeber, refigned.

Wdiiam Karl Fitzwdliam, lord prefu'ent
of the council, njice Eari Camden, dec.

His Glare the D Ke of ib.nt'and, one of
his Majeily’s prurip sl lecretai les of Hats.

Right Hon. Wd.’am vv'irdham, fecreR’Y
at war, vi;.e Sir Ge-mge Yonge, refigned.

His Gr 'Ce the i idte <d Gordon, appointed
keeper of ’he le^d appointed by fhc treaty of
UniiHi to he m..de uR of in Scotland.

Earl Spencer, keeper of the onvy fe.d,
vice Marquis of Sta'bor,', refigned.

Evan Nepean, Stephen CottsreU, and Jas.
Bland Burges, efq'S. appointed comnnHin”'
ersTor the cuHody of the privy Ra! m t^e
abfence of Earl Spencer, gone ou rai eiubalfy
to tlie Co' rt of Vier.na.

His Roy.d Higbn^-B- Piince Vv’iUiam of
Gh'UceHer, and hrs Grace me Duke of Fopt-
laad, elected kiugiv.s (d ihe Ga te",

t. harle,s Sax* on, tfq. of Circotr, Berkh
cre'itvd a baron :t.

Gen. tleorge Maiquis Tovvnlhend, ap-
po iitec.', govern, u" of Hull, vice Murray, drC.

Gen. >.tr lierny' Clinton, K. i-. appointed
governor <d' Gibr.dtar, -Dice Foyo^ dec.

C..pt. !■ 1 c ei ick- 'vV ihiaui F.uii- r, appoint"!
ed uu. rtcr-rnatier-gsiierai to ihe borces un-j
(lei tb ' coaimanvi ot Fail V''o'.ra.

■ d iionu s tdgle, arpolnicd tiro i.y puiveyori

to tbv iloipli.iiS I Ol the laid iOte»S. '■

^ Rob.iti

?794*j Pfcmoitons* — Thealrhal Peglfier. — Bill of Afor.cUty, ^75

Robert W.ilter?, a.ppointe<l fiirgeon to the
forctis in the i lainl of Gtiernfey.

Henry Strachey, efq. appointed maRer of
his M.pe/dy’s houfehold, x>/c^ S;r Fra. Drake.

Hugh Cloberry Chriftian, and Philip Pa-
ton, efqrs. captains in the royal navy, and
Ambrofe Serle, efq. appointed commiffioners
for conduiling the tranfport fervice.

Mr. Dudley Adams, of Charing-crofs,
globe- maker in ordinary to his Majcfty.

Capt. llerry Wilfon, of the ill reginietit
of life-guards, knighted.

W illi am H en ry C a vend i 111 , com m o nl y c all -
ed Marquis of Titclifield, appointed lord
lieutenant of the comity of Middlefex.

John Earl of Upper Offory of the king¬
dom of Ireland, created Baron Upper Offory,
of Ampthill, CO. Bedford.

Edmund Lord Clive of the kingdom of
Ireland, created Baron Clive, of VValcot,
CO. Salop.

Henry Lord Mulgrave pf the kingdom of
Ireland, created Baron Mulgraye, of Mul¬
grave, CO. Yoik.

William-Henry Lyttelton, Lord Weffcote
of the kingdom of Ireland, created Lord Lyt¬
telton, Baron of Frankley, co. Worcefter.

Right Hon. Welbore Ellis, created Baron
Memlip, of Mendip, co. Somerfet; with re-
rnainders feverally and fucreffively fo Henry
Welb> re Agar, Vifcount Chfden, of the
kingdom of Ireland, Hon. and Rev. John
Ellis Agar, fecund fon, and Hon. Charles
Bagnal Agar, third fon, of James late Vif-
count Clihlen, dec. ; Welliore Elhs Agar,

THEATRICAL

efq. one of the commiffioners of his Majef-
ty’s cuffoms ; and Dr. Charles Agar, ar(,h-
bifltop of Caff el, and their refpeiflive heirs.

Sir H'-nry Bridgeman,b3rt. created Baron
Bradfoia*, of Bradford, co Salop.

Sir James Peachey, Hart, created Baron
Selfey, of Selffy, cp Suffex.

Sir Ti'iomas Dund 1', birt. created Baron.
Du'idas, of Aff'C, CO. Yoi k.

Afshetoii Curzoii, efq. of Pennhonfe, co.
Buckingham, created Baron Curzon, of
I'enn, in the faid county.

Ch ides Anderfon Pelham, efq. ofBrrcklef-
by, CO. Lincoln, creamd Baron Yarborough,
of Yarborough, in the faid county.

Major-general Charb s Lelglt, appointed
captain general and governor in cluef in and
over the ifland.s of EJevis, St. Chritlopher,
Monfferrat, Antigua, Barbuda, Anquiia,ap.d
all otherfpie Caribhee Hlands.

James Cranfiel'*, efq. appointed governor
and commander in chief in and over the
Bermudas or Somers Hlands.

Thomas Edie, appoiired fnrgeen to th.e
forces in t';e ifl.and of Gnadaloupe.

Eenjamm Shield, appointed furgeon to the
forces in the jflind of Martinico.

Daniel Buckle, Th mias Powrie, and Cha.
Montagu appointed fu’ geous to tlie forces in
the ifland of St. Domingo.

Capt. Patrick Maxwell, of the 19th dra¬
goons, .and Capt. l^awrenne Dunda';, of tha
i^tli dragoons, appointed majors of brigade
to tlte forces encamped at Nertl w.

Ecclehadical HVeferment^ in onr 7isxt.

Aug. Hay-Market.

" I. Thomas and Sally — I he London Her¬
mit — The Dead Alive,
i?. Inkle and Yarico-^-A Mogul Tale.

4. Summer Amufement — The Prifoner at
Large.

c. ri! tell you What! — Auld Robin Grav.
ft. Rofim — Heigho fora Huffand ! — Ditto.

7. Tit for Tat — The Dead Alive — The

Prifoner at Large.

8. Summer Amufement — The Liar.

9. Hjio to be Happy — The Author,
ji. Ditto — The Mayor pf Gan. at.

12. Inkle at)'! Yaricp — Agreeable Snrp’'’r?.
j3.She ^’i'ou’d and She Wou’d Not — The
Dead Alive.

14. How to be Happy — The Flitch of B.acnn,

15. Tic f>r Tat — Auld Robin Gray — Tiie

Agreeable Surprife.

16. Rofna— -The London Hermit— -The Fri-

foner at L -rge

T^. Heigho for a nufband 1 — M fs in her

Teens — Ru'e, Britannia.

19. The Liar — Rule, Britannia-— The Agree¬

able Surprife.

20. A Qjiarter of an Hoot before Dinner _

The Gameffer. — Britain’s Glory ; or,
A Trip to Portsmouth.

21. Piety in P.jttens — Tlie Mountaineers —

The Mayor of Garrat.

22. Flalf an Idour after Snpper — The Sur¬

render of Cal.iis— The Puife.

2j. The Prifoner at Large — The Agree.ab’e
Surprife — The F.irmer.

25. Rule, E'itannia — Peeping Tom — The

Children in the Wool.

26. Auld Robin Gray — The Son in-Law —

The Village Lawyer.

27. King Richard the Thiid — Comu'^-

28. Britain's Glory — The M.ountaineers—

The Iriflrrnati in Londt'n.

29. The Dead Alive — The Liar — My Grand-

inhtlier. fin the Wooh.

90. The Surrender of CalaC — Tlie Chiljia ti

uL ot (VI OR 1’ A L IT V, from July 29, to Augpff 26, 1794.

Ciniilened. J Buried.
Ma'es 853 7 I Males 890?

I'emales 8933 ‘ j l-’emales 9265

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Hydrophobia very rare — Author of Chryfal 780’
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Oblet vations relative to the Growth of Gats 78 i
Remarks on a Publication of Mr. Wakefield ib.

Arabian Tales — The Magnificence of Ruhia.S?^

Torking'OnPi iory — SirHenry Sidney';: Heart. 78^

Chriftopl.sr Angel — Addrefsto E.'of Bncliaa'736
Prodamaticnof Henrv Vlll onl^evy.s-papers 787
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Let'er to Dr. Doddridge — Pedigree of Digby 790
C- igina! Letterof Di .LeIand,Bi>, Hikle(ley,&c.7Q2
B'.'iir, Author of the Grave— ^^vVa t' s kfalms 794
Dr. W eil's's Reply to Dr. Darwin oti Vifion '7 75
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Ncivton H:.ll, Fifex — Moiitaigue s Voyage 804 | Marridges, Deaths, Preferments, See. 8^9 — 8,
Cuarge againft Mis Mrtrpni *v_.;^i(7spters 8 ' 5 ' Theatr. Regifler— Monthly Billof tVI.u't.ibty 8 7
"1 h^Bia.vvuG; uh — OdetoSir joihuaRey uoids 8oh , Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 87
; lilnrtraie 1 wifh Perfpo<llive Vievvs-nf Dovedalf, in Derbyshirf, and of

i- To'r KtN G rbN-PKiokv, .11 Su-ssEK ; an Urn inclobng the Heart of S r Henry Sid.vky j

' anti the Tomb of Elif.j.oke de Ci-irr.

N G

Piiflureqf Dovedale—Whiteningof Churches 801

Debtors— f^ifs Williams — On FonndQrVKin 80?
LjienoredeCliff^Baronyof Dacres exp,! aided gog
Medical. andCritipal@bferv.at,ionsbyDy.erane 810

J.M’tReplypnFree-fMironry — Sixmwfrrfh re ib

Curious H[umanPhxnorhenona(tSh«ptpnMai,ler8 x i

sSoi'-'e Etc! rafts From the Voy.age ofMr. Pages ib
AgUonbv^A Sii-guKrity among tlie Chinese 814
Extradtfrom Bof". ell— .Telegraph explained 8 < y
The Chroiptiles of tlieSeafonSj^Summer i 794 8 1 0
Mr. D ifraeli’s Anfvver.to Rev. Mr. Grah?rn 817
Reliquesof Ancient Poetry — EpitaphsperiOiing ib.
Extent of Corfica — Charitable Donations 8r8
Walfh's Letters— MoakifhVerfes explair>ed ib.
Proceedings.of f 'Clafi; SeTinuof Eariiammt 819
Mifce'.laneoiis Repvirks for Septeailxr 1794 82 3
Tylr. Hol.-nes’s S.qiUiagint— -Z/e/fjt ZeJi-rn/oni/j 824

Review of N ew F v u r .■ a’ i ions, 8 _ 840

S E 1. EOT Po K T Ky , Aniientaiid Moden '.Sg i— 846
Proceednigsof xN'ationalCun venti-on in France 847
Impori3atIntelbge.nce Fr(>m London Gazettes 8 5 1
■iit-.oricaiphronv le — DonieilicOccuiTenet;:- 855

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Pnmed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero’s rt'e.id, Red- Lion Pahage, Flcet-ftreet ;
where all LettSrs to the Editor are defired to he addrelfed, Post-paid. 1794.

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raTkiannprBttCir^-.-^A>tf-Atn^v-.-» .vry ^

Meteorological Dlarui for Augnft and September, 1794*

Meteorological Table
Hcigbic of Fahrenheit’s Thermometer.

for September^ *794» *
HeigbTof Fahren'heit’s Thernrtomettri

•

Barom.

Weather

0 c

d 5

c •

^ CuL

«(

in. pts.

in Sept. 1794

Jjug.

29 ,86

fhowery

,96

fair

30 ,06

cloudy

29 ,88

Ihow^ery

,84

rain

5. 1

-,q2'

cloudy

66-.

,82

fine

5“

30,12

fair

51'

6.5

»i7

fair

rf,

29 ,90

rain'

j56

(howery

>54

rain

57'

rain:

»73

rairt

5*5

,29

raim

1 1

1 60

30, ir

fair

W. CARY, Optician,

- §
ds

• •

^0 0

Noon

1 I o’cl.

Night.

Barom
in. pts’

Weather
in Septw 1754.

Sfff.

1 2

30 ,30

cloudy

^43

»i3

cloudy

29 >93

(howery

,92

fair

5-6

69}

30 ,00

windy

^ 17

29 >97

fair

,6r

fhowery

,68

fair

>34

fhowery

,64

fair

>35

fliowery

6ip

'57

,60

rain

• >45

ftormy

53'

,60

ft or my

' 2:6

41-

>92

cloudy

No. I

82,

leir

Norfi

alk-Stn

set, Strand,

Wind. 1

3arom. '

1' '

Cherm

dygrom,
’eet in.

. ,1 . . . ... „ „ —

State of Weather in Auguft, 1794.

]

E gentle

29,48

14 0.6

rain, heavy fhowefS'

W brifk

Qvercaft, clears up

W very brifk

2 .0

cloudy, fhowers

NW bnfk

r .6

white clouds, fair

W calm

53'

overcaft, clears up

S calm

fmall rain, frequent fhowers

SW calm

49:

0.7

black clouds, frequent Ihowera

N brifk

r.5

white clouds, fair

N moderate

30, 8

clouds, bland and pleafant

W brifk

overcaft, rain P.M.

1 1

NW calm

29 ,94

overcaft, rain at night

«2

NW calm’

30'jro

59'

clouds,, fine harveft day

S gentle

'■-* 14

[: '•■7

blue fky, delightful day

W calm

6 1

i -I'

dark fky, fun and pleafant

NVy” eaka

29 ,8 2

611

white clouilS) fair

S brifk.

.■64

•4

after a Ihower, overcaft, flight fhowe?s

I ’

S moderate

fhowers

S moderate

- 78

1 -4

clear expanfe, rain at night

W calm

■U’hite clouds, fair

W gentle

62;

t "-7

white clouds, pleafant day

W gentle

30 ,.-8

dark fky, fihO day

'■it

SW gentle

.6'.

white clouds, rain at night

W gentle

29 ,88

overcaft, clears up

S gentle

•3

iblue Iky, frequent fliowers

t<-

is brifk

•9

jrain, fhowers

S moderate

jWack clouds, fhowers

r W bnfk

* 5c

•9

black clouds, fhow’cis

5 NVV gentle

‘Sc

) 58

white clouds, fair day

yS calm

^ 53

ilark. fky, rain at night

3 S calm

6/.

1 59

overcaft, fhowers

CjE gentle

i 60

white clouds, pleafant

I. Thunder anti lightning? gathered Orleans plum. — 3. A brilk gale, fo as to damage-
the ripe torn by Ibaking out the grain, and blowing off the ripe fruit. Mulhrooms plenty.

_ j, Robin fings. — 1 2/ Harveft become general. — 15, Butterflies fporting, and depofltiug

their fpa^vn. Buly houfing corn. — 20. Thiffle-down flies; blackberries ripe. — 26. Mowing
fecond crops of clovei;. — Wafps enntinue troublel'ome as in the former month'; goofeberries,
plums, and pears, have been fcooped and devoured by their great numbers. Harveft in
gieat forwardnefb : crops good, and well houfed. Grain in fume places blighted i in gene-
' lal

THE

(779

entlemans Magazine :

For SEPTEMBER, 1794.

BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF VOL. LX IV. PART l[.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 10.

R. WYNDH AM, in
the “ Pi6lure of the
life of has not

overlooked a *villukin
of Mr. Wilkes near
Sandham fort.

He fpeaks of two of the
00ms in the garden as “ large, well-
Toportioned, and fitted up in an ex-
lenfive and elegant ftyle ;”and adds,
Theafpetfl of one of the great rooms
pens to the Ocean, and takes in the whole
f 5ando\vn bay 5 a grand and noble objedt !
ormed by tlie chalky clilTs of Culver on the
.afl, and on the Weft by the craggy rocks
f the mountainous point of Dtinnofe, fix
niles diftantifrom each other.’'

The fituation is worthy th£ pen of
</Ir. Wyndham. Old Ocean appears
here in all his majefty ; and the eye is
;arried over an i-mmenfe expanfe of wa-
ers to Cherbourg, whkh is nearly op-
lofite, almoft due South, and in lefsthan
ight hours has been frequently vifited
vith a bold favourable wind^

The conclufion of the remarks on
landham cottage is interefting:

Sandham heath is, perhaps, more vifited
han any other part in the ifiand, and fome
adles have, moft provokingly, preferred it
o the romantic cottages of the Undercliff,
ind to the luxuriant richnefs of the neigli-
)ourho<jd of Ride. But here are fome fine
irints and fome beantiful china; and, among
he former, des bijoux indijerets, ksf des autrci
^igureSf qui lent tre^ cluirement

The lujean room, which is here al-
uded to, fhould, methinks, have found
!bme indulgence, if not favour, from
;he claifical lafie of fo profound an
idept in the Fine Arts. The large
Folios of the Mufeum Florentinum^ the
Pleura Et* ufccritm in Ea/fuHs, and

the DaByliotheca Smhhiana, furnifhed
the greater part of the fine engra¬
vings in that apartment. Even the
badks of the chairs, which are of the
fattio wood fo much adniiied, are Fuf-
can vafes publiflied by PafTerius. ] did
not fufpe^l fo accompli fhed a gentleman
of fimilar prudery. Should the rtnus
de Medtcii appear in a hoop, after the
model in one of Hogarth’s burlefqae
prints to the “ Analyfis of Beauty ?”
Or, ihoold a great-coat conceal the ele¬
gant form of the Belvidere Apollo, or the
brawny niufcles of the Farnejian Her-
xulei f One of the figns of returning
Summer in Horace muft then be ba-
nifhed :

Gratia cum Tiymphis geminifque fororibus*
Ducere nuda cohors. ^audet

As to the ladies who, moft pro%'Q~
kindly, can permit fuch things; they
have the fan<Sion of all great cotleffors,
and the firft example of our age for true
modefty, the dignity of delicacy, and
every female virtue. The Slyeen's P a~
li^ce has celebrated originals of moft of
the great Mafters : p'enus attired hy the
Graces, the raptures ol Cupid and Pfv-
che, and frequent Iketches of our Jirji
parents, in the early paradii'aical Hate of
love and innocence, imparadis'd in one
ano her's arms, whom an eDl Ip'r.t only
could eye ajhaxce, or nvith jealous leer
malign. »

Jf the ladies who, moH provokingly,
wander along the briny coall, are not
caught in the way an old faying tells
chi-dren that fparronx.^s ate, nothing
they can fee in the gardens of Sandham
cottage will put them in any danger.

The mention of the bjoux indjcrets
is fuppofed to allude to a laughdble
Fhench work of that title, in two 'o-

ral well-fed. After-grafs and fecond crops of clover very decent. Verdure is reftoied upon
;he h- le ofore Icorcbed p.aftures. Autumnal lliades brgin to tint tii-e foliage, buildings, &c.
fbe throftle has frequenily regaled-us with bis fong.

Fall of rain tiiis mouth, 4 inches 5-ioiiis. Evaporation, 4 inches.

Waltorij near Liverpool. J, HoLT.

* With .Mr. Wvndium’s leave. Wha“ a glorious group !

I utnes^

7S0 Infcriptlm to the Memory Churchill. — Hydropholia^ [Sept,

lumes", of a paiticukr friend of Mr.

Wilkes, the famous Diderot, publiihed
fome years ago at Paris.

^inc£ the public^tion^of the “ Pi6^ure

You mention the late Lord Mansfield
(LXIII. 296,) as a knight of the thiftle.
Surely this requires a little rectify ing?
the .preCent earl it is who is of that or-
of tjie ifie of \Vight/* Mr. Wilkes has der; his uncle, the late lord, never was,
creeled, in the grove at Sand ham cor- A few years ago, Tome of your corr
tage, a Doric Pillar to the memory of refpondents enquired after James An-
the celehratyd Charles Churchill, with nefle'y, who, in the year 1744, made a

this infcit prion :

CAROLO CHURCHILi:,,

DIVING POET^:,

AMI CO JUCUN DO,

CIVI OPTIME DE PATIUA MERITO,

It is in the middie of the grove, and
hacked with weeping willows, cyprelles,
yews, &c, Laurels feem to grow out of
the column, as from Virgd’s tomb at
Naples, t nd come nearly down to the
tablet cn the f illar, which is fluted, and

moll violent, and (as it afterwards pro¬
ved) a mod ill-grounded, claim to the
real efiates of the lafi: ^arl of Anglefey,
fupported in it by fome Northern ad¬
venturers. Aber h’s total difcomfiture
in this claim, he married a very amiable
daughter of a fui-d-Jant baronet in the
Weald of Keni"^ who was gentleman
porter at the Tower of London, and
died many years ago, 1 believe, with¬
out ifi'ue, and rather in a hate of intli-

apoears in fome parts ahead V injured by and obfeprity ; in which condi-

Time. On the fore-i-round are large "o" “f ‘i’' beforemention-

mvrtles, bays, laburnums, &c. The
pillar is broken, about nine feet high,
and five feet dramster. Viator.

ed lupporrers alfo ended their day*.

Yours, &c. Jack Prancer.

Mr. Urban,

Sept^ 9.

Mr. Urbi^s, Sept. 8.

Y H A T is here fubjoined, may

^ afford eafe and comfort to many

individuals, at this time harraffedand dif-
ty^bed in their mrnds with the late pub-

F^ROM the Prtfident’s Atidrels it ap¬
pears, with what energy and fuccefs
the Board of Agriculture is proceeding,
in carrying on the great undertaking.
Their Survey of the kingdorrt is nearly
completed, and the fubffance of the dif-

lifations in the papers of the numerous ferent papers tranfimitted to the Boa-^d,
perfuns bitteji by mad dogs, and of the condenfed into one Genera! Report, is
enfuing effects, as canine madnefs, hy- already preparing to be laid befoie the
drophobia, &c, ■ ^ King and both Moufes of Parliament.

I am, IMr. U rban, a profefiional man ; His Majefiy, whofe attention to agri-
have been many years ui extenfive prac- cuirurai por'uits is well known, has
tree in s populous city, and a principal communicated, we underfiand, his ap-
Dttendanc in a large county bofpital ; probation of thefe proceedinits to the
arsd, of courfe, have had many perfons Board in the moft gracious terms, ex-
bitten, or reputed to have been bitten, prelling hi^ '.vifh to fee the General Re-

by mad dogs, applying for dire£lions
and remedy. In no one inllance can I
pofitively pronounc'd that a patient died
from a canine bite alone. Not one in-
Itance has occurred that, as a cool and
can did profeflional man, I cou.d pro¬
nounce to have been attended with a
canine hydrophobia as fo a’aiminglv
leprefented; nor can 1 remember an
inflance of any attack, upon a perfon

port competed! and informing the
membeis of the Board, that he fha 1
confider every perfon who comes for¬
ward with his affifiance in that bufinefs,
as contributing importaniiy to the good
of his country. Such a mark of atten¬
tion in the Sovereign of a great empire
to the internal impiovement of the coun¬
try, in the midfi of a war, every mo¬
ment teemir*g with great events, Mr.

bitten, at a, remote time, fairiy to be Urban, 1 am fure, will announce to his

afcri'bed to fuch a caufe [ could be
more difiufe on this lubjedl, but am
doubtful whfether'it would not be tranf-
greffing upon your publication.

Verax et Benevolus.

reader, with pleafure; and under fuch
aufpkes, the mod beneficial confequen-
ces may be expe£led. RUSTICUS.

Mr. Urban, Dublin, July 30.
'“'HE author of Chryfal, p. 591,
was Ch-irles Jolinlon, not John-
fione, a pcffon educated in Trinity
college, Dublin, and well known in
Loudon before, and in, the year 1750.

Mr. Urban, Aug. 20.

Believing the following obfeiva-

tions on Oats may be of fcrvice,
etpecialiy to the ir>habicaDts of hilly
countries, I requefl it may have a place
in your uleful publication. ”

Oats are very hardy, abd will thrive;
on aiinolt every foil j and, ipreadiagi

iheiri

1^94-J Ohfervations- on Oais.^Remar'ks'on *jZi

itheir roots both deep and laterally, will
yield good crops not only on dry foils, on
which they are generally (own, bnt alfo
oh flrong foils, in which their (Irong
roots, extending themfelves, Open the
(lYong earth, and, rotting after the crop
i§ taken off, help to open the fame, and
loofen it for other vegetables. Experi¬
ments have (liewn, that Oars (own in tiie
Autumn will (land the Winter.

The rowing them in the Autumn,
efpeciallv in lofty (icuations, niuft be
pecuH-rlv ufeful, as they -will theieby be
more early npe, whereby they wdl! have
the better chance of efcaping the ctpji-
nuxial winds, which often prove very
detrimental, by (liadiwg great part of the
grain. In lofty (ituations, the froft
fometimes lets in fo early that the grain
!? not quire filled and ripe; yet, if the
corn is carefully dried, fo that the feed
perfectly found, experiments have
(hewn that fuch unripe leeci, when fown,
will yield 3“; good crops as corn that is
fu'ly ripe. This may be attefled bv Mr.
Duhketr, on Ham farm, near Richmond,
Surrev. This practice may be of pecu¬
liar advantage to farmers in the North,
and in Wales, becaufe they may hereby
allot their ripe corn for meal, while the
thin corn will lie good feed-corn. The-
fame observation may be extended to
wheat.It is almofiunnecefi'ary to mention,
that crops fown in the Autumn (liould
be fown in drills. And here 1 wdfli to
do the jufiice to Mr. Duckett he fo well
deferves, for introducing the cufiom of
lowing in eqiudiftant rows, inftead of
leaving tlie wide intervals recommend¬
ed by Mr. Tull, if the rows are
nine inches afunder, tite intervals mav
be l.ifelv end convenientlv hoed. If the

4 " ^

ground is dry enuu^lr befire Chrifinnas
to admit the operation, it will be very
advifabie to do ic ; but it will be able-
Jucely nectlfary as (bon as tl^o earth is
dry enough ro admit the treading ot men
and horfes. Dr. Cullen was tne firfr who
obferved that all grain (hot. out ■ hrve fei its
of roots, as I have mentioned on a former
occafion. The third levies arifes from
the Item of the coin befoie it runs into
the ear; and, if the eaiLli is lo i.ard tStat
thele roots cannot ex^tu d thtUifeUes in
tl.e mould the plane d-.e^ awav ; of
which obferving Drniers may lure feen
many infiances, when tliey were, per¬
haps, ignorant whence it proceefltd.

0?ts p >(ie(s a quality not gcrevatly, I
believe, thought of. I was informed of
thehollowdng fa£l by the inte digent ar-
chrebl wlio I'aptrintt.ndcc! tlie I'uildir.g
of Fort George ne/t: inverntfs', tliar ibeie

wer^ feveral of tbJt country people em¬
ployed as labourers ; who, according t®
the cufiom of the country, wefte paid
part of their wages in oat-meal. The
foldiers, whofif bread was made of wheat-
flour, obferving that the native^ on their ■
cat-meal wtre ecjuallv active and firong
as tlremfelves, defired that tliey minhe
alfo receive part of their pav in oat¬
meal; which fully anfwfrred their expec¬
tation, and thereby laved the difference
of the price.

Mr. Urban, SefTT^^.

T''HE folbwing refle6fions were Iwg-
gefied by reading, yefierday, Mr,
Wakefield’s, “ Spirit of Chriflianity com--
pared with the Spirit of the Time:.”

Mr. W, begins his publication l>y ex-'
prt'lfing ids love of fiudious retirement,
and a pti'^ate feclufion fforn the world.’
Now thofe wiio know either his charac¬
ter or his writings wilt not be verv reaciv
to bear their tefiimosv to the truth cf
iliis afiertion. They will, on the con¬
trary, obfervej'that lie has obtruded hiin-
fe1f on public notice, and wiil at/peal to
h;s “Life” as a fuffictent proof of Ids
literary vanity. O.her writers have
waited till the gl.d's lias been nearly or
enriielv run out, before their Lives iiave
been prefented ro the publick. The
Life, however, of Gilbert Wakefield,
aged 3 5, was of too great impor;ance to
be de]a'.'ed. Mr. W. then affetts, that
250x00 lives have been lofi in the fiei<4
or the (caffold fince the commencement
cf the war wdth France; and indirebfly
charges us with being the authors of
thefe evih'. But can any impartial man
fay that this war, or tire ette6f8 of it,
can jufily he imputed to this country ?
Was it the inteiefi, and iherefore could
it be the wifh. of our P'flinilti v to involve
us in a w:ir by vvluich we irogijc eventu¬
ally be lofers, and by which we could
gain nothing r Tlte mad decrees, how¬
ever, of the Convention, and their un¬
provoked attack of neutral fiates, made
it nece/iary for 11*^ to aim in felf-defenc e;
.arid [ know of no L'V of God, of no in-
junct’op of Chiift, which forlrids us u>

Agricola.

r r:el I'xct hv force. Chriftunitv vvas
revealcti :n an age when wars were ac
fxq'ieuc as r'hes' j-rc now, if, rherefo’ti
they were unjukibable in evtrv mlUr.ccL,
a-id umlercvcfV po-'fibic (uppofnion, we
(hould prob.ably have had eAurtis iecla-
racions from Chrifi to that efitof. i ac-
knowictlge that war is the great fcourge
of the human raee, and that numy and
gieat facrifices fiiouW be ma.de in order
to avoid it; but we arc not lec^uiiec to

give

Remarks on a Publication of Mr. Wakefield. [Sept,

7S2

give up our puiTes to the robber, nor
t'ubmit our necks to the ftroke of the
When, therefore, our Confti*
tution, our King, and our Religion,
were attacked, it was the inclifpenfible
duty of thole who preferred Englife li¬
berty to French licentioufnefs to ufe the
sneans which Providence had given, and
to appeal to arms. Such are the motives
which may induce and guftify the Duke
of Portland and the Bilhops to fupport
the war. But tkough it may, be allowed
that it was juft and necelTary at hs
commencement, yet many were of opi¬
nion, when Holland appeared to be fafe,
and the navigation of the Scheldt relin-
cjuiflied, that we had no juftifiable reafon
for continuing it. But would our with¬
drawing ourfelves from tine Allies, and
the confet|uenc fuccefs of the French,
fecure to us an honourable and liable
peace? We might indeed, in that cafe,
be devoured the laft : but, if an enemy
has hodile difpofjtions, and Inch ever
y»ave been and are the deligns of the
French, prudence diftates the necefhty
of guarding againft them. A tiger’s
claws mull be cut. When the wilhed-'
for time lhall arrive that the Miniller
can obtain an honourable and permanent
peace, I am confident that be wil]
ply with the wilhes of the nation ,* and
till then, as*men, as Britons, and as
ChrifiianSt we are bound by the laws of
jKature, by the laws of our Country,
and by the word of God, to repel a
b'oody and atheillical foe. Alter having
a^dvanced his palmary argument, Mr.
W, then notices Dr. Pearce, Dr. Mil¬
ner, and Dr. Rennell. How ^ lo'ver of
peace, nvith an evangelical Jrame of
m'md, could vent fuch ahule upon hiS
did friends, I am at a lofs to explain.
Suppofing they have erred, ought not
the meek and gentle Mr. Wakefield to
have Ihewn that forgivenels to them
which they denied to Mr. Frend and
Mr. Palmer? An oblique hint is worfe
than a direft charge, as it fiiews a de¬
gree of cowardice which we fnould not
bave expe61ed in a reformer. Mr. W.
Wilbes It to be believed that Dr. Milner
is inattentive to his duties, and to his
attendance at chape). If I were lure
that no one would read Mr. Wakefield’s
pamphlet, or this reply, but thole who
are acquainted with Dr. Milner’s cha-
ra6ier, I Ihould confidently appeal to
that, and not condefeend to anfwer fuch
fcanclal. But it is necellary for me to
dedal e, that Dr. Milner is pofielTcd of
diftinguilhed abilities ; that his prefer¬
ment bears an honourable tdlirtiony to'

them ; and that his health has fuffered
bv an unwearied application to the duties
of his lituation in college. From this
caufe, and this only, he is now prevent¬
ed from difeharging them. In the ex¬
pulsion of Mr. Palmer from his fellow-
fhip, I dare aiferc that he was entirely
juftified by the ftatutes of his college, of
which Mr. W. ought to have obtained
fome information before he thus ralhly
decided upon Dr. Milner's condu£V.
Equally groundlefs are his obfei vations
on Dr. Pearce. The punilhment of
Mr. Frend was the a61, not of an indi¬
vidual, but of the College and the Uni-
verfity ; and the Ifaiute againll which he
offended they were obliged, by their
oaths, to enforce. I have never read
Dr. Rennell’s fermon upon the execu¬
tion of the Queen of France, and can
therefore only form my opinion from
Mr. M^aktfield’s cbl’ervacions upon it.
That black murder will long llain the
annals of France; and I found, with
equal furprize and pltafure, that Mr.
W. expreffed his indignation at that la¬
vage aft. But Mr. W. objefts to Dr.
Rennell, that he menaces and inflames;
and oppofes to fuch language our Sa¬
viours lamentation over Bethfaida and
Jerufalem. is this a fair and ingenuous
reprefentation ? Did not our Saviour
denounce punifliment upon the feribes
.and pharifees? and did he net, on ac^
count of its wicksdnefs, foretell that de-
flru^tion of Jerufalem which was ac-
.compliflied under Trajan? If the French
commit enormities at which Human Na¬
ture Ihutld'ers, are we to give the right
hand of Fellowlhip to fuch affalfins, and
tp draw no line of di^inftion between
the followers of Chrift and the wor-
fhipers of Moloch ? If we Ihould aft in
conformity with Mr. W’s do61rine, all
criminal tribunals muft be fuppreU'ed;
the jaris rnufi: he emptied, and we muft
give the fraternal embrace to Rober-
Ipieries and Dantons, and only weep
over their enormities. Such leafoning
as this would pervert every law of lo-
cietv, and overthrow thofe bounds which,
are railed for the proteftion of human
happinels. Mr. W. feems to expeft,
and, 1 fear, to wifli, for a revolution in
this country, fimllar to that which has
taken place in a neighbouring kingdom;
an<l, in the language of Prophecy, ad-
dreties a va!edi6i;ioo to the Dignitaries of
our Church : but I trufl that neither of
thefe events will ever gladden the eyes
of Mr. VV, The horrors of the French
revolution w/3ukl make us hug our
chains, even if we were Haves : but we

haye

1 794*1 Remarks on a VuUication of Mr. WakelicIJ.

have no fucli evil to complain of; under
our own government we poffefs the moft
perfe<5f equalitv which reafonahle beings
can defire. The law regards not the
perfons of men, but rich and poor are
equally fubjeif to its authority, and
bound by its decrees. French equality
is a phantom, which it is impoflible to
grafp : for, if an Agrarian law were
palled, while men have different corpo¬
real and dilferent mental capacities, it
could fcarcely exift a day. Nor, unlefs
the charafter of the Britifii nation fhall
be changed, will Mr. W. fee the down¬
fall of the Church of England. The
connexion between Church and State,
though much derided, is not a vihonary
idea, but productive of folid and mutual
benefit. Unlefs a drftinftion of orders
cxift in the Church, unlefs Merit is re¬
warded in proportion to its deferts, or,
more ftrififly fpeaking, unlefs there be
prizes which Genius may attain, the
Church of England can never be adorn¬
ed, or the great truths of Chriftianity
defended, by men of fuperior ability and
attainments ; and upon the belief in the
exiftence of a God, and the certainty of
a future retribution, the very being and
fafetv of the ftate depends. As I am'
capable of perceiving, and willing to al¬
low, merit to an adverfary, 1 rauft ac¬
knowledge that Mr. W’s concludirrg
obfervations upon the fuppofition of the
events he predifts, do honour to his feel¬
ings; and fuch, I believe, would be the
wifhes of Mr. W. if the Church of Eng¬
land were placed in that dangerous fitu-
ation. But how different are the views
of thofe who fupplant the prime infliga-
tors of revolutions 1 Amphora capita in-
Jiiluit cur rente rota, cur urceus exit ?
A quick fucceffion appears upon, and
difappears from, the ftage, till fome am¬
bitious and unprincipled leader of the
people forges for them chains far more
galling and oppreffive than thofe which
they would not fubmit to under a mild
and hereditary fovereign. — Having con-
fid4»rcd whatever dtferves the name of
argument in Mr. VV’s publication, I
will requeft its readers to confidtr the
tendency of his book, and then fay whe¬
ther he has any reafon to complain of
the feverity of the Bricifh Govertiment.
They mu(i be imprclfcd with ientiroents
net very favourable to the author, and
with a fenfe of tlie forbearance of Go-
yeinment towards him; anti (uch lenity
is (iiilated by policy as well as compaf-
fion, A reptile does not liing unlels it
is trodden upon.— -May k alfo have its

7S5

due elTe61: upon the mind of Mr. W.
that he may not aeain difgrace himfelf
by fuch an bafiy and indecent** publica¬
tion, hut turn his future attention to
fubje6fs in which he has difiingaifhed
himfelf as a Philologid and a I>ivine,
Phileleutherus Anglicanus^.

Mr. Urbak, Sept. x8.

HE ingenions commentator on the
Reliques of Ancient Poetry, p,
527, calls in quefUon the authenticity of
Jo/ne of the tales in the Arabian Nights;
an opHuion which 1 fhould he glad to fee
either fully efi.^hlifhed or difproved. The
inaccuracy of Voltaire, fo often detefted
and expofed, would render his teilimonp
in a matter ©f this kind very doubtful
and unfatisfa^fory ; hut I have in vaia
fought for it in the Siicle cie Louis XIV.
In the lift of the writers- of that time, this
is the only mention which I find of the
tranflator : Galant (Antoine) ne in

Picardie en 1646-. II apprit a Conllan-
tinopl'e les langues Orientales, ettraduific
•une partie des Contes Arabes qu'on con-
noit fous le nom des Mille et une Nuke.
Mort en 1715." • All that is meant by
his having tranflated a part is plainly no
more than tliat he left part untranflaied.
In the Bodleian, there are many, more of
thefe fables in the original Arabick,
which have not yet been introduced to
the Englifti reader, and which would
probably form a valuable acquifition to the
ftock of innocent amufement in our ii^n-
guage. The late Supplement of MM.
Chavis and Cszotte I have not read, buC
have been told that it is not genuine.

There is perhaps no kind of reading
fietter adapted to awake the mental facul¬
ties of childhood, and create that ardor of
admiration, which is often fucceeOed in
riper years by fuptnor energy of mind,
and a thrill for more folid knowledge.
It is an obfervation of Plato, that chil¬
dren are fond of wonderful exibicions and
conjurets tricks; bovi^, of comedies + ;
young men and well-1 red women, of n.-u
ged'/ ; and old men of heroic and dic'ai^.l/ic
poetry (Be Leg. vol. VI U. 70. ed. Bits.)

The lams wiittr remarks, that wonder,
is the genuine feeimg of the phil kiplter;
2nd, indeed, that it is the verv fonree of
philofoohy itfelf (Tluar. voi. 11 p. 76,
«tiir. Bils. ). I am inc.ified to rhn k that
the luhiune mytholog\', interwoven in
the philolophy of this favcxice ddciple of
Socrates was ufed iiiereiv wuh r view to
excite this wonder; tlioufc>h its truth is

^ Tills Was before die time c,f Menander.

devoutly

iVrabian Tdeu — Magnifi.ence [Sep?-.

tle’Vou.tly bellevctl and flrenuoufly incul¬
cated by a learned tranflator of fome of
bis vvri,cinsi;s, in addition to the various
cccentiicities of this eif^hieen^h century ;
an epoch whiclv fome people feem to
luention with a peculiar air oi emphaus
.and triumph. The Platonic fyfteni has
been lately difplayed in the verfes of a
gentleman at Cambridge vvith- the fpirit
of Lucretius ; to which it is as Well luited
as the phifoiophy of Bhnped.ocks and the
morals of Epicurus. This th^ ex-

cuie of Pindar for hislplendid torgeties, is
too obvious to efcape our memory ;

Hv OayfxaTa trroXXoo,

IXai roe T{ (po^voc

Y'~e^ T&v oi'/^n^n ?\oydv

'E^CCTTxraVTi (XVTOt. OJ. I.

Thefe lines would be an apt motto for
the Arabian Tales, and were prefixed to
a fonnec on the author of them by the
late Mr. Rufieh of New college, Oxford,
whofe few produfitions fhew a mind tinc¬
tured with the true die of poetical ima-
. gination, as well as an uncommon extent
of attainments for his age. I am happy
• to feize the opportunity of paying nty
tribute of refpeft to the memory of this
young man, cut off from ttm enjoyments
of life, and the hopes of fame, by fo
pr-mature a fare.

The coincidence which your correfpon-
dent remarks between the fiory ®f Aibon
Haffan and that of Tinker Sly, though
extraordinary, is not fufficient to impeach
. the authenticity of the .former. Many
of. the tales bear a rcfembiance to the
European romances, which it is well
known were, often derived from the fic¬
tions' of the Eafi, as thofe fidiions alfo
might fometimes bo the offspring of
Grecian fable. The Cveiops of Homer
fernifhes materials for one cd the marvel¬
lous adventures of Sindbard. We meet
with a monfrer of the lame fpecies in the
Orlando Innamora^o of B ijardo and
Berni, B. L C. VI. S. 2,7. In the notes
to the Caliph Vatheck, fuppofed to be
vviitten bv Mr. Beckford. p. 299,

The vvonu.ous horfe of bi «fs

On which the Tartar. king did ride,
and, the Clavilerro of Hpn Quixote are
ftjewn to derive their pedigree from the
enchanted horfe in rh.e Arabian nights,
who was probably defeended from Pega-
fas h mfeif. The fame work may be
conlu'ted on the ref[)eclive pyerits of the
French and Englitb tranilaticns, and for
a fjuotarion from Col. Caoner (Oliferva-
tions on the Faffage to India through

Egypt, and aerpfs the Defert), in which
it is faid of the Tales in ([ueftion, that
“ they are written by an Arabian, and
aiQ univerraiiy read and admired through¬
out Afia, by perfons of all lanks, both
old and young •/’ and that “ they ars
held in the fame eflimation all over Afia
as the Adventures of Jpon Quixote in
Spain-”, They are here mentKncd as the
work of one man, though I have heard^
from an Oriental fcholar of high cele¬
brity, that they were probablv a colEc-
tion of {lories invented by different peo¬
ple, and vvhich were frequently read or
recited for amufement at their parties ;
a method of entertaining themfelves at
leaf! as edifying, and perhaps as delight¬
ful, as the {candal and politicks of our
daily papers. M - s.

Mr* Urban,

OUR accounts of tlie preparations
. made bv the Chinefe for the jour-
.ney of the Emperor have not {b much
aftonifhed me, having before often read
of.fimilar preparatioris made in Rulfia
for the Emprefs. In thefe countries,
u'here it is fo much the mtereft of Mi-
niflers to infinuate themfelves into
Court- favour, we may attribute partly
to their activity and alertnefs the conti¬
nued readinefs fnewn for the reception
of the Sovereign, It did not To much
aftonifh me to read of roads levelled ini
China for the safe of the Elmpe or’s
journey, as to hear of beautiful villages
erefited in Ruffia fer the fake of graffy-
ing the eye of the Emprefs in paliing.;
In particular, it is recorded of her be¬
ing on a party of pleafure in the coun¬
try, and exprtjTing a wim to fee a vil¬
lage of iuch a form and deferipfion
• wuhin her dominions. In the courfe ol
a few days, fire had the pleafure and fa-i
risfadlion of leeing one after her ovvr
model eredted, by the cate and atten-i
tion of her prime minifter, who ljad noi
only gratihed his mifirefii in that parti¬
cular, but had alfo made her a ne*^
road through the mod beautiful pan 01
her dominions, by which fire rnighi
pieaianiiv be conveyed to Peterfburg.

1 cannot adduce any inftanc,e in Ruf:
fia of a wall fimdar to tirat in Ruilia foi|
the defence of the country. The renio
V3i of the immenfe rock, however, t
Peteriburg, on which the ffstue of Pe!
ter the great is now fixed (as recorde
in your Magazine), is a matter of va
aftonilhinenr, filling the mind with fubi
lime awe even- in contemplating tf'i
works of mankind, it. V£S T i G A TO.f*l

Mii

ff94*] Torkington Priory, — The

Mr. Urban, 7o^^^^^Aug. 24.

The priory of Torkington, in Suf-
fex, is faid, by Tanner, to have
been founded, before King John's timjc,
by Lady Hadvvifa Corbet, who dedicated
it to St. Mary Magdalen, and placed
therein five or fix regular canons of the
order of St, Auftin. The 26th of Henry
VIII. its revenues were rated 75I. 12s.
3d. Dugdale; 101I.4S. id. Speed; and,
the 29th of the fame reign, the fite was
granted to Henry, Lord Maltravers ;
SLnd, the 42d of Elizabeth, to John
Spencer. The prefent owner is — —
3-,eeves, efq. It ftands on the Weft
bank of the river Arun, about one mile
South-weft of Arundel, in a pleafant
fituation. But little of its ruins are re¬
maining; the* principal part is feen in
Plate /. ; and ferves as a barn, but,
from circumftances, appears to have
been originally a part of the church ;
j£or, in the year 1787, as fome workmen
were taking up dung in the yard oppo-
fite the barn-doors, they broke through
the crown of a vault, and difeovered a
flceleton lying at full length, < By it was
ftanding a circular leaden box, which,
might contain near half a bufhel. With¬
in it was an empty earthen velTel; but
no remains of any coffin or wrapping
the body was depofited in were difeo¬
vered. This fketch was taken from the
South-eaft in the fummer of 1793. S.

Mr. Urban, Leominfier, Aug. 14,
HE annexed drawing and inferip-
tion* is copied from an old leaden
tjLrn, about fix inches deep, and five
inches in diameter at top, which 1 pro¬
cured a few days ago of Edward Cole¬
man, efq. of this town. It came into
his poli'effion, witn the houfe he now re-
fides in, fome years lince ; by what
means it was brought there, or whence,
i-s not known ; but Thomas Harris, efq.
vyas the owner of the houic before Mr.
Coleman, and it is fuppoled he had the
urn from Dr. Coninglby, who was a
great lover of Antiquities. By the date
and infeription i am led to believe it
contained the heart of Sir Henry Sidney,
vyho was lord prefidentof Ludlow caille
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and
died about that time. Some report that
his body, heart, and bowels, were bu¬
ried in three places, 'V/z. Shrewfbury,

* See plate I. fig. 2 ; where the uru is re-
pi'efentecl on a fcale exarftly two-thijds of
the oiiginal fize.

QiiNT. Mag. September} J794»

Heart of Sir Henry Sidney. ^85

Wenlock, and Bridgenorth. I could
wiffi fome of your correfpondents to
clear up that point. His arms are pla¬
ced under thofe of her Majefty over the
great door leading into the interior part
of the caftle, with this infeription :

H.ominibus ingratis loquimini, lapides,
anno regni reginae Elizabethse, 23. The 22
year co’plet of the prefidency of Sir Henry
Sidney, knight of the noble order of the gar¬
ter, &c. 1581.’'

The letters are of the exaft form as
in the drawing, and the infeription runs
three times round the urn.

Yours, &c. Samuel Nicholas,

Mr. Urban, Cambridge ^ Aug. 1 5 .

Amongst the many, of various
and profound erudition, who ho¬
nour your Mifcellany with their perufal
and communications, 1 may reafonably
expe£l fome intelligence concerning a
writer, four of vvhofe publications I
have now before me, and who ftyles
himfelf, in Englifti, Chriftopher Angel,
a Grecian born. By the firft of the
four, edited in Greek and Englifti at
Oxford, 1617, and intituled,

Hovyiaig t3 Ayfixu,

t5 tvoAXfciy xa» iA,ariyo}v yiva-oci/.^m

<n:ctpcc twv rnv E15 Xpitr-

Toy crirw,

and by the atteftations of feveral of the
moft eminent men in both Univerfities
appended thereto, it appears that he
was a Greek Chriftian, a native of the
Peloponnefus ; that he travelled througfi
Greece in queft of religious truth and
inftruftien ; and that, when he came to
Athens, the Turkilli governor threw
him into prifon, and infli6led the feve-
reft cruelties upon him, becaufe he
would not abjure Chriftiaoity, and im¬
peach the Athenian merchants, that
then trafficked with Venice, of having
fenc him to betray Athens to the Spa¬
niards; an impeachment folicited for
the purpofe of throwing odium on the
Athenian Chriftians, and of enabling
the Governor to avenge himfelf for cer¬
tain complaints they had preferred a-
gainft him to the Sublime Porte. Thefe
cruelties fie furvived; and, having been
releafed from prifon on the iniercelhon
of fume, in his own language,
men of rank and influence, he elcaped’
by the firft conveyance to England. He
landed at Yarmouth in 1608 ; and from
the Biffiopand Clergy of Norfolk, whofe
purles had contributed handfomely to

his

^86 Ghrillopher Angel’s Works.

his relief, he received letters of recom¬
mendation to the heads of this Univer-
jny. After a year’s refidence here, he
removed for the fake of his health to
Oxf^ord ; where, in 1617, he publiihed,
as above, the ftory of his perfecution at
Athens, and of his kind reception in
England, to which country and its in-
habitant8“he has fubjoined a fhort ad-
drefs of high-flown panegyrick. Ffom
Oxford the next year he feems to have
ofcillated back to Cambridge ; for, in
1619, we find him publifliing An En-
comion of the famous Kingdorne of
Great Britaine, and of the two flounfli-
ing Sifter- univerfities Cair^bridge and
Oxford,” with the Greek original and
an Engiifh tranftation onoppohte pages,
'The Greek in this, as in his other wri¬
tings, though not perfedlly chafte, is
elegant and perfpicuous ; and the fpirit
of compofition becoming the genius of
Greece, except perhaps in certain hy¬
perboles of panegyrick, which feem,
.however, to have fprung from the ge¬
nerous ardour of gratitude rather than
from the bale fervilityof adulation. His
next work, the fame year as the above,
and frofn the Univerfity prefs, is a cu¬
rious account of the rites and ceremonies
of the Greek Church. The Latin title,
for it is pubiiihed in Greek with a Latin
•vei hon of his own, is “ Enchiridion de
Inftitutis Graecorumf ’

His fourth work, publifhed at Lon¬
don, 1624, has a ftill greater claim on
our attention. The Latin title, Labor
Chriftophori Angeli, Gtieci,de Apoftalia
Ecclefise & de Homine Peccati, fcilicec
Antichfifto, et de Numeris Danieiis &
Apocalypfeos quas nemo refle interpre-
tatus eft ex quo pracdidti funt a Prophe-'
tis,” will give you the general idea of
its contents. The great drift of it is,
in the firft inftance, to eflabiiih a dif-
iindlion betwixt the apojiacy the man
oj fin in 2 Theft*, ii, 3 ; to prove that
the apoftscy, predidVed as neceftary to
take place before the coming of Anti-
chrift, was fulfilled in the furrender of
temporal powers to Pope Boniface by
the Emperor Phocas, and that Maho¬
met, who appeared within eleven years
after, was tlie Antichrift ; and, lahly,
to demonftrate by (ome ingenious calcu¬
lations, which are alfo applied to other
labjedts of prophecy, that the deftruc-
tion ot the laft of the Mahomets, to all
(of whom he attaches the title of Anti¬
chrift, will happen in the yea/ 187G.

Beyond the year 1624 my ‘documents
do hiot extend,- and i could wi£h, througfi

-^Jddrefs to E. of Buchan. [Sept.

, m

the channel of youf Litera'-y Journal,
fome farther account of his Ii e and vvii-
tings, and efpeciallv of any notice, which
the Literati have taken of his vvork on
the Prophecies, and in what terms of
efteem and applaufe his cha-.:adte and
publications have been mennoned ftnee
his death. Gk,.^culus.

Mr. Urban, 19.

T Congratulate you on the rcuc.vj of

the Earl of Buchan’s correlpondence.
Phe Lovers of A-otiquities have in him
a communicative friend, who will a§
readily attend to any inquiry, and will
as readily, do his uemoft to fatisfv the
vviihss of the Inouuers.

There are two papers in Scotland, of
which 1 long to read fbme particular
account j and, if they aiPwer the de-
feription which has b^ren given of them,
they inuft be truly curious ; and pro¬
bably the world be glad to fee a Jsc^
Jimile of each.

One of thefe, which Maitland (Hift-
oryof Scotland, vol. I. p. 556) Lays is
preferved in the national arctiives in the
lower parliament houfe at Edinburgh,
is the adt of parliament, pafTed in the
year 1373, Toon after . the acceftion of
Robert 11. the firJi of the houle Stewart,
to the throne of Scd- land, recognizing
John, Ear! of Garrick, his eldeft foil
by Elizabeth IMure, as the true and
legitimate heir to the crown. To this
jnftiument fifty-two leais of the chief
men of the kingddrn are affixed j and, 1
fuppole, it has alfo their manual figna-
tures. This adHettles the fucceftion of
Robert’s fons both by Elizabeth Mure,

• 'f Abercorn, and byEuphemia, daugh¬
ter of Hugh, Earl of Rofs.

The other paper, kept in the library
belonging to the univeifity of Edin¬
burgh, is the original Bohemian Proteft
againft the council of Conftane'e, for
hurnmg of John Hufs and Jerome of
Prague, anno 1417; vvith one bundled
and five feals of Bohemian and Moravi¬
an grandees annexed to it.

The Earl of Buchan will very likely
inform %ou, Pvir. Uruan, of the condi¬
tion of ihele ancient documents ; wh'ich
will confer an obligation on leveral of
your conftant readers, and paiticulaily
on your bccaftonal correlpondent, D. N.

Mr. Urban,

O the accounts of news-papeis in
England you may add the follow¬
ing pfoclamation, made in the j6th year
oi E,ing Henry Viii. for calling- in and
' ‘ ’ piohibiting

% \. t •

1 7P4*] ^^odan>iathnofY{txi» VIII. on News-papers. — Clerical ^uery. 787

prchihitinp- of certain bookes printed
of rewes of the profperous fuccefles of
the King’s Ma’ties arms in Scotland, to
he brought in and burned within 24
houres after pfoclamatiom made, on
paih of ynr; rifonment which carries
them back to a remoter period than any
there aihgned.

Tltis Proclamation ftates, that the
King’s mofi excellent Majeflie under-
fianding that certain light perfones, not
regarding what they repoVted, wrote,
or (ett forthe, had caufed to be im¬
printed and divulged tertain news of the
profperous fuccelTes of the ICing’s Ma-
jeftie’s army in Scotland, wherein, al¬
though the eifeft of the victory was in¬
deed true, yet the circutnftances in di¬
vers points were in feme paft over Pen-
dferly, in fome parte untruly and amiffe
reported j his Highnefs, therefore, not
content to have anie fuch matters of to
greate importance fett forth to the Jlaun-'
tier of kii Kaptaines and mtnijiers, nor to
be oiherwife reported than the truth
was, ftraightlie chargeth and command-
cth all inaiiner of perfones into whofe
hands any of the faid printed books
Ihouid come, ymediately after they
flmuid hear of this Proclamation, to
bring the fame bookes to the lord maior
of London, or to the Recorder, or fome
of the Aldermen of the fame, to thin-
tent they might fuppreffe and burn
them, upon pain th*t every petfon keep¬
ing any of the faid bookes xxiiii hours
after the making of this Proclamation,
fl-iould (uffer ymprifonment of bis bodye,
and be farther punifhed at the King’s
Majeftie’s will and pleafure.” P.

Mr. Urban, it.

belt way of getting a fatisfaffory
anfwer, it is thought, will be to
give a Ihort Iketch of rhe proceedings of
the Que'tiif , who is perfonally concerned
in the bufinels. He was cudained a
deacon in the diocefe of CheiUr, and
immediately after permitted by the hi¬
lltop to leave that diocefe,. and remove
into the adjoining one of Duiham,
Soon after, tlic C^jer ft, while in Dea-
con’sordtis onlv, oft'eied himltlf a can-
didate ftm a Scotch chape), preaclied
befoiethe congregation, and wasaceept-
td by them; the nianagers of which
chapel madermt a title, ctTering a Iptci-
hc (um as a lalary. This title they
foikvaiJed to the iate bifhop L. accom¬
panied With a petition, that, if his Icrd-
Ihip approved of it, he would be plealed
to auiiiit the vlucrift to be a candidate

for pr, left’s orders. ^Vhen. the Qj’C 'lf
waited upon his lordihip, md afked if
the title was valid, he allowed it was ;
faid, he had no more connexion with the
Epifcopalians in Scotland than any other
bilhop in England or Ireland had : but
in his ufual honeft: and candid manner
replied, that, when Church of England
people in Scotland manifefted their piety
fo much as to raife on handfome provi-
fton for a paftor (a better one generally,
Mr. Urban, than falls to the lot of the
inferior Clergy in England), he thought
it would be unbecoming in him, or in
any bilhop, to refufe to ordain the
man W'hom they had chofen. He faid
moreover that the laws of Scotland
would fupport the Querift in demanding
payment of the flipulated falary, if any
objeffion fhould be made to continue it.
The Qjierift was Ordained, and the bi-
fliops or both Chefter and Durham hgii-
ed his teftimonial, permuting him to
leave their refpedive diocefes, and go
into Scotland, -

Since the above happened, a very
different opinion has been entertained
of the validity of rhefe titles. Biftiop
Horfley faid exprefllv, in the debate
on the Scotch cpifcopal bdlj that they
were ^^in<Validf and that “ no bifliop,
who knew what he was doing,” would
ordain any man upon fuch tides, “ be-
caufe,” he juftly rejoined, “ he could
have no authority over him.” To hits
opinion moft of their lordfhips agreed j
and it is reported, that no mo'^e young
men will be ordained to Scotch chapels.
In confequence of the above fpeech by
Bilhop Horfley, it is well known that
the managers of many of the Scotch.
chapcL have already intimated to tiieir
refpe61:ive pallors their opinion that
their fituation in Scotland is not perma¬
nent, but merely a temporary engage¬
ment ; and they look upon themfelv^es
therefore as rcleafed from any obligation
to pay the ftipulated falary ior'ger than
they phafe; or, in other words, that
their pafiors. are ruil like other fervants,
to be dilmiffed whenever they think
proper.

Admitting the truth of this laft opi¬
nion, the Querill wifhes to know, whe¬
ther he ha« any legal claim upon the
executors of the la- e Bilhop of L. for
a maintenance, in cafe he be' eje6lcd
from his chapel, or payment of bis fa-
lary rtfuled. Had he refided in Eng¬
land,- and been ordained upon a faiie
title, he believes ihe canon-law is pon-
liye that he vvo'uld have hadfuth a claim.

Dr.

788 Church of England Clergymen in Scotland, a 3utry, [Sept.

Dr. Sharpe, in his Charges” upon the
canons, fays, that.there have been many
inftances of fuch aclaim being demanded
and obtained. Does then the Qneriil’s
acceptance of a title from a Scotch cha¬
pel dhqualify him from availing himfelf
of this indulgence ?

Or, the query may be put in other
words, what rilk does a bifhop run in
ordaining a man upon fuch a title ? If
he refufes (as the report is will be the
cafe in future), and the proceeding be
deemed illegal, and out of his province j
then the Engliih liturgy muft in a few
years be totally annihilated in Scotland,
and the legiflature by their differentacts
upon this fubjeft muft have been only
jmpofing upon the members of that
communion, in encouraging them to
build and endow chapels. For, be af-
fured, Mr. Urban, the Englifti Epifco-
^alians will never confent to embrace
the unfcriptural ufages^of the Scotch
Epifcopalians, and muft therefore be in
a fituation very ftngular indeed, perfeft-
ly unique in ecclefiaftical hiftory, being
unable to get a pallor of their own per-
fuafion to baptize their children, and
do other minifteria! duties, even though
they be willing to allow him a hand*
fomer falary than three-fourths of the
Englifh clergy themfelves enjoy upon
the Eftablifliment. And though they
belong not to any particular diocefe, a
bifhop, who wifhes well to the liturgy
of the Church of England, muft feel
very unpleafantly in being obliged to
refufe, upon their recommendation, or¬
dination to a man prefented to him on
fuch liberal terms.

As this matter concerns many clergy-
tnen in Scotland as well as the (^iierift,
and is now much fpoken of among that
denomination of Chriftians; Mr. Urban
will be doing a fingular favour, if he
would colleft the opinions of his law
readers upon this fubjedV, and infert a
few of them in his Magazine. If any
material article has been omitted in the
above ftatement, a fiiort note in the
Index Indicatorius (hall be immediately
anlwered.

Mr. Urban, ^ Aug.

OUR coirefpondent Amicior, p.
n,94, may try to compofe himfelf
as to' any apptehended difpate with me.
J mejn nothing lei's than to enter into
any controverfy with him. But I can¬
not io eafily ipeak peace to him on ano¬
ther point. He feels himfelf moruhed
as wed as irruaied that Mr, Arthdeaccn

Travis has completely vindicated the
memory of R. Stephens, and, in fo do¬
ing, has p!a6ed an infurmountable ob-
ftacle in the way of the opponents of the
verfe i John v. 7. The pungency of
thofe feelings will increafe with time;^
for that vindication will bear the tell of
the moft rigid examination.

Amicior wifhes, however, to get rid
of this odious vindication, by alleging,
that the author of it (if I underftand
him aright) has mifunderftood or mif-
interpreted the marginal notes of R.
Stephens in two verfes, i/iz. ix. 2, and
xix. 28, of St, Matthew. If this ob-
jeftion fliould be admitted, it would not
profit the caufe which he efpoufes. But
it will, not be admitted. The former
of tbefe inftances is a mere error of the
prefs in a Angle figure. For Matt. ix. 2,
read Matt. ix. 5, and this part of the
objefilion is wholly done away. How
very near to drowning, Mr. Urban, muft
he be who catches at a twig like this !

The other marginal note, Matt. xi».
28, is here copied that your readers may
judge for themfelves. — Text :

Oli Vfxnq 01 aKc^nQrjtrayleq (j.ot ^tf rn vsa-
Xiy/gyio-Ja, ©Jay.

Marginal note :

^ITgo TH, jy T»j 'vrocTt.iyystsa-ieCf SiXroXtif

T8 7. 5*. S.

It is evident in what manner the
Archdeacon interprets this note. And
it feems equally clear that he has not
mifunderftood it. If it fliould be re¬
plied that, in the firji of the three cita¬
tions which be has made of this verfe of
St. Matthew, the words tv m 'nraXiyyt*
yrcTia ought to have flood before the word
o/ay, or the word oltxv to have been
omitted, the remark would be idle and
faftidious. The phrafe i%acr4

is the governing claufe in the collation :
and it has been carefully marked in all
the three references to this verfe.

In the precipitation, as it feems, of a
perturbed mind, Amicior call? for the
Archdeacon’s whole collation. What¬
ever may be the wifhes of the Learned
World in general on the fubje6l, it was^
hardly to be expedled that Amicior
would fland foremofl in the requifition.
The difcordances, one hundred and ihirty
and upwards, which he has fpecially
ftated (p. 242), being more than fuffi-
cient to bend all oppofition to the ground,
it feems not to be an over- wife a6t in-
Amicior to call for the remainder of the
nineteen hundred difcordances, to opprefs
him ftill more feyercly.

I pro-

x794*] "^rofejfor Porfon’s Arguments anfwered hy Archd* Travis. J789

t proceed now, Mr. Urban, to comply with the requeft made in your Index In-
dicatoriuSy p. ^52, but not in the manner which Amicior feems to fear and depre*
cate; for, I intend my breuiate to deferve its name, by confining it within the
bounds of the prefent fheet.

Arguments of Mr. Frofeflbt Porfon.

The Greek MSS. of R. Stephens
are now in the royal library at Parisi
P. 7i— 77-

They were collated by Henry
Stephens alone. P. 56.

R. Stephens’s third edition varies
from all his MSS, particularly in
Matt. ii. ii. P. 58.

R. Stephens has omitted to note,
in his margin all the various read¬
ings of the Complutenfian edition.
P. 61.

Ri Stephens has committed typo¬
graphical miftakes. P. 68, 78—82.

R. Stephens’s Greek MSS. were
not feen by Beza. P. 56, 83—87.

His MSS. could not be loll at
Paris. P. 72,

The Complutenfian editors fol¬
lowed the Vulgate in this verfe.
P. 41— S?*

The Dublin MS. is the Codex
Eritannicus. P. 117,

Borrowed
from
Le Long
Wetftein'
Griefbach
Wetftein
Grielbach

Wetftein

Emlyn

Grielbach

Wetftein

Grielbach

Simon

Wetftein

Grielbach

The Berlin MS. is a copy of the "j La Croze
Complutenfian edition. P. 120— > Wetftein
127* * J Grielbach

The Synopfis is not the work of ? ^ ^ 1

Athanafius, P. 209-2.3. S Grielbach

The words of the Dialogue are 7 r< • n.
taken from the 8th verl'e. P. 217. i Grie ach

The words of Euthymius are not 7 , .

- C MatthKi

19—226. 3

taken from Scripture. P. 219

The words of 'I'ertullian do not?
refer to the 7th verfe. P. 240 — 246. 3
Gregory Nazianzen quoted a paf
fage (1 Cor. viii. 6) as Script
which is not Scripture. P. 269—2

Wetftein

pal- -j
lire, J,

^73- J

Matthaei

So did Eucherius : which Ihews
th at they may have mifquoted >
i John V. 7. P. 246 — 268. J

P’atundus has applied the 8th
'*eile alone to the Tiinicy, pafiiog
over the 7th : which proves that he ^ Emlyn
bod it not in his Bible. P. 24S — 251,
and 394.

The Prologue to the Canonical 1 Simon
Epiltles is not the work of Jerome. Emlyn
P. 2S9 — 306. J Matthsi

Eucherius plainly llievvs thatbe^
is one of the many who embraced I Wetftein
the myiticdl interpretation of the | Grielbach
• Sih verle. P. 309. ^

AnfwersbyMr.ArchdeaconTravis.
(Letters to Mr. Gibbon, 3d edit.)

“1 he contrary jhevon to be the
truth. P.206 — 263^,

They ^ere notcoUatedbyHen,
Stephens alone. P. 252 — 257.

This ‘variation admitted^ and
jufiified. P. 187 & i88, note k»

Such a notation ‘was trnnecef-
foiry. P. 1 87, note L

In other injiances be mayy but
not in this •verfe. P. 192.

They nuere feen by Beza.
P. 194, 150—160.

They nwere loji in Germany.
P. 259.

They did not follow the
Vulgate. P. 286 — 305.

The Dublin MS. is not the
Codex Brirannicus. A fac-fi-
nile of that MS. P. 277.

Is not a copy of that edition.
M. Pappelbaurn’s arguments
confuted. A fac-fimile of that
MS. P. 286—305.

It is the •work of Athanafius.
P. 148—157.

They are not taken from the
8//6, but from the 'jth verfe,
P. 144—147.

They are taken from Scrip¬
ture. P. 157 — 172.

They do refer to the 'jlh
'Verfe . P. 75 — 98.

He quoted the original read*
'f’g ^he pajjage \ •which has
been fence abridged by the errors
of the cDpyifs. P. 160 — 172.

So did Eucherius : •which
turns the objeSiion againf the
objeHor. P. 164.

Hts mode of quoting tbe Sr A
proves that he had the qth verfe
in his Bible. P. 107 — 118.

The Prologue is Jeronr.t’s
•vork. P. 129 — 179.

The very rtverfe ts the truth.
^.116.

•*= File anlwers here pniutd, iii'
Italickb arc ne-w in ilus edition.

^()0: Original hetter to Dr. 'Doddridge.' — Life of Col. Gardiner. [S^pt

AnfwersbyMf.ArchdeatonTravis,
(Letters to Mr. Gibbon, 3d edit.)‘
yt/j a general propofiiion dif-
t’KG^oed. P. iM — ?f4, 429.

in refP'^id to ^ucherius, ren-^
dered juitle. P. 116.

It nuas not an viterpolalion
by Bradicanus. The MSS. of
Eucherius, nonv in the Pala¬
tine library at Vienna, contain
'This parage. P. iiS.
i coufci have added much, Mr. Urban, to this breviate ; but it would have been
an unneceflary labour. The references already made ihew the general tenor and
debgn of the work to which -they apply. It will endure; and will buoy up, on
its ftrong wing, the acrimonious, but flimfy, labours^)! Mr. ProfelTor Porfon.

Ariniments of Mr. Frofciror Porfon.

No 'writer could poiiit'riy adopt.,
this myftical inctt pretaiion of the (
.Sth vei-re,'if the yth were ejitaht in |
bis copy. P. 3 I r. ^

Bralhcanus inferpoiated thiS paf-
fage in his printed copy. P. 308.

Borrowed

from

Mabhsei

^mlyn

Wetflein

Griefbach

Yours.

&c.

A FiufiND TO Mr. Urban,

Mr. Urban, Shrenxsjhurvy Aug. 18.
SEND you a letter to Dr. Doddridge;
which, if you pleafe, you may infert
in vour Magazine.

Yours, &c. Thomas Stedman.

To the Pev. Dr. DoDDRincEj Northampton.

‘‘ Rev. Sir, L^mdon, Dec. 24, 1747.

“ I am one of a great number of my ac¬
quaintance, who have read your account of
Colonel Gardiner's life with great pleafure ;
and I think few can read it without profit.
It is no fmall bappinefs to me, to know that
it is fallen into the hands of rr.any people of
confulerable diflind'tion at Court, where fuch
iorr of inftrudlion is rnnch wanted, and may
be mofl ufeinl, efpecially amongt the un¬
thinking military young men who abound
about St. James’s in the interval of a cam¬
paign ; many of whom, being bred to lite¬
rature, and accuftomed too much to read tri¬
fling books, hu\e been lead to perufe your
very ferious one ; whv'h they wmuld hardly
have looked into, had not fo known a perfon
of ilieir own profeiLon been the fubjedh of
it. 1 can ventui'e to .ilure you, upon my
own kui W'iedge, that fome giddy idle mili¬
tary men, not only young ones, but advan¬
ced in years, ann in Ingh rank, iiave been
rou'ed by it to very ferious reflexions, vyhich
they 00 not conceal with the fame cue as
they do the flily jokes winch they ufed for¬
merly to throw out fo freely on the fubjetfl
of v.:o!onel Gardiner’s converflon.

“ Your book has likew fe been read with
very great approbation • y many ladies of
r.inic and ditiincfion, fome in employment
i;.t Court, others who, from tlieir quality
and fortunes, vint the beft companies ; .and
by thefe it has been recommended to, and
almofl forced upon, the reading of others of
llicir own rank, who fpend too much of
tlieir leifure in the air.ulements of this vain
iow,n, who have not (ciupled to own that
the time, wliidi iliey Ihculd otlierwiie have
emp oyed in tneir ufuai manner, at cards,
pia\ s, and opeias, was fpent more to then*
Gublucfioii and advantage; and i hope, and

have good reafon to believe, that fome of
thefe laft may have received the farrie benefit
from the perufal of your book, which the
lady you mention did from her difpute with
Colonel Gafdiner at Paris concerning reli- '
gion *.

“ Forgive the if, after this general account
of the fuccefs of .your laudable endeavours
for the fervice of Religion and Virtue, I
fliould mention to you that there lives in
Pall-Mall a maiden lady; of exemplary piety
and true devotion, one Mrs. Ann Cooke^
lineally defcended from the illuftrious Sir
Anthony Cooke; preceptor to that pious;
prince Kihg Edvi/ard the Sixth, who has re¬
commended your book to all her acquaint¬
ance, wdiich are very nuitfero.Us, her houfe
being frequented by perfons of the flrft dif-
tindtion, both courtiers and others, to whom
it is her conftant faying, that in it they will
find the direCf road to happinefs. She never
fpeaks of you but with the higheft efteem
and regard, wiflies fhe might have the hap¬
pinefs of converfing with you ; and, if youf
affairs ffiould lead you to towm, and your
leifure permit of it, I am very fure that 3
vifit from you to her would be highly ac¬
ceptable. Your calling at iier door, next to
Mr. Doddingtoh’S in Pall-Mall, and fending
in your name, would obtain fur you a ready
admittance and a licarty welcome.

“ Allow me to add tliat, if you fliould
chufe her for your patron to any fermon you
may publifli, it would be no difhononr to
you, nor difagreeable to her: bvit this yrnii
may think of after you liave had the pleafure
of her couverfation.-

“ As to myfelf, I ought to make an apo¬
logy for writing this letter, as 1 am an utter
11 ranger to yourpeifon, though an admirer
of your merit. For tliis reafon too I fliall
conceal my name at pre.'ent, though I live
in hopes that you Will allow me the pleafure
of being known to you hereafter ; for which
purpofe I beg you will be fo kind as to let
me know that this letted has been received

5b See the Colonel’s Life,

^94‘] ^ Pedigree of the DIgby Family enquired after, y'91

' you, by a line Jiredled to < Charles Law-
n, Efq. to be left at the Rainbow Coffee-
)ufe, in Lancafter-coutt, the Strand,
oncion.’

I nioft fmcerely wilh you many happy
?ars ; and pray God to blefs your future, as
2 has your paft, endeavours for his fervice,

; promoting the interefts of tfue Religion
id Virtue,’*

Mr. Urban, ' Sept, i.

OUn. inferting the following note,
from the copious Pedigree of Lord
)igbyy in Hutchins’s Hiftory of Dor-
itlhire, will poffibly produce a cornmq-
ication that may be of iervice to more
lounty Hidoriaus than one.

Yours, &c. M, Green*

‘‘ Sir Jofeph Ayloffe, hart, exhiluted at
le Society of Antiquaries, 1766, a very cu-
ious pedigree of this faipily, from the time
f Henry 1, to 9 Charles' 1. 1634, in a large
.)lio book, on vellum, finely illuminated,
rhe fcries of defcents were follovyed by thq
rms and crefts properly blazoned, and thefe
y curious drawings of the feveral m.pnu-
nents of the family, and the jiortraits and
rms in the windows of Tilton and other
hurches ; laft of all were the muniments,
ieeds, and charters, copied in the hand-
vriting of the originals, with draughts of
he feals. This elegant MS. is intituled,
Digbiorum, ab autiquo loco qui dicebatu'p
)igby in agro Lincolnienfi, denominatorum
ntiquifiimae'equeftris famllia gcJiealogia &
^rofirpia, e qua, I'egnante Henrico 1° An-
loiumrege, floruit vir Hrenuus Everardus
le Tilton in coniitatu I.eiceftna;, h de Dig-
sy in comitatu.predidfo, e tpu) illuftris Kfi-
lelmus Digby de Tilton predidtoeques aura-
us, hujus familire clantate languinis con-
unrmatillinvaf, originem traxit. Omnia ex
>nblicis 1 egni ai'chjvis S- privatis ejnfdem fa-
niliae archeiypis, er.clehi^, monumentis hif-
oricis, monallei ;Oium & rotulis annornm
’etufiifi'imis, ah'.fque reverendae antir|uicati&
< iruiubrtatse veritatis rebus maximo iabore
^ fide oculatadepromuntur, ^ dd perpetuam
ei memoriam hoc ordine delcribi curaniur.
\,nno incarnafioms Doniinicae mdcxxxiih.*
This feems to be lire noble MS. which
>ir Ken.e’im Digbv caul’ed to he coliedted at
he exjrence of locol. out of jniblic hiiloi'ie?,
private memorials, and lecords in the Tower,
■elating to the Digby family in all its branches,
is lus Ton John informed Wood. The wri¬
er of Ids life in the hiograph.ia Bntannica
:oiild not fti:d it. It is faid ip be at p-i efenc
n the ha.nds of &lr. Williains, in Wales.’'

Mr. Urban, Clou cfjh r, Ang, \ 6 .

HAVE for feveral 3 ears paA, at
tun been affliclecl with a flow fe-
ler, and ether neivjus difeafes, and
•bout a year lince wu induced, by the

advice of my friends, and a prevailing
ciiAom in this nei'ghboai hood, to wear
a flannel Aiirt next my Ikin. Infieafl of
reaping any benefit therefrom, 1 find
myfelf more relaxed, and my complaints
ratheT* aggravated than relieved. I
Aiould be glad, therefore, to be inform¬
ed by any of your numerous coire-
fpondents, whether the weaiing a flan¬
nel Aiirt, as above, is fikely to relieve
fuch compiaints; and if not, whether
anv, and what, precautions will be nc-
ceffary to b<; obferved if i iliouid difeon-
tinue the ufe of it.

Yours, &C. VALETUDI.N ARI AN.

Letters of Doctors Hildesley.
Hale?, Leland, and Mr. Sa¬
muel Richardson.

(Cojichaed from p. 691.)

LETTER IV.

Dr. LEEAtiD to BiJ/jop Hildeslf.y.
My Lord, Dupiin, 'June 27, 1764.
HAVE received your moA obliging
letter of May ii, together with
three guineas you fo generouAy lent me.
The exprefiions' of your eAeem and re¬
gard are very acceptable to me, as thev
come from a perfon of your Lordfliip’s
real worth and excellent chara^fer^
though I rruA confefs it humbles me to
reflect how much i fall fnorc of what
your Lordliiip and others of my friends
are apt to conceiye of me. I hope,
however, I can truly fav iny intentions
were upright ; and, if 1 have been in.
any degree inArumeUtal to ferve thein-
tereAs of Religion, to God be all the
glory.

I am informed that a club of Deifls
have been buhly employed in drawing
up an anfwer to foine part of my “View
of tfie DeiVtical Writers.” It was de-
ligned to be publifned this laA fpring;
but they have thought proper to defer
it. Whatever becomes of any attempts
of mine, I am fatisfied that our holy
religion, as delivered in the Scnptuies,
is cAabliflicd on folid and immovable
fo undations, which all the malice and
iubtilty of its adverfaries fhal! never he
able Kj lubvert. But it is a thing I CdU
baldly accouric ftr, that any perfons,
ho would be ciioughr to have a regard
im the interelts of vneue, at:d the good
of mankind, fhould labour, with an in-
dcfaiigable zeal and induftry, as far as
jn them lies, to banifii ChriAianitv out
of the world, and to fet men loofe from
the facred obligaticvns it lays them under,
1 wiAi jour Lordlhip all manner of

' lucccfs

OriglnaULeiten of Dr. Leland, Hildefley, fScpt,

fuccefs'in the execution of the excellent time, fome are utterly againft ; and I
defign you have formed of getting the am lefs difpofed to them myfelf, as my
Holy Scriptures, or fome portions of old fcorbutic complaint is in great mea-
them, rendered into the vulgar tongue fure gone. Scarborough I have but one
of that people whom Providence has objeftion to; and that is, the intolera-
pui under your paftoral care. This is bly fteep hill to walk up from the
she moft likely means of leading them fpring. Which of all the abovemen-
into the right knowledge and praftice of tioned I Ihould be glad of your direftiois
religion. about.

That the God of all grace may blefs That I might not difappoint you of
your pious and benevolent intentions the fatirfaftion of your gratuitous aft of
and endeavours for the edification of voluntary friendlhip, communicated
his Church, and render you eminently through Mr. Wilks, 1 intend the guinea
ufeful in that part of his vineyard in I put into Mr. Dury’s hands as a com

which he has placed you, is the fincere
and earnell prayer of, my Lord, your
Lordlhip’s mod obedient and obliged
humble fervant, John Lelanp.

LETTER V.

penfation for what I now fend for; and
which I hope you will accept from,
dear Sir, your obliged friend, and
thankful humble fervant,

M. SouoR. AND Mann.

from Bp. Hildesley to Dr. Scott,

his fbyfidan.

Dear Sir, BiJhop'sCourt, Mar. 27,1772.

I am now come to alk your advice
concerning the prefent date of my
health; though, at the fame time, I
am doubtful of the propriety of enqui¬
ring what is to be done with or for an
old man of 73. However, you will per¬
mit me to tell my dory. You mull
know then that, about three weeks
fince, I was feized with a debility of
body ; 1 fay of bodyt becaufe I had no
particular defe6t in any limb or joint
more than a general vveaknefs, fo as to
be unable to carry myfelf upright ; in-
fomuch as twice to fall from my chair,
and once from my bed, but without any
paralytical fymptoms, or the lead dil-
order in my head.

This was ray date for about a fort¬
night, when 1 began to mend, fo as to
be left to walk out by myfelf, which I
could not do for fome days.

I hope as the dimmer rifes 1 diall rife
with it ; but I really began to think 1
was upon my lad legs. I deep well,
and eat a tolerable meal ; 1 take, &c.
&c. j and, notwithftanding this alarm¬
ing circumdanee of bodily infirmity, I
have fome thoughts, God willing, of
vifiting my Shcrburn demefnes about
Midfummer, — if nothing extraordinary
happens to hinder me.

Some of my friends in England urge
me to go to Bath; 1 fuppoie on account
of my colicky diforder: but 1 imagine
thoCe waters will not fu.t me. Tun¬
bridge and Scarborough I have found
benefit from ; Harrovvgate I have more
fancy too j but thofe cold fprings, at my

A Narratme of the Bijbop^s laji Illnefs^
and Death*

It is remarkable that, for a fortnight
before he died, he was apparently in
better health and fpirits than he had
been for fome months before. This is
what they here call a lightening before
death ; for, on the very day before he
vyas taken ill, Sunday, the 29ih of No?
vernber, 1772, he performed the whole
duty of the day in his chapel, fecmingly
with much eafe and pleafure to himlelf
as well as to the great fatisfaftion of all
his hearers; went through his domedic
duties of devotion in the fame manner j
and, as tifual, fpoke for an hour m the
evening to his fervants and the family
on religious duties and fubjefts; which
was his conftant cuftom.

The next day, Nov. 30, being a ho«
liday (St. Andrew^s), he read the fer?
vice ®f the day in his chapel equally
well apd clear as the day before ; but,
it being a wet ftormy day, inftead of
his ulual morning’s walk, he took feve=
ral turns the length of his hall and par¬
lour for above an hour, talking to his
filler of various matters, and about his
intended journey to Sherburn and Lon¬
don next fummer i and, on her obfer-
ving to him, that he would require a
judicious fervant to attend him, on ac¬
count of his but indifferent Ilate of
health at times, he faid^ “any fervant
would do for him ^ and that he fhould
have been well enough, had he not been
plied with too much laudanum in his
former illnefs at Ballamqre.”

As he walked to and fro he fome-
times took up a Speftptor that his filler
had been reading, and call his eye over

NO ^oH Nt ^lyg

1794'] N^arrafive of Bijhop Hildefley’s lajl Illnefs and Death,

793

it for a few minutes, and fo continued
Itis walk ; then took it up again, till he
had read it through

He this day had a neighbouring cler¬
gyman to dine with him. Dined with a
tolerably good appetite ; fat converhng
with him till between three and four
o’clock ; rofe from his chair without
much effort ; faw his gueft to the hal! ;
and returned to the parlour, but with a
tottering hafly kind of gait, which feme-
times took him lince his former illnefs.
On this his filler begged him to fit
down, but he did nor; ailted if Mr*
Corbet was gone, for that there were
two letters which might be fent by him,
and took them out of his cafe. Mr.
Corbet was called, and came in with
his Lordliiip’s filler, and found him in
the chair. He took no notice of them,
but feemed intent on reading, or look¬
ing for fomething ; on which the gen¬
tleman went away without the letters.
In lefs than two minutes his filler re¬
turned, and found he had fallen off liis
chair, but had fall hold of a moulding
under the vvindow-feat, which he liad
pulled off in attempting to rile. On his
filler’s approach he turned round, and,
looking up in her face, laid with a
fmile, “ Hetty, I cannot rife.” How
fhe got him up and fcated him in his
chair fhe knows nut, for they were
alone, and flie much frightened. He
had fill I the two letters in his hand,
which his filter took, and fent them af¬
ter Mr. Corbet to the ilables Itili ima¬
gining this wmuld go off like fomething
•of the faiTi-e kind tnat had alarmed them
about a fortnight before. On one of
the fervants coming in with a petition
relative to a fuit in the Billiop’s court,
his fifi-er found that he had iofi. his
fpeech, and the ule of one hand, indeed
of one fide, entirely. But, think. ng
this might roufe his attention, jQie put
the petition into his hand, which he read
through; and it j.dainly appeared that
he underllood it, as he repeatedly after¬
wards mentioned, though with much
difficulty, the pjetitioner’s place of abode.
He then had the fheet turned, and feem-
ed ftill to read svhere nothing was writ¬
ten ; made lome fign, by pointing, as if
he wanted an almanack, which his filler

* It is a llriking circuinftaiice, that the
pallage read was in S..tui d.:y’b paper for July
26, in vol. VI. written by Acidifon ; and
moft peculi.nly applicable to the Prelate’s
cbai atiter and prefent Hate.

C£NT. Mag. September^ '794»

opened to him in December \ and he rati
his finger forward upon it till about the
Jeventb or eighth day.

A letter coming in from Ramfay was
read to him ; but he took no notice of
it, and feemed quite inlenfibJe of any
thing; and in this condition he was car¬
ried to his bed, when Mr. Wilks arri¬
ved about five the fame evening, and
Dr. Scott, being fent for from Douglas,
got to Biffiop’s Court the fame nighu
Before the D.rdtor came, the Biffiop
had got lome warm claret and currant
jelly, and would fiave his filler cake a
cup of the fame. In the mean time, his
llupor and infenfibility increafing, all
that could be done in the medicinal way
proved ine>ife61ual. He feemed to make
fome attempts to fpeak at times, but
hardly any thing intelligible. And thus
he continued till the Sunday night fol¬
lowing, December 6, and expired qui¬
etly about one in the morning of the
7th, much and greatly lamented by his
whole diocefe, who have loll in him a
moft affeiSlionate and faithful pallor,
ever attentive to the foiritua! and tern-
poral welfaie of the people committed
to his care.

Plis zeal and pietv in getting the
Scriptures of the Old and New Tella-
ment, together with the Book of Com¬
mon Prayer, printed and publilhed in
the Manks tongue for the ufe of his di-
ocefe, js, above all others, the ftrongeft
and moll falling proof that can be given
of his ardent love and concern for the
good of his Ip.iritual charge. And thele
he carried w.th him to the grave, and
even into the grave, as he had by his
will direfted, that the f uneral office and
fermon ffiould be all in Mafiks, which
was performed accordingly.

Dr. Hildtlley left a donative of corn
to the amount of lome four, fome five
pounds apiece .to every parifh and town
in the ifle j three hundred pounds to the
Society for promoting Chnllian Know¬
ledge towards a future edition of the
Manks Bible, &c, togetlier with feme
handfome legacies to his relations and
particular friends; who, excluf^ve of
this tender evidence of his efteem, will
have reafon to remember him with that
gratitude and refpedl which were molt
jntlly due to fo revered and refpe^ablc
a cuaraittr. a.

Mr. Urban, Clupbamy diug. 15.

N anluer to rhe letter addrtlBvl to
you in year Ma^az.ne for June, p.

500,

^94 Blair. — Dr, Tfalms, — Remarh on V'tft'^n, [Sept.

^ooy refpe^^ing Mr. Blair, the author
of “ The Grave, I vvifh to refer your
correfpondent to a letter of Mr. Blair’s,
in the volume of letters to and from
Pr. Doddrige, which contains a curious
account of the pu.blication ofthat poem.
I have been informed, that there are
other letters of Mr. Blair’s to Dr. Dod¬
dridge in the polTefiion of Mr. Stedman
(the editor of that entertaining and in-
11:ru£i:ive colIe6\ion), which, no doubt,
that gentleman will readily communicate
to gratify the public curiofity. I am,
Sir, your conftant reader, and occafion-
al correfpondent,

An Admirer of Mr. Blair.

Mr. Urban, IVefminfier, Sept. 3.
HE query relative to Dr, Watts,
propofed by your correfpondent C.
in your iall magazine, p. 696, goes upon
two fuppofitions ; that the Do6lor in¬
tended to tranflate every Pfalm, and
that the fixty-fourth is the only one
omitted. Neither of thefe is the cafe.
ThePfalms not tracilated by Dr. Watts
are twelve in number. Thefe are the
aSth, 43d, 52d, 54th, 59th, 64th, 70th,
79th, 88th, loSih, 137th, and 140th.
The rsafons of the greater part of them
being palled over evidently are, that
they contain fuch complaints of the
perfona'i calamities of the Plalmift, fuch
defcriptions of his particular enemies,
and fuch denunciations of wrath againft
them, as could not well be applied to
Chriftiau^ w'orlbip. The fixty-fourth
Pfalm partakes in fome degree of this
charafter. The forty-thud Plalm. was
probably omitted becaufe of its manifeft
conformity to the pieceding Plalm.
This conformity is fo great, that Bilhop
Lowth, \n his PraliPtiones, conje£\ured
the forty-third Plalm to have been ori¬
ginally a part only of the forty-fecond ;
and the truth of the conje61ure has been
afcertained by various manufcripts, as
appears from P. . K.ennicott’s collations,
Jt is not eafy to fay why the 108th
Plalm was not tranflated, as it contains
materials for a very fine compofuion.
Prom what has been offered, it will,
perhaps, be deemed of little conlequence
U) feaich into the early editions of Dr.
W atts’s Pfalras,

Jf your correfpondent C. be, as 1 fup-
pofe, an ingenious and worthy friend of
mine, 1 have an apology to make to
him ; \vhich is, (hat the above circurn-
iiances did not occur to me when he
mentioned the difhcu'ty in private con*
Veriaiion. A K,

Mr. Urban, Sept. 1.

IN a work I publifhed fome time ago
upon Vifion, I attempted, among
other things, to prove, that the reafons
commonly given, why obje6fs at reft
appear to be in motion, notwithfianding
our bodies are alfo at reft, during the
giddinefs we experience from turning
ourfelves fcveral times quickly round,
are all of them without good found¬
ation ; and afterwards offered a different
explanation of the fame fa£V, which
feemed to me both true and fufficient*
I find, however, that what I then faid
upon this fubjeft has not been admitted
as juft by every one j for. Dr. Darwin,
of Derby, the celebrated author of the
“Botanic Garden”, has, in the Addi¬
tions to his late publication, intituled
“ Zoonomia”, ftrenuoufly defended the
opinion of his fon, Dr. Darwin, of
Shrewfbury, it being one of ihofe 1 had
attacked ; and has with equal vigour
endeavoured to fhew, that my explana¬
tion of the abovementioned phaenome-
non is liable to infuperable objeftions.
The moft proper place for any reply I
may have to make to that author would
certainly be in a new edition of my work
upon Vifion ; but, as I do not expe6l that
another will foon be printed, and as rny
filence in the mean time might be con-
firued into a conftlfion of defeat, I beg
you will afford room in you valuihle
mifcellany for fome of the argu.nc'^ts I
have to ur^ie in fupport of what 1 for¬
merly advanced.

The opinion of Dr, Darwin the young¬
er was given by hirafe.f briefly, but, to
my apptehenfion, obfeureiy, in the fol¬
lowing words :

“ When any one turns rapKlly on one
foot till he becomes dizzy, and falls upon the
ground, the fpe<ftra=^- of the ambient ohjedls
continue to prefent themfelves in rotation,
or appear to librate, and he feems to behold
tfiem for fome time ftiil in motion.’'’ Philof.
Tranf. vol. LXXVl. p. 315.

It is to be lemaiked that this opinion,
fo far from being accompanied by any
proof or illuftration, is icfelf given in

* As the term “ ocular fpedrum” was,
I believe, firft ufed by Dr. Darwin, f (hall
here give his definition of it : “ When any
one has long and attentively looked ar a bright
objedl, as the fetting-fun, on doling liis eyes,
or removing them, an image, which refem-
bles inform theohjedi lie lias been attending
to, continues fome time to be fenfihle. This
aiipearance in the eye we fliall call the ocu~
Lit Jpe^rum of that objed.” Piiilof. Tranf.
vol. LXXVl. p. 313.

1794'] Welfs’s Reply to

proof of another opinion, as if its own
truth was fo evident as to command
univerfal alTent. What I faid refpe^l-
ing it was this :

1 do not indeed pretend to underftand
his opinion fully ; but this much feems cl^ar,
that, if fuch an apparent motion of fun ound-
ing obje(5ls depends, in any way, upon their
Jpe^ra, or the illufive reprefentations of thofe
objedls, occafioned by their former impref-
fions upon the retinas, no fimilar motion
would be obferved were we to turn ourfelves
round with our eyes fhut, and not to open
them till we became giddy ; for, in this
cafe, as the furroiinding obje<fts could not
fend their pictures to the retinas, there would,
confequently, be no JpeBra to prefent them-
felves afterwards in rotation. But whoever
will make the experiment will find, that
ohjefts about iaim appear to be equally in
motion, when he has become giddy by turn¬
ing himfelf round, whether this has been
done wuth his eyes open or Ihut.” Effay
upon Single Vifion, Sec. p. 93.

When I made this objeiflon to Dr.
Darwin’s opinion, I conceived it un-
anfwerable. His father however thinks
otherwife, and attempts to elude its
force by faying :

It is certain, when any perfon revolves
inaligl'.t ro-m with his eyes clofed, that he
neverthelefs perceives differences of light both
in quantity and colour through his eye-lids as
he turns round ; and readily gains fpe&ra of
thofe differences. And thefe JpeBra are not
very different, except in vivacity, from thofe
which he acquires when he revolves with
unclofed eyes.”

But, nottoconteft the juftnefsofthefe
obfervations, when Jpe8ra of the fame
kind differ in vivacity, do not the faint¬
er difappear more quickly than the
Wronger ? and ought not, therefore,
upon his own principles, the apparent
rotation to continue longer when we
have revolved with our eyes open, than
if we had revolved with them clofed,
even though both experiments had been
made in b. light room} 1 anfwer, that
to my perception the rotation continues
equally long in both cafes. But what
would the event be if we were to turn
ourfelves in a dark room ? To this Dr,
Darwin fays nothing. I can affert,
however, from experience, that if any
perfon will turn himfelf in a dark room
till hebecomes giddy, having previoufly
remained in it a fufheient time to allow
the fpedra of objefts he had formerly
ieeu to difappear, he will obferve, upon
the admiliion of light, that the furround¬
ing bodies ieem to move in the fame
manner as if the room had been enlight-

Dr, Darwin on Vifion* 795

ened during the whole courfe of the
experiment.

Though I think I may fafely regard
what I have juft now faid to be a com¬
plete confirmation of my former remarks
upon Dr. Darwin’s opinion j yet, to
fliew that it is not from one fouice only
that I derive my conviftion of its being
erroneous, I proceed to exhibit fevcral
other arguments againft it.

1. When a perfon ceafes to turn,
after he has become giddy, obje£ls at
firft appear to move through confider-
able fegments of circles. Thefegments
thenceforth gradually become lefs ; and,
at length, the obje6ls feem to reft. Now
no reafon is afforded by Dr. Darwin’s
theory, why the apparent motioii
fliould not be asgreat juit before it ceafes
as when it was firft obferved. The
fps^ra indeed may become fainter and
fainter ; but, as the laft turn we give
our bodies, with the view to make our¬
felves giddy, is fimilar to the firft, the
fpeSira gained during the whole time of
turning ought to prefent themfelves ia
the fame manner, and with equal velo-^
city, as long as they are perceived.

2. Dr. Darwin, the elder, has, in his
Anfwer to my obfervations upon his
fon’s opinion, expreffed it in language
different from that employed by the lat¬
ter, and even by himfelf when he fpeaks
of it in the body of h s work. Accord¬
ing to this interpretation of it, which t
muft fugpofe corre£t, and given with his
fon’s confent, “the apparent progrefftoii
of the ocular fpedra of light or colours is
the caufe of the apparent i etrogrelfiou of
obje£\s, after a perfon has revolved till
he is become vertiginous;” and an illuf-
tration of this view of the point in quef-
tion is afterwards given, taken from
the moon, which “ fometimes appears
to move retrograde when fwift-gliding
clouds are paffing forwards fo much
nearer to the eye of the beholder.”
Now, as in the latter inftance the inoon
does not appear to move, unlels there
are clouds perceived between it and th®
eye ; fo, in the former, obje6ts ought
never to feem revolving unlefs the
fpetira of light or colburs be at the fame
time oblerved. In proof of the contrary*
however, I can a.ftirm, that when 1
make the experiment in a room illumi¬
nated by the lun’s light rcflc<Sled from
the atmofphere, or by that of a candle,

1 never perceive fpeSira of light or co¬
lours, except L have previoufly taken
pains to obtain them. Should it 1)^
laid that th^y exift whether rhey bs

psreeived

Df* Wslls’s Reply to Dr. Darwin on Vifion^ fSept^

perceived or rot; I anfvver, that, if they
sre'not perceived, they do not exift with
refpe£i: to us, and can have no {haF>e in
explaining the apparent retrogrefhon of
objects; juft as, in a cloudlefs night,
eonfiderable morion is often pofTeffed by
the particles of the atmofphere between
our eye and the moon; but, as luch
motion is not vifible, no contrary mo¬
tion is thence afcribed to that body.

3. If from any deception of fight we
attribute motion to an obje£f at rcft,_ ve
neceffarily fuppofe all other obje£fs
which are in its neighbourhood, or are
placed in the fame direftion from us, to
move the fame way, and with the fame
■velocity, provided thefe be alio at reft :
for, no deception ever does or can in-
creafe or diminifli the angle which any
two objefls fubtend at the eye. When
the moon, for inftance, “Teems to move,
the neighbruring ftars feem to go «fong
with it. To oecafion, therefore, any
two vifible obje fts to feparate, fotbat one
may proceed, cr appear to proceed, in
one direfilion, and the other in an oppo-
iite diieiison, it is indispenfably requi-
fite, whatever the other circumfiances
may be in which our fight is deceived,
that one of the objefls at leaft fhould
poffels motion, the body of the ob-
ferver being fuppofed at reft. Thus,
in the example fo often mentioned, the
moon is never feen to move retrograde,
•unlefs there he real and contrary motion
in the intervening clouds. Dr. Dar¬
win’s theory, however, contradi6fs this
■univcrfal fa6f ; for in it an apparent
progrelfion of jpeMra is faid to produce
an apparent rerrogreffion of objefls.

4. But it will be alleged, perhaps-,
^kar Dr. Darwin calls the progrelfion of
Jpetira in giddinefs apparenthtcAoft no¬
thing real cr^n propetlv be alcnbed to
mere hallucinations of light, though he
admits that they cover at one moment
of time, during the apparent retrogref-
fion of ohjehfs, a diftererit objeft, ora
diSerent part of the fame objehf, from
that which they covered at the prece¬
ding moment. If this be a fair repi efen-
tation of bis I'entiments, I will' aik, by
what means are the relative p.p-fitions of
the fpeSra and objehls thus changed ?
To me there leem only tw'o ways in
■which thrs can polfihly happen. One
is, that, while the affecfed parts of the
retina, which oecafion the j'peStraf re¬
main the fame, the pofi-tiuft of rhe eye
(ball be altered; in which -cafe the
JpeSIra will be leen to mo’=e correrpon-
dently to that organ. But this, I fup¬

pofe, Dr. Darwin will not admit to be
the caufe of the phaenomenon, as by
doing it he would virtually acknow¬
ledge the truth of my explanation of the
apparent motion of obje6fs in giddinefs;
which he had formerly denied. The
other tvay, in which a change of the
relative pofitions of the objeffs ^n6fpec~
tra may be thtught to Vl*ke place, is
this; fince, in turning ourfelves, every
objt6l we behold fends its pi6lure fuc-
celiively to different parts of the retina,,
and fince theyyf)^^f?r/2 of obje£ls, not very
ftrongly illuminated, eeafe after a fiiort
time ; it may be fuppofed, that, whea
we have defifled from turnin'g, as foon
as the fpeHrum which depends upon the
part of the retina where the pifture firft;
fell is about to vanifti, the JptElrum of
the fame objeft depending upon the ad¬
joining part of the retina may prefent ,
itfelf, and that thus an appearance may
be exhibited, as if the ffeBrurn had ac¬
tually moved from one external place t®
anotlier. But, again, as the fpeBra of
objetfs reappear foon after they have
cealeft, it miay be farther imagined that,
when every part of the retina uporz
which the pifture of the obje6t had fal¬
len has produced its fpeBrum, and when
the fpeBrum of the laft affe6led part is
about to ceafe, the fteBritm of the fiift
affe£led part may reapp-ear and be again
followed by thofe of the other parts of
the retina, agreeably to the order in
which they liad received the pi61:ure of
the obje6l ; and thst in this manner the
the fame fpeBra may be repeatedly feea
to travel over the furrounding objefts.
This 1 judge to be the opinion of the
younger Dr. Darwin from the few ex-
prefiions he employs upon the fubjeft.
To refute it, however, I need only fay,
that 1 have never obferved a fpeBriim
which did not continue longer than a
fecond ; whereas many JpeBra are here
made fuccelfively to appear and difap-
pear in lefs than that time.

Thefe are feme of the additional ar«
guments I have to urge againft’the opi¬
nion of Dr. Darwin refpe6llng the Teem¬
ing motion of obje6fs during the giddi¬
nefs we experience after turning out ftlve.s
I'everal times quickly round. To every
one perhaps they will not be either in¬
telligible or fatisfadlory. But furdy
there is no perfon who wall not compre¬
hend and admit^that the abovementiofi-
ed phenomenon cannot in any way de¬
pend upon oenWx [peBra, if it occurs as
readily in fituations w[iere none can be
f'uppoftd to.exjltas wiica their prefence

1794*] Chequsrs.^Rmarh on Foot’s Life of John Hunter. 797r

is the mofl manifefl; which is a point
I think now placed beyond cavil.

As what 1 have already written will
occupy more fpace than falls to the
fhare of any one correrpondenr, I fliail
with-hold till the enfuing tTiOnth what I
have to offer in defence of my own
opinion.

William Charles W^ells.

"Mr. Urban, S^ept. 4.

Your correfpondents J. B. and
S. E. LXIIL 531, are both mif-
taken in their conjeSiures relative to the
checquers painted on the door-polls of
alehoufes.

I think it was the great Earl War-
renne — if not, fome defeendant or heir
near him, not beyond the time of Ru¬
fus — had an exclufive power of granting
licences to fell beer. That his agent
might colle6l the tax more readily, the
door-pofts were painted in checquers,
the arms of Warren then, and to this
day. Yours, &c. Candide.

Mr. Urban, SouihxvellyNotfs,Sept. 5..

IT appears too evident that fuperiority
and eminence of charafter and repu¬
tation will invariably be produ^ive of
much larcafm, il'-oature,, and envy j
and that, where merit is evidently con-
fpicuous, the tongue of Bander cannot
be Blent. But why fliould we attempt
to defend fo illuftrious a prodigy as the
late John Hunter againft the afperfioas
of an author who labours to eftablllh his
own chara6ler on the rums of a fuperior
one ? I believe it is pretty well known
in the Anatomical and Surgical World,
that Mr. Foot has, for a long feries of
years, declared himfelf the avowed op¬
ponent of John Ilunter; and, as fuch,
we cannot be furprized that much im¬
partiality does not pervade the whole
account of his life ; but, as there are
many parts of this publication which
feem to be the offspring of a narrow and
envious mind, I think ic is the duty of
every liberal-minded man to notice
them. Mr. Foot, in Tome part of the
Life, boldly afferts, that the various
publications which the world has re-
ceived, under the fuppolition of their
being the produflion of John Hunter’s
pen, were not of his writing; but, in
another part, I fhall permit Air. Foot to
Ipeak for himfelf, and ufe his own
words : “ John Hunter has publilhed on
many luhjefls ; and, if the eye of criti-
cifin were to pei ule the whole of them
for this particular purpofe, I do not

know but the opinion would be, that
the explanation, the language, and the
flyle df his writing, were at lead ampis
to the exprelBon of h's ideas ; and thar,
if there be any obfeurities and any er¬
rors, as there moll certainly are in very
great abundance, thefe do not arilf ff>
much out of defeft of language anti
flyle in his writing as from a native ob*-
feurity ; they are moB commonly, if not
always, the conTeqiuence of a confuflora
in his mind.”^ I fliall beg leave to afk
Air. Foot, whether he has nor, in the
multiplicity of his eonneded ideas, rather
contradi6led his own words r He firii:
alTeits, that John Hunter never wrote
any thing; and afterwards fays, that ivi.&
defeSl of language and ftyle in his wrL“
ting is the confequence of a confuBon irs
his mind, I mull alk Air. Foot what
‘defe6l of flyle and language could poi*-
Bbly occur if John Hunter never wrote?
Immediately after the laft paffage fol¬
lows this contradi6lory remark: The

truth is, that he (John Hunter) only
furnlflied the images, and that the wri¬
ting- part was always performed by ano¬
ther : he prepared the Ikeleton, and
another coVered it with compoBtion ; he
found the materials, and another made
them up into dreffes for the publickr.
He was incapable of putting Bx lines to¬
gether grammatically into Englifii ; and,
at his Le6lures, he was often fo far in¬
capable of making out the fenfe of his
own notes, as to pafs over the ful)je6t
they were meant to explain.” Again,
he lays, “ it was owing to the want of
educatioa that his notions of things
were lo very imperfeft, ari-d his concep¬
tions fo veiy conrra6led. JnBances,
arifing from this original defeft, are to
be found throughout his wu'icings and,
if they had been confined to them alone,
they might have palled without obferva-
tion ; but they operated Brnogly in his
conduft towards otliers ^ and not only
the Proffcffion, but thole w’ho follow it,
have expsrieni-cd in a very un plea fane
degree his vulgarity, from want of the
polifii of education, as wi.l be made
hereafter apparent.” I believe not one
of John Hunter’s moft enthufiallic ad¬
mirers wfill Band forth as his champions
in defence of his education, or in lup-
port of elegance of ftyle in his differenc
produdlions; but 1 cannot dilcover (and
Biall be particularly obliged to Mr. Foot
to point out) in what one iin'tance his
notions of things (anatomical or furgi-
cal) were fo very irrpirfed't, and his

c>.nccptioii&

Remarks on Fool^s Lif^ of John Hunter, [Sept,

conceptions To very contracted. I muft
confefs, his ftyle of writing poflfefles not
the advantage of the policed dtefs of
elegant language ; but he ever carries
with him that force of argument^ and
foundnefs of judgement i which were al¬
ways the leading marks of his profef-
fional charafter. This ftyle of language
is, in my idea, preferable to that gay
and gaudy flow of elegant words, which
may for the moment pleafe and attract
attention, but which leave not a wreck
behind of any thing ufeful or beneficial
to fcience. I much regret that that
candour and liberality of fentiraent,
which ought uniformly to diftinguifh
the conduct of men who undertake to
fcrutinize the characters of their neigh¬
bours, are too much eftranged to this
production of Mr, Foot; and am no
Icfs aftoniftied that tins gentleman, than,
whom no one is more anxious to be fup-
pofed the competitor of John Hunter,
would take upon himfelf the trouble of
being the biographer of this great man,
whom he always pretended to hold in
iuch contempt. 1, therefore, could not
expeCl much tendernefs or impartiality
from the criticifm of Mr. Foot; but I
muft confefs 1 have found much lefs of
thofe two ingredients than I had ima¬
gined. Mr. Foot obferves, that John
Hu nter, in the former part of his life,
fcarcely paid any attention to the prac¬
tice and fcience of furgery, his atten¬
tion being fo greatly abforbed in the
purfuit of his anatomical refearches.
He fays, “John Hunter’s education
fecms to have been upon an inverted
ratio to that of alt other furgeons. He,
to become a lurgeon, ferved a long ap-
prenticefhip to anatomical purfuits, and
only five months to lurgical ; while
others, to become furgeons, ferve their
apprenticefhips with furgeons, and for a
year or two purfue their anatomical ftu-
dies, and that at a period of life too
when their minds are in preparation,
and their ages favour the reception of
that important acquifition to praClice.
His fliort flay at the hofpital could not
allow John Hu nter to imprefs upon his
mind the general outlines of furgery,
and, for want of which, his tafte for
ever after appeared vitiated ; and his
being totally unacquainted with the
Materia Medfca rendered all his pre-
fciipritms bald and informal.” I think
it will be unnecelfary to fay more, in de¬
fence of his (urgicdl abilities, than that
they weie looked up to by the moft:
tamient furgeons of the age as the ftand-

ard of ultimate appeal. Mr. Foot Teems
to forget that, during John Hunter^s
anatomical ftudies, the fcience and
praClice of furgery were by no means
negleCled, but probably purfued with
more alacrity than by any furgeon of
the age. I doubt not but that Mr. Foot,
even Mr. Foot himfelf ^ has, at fome time
or other, received the opinion and ad¬
vice of Mr. Hunter vvhenever any great
difficulty has occurred to him in the
treatment of any furgical cafe. John
Hunter certainly attained to a moft ex¬
alted point the knowledge of that fci¬
ence, which is the moft complete and
neceffary groundwork for the educa¬
tion of an operative furgeon, viz. the
fcience of anatomy. It is well known
among operative furgeons, that John
Hunter firftpropofed and performed the
operation for the Poplitseal Aneurifm 5
a difeovery for which the wcrrld is infi¬
nitely obliged to him, notwithftanding
this operation has been rendered unne-
cefr.Hry by a propofal for the cure of this
dreadful complaint by my very ingeni¬
ous and worthy friend the Author of
the Medical SpeClator, who, in the fe-
venth Number of his valuable work,
gives a full account of his mode of
cure ; and which, in a cafe that fell un¬
der my care, proved highly fuccefsful*.
1 fancy I need only to mention John
Hunter’s firft true illuftration of inflam¬
mation, the venereal difeafe, &c, &c.
to convince the generality of read¬
ers, that Mr. Foot’s account of the
norance of John Hunter is not wholly
to be depended upon. The World of
Anatomy and Surgery has experienced
an irreparable lofs from the death of
this truly great man, whofe memory
ought to be cheriffied with everlafting
monuments of gratitude and praife.
John Hunter, for many years previous to
his death, had been fubjeft to apop!e6ltC
fits, which complaint was not a little ag¬
gravated by a moft paffionate temper. I
have many more obfervations to make
on Foot’s Life of John Hunter, which
ftiall be the fubje£l of a future letter.

Yours, &c. Benj. Hutchinson,

Member of the Corporation of Surgeons.

Mr. Urban, Sept. i.

6S6. Dr. Burn, II. 327, makes
. Dr. John Aglionby, the tranflator
of the New Teflament, 1604, fame

See the fecond Medical Spe6lator Ex¬
traordinary, on the cure of the Poplitsal
Aneurifm,

with

1 794.] John Agllonby* — MifceHantes. — St. George’s, Canterbury, 799

with the fellow of Queen’s college, prin¬
cipal of Sr. Edmund’s hall, 1600, and
re61or of Iftip next year, where he died
1609, aged 43, and was buried in the"
chancel at Iftip (Gutch’s Hiftory of the
Colleges, &c. p. 665), where an in-
fcription was fet upon the Eaft window
by his widow j whereon there being no*
thing more than the above particulars,
Wood (Ath. Ox. II. 355) purpofely
omits it. William A. does not occur
among the graduates of either univerfity,
but in 1684 we find him as M.D. in the
Council of the Royal Socety.

L. L. p. 688, muft be blind to the
circumftances of the times if he can fee
the leaft conformity between the pi efent
league againft France and that of Cam-
bray.

B’fbop Alexander Kirnimund, fecond
cf the name, u r the cathedral of
Aberdeen ^Ihe high alrar was

brought fron t Eafl end, le-tr unfi-
nifhed at the tie^tli of IR.U.op Elphinfion,
1518. into Bilhop Dunbar’s aile, or the
South tranlepi; but the Clergy, who
undertook to complete Bifhop Elphin-
llon’s pldu, delated it io long that the
Reformation put a final flop to it.

Another Prefbyter of the Church of
England, p. 696, is certainly juftified m
giving the alarm as he does. Bur is not
the do6Vnne of Transmbstantia-
TiON an infurmountable bar to the
unioii he warns againft?

A P. M. of the Lodge of Antiquity,
p. 697 — 700, might have kept his in¬
formation to himfelf; for he tells us no¬
thing of Mafons that is not the duty of
Chriftians at large; and a man need not
enroll himfelf of another fraternity,
whether of three or twenty-three dalles,
to learn and pradife his duty.

Fig. 4, pi. III. is probably the old
altar- ftone of St. William’s, or Merton
chapel, in Rochefter cathedral. The
fix croffes inferibed on it point out this
application.

P. 706, No Oculist had no other
view than' information in h s queflion
about the eyes of certain animals remain¬
ing undofed after death, acircumftance
which, he was told, was peculiar to
rabbits and hares, and had not been ob-
ferved of cows, horfes, flieep, and o her
animals, which fall under daily obler-
vation ; but, if the ingenious cone-
fpondent of the Medical Spedaior fays
the circumftance is more general, he
iliall conclude it arifes merely from tiie
want of hands to dole the eyts in arti'
^u!o mortis.

P. 708, Is there not reafon to fufpeft
the authenticitv of the account of the
Chinefe embafly ? And are there not
circumflances, and names of places:
(e. g. Gohul), not ftridly Chinefe?
May we not rank it with the Pekim
Gazette which followed it ? But the
noble ambalTador is at hand, and will
fet us ail right.

P. 720. Mr. Toul min’s apology for
re-publifliing Neal’s Hiftory is too eva-
five to conceal the true motive.

P. 772. Was not Henry Hartley, efq,
fon of the well-known Dr. H ? P.

Mr. Urban, Sept, r,

THK Kentifh Gazette of Aug. 8 hafr-
this article of Antiquarian news :

The workmen on Monday began to
throw down the anrient round tow^er attach¬
ed to the South-eaft corner of the fteeple
St. George’s church at Canterbury*. It con¬
tained a flight of flone fteps to its top,
crowned, with a fpire a-td hancifome wea¬
thercock, ufeful and ornamental to the city ;
but, in confcquence of the new pavement in.
1788, an arched paffage was opened through
its bottom for foo'. paffengers, which was
fuppofed to have weakened the body fo
much tliat it was judged ne.eflary to be re¬
moved.”

Is there not reafon to conclude that
there might be want of Ikill in the fur-
veyor employed to turn the arch ? for,
was not the experiment made with fuc-
cefs under the tower of the much more
lofty fteepie of the church of St. Mag¬
nus, near London B;idge ? Or, is there
not a tradition that Sir Chrift. Wren,
who built the latter, fome time after the
church was rebuilt, forefeeing that a
paftage might be wanted under it, pro¬
vided for it by turning arches, which he
filled up till the time for opening them
arrived, D. H.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 3.

LBRIGHTON, in Shropftiiie, fe-
ven miles from Wolverhampton,
is a pleafant village in a fiat fituation
furrounded with a beautiful and rich
country. church confids of a nave.

Weft tower, North aile rebuilt, and
chancel, On the North fide of thf* lat¬
ter is an al^bafter altar torrib w.th a
man in pitted armour, collar of SS, and
crofs pendent, mail gorget plaited,
ftraigiit hair, ruflles, rings on the ift,
3d, and 4th finger of the left hand, and
ift and 4th of the right, belt adorned
with quatrefoils, mad ficirt, flaunfiicd

* A dravyiug of k is eugraviug. F ot r.

kiue-

Zt)0 Chunb Noi^s'frm Alhnghton, in ^hropmre. [Sept,

knee-pieces, lion at feet looking up to the
left, fword and dagger ; under his head
a talSeled cuOiion, helmet, and mantlet.

lady is in a head-drefs lludded in
front, puffed, l<">ng clofe beads, collar
©f ruffles, and

tite cuffs formed of four cords, rings on
sift and 4th finger of the right-hand,
and iff, 3d, and 4^1 of the left, fto-.
smacher and gown tied in knots to the
knees, then open, and ftraps flying Joofe,
petticoat dole at feet. On the ledg«
this infeription :

mic \mt Bc ®i*aftDn, tt
B’ua ift'ancil'ca tigor tV fiUa

faru B£ (Ilfffflynsto’ miltt’ qiii
in’tJ 'SioVj^ fir ^ l)efe'5 mafeur 31oh’i£-’
ftiti (fiiherti Salhot milit’ ^
garete filliU’o ffEi'ototfffcfj Ktt-

fit''' obiit Xn° hiz 3Iiinu, an*" 23’iu
aucc’ a'i’ali’ p’picietur bp/
ame’. 31. C,

At the head : Az. three ftirruips O.

Creif, a beaft or biiaks bead on a torfe,

a. Az. a lion rampant O.

2. In a bordure engrailed a lion ram¬
pant O.

3. Bendy of ten O. and G.

4. Barry of eight Az. and G..; on the
G. 3, 2, 2, 3 ducks, or martlets.

3. A laltire G. in centre of it a
martlet. '

'6. A fleur-de-lis A. between three
Aioors heads.

7. G. thtee piles A.

5. G. a bend between fix martlets A.
G. a fret A,

<9. G. two lions flan-ding A.

ti. G. a lion rampant O.

32. G. two chevrons A. in a canton
dexter a crofs pa'de fitebee,

13. Aa. a lion G. or A.

In front, the fame quarterings impa¬
ling the flirraps between a man in ar¬
mour and one in a gown, and two wo¬
men in gauze head-drels and opening
gowns, a.s their mother.

This Sir John Talbot was fon and
heir of Sir John, and grandfon of Sir
Gilbert Talbot, K G. of Grafton, co.
Worcefler, whole pedigree may be feen
in Dr. Nafli’s Worc-effer Coliedions,
I. 158.

On each fide the Eaft window fcroils
of the inflirution of the Sacrament m
Bl-^ck letter.

On the altar rail, in capitals :

“ John Hilton and Thomas Howell,
^hui clnvardens, 1 585.’^

On the South fide an altar tomb with
a rude red flab, and in relief a fair crols
and iakripiicn INRI over it, and four

blank fhields at the corners. In tltc
fame wall are three level Halls, and Eaft
of them a pifeina and a locker over it. la
the Eaft window a fliield of the inftru-
ments of the Pafiion. In another, a
bald bifflop or abbot, with a crofier,
kneeling to Chrill blefling. Another
figure fitting-above. In the Eaft win¬
dow angels with cenferSja foul rifing,tkc.
The veftry is on the North ftde.

In the chancel, ftabs,

In perpetual memoiy
of the rev. and learned Francis West,
Doefor of Divinity,

born in the parilh of St.Chriftopher, Londotij
feifior fellow of St. John Baptift college,
Oxford,

vicar of this parifti 21 years.

He died the 15th of January, 1747,
aged 55/’

Arms gone. ,

Hie terra recon ditur
tot tantifq-ue notiftimus ills .. „

cultiflimus dorainus y I

D. Gu L. Scot T, th. bacc. A

Piaedii de Cosford natns hmres,
quern quondam fociis fuis doftiftlmus annur^ ■

» • • » 9 ^

ladtitavlt col. Sid. Cant.

■et in quo pa ft ore fuo
per 17 aunos gloriata eft:

hxc parochia.

' Caetera faaa,am melius
quara lapidem coafulas.

Inxoelum abituram exhalavit animan®

30 non. FeJ)., anno aer. Ch. m ucc.

- ^tatis fute CO,

Eccleficae fuse bonifque omn'bus
defulerium quam maxime fiebile.
Cxorem tali dignam fortitus eft
Eliz. Filher, r’di admodum D. G. F.
reftoris de Hickling, in agro Nottingha-
menfls,

ex qua fufeepit filios fex, totidemque filias.’*

‘‘ Hie iacet corpus AsiNnt, viduac & ref. bias
Tho. Shad well, gen. una filiar. LanceloUi
Lee, de Cotton, arm. quae oh. vicefimo
primo die Jan. A.D. 1699.”

Arms : Per. pale, a chevron Erm. be¬
tween three annulets impaling a fefs
cheque between ten billets.

Bynefadiions. \

Mr. Bromley 100!. the yearly rent to
be divided to the poor at the truftees’
eleftion,

Mr. John Chapman 15s. 4!. yearly
to the poor on Chi iftmas-day.

Mr. William Scot, late of Cosford,
40 1. the intereft yearly to the poor,

'I'he duke of Shrewfbury, 1703 and
and 1704, 40 I. difpofed of among the
poor agreeably to his order.

Anne Marigold, widow, in her life a
filver chalice.

Mr.

[.794*] Albrighton. — Fine Mofak Pavement at _Qq\c\\^.{{ tv » 8oi

Mr. Thomas Davenhill, intereft of
zo 1. to the poor yearly.

The vicarage is in the a’ternate gift
of the llaberdafiiers Company and
Chfid’s HoCpital. The prefent vicar is
Burtield.

In the church-yard, an altar tomb for
Arne, daughter of Thomas Green of
Wolverhampton, who died 1 762, aged 24.

Feneath this if one now refts inOiriri’d,

Alas ! vvlrat once inclos’d the pureft mind ;

A virtuous foul fo free from every ftain,

3<) tiy’d l-.y foi'tune, and nnmov’d by pain ;
Without a gi'oan willi agonies fhe Itrovc ;
Keav’n, wnmd’ring, fnatch’d her to the joys
above,’

Thomas Green, died 5783, aged 52-”

As to the manor, “Norman held Al-
brictfione in Elnocdriu hundred. Algar
and Godhil held it befoie, but the king
was then in pcfielfion of it. 2 Edw. I.
Hugh de Boiinghale gave lands here to
the abbot and convent of Lillefliull.
^ohn Tregoz died feieed of it 28 Ed¬
ward I. leaving John la Warre, Ion and
lieir of Roger la Warre, by Clarice, his
tided daughter, and Sybil, the wife of
William de Grandifon, h's other daugh-
:er, his heirs, John ia Warre had it af-
bgned for his purparty as heir to his
grandfather J ohn Tregoz. 31 Edw. I,
he had a grant of a market on Tuelday,
and fair on the eve, day, and day after
:he tranflation of St. Thomas the Mar-
t\ r, and to hold two courts of *iew of
f<ankpledge. 20 Edw. II. this John la
W-:rc, chev. Ion and heir to E.oger la
W. held this manor in chief by one
knight's fee; and, dying without illue
22 Richard II. was focceeded by his
brother Mag. Thomas de la W . re^ffor
of the church of Manchefter, \^ bo died
without ifi'ue 4- Heiny VI. Hugh Heles,
or Holes, knt. 5 Henry IV. levied a
fine of this manoi', and died feized of it
3 Henry V. 10 Henry V. Thomas
Hewller and Simon Hedrington had the
cuftody of it during the minority of
Margaret Hale (Hole), daughter and
heir of Thomas Hale, deceafed. 37
Henry VI. John Troutbeck, e(q."' died
leiz?d of it. 22 Elizabeth the queen
gave leave to John Talbot, elq. to fell
Albrighton to Robert Calciewell, gent.''
and his heirs. 6 Edward 111. it was
found that a chantry was eredfed in the
church of St. Maty of Aibnghion, to
which one melTuage and 60 acres of

* See the intermarriage of Troutbeck apd
Talbot on the monument.

Gent. Mag.

lands and two Ihillings rent were an¬
nexed. The benefa6for was Roger
Ca elsl's. 38 Henry VIJI. John Wa-
verron did homage fur the re6fory.
i i Elizabeth the queen decreed to Tho¬
mas Cdlton, gent, the tithes of corn
and hay here for 21 years, paying
10!. 19s, ()d per ar?num, 38 Elizabeth,
Jane Bromley, widow, was feifed of
this redlory, which, <) James I. Sir Ed¬
ward Bromley, knt. alienated to James
Wefton, efq. Thechuich a vicarage,
value 5 k” (Mytron MSS.) R. G.

Mr. Urban, Colchefier, Aug. 28.

INDIGNATION makes me write
hence, having juft feen a beauiiful,
Mofaic pavement in the yard of one
Bragg, a baker, in Bear-lane, in this
town, which was dil'covered about two
years ago, and is going faft to ruin, as
dirt of all kinds is thrown upon it, which
is with violence fc.ubbed oft', when any
one willies to fee the pavement, with
brooms. Do you know any thing of
this pavement ? Ir is really much more
beautiful than thatengraved in Morant’s
hiltory of Colchefter. What remains
of it is part of a circle I'urrounded in
part by a fquare; the circle is very im¬
perfect as well as the fquare; but in one
of tiie corners of the fquare is n fine urn,
and on one fide of the Cquare is a beau¬
tiful border. Tlie tefi'er2e of the whole
are very thin, not more than one-eighth
part of an inch thick; the colours are
charming. In Spai row’s Plan of Col-
chefter, Bear-lane is ciiled St. Martm’s-
laae. J. W .

Mr, Urban, Au^. 25.

THEREappeared, in January, 1792,
“ Propoi'als for defray ing, by Sub-
feription, the Expences atrending the
making Experiments for afceriaining
whether the Earth be a folid Body, as
at prefent fupptfted, or only a Sliel.."

“ Amidit the numerous difcoveries
and irnprovements which have been
made in the ptei'ent and lalt century,
and the attention which has been paid to
aimoll every b anch of knowledge, it i&
rather 1 emarkabie that it has never been
enquired, or any procefs thought upon,
to determine whether the globe of the
Earth be a folid biidy, or only a ftiell of
a certain thickncis, particularly as there
are feveral things of obvious importance
involved in a certain knowledge of tiiis
matter.

huked, Nyere ihsre noiuiiity refuit-

irsfc:

802 ’The Earth not a foil d Body? — -SufHues. — Polwhele’s Devon. [Sept.

ing from it, to afcertain the faft would
give it confequence, and render it wor¬
thy the notice of all true lovers of fcience,
vvhofe objeft is truth. *

“ The writer of this has had an op*

Mr. Urban,

N Weft Teignmouth church, Mr,
Pol whelefays, p. 147, ihatrjhe king’s
arms and ten commandments were remo¬
ved, about three years fince, on account

pf)rtunity already to make fundry expe- their rotten ftate, and nenu command-
riinents, which have given him abun- ments fubfiituted in their ftead.

dant reafon to think that, contrary to
the generally-received opinion, the
Earth is not a lolid body; but it ap¬
pears, upon accurate calculations, re-
I'ulting from the experiments made by
him, that the thicknefs of matter com-
pofing the fliell is not above 50 miles.

“ The writer begs leave to propofe,
to fuch ingenious perfons as have a-

Eaft Teignmouth and Weft Teign¬
mouth, p. 148, are confolidated ; and,
as Weft Teignmouth is the largeft pa-
rlfli, it has t^othirds of the fernsice.

He feldom mentions where the tower
of a church is placed ; but at Biftiop^s
Teignton, p. 150, it is at the Eaft end
of the church ; a very Angular fituation.
Pi^torefque occurs very frequently.

bility, to fubferibe towards defraying the The orthography, if right, is uncommon,
charges of his making farther experi- In Dawlifli church, p. 152, aie a few
ments, in order more fully to fubftanti- panes of painted glafs ; but it is not laid
ate this curious fa6\, and to print the whether they contain arms or figures,
refult, with plates proper to illuftrate it. The above obfervations occur on
Every fubfcriber of half a guinea to opening Mr. Polwhcle’s Devon. ’Tis
be entitled to one book, and fo in the pity he has not given a copy of the nena
lame proportion, according to the a- commandments lubftituied in place of
mount of the fubfeription-money. xht rotten old ones* The churchwardens

The experiments to be made in of this parifti feem to have gone a fiep
various parts of Great Britain,” fanher than the authors of any of the

I vvifli to knew what was the refult of new forms of public prayer have gone,
this curious fpeculation. It would be curious to know how

Yours, &c. Inquisitive, two-thirds of the fervice are performed

— - at one church, and the other third at

, Mr. Urban, Aug. 8. the other. •

IN p. 617, D. H. has been pieafed to Some works leave off in the middle;

exercife his ingenuity upon the Tub- Mr. Polwhele begins there. It feems
je6f of fujfluesy or horfemen’s refts. perfe6\ly novel to lend vol. II. into the

Philo-Guthicus gives liirn credit for world before vol. I. has made its ap¬

his invention; but, at the fame time,
would be glad to know whether D, II.
ever favv any armour to which any thing
like the bearing in queilion was affixed ?

Philo- Gothic us alfo would be glad
to know, ivhether D. H. can inform
him whtre any armour is to be leen,
which has other defence, or oina*
merit, on the right fide, than the vant

pearance. In the Pieface to this vo¬
lume, he fpeaks of what has hetn done
in the firf \ and he addreifes himleif a
iiale cavalierly to thole who do not
comprehend the dfi\^n cj the nvhole
nvork. Now, Mr. Urban, I am unror-
tunately one of this defeription ; I am a
lublcriber, but nut a conjuier; and,
having never been able to get vol. 1. nor

plate, cr plate on which the fpear relied having feen an explanation of ilie defign
when prepared tor iiltmg r On the left of the whole work, 1 certamly do not
fide he is perfuaded D, H. will agree comprehend it. Permit me to fuggeft.

%vith him there could be nothing of this
fort, othcrwife the horfe could not be
guided againft the enemy.

However, laying aft tie this difpute,
Philo- Gotliicus hearti'v recommends to
D. H. Dugdaie’s Baronage, or any other
Peerage of England, that he may there
inform himfelf that Robert Fit2 Ham-

that the want of an Index of perfons and
places is a great defe£I. Pti'haps it will
be cured in vol. III.

Yours, &c. Qi X.

Mr. Urban, Hurifhorn, Sept. 9.

IF it is not troubling vou too raucii, I
111

ftiould be thankful to receive, tiiro’

nion, or Robeit the Conful, were of the your excellent Literary Channel, fuim
fame family as the Granvilles, the lat- obfervations refpeftmg the extraordinary
ter being defeended from the brother of phaenomenon of the fudden ftoppage
that Fitz Haym, or Hammon, who and intermiftions of rivers without the
came intothiskingdom from Noimandy influence of droughts. Dr. Plot, in h/s
.at the time of the Conquell. Natural’ Hiftory of Staffoidffiire ”

PHILO-UOTHICUS. p. 7^2

1794*] Phanomenon tf Rivers flopping without Droughts

p. 70, cites the following remarkable
inftances :

The great river Trent, that rif^s in this
county, became tliy of a fudtlen, as it was
ohfcrved to beat Nottingham (and, no doubt,
was fo at other places), anno iiio, temp.
Henry I. from tlie morning till three in the
afternoon, as Knighton informs us. Four
years after, on the 6th of Odlober, 1 1 14» as
Simeon Dunelmenfis and yohn Bromton ac¬
quaint us, t!ie river Medwaj, in Kent, for
fevcral miles together fo failed of water, that
for two whole days the fmalleft vchels could
not pafs upon it. The fame authors alfo
tell us, that tfie river Thames fuffered the
fame lack of water at that time; but Mat¬
thew Paris fays expreflly it was on the 4th
of April half a year before, when he relates
that It was fo dry for two days, that the fca
itfelf alfo failed of reaching the fhore for it
miles forward ; the other authors adding,
that children could w'ade over between the
bridge and the Tower, and that it w'as not
more than knee- deep under the bridge
itfelf.”

Another remarkable inOance of the
fudden deficiency of the rivet* Trent I
have met with in more modern times,
Jn the excellent Parifli Regifter of Al-
lewas, in which various hifiorical events
and other curious circumftances are re¬
corded for upwards of fifty years, by
John Faukener, vicar, is the following
entry ;

** An’o D'ni 1581, an’oq; reg. re. Eliza¬
beths: 23. — This 21 day of December, an’o
1581, was the water of T rent dryed up, and
fodenly fallen fo ehbe, that 1 J. F. went over
into the halle meddow in a low peare of
Ihowes about iiii of the cloke in the after
nowne, and fo it was never in the remem¬
brance of any man then living at that time
in the drowghteft ycare that any man had
knowen ; and the fame water in the morn¬
ing before was bancke full, which was very
Ihauage.”

Thefe wonders in Nature Dr. Plot
attributes to the great matter pipes, or
fubterraneous paflages, which fupply
the fprings or fources of rivers, being
cafually flopped by the fall of earth, (o
that they could not run again till they
had forced their pafl'age ; “which (adds
be) perhaps may be the tiuc natural
cauls of the fudden ttanding-ttill of the
ri»ers Elva^ Motala, and Gulfpang, in
Sweden, fomcrimes for two or tntee
days ; which Blazius, Herhinius, and
Locccnius, tell us, happened in the years
>566, 1632, 1638, 1639, *665. For,
we cannot well fuppofe fuch mighty
things Ihould happen from any ttoppage
•t the imall duitufei of rains and dews.

803

which are many, and lie difperfed at
great diftances, and cannot in any like¬
lihood be flopped thus together; where¬
as, upon the obftru^lion of any of the
great canals, that lie deep, and come
immediately from the fea, it is eafy to
apprehend how the capillary tubes pro¬
ceeding from them may be all flopped
together.”

I feel myfclf much indebted to Me-
defeldienfis, p. 711, for the compliment
paid to my undertaking, and fhall be
happy to receive his promifed Affirtance
in the Northern parts of Staffbrdfhire.

R. G. Jikevvife merits my beft ac-
knowlcgements for his excellentchurch-
notes in the South-weft part of the
county, p. 712, &c. It gave me muclt
fatisfaftion to fee the curious flone pul¬
pit and font in the fine old church at
Wolverhampton, and the antient round
pillar or monument in that church-yard,
noticed by fo able a pen. Of the two
former I lately took drawings for my
Hiftory, and efteem them moft beautiful
relicks of Gothic fculpturc. This in¬
genious correfpondent, 1 truft, will not
think it impertinent, if, in order to ren¬
der your Magazine more perf«£l, I offer
the following corrections and additions.

P. 713, 1. 17. This coat was the ^0-
ffieriij, barons of Dudley, who were fu-
perior lords of th;s manor temp. Ed-
>vard HI ; the antient coat of Wyrley,
here alluded to, being Sa. two lions paf-
fant Arg. crowned Or.

P. 714, 1. II, ior Hampjloni hall read
Hamjiead hall, the feat of George Bireb,
efq. who has pulled down the antient
houfe of the Wyileys, and ereCled a
modern manfion. From the chapel in
the old hall I have divers coats of arms,
&;c. taken by Sir Will. Dugdale, 1663,
with other infcriptions and arms in the
church, now defaced,

Ib. col. a, I. 6. This monument is
certainly for the Levejons ; and, thougU
now fcarcely legible from duft and fitu-
ation, yet round the margin is the fol¬
lowing inlcription in black-letter m
bas-relief :

“ Here lyeth the bodyes of John Leve-
soN, efq. and Joyce, his wyfc, which de-
ceafed the 8th of Aprill, in the year of our
Lord God 1575, being merchant of the ffa-
ple, and Ihenfe, andjufliceof the peace of
this county.”

This, together with numerous other
infcriptions, arms, &c. are now extant j
and an excellent hiftory of this exten-
five panfh 1 have, nicely preferved, iu
the MSS. of the ingenious and indefa¬
tigable

8o4 StafTordflure — Newton Hall. — Montaigne’s Veyct^e. [Sept.

tigable Mr. John Huntbach, a relation
and pupil of Sir William Dugdale.

P. 715, !. 47, for Pinfold r. Penford\
alfo, 1. 49, for Dunfier r. Dutijlal,
which is not in 'Tettenhall but Wol'ver-'
hampton parifh, and was antiently a
member of the king’s manor at Wol¬
verhampton, called Stow heath. As
my account of this place and its diffe¬
rent owners, from the antient family of
the Hamptons, temp. Hen. II. to the
prefent worthy pofftfior, John Wight-
wick, efq, would occupy too many of
thefe pages, I.fhali here briefly obferve
that, though now only inhabited by a
farmer, it is a curious old moated houfe,
built at different times. In front is a
lofty fquare porter’s lodge, of brick and
Hone, varioufly ornamented. Over the
entrance, between the two lower Eliza¬
bethan windows, is painted a female fi¬
gure, reprefenting, I fuppofe, Truth,
by the following motto underneath":

VIGET VIRET VINCIT VERITAS.
Between the two. upper windows a fhield
with a horle’s head caboffed on a wreath
Ar. and Sa. underneath which is. in-
i'eribed,

VITA PERIIT
MORTIS GLORIA
NON MORITUR

Under one of the windows, on the
Taft f de, is another fliield charged with

arms of Wightwick, impaling - - -.

On the South fide are the faint remains
of a large emblematical painting, faid 10
have reprefented the feven deadly fins.
The whole groupe of building, with the
furreunding feene, afforded me a very
appropriate drawing for a County Hil-
lory , which I hope, in due time, will
be found worthy of an engraving by the
owner. S.. Shaw, Jun,

Mr. Urban, Sept. 8.

BSERVING what has been faid,
p. 618, of Newton-hall, and the
Bouchier family; I will, from the beft
of authority, fpeak to fa£ls ; that New-
ton-hall is in Great Dunmow parifh and
not in Little Dunmow, where there is
no fuch manor, and of courfe where the
Bourchiers, eails of Elfex, never did
refide. The painted glals fpoken of
was originally in a window of a chapel
belonging to Newton- hall> which build¬
ing is now remaining, though converted
by the Dyer family, Sir John Dyer, or
their predecelfors, to a different ule,
and the window removed to the hall of
the dwelling, where it remained when
the prefent poffelfor pui chafed the pre-
7

mifes. It being then much broken by
the decay of the lead, it was taken down,
and the arms of the Bourchiers ferxt to
the church at Dunrnow, wliere they are
placed in two windows oppofite the
gallery, the antient feat of the Bou-
chiers, earls of Elfex, and their defeend -
'^anr, and the polfeffor of the manor and
houfe of Newton-hall. B. A.

Mr. Urban, Dublin ^ Aug. 10.

HEN fo many trifling books of
travels are daily eje61ed by the
prefs, and eagerly read ; it is matter of
much furprize to me, that Ls Voyage de
Montaigne^ a Work of intrinlic merit,
fhould fti I remain untranfiated into
Englifli. It cannot, perhaps, like the
faihionable produ6fion of fome modern
travellers, boafl fmart witticifins on?,
holy telicks, long deferiptions of pic¬
tures which have been a thouland times
deferibed, or egotiftical , adventures,
which are only interefiing to the wri¬
ter ; but it can boaft a fimple and cor¬
rect view of the cuftoms and manners
of Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, in
the period immediately preceding the
“ golden days” of Leo X. It exhibita
mafieriy Iketches of the perfons and
chara6lers of iome of the moft remark¬
able perfonages of the time. Nor is it
totally fijent with regard to the ftate of
Literature and the elegant .and ufefcil
Arts. Ic is true, it was evidently not
written with a view to publication ; but
we have, in confequence of that circum-.
fiance, /nore of the author ; and who
would will) to lo(e light, even for a mo¬
ment, of the lively and eccentric Mon¬
taigne ?■ There is ^ good deal, however,
which ftiould be retrenched in a tranfla-
tion j 1 mean, all that relates to the au-
thoi’s bodily. ailments. It is not neesf-
lary to tell the world what fiiould only
have been told his phyfician:.

1 am confident, fhould Le Voyage d&'
Mon.aigne becomemoregenerall)' knovvn,
the publick will regret with me, that
inch a liceiary treaiure fhould liave re¬
mained fo long concealed.

The difcuvcry of this curious work
reminds me of an obiervation made,
long fince, by a writer of great and de-
ferved celebrity,;

An hiffoiy of tjie manner in which tbs
manuferipts of antient authors were found
W'ould be an entertaining work lo perfous.
of literary curiofity.”

Such an hiftory would, indeed, be fo
highly gratifying to the lovers of Lite¬
rature, that i am aftoniihed il has never

beeir

E 794*1 ^MicaUcn recommcndec! to Dr.W^^ttovi.^DiJJenters Pfalms. 805

been undertaken. But I am not with¬
out hopesthat the learned and ingenious
gent!en)an, from whom the obfervation •
fell, mav one day be induced to carry
his idea into »'xecution. Whoever has'
Tcad the “ Ellay on the Genius and
Writings of Pope” muft be convinced,
that no man is better qualified for fuch
an undertaking than Dr, Warton.

Yours, Ambulator.

Mr, Urban, Sept^. 10.

OUR ‘* Old and Confiant Reader,”
p. 685, has indeed given ftrong
jeafon to lufpedf that Mr. D’lfraeii has
forgot that one of the Conriinands ad-
tirtded to his anceftors was, ” Tl'.ou
liiait not bear falfe witnefs againft thy
neighbour.” But how comes it about
that the words Morton” are figned
at the foot of two p>apers copied in this
narrative* ? What is flill more extraor¬
dinary, a fimiiar mil’reprefentation oc¬
curs in more than one of the la(t month’s
publications, where the fame Itory is
told aJmoif verbatim.

‘ 1 did not know, before your corre-
fpondent C. informed the publick of
it, p. 696, that Dr. Kippis and Iiis-
friends were preparing a colle^fion of
Pfalms e-.nd Hymns proper, in thsir
efieem^ for Dillenting congregations, or,
1 iuppofe, for any other uie that the
publick will ch.ufe to put them to -f. 1

Ihould be forty to be chargeable with
the “folly and fhame of anfwering a
matter belore I hear it,” or of judging
of a performance which 1 have never
leen : but 1 will only fay, that there are
certain perl'ous in the world whole in-
duftry is great, and extends to the mi-
nuttfi matters. Two or three yeais ago
X applied to Johnfon, in St. Paul’s
Churchyard, for a couple of thefe little
bonks of Divine Songs bv Dr. Watte,

* A nultake certainly of the tranfenbers.
Dr. Charles Morton being tlie perfon intended.

Mr. Maty, who was one of the affiflant
Librarians at the lime, I'peaking of Mrs.
Wacaula^’s Hiflcry in coutraft with Mr.
il lime's, fays,

“ It is a hiitory glowing with the love of
liberty, fpurring to virtue, animating to ac¬
tion 5 jt is in litis refpedt antient hi (lory ;
whereas tlie other, from the coolnefs and
temper, and little emotion with wliich in
general the author fpeaks of great crimes,
appears more favourable to the Ipirit of indo¬
lence and inditference. K it there is another
charaHeriftick of Mrs. Macaulay’s Hiflory
Hill move refpedlable than her love of li¬
berty, and that is, her lvi>e of truth.’* Edit.

f On this head fee p. 794, Edit.

which vve have all learned bv heart iiir
our younger years. After I had brought ,
them home, a friend, who remembered
better than myfelf the ftudies of infancy,
look them up, and obfe’rved, upon read¬
ing I'ome of the Hymns, that they were
not the fame as they ufed to be. Some
time after, we obtained another copy in
the original drefs, printed for Riving-
tons, LoRgnb-an, Dilly, &:c. ; and, up¬
on comparing them together, we found:
that Johnfbn’^s copy was completely trii-
veflied, every (crap of Tnnitarianifm,
every intimation of tl>e eternity of hell-
torments, &c. carefully rooted out, and
its place fupplied by fomething, un¬
doubtedly' more liberal and more ra~
iional. After Dr, Watts’s original Pre¬
face (lands an “ Adveitifement to this
Edition,” in which the Editors kindly
profeCs to have “ revifed thefe Songs,
and to have been flridliy •§ttcntive to
render them unexceptionable, .by, exclu¬
ding an feri plural phrafes and.4-dlwk®k!e.
opinions and, in purfuance^.pf this,
the third Song ( Pratfe to God for our
Redemption), the G oria Patri, and the-
Cr^die Hymn, art reformed, the Ho-
fatinahs omitted, and a Catechi'm fub-
joined, in which, to the queflion,

“ Who was Jefus Chrift all the an-
fwer that is made is, “ Jefus Chrifl was
a perfon whom God fent to teach mea
their duty, and to pet fuade and encourage
them to praftife it.” As to the omilfioa
of the 64th in Dr. Watts’s Imitation of
the Pfalms, if your correfpondent had
examined any of the copies with a little
more attention, he would have found
not only the 64th, but alfo the iSth,?
43'J, 52d, 54ih, 59sh, 70th, 79th, 8Sth,
108th, 137th, and 140th, omitted iii
tliem ail. There are but few people
now left who can “ lemember the eat-
liefl publications of this work p’ but, if
they could, they would he able to give
no more information upon the fubje61:
than the latefl of the large editions, if
correft and authentic; R>r, I have now
lying beforeune the firfl edition, printed
in 1719, which contains nothing more,
as 1 apprehend, than the Preface, Ad-
vertilcmenr, and Notes, whicli are full
inferted in all thelarge editions? and, b/
attending to thele, your correfpondent
will probably find either general realons
for the omillioa of a'i, or. In fome calcs,
a Ipecial realon given for the omilhon of
a particular Pfalm. For my own pait;

I freely confefs, that I know of no other
tranflation or imitation of the Pfalms lo
well “ applied to the Chriftian (late and

wot fir ip”

So6 ^he Brdwn Gruh. — ^VVar ton’s Oje io Sir Jofliua Reynolds. fSept.,

worfKip” (to ufe the words of the title- ving a great facility in rolling themfelvc5

page), ard therefore I wifli that they
weie more generally adopted. Jn point
of poetical merit, undoubtedly, they
cannot be named in competition with
Mr. Merrick’s elegant paraphrafe ; but,

up, they eafily efcape the ftrifteft fcrU-
tiny.

As r do not find a defcription of this
animal in any Natural Hiftory I have;
indulge me, Mr. Uiban, while I give

as he himlelf oblerves, litis ** has not the outltne of this bufy infefif, which I
been calculated for the ufes of public have found in the firft brocoli plant I
worfli'p,” How far Mr. Tatterfali has examined. Its body, about an inch
fucceeded in “ adapting it to the purpofes long, is compofed, as is ufual in the
of public devotion” remains to be tonfi- caterpillar kind, of twelve rings, not
dfcoed. There certainly are, in the round, but oval ; of a dirty-brown oti
Preface to his edition of Mr. Merrick’s the back, but light and rather tranf-*
Paraphrafe, feveial judicious obferva- parent under the belly, where are eight

feet, the fore ones cafed with a kind
of fiiell, the hinder of a foft tranf^
parent fubfiance; the head is covered
with a brown fhell, and the mouth fur-.
niflied with two ftrong teeth, one on the

tions, which are well worthy of attention,

P. 767, a. The family of rAnfou
claim a baronetage, but their claim is an
equivocal one ; perhaps the patent never
had the great feal affixed to it ; at all
events, tiieir title has never, that I have upper the other on the lower fide. This
feen, been inferted in the geneial lifi; Grub is totally defiitute of hair, ar?d
and its date, I believe, is fcarcely attain- along the fidesare black and tranfparent
able. There was fome years ago a per- fpots : the latter have been, in caterpil*
fon who callcdhimfclf Sir Thoruas I’An- lars, caMed breathmg boles ; but in the
fpn, who had the place ot gentleman brown Grub there are no apertures.

gaoler, or fomefuch office, in the Tower
ot London. ‘ L.

Mr. Urban, Aug 19.

OUR correfpondent R. If. p. ber,
jL has given a receipt for deliroying
the dirty-brown Grub, fo noxious to
gardens and to fields. 1 am lorry to

Tbele are the r utlines of this little f rou-
blcfome tnfefl, whole depredations arc
felt ftverely, whether it infefis the field
or garden ; Few vegetables come amils
to its voracious jaws-

1 hope fome of your correfpondents
will find out a method to kill this inva¬
der. I thought R. B’s method a verv

find, by experience, that the method he likely one; but, having repeatedly tried
preferibes will not anivver the ead pio- it, was obliged to give it up.

poled.

It would be a very ufeful difeovery,
Mr. Uiban, if any of vour ingenious
correlpcndents could find out a method
to defiioy this mifthievous anurial.

1 am fond of amufing my leifure-
hours in my garden. About a month

Yours, &c. Bourtoniensis.

\ '

Mr. Urban, Stpi. 7.

IN your Review of New Publications,
p. 447, 1 obferve “ Teftimonies to
the Genius and Memory of Sir Jolhua
Reynolds.” That moll worthy charac-

ago ! planted a patch of Savoy cabbage, ter and elegant (Genius indeed deferves
in cumber about an hundred and an every tribute to be paid to hi* uncom-
half, and at this time J have not one- mon merit. Among the teftimonies paid
third of them Handing, the otliers being tQ it, the author mentions a felefiion
eaten off juft within the ground by thofe from fuch writers as have teftified their
peftiferous Grubs. 1 have another rcfpeift and friendlbip for him ; but he
patch of brocoli planted finer, and they does not fpeak of the very beautiful and
have juft begun eating rhole off. 1 much-admired Ode by Mr. V\"arton (the
have placed R. B’s turts fcvcral nights, late Laureate), addrefted to Sir Jolhua
but never could find one under them, Reynolds, on his exquifirely painted
although I iiave had a plant eaten tff window (the admiration of every tra-
clofe by at the fame time. velUr) at New College, Oxford ; which

1 took the trouble to fearch every ^xiem, not only fron^ Mr. Warton’s

plant about two inches within the
ground ; I found great numbers of
them ; fome plants had four or five
Grubs round them ; yet, when 1 had fo
done, the vyork of deftru6lion among

having been long honoured with the
particular friendfhip of Sir Jofhua, as
well as for the very elegant poem itfelf,
might with the greateft propriety have
been mentioned ; and efpeciaily as the

my plants went on as before. ‘Being author particularly notices the beautiful
juft the colour of the mould, and ha- nuindojw which occafioned that poem.

Which

i794* J f/ Doveclale. — The

Which ingenious performance occafion-
cd thefe elegant lines :

Perufe each Attic line,
Jnfcrib’d to his own Reynolds’ beauteous art ;
See, the dim-painted glafs breathes brighter
See liow the Siller-Arts are join’d [tints!
lu fofr, yet llrong alTeiiiblage !”

As, perhaps, Mr. Warton’s celebra¬
ted Poem* efcaped at the moment the
remembrance of the author of “ Tefti-
monics to the Genius, &c. of Sir J.
Reynolds,” he will pardon, I truft, my
taking the liberty of hinting, that, it his
work fltould pafs through more editions
(as from its merit and fubje6l it moft
probably will do), the inferring of that
beautiful Poem would be ftill adding
another elegant tribute, with thofe of
Dr. Goldimiih and others, to the me¬
mory of fo good a Man and great a
Genius as Sir Jofliua Reynolds. X. Z.

Mr. Urban, Se/>t, lo.

The engraving, />/a/e IL is a view,
near the entrance of Dovedale,
from Afhbourn, in Derbyfhire. The
ground begins to rife at the above place,
Thorpe cloud and its majellic brethteu
are confpicuous for many miles t^und,
but is feen to moll advantage from the
Wirkfworth road to Alhbourn. The
hngular fliape of the ClouJ^ dctaclied
from all the iurrounding hills, aided by
the barrennefs of the whole, compofes
rather a gloomy landfc^pe. It is, per¬
haps, rather worthy of remark, why
Nature has thus, in many Ipots, denied
its bounty, and fcpcuated, almoft by a
line, luxuriant verdure from bleak de-
folation. The contrail in this neigh¬
bourhood i* particularly marked. No¬
thing can exceed the richnel’s of the
grounds round Alhbourn. Every emi¬
nence produces varietv. Yet 1 cannot
help thinking much of the beauty of
the place is loft, in fome inftances, by
the wretched tafle of whitening churches
and houfes for objeds. A modern houfe
perfedlly white may be borne with ; but
a venerable mouldering tower, loaded
with age, and bowiirg befote the tern-
p'sft, to be exhibited as an objed — of
v.hat, but contempt — not in itlcil, but
f<jr its wretched “ whi'ened wall !”
What would be the fenfattons of the
pious founders of thole tottering fa-
bricks, could they behold them thus dil-
ftguted I burely he that introduced this
iilty practice knew nothing of the prin¬
ciples of light, rhade, and diftance. The

^ In the lall edition of his Foems.

iVhiienhig of Churches ahfurd, 807

more difianc an cbjefl, it becomes ap¬
parently Imalle/ nnd faint from the body
of air and vapour between. To whiten
this objeft, makes it advance from its
place, and gives it a confequence that is
improper; for, in the harmony of a
landfcape confifts much of its beauly.

I am not quite certain whether I am
right in the oxtf\cgvz^\\y of Thorpe- cloudy
as I write it merely from the remem ¬
brance of the words as they were pro-
nouncedi if I am not, fome of your
correfpondents willobl ge me by fetting
the matter right, and giving the origin
of the name. The hill has much the
appearance of a volcano, a perfe£l cone,
feparated from the chain by the Dove,
which makes an elbow at the bafe of it.
Can this immenfe pile of rock and cartfi
have been fevered by the inconfiderable
dream beneath it ; or has it been torn
by fubterraneous convulfions ? A very
good road has been carried for fome dil-
tance up the dale by a gentleman whofe
name has flipped my memory. Very
few places chat I have feen prefent fo
dreary an afpedl as the commencemenc
of Dovedale. This, perhaps, was
heightened by my being alone; for, my
only viftt to this place was in the year
1790, when totally unacquainted with
the country and its inhabitants. To my
ihame, I have frequently been at Alh¬
bourn fince, but never at Dovedale. It
was, unfortunately for me, a wet un¬
comfortable fealbn ; and, after many
attempts, I jeached the Ipot reprefented
in the print. The very fingular fhape
of the cone and thofe pointed rocks in¬
duced me to draw them ; no doubt, had
1 advanced, 1 fliould have been amply
gratified by a more variegated feene.
My propenfity to climb the tremendous
fides of the hills was tfitally damped by
hearing the horrid cataftrophe of the
Dean and Lady : a faUe ftepis irrecove¬
rable on thofe fteeps. J. P. Malcolm,

Mr. Urban, ' Sept, 15.

There does not feem to be any
dais of men fallen under a more
general ftigma, and with greater fupine-
nefs, than the pradical gentlemen of
the Law; the clamour againll them is
not merely confined to the general hord
of the uninformed, but the contagion
feems to have Ipread to thofe who bear
the elevated fituations of reprefentatives
of their country ; as a proof of which,
recur to the manner the mention of a
certain bill was received in the Houfe
during the laft Scflioa of Pailiamenr,

Coitonisiifis,

§og Relief of Dehtors. — Mifs Williams. — Founeler^s Kin. • [Sep*

Cottcnienfis, p. 619, has ftarted the
kfea of a publication by the Committee
for rel ie.f of prifbners, v/ith an intent, I
pjefume, to point out the nefarious of
the profeffion; but, perhaps, were that
cartied into execution, it might be at¬
tended with a counter-publicatioT5j de-
Biying the purport of it, and defending
the prefent blent throng. I am the more
inclined to this opinion, having been
jvvitnefs to one or two lamentable tales,
where (without being a reformer) th€
common, and abjohiHiy 'proper, courfe

law was all the unfo tundte defendant
had to deal with. Havi/ig raentioneii
the Com.miitee, I intrude, farther, to
Hate a fraud fretiuently praffiied on
them, which they may be unacquainted
with; that is, of the attorney receiving
the lunv given, and, after cledu£ling it
from the gtofs amount of the debt and
eofl's, takes for the balance a fubfequent
ackrruwledgement, thereby doing away
the purport of the Committee’s receipt,
'which exprefles “ in full of all de¬
mands,” and renders the debtor liable
as a new debt, which may eventually
deprive him of the very liberty of which
Benevolence has juft given him polief-
bon. i fhou^d have premifed my being
unacquainted with the jegulations t>t
the Society. If there be any rule not
to relieve a prifoner a fecopd time,
tvhen in at the fame plaintiff’s fust,
the tlfecl of the fraud is entirely done
away.

Previous to Mifs Williams’s being
Cfitically as well as morally damn’d, let
me advance a bngle obfei vation, which
appeals in her favour, drawing my in¬
ference, Mr. Urban, from the tenor of
tyour Publication, Truth,. Mils W. has
been, and may bili aimoll be, deemed
profefTedly in I'he habit of w'riting lettei s
on ttje poliing iituation of France ; and
theiefoie, as an HiUonan, to repre'eiit
faithfully, which is their taflc, it PUdy
'he faid (borrowing an exprelbon from
the beautiful U'd i phian novel) ilie went
to iee wirat fhe cuuid hear.

ii. A, p. 5C0, is lequefted to accept
Tuy thanks ; and 1 hope his letter will
be attended to, with the farther infor-
piation required.

An ignorant Cockney.

Ml. Urban, Sept. 8.

N tracing my relationfliip the otiicr
eJav to our pious rounder, from one
of whole co-iieiis i^Archemar or Ar-
ehimci ) i am ths tourteenth in lineal

defeent’*, I was led into a train of
amubngand almoft perplexing thoughts,
fome of which I will fubjedl: to yrmr
chrcinoiogical friends. The biid Ar-
chim-er then was my great great great
great great great g^eat great great great
great great grandfather, ’reH his foul !
And blelfings on every foul (1 proteh,
Mr. Urban, I was going to fay All-
Souls~^h\it that won’t do) who can pay
grateful homage to a deceafed benefac¬
tor in the . perfon of his defeendant 1
But, as this is not the immediate fubje^f
of my addreft, 1 refer you to the unan-
fwerable letter of your conerpondent
A. B. p. 691, if you wifb to purfue it.

The hift thought which occurred to
me, Mr. Urban, was, how many honefl
veterans, contemporaries with Mafier
Archimer, were related to me in the
fanie degree ? You’wili nor, I fuppofV,
loifiil; on our friend Bolwell’s pofition
that the father of my mother hiS no
connexion’ vvhatever with my blood —
and Will allow me, bona fidfi to have had
two grandfathers, four great grandfa¬
thers, and fo <on in a duplicate ratio.
Granting me this fimpls pofition, which I
believe to be abfolutely incontrovertible,
a noyice in arithmetick will alTeat to the
concluhon 1 draw from it, that (uniels
the intermarriage of relations accident-
aUy reduced the number) no lefs than
eight choufand one hundred and ninety-
two coiuemporarv male anCeftors, in the
times of old Arciiimer, flood in theexa6t
degree of reiationfhip m which he d ,d to
your humble fervant. If there is any
error in this, 1 ihould w,£h to be fee
right. If there is any fallacy, I fliould
■be happy if fome of your ingenious cor-
refpondents woq!d point it out. J have
coofidtred this matter well, and ir is
beyond my power of in vefligation.

iiuf, to carry the argument, if tena¬
ble at ail, a iittie farthei-r-The ufual
allotment of anceftors for a century is
(Jesculii commi^nibi^s) 3 i- tooth, or
thereabouts. 'Idierefore, between the
Chrtftian aira and the time of my birth,
A. D. 1771, a lineal fuccefliou of 51
77'iooLhs good people led the way to
rnv introduolion into the world, as an

animal bipes impiumeJ' At the Chnf-

^ See a MS. in the Herald’s Office mark¬
ed Taurus, i'ol. 510.

-f Your readers would thank me for re-
fen inj them to the entertaining note in Bol-
wtll’s Life of johnfun, 2d edit. vol. II. p.
292, did not nine- tenths of them know it as
well as either of u^.

tiaa

'*794-] Pounder's Kin. — Ellenore de Cliff. — BarSny of Dacres. 805

tian sra then I had of contemporary
male anceftors no fewer than 8,399,692,
342,737.772 perfons; or, to help your
compofiiot firft- arid your readers after¬
wards, eight thoufand three hundred
and ninety-nine billions, fix hundred
and ninety-two thoufand three hundred
and forty-two millions, (even hundred
and tbiitv-feven thoufand, feven hun-
dred and feventy*two fouls.

ATr. Urban, where did all thefe good,
people live ? What planet did they ever
flock ? How many of them were allotted
to every acre of the habitable world >

Serioufly, 1 find myfeif involved in
perplexities through the whole of this
difquifition, from which 1 have neither
nerves nor algebra enough to extricate
me; and my confulion is heightened
when I attempt to find the decreafing
ratio by which the maximum (be it
what It may) is to be reduced to its mi¬
nimum in the perfon of that firft parent,
in whom the whole fyftem muft ulti¬
mately center. A Wykehamist.

Mr. Urban, Stpt. 5.

F you think the accompanying (ketch
(plate III.) will be any embellifh-
ment to your Adagazine, I beg your ac¬
ceptance of it. It was etct.ed by me
fome years ago, and is, I believe, a
pretty correct copy of an antient French
infcription round the verge of a coffin-
flraped ftone lying in the pavement of
the North aile of CiifF church, in Kent.
The words read as follows :

ELIEHORE : DE ICLIUE tOIST : ICI :

DEU ; DE : SA : almf. : kit : merci ;

AMEN : tar : CHARITK :

and I fubmit it to your Antiquarian
correfpondents, whether, fiom the ai-
rangement, any thing poetical was in¬
tended.

It dilFers from the generality of fimi-
iar infcriptions in the form of the letter
u, commonly made v, and in the ex¬
ceeding rudenefs of the charadlers,
which appear to have been fimpiy and
very irregulaily chifle’ed out, not ha¬
ving the lead traces of inUid brafs, fo
common to the antient French infcrip¬
tions. From thefe circumftances, I
venture to conclude it to be a pietiy
eariv fpecimen pf them.

No particular nctice, as far as I have
read, h^s been taken of Elenor de Clive
by any of the county writers farther
tlian itie copy of the above inlcription
in Mr. Thorpe’s Ee^ijirum Ro^enfe^

Gent. Mag. September ^ i'’94.

p. 745 ; perhaps, therefore, fome Kent-
ifii Antiquary may be led to enquire
who this lady was, that ftood fo nearly
allied to the parilli of Cliff, and to fa¬
vour your readers with the refult of his
refearches. T. F.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 9.

CORRESPONDENT, p. 72S,
wjflies to know who is the fuccef-
for to the barony of Dacre, of the
South. It is the late lord’s fifter Ger¬
trude; but lier ladyfhip is the widow,
and not the wife, of Air. Brand. That
gentleman died about a year ago. You
fliould obferve, Air. Urban, that the
Gillelland branch of the Dacres family
have always fpelt their name with an r,
which, I believe, is the orig nal Wriy pf
fpelling it. Yours, &c. O. P.

Mr. Urban, Wells ^Somerfet, Aug.ii^.

Non ego paucis offendar raaculis.” Hor.

WILL not be fo pedantic as to'af-
firm, that it is impofiible for a maa
to be an ufeful medical pra£lit)oner un-
lefs he perfeSlly well underfiands the
rules of grammar ; yet, furely, he who
undertakes to prefcribe in Latin ought
to know, that “ fynraxis eft debita par-
tium orationis inter fe compofitio, con-
nexioque, juxta re^lam grammatices ra-
tionem and that the due conftruflioa
of the I.atin tongue requires that the
adjciflive (hall agree w.th its fubftantive:
in gender, number, and cafe ; and far¬
ther, that, when two fubftantives 06
dilftrent fignifications come together,
the Ltter fhall be put in the genitive:
cafe.

Your medical correfpondent fronx
Cldp-Norrort, Oxfordlhire, p. 59S, in
recommending an improved mode of
treatment (which, by-the bye, did not
fave his patient) in an hydrophobia,
makes a (alfe concord in a Latin pre-^
feription. He writes jpiritus falls mari¬
na:, inftead of the genitive ca!e mafeuline
tnarini. Towards the latter end of his
letter, he writes unguentu.;n hydrargyrus
inftead of the genitive cale b^drargyri.

In diredling how the mixture of bark,
&c. is to ba taken, his words are,

“ Sum.at. cochl iij larga teitia quaque bora/'

In the firft place, there is a ftnp at
Sumat. there is no comma at lanr.z,
winch feems to belong to lert’d qua-;ue
hard, and may be fairly irdulioited,
three fpoonsful) every large third hour.

H this writer is incorrett in his Latin,

SiO Medual and Critical Ohjervatlons. — J. M. on Free-Mafonry, [Sept

he appears to be fo likewife in his Eng-
lifli, where he writes finui abfeeffes in-
Ecad of the proper adje6five fmouSy
which, joined to its fubOantive abfeefs,
fignifies an al^fcefs narrow in its begin-
ing but broader farther in. The word
finus is a fubllantive implying the fame
thing.

In fpeaklng of liis patient, he fays,
that “ he purfued his ufual avocations
until Wednefday, the irth inftant.’*
Would not this poor man have been
better employed in following his voca¬
tions than have fallen into the idle habit
of being called away continually from
them ; crpeciaiiy as it feems mote like¬
ly thic he met with the fata! accident
<lurini> one of his ufual avocations than
that it happened to him whilft he was
emploved in his vocations?

This gentleman fays he fearifird the
parts, gcc. with Vat fear [fic at or and I
have, Mr. Urban, penned thefe remarks
with tlie pea (to adopt his atikward tau-
.lology) : both cireumftanccs may be li¬
terally and ftndbiy true, but furely
£tange'y worded.

Horace lays, nifLii '^ox mijfa re‘verti.
1 thetefoie fincerely wifli, for the credit
of the medical Icience, that your cone-
fpondent had employed Ibine intelligent
friend to put his 'ubjedl matter into bet¬
ter language lor iiirn, as well in L-itin
as in Eng sfiy, before he lent it to the
Genth-' jtsan’s Magaaine.

Some years ago, a furgeon (of Ox-
foicllir'.re to- ^ if i well recoileit) gave
to a trtatile the following rule :

“ De luutilitate plerumque amputandi,
pra2fei tim Luxationibus, et Frudburis compo-
fitis Jtdianne N.”'

This was tranfisted by fome wag as
under, and not unfairly confrued :

“ Of the laeMpedienGy of cutting off a
Jamb too often, elpecialiy as Fi-adtures aud
Lnxalions are compofed by Jolui N.”"

Yours, &:c. J. Crane, M.D.

M^'* Urban, Wincbefury Aug. 19.

^A/ ^ prefented the publiek

V » with the Anaiyfrsof Alonf Le
Franc's ceiebtated work on Free ma-
Jonry, 1 conceived that i Ihould roufe
the Fiaiefuity to unde/ take itsown de?
fence ; »iid I was iu h(>pes, whieli 1
lint tiitti' ac, thdt from lueh dilculfi-
o:i> nuore extcnli-ve and accurate inf. r-
inatson would be gamcvl to the cau/e of
Li'cratuie concerning the origin, pio-
end, and tffedfs, on leligion and
politicks, of this m) f^trious inilituiioii

than we are yet poflefied of. I was far,
however, from expending to meet with
any bro’her fo ruftic to charge ms
with making “ wicked conclufions and
imputations'’ againff his favorite art 5
when, in fafif, I made no conclufions
and imputations whatfoever, but barely
Hated the fubftsnce of a printed book,-
and called for information on the fame.

It is fuprixing that men, who are
qualified to wield the pen, llrould not,
when they fit down to ufe it, accurately
examine the precife thefjs that is before
them. I hope, at lead, in future, that,
if any of the brethren Ihould think pro¬
per to call me to an account for what 1
publifhed at the beginning of your Ma¬
gazine for June, it will be upon one of
the following heads, nj'i%. that there is
no fuch book as that which f have
undertaken to analyze, or that I have
wilfully rnilreprefented the contents of
the laid book, or that I did wrong ia
making knowi> in this kingdom a fub-
jeft which has been fo much difculTed
abroad. '1 hefe are evidently the only
charges to which it can be required of
me to give an anlwer j for, as to Fiee-
niafonry itfelf, on all the abovemen-
tioned heads, I liave profeffed my utter
ignorance of it.

Your coriefpondent from Mailing
invites me to initiate myfalf in the faid
myRei ies, in order to convince myfelf of
their excellency. To this propofal,
however, 1 have an infuperable objec¬
tion. I never can reconcile it to my
conference to fwear that X will keep a
fecrer, the tenclernefg and extent of
which I am not acquainted with before¬
hand. i bus, for exam'ple ; if I were to
find, upon enquiry, that there was the
Im all eft ground for Monf. Le Franc’s
imputations on Freemafonry, 1 ftiould
think It my duty toexpofe the fame, and
to warn o hers agairrll imitating my ex¬
ample. If, oa the other hand, I were
to dilcover that it was, what your cor-
re pond e sit terms ir, “the pureft and
mult immaculate inftitution that the
world ever p.oduced”, or that it was
even as pure and immaculate as that
old faftnoned infliiucion called Chrif-
tianity, I Ihouid never be at reft until 1
had proclaimed the lame from the houfe-
tops, and called upon all mankind to
participate of my advantage, J. M.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 3. •

^ R. CQLLINSDN, in his Hiltory
..VJ. of Somerfetlhire, III. 471, has
this extraojdinai^y actouiu

“ la

Human Fh^momenon. — Curious Exfra:ffs from il/. Pages, 8ii

In 1765, a woman, of the mnr,« of
Kingfton, in the parifh of Ditchet, four miles
Eaft from Sheptoii iVlalk-t, was delivered of
a ftout boy without arms or Ihouklers. He
ivas baptized by tlie name of Williaiii j and,
ftrange as his birth'was, he is hill living, a
mofl extraordinary plizenomenon of nature,
poireffing, without the ufual appendages of
arms, all the ftrength, power, a .d dexterity,
of the ableft and molt regularly-made men,
and exercifing every fundtion of life. He
feeds, drelVes, and umlrelles iiimfelf, c.anbs
his own hair, liiaves his beard with the ra¬
zor in his toes, lights his fire, wiites out Ids
own bills and accounts, and does alnioit
every other domeftic bufinefs. Being a far¬
mer by occupation, he performs the ufual
bufinefs of the held, fodders his cattle, makes
his ricks, cuts his hay, catches his horfe and
faddles and bridles him, with his feet and
tries. He can lift ten pecks of beans with his
teeth, with his feet throws a large Hedge
hammer farther than other men c.'in with
their arms, and he has fought a ftout battle
and come oft' virilorious. Add to this, that
he is lately married to a yraing woman of a
reputable family. The above fads are truly
authentic, and notorious to this place and
neighbouihood/'

Tvlonf. Pages, in his Voyage round
the World, J. 200, obferves of the Bif-
(avan Indians, that the flexibiiitv of
their nerves and mufcles may perhaps
Icarcely be credited 3 but the fadt is,
that they handle fmail objedfs with their
feet with equal eafe and dexterity as we
do wiih our hand?, and can exeic a
force in pinching with their toes nc-t Ids
than that of an European when he
pinches with his fingers. The French
words are,

Leurs fibres font glineralcment plus
fouples que Ics ndtres, k. ils fc fervent de
tears pieds, fi ]^eu de diflci ence pres, comme
nous pouvions fare de nos mains pour ra-
maffer diverfes choles, ou pour s’y acci ocher.
Ils pincent avec les doigts du pietl aufli forte-
ment que nous faurions faire avec les doigts
des mains.” I. 137, edit. Laulanne.

Having this iaft author bd'ere me, I
lliall trouble vou witn a few extrahls
horn the trasflation of him in Envlifh,
1791, where he thus delcribes the Spa*
aiih galUon, 1. 158:

One muft have had tlie mortification to
se a patlenger in a Span Ih galleon, to liave
an idea of ilie horrid c nfufion wliich now
prefenied itfelf; aid y^t I was allured her
prefent condition was every thing tlrat is
:]uiet and ordei ly cempareu with her crouded
and tumulti ous pi ghc on her laft voyage
fom Manilla. 1 h' ugh a vell'el of only 500
:ons, file carried, b fides the fhip’s company,
tonvidls, monks^ women, merchants, ofii'-

cers civil and mil tary, with a large detach¬
ment (T clerks. The emoluments of an of¬
ficer in tfie fervice of the galleons are v?i y
confider.-ible, txclufive of the advantages of
trade ; and liis place, faleable at the end of
each voyage, is often veiled in a perlbn who
has not tlie I'malleft pretenfion to the cliarac-
ter of a Tailor. The piUits alone are intrull-
ed with the fitiling of tlie fliiiu and have tlia
rank of major in the king's fervice. I found
it -was a regulation on-bo;iid, lliat every one
fliouUi la^ - n liis own ater anil fdoi'es. The
crew were not even provided with a c immc.n
kettle, while certain indivuiuals tiad each
one for his own particni.ir ufe. As a conv
mon failor on-board the galleon may have a
couple of fervants to attend him, our domef-
ticks w’ere more numerous than their maf-
ters, and, being without all order and difei-
pline, gave occafion to intolerai'ls uproar.
Not having had it in my power to purchafe
provifions for my palNge at Acapolcc', Tome
days after our departure I made an agree¬
ment, ill confecjuence of whiah I melTed
with one of the pilots.”

“ The w'oods of Leucodia ppducc the
fompkmoua^ a kijul of 01 ange near five inches
in diameter.” I- 195-

This is what our fallxirs commonly
call the pvnjhimoje.

“The Eift.yans fpeak in foft tones of
voice, and I was told their language in ge¬
neral is fmootli and modulated. L'ke the
Savoyards in North Spain, how'ever, they
frequently utter guttural founds by preCing
the tongue againft the palate. [j\"o'vels in
their origin teem to be the fimple cries of
animal nature; and for this reafon the lan¬
guage of a folitiry favrge coifi'ts in die
mere emiiTion of marticul ite founds, a fa¬
culty in common to man with the giea.rclt ^
part of other animals. Conlonants a; e cem-
vciitiona’, and, like the flops of a luufical
inlfrument, mark tlie diftinCtioii or ariicula-
tion of found, and are of fubfequent and
curious invention. Their numbtr increafts
w’ith the progrefs and impK'vements ( f fiici-
ety ; and that language, in hich mutes and
Vocal founds come to be moft happily com-
biii'^il, will be deemed the nioft agreeable
vehicle of our ideas. J 1 conceive ibis to be
the re don why the Imginges of all barha-
roiis trihjs contain many rt ore maui e found:,
thrn of any^ even parnalfi -civilizetl nation
w-iih w’hom 1 am acc[U anted. I fairly own,
however, lii.at my knowledge «f the Bif-
fayan language is but imperfedl, h.avrng
f])eat too httli time in tlieir ifl uid: to he a le
to fpeak it with great fluency.”

The words in hooks are not to he
found in the Laulanne edition of the
orii;in-i!, p. 149.

“ Sometime fiuce, the ManilLins fent de¬
puties and prefents to Japan wi'h overtures^
of frieudlliip, and an overture of entering

8 1 2 ExiraBs fvom^ and Remar'ki on^

^nto fuch a treaty of commerce as might be
tleemed beneficial to both parties. Tlie Ja-
panefe received the deputies with much re-
I’peff, accepted their prefents, and made
them others in return of much higher value,
but pofitively declined to negotiate on any
terms whatever either a commercial or a
political alliance between the two countries.
Much about the fame perioil, and for a fimi-
lar purpofe, the council of Manilla difpatch-
ed an embalfy to Pekin, where, being re¬
ceived in the chanxBcr of hidinns, they ob¬
tained a free trade over the whole maritime
bounds of the empire ; a trade which is
feebly condudled by tiie Spaniard';, but
tvhich, as it is a voyage of little more than
3 00 leagues from Luconia to the Chinefe
coafl, is capable of being greatly extended.”
P. 231.

“ in different [^certainei] parts of the ifland
is found a race of men who, in their fea¬
tures and complexion, have a llriking re-
femblance to the Negro. They are confantly
chjcovered wandering through th? woods, of
very dinainutive ffature, anti of uncommonly
mild and gentle difptdition. No account is
given of their origin, nor by what means
this dnvayjijh race came to be fettled in the
ifland.” P. 2.33. “ On trouve, <.\^n^,certaine^
parties de I’ifle, une efpece d’l ommes pref-
que negres quant a la couleur & aux trails :
ils font erraus dans les bois, de petite ffature,
& d’un cara6lere doux. On ignore leur an-
ciennete, ou quel evenement les a places
dans ce pais.” P. 16 r.

Pages’ Voyage, IT. 91, On the
head of the maUf' r. man.

P. 185. “ The afs’sback: un fol en
dos d’ane a Hoping ground not of that
name.

P. 232. With as little ceremony as he
PLVOreld ktH a ‘ivoodcock . not in the F rench.

Ib. “By their confneindinary taw : il
eff d’ufage j” it is their cuftom.

P. 246. “ Races of fmple men: di¬
vers peoples fimples.”

]b. To throuo the fcale in his favour.

The horrors of a journey from Baf-
fora to Damalcus over the deCarrs, with
the alarm of enemies, which obliged
him and, a lew more to part^from the
caravan, and brought him, atinoft dead
with fatigue, and deprived of the great¬
er part of his baggage, to Damafeus, are
ffrongly painted. P. 58 — 88. From a
deltrted caffle he took a view the
furrnunding country. “ A fiilliuis like
' the filence >>f night, the faint r;: uains of
^ breeze 11)11 glowing with the fervour
of the meridian fun, but now finking
with his orb, around an unbounded
wafie, covered with a daik-grey fand
lefemblmg the allies of a furnace, and
according with the raging he&i of thofe

the Voyage of Manf Pages, [Sept;

regions, the vaft canopy of the heavens
acrofs whofe pale atmofphere no other
obje^f is feen but the reddifli difk of the
fun dipped in the horizon in the mo¬
ment of his departure, arc a few of
thofe interefting circumffances which
confpired on this occafion to imprefs my
mind with an unpleafing melancholy.”
P. 1 16.

The ‘‘Academy of Sciences f' p. 181,
is in the original only “ the Academy,^'
and more probably that of Belles Lettres
and inferiptions.

From Baruth he goes to the Dog*sri~
•ver, river Kelp of Pococke, 1, 90, the
ahtient Lycus, and t'he famous road like
a terrace on the Weft and North fide of
the mountains. The infeription on the
bridge over the Kelp is in an Eaftera
charafter according to Pococke. Pages*
Hintoura may be Pococke’s yiinhoura
near Balbec, and his Belton the Bilhop’s
Aielton, and his d^uefrouan the latter’s
Caji^ervan, inhabited folely by Maronite
Chriftians. Beyond this we get into a
tra£f now fird deferibed •, at lead: I do
not find Pdafra and Claal in Dr. Po¬
cocke, who barely mentions “ the Caf-
travan mountains as inhabited folely by
Mtronite Chriftians, the other parts of
the mountains being poffelTtd by the
Dru'es and Chriftians promifeuoufly.’*
He has not, therefore, deferibed the
fquare tower with a Greek inl'cription
over the gate, and this infeription in aa
angle on the outfide :

PE NrEniTGAM PAB BOMOY EH-
• ME AH

TOY EF;Ta.-NTOY MEFISTOY ©EOY
&KOAO MH0H.

which the academy at Paris thus tranf-
iated :

“ In the 3155111 year, ThoEmus prefiding
for the fixlh time over the temi)le of the
Moff: High God, this building was eredled.’*

“ The period alluded to by this inlci ip-
tion is the of the Seleceudae, i. e.
312 years befoie the birth of Chrift;
Weft from^the tower are ruins of greater
magnitude The firft object of my
attention here was a ftone, which, in its
fize a'nd (hape, feemed to have beea
eoiployed as the bafe of an altar. Be-
fide it lay another, in the centre of
whole plane appeared a railed quadran¬
gular (pace, furrounded by a groove.
This ftone, with equal probability.

^ “ From this tower defeending toward
the opening to the Weft of tiie plain before
defenbed.” Original.

might

1794-1 fronts and Rsmarh'On^ the Voyage of AlonfVzgts. Si 3

night have ferved as the table of the
altar. I next oblerved the remains of a
very wide gate, which externally had
two galleries fronting each other. At
the end of either gallery is a large open
hall adorned with pillars, whole capi¬
tals, ornamented with flowers and foli¬
age in excellent fculpture, are ftrong in¬
dications of the great extent and magni¬
ficence of this very antient building.
V/ithin the gate, and in the middle of a
large area, my condu6lor fliewed me a
well of extraordinary depth. At the
oppofue end of the temple is a gallery
which occupies the whole breadth of
the building, and is fupported by a row
of malTy pillars fimiiar to ihofe already
mentioned. Beyond this gallery ate
the ruins of a wall, and the area of a
very large room, at the bottom of which
lay other ruins. This very antient and
venerable temple is now almoft in ruins,
the pillars of a great proportion of the
walls lie I'cattered in large fragments on
the ground. Its fite is among high per¬
pendicular rocks, which in ibme places
ferved it for ramparts. According to
the natires, it was a temple confsciated
to the mother of the gods under the
reign of one of the Ptolemies, but which
they cannot pretend to fay ; a tradi¬
tion, however, which has probably been
perverted in the account, wherein it
difl'ers from the interpretation given of
the infcription by the learned Academy,
efpecialiy as the only variety between
them confifls in the word mother inflead
of Jather ; and thefe in the Arabic may
be very eafily confufed"'^. The diflrifl:
in which thefe ruins are to be found is
called, in the language of the country,
FJfogra. This auguft edifice having
the lame advantage of view with the
adjacent place, was ere£led in a mofl
delightful fiiuation,” lE'o — 184. Is it
poflible that thefe can be the great tem-
jde of Balbec, which ceitainly extends
W'^efl from the iOTver, or rather to wers^
ere-l^cd over its entrance, the noery <ivtde
gate here deferibed ? But what then ate
the gilleties ex ernall^ Irom it, fronting
each other ? The large area
the gate may be the hexagonal couit,
and the gailerytlie quadrangular court,
leading to the temple, or the nine pil¬

* “ The antiquity of this tiaJit'on may
have changed it, and occiifioned the ditfe-
rence from the explanat on given by the
Ac.idemy, ciinfiding on#y in the vverd fa¬
ther for m^jthci y wlr.ch terms are eafily ceu-
fuunded ill the Arabic."

lars of the greater temp’e, and the room
beyond that may be the moft entire
temple to the South of the other, as ia"
Mr. Wood’s plan; for our traveller
gives no relative fituations of thefe ruins
to each other. In the mirnomers To
common to the Fiench we fliall nrit
wonder if Elf agar a be put for Erfale^
the traft between Carranv and Bather,
The greatell difficulty ft^ems to arife
from the Greek infcription, which, dll
copied as it is, efcaped our countrymen,
who found only two Latin ones among
the ruins^'. It is a great flretch of con-
je£lure to make 0 AMPABBOJvIOT into
©OAMOY; EnMEAHTOY EKT^'NTOT
may be EDlMEAHTOY EKTllNTOS,
and MEniTOY, MEFISTOY. The wri¬
ter admits the firft fentences of
to be doubtful ; and what are we to
make of TE NTEHlT and PAB ?

Bifiiop Pococke’s account of the Ma-
ronite diftnft, pp. 102, 103, n. is very
different from M. Page;/.

The country of the Drufes lies partly
in the traft lurrounded by the moun¬
tains Libanus and And-Libanus, form¬
ing a kind of horfefhoe, an extenlive
fertile territory between them and the
fea watered by feveral rivers, A long
valley, antiently called Cretifyria, di¬
vides ihele mountains; but thefe are not
the bounds of the kingdom of the Dru-
fes. It is bounded by Galbe and Ara¬
bia on the South, Cilicia on the North,
Upper Svria on the EjII:, the fea and the
illand of Cyprus on the Wefl, and is fo
protefled by mountains as to be almoft
inaccelhble on the land fide. Baruth,
the only port on the coafl, is defended
by a lirong caflle. Silk is the principal
nrticle of their commerce. Tbeir gf)-
vernment is by an Emir, independent of
the Porte, and hereditary. T heir leii-
gion has for its objet,!: an Ei^yp'ian,
whom they name Bam l^tllah Elhhafens
Mat^lana, q. d. the lEife, our Judge ani
Maftjry who is f-od to have appeared
2000 years after Mahomet, and to have
left them a book which they keep a pro¬
found fecret. They aie divided into
iuhamOy or ukkai\, q. d. wile, or loiii-
tual, and juhhal, c[. d. ignorant. St.
Pierre, who pubiilhtd a flioit hiltory of
this people, 1723, derives them from a

Dr. Pococke, among his “In criptiones
Antiquai,’’ gives a Greek one, which items to
have been under nco'.ojjal Jlutue horn the word

cc-iO'iy.v/.

f Aa//. Pococke, I. 93, 94.

Bi4 Vayage of M. Pages.— AglioRb^.— Chi nefe Singularity. [Sep^

ftft mentioned l)y Eimacin by the name
Durably or OarazeSy to whom certain
French foldiers under De Dreux retreat¬
ed after the Croifades, and introduced
Chriftianity among them. They were
reduced to the obedience of the Sultan,
15S2 ; but were fcon after emancipated
from that yoke by their Emir Facher-
dine, who, after various turns of (uc-
cefs, fufFered himfelf to be furprized and
put to death by Amurath IV. A (uc-
celiion of his defcendants have filled the
thrwne to the prefent time.

The Maronitei derive their name from
the Abbe Marojj, who, on the fchifm
of the Eaflern church, called them into
thefe parts, famed for his refidence and
fan6fity. In the reign of tlie Emperor
Conflantine they pofi'eirtd thetnlelves of
the country between Alount Maurus
nnd Jerufalen), and now f[>ead over
she mountains of Libanus into S} ria and
Cyprus: but the beft part occupy the
inountain of Kefrouan, beionging to the
XJrufes, and have a governor of their
own under the Emir. They acknow¬
ledge for head the patriarch of An¬
tioch and his archbdiiops, dependent on
the Pope, who maintains at Rome a
college for the education of prsefis of
that nation. They can bring into the
feeid at leaft 40,000 regular troops*.

Yours, &.C. D. H.

Mr. Urban, SepL

R. JOHN AGLTONBY (fee p.
686) is mentioned in Athen. Oxon.
vol. 1. No. 425, to have been a native
of Cumberland, and his epitaph is in
Ls Neve Monument. Anglic, vol. I,
No, 41. Though he is laid to have had
a very conliderable hand in the tranfla-
ti®n of the B.ble, 1604, his name does
not occur in either of the Oxford cialfes
fpecified in Lewis’s H.ffory, p. 310 — 12}
but he might be one of the overleers ap¬
pointed by the Univeriity purlliant to
the king’s direftions, p. 319. The epi¬
taph notices the burial of a Ion John,
Aug. 22, 16 10, aged 12 years.

On comparing the narrative of the
late fiuitiels endeavour to obtain com-
naercial indulgences in China, p. 708
' — 12, with Beil’s account of the PvUiliaU
emball'y to Ptkin in 1720, 1 find that,
as to ihe ceiemonial of the firfl pubric
audience of the Emperor, Lord Ma¬
cartney was not obliged to fubmit to a
foroi equailv humiliating with that ih

. 1*1 II I '■ . . . . ■ I ,

^ Sec alfo rococko; I. 93,

which Monf. IfmaylolFacquiefced. The
principal point contended for by him
was, that he might be excufed from
bowing thrice three times in the Em¬
peror’s prefence. But, after many mef-
I'ages, it was adjufled, “ ihat the am-
bafTador Ihoutd comply with the efta-
blifhed cuftoms of the Court of China s
and that, when the Emperor lent a mi-
niffer to Rulfia, he fhould have inftruc-
tions to conform himfelf in every refpe^b
to the ceremonies in ufe at that court.’*
Bell’s Travels, vol. I. p. 5. In confe-
quence, after the delivery of the cre¬
dential letter, when the mafter of the
ceremonies brought hack the ambaffador
to his fuite, who were handing without
the hall, “ he ordered all the company
to kneel and make obeifance nine times
to the Emperor. At every third time
we flood up and kneeled again. Great
pains were taken to avoid this piece of
homage, but without fuccefs. The
mailer of the Ceremonies flood by, and
delivered his orders in the 'I'artar lan¬
guage by pronouncing the words morgi£
and hofs ; the firft meaning to bow, and
tlie otlier to hand ; two words which I
cannot forget,” p. S. However, if cre«
dit be given to an article which was, in
feveral of our news-papers, ftyled Pekin
Gav^eite, Lord Macartney (after the
credientials were read) addreffed the
Emperor by proftrating himfelf nine
times with his head to the floor, ac¬
cording to the Chinefe cuftom.”

The following lingularity in this peo¬
ple may divert thofe readers who are not
already apprized of it. “ I cannot
(writes Mr. Bell, vol. 1. p. 331) omit
an inconfiderable circumftante that hap¬
pened at Saratzyn, the boundary be¬
tween the Ruffian and Chinefe territo¬
ries, as it flrongly reprefents the cau¬
tion and prudence of the Chinefe. Our
conduolor, leeing Tome women walking
in the fields, afked the ambaffador who
they were, and whither they were go¬
ing ? He was told they belonged to the
rennue, and were going along with it
to China. Ke replied, they had v. omen
enough in Pekin already ; and, as tliere
never had been an European woman in
Ch.na, he cou d not be anfwerable for
introdui^ing the firft without a fpecial
■order from the Emperor. But, if liis
Excellency would wait for an anfwer,
he wou'd ddpatch a courier 10 Court
for that purpofe. The return of this
nielfeaiger could not be fooner than fix
weeks j it vvas; tkerefojiv, thought more
6 ■ expedieas:

? 794*1 Extras from ildfr. BofwclL

expedient to fend back the women to
Seiingiiky with waggons that brought
our bajpgage to this place,”

Of the propofitions tendered by Lord
Macartney to this fulky court, and
which were all rejefted, did ever a one
ftipulate for the refidence of Britifti wo¬
men in the fa^Vory .that was to be cfta-
blifhed, or were the fettlers to profefs
celibacy? The ufe of chintzes, china,
and tea, Ciould be difcontinued by fe¬
males of all ranks in every part of Eu¬
rope till this monarch of Tartar race Ihaii
have taken off the embargo on them.

In your Magazine, p. 619, col, i, is
this remark :

I fear Mifs Seward’s flridlures on John-
fon’s veracity did not proceed from an exu¬
berance of milk of human kindncfs.”

Neither this gentlefnan, nor any other
of MafterUrban’s correfpondents, feems
to have been aware, at leaft has not in¬
timated, what was probably a ruling
caufe of Mifs Seward’s being fo highly
provoked againft both Johnfon and Bof-
weil. For, may it not with reafon be
litrributed to the Do£lor’« having, in
language grofTly contemptuous, expoftd
to his friend the failings and infirmities
of the lady’s father, and to the Biogra¬
pher’s having unwarrantably Ipread and
peipetuated them ? The palfage alluded
to is in vol. 11. p. 5355

“ Dr. folinfon defcribcd him (the Rev.
K!r. Seward, of Lichfield) thiis ;

Sir, liis ambition is to be a fine ta’ker j
fo he goes to Buxton, and fuch places, wheie
he may f.nd companies to liften to him.
And, Sir, l.e is a valetudinarian, one of
thole who are always mending thenifeives,
1 do not know a fnorediLgreeable character
than a valetiulinaiian, who thinks he may
do any thing for his eafe, and indulges him-
fi lf in the groHefi freedoms ; Sir, he brings
iiimfelf to the Rate of a hog in a flyc.”

Muft not the fine feelings of a dutiful
and truly afiedfionate d ughter have
been tremblingly alive on the perufal of
tiiis dilplay of the charadter of her father
in a book that was generally read, and
a prevailing topick of convei fation ? As
to Mr. Bofwell, if a judgement may be
formed from his own report of himfelf,
and from the admonitions given by his
friend, filial attention and relpedt was
lately fhewn to the old Lord of Au-
ibinleck. As. V.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 1 1.

■'HE Tetegraphe was originally the
invention of William Amontons, a
Yfciy ingenious piuiofophtr, born ia

-Inveniidn of ih Tilegraphe. S J f

Normandy in the year 1663, Amon¬
tons WHS in the third form of the Larin
fchool at Paris ; when, after a confide-
rable illnefs, he contradfed fuch a deaf-
nefs as obliged him to renounce all com¬
munications with mankind. In this fir
tuation he applied himfelf clofely to i.h©
Rudy of geometry, made fome very acr
curate obftrvations on the nature of ba^
rometers and thermometers ; and, in the-
year 16S7, prefented a new hygrofeope
to the Royal Academy of Sciences,
which met with general approbation.
This philofopher alfo firfl pointed out a
method to acquaint people at a great
diftaace, and in a very little time, with
whatever one pleafed. This method
was as follows : let perfons be placed in
leveral Rations, at fuch difiances from
each other, that, by the help of a tele-
fcope, a man in one Ration miy fee a
fignal made by the next before him ; hp
immediately repeats this jfigna!, which
is again repeated through ad the inter¬
mediate Rations. This, with confider-
able improvements, has been adopted
by the French, and denominated a Te-
legraphe; and, from the utility of the
invention, we doubt not but it will be
foon introduced in this country. Fas ejf
ab kefti^ da art.

Fbi Jalh^mxng etccozmt of this curiaus in^
ii apt ed from Barrere’s report
in. the fitting of the French Conventtotz
t>/Augua 15, 1794.

The new-mventeu telegraphic language
of fignals is a contrivance ot art to tranfaiit
thougfiis, in a peculiar language, from one
diRancc to another, by means of machines,
vvhidi are pbced at tfifferenc diftances of be¬
tween four and five leagues from one ano¬
ther, fo that the exi-reffion readies a very
diRant place in t!ie fpace of a few miautes.
Lalt ye .r an experiment of this invendou
was tried in the prefence of feveral commii-
fioners of the Convention. From the, fa¬
vourable report whicli the Ltter made of
the efficacy of the contrivance, the Com¬
mittee of Public Welfare tried every effoic
to eftabliffi, by this means, a con eljionden.ee
between Paris and the frontier places, begin¬
ning with Lifle. AlmoR a whole twelve-
month has been fiient in colleding the ne-
celTary inftruments for the machines, and to
teach the people employed liow to ufe them.
At prefent, the telegraphic language of fig-
irals is prepared in fuch a manner, tliai a
coi refpoadence may bt» c included witli Lifl6
upon every fubjed, and that every thing,
nay even proper names, may be cxprefL.i ;
an anfwer may be received, and the con e-
fjrondence thus be renewed feveral times a
day. The raacUuiitu the iuveatum of

Citizen

Chirontcies of the Seafons^ Summer I794«

Citizen Chappe, and were conftru<Sted before
liis own eyes ; he diredls the’r eftablintnrsent
ht Paris. They have tJie advantage of refift-
ing the movements of the atmofphere and
the inclemencies of the feafons. The only
thing which can interrupt their efte6l is, if
the weather is fo very bad and tucl^id that
the ol'jedis and hgnals carnet be diftinguifh-
cd. By this invention the remotenefs of
diftances almoft difappear ; and all the com¬
munications of correfpondence are effedlied
with the rapidity of tlie twinkling of an eye.
The operations of Government can be very
much facilitated by this contrivance, and the
unity of the Republick can be the more con-
folidated by the fpeedy communication with
all its parts. The greateft advantage which
can be derived from this correfpondence is,
that, if one chufes, its objedt flia’l only be
known to certain individuals, or to one indi¬
vidual alone, or two oppofite diftances ; fo
that the Committee of Public Welfare may
now correfpond with the Reprelentative of
the People at Lifle without any other perfons
getting acquainted with the objedl of the
correfpondence. It follows hence that, were
Lifle even befleged, we Ihouki know every
thing at Paris that vvould happen in that
place, and could fend ihitlier the Decrees of
the Convention without tlie enemy’s being
able to difeover or to prevent it.”

TheChPvONTCLESOFTHeSeASONS.
Sum m e r, 1794.
ODRINGTON, in his fekaion of
proverbs, infornns us, that, “ a
good Winter brinj;;eth a good Summer
an aliettion thit has been verihed this
v-ear. The Winter was like Spring, the
Spring like Summer, tlie Summer like
a Summer, that is, it was warm and dry
till Septefnl^er, and then the rams and
wind natural to that month (et in. Yet,
notwiiliftanding the feafon was fo fine
upon the whole, it recalled to one’s
rec lieilion the remarkable Summer of
17S3. Mereorologifts remember, that
in that year occuried in Italy a volcanic
eruption ; and here, furious thunder-
llorms ; a!(b, an uncommon blight or
haze. This year another eruption of
Veluvius has happened ; and we have
had many thunder-llorms and much
hazinefs. Although very fevere light¬
ning accompanied thefe florms, and oc¬
curred in many calm evening:', Fairy-
rings are nor many in number, neither
did the old ones become appcirent till
July the loth, and then but very in¬
ti lit in iiiy.

it w ,y, in the fulleft fenle of Codring-
-ton's expreliion thrtt the Summer was a
good one; for, the miidnefs of the pre¬
ceding feafons cauled every tiung to

[Sept,

bring forth after its kind” in unufuai
plenty; and the congeniality of the
Summer/eafon forwarded the kind ma*
turity of all. The number of lambs
and calves that were produced was very
extraordinary, and the feathered race
multiplied in proportion ; the partridges
reared two broods, and green* wrens
and moor-hens particularly abounded.
If twa antient odd conceits have any
truth in them# the diminution that war
is making in the human race will this
year be made up. Caefar Ripa fays, in
his Iconologia, that a wagtail has the
power of exciting amorous thoughts ;
and, therefore, he has attached one to
his perfonificauon of Comelinefs. The
other conceit is an Englifli one : our
rufticks affecting, that “ when there are
many nuts there will be many baftards.”
Now, this Summer a man could not ftir
a flep without feeing a water-wagtail,
and the nut-trees bowed with the weight
of clufters. Of thefe fayings, the Engn
lifh one has a reafonable foundation;
for, the parties formed by the youthful
villagers to go a-nutting are likely
enough to promote the confequence
imagined; and hazle-copfes afford fe-
cure privacy. Moft forts of trees and
Ihrubs, whether wild or cultured, were
this year loaded with their refpeftive
fruits, keys, &ic. &c. ; but the common
afh is a ftriking exception, not an afhen-
key being to be feen ; yet, on the ma¬
ples are as many keys as leaves. The
apples have hit in places; fome trees
are breaking under the weight of them,
others have a moderate crop, and others
none. As it was in the Spring, fo it
was in the Summer, every thing was
about a month forwarder than ufual.
Paradife-apples were ripe on July the
23d, and the Belvidere Michaelmas-
daify was in bloom on the fame day.
All the wheat was houfed before the 3d
of Augufl, and the fields cleared of all
forrs of corn about the middle of that
month. The uncommon prolification
of the year extended to the inleif king¬
dom. The bees Iwarmed and called
kindly, and a variety of butterflies
charmed our eyes. Other infefls abound¬
ed that we had rather have beeri with¬
out. Nineteen fliillings 1 paid myfelf
fur walps nefts deflroyed on mine own
premlfes. During the forepart of Au-
guft, the converfacion of every company*
turned on remedies for alleviating the
pain caufed by wafp-flings. it was on
all hands agreed that nuarm o.l (cold
Oil mskes bad worfe}, and <vetud fionc-

blue^

^794‘] Israeli v/r/us Graham.

blue are the beft ; but {lone -blue
cannot be applied within the mouth
becaufe it is poifonous. Earvvigs were
almofl as numerous as the walps, and
they devoured the rofes. The bed way
of enticing them out of the car is to
hold a flice of apple on the orifice.
Harveft-bugs were exquifiteiy trouble-
fome ; fnaiis were in all the crannies j
and ^rubs in ail the potatoes and field-
peas. Though the feafon was dry, the
forell-trees {hot boldly; and, though it
was forward, a tendency towards defo¬
liation did not appear quite fo loon as it
did laft year.

A Southern Faunist,

Mr. Urban, 20.

HE heavy charge” relpefting
Mrs. Macaulay, p.685, is given
with a religious attachment to truth.
Mr. Graham attacks candour j the
publick Ihall judge of /ji\f o<zvn.

The memorandum in the MS. he has
given thus :

12. Nov. 1764, fent down to Mrs.
Macaulay.”

With what intention was the former
part omitted? This is a correiSl tran-
Icript :

Upon examination of this book, Nov.
12, 1764, thefe four lall leaves were torn
out. C. Morton.”

Mem. Nov. 12. fent down to Mrs.
M‘Aulay.”

Had the tedimony of Dr. Morton
been as decifive as it is rerpe£lable, I
fhould now have to retra£l my affertion.
But the letter is myllerious; for, it is
only faid, that he Ratker thinks
the leaves were wanting when the MS.
was (ent to Mrs. M.”

As no memorandums are made in
MSS. which are fent for the ufe of any
perfon^ I aik, why then is ber name at
all fpecified in this MS.? It has been
laid, that the (lamp of the Britilb Mu-
feum being on the laft page proves that
the MS. had been originally received in
this ftate. This decides nothing; for,
if any one had torn thele leaver, the
{lamp would have been rsne'Vjed on the
laft remaining one.

When I difeovered this fingular note,
I likewife received infrrrmation from a
quarter of undoubted authority. 1 was
told that the Female Hiftorian had aft-
ed thus more than once, and, when ac-
culed, mlblently confejjed ir, and was,
therefore, refufed farther accefs to the
MuCeurn. 'Fhefe fails are alfo ^tll

Gent. Mag. September j *794.

^Rellques of Ancient Poetry^ 817

kno^von to feveral gentlemen who attend
the reading room. At prefent, my re-
motenefs from the metropolis hindeis
me from citing names without permif-
fion which would fanilion this intelli¬
gence.

The circumftantial evidence of the
memorandum, united with thefe fatfls,
confirmed my belief when I publiflied
the anecdote; and, now it is publifhed,
1 ftill believe it. But, as my only view
is the d finterefted caufe of Truth, if
Mrs. Macaulay can yet be exculpated,
1 fliall be the fitft to erafe what 1 have
been the firft to write.

The refpeil due to the publick, not to
the Rev. W. G raham, has claimed this
notice. He has employed a virulence
of ftyle which the good fenfe of fame
has foftened into decency; and I wifli
that a modern Lewie may be taught
fome moderation from one whom he
calls a foil of Levi.” J. D’Israeli,

Mr. Urban, Sept. 13.

SAW lately an advertifement of a
new edition of the B'.lhop of Dro-
more’s “ Reliques of Ancient Poetry.*^
I wifti a hint to be conveyed to him
through your Magazine. In his trarif-
lation of fome Spanifli verfes, he has
rendered Rio Verde by gentle river.
Now, Rio Verde is a proper name as
much as Thames or Severn; and, more¬
over, fo far from being gentle, it is a
furious mountain torrent.

Yours, &c. Damasippus.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 14.

VERY one who receives the lame
fort of folemn pleafure as I do from
fpending now and then a leifure hour
in Weftminfter-abbey, that fplendid re-
pofitory of the illuftrious dead, muft la¬
ment that fo many of the inferiptions
are defaced by Time, and not a few of
the fculptures mutilated either by acci¬
dent or the facrilegious hand of folly,
IldS a plan for reftonng them ever been,
fuggefted ? The Dean and Chapter are
certainly not liable to this expence, and
relatives or defeendants leidorn think of
lepairing thefe memorials of their de¬
parted friends. Suffer me then to pro-
poL, through the medium of your
widely-circulating Magazine, a lub-
feription for that pui4K)fe.

To renew at leart the decayed inferip-
tions, would rel'cue from oblivion many
a worthy name, would fupply the cun-
ou? with many authentic dates and do¬
cuments.

8 i 8 Extent of CoiTica. — Charitable Donations. — W alfh’s Letters, [ Sept<r

caments, and would afford the daily
vifitors of thofe venerable ailes — 'fo ma¬
ny more incentives to tread the glorious
path, or emulate the milder virtues, of
their foiefathers.

And for this, furely, no very large
fum would be neceirary. Were a few
gentlemen to take up the matter, and to
procure an eftimate of theexpenee; it
is fcarcely to be doubted that a gejjerous
and libera! contribution would ibon en¬
able them to complete this ufeful, 1 had
almoll faid pious, work.

Yours, &c. Philotaphon.

Mr.. Urban, Sept.

^1*^0 reconcile the immen fe difference
A in length and breadth between
Bufching’s and Mr. Bofwell’s account
of the dimenflons of Corfica, P. H. in
p. 728, fuppofes chat the ‘^error’* may
arife from mi'es inflead of leagues. But
32 leagues will not amount to 150 miles,
nor 12 leagues to 53, the length and
breadth afiigned to that ifland refpec-
tively by thofe two authors. But, if it
be recoliefled that the German geogra¬
pher fpeaks of German miles, and that a
German mile is nearly equal lo five of
ours, the difference will vanifh as
32X5—160, and 12X5—60.

When was there a general return
made to Parliament by all the pariflies
of their particular charities t and how
are copies of any fuch to be obtained,
as has been done for Dorfet and Lsi-
cefterfhire p. 64.8 >

I am very curious to know how the
ffone, mentioned in p. 667, at July iS,
was ** forced to a great height in the
air” by the undermining of a iime>pit,
and requeff your correfpondcnt to ex¬
plain it.

Is it not ridiculous that a Chriftian
clergyman fhould addrefs an Ode to a
truly'Chriftiaa king wholly made up of
prayers to heathen Gods— Hygeia, Nep¬
tune, Phcsbus, and the Mules? The
excellence of the poetry cannot atone
for the abfurdity, to fay no worfe, of
the plan; nor could I read the Ode
in p. 745 without the liveiieft indigna¬
tion on that account.

. Xt has been clearly proved before the
magifiratcs that George Howe, p. 763,
killed himlelf in a fit of infanlty, aiui
^ - . ■ - - -

^ Anf. The relitfiis were made in 1786.

They have never yet been printed ; but co¬
pies of any particular pariHi, or county, may
be obtained, at the Houfe or Commons, ^by
■any refpedlable perfnu who is Willing to hQ ,
at the expcuce of a tranfcript. Euir.

that he was under compulfion at Mrs*
Hanau’s on the 15th of Auguft.

It is recorded, p. 774, that tbs Hon,
and Rev. Thomas Stopford was ele&ed
bifliop of Cork and Rofs. In Ireland
the ceremony of an ele6lion does not
rake place, as the king, inftead of iffu-
ing a conge d'Elire, appoints to a bi-
Ihoprick by patent under the great feal.

Yours, &c. L. M.

Mr. Urban, Sept.ii^.

}N perufing lately one of your Maga¬
zines, which contained a juftly-com-
mended advice of a Grecian chief to
his fon, I could not avoid remarking its
refemblance to the precept of another
hero on the like occafion. The coinci¬
dence not only of fentiments, but like-
wife expreffion, in charafters and a-
mong manners fo diffimilar, will per¬
haps excufe this notice of them.

David, king of Ifrael, after informing
his fon in very exprellive terms of hi^
approaching diffolution, proceeds :

“ Be thou ffrong, therefore, and (how
thyfelf a man.”

In a paper of the Rambler (the Cri-
ticifm on Epiftolary Writings), .the au¬
thor fays,

“ The obfervations with which Waldi
has introduced his pages of inanity, are fuch
as give him lade claim to the rank affigned
him by Dryden among the criiicks. ‘ Let¬
ters,’ fays he, ‘ are intended as refemhlances
of converfation ; and the chief excellences
of converfation are good-humour and*good
breeding.’ This remark, equally v.aluabi®
for its novelty and propriety,, he dilates and
enforces with an appearance of complete ac-
quiefcence in his own difeovery.’

But we are told, in the conclufion of
Waifh’s Life, that

To his Poems and Letters is prefixed a
very judicious Preface on epiflol.ary compofi-
tion and amorous poetry.”

How are thefe in conn dent critic! fms
to be reconciled ? By the fijff we may
believe Johnfon would have been wil¬
ling to abide. In the latter, svas he
prompted, .when difculfing the claims of
acknowledged merit, by any thing like
a. wifh of exalt ng mediocruy ? D. F.

Friend Urban,

J N thy farrago tor the eighth month^
A amcnglt other dele£lable matter, thou
d.idft put forth, by way of puzzle,- pate
for thy readers, a certain antient enig¬
matical diflich in words as foilov/eth :

Toil©

— Proceedings tn Pariiamenl^ 819

1794.] Monhi/h Verfes elucidated*

** Tolie caput, currit j ventrem conjunge, vo-
labit ; [has.”

Adde pedem, comedas ; etfine ventre, bi-
And, verily, the (lifguire, under ^vhich
the meaning thereof cunningly lurketh,
did, for fome time, not a Httie confound
my faculty of penetration ; even until,
by the gnawing of cpnfideration, I had
Ihortened every nail; an exercife which,
as thou very well knoweft-, contributeth
mightily to the foiving of literary diffi¬
culties. 1‘andem iamen ^ici. Thou
wilt, therefore, receive herewith an ex¬
planation ; which, as the fpirit of poefy
'did then move me, appears in metrical
apparel. But 1 deem it needful firll to
give thee to underfland that, in the

above lines, it hath pleafed the ingeni-'
ous propofer (whoever he w.^s, whether
monhy as thy correfpondent fuppofes, or
monkey^ is not material) to play a little
with the uord mufcatum, by him erro-
neoufly taken for muf^etn7n (or rather
mufceius ) y which fit». nifieth a fparrow-
ha<u;k, but which feidom bccurreth, in-
afmuch as it favoureth not a little of
barbarifm.

Lo ! here followeth the folution :

Musy fagiens hoftcm, timido pede currit in
antrum ;

Sole fnb ardenti mufm rroleffa volat.
Mufcatum comedas, placeat fi forte pahto

Ifte cibus : inujiuni da mihi pingue, bibam.

A Wetghtomd Nundinaliy 23 men/, nan*

PROCEEDINGS IN

H, OF COMMONS.

March in.

H E Chancellor of the Exchequer
brought in a bill for the encou-
ragement and difciplining fuch troops
and companies as fiiould voluntarily in-
rol themfelves in towns, or on the coaffs,
for the general defence of the country
at large. He faid, the bill in fa6l was
only a tranfcript of one for the. fame
purpofe in the year 1782, except with a
fmall difference, which he would ftate.
By the former bill, they were not liable
to be called upon except in a cafe of ac¬
tual invafion ; by the prefent, they might
be called out on great and imminent
danger of one j this he conceived necef-
fary, that the inland counties might
have time to march and meet the dan¬
ger if required. This bill alfo permit¬
ted the inrolment of fuch as voluntarily
chofe to aflfift the lord-lieutenant or Ihe-
riff in quelling any infurreftion in their
own or adjoining county. The bill was
then read the firft time.

H. OF LORDS.

March 28.

Lord Lauderdaky after arguing for
fome time on the illegality of levying
troops by fubfcription, moved, “ that
it is dangerous and unconftitutional to
Jevy money for public ufe by private
fubfcription, contribution, or benevo¬
lence, without the confent of Parlia¬
ment.”

Lord Han.vkejhury oppofed the motion,
and moved the previous queflion.

The iQrd Chancellor gave his opinion

PARLIAMENT, 1794.

in favour of the legality of the meafure
now under difcuffion, and gave his vote
for the previous queftion.

Several of their Lordfhips fpoke ; af¬
ter which the Houfe divided, for Lord
Lauderdale’s motion 6, proxy ij againff
it 82, proxies 21.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr,
Ryder prefented a bill for indemnifying
certain governors in the Weft Indies
for permitting commodities to be therein,
imported in foreign bottoms; which
was read the firft time.

The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Com- '
mittee of Ways and Means; and, on
the motion of the Chance liar of the
chequer ( who obferved, that the bargain
be had concluded on the prefent occa-
fion was more to the advantage of the
publick than that of laft y"€ar), came to
a refolution to grant his Majefly the
fum of 740,6661. 13s. 4d, to be raifed by
way of lottery for the prefent yearj
which was agreed to.

Mr. Sheridan prefaced a motion on
the fubjetf of ’voluntary contributions
with a fpeech of very confiderable length,
in which he contended, that the mea¬
fure reforted to by Minifters, in caufing
his Majefty to apply to his fubje61s oa
any pretext whatever for money, other-
wife than through that Houfe, was not
only diredlly againft the fpirit of the
ConftitutioD, but againft the very letter
of the ftatute law. In fubfianiiaiing
thefe allegations, he was necelfarily
obliged to go into a very minute, legal,
and hiftorical detail of the different pre¬
cedents

Parllameniary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1794.

cedents and the pra£lices which had
formerly obtained — that bore a fimili-
tude to the prefent queftion. He dwelt
particularly on the cafe of Mr. Oliver
St. John, who, in the year 1615, in the
reign of Tames I. remonftrated in the
moil conilitutional and argumentative
language againd luch a praflice, which
at that period was enforced, and for
which Mr. St. John was fentenced by
that odious court, the Star-chamber, to
a very heavy fine, and imprifcnment
during the king’s pleafure. The parti¬
cular ftatute which, he alTerted, was
dire^lly in the face of fuch a pra6lice,
was of the 13th Charles 11. which le¬
galized fuch fubicriptions at that parti¬
cular period, in limited fums, for a fpe-
cific purpofe ; and, when that was an-
fwered, the ftatute declared them to be
illegal afterwards. He concluded with
a motion to the following efte£l ; “ that,
in the opinion of the Houfe, it is a dan¬
gerous and unconftjtutional meafure for
Government to folicit money from the
people for any public purpofes, &c,
otherwife than through that Houfe.

Mr. Grey feconded the motion.

The AtloDtey General entered at large
into the queifion of legality, which he
apprehended to be involved in the pre¬
fent motion. He had always thought
the difeufiV-n of abftradt queftions im¬
proper, and that idea had guided him
in his vote on the queflion of the HefTian
troops being landed in this country ;
and, therefore, to difcufs it was impro-
er. When the prefent fubjeft was
rou"ht forward on a former night, he
confdfed that what he heard furprized
film. He did not decide in his own
mind, however, until he had examined
the fubjea; but, having done lo, he
owned his furpnze was increafed in-
flead of being diinmillied, that gentle¬
men Ihould now hold dodfiines fo oppo-
fite to what bad palled in the year 1782 ;
and he delated the ingenuity of man to
Haew that the prelent meafure was dif¬
ferent from the meafures taken by Mi-
laiders in 1782, ip the light in which
gentlenitn on the other fide endeavoured
to place it \ and he would undertake to
Ihew, that the opinions of Lords Cam¬
den, Aihburton, and others (to whom
ire paid very handlome compliments),
on the caieof 177^, did not in the ieall
degieP apply to the cale now in quef-
ti-n He concluded by moving the
previous qufliipn.

■ Mr. I'oivys feconded the Attorney*
general’s moiipn. H9 cuiiceiyed it it-

gal to give, but not to receive, fubferip-
tion«, until Parliament had authorized
them,

Mr. Fox fupported the original motion,

Mr. Wyndham fpoke againft it.

At two o’clock in the morning the
quell ion was claroouroully called for;
when there appeared for the previous
queflion 204, againft it 34.

H. OF LORDS.

March 3 1 .

Heard Mr. Grant in a Scotch appeal.

In the Commons, the fame day, a
bill was ordered, to continue the Slave¬
carrying bill.

A new writ was ordered for Cam¬
bridge, in the room of Lord Eufton, ap-*
pointed Ranger of the Parks,

H. OF LORDS,

April I.

The Houfe in a Committee W'ent
through the alien and the whale-fifhery
bills, and received from the Commons
the new militia bill.

In the Commons, the fame day, upon
the motion for the order of the day, for
the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Com¬
mittee upon the bill for regulating the
volunteer afToclations for the defence of
this country, Mr. Francis wiflied to
know, whether this bill was to operate
as a precluhon of the abftra£l queltion,
wliich bas been fo much, agitated cf late,
ie(pe6ling benevolences ?

T'he Chancellor of the Exchequer faid,
there was nothing contained m the bill
which applied to the (ul)je6l whatever.
At the lame time he had no hefitation
to repeat his former afleition on the le¬
gality of fuch fubferiptiens, as applica¬
ble to the eftablifliment of forces to be
approved of by Parliament.

Mr. Adair declared he would

propofe a ciaufe in the bill to legalize
fuch iubferiptions.

The Chancellor of theFxcbequer^ con-
fKlering fuch a ciaufe as fupeifluous, ex-
pielPcd bis determination to oppofe it.

1 lie Hou^e then rtlolved itfelf into
the Committee, Mf. Hobart in the
chair; when

Tlie Chancellp' of the Exchequer fub-
mittec leveraf clauies, which were dif-
culfed at cocraderable length. The re¬
port was received, and ordered to be
taken into conlideration on Friday, and
the l>ill to he printed in the interim,
which was agreed to.

H. 0^

Parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons /« 1794, S21

H. OF LOR D S.

April 2,

The whale-fifhery and the calllco bills
were read the third time, and palTed.

Heard counfel on the adjourned ap¬
peal, Aglionby ^erfus Maxwell,

In the Commons, the fame day, the
prize fhips and the Norfolk llland judi-
<ature bills were prefented the firftiime,

H. OF LORDS.

April 3.

Lord Ha'wkeJhury 'wiixo^MCtik a bill for
the revival of the flipping navigation
a6l, which was read the hrll: time.

In the Commons, the fame day, Major
jkf/a/V/flW'laid, he iuppofed the Cliancel-
lor of the Exchequer would have no ob¬
jection to the motion he was about to
}>ave the honour of fubmitting to the
Houfe; that the official accounts pub-
liffied in the Gazette, refpeCting the laft
campaign, might be printed for the ule
of the members of that Houfe. Tims
ColleCfed in one vievq gentlemen would
find it lefs difficult to compare and draw
their conclufions from them. It was
his intention to follow up this motion
with another; namely, a return of all
the guns', ammunition, and (lores, which
the Britiffi troops left behind them on
their retreat from Dunkirk, and their
evacuation of Toulon. Every man in
France was aiready in pollefiion of this
information, and it could not therefore
lead to any mifchief to withhold it from
the Houfe. The Major then moved,
that an hunable addrefs be prefented to
Ids Majcfty, that he would be gracioufly
pleafed to give direiflions that there be
laid before that Houfe, copies or extradls
of the return of the guns and military
Bores left by the Britiffi troops on their
retreat from Dunkirk, and on the eva¬
cuation of Toulon.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer con¬
ceived the motion unnecellary, and com¬
bated it on that ground.

Sir Jame$ Murray faid, that when the
refolution of retreating from Dunkirk
was adopted, it was fo haftily purfued,
that it wa.- impoffible to give a better ac¬
count of the lofs than he had done in the
Gazette alluded to. He took it from the
commander of the a< tillery, and he be¬
lieved it would not be found to vary
much from the real lofs, on comparifon
with a more accurate ftatement.

Mr. Gnj faid, in ail former wars it

had been ufual to prefent monthly ac¬
counts to the Houfe of the killed and
wounded. — The queftion was negatived
without a divifion.

H. OF LORDS.

April 4.

The royal affienr was given by com-
million to 13 public and 3 private bills.

The order of the day, for the Lords
to he fummoned, being read;

E.trl Stanhope rofe, and, after having
touched on a variety of recent occurren¬
ces, and animadverted with great vehe¬
mence on the horrid and atrocious pro-
pofition of exciting infurre^lions in
France, his Lorciffiip concluded by read¬
ing a long refolution, the fubllance of
which was, any interference by the Mi-
nifters of this country in the internal af¬
fairs of France would meet with the clif-
approbation of that Houfe. His realon
for bringing his motion forward in the
ffiape of a refolution was, that it might
remain on the journals of the Houfe.

Lord Grenvtlie, in the BrongeB terms,
exprelled his difapprobation of the motion.

After d few words from the LordCban^
cellar^ the refolution was negatived with¬
out a divibon.

I.ord Gren'ville then moved, that k
might be expunged from the journals,
which was agreed to.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
Houle refolved itfelf into a Committee,
Mr. Beaufoy in the chair.

Mr. Dundas, in a moft able fpeech,
called the attention of the Houfe to the
Btuation of the affairs of the EaB India
Company. He faid, that, as he did not
fee thofe Gentlemen prefent who ufual ly
attended when he opened his budget, to
nuke their ohfervations upon it, he fup-
poled they were perfe6tlv (atished with
the accounts which he had laid before
the Hou'e. He then proceeded, in the
muB accurate manner, to Bate the va¬
rious particu'ars of the revenues and ex-
pences of the various prefidencies in In¬
dia. In the courfe of his fpeech he paid
fome very elegant compliments to the
condufl of Marquis Cornwallis in India,
both as a Batefman and foldier; rh,e
whole of which was fuch as refle6Ied
e([ual luBre on his vvifdorn and integrity.
Mr. Dundas, having drawn a moB fa¬
vourable view of the Bate of the reve¬
nues and affairs in India, concluded
with moving feveral yefolutions, which
were agreed to.

H. OF

F arltam&ntary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1794.

822

H. OF LORDS.
oipril 7.

Karl hancUrdaU was not, he faid, in
his place when a motion rhade on Fruiay
iaft was aeitated ; but rumour had cold
him of one of the moft extraordinary
proceedings he had ever heai d -- that of
a noble Lord on the vvooU'cck putting
the queftion only on 6ne part of that
motion, and difregavding the relf.

Earl Carnar'Zfon dthnded the propriety
of the con<:la£t o^ the Houfe, and faid
the learned Lord affed by the unanimous
concurrence oqall the Lords prefent, but
one.

The Bifitop of ilochejler defended the
Chancellor, and Lid, had the nob e Earl
been prefent, he alfo muft have repro¬
bated the fcandalous preamble that fo
juftly was expunged from the journals,

Earl Stanhope defended the piopriety
of his motion, and' faid,x^hac the conduct
of the Chancellor irregular ^ atro¬

cious, and infamous.

The Chancellor ordered the words to
be taken down.

Earl Stanhope cried out to mind that
he laid If

The Biilrop of Kochefer moved that
the bar be cleared ; and all ftrangers
were ordered to withdraw : but it is un-
derflood, that, on explanation being
made, the matter was dropped.

in the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
'Rofe prefented the lottery hill, which
was read the hrft time.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved
for a bill to enable Frenchmen to enlift
as foldiers in certain regiments on the
Continent, and to enable his Majefty to
grant comniidioRS to French officers, to
be paid by this country, d'liele troops
are never to be landed in England but
for the fake of rendezvoufing, and then
to be confined to a certain fpecified dif-
lii£l;. Thofe who were to beenbfied in
this country were not to be formed into
corps here, but immediately fenc to the
Coruinent.

After fome very ffiort obfervations
from two or three membeis, the motion
was put and earned.

The volunteer corps bill was read the
third time. Bdr. Serjeant Adair moved
a claufe to legalize the fubferiptions
through the country.

Mr, Sheridan feconded the motion.

Sir Pepper Arden oppofed the recep¬
tion of the claufe, on the ground that it
implied a doubc of the legality of the
fubferiptions. The claufe was negatived
,withouc a divifion, and the bill paffed.

H. OF LORDS.

April 8.

The Marquis of L nnfdowne, after a
ffiort preface, 'moved for the produffioa
of the circular letter addrefl'ed to the
lords lieutenants of the counties, &c. in'
lySi, fuggefiing the mode of putdng the
country in a pofiure of defence, againft
an invafion. The motion being nega-'
tived without a divifion, the noble Mar¬
quis next moved for all the anfwers to
that circular letter; on w'hi h the Houfe
divided. Contents i3, Non Contents 56.

Lord Lauderdale, according to his
promife, entered into the proceeding of
the Houfe on Friday laO, on the motion
of his noble friend, Lord Stanhope; and
Hated the cafe to be, that between the
time of the motion being made by hi^
noble friend and the time of its being
put by the Chancellor, a part of that
motion, was dropped, fo as to be read ta
the Houfe in a mutilated and garbled
Hate. Being decidedly of opinion, that
no motion or amendment could be de¬
termined by the Houfe but by colIe£ling
their votes as contents or non-contents^
he moved a refolution to that effeff.

Lord Tburlonv perfefiliy concurred
with the noble Earl in all he had faid
refpe£fing the neceffiev and propriety of
obferving the form of the Houfe, and
how much the dignity, authority, and
privileges of its members depended
thereon ; but, on the other hand, he
contended, that the Houfe were not
obliged to bear with infults, and allow
them to be recorded in their journals.
His Lordfiiip (aid, he w^duld move the
previous queHion,

Earl Carnarvon infilled that the a-
mendment was regularly, put by the
Chancellor, and received the unanimous
vote of the Houfe ; the noble mover
himfelf alTented to it. it was true, he
lamented the fate of his deceafed off springs
but folloived the remains of it to the grave f
and fang a Jolemn requiem on it.

The Earl of Cdrltjle fupported the pro¬
ceeding of the Chancellor, as it was the
unanimous vote of the Houfe.

Earl Stanhope dtitndtd his refolutions>
and wifiied fome noble Lord would move
that they might be reHored ; and con¬
cluded by faying, that, if the Speaker of
the Houfe of Commons had omitted to
put the motion in the words given by the
mover, he would have had his nvig pulled
ojfhts head, and kis govun torn from his
back. The previous queHion was car¬
ried without a divifion.

(To be continued.)

Mr.

1^94*1 Mifcellaneous Remarh far September, 1794.

Mr. Urban, Sept.ix,

OUR correfponc]ent T. W. p. 620,
col. 1, may be rcfer-red to Mr.
Bofwell’s fecond edition of his “ Life of
Dr. Johnfon,”' Hi. 467, motey or to
“ The principal Corre6lioas and Addi¬
tions to the JifJl Edition” [fee your Ja~
nitary Magazine, p. 60], for another
fatisfa6lory vindication of the paffage
obje6fed to in cur Burial Service.

P. 600, col. 2, 1. 47, read “ Fop’s;”
and p. 603, col. 2, 1. 7, for “ laE’* read
“February.”

P. 638 — 641. Your infertion of Mr.
Cleghoin’s valuable paper, defcribing
his repeated ufe of vinegar as the moft
powerful remedy for burns and fcalds,
ftrongly proves your benevolence as
well as his. T^Ir. May, however, in
p. 1076 of your lall volume, feems not
to confider this prefcription as of equal
efficacy with, cold water. Let the. Fa¬
culty decide. It would be kind if fome
of them would alfu decide, whether the
famous Scots Pills of Dr. Anderfon,
fold by Inglilh, arc of exa6fly the fame
nature with thofe fold by Dicey ; and,
if there be any difference, which are the
moft falutary-

P. 6S5, col. r, read “Maclaine;” as
alfo in the title-page. \

P. 688, col. 2. S. E. may find Eiffiop
Lloyd’s letter already piintecl in Mr.
Gutch’s “ Colleftanea Cunofa,” I. 253
— 269, No. XXVT.

P. 689, col. 2. The book, “ for the
favourable reception” of which good
Dr. Hales exprtffes his obligation to
Bifhop Hildefley, was “ A Treatife on
Ventilators. Part fecond. Lond. 1758.”
The firft Part appeared in 174; under
the title of “ A Defcription of Venti¬
lators.” In both of thefe publications
he dwel Is much upon the pernicious ef-
fe£ls of drams, to which he refeis in
this letter “ written ^ifourfcore.'^

P. 700, col. I. li, “the Hon.’’ ffiould
be eraled ; and for “ How” we ffiould
read “ Howe,” according to f^sy copy of
the fecond edition of his admirable
book. In p. S4 of your January Ma¬
gazine you have recorded the deftrudficn
of h IS manfton at Gretvvorth, in North-
amptonfliire, by fire. In the church
there, on a white marblet tablet, is this
infcription :

“ This monunnent was ere.ffed by Cliarles
Uowe, cfq. in memory of ins dcareft wife,
El I AN OR, relidt of Sir Henry Deiing, knt.
who was foie daughter and heirefs of Sir
VViHiam bargiter, of Gnitworch, and of
Iltanor, defeeaued of the family of tire

823

Gnifes, in Gloucefterffiire. After her
hufband’s deceafe W'ithout iffue, ffie was
married to Mr, Howe, by whom fhe had
three fons and three daughters, of whom
Leonora Maria is the only cliild that fur-
vived her. Her other five children are bu¬
ried with her in a vault in this church. Sh«
was born the ^th of May, 1665. She die<i
the 25th of July, 1696.”

From Mr. Howe’s 105th Meditation,
it appears that he was born in the year
1661 j as it does, from the Sift, that
he had “ built a convenient and pleafant
houfe.” Can any of vour correfpond-
ents tell the name of his daughter’s
hufband ? Was not Dr. George Macau¬
lay, who married his grand-daughter,
afterwards the hufband of the farrious
Hiftorian noticed in p. 685 ? Did not he
become acquainted with his firft wife
by having redded, as a pradfitioner ia
phyfick, in the neighbourhood of her
grandfather } fSee p. S24.J

P. 715, col. 2. The infcription under
the print of “ Sir Richard Staepooie”
occurs in Mr. Granger’s fourth odlavo.,
p. 359, 60; where the print itfelf is
thus defenbed : “in armour; Seguha-
p. from a profile on a monument ? James
Watfon f. large h. ffi. mczz. From a
private plats, belonging to Mr. Stac-
poole, Grofvenor-place, VVeftminfter.’*

P. 74 L col. 2, 1. 18, place a period
after “command;” and the remainder
of the paragraph after “ Sermons” iu
line 22. In lines 45, 46, for “the
New” read “ Dr. Neve’s.”

P. 742, col. 1, 1. 2, 3, read “ Lu¬
cian;” and in 1. 5, after “ Arnobius’”
add “Aufonius;” and read “Bnxius;’*
and in line 8 add anofher reference to
your vol, LXIIl. p. 796, 7.

P. 768, col, I, i. 29, for “Farthing-
flon” read “ Farningho which, ac¬
cording to Bridges’s Hiftory of the
county, is “now generally called Far-
thingho.” Scrutator.

Mr. Urban, Sept, it,

686. Aglionby, D.D. of Cum-
, be I land, is the fame perfon tiiat is
mintioned in the Scots Encyclopaedia.

P. 688. Bifficp Lioyol’s letter to Mr*
Thomas Price, of Llanvyilen, concern¬
ing Jeffrey of Monmouth’s Hilhry, &c.
from the MS. in BiOiop Tanner's Col-
lefftion in the Bodleian library, is pub-
liffied in Gurch’s CoUettanea CurtoJ'ay
vol. I. No. XXVI. p. 253; printed at
Oxford, lySi.

P. 689, ), 22, r. Macbar.

P. 700. 1 have befoic me the fourth

euuioa

MifceUamom Index Indicatorlus# fS^pt.

edition of Mr. Howe’s “Devout Medi¬
tations,” printed at London, in 177^, for
XVi lion and Nicpl, Cadell, &c. in which
the author is ftyled (as he ought to he)
fimply Charles Howe, efq. in aniwer
TO your c^uery as to the author’s family,

I inform you, that he was the third fou
of John Gruhham HfAve, of Langar, in
Nottinghamfhire, by his wife Annabella,
third natural daughter and co>heire(s of
Emmanuel, earl of Sunderland, Lord
Scrope of Bolton, whofe eldeft imi. Sir
Scrope Howe, was created Vilcount
Howe, of the kingdom of Ireland, and
was grandfather of the prefent earl; and
his fecond fon, John Gruhham Howe, of
Stowell, in Gloucefferfhire, efq. was fa¬
ther of |ohn, created Lord Chedworth.
Mr. Charles Howe left one daughter and
heirefs, ^Leonora Maria, married to Peter
'Bathurlf, efq. next brother to Allen,
the firft Earl Bathurfl;, by whom he had
two daughters ; of whom the eldefl, Le¬
onora, was married to Dr. George xViac-
au-ay, who, in 1760, married to his fe¬
cond wife the celebrated Mifs Katharine
Sawbridge.

P. 7Z7, b. 1. 54, forGilbertr. Guilford.

P. 728, a. 1. 21, r. MoJ/ceaux.

lb. f. 39, r. ferudf/e.

Being always thankful for informa¬
tion, I am obliged to you, Mr. Urban,

what 50U tell us, p. 744, concerning
Dr. Holmes’s collation of the LXX
Verfion j but it appears to me very ex¬
traordinary, that nos the fmallcfl; pains
feem to have been ever taken to obtain
iubfcriptions in. London. 1 have never
feen, either in your Magazina (I fhould
have thought a very likely and proper
place for literary information), or in any
other periodical publication, either daily
or monthly, any account either of the
quantum of the fublcripiion, or of the
mode in which, or the perfons to whom,
it was to be paid. If thele particulars
were publicly known, I believe that,
even in thefe limes of uneafincls, appie-
henfion, and expence, lome perfons might
be found who would willingly contri¬
bute, as far as in them lay, toward the
forwarding of lo good a work.

P. 749, a. 1. ult. r. “ With verdant
heau<y,'' r\ot bounty.

P. 764, a, George, not the ^tb but the
Earl Waltlegiave, left, if my ac¬
count be cont£f, a daughter 3 George,
the 5th and lalt eari ; John J.ime?, the
hxih and prefent earl, b. rn .July 30,
1785 3 and a third ft n ; befuks a Itcond
d-aug?lrt r, born about fix weeks after her
father’s death*

P. 771, b. The lady of James Jeffe¬
ries, efq- was Elizabeth, daughter of
Col. William Colby, and widow of Lord
Augullus Fitzroy, by whom fhe was
mother of the Duke of Grafton, and
Lord Southanipton.

Looking into your Magazine in con-
fequence of the death of the late Sir Jas,
Johnflone, of Wefterhall, hart. I was
lurprized to find thde you feem totally to
have overlooked the death of his third
brother, Gov. Johnflone *. his marriage
on Jan. 31, 1782, you have recorded;
but his death, which happened at Brikol
Hot Wells, May 24, 1787, I can find
no mention of. If Sir James be dead
without male iffue, and Ins next brother,
Lieut. Col. Alexander Johnflone, be
alfo dead without male ifiue, then his fe¬
cond brother, William Pulteney, efq,
according to the alfeition in the papers,
undoubtidly fucceeds 3 and, in calc of
his death without male ifiue, the title
Will devolve to the only fon or his next
brother the Governor, whom he left at
his deceafe about four years old, E.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

We purpofely omit feveral letters received
relative to the Adi for regulating the London
Militia. Approving, as every good Suhjedt ,
nuift, the general principles of that Adi, as
placing the defence of the City in tire mofi
confiitutional hands, its own Militia, w'e aie
not blind to tire little blemifhes which deform
it 5 and which, v,»e truft, the good fenfe of
the Corqwation will induce them to apply
to Parliament for abilUo explain and amend.

An Antiq^u ARiAN Traveller, who
has heaial much of “ tire ability and induf-
try” oi the Rev. Rob ERT Smith, Reclorof
VVooi:>SToN, but has never met with any of
his works in print, wifires for foure account
of Iris life and writings.

A lincere Admii'er of the excellent Mr.
Melmoth, tranflat r of Pliny, Ciceri', and
editcor of Sir Thomas Fitzofborne’s Letters,
wilhes to have fome account of fo refpei5l.v
hie a man. Is he the publifirer alfo of Sir
George or Sir Chtirles Beaumont’s Mifcellany.

E. adcs Mr. Holt the meaning of the
word Eddish, p. 682, 1. 6. from bottom.

For the admonition of “ An Old Friend’^
we are, as we ought to he, thanfkul.

Mr. H. Clew, of Birmingham, ir.ay fave
himfelf the trouble of fencing a nrontlrly
packet; as the Pofi -office very honourably
returns the pofiage of impertinent letters.

Tire Notes on jENNiNos are received.

R’s Salop Drawing is with the Engraver,
and flrall be ufed as foon as pcffible; with
thofeof H. of Manchester, Pictor,.&c.

Albanicus in uur irext; with R W’s

Paraphrase on Virgil ; S. K ; &c. 5cc.

137. Pof-

37 94-]

Review of New Puhlicaiiom.

137. Polwhele’s IVtjlory of Devonfliii e,

( Continued from p. 734,^*

INCE our review of Mr. P’s fecond
volume of Devonfliire, we under-
Pand, that, “ wlutever was interefiing in
Jntiquity, Hijlory^ ManufaSitfre, titij-
hanc/ryy Commerce.^ See. as vvcll as Natu^
ral Hiftory, he pterpofely ihr€<w out from
his collections for each parlfh ; refervin^
all thele fubjeifs for dtfiinSi difcufjions or
dijfertations, fuch as will com pole the
firtt volume,” The excraCts from his
lecond volume, promiled in our laft
month’s Magazine, vvi 1 fliew that it
contains many entertaining particulars,
and fervs as a fpecimen of what we may
expeCt from the reft,

Teignmouth lies at the bottom of a large
‘bay, formed by two promontories, the Note
•on the Welt, and Portland on the Eaft. U
is bounded on the VVeft, North, and Eaft,
by the parifhes of Bifliopileignton and Daw-
lilh, and on the Soutli by tlie Englilh chan¬
nel and the river Teigir: its length from
Eaft to Weft is about two mile?, and its
greateft breadth about one mile and a half.
It is fituated on a very gentle declivity,
riiing gradually from the channel and river
Teign, and is fheltered fronn the bleak
Northerly and Norch-Eafterly winds by a
chain of hills at the back of the town,
which alfo guard it from the effects of thnn-
der-ftorms. The town is divided into two
parilhes by the bw)ok called Tame. Tlwre
are fome beautiful views round this place,
efpecially from the Weft part of the Den,
From the point of Haldoa, as we enter the
inclofures, we are prefented with a view of
Torbay to the W^eft, tiie ifle of Poi tland to
the Eaft, and the Sidmoutli and Lyme
cliffs', togetlier with the two navigable ri¬
ver?, the Exe and the Teign.” p. 146.

“ DanvU/h. This parifh (the fhape of
which is very irregular) is about four miles
in length. On Dawliih ftrand there is 3
handldme row of new buillings, very plea-
fantly htuated. They are about twelve in
mimher, calculited for the temporary r fi-
dence of genteel families. DawUdi has been
long a w'aiering- place of deferved reputa¬
tion. It hath every cojivenieucy for bathing ;
the air is remarkably fahibrious; tiie houfes,
of every defeript on, are good, from the
manfion hou'e to t!\e neat and pidfureuiue
cottage j tlie town is clean and wholloitse,
and watered with fine refrelhing Ipriiigs 5
and tlie walks and rides around it are ex¬
tremely romantic.” p. 151.

“ Prince calls Exmouth ‘ a fmall hamlet.'’
And, in truth, it was no other than an in-
confi'.ierable fi!hing-town, till one of the
judges of the circu;t, in a very infirni ftate
of iiealtl), went thither to bathe, and r«-
G t N T . M A G . Sept ember f ^ 7 94*

celved great benefit from the place. This
haiipened about a century ago; which
brought Rxmouth into repute, firft with
the people of Exeter, and gradually with
the whole county — I might add, indeed,
with the whole ifiand ; fince Exmouth is
not only the oldeft, bur, in general, the beft-
frequented watering-place in Devonftiire.
It is furnifhed with every accommodation
neceffary to a watering-place. In the mean
time, the beauties of Exmouth itfeif are
fuch as require not tlie autliority of a judge
of the circuit to recommend them. Ten
miles South from the city of Exeter, it lies
near the fea lliore between the cliffs, which
open, as it were on purpofe, to receive it.
It is well fheltered from the North-eaft and
South-eaft winds by fome high lulls, which
rife almoft clofe behind it, and which fup-
ply the place w'ith excellent water. It
fronts the North and Sourh-weft, w'hich
points extend from the city to the Berry-
head, being a line including, by eftimation'
about twenty miles. Some of the houfes are
detached from the main groupe towards the
Wed, and again to the Nortli. The build¬
ings, in general, are low and incommodious;
but here and there are fome good houfes, in¬
habited by genteel families, wdrich, of late,
have m.ide Exmonth their conftant refi-
dehce, and liave now the pieafure of meet¬
ing in a good aflemhly-room. The walks
are delightfully pleafant, commanding views
worthy the pencils of the bell mafters.
From a hill called Chapel-hill the eye is
prefented with the line before-mentioned,
broken by feveral gentle hills, that gradually
afeend from the coaft on the oppofite fide
of the river, and are covered with lively
verdure and woody inclofures — the village
of Starcrofs Ikirting their bottoms. Behind
thefe lulls fpring up fome bopr towering
headlands, of varied ffiapes and unequal
heights; through wliicli the eye is ftill Jed
to difitint objedls of various kinds, w'oo iy
fumm its, and barren rocks, gradually dimi-
nifhing, fo as to form a complete laadfcape.
What greatly adds to the beauty of this view
is the tafte Ihewnin the piaritatinns of Loi d
Lifburue and Lord Courtenay, u Jiofe ilobie
feats alfo heighten the grandehr of the loene.
Nur muft we omit to meritiou the lofty o'^e-
lilk, and two magnificent Belvideie-' — one
of ttiem lately eredfsd by Sir Robert Palk,
which aie not only great ornarneots, bur
ferve as landmarks to the pilotage \)f tlie
river. Turning <,ur‘eyes towards the fea,
we have a view of the ocean (comman Mng
an extenfive horizon from the Beny-iiead
far to the Eaftward), and of every velfel
that palfes to Torbav, Brixham, Teign-
niouth, Dawliih, Topfham, and Exeu-r.
On this hill lome bniidings were lately be¬
gun, under the patronage of Mr. RoUe, of
Bidlon, according to a long- projected plan
which, wiieu cuniplstely earned into execu¬
tion.

S26 RevUw of New Publications*

tion, will be a beautiful addition to the place.

1 l^ave mentioned the wrjlhs, in general, as
furni<'hing us with pleahuU views. But the
country at the back of Exmouth is rather
difagreeaHcj from the narrowiiefs and
roughnefs of the roads, which; in truth, are
bad on every account, having very high
hedges on each fide of them, and being of a
crumbling gravelly ftratu '-, and covered on
the furface with loofe ftones. The air of
this place is remarkably mild; which is
proved, indeed, by the frelh verdure of luxu¬
riant trees that border upon the water ;
though, in moft fituations fo near the fea,
vegetation is vifibly checked. Exmouth is,
umloubtedly, fo favourable to perfoua la¬
bouring under confnmptive diforJeis, efpe-
cially thole who have felt the hi ft attack in
an inland fituation, that many have expe¬
rienced the good effect of a winter-refulence
in this place ; owing, moft probably, to its
feeing ftieltered from the Eafteriy wind,
%vhich has often been known to increafe the
cough, and occafion fudden and fatal he¬
morrhages, in watering-places not enjoying
this advantage. The rocks afford an abun-.
dance of fea-ore, and other marhie produc¬
tions, ferviceable to agriculture and medi¬
cine, which may be had at the expence only
of colledting them.” p. 215.

Of Sidmoufh, the moft antient name was
Sidemonth. This parifli is partly inclofed
with hedges, and, in fome places, well-
wooded. The elm is its rnoft flourifhing
tree. The farm-lioufes are built of cob and
flone, and have roofs of thatch, compact and
neat, amidft fmall gardens and large orchards.
The farms are fmall, and each farm is divided
into a number of little fields, in a good ftate
of cultivation. The town of Sidmouth is
fituated amidft two hili=, at the mouth of
the river Sid, on a bay of the Englilla chan¬
nel, between Exmouth and Lyme Regis,
about eleven miles South-eaft of Exeter.
Though embofomed in this manner by hills,
Sidmouth hatii, yet, a fine open profotiSl of
the fea. As a watering-place, Sidraoutli de¬
serves attention. Jt is much frequented by
people of faflrion, rxear 300 yearly j and
there is a conftant fuccelTion of company.
With refpeft to their accommodation, Sid-
inouth can boaft an elegant ball-room, and,
on the beach, a commodious tea-room and
Hied, frequented by ladles as well as gentle¬
men. Nor ought we to overlook the new
livery-ftables neatly oppofite the London
inn, a neat circular building, vyith a foun¬
tain in the centre. Several good private
bpufes have been lately erefted in this town.
But Sidmouth is not efteemed merely as the
reforc of people whole purfuit is pleafure.
It is very commonly recommended to iiwa-
lids, particularly to thofe who are affedted
by confumptions, as many of the faculty
tliink this fituation equal to the South of
France.” p. 232.

138, The rational and Improved Pra&ice of
ihjyfick By William Rowley, M. D.
Member of the Univerjity of Oxford, the
Royal i.ollege of Bhyjiciqns in Londpn, and
Phyf.ctan to the St. Mary-la Bonne Injir-'
maryy cs^r. ksd.c. In Four Volumes.

THESE elegant volumes contain new
editions, v/ith conh(<!erah!e improve¬
ments, of the principal works which the
author hath publillied or written during
thefe laft thirty years, except the Schola
Medictna; univertalis nO'VUy a work in'
Latin, nearly ready for publication, con¬
taining the anaiomv, phyfiology, and
fpecial pathology, &c, of the human
body, embtilslhed with above 60 cop¬
per-plates.

In the firft of the prefent volumes are
treatifes on female, pervous, hyllerical,
bilious, and cancerous difeafes ; and let¬
ters on the dangerous tendency of medi¬
cal vapity, the abufe of hemlock, opium,
&c. ; in which is found a remarkable
cure of a cancerous v/omb, ulcer of the
rectum, &c. with the preferiptions which
proved efficacious.

In the lecorid volume are treatifes on
madnejs, Juicide, &c. ; and a ffiort per¬
formance on the definitions of mental
difeafes, proving, that the alarming affec¬
tion of bis Majefty w'as not infanity, as
fuppoied by many, but ftriilly a fevtrifli
fymptomatic del rium.

“ It may be obferved,” fays the author,
that the concluding fsiitence of the book
written at the time has been verified,— -that
the diforder was not niadnefs^ a:nd the cure
would he pernlanent. It is hoped,” he adds,
“that the affertionof this important truth, fo
interalting to the royal family and the na¬
tion, will not be confiJered unneceffary by
thofe who refledl on the many ferious con-
fequences attending that alarming event.”

It I'eems, by fome expreffions in thii
effay, that tiie author created a few ene¬
mies amongd the faculty at the Weft
end of the town on the occsflon, which
might be naturally expe£fed. However
that may be, he will always fiand high
in the eflirnation of every learned, un¬
prejudiced reader and loyal fubjedf, for
the manly fpirit he has exhibited in ad^
vancing truths Vv'hich mav, in future,
prevent errors in determining the fate of
thofe who may have a temporary de¬
rangement of tlie mind from ner-vous Je~
^er, (kc. The author fays, “ wherever
fi^ver exifls in anv temporary mental de¬
rangement, the diforder is not madnefsi
for, madnefs is a long-continued derange¬
ment of the mind ojotihout Jeverd* ,Ii^
this pare there ^re proper tj^ue.Qions for

juries

1794-1

u*ries when rliey make enquiries for the
xirpofes of ftatutes of lunacy. What is
idvanced on thefe fui)jefts is precife,
leai icd, and, we believe, irrefutable.

In this iecond volume are likewife
treatifes on convulfions and rpafius, le-
:hargy, apoplexy, and palfy, the dif¬
ferent fpecjes of the gout, their caufes
and rational treatment, with the excel¬
lent fcffe61s of the marine acid in fits of
the gout; which the author has, fucceff-
fullv ufed many years for mitigating the
painful fymptoms of that laft-mentioned
diforder. This w'ork on the gout ex-
pofes many fallacies concerning that
grievous difotder, and teaches the ar-
thritics what they may expe6l from the
inoft Ikilful medical and dietetic treat¬
ment. Next, obfervations on dogs fup-
fofed mad are delivered ; an entire new
produfilion, which throws new and clear
light on that horrid alfei^ion. It is fully
proved, that no dog was ever mad ; the
hifiories on this ruhje61: have been often
fallacious, the treatment hath been irra¬
tional, and new methods are propofed
for the prevention and cute of the dil-
eafe that has been fo alarming in all
The author’s method of treat-
ment is, firfl to tie a tape, garter, or li¬
gature, very tightly above the wound
iTiade by the animal ; then to make an
incifion above the bice, to cleanle the
wound with foap and water, or water
alone, which is to be kept difcharging.
Dipping in the fea, ,ihe Ormfkirk and
other celebrated remedies, are (hewn to
be inadequate to any purpofes of cure;
for, the Do61:or proves the diforder of
the dog to he a putrid fever fui generis^
of an infefilious nature, and what has
been called madnefs is merelv the _/!?-
verijh phrentzy^ or delirium. Internally
is recommended tonics, both as a preven¬
tive and cure ; amongfl; which, hark, the
vitriolic acid, and aromaticks, claim the
preference. For a farther acquaintance
with this valuahle treaiife we muff refer
cur readers to the work itfelf, which is
written with that independent fpiric and
judgement which are Itrikingiy fliewn in
molt of the writings of this experienced
and learned phyfician.

in the thiid volume is a treatife on
ii8 d’ieafes of the eyes, with fix well-
engraved plates, exhibiting tlie doctrine
of v.fion. This vvoik (which We have
lately noticed feparateiv, p. 648) well
luetits the attention of all furgeons who
wiO'. to know the errors univerfally prac-
tded in trea-ting difcales of the eyes, as
likewife what tne experienced author fays

82?

in his improved treatment of inflamma-
tions, fidula lachrymalis and all the fpe-
cies of partial or total blindnefs. Sic. Ic
is methodically and logically arranged,
under heads agrerahly to the anaiomv and
phyfiology of vihon ; with a chapter on
thejudiciou' application of fpe^lacles to
remedy variou.s defetls of fight.

To this volume is added a fhort trea-
tlfe, containing all that has ever been
known in medical eleifiricity. This is
entirely new, and explains all the ra¬
tional modes of tle6infving, with the
diforders in which elediricity may be
ufcful. The reafons are given why the
nervous ate fo low-l'pirited when a
Nortb-eajierly or ‘Eaperly wind blow,
which deprives the air of the eleoliic
fluid, and induces Tome to commit fui-
cide. Thefe are likewife fome curious
obfervations on the ufe of eledlricity ia
pulmonary confumptions ; for which,
however, the author is of opinion, that a
voyage to the Weft Indies is the moft
certain cure of that Englifti malady,
which deftrovs in this country fo many
thoufands annually.

The fourth volume commences with
a treatife on the cure of fwelled and
ulcerated legs ; which fub-
je£l has undergone many improvements
fince the original publication in 1769.
In this work it is proved, that all fur-
rrer doctrines on the fubjedf, delivered
by Sharpe and others, are erroneous ; that
ulcers may injure the conliitution by the
abforption of injurious matter: many
thoufands of cures, fays the author, have
confirmed the excellent utility of the
doflrines here advanced, performed on
perfons who had been lame with fores
from one to twenty or thirty years.

The next is a treatife on the malignant
ulcerated lore throat; to vvhich is added,
the caufes of deaths in the putrid, hofpi-
tal, jail, fcarlet fevers, &c. ; which the
author attributes to the injudicious ufe
of cooling i'dline remedies, bleeding, &c.
in the commencement of thefe com¬
plaints : and he recommends bark, the
acid of vitriol, cordials, and wine, from
the beginning to the termination of thefe
dangerous fevers ; and he confirms the
utility of tile praftite fiy proving, tnat
not above 5 in 100 have died at the St.
Mary -la- Bonne infirmary ; wheieas, by
an tftimate made by the author in his
various navels through Europe, and in
the Weft Ir.d les and America, above 6a
or 70 pcriflr in 100 by the ohliinate per-
feverance in old errors ; which, the au-
ihoi oblcrves, are with g^rcat difficulty

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eradicated Then follows medical ad¬
vice to the armv and navy ierving in
European or hoc climates, with Eiiglifh
piefcriptions ; obfervations on gun-lhot
wounds, and the necefhty of an early
amputation in hot climates ; a tract on
the yellow fever. Had aur author’s
methods been well known lately at Phi¬
ladelphia, perhaps forne thoufands of
lives might have been faved, as likewife
in the plague of Eaflern countries. This
may be conlidered an excellent family-
book on phyfick.

The conclufive work is a complete
treatife on dietj in which the author,
with his ufual acumen, cenlures many
vvrirers on thele ,fubje6ls. The doc¬
trines of nutrition, and obfervations on
all the foods, drinks, &c. tifecl in the
whole habitsble, world, viould make the
major part of this new produSfion, in
which much erudition is difplayed, ef-
pecially in the application of diet to the
old, young, healthy, fick, and all the
clifterenc conftitutions of mankind. — If
we lecollfcdl rightly, we remember a
work of the author’s on the venereal
clifeafe ; in which was condemned all
rough methods of treatment, &:c. Why
this work is not republifhed in the pre-
fent colleftion, in which it certainly de¬
ferred a. place, we cannot comprehend.

Thefe works of Dr. Rowley contain
cricicilms on almoft every branch of
medicine. The author feems not at¬
tached to any feif or party of phyfick,
but examines the whole with a cautious
eye, and expofts and refutes many er¬
rors. B-ut this has not been clone, as
appears by feme palfages in the author,
without exciting illiberality. The motto
to his leiteis againft Dr. Hunter i$, Cur
igitur nejas reperiri a 1’ quid a nobis quod
ante non fuerit P which, tf we recoiledf
right, is a pallage in Quin£filian. The
letters are written with great fpirit and
force of reafoning; from which we
quote the following :

It is the common fate of improvers to
be loaded -with feurriiity and rancorous cen-
ftire,; it is tiie duty of tire cenfured, under
fuch circumlfances, to be vigilant, and to
rife fuperior to the jpafts of envy. No per-
fon who difeovers, or wilhes to dil'cover,
what hath been before 'unknown, has any
right to expect more candour than former

* The author atiacks tire dodtrines of
Fothergill, Huxham, Pringle,. Fordyce,
Wall, Gregory,, Cullen,. &c. &c. No won¬
der, then,' the UoCtor has created fome ene-
inie.s ; for, mankind hear their defedfs wnth
difguft, .lr.d fcldom forge: the cenfurer.

[Sept.

diftinguifhed improvers have experienced.
An. ambitious zeal to excel will ever pro¬
duce envious calumniators: the moll bene¬
volent friends of Ibciety have, at firlt, been
treated as enemies of human nature 5 not
becaufe the detradlor thought them fo, but
becaufe it is expedient, in the opinion of the
indolent, that fuperior merit fhould be
crulhed, left the affumed pretenfions of ihofe
who flline in the common beaten paths o£
erroneous pradlice fhould be obfeured.

Again : under fuch circumflances what
can he expedled but mifinterpretation, falfe
judgement, and oppofition to every innova¬
tion or generous attempt at excellence, or
the advancement of learning ? Men ar&
the only true judges of merit, and are moll
ready to acknowledge the flcill and genius
of others w'ho polfefs fuperior merit and’
judgement themfelves.

“ The reiterated underhand attempts to-
injure my medical charadier have often in-
creafed my friends and reputation. Man¬
kind determine by faCls, not fpecious pre-,
tenfions. A phyfician, who has feen eight:
or nine thoufand patients annually, for ne ir
thirty years, muft be confidered experi¬
enced. He becomes too publicly known ta
receive much injury from the private flan-
ders of thofe whofe flender experience and
pradlice were never directed to any obfedls
except pecuniary emolument. The world
hears the falfe, malignant aflertions, and
laughs at the enw of the miferable inven-
tors. Thefe obfervations are promulgated
to guard fociety againft the fhafts of malice,,
too often direifted againft the moft zealous
and humane attempts to alleviate humaa
mifery.

“ Shielded, however, as I conceived my-
felf by truth, all their private injuries or
falfehoods were difregarded ; for, no onej.
fuo nomine^ affraled my ftridtures. My greateft
crimes, however, feem to have been the ac-
quifition of extenfive pradlice and iiluftrious
friends.”

Thefe animadverfions were written
formerly, and perhaps not without fome
provoking caufes. However this may
be, the works muft ftand or fall by their
own merit; and vve make not the leall
doubt, char, the more they are read and
Icrutinized, the more they will be ad-
miied for the important truths they con¬
tain. The reafonings are clear and fa-
tisfadiory j hypothefis is excluded j the
numerous preferiptions muft be very
ufeful to junior pradlitioners ; and the
nenx} mode of treating every difeafe ac¬
cording CO the peculiarities of every in¬
dividual conllitution, which is the au¬
thor’s invention, will, we venture to
pronounce, ftand the teft of all future
ages. It is much to the honour of the

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author, engaged as he is in the bufiefl;
i'cenes of town pra6lice, that he has fa-
crificed thofe hours to ftudy and reflec¬
tion which mod others fptnd in com-
panv, dillipation, or conviviality. We
do not hefleate to recommend the perufal
of the volumes before us to the faculty,
the philofopher, and gentleman, with
whom, we doubt not, they will meric a
place in raoft libraries. They contain a
valuable treafure of pradlical know¬
ledge, gained by long experience and
extenflve pra6fice, found reafonings,
diawn fiom anatomical fails, and im¬
provements in the art that feem to bid
fair to form a new epoch in the prac¬
tice of phyflek.

139. The Hijlory of the Campaign of 1792,
between the Armies of France, under Gene-^
rah Dumourier, Valence, fe’e. and the Al¬
lies under the Duke of Brunfwick ; with an
Account of what puffed in the Thiiilleries on
the loth ^Augurt. By J. Money, Mare'-
chal de Camp in the Service of Louis Six¬
teenth.

EVERY thing which tends to illuf-
trate this portion of modern hiftory can¬
not fail of being alike interelting in it-
felf and acceptable to the publick. The
volume before us muft be peculiarly fo,
from the circumftances under which it
was written. — Col. Money is a gallant
Englifli officer, who has ferved with
great honour and reputation in different
wars. Not being employed at home,
his attachment to military fervice, and
his delire of experience and knowledge
in his profelfion, induced him to offer
his afliftance to the French war-minifler
at the beginning of the campaign here
mentioned, and, as the reader will ob-
ferve, long before hoflilitics with tiiis
country were imagined probable. The
Colonel accordingly received an honour¬
able appointment, the duties of which
he difeharged with courage and fidelity.
The very moment that the alpe(5f of af¬
fairs convinced the author that war be¬
twixt this country and France was ine-
vital)'e, lie refigned his cornmiflion into
the hands of General Dumourier, and
returned, not without much perfonai
rifk, to England.

Wc have in this publication the tefli-
mony of an eye-witnefs with refpedf to
fome of the moft memorable events
wliich have taken place on the Conti¬
nent within the laft tour years \ and,
when we confider how interefling thefe
events have been in themfclves, and to
wiiat momentous confequences they vviii
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not improbably lead, we cannot help
thinking that the thanks of the publiclc
are elTcntially due to Colonel Money.
His narrative will be found to be written
with the energetic fimplicity of afoldier;
yet, from the various anecdotes which ic
communicates, the charafilers it deline¬
ates, and the feenes which it unfolds, it
forms, on the whole, not only an enter¬
taining but very inftrudfive volume.

Our duty to the author and our
readers will now be fufficiently dif-
charged by inferting a few extrafts, as a
proof of the abilities of the one, an<i
with a view to the entertainment of the
other. The night of the joth of Au-
gufl has been fo varioufly reprefented by
the different prejudices of different par¬
ties, that the following account of ic
by our author, who was prefent, feems
to have a particular claim for inlertion:

“ A little before twelve at night, on the
9th, my aide de camp came into my room,
and informed me that the Marfeillois, and
the mob of St. Antoine, were going to at¬
tack the Thuiileries, intending to niallacie
the royal family ; that the drums were beat¬
ing to arms in every diftridt in Paris, and the
toefm founding. He alked me what 1 in¬
tended to do — I defired a few moments ta
confider. I then told him, I would certainly
go to the palace; that the King, who had
made me a General in his army, had a claim
on nr.y exertions, and 1 would rilk my life to
defend him. — i was gone tabed — 1 rofe im¬
mediately, and we drelfed ourfelves in our
uniforms, and went to the Thuiileries. — We
met no one in the'f^reec, but a battalion of
national guards with two pieces of cannon,
who were going to the palace — We joined
them, and entered the court at the fame time
— -VVe found M. Lajard the ci-devant mi-
nifter, and M. Dabancourt, at the coips de
garde, and with them feveral general offi¬
cers — I told them 1 was come to pioteci the
perfon of the K ug, as far as an iiulividual
could do fo, and alked for a fn e'oek, if tliere
was one to fpare ; my receptum was ffatte-
ring and honourable; they exclaimed, /’o//.}
un veritable Anglois. f then went un nto tiie
K'lig's apartments with an old General, wlu>
wore a (far and red rihantl, but whole name
I now forget ; there we found near a hun¬
dred officers in different orders, all of wlioni
Ihcwfcd me great civility.

“ During ilie night, reports were brouglit
every half b.our of the movements of the
Marfedlojs; we heard three cannons fi’eu,
w’hich we confidered as lignals, but, of what
we could not tell ; an awful filence I'ucceed-
edeach Ihot in eveiy aj uu tmtnt of the ralace,
Pe.fiirc I had alceiuled n'do tlie royal apart¬
ments, I had Teen Feiiuon’^ ;a the rnuit b.--

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iow ; h® was confulsred by f<>me as a fpy.
A man, feeing me in a Gerierars uniform, told
me, he thought iliat he ought to be gnrdi d
i:ue ; but as this did not concern me, i refer¬
red liim to M. [-ajaril, Aiijutant-generai to
the corps de garde

When tlie commandant general of the
national guards, M. Mandart, was fent for
to the Hotel c!e Vilie, he there found a new
municipalitv formed ; he produced an order,
figned by Pethion and two municipal offi¬
cers, to defend the Thuillsries, and repel
force by force. They look this order from
him, and ordered him to prlfon ; but at the
do- rof the Hotel deVille lie was affaffinated,
and his body thrown into the river ; this,
however, was not known, in the palace, or,
if it was, it was thought pt udent not to com¬
municate it j yet, perha[)s, this, with other
murders committed in the night, contributed
not a little to determine the King to quit the
palace.

“ At fix in the morning w’^e w'^ere told
the King intended going to the Affembly
forprotedlion ; that Pethion had left the pa¬
lace between two and three, having been
fent for to the National Aifembly, which
had been fitting all night. 1 fortunately took
the refolution of going there alfo, and endea¬
voured to get in before the King arrived,
thinking it would bedifficult to obtain admif-
fion when heihuulu be there; but, when we
came to he National Afl'embly, the guards
refufed to admit ns^'=. I then took, off my
epaulettes, and got back to my hotel, having
palfed a battalii n of national guards on the
place de Vendome, but at fome diflance f .
i arrived at my hotel rue de Petite Pierre
nnmolefled. At half after nine I was called,
and informed that the Marfeillois had brought
four pieces of cannon to the Caroufal, and
we> e going to fire on the palace, intending
to level it wdth the ground. At a quarter

* “ fo ell may I fay fortunately, for, fince
W'nting this', I have read M. de St. Croix’s
Hiftoire delaConfpirationdu lo Aout, p. 02.

* Uu cortege plus nombreux encore que ce-

* hii du matin, s’avance pour accompagner

* LL. MPvI. mais dies congedient lous ceux
‘ qu’un devoir abfolu n’enchaine pas anpres

* d’elles, a qui I’entree de I’Affeinblee feroit
‘ interdit. Du gelfe et de ia voix elU$ de'fen-

* dmt de les futdred - Tranjlation: “A band

yet more numerous than that ofthe morning
advance to accompany tlieir Majefties ; but
tiiey difmiifed all ‘tifcfe whom pofitive duty
did not compel to be near them, to whom
admiliion to the AlTcmbly would have been
denied. By their geflurefe, and by words,
indeed, they forbade them to follow them.”

f ‘‘ Several murders had been committed
here in the night, and, had they known
wb Mce I came, I h.ad not efcaped, ‘^foles
ho: reurs incooimes jufques alors commifes a
la j)’ace Veudome.” ih 18, by a National
Guard.

before ten tire firing began ; it! even then ap^
peared to me, that there was a pofibility to
put a flop to the fring and the effufion of hu¬
man blood. It has fince been made evident
that fucli a feherne was prepofterous in the
extreme, however its humanity may recom¬
mend it. My defign was to have gone to the
Caroufal with a wliite f .ig, and I had tied a
white handkerchief to my cane for this
purpofe; but the Englifo who were in the
hotel prev,erited my going out, and to theni
1 may truly fay I am indebted for my life.”'

The following extraft, al.fo, niuft be
interefing to the reader:

Carra fept in my room, and fupped
with me that night. I had a te'e a tefe with
him for two hours; I reprobated the mea-
fures'^taken ; he fud, the generality of the Re¬
public had more at heart the advantage the
country would derive from this arru.ngemenc
than their own glory ; that they wified to
gain the friendfhip of the Pruflians, and ho¬
ped by this lenity effedfually to do fo ; that
there was nothing they wifhed for more
than an alliance with Prufia, and to crufh
the houfe of Auftria; a chimerical fpecula-
tion ; but it is natural for people to believe
wliat moft they def re.

We talked about the King. — I afked
what they intended doing with him ; he faid
p?obab!y bring liim to trial ; I exprelfed my
hopes, that they did not mean to put him to
death ; he faid, pollibly not; fome were for
banifiment. I told him, 1 thought the beft
ftep to be taken was to fend him to fome
town on the frontiers of Spain, giving him
a princely income, and a guard of 1000
men for his protedlion ; that it would anfwer
no purpofe to take away his life, as there
were fu many heirs to the crown out of their
power ; in flioi t, I ufed every argument I
could =4hink of to convince him of the dif-
grace it would be to the nation to take avvay
his life ; and I verily believe, at that time,
Carra was of this opinion j however, laker-
wards perceived he was one of thofe mifcre-
antsi^ who voted for the unfortunate King's
death,

“ Two reafons, which have not occurred to
every one, operated probably with the af-
iembly to commit this horrid deed. They
knew that the greater part of their generals
were inclined to a monarchical government,
as well as mod of the officers of the troops
of the line, and by getting rid, of the King
they thougiit they fhould prevent a civil war,
at lead during the minority of the Daupliin.

“ I'he other realoa which drikes me is,
that all tile pow'ers of Europe were adverfe
to acknowledge the Republic, thougli the
Pruiliaiis liad done it in the capitulat'ons of
Verdun and Longwy, and probably they
thought by the King's death it mud be
acRnotvledged ; certainly they bad nothing
fo much at heart. The officers fnppofed that

This rnonder has fince iod his head.

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ifter the King of Pruffia’s Generals bad fign-
ed the capitulations of Verdun and Longwy
Co the Republic of France, there cp.ild be no
doubt about it ; but events proved otheiwife.

I make this fliort digrelllon to let the reader
fee the caufes that had an etfedf on the ope-
ration's of this campaign, which otherwife
might have ended Very differently.

We halted at Pilion the next day, to
give the Prufliaiis an opportunity to retire at
their leifure, and I do not believe we ex¬
changed another ll^ot with them, wliile they
were in the Frentlt territories ; and had the
French armies proceeded no fartlter here,
and 'il^ewn moderation in the hour of fuccefs,
it might have been a happy clicumllance
for themfeives, and productive of peace to
all Europe ; but they were too elated to
think they fliould ever meet with a clieck.

On the zeth of OCloher, tlie army of
Valence marched to Petit Siviy, a finall vil¬
lage on the left of Longuy, about two En-
ghfh miles; and General Kelierman took a
pofition on the right of Longw’y, and the two
Generals waited on the Duke of Bvunfw'ick
at Martin Fontaine, where the capitulation
of Longwy was figned. Generals Valence
and Kelierman were amicably received, and
the Duke of Brunfwic|i’s eldeft fon came
back with Madam Valence, a.nd dined with
her. ISIo one dared to doubt at this hour of
an alliance with PrufTia ; yet, from the tem¬
per of the times, I never for a moment con¬
ceived it probable. I knew the Auftrians
and PruflTians were by no means well toge¬
ther ; indeed, no great cordiality can eafily
be made to fubfift between troops who have
for ages paft been accuftomed to look on
■each other as enemies. After the capitulati¬
on of Longwy, General Valence ordered the
terms to be read to the troojrs.

I mufl: fay a word about the deplorable
fituation of the Prulhansat this time. Thofe
who came to Longwy, by the route the
PrulTians bad taken, were tired of counting
the number of dead horfes they palled. The^
few lioufes tliai are on the road were fall
of dying men ; many lay by the fide dead or
expiring. The air was infedled, and com-'
municated the Prulhan malady not only to
the troops, but to all the inhabitants in this
part of the consstry. There was fcarceiy an
officer or foldier in our army at this time
who w as not more or lefs indifpofed ; but,
from the mode of living cf t!ie French fol-
diers, this diforder was lefs fztal to them
tiuin to other troops, and i am furpiiied it is
not adopted in oiir armies.”

The readier will now have feen fufTi-
cient to be fat j_ tied that the conuneruia-
tion which we have ventured to bellow
on this volume is well warranted by the
iubje6t and nature of its contents. As
It will probably loon he called tor in a
^scQud edition, we vviffi a little ntore at¬

tention to be paid to the correSVion of
typographical error-.

140. The Conftffrom vf James Baptifle Con¬
te, '\u, Gitiz,en of "written by him-

Jelf, and t ran flat cd jroni the Original French
by P^oiiert leptifon, Fff]. lUuJiratcd with
Nifie E?2gravings. z volt.

THIS is an attempt to turn into ridi¬
cule the enormities of France tince the
frenzy of revolutions and reformation
Icizetl upon that unhappy country, and
to laugh into pliilanthropv thofe wtio
cannot be reatoned with, it may he very
clever, and it may be a trantluion from
the French ; but we profcTs ousKlveii
unable to ditenver the one, or to diveft
ourfeivfes'of doubts refpeftmg the other.

141. 'The Cenfequenres of the Vice cf

a$ they affedi the hVefa'-e of Individuals artl
the Stability of Church Government^ confider-
ed : A Sermon^ cached in the Cath’dral
Church of WincheHer. Bv Thomas Reu-
nell, M. A. Prebendary ojt'' Wiiitou, and Rec¬
tor uf St, Maguuf, London Bridge.

FROM Heb. xii. i. Mr. R, whofe
performances we have had occafion to
commend before (LX HI., iizz), takes
occafion to remonllrate sgainll tlie dan¬
gerous and fpreading prevalence of the
vice of gaming. We cannot deny our-
telv;s the pleaiure of Fubmitting to our
readers the following pa If ages, as in¬
ducements to an attentive peru'ai of the
ftrmon itfelf, which is illuflrated with
learned notes.

Think that in all thefe feenes which
every day announces to us as exhibiting ia
the politer part of the Metropolis, when
rank and elegnice combine their pow^erful
and fafcinating deluhons, when every ex¬
ternal decoration vvhicli art and fplend.our
candevife, isfuhfidiary to them — tliink that,
in the mivill of thefe fedudlive feene-, you
• fee Ruin, Fraud, Beggary, and untimely Death
' — think that you fee the hand of the Suicide
lifted againif liimfelf, and ttiat Suicide
your own darciko child! gc.r.e forwamd
to the bar of eternal iulfice as a fwift vvitnels
againtf the AUTHOR? of his kxis[enc>:,
for having early fown in Inm the .feeds of
temporal dellru-iiion and eternal cea’h — and
THi;x, if poffible, think the faithful Miui-
ReiN of Cinill; too import^unate when they
c-d'toit too to il Wy in the curly fages of thefe
C l! unities, .'is for your li es, when they
warn you, even in thofe liabits wliich to
cardef- and unthinking luinds appear of an
indiffeient tendency, not to tpuinllie dic-
t.uesof nature and confcience, and to expo!e
thofe vvh.ini God tias ctjoligu^d to your )>ro-
ledlion .iiul care to the llood gates of fuch
WiCiiednefs, anguiffi, and defolation 1”

Review of New Puhllcatiom. [Sept,

It is difficult indeed to conceive what
intereft any one, ruined by a courle of vice,
can have in the welfare of his country : it is
ilill more difiicult to conceive that this re¬
gard flioukl exill ir. Gamefters. Any claim
to patriotifm in fuch men fnrmfhes perhaps
cne of the moft stupenbous inftances of
impudence in afleiting, and of dupery in ad¬
mitting it, which the records of human folly
and depravity any where exhibit. For not
only do they, by the mifapplication of their
mun talents, and the operation of their own
malignant pallions, deeply injure that coun¬
try which they fo vehemently and loudly
profefs to ferve, hut by drying up the vital
fources of public integrity, and depriving it
of that future harvefl of virtue, to which its
fondeft expectations were directed. For it
ts always obfervable, that the Principals in
this vice foon enhft large troops of accom¬
plices in their fervice, by fpreading among
the noble and opulent youth their crimes,
snifery, and defpondency, uniting them in
fimilar views and alfociations for the fame
detellable ends. In viewing the defolation
fpread by fuch men, in conlidering the bafe
incitements with which they pre-occupy the
ingenuous hearts of the rifing generation,
and reconcile them to their trade and infec¬
tion, the watchfulnefs with which they feleCl
their victims and difciples in the earlieft
ftages of manhood, in beholding the rifing
hopes of our country fo blighted and, blafl-
ed, well may w'e fay of our unhappy land —

‘ In Rama there was a voice heard, lamen¬
tation and w^eeping and great mourning !
Rachel weeping for her children, and would
not be comforted becaufe they are not.”'
More w'retched ftill than that difconfolate
mourner i Happier they who weep the
death of their deparied than they who feel
the parricidal wounds infiiCted by their
degenerate offspring V*

142. National Calamities T'okens of the Divine
Difpleafure : A Sermon, preached at the
Meeting-houfe in Dean Street, Tooley Street,
Southwaik, on February 28, being the Day
appointed for a General Fajh By William
Button.

“ THE following clil'courfe is pub-
Jifhed with thefe views : to check the
abounding iniquity which has provoked
the anger of the Almighty ; to quicken
profelTors to felf-examination ; and to
convince the world that the Dillcnters
are not fuch enemies to the prefent go¬
vernment of this country as fome have
reprelented. If fuch elfe6\s are pro¬
duced, the author’s end will be anfwer-
ed. The divine biefiing is implored on
jhis feeble attempt. Thofe friends who
requefted its publication will look over
its imperfe61:ions with candour; and
Others, it is hoped, will not be fevere in .

their remarks.” Advert'ifement. — Mr. B,
W’e believe, is a lay-preacher among the
Baptifts, and a bookfeiler in* Pater-nof-
ter-row.

14.^. The Death of Legal Hope the Life of
Evangelical Obedience: An E.fjay on C'eX. 'w,.
19. By Abraham Booth.

THE third edition of a work delivered
from the pulpit to tiic Baptift congrega¬
tion, or the church of Chrifl; aiTembling
in Little Prefcot-flreet,Gootiman*s-fields,

144. Equality confidered and recommended, in a
Sermon preached at St. George’s, Hanover
Square, April 6, 1704. By James Scott,
D. D. late Felloxv c/" Trinity College, Cam¬
bridge.

FROM 2 Cor. viii. 13. 14. the Doc¬
tor takes occafion to recommend charity
to the poor, and enforces it by the fol¬
lowing raofl; cogent argument : “ If ever
there was a crifts in human affairs when
the poor fhould learn to be content, and
the rich to condefeend to men of low ef-
tate, it is the prefent The vifionary
fyffem of equality, which is fo enchant¬
ing to the lower clafs of mankind, has
been tried in France, and has rendered
the condition of the poor unfpeakably
wretched. All their refources, fince the
prolcription and murder of the rich, are
cut off j there is no reward for labour,
no encouragement for ingenuity ; the
hireling is robbed of his wages, the
mechanick and manufafturer of their
goods ; the crops of the farmer are
wrefted from him by violence, and fold
at an arbitrary price ; there is no repofe,
no fecurity, even of life; they are har-
rafled with conflant dread and teiror,
and thofe who are not maffacred upon
falfe and frivolous pretences _are torn
away from their wives and children, and
driven away like Iheep to the {laughter
of battle, where they are butchered by
thoufands, to promote the views of a
few bloody and unfeeling tyrants. If
we add to all this, that they are half fa-
miflied, and half naked, we fhall have a
true picture of the poor in France. Flow
different from that which this happy
ifland exhibits!”

145. A Sermon, preached in the Barijh Church
of Hackney, on Friday, February 28, 1794?
the Day appointed for a General Eajl. By
the liev. j. Symons, B.D.

MR. S, has cholen for his text Rom.
XI. 22, and improved it in the rtfle^fion
on the rife and progrefs of irreligion and
impiety in France, and the eftedls there¬
of

17940

of on the tleh ration ot aii order and
fubor(iinatii)r., and the conTcqucnces of
all in the piefent pi incipies and ('r361iccs
which overri’.n and dcfoiate that unhappy
count! y. The divine feveriry towards
her is contrafled vvitii the div/ine good-
nels towards our ow^n, and o'jr national
charaifer with theirs. A complinient to
the Doiflor’s congregation is introduced,
more appofitelv than, perhap'", :n his
Vifitaiion fermon laft ytar (LXI11.'547).

J46. ^ SermoHj preached in the Cathedral
Church of St, Peter, Exeter, on Friday,
February i8, I794> ^‘-\V appoint¬

ed by bis Majejiy’s Proclamation for a General
Faf. By George Gordon, M A. Precentor of
F>xeter, and Chaplain to the Marquis of Bath.
MR. G, Ton of the late worthy Pre¬
centor of Lincoln, from the words «f
Solomon’s prayer, i Kings viii. 4J., 45,
ably iuftifiesthe prefent war with France
in defence of true religion and legal go¬
vernment.

T47. Ohfervations on a controverted Paffnge in
Juftiti Martyr, p.^-y ot'/r. Benetiidt. Havre
Com it. 1742 ; atfo upon the IVorp.-'ipof Angels,

MR. BRYANT, for he has fmee
owned the publication, has thrown new
light on this perplexed palfage, whole
conflru61ion is, to fay the lead, ambi¬
guous. hldK EVfElVOy (©EOv) T£ xat TOV
av!cv iHca e\9ov1«. xai vjiACnq

TOiauia KUi Tov ru^v aX^icv iTrr.fxe^ettii y.-.-n
s^ofACiBixivuv aycdlcor a^yCKeev r^xTo/y
TlirSVUX T£ TO rUr0!pvliX0> Hal

Tj^oaxuyoeiUEK.'’ He fhews that the 'word'
TOV alysXojv fpalc-v a,re govr-rnf-d b'J
^oc^xficcy and not by cn^oKidj-x. Kaf ev;: r-
y.vyovfjisv; and he thus tra.’.ihitrs i n.-;
fage : “ IFe re^^erence a-^d he'd-

him and his Jon, ‘xvl^o t.roir-C - p-- .^a
hinty and <zvho affj^'Jed ks ,t:.\ -•

(of God and Cluid), i/kc ■ .v ' t
fame to the nsehole heji of lus v.p s /’I'o-,'-
lent mejfengcrs, ike good anct'. .fn-

iiifter unto him, and a^e mo /A>e A V.-,
dlnd cive alj'o reverence and ado''e :h--t
good Spirit y nxihence froieed--d c.ii g-';-
fkceyf &c. Mr. BryantL inteiiLio'-. is
certainly good, having a view to the al ¬
teration in the political, and p-rliaps .a
the religious, fyden» of Prance, when
the ferment has fubfided, and willing to
convince them ot the crfoneou.s fourco
of angel worfhip, and hoping they may
improve by their opporturdcics ot know¬
ing our nation more intimately, by ta¬
king refuge among us. “ Of thefe bo¬
dies into which we are divided, there are
Gent. Mag. September y 1794.

S33

none, I believe, that do not agree col-
ledfively in the mofi; ell’ential articles of
Chr.ftianity, Add to tiiis, what mufl
be eflcemed of great moment, there are
no idolaters . it gives me pain to be
guilty ot fuch an haifli expreflion ; hue
in luch a caule I dare not palliate. It is
my duty to declare rny Lntiments bold-
Iv, for the truth’s fake, and for the fake
of the gnfpel” (pp. 31, 32). Mr. B.
examines Col. li. 18, and for OiOaev
p-opofes to fubftitute EA©f2N ; which^
though better than the other, does not
come up to the meaning intended, and
feems too harfli a con{tru61ion ; and per¬
haps both leadings might as well i)e
omitted. Eg^dlsvu’v may be rendered
parading,

1 43- An Attempt to cfahlifh the Bajii of Free¬
dom on fmple and unerring Principles ; in a
Series of Letters. By (Charles Patton.

MR. P. tells US, in tlie advertifemenc
prefixed, that “ tliis inquiry is dire£lcd
to that fpectes of liberty which affords
abfoiute fecuyity of propertv, and the
moil peife61 degree of perional free¬
dom;” ami tliat he has ventured to dif¬
fer, upon feme points, from all the au¬
thors that he iias Cinjfultcd: and tlie Lfl
p.iragtaph in his “Attempt” sclv.ances,
that “ no nation can poibblv continue to
tntuy hiicity hut bt’ placing rite leg illa¬
tive' authority, one half in progeny and
the ocher lutif in lerjons, and by pre-
lening luch .t b.aia;'.ce between th.ofe
piuties .as c-.miplv‘tciy [reciudes either
f r 0 n 1 c r i o ; o n a e f a t i ri g . ‘ ’

it- o

c, h'/.f prefent State of the Thritnes ronji-
■d'^cd. and a compurative Fieau of Canal and
i'rnrr Na'dgation. By V/illiani Vander-

il readers vyill re-.H’ecl tl^at Mr.

■ '.iiead.'; fitrurtd n?. evifroverfal
’vr.-'-' u Our Ma''ch review, p. 241.
'm pO v. u miert.'ikes the defence of Fatiier
'* wuiuej, Ov-no leems on the point of be-
'Tig t)ot or iy /it lev :d f>ur drained for a
nurot 'T of ait.nciai canals. John Bali
IS nutoir'"-t3 ior nevei letting goaioecu-
ia'uon or nurojlt till he is convinced of
its abruo'hty by bc'tig nearly ruined by
and, as far a', xue enn judge of this
1 nav gable canals, among other

new i:Ua , aic tending to the fame ill'ue— •
tiiat of I'ting overwhelmed in number
and cx pence.

150. obfervatiens on the Debtor and Creditor
Laaus, 'ivith Fails a?id Remarks illufrative
thereon j addrejfed to the Merchants of Lon¬
don.

(tf NeW Puhlicaihns

834 Review of New Puhlkatiom, [Sept»

don, Lloyd’s and Bat Ton’s Coffee-houfes :
a!fo additional Ohfernnitions, tending to prove
that the p''efent Lanvs are calculated to give
Societies of de/igning opuleni Men a Fov’cr
to mill Individuals vaho may be lefs opulent
than themfelves, nvithout affording lucll Fer-
fons any Relief : /heaving, alfo, hoav the Laws
may be eafily amended, Jo as to extricate and
^ive Relief to Individuals under'' fuch and in
many other Cafes, without interfering with
the piefent Pra6lice, ; recommended

to the Jltfention of Members of Parliament ,
Lawyers, efc. By VV. Tliompfon.

SO many more able lieads having pro-
poTed plans for the relief oT debtors
witliout fuccefs, if- would be prefnmp-
tion in poor Revieweis, who may think
themfelves happy if they can earn a
living from hand to mouth, to interfere
in the queBion; not to mention that
Mr. T’s title-page [peaks for itfelf.

I ei. Obfervati'ons on the 'Adt for the Relief and
Lncourai^ement of Iriendly Societies. To
which are added, Forms of the [cveraj Infru-
ments nercjfary under i/jc AhF, together with
an Abftraa of the AB. By the Gentleman ■
who framed the Bill.

A VERV ufeful guide to thofe ex¬
cellent infiitutionsj and one of the many
beneficent and patrio’ic plans which Mr.
Rofe, the framer of the Bill, has eiiher
projefted or patronized. ^

152. Reafons for National Penitence, recom¬
mended for the Fajl, appointed February

28, 1794-

THE fall is broken ; and a review of
thefe reafons mav feem as much out of
feafon as the reafons themfelves, which
are only the old common place argu¬
ments, heightened with a large portion
of humanity, the ftalking-horfe of the
prefent time, which, when other re-
fources fail, is to be p'ayed olT in the
guife of popular declamation. If it be
meant to ferve any good purpofe, in its
various applications; we, in our capacity
of Reviewers, who may be (’eemed not
very lon<;- fighted, hut to have blunted
the edge of our vifual ray by poring
ever books, will be fully content to pais
for CalTindras. We need nor, howeve'-,
look very far to difeover from wliat
quarter thefe ‘‘Reafons” come.

1^7, Religion and Lovady conne&cd, being the
Subfiance of a Difcoinfe preached in St.
John’s Church, Leeds, on the. general Fajt-
day, February 28, 1794, and publifJced at
the Requejl of the Congregation. By Thomas
Dunhorne Whitaker, LL. B.

MR. W, in the fliort compafs of this

ftrmon, the text to which Is i Tim. iii.

I — 3, (hews that the difciplcs of Chrift,
from the earlieB peiiod, were abedient
and loyal fubjeefs to the governments
they lived under; and contrafts them
with many of thek fucceffors in the pre-
fent age.

154. Hamilton’s yurymaAs Guide-, or, lAoe
.Enc;linimm’s Right. Containing the Anti¬
quity, Ufe, Ditty, and quf Privileges, of
furies, by the Laws of England j with ne-
cc/fary InfiruElions for furymen to make proper
Minutes on Ttials, fo as to have at one View
a clear State of the Proceedings. Second Edit*
THIS is onh- a re uibl cation of Sir

J :hn Ha wles’ ufeful work, firft printed
i63o, 4lo, and frequently fince, in a
more commodious fize. The laft edition
by Mr. Davies, 1779, 8vo. •

155. The My f cries of Utlolpho, a Romance^
interfperfed with Pieces of Poetry. By Anne
Radcbffe, Autkhr of the Romance of Lht
Foref.” envois, izmo.

THE former work of this lady had
railed the attention of the publick to her
abilities, of which the prefenc has by
no means lefiened their opinion. We
tiud. however, we fiiall not be thought
unkrnd or fevere if vve obj-eil to the too
great frequency of lancifcape-painting ;
which, though it Thews the extenfivenefs
of her obfervation and inventiony wearies
the reader with repetitions. The plot is
admirably kept up ; but perhaps the
reader is held tex) long in fufpence, and
the developement brought on too haftily
in the concluding volume.

156. Lhe Hero, a p-etical Pieccy refpeBfudly
addreffed to the Marquis Cornwallis.

PANEGY^RICK well applied and
well executed.

157. The /'TyrL ^ William Hay, EJq. 4/5,
THE Ellav on Deformity, pubufhed
1753 (XXIII. 593), and other prodiic-
ti 'ns of much merit, have enfured he
reputation of this pLafant and ciiear ul
writer, who, bv the preface to this hand-
fome edition of his work , pubdThed at
the expence of two lad'es, his daugiiters,
appears to have been of an antienc family
in Sulfex, fettleu at Glynbourn, 16 18,
where he was born 1695, by the

death of hib father the lame year, in his
24th year, and of his mother five years
alter, was 'eft, an orphan, to the care of:
his grandfather and grandmother; and| 1
by the fucceflive decease of bo h of them, ,
within n years irom his birth, had loft I

alli

*794-1 Rtvievj of New Puhlieotions,

all the natural prote51ors of infancy, ex¬
cept a maternal aunt, who took care of
his education. In 1712 he was admitted
of college Oxford, and,

1715, at the Middle Temple, where his
fludies were interrupted hy the injury
done to his hght by the fmall-pox,
wliich he had in fo terrible a manner,
that his life was defpaired of, but was '
probably faved by Dr. Mead’s having
ventured on what was then thought a
defperate experiment, though it has Imce
become a common pratfice f In 1718
he made an excurfion over England and
Scotland, and, in 1720, over Fiance,
German v» and Holland; and, 1731, mar¬
ried El zabeth, fecond daughter of 1 ho-
mas Pelham, El'cj. of Cacstieid, Suffex,
by W'hom he had feveral children. In
1733-4 chofen M. P. for Seafoid,

which he reprefented during his life ;
and, 1738, was appointed a ccmraiffioner
of the viflualling-office, in which he
continued, and regularly attended the
buiinefs of it, till it became inconfiftent
with his f-ac in parliament. In 1753 he
was appointed keeper of the records in
the Tower; and u has lieen remarked,
that “ his attention and affiduity, during
the fhort remainder of his life, were
eminently ferviceabte to his fuccellors in
that office.”

In *728 Mr, H. publilhed his EfTay
on Civil Government; 1730, a poem,
intituled, Mount Caburn; i 735>
marks on the Laws re'ating to the Poor,
with Propofals for their better Relief
and Employment; and a lecond edition,
1751, with a preface and appendix, con¬
taining the relolutions of the Moufe of
Commons on the fo.mer fubjeft in 1735*
and the fubftance of two bills fince
brought into parliament. In 1753, Re-
ligio Philofophi ; and Effiay on Defor¬
mity ; 1754, tranllation of Ifaac Hawkins
Browne’s poem Oe Animi Immorra'
lirate ; 1755, tranflations and imitations
of feieft epigrams of Martial.

But it is not merely as a man of letters
that Mr. Hay Ihould he remembered ; as an
Englilh gentleman, a mailer of a family, a
magiftrate, a member of the Biitilli parlia¬
ment, and in the domeflic relations of a
hufband and hither, he ought not to be for¬
gotten. Many years are elap ed fince he
was removed from this feene (if things ; yet
fome perfons are ilill living who remem¬
bered him in each of thefe cliaraClers ; and
it is wifhed that they w'ould recoliecl all

* The college is not mentioned, but it
was probably Chrirt-Church.

f This ihould have bc«a more explicitly

exprelfed.

they know of him ; for, his mmd wsa libe¬
ral, and his views were extended to liie
publick, with qualifications and a defire to
ferve it, w'ithout low or felfiih defigiis ; and
his private and domeftic life was beneficial
to the circle within its influence. From the
time he began to refide in the countiy, lie
turned his thoughts to the improvement of
that fmall part of the eflates wliich had de-
feended to him from his anceilois. He was
kind to his tenants, encouraged agriculture,
cultivated gardening in alraolt its branches,
and was, iiei haps, the firtf that began to or¬
nament corn-fields with walks and plan¬
tations.”

Mr. Hay’s attention to his duty as a
magiftrate, anr! to the poor, his inde¬
pendent cQodu6i in parliament, his con¬
jugal affeftion, and his pareptal condudl
and care of his children’s education, are
enlarged on among the firiking features
of his chararier. His youngeft fon, juft
on the point of being entered from
VVeftminfter at Clii ili-Church, died of a
fudden and violent diforder on his lunps
eight months before Ids father, who died
of an apoplexy, , by the burfting of a
hloocl-velTel in his head, in his 60th
year, June 22, 1755. The lecond Ion
loft his life in the Kail India Company’s
fervicc, at Patna, 1763. The eldeft died
of a conlumption, 1786, having ferved
his country in various military expedi¬
tions and as reprefcntative for the bo¬
rough of Lewes in two fuccdlive par¬
liaments.

Such are the fhort outlines of the life
and charafter of this wortliy man and
his family, and fuch the tribute paid to
their memory bv tlie g@od fenfe, tafle,
and gratitude, of their reprefentative.

Ti e firft volume contains.

Deformity ; an Eftay.

An Effay on Civil Government.

Rem.rks on the Laws relating to the
Poor, with Propofals for their better Relief
and Employment.

Religio Philofophi.

Charge U) the Grand Jury for the Eaft-
ern Divifiou of the County of Sulfex, 1733.

The fecond.

Mount Caburn.

The Immortality of the Soul,

Selertt Epig'ams of Martial.

’<^1 oayoung Lady who ordered me to writ«
fome Verfes.

=^On the i I ft of Orioher.

*On the 4th ol J.inuary.

* 1 he Chace.

T1 le Rev. Francis d'utte, M A, rec¬
tor of Shcring, in Fhii x, pfehencai y of

* Tliofe marked * are a'l new firft printed,

Chicucilcr,

R. ■vuiv of New F uhlkaiionif,

836

ChicheRer, and a relation of the favnilv,
veiy kirul'y fut ciintcndcd tlic wliu’c
tlnougli the prefij.

1 c;8. The Hijlory and j^nt! jidtien of the ^hhey
and Borous:h of Evelhani. Compiled (.hie fly
from MSS in the Bl'itilh Mufcuni. By
William Tindal, M.A. late Fehoiv of Tri¬
nity College^ Oxford. Evefbani printed.

^ INdR T, who dates his adi/ertifeinent
from Fladbury, mocUftlv inloims us,
that ‘‘the idea of a toltrab’e deferiptinn
cf ao abbey once fo magnificent, and in
a Inuacion lo piflurcfque and beautiful,
moil pleafingly finl fugeefted bv Mr.
X'ield ot Bengvvorth (p, 230) flruck his
imagination, 1792. Fiom a ficetch, he re-
folved to take on himfelf the entire ccrl-
duft of the work, at firll from few ma¬
terials, and wiilii little profpedl of fuc-
cefs. An acctflion to them, f-om the
Britifh Mufe um and other fources,
fwelled the book to irs prefent diinen-
fions, Ths author was, at his firll fet-
ting down to the work, but a novue in
anttent lore', nor has the undertaking
yet educated him into a very experienced
antiqieary. Some miltakes near the be¬
ginning of the book will ferve to evince
this truth ; others may be placed to the
account of mere inad<v£rtency. Both
kinds are ix6\ified, as far as ptdTibie,
among the additions and correfiions at
the end.” We accept his apology, and
haflen to exprefs our approbation of his
work, which is handfoaielv printed, and
divided into 8 chapters. J. The name,
etymology, and foundation of the abbey.
II. Account of the abbots. III. Reve-
r.ue and endowments. !V, Cufloms and
internal regulations of the abbey. V.
Site and remaining antirjuities. Appen-
<lix of charters, &c.. VI. Defeription of
the town. Vll. Its manufahiuies, piin-
ci pally gardening, foil and air, and pub¬
lic edifices. VIH. Natives. Battle of
Evefhnm. Additions and emendations.
Api rendix containing lills of reprefen a-
tives and mayors. Conftiiutions, char¬
ters, See. The whole is illuli ratcai with
feven plates, engraved by J. Roe'^, viz.
a view of Evefiiam ; Abbot Lichfield's
tower 5 Eait window in St Laurence’s
church ; Gothic arch j ftal and other
antiipiities ; Abbot Liciifitid’s chapel j
Town-hall.

This hiftory is executed juft as fuch
works fliould be, and in an agreeable
and correft ftyle.

■* The name of the diaughtfman, de-
fervedly celebrated in p. 238, n. is not in
tire plate there referred to — iinlefs it be y.
IV. Ofbarne, under that of Liclilield’s tower.

[Sept,

Some overfights in Dr. Nafti’s account
of this abbey, in his Colledions for
V/orct ftt rfbire, are noticed.

In p. 27 we apprehend the words JJie
etiam faenfla primus obtinutt bo<vem
cunda meliorem demon nor utn cum cor pa¬
ribus, are to be explained, that this fa¬
ct ift obtained as a mortuary the lecond
heft ox of the deceafed perfons buried in
the abbey-church, to be offered with
their bodies, together with the penny to
be offered at the mafs of the dead.

Is not Abbot Lichfield’s chapel im¬
properly deferibed, p. 226, as being in
All Saints church, when in the plate of
it it IS (aid to be in Si, Laworened s F

Note J, p 32, Perhaps we ftiould read
G1 3 /('cer.

P. 1 16. Alleium is heuings, and Allec
their pickle.

P 129. The 164 gdt marble pillars
of the abbey-church will not appear ex¬
traordinary to thofe who have feen the
traces of painthig and gilding about the
walls and pillars of St? Stephen’s cijaptl
at Weftminfter, or on many fepulchral
monuments of our own country.

139. Seletl Critical Remarhs upon Englifii

Verfon of the Ten firjl Chapters cf Genefis.

By the Rev. James Hnrclis, M.A. Fellow of

IVIagdalen College, Oxford.

WE have already reviewed former
publications of Mr. Hurdi., now profef-
for of poetry in the univerfity of Oxford
(vol. LX. p. 932, LXIIL 839). His
publication, 1790, of a critical difierta .
tion on a word in Genehs i, 21^ ap¬
proved by the prefent Biftiop of Saiif-
bury, was intended as a fpLCimcn of a
volume of remarks, which Jie Ijas here
abftraited, finding lie had not leifure to
publifl) therii at large. Upon other paf-
fages he thus tranflates Gen. iv. .7 : “ If
thou tloeft well 10 bear, and if thou doft
not well to entice, hofi thou not finned?
Lie donvn, and unto thee fhall be his tie-
fire,” &;c. Verfe 23, “ A man have I
(lain to my atound, and a child to my
bruife f implying, that Lamecb had, in
a fit of paffion, murdered, or threatened
to murder, one of his own children, who
had riten up againft him, wounded, and
bruifed him. But this appears ratiur too
refined ; nor do we perceive tliat the old
rendering, w’ound//?^ and hurt, are lefs
proper than the terms fubftituted to
them. The new rendering of vii. 1.8.
is fublime, and cieferibts the progrefs of
the deluge in a climax truly aweful.

1^0. A general View of the F/fhery of Great
bllLain, drawn up for the Conjidet at ion of

the

1794*] Review of New PuhlUations, «37

the Undertakers of the North Britifh Fifleryy
lateh hcguriy for promoting the general Utiiitv
of the hwahitants and hmpire at large. By
the Rev. John Lanne Bochanan.

THIS ib the work announced at the
:nd of our review of Mr. B’s Defence of
'he Highlander Sy &c. p. 453. It may be
'ufficient to ?:;ive tiie reader the contents
)f the feveral cliapters. The View is de¬
feated to Lord M‘Donaid, one of tire
jndertakers ; and the preface laments
lut the Dutch, unrivaled, engrols that
profitable branch of our filhery which,
n the Hebrides, a country i'-wice larger
:han Holland, and e^aery way fuperior to
t, or to any other nation on earth, in
boint of fafe harbours and other advan-
'ages attending, might be followed with
;.qual fuectfs. The author, being once
ed into this train of thinking, was na-
u rally imluced to believe that nothing
would place tue fubjeft in a clearer view
ban to trace out the gradual beginnings
ind great care taken by wiL experienced
nen, in diUcrcni; pciiods, for carrying
>n the w Ji-meant feheme into execu-
:ion, w'th as little interruption and lo^s
is poililrle ; as alio illuftraring thi. caufts
pf failure, in fpite of tiitn cautioi:, on
he one liand, and, on die other, remark
he gradual rife, and progreis of the
Dutch, and feme others, mefily pro-
:eeding from their cautious prudence in
:he infancy of their trade, and riow they
benefited, in a particular manner, from
pur misfortunes, left ilrey ftrould iie
pvertaken, if not totally overwhelmed,
by the fame calamity. Laft of all, we
[hall enr^uire whether the contributors
pf the late funds for carrying on the pie-
fent Britifh fiftpery in^hc North Weft of
Scotland have begun fo prudently as not
:o fall plump into the fame misfortunes
with their ptedecelfors ; while both their
Failures, together with the fuccelsful
progrtfs of the Dutch in o riches and
power, were clear marks of diftincfion
:o be guided ny to avoid the one and at-
:ain to the other. It remains now that
the author begs fome allowance from
the Englilh reader for the ftyle arid ex-
pretlion. Ids chief intention being to
make liiinfclf underftood; rherctore he
has followed a plain and fimpic ftyle,
without pomp or afte6f ation.”

The two firft chapters are taken up
in detailing the encouragement given
to the Britifh from the reign of Eli¬
zabeth to the prefent time. Chap. 111.
fliews the caufes of the failures, by the
Appointment of interefted landholders
and other perfons, the fupine indaUnce

of the fifhers themfelves, unfkilful mode
I of curing herrings, and launching out
too far, in expectation of the bounty,
which they could neither receive nor
difeount. The Britifh fifhery, which,
Z750, began under the firm fupport
of government, was, at the end of 10
years, and again at the expiration of 20
years, almoft annihilated, with the ap¬
parent lofs of fome thoulands of pounds
to the fubjc6ls of thefe kingdoms; while
foreigners were gaining annually half a
million by the fifheries of the Scots feas.
The natives were thus hailltxl by injudi¬
cious regulations, prohibitions, extortion
of cuftoms, and withdrawdr.g the necef-
fary prote61;ion of government. Chap.
IV. The advantage of tiiis filherv is, the
making feveral of the idand towns com¬
mercial, employing more hands than ei«
thcr trade, except the cloth manufac¬
tory, &c. Chap. V. treats of the origin
of the Dutch fifliery. Chap. VI. Their
extenftve trade and commerce, wealth,
perleverance, and careful mode of con-
ducliog their bufincls. Chap.Vll. The
advantages and diladvantages of their
fifljeries. Chap. Vlil. The efiablifli-
rnenr of the Britifh Society, and abftra6t
of the atfl for incorporating it, with fome
refle£fion‘. Mr. Knox, “ though but
a nranger, and at heft but a fpecuiative
fifhei” (p. 128), had great wtigh.t with
tlic n;anagcrs, whofe confidence in him
is now found to have been mifplaced.
The fociety took a contrary mode of
proceeding from their predecellbrs ;
and, inftead of beginning the filliery,
and providing active fifhermen, began
with tre6fing large houfes and other
buildings, which, tor pomp and gran¬
deur, would do honour to the capital of
the kingdom, and even the little necef-
fary houfes vuere not forgot. Chap. IX.
Tfie fti’tions marked out by the mana¬
gers are not the heft for the purpofe of
extenftve fi.fhing. Chap. X. Ti)c: ableft
and more experienced fifhers a'e not to
be found where the village has been
ere6fsd. Chap. XI. Tfie fii'h are mote
numerous, and vaftly fuperior in qua¬
lity, to the different kinds caught a-
rou.nd the villages ere6led by the undei-
takers. Chap. XII. That the infpec-
tors of the proper fiihing ftations have
been mifled in their choice, is already
too apparent to be doubted. “ It is not
unlikely but Lord M'Donald, who lias
tile power, and fo many a6five people at
his command, will begin his own ftlli-.
ing; in which cafe he, wiili hiS I’uccef-
luiS, molt undoubtedly will b.-eome,

withouc

Revkw of iVeW Fuhlmthm,

[ Sept«

witltoiJt exception, one of the firfl fub-
in Europe, having already little
lefs territory than Holland, his people
rsurnerous in proportion, and a6iive, and
she heft hfhing on earth on his coa(\-
ilde.” Chap. Xlil. A modeft enquiry
Into the expenditure ol the public mo-
ysey, and how far the managers a6ied
from prirrciples of found policy. Chap.
XlV. The conclufion, followed hy a
pofifcript, a refpeflful reply to the di-
T'C^lors of the royal bounty, wlio have
offered no argument to difprove the fadls
aflerted in his Travels in tlse Hebrides
but his v^riting in full (LANNh') the
old name of his family, by way of dif-
tin6tioa from others of that name, to
Buchanan.” He charges the fcurnlous
peifonalities in his T"ur to “ William,
the now Rev. Dr. Thomlon, once al-
(iftant-minilUr at Monwaird, againfl
fome few of the direftor®, from an old
fpite. The author, being a llrangcr in
town, was unguartiedly advifed to put
his work into his hands, when going to
the preis, as is done by others in ihni'ar
circumftances. But that reverend gen-
tleman abufed the confidence placed in
him, and difeharged Ins whole wrath
xgainft p.-irt of the clergy and others,
linder the faid author’s name, though he
duril not aUdck his adverfai ies under his
ov.m. Thefe feurrilities the author dil
claims ; and he has fince iel"ent“cl the
indignity feverely, and fljall purge out
all his dirtv evomitions from his fecond
edition. Nor will lie ever trufl him, or
any one fuch, to take the charge of the
piefs, to fieal one foul fentiment into
his future produdiioas. This public de¬
claration (after placing the faddie on the
right afs) will, it is hoped, clear Mr. f.
L. B. from any imputation of ingratitude
to his friends, a fin he never lliall be
guilty of to his knowledge ” He re-
preferrts the expediency of Iraving a
place of refidence for a minifler in a
country of i8 computed, equal to 27
mealured, miles, full of poor iniiabi-
tants, with three large inhabited iflands.

^hole of the mdhonarits there forty
years and upw'arcis, fince tlie commence¬
ment of the royal bounty for propagating
religion in Harris was thus deflitute of
accommodation. “ In writing his Tra¬
vels he hereby declares that he had no¬
thing more at heart than the intereft tf
the poor people of thofe ifles, and the
honour of the direfiors, to whom he
addrelfed his mind on the head of reli¬
gion ; and when they diiprove, by fair
and impartial arguments, any one aller-

tion he has advanced (the forged feurri-
lilies excepted), then the author fliall
pul)licly acknowledge his error: but,
until that is done (which fliall never,
happen uftlefs fpeedily reformed), he
muft be indulged tlie llbeity of main¬
taining firmly the truths he has pubiilh-
ed, and the publick may rely on his ve¬
racity ”

We are well informed that J. L. B,
by an advertifement in the Sconfii pa-*
pers, is declared to have had no com-
miffion from the Scots Society for pro¬
pagating the Goipel ; fo that mofi people
lufpedf liitn as an impoftor, or the name
afiumed by fome other author. The book,
is unknown and defpiled at Edinburgh.

l6l. Account of the Bilious Remitting Tel-
ioiu Fe'vet, as it appeared in the. City of Phi-
L-clelphia, in the Tear 179:^. By Benjamin
Rnfh, M. D. Prcflfor of the Infitutes, and
of Clinical Medicine, in the JJni'verfty of
Pennfylvania.

IN revievving the publication before
us, we cannot avoid expreffing our re¬
gret that the College of Phyiicians of
Philadelphia, as well as our 'author,,
fhould have Iliewn fo little obfervation
refpedfing epidemical difeafes as their
determinations or. tlie origin and caufe
of that which is the fulqedt of our pre-
fent di/cuffion ciemonfirate. The Col¬
lege coiifidered ir as an imported difeafe.
Dr. Ru<b, as originating from tlie ef¬
fluvia of fotne putrid coffee, which had
been thiown on one of the wharfs in the
town ; notwirhfianding Dr. Rufh makes
it appear, that the fame yellow fever had
vifited Anterica in the years 1699, 1737,
1741, 1747, an<l 1762, though in a lei’s
violent manner than in 1793 ; when, ac¬
cording to Dr. Ruflfs account, 4044 of
the inhabitants periftied from ibc iff of
Augufl to the 9th of November.

W'e believe, with the fagacious Hip¬

pocrates, that the fenfible and obvious
changes in the atmofphtre arc generally
an adequate folurion of all the difficul¬
ties refpefling cpidemicks; and that the
difeale in queftjon w’as produced by a fe«
ries of uncommonly hot and dry wea¬
ther, which had preceded its firfi appeal-
ance in Philadelphia.

We wifli our author had employed
lefs time in adverting to luch a variety
of bad authorities, and frequently to
corroborate a common- place faft. Nei¬
ther can we approve of thofe jargonic
fubt*cties, p. 28 — 31, &;c. concerning
d'>redi and indireSi debility 5 for, what
can be underffiood by this pafTage >

“ The

*794']

Review tf New PuhUcaiiont:

. ** The dull eye and lownefs of fpirits ap¬
peared to be the effedls of fuch an excels in
tlie flimulm of the contagion as to induce />-
deb'lity ; while the brilliant eye and
the upufual vivacitv feem to have been pro¬
duced hy a lefs quantity of the contagion
adling as a cordial upon the (p. 36).

As we corfitler this fever a genuine
ep’demick, and protiuced, like epide-
micks in common, by the morbid ftate
of the aLmofphere, we admit neither of
its contagion nor infrdi 'ion ; and we are
the more furprized at Dr. Ruih’*: To often
nfing theft epith'^ ts, as delcriptive of the
nature of, the difeafe, when he himfelf
has piven, p. 109, a fatisfav^tory account
of its origin ; and adds, there is no
record of a dry, warm, Oagnating air
having exifled foi anv length of time
wirluau producing difeafes.” Here Dr.
R'jfh I cent to have loft fight of his firlt
notion, that it was produced hv the pu¬
trid exhalatiot s from rotten coffee. Be-
ftdes the cure of the rlifeafe confuted
folelv in the antiphlogifiic fyftem ; and
in the course of which Dr. Rufti ex-

Erefri/ fays, p. 260, “ the authority of
)r Mofeley had great weight with me
in adviftng the loir of blood ; more ef-
peciallv as his ideas of the highly
n>atory nature of the fever accorded fo
perfe£l]y with my own.” See alfo p. 13.

We are ft>r'v, likewife, to remark,
that, though much credit is due to Dr.
Rtfti for hi- exemplary candour, yet W'e
do not v'ew it entirely deftitute of fome
tin6fure of credulity. Can it he pofhble
for a oerfon of Dr. Rufifis experience to
imagine that “ the locked jaav is an oc-
cafirtnal fvmptoni of (KTenter/ in Ja¬
maica?” (p. 9c). We find equal fur-
pr'Z; that he fhould c nceive that any
man ever ufecl the cold bath in the yel¬
low fever of the Weft Indies (p. 3C1);
an< :hat it ft ould appear to him as a
nov< fty that the velluw fever “ is one of
tht moft mortal d'jealei or that there
is a fuccefsful moot of treating it “ a-
mong (he fubjefils v Inch will admit c'f
innovation' (p. 314). F-as Dr. Rufti
ferioufly onfifieretl what it is for a man
“ to walk an hundred mi'e' in three
days in Jamaica, livinii: r u bread, fallad,
and w’ater, anci earn i.n*^ 30 or 40 pounds
on his hack ?” (p, 355).’

The woik bfcfoie U-, though far from
being arranged with pr<=cifion and me-
thjo, in other rtip. 61s cannot fail to he
interefting and uf^ful. Dr. Ruftr has,
in the moft ingenuous and liberal man¬
ner, freely related his own errors, as
w 11 as thofe of his medical hrethien ;
and, in giving us the various diiputes

among the faculty concerning the nature
and treatment of the difeafe, impartiality
and truth run through the narration,
without di^guife or ornament. Dr.
Rufl) arrogates nothing to himfelf that
does not belong to him.. He confefTcs
tiie fatal opinions and pra6fice that him¬
felf, as well as others, publilhed and
adopted at firft, and retraced them af¬
terwards, in a manner becoming an ele¬
vated mind (p. 22S); and, by his firm-
nefs and pc rfeverance, deftroyed the un¬
fortunate fyftem which was univerfally
followed in the treatment of the difeafe,,
which oihe wife muft have depopulated
the city. The fatal medicines employefl
at fi'ft were bark, nvine, laudanum \ and
were continued until it was difeovered
that the dreadful fcourge which aSi61ed
the city, with local variations only, was
the endemial caufus of Dr. Mofeley, or
yellow fever of the Weft Indies; and
tlicat the cure confifted in following that
author’s directions, in his ireatife on the
yellow fever in the Wtft Indies^. Im*
mediately on this difeoverv Dr. Meafc

publifhed, in the Philadelphia Mail,
trails from Dr. Mofeley ’s treatife on
this difeafef ; and, foon after, Dr. Riifb
publrftied the following important eluci¬
dation in the Federal Gazette, which
happily terminated all the difpuces a-
niorg the faculty, both on the nature
and cure of the difeafe, and eftablifhed a
rational m.ethod of treatment, confifting,
ft m ply, of bleeding and purging, and
abftaining fiom opiates.

Dr. Ivufh’s Atiilrcfs to his Ferow-citizens.

“ A number of the pbyfician; of this city,
who fuppofe that we have two fevers now
prev.^iling among ns, have afferted, that a
yellow' colour is effent al to what is called
the yellov/ fever. The following extra6b
from -Dr. Mofeley will fliew how much
tliey have he -n miftaken. This judicious
phyfician prailifed phyfick many years in
Jamaica, and faw tlie fever he deferibes in
all its dilTerent forms;

‘ 1 have ufed,’ fays Dr. Mofeley, ‘ the
‘ word ysllrAu in c ompliance with cuftom ;
‘ but I even dillruft that name, as the inex->
‘ perieifoed may be looking out for that ap-
‘ pearance, and not find, until it is too LitCy
‘ tire difeafe Ire has to contend with : and,

* indeed, the yellownefs of the fkin, like the
‘ black vomiting, is not an invariable fym-
‘ ptom of tins fever. Tiiofe who are fortu-
‘ nare enough to recov'er feU'om have it;

* and many die without i's appearance. Be-

* Treatife on Tropical Difeafes, Milicniy
Operations, and Climate, of the Weft In-
diey T,<i ed t. p. 391, 17 a.

f See our vol. LXiV. p. 27

* fide'',

840 Review of New Publications. [Sept.

* lides, the yellownefs alone leads to nothing
‘‘certain ; it may anfe from an inoffenfive

* futfufion of hile/

“ The prefent epidemick has likewife
been called a putrid fever, and the remedies
for the cure of that fpecies of fever l:)ave
been very generally prefcrihed. The fol¬
lowing extra6l from Dr. Mofeley will fhew
the error and mifchief of that pradlice;

‘ This difeafe is, in the higheft degree
‘ pofhbie, an inflammatory one, accompanied
‘ with fuch fymptoms, in a greater extent,

‘ as attend all inflammatory fevers, and mofl:

‘ flrikingly the reverfe of any difeale that is
‘ putrid, or of one continued exacerbation.

‘ It attacks all fuch people, and under fuch

* circumftances, as are ftldom the obje<5ls of
‘ putrid difcafes.’

“ In another place he fays:

‘ Bleeding mu ft; be jxirformed, and repeat -

* ed every fix or eight hours, or whenever
‘ the exacerbations come on, while the heal,

* fulnefs of pulfe, and pains, continue ; and,

* if thefe fyixiptoms be violent and obftinate,

‘ and do not abate during the firft 36 or 48

* hours of the fever, bleeding fhould be exe-
‘ cuted even to fainting. Taking away only
‘ fix or eight ounces of blood, becanfe the

* patient may be faint, wbicii is a fyrnptom
‘ of the difeafe, is doing nothing towards the
‘ cure. Wiicre bleeding is improper, no
‘ blood fl'iould be taken away; where it is

* proper, tliat c]unntity cannot relieve, and
‘ it is iofing that time which can never be

* regained.’

“ On purges Dr. Mofeley makes the fol¬
lowing remarks ;

‘When a fufl-icient quantity of blood has

* been taken away, which is never done let

* the patient’s habit be what it may, while
‘ the heat, reiterated exacerbations, flufhings

* in the face, thirft, pains in the head, and
‘ burning in tlie eyes, remain, the next ftep
‘ is, t't evacuate the contents of the bowels,

* and turn the humovus downwards.’

“ Speaking of opium, Dr. Mofeley fays,

‘ In a fever fo highly inflammatory, where

* t! e contents of the wiiole alimentary canal
‘ are fo hot and acrid, opium muft be ^ fatal
‘ medicine.'

“ To thefe quotations I fliall add, that
the difeafe, from' tlie influence of the cool
weather, is probably more univeifally and
more highly inflammatory in our city, and
requires more copious evacuations, than in
the ifland of Jamaica. It certainly requires
more fpeecly and more plentiful blecriing
than a common piexu'ify, uiafmucli as the
blood-vell'els, rendered weak by tlie previous
hot fumrner, are in more danger of being-
ruptured, both externally and internally,
fiom the violent ftimulus of tb.e contagion,
than ill an iriflanrimatory fever which fac-
«ceds cold weather. Bjenj. Rush.

Odioi'cr 9, 1793.”

In a farther obfervation on the mif-
chiefs of opiates. Dr. Rufh remarks,
that “laudanum has been called by Dr.
Mofeley a fatal medicine in the yellow
fever;” and, as a proof of this opinion,
he fays, p. 300, “ in one of my patients,
who took only fifteen drops of it, with¬
out my advice, to eafe a pain in his
bowels, it produced a delirium, and
death in a few hours.”

In regard to great evacuations, by-
purgatives, Dr. Rufh obferves, p. 24.9,
that “ Dr. Mofeley not only proves the
fafety, but eflablifhes the efficacy, of nu¬
merous and copious ftools in the yellow
fever and, as a confirmation of this
doclrine, he fays, “ Dr. Say probably
owes his life to three and twenty ftools
procured by a dofe of calomel and gam¬
boge, taken by my advice : and Dr.
Redman was purged until he fainted, by
a dofe ef the fame medicine*.” In
(hort, it appear.^, from the work before
us, tliar, as 1( on as the evacuant and
cooling fvftem, to the extent dire£\ed by
Dr. l\lofelev, was adopted, and the fick
no longer ftifled with heat, accumulated
congeftions, and morbid colluvies, by
wine, bark, and laudanum, the difeafe
became manageable, and the mortality
ceafed. Here the errors of Cleghorn, in
givine bark, as he fays himfeif, p. 221,
“ while the firft paftages were full of
vicious humours, and the bowels were
inflamed, or alTe£led with inveterate
obftru£lions and thofe of Lind, p.
120, in the “exacerbations of continued
fevers,” were woefully experienc.ed, and
the juftice of Dr. Mofeley ’s reprehenfion
of this praftice, in that part of his work
which relates to military operations, was
but too fully confirmed. In the pre¬
ceding hiflory we have tiiis melancholy
conclufion : that tiie principal mortality
of the yellow fever in Philadelphia arofe
from an injudicious method of treating
it. This being the cale, in a city where
there are fo many enlightened phyfi-
cians, mav we not reafonably enteit.ain
apprehenfion, that the f.sme caufe of
mortality in our navy and army in the
Weft Ind ies is now operating ? A,n
immediate inveftigation cl this calamity,
which has already produced fo much af-
flidtion to private families, as well as fo
much national misfortune, we have no
doubt, will employ the attention of
Governnnent.

* The purgative chiefly ufed on this oc-
cafion was, ten or fifteen grains of jalap, or
gamboge, with ten .grains uf calomel.

SeleSl Poary, Antient and Modern^ for 1794. 84I

I «r

Ak Elegy /if /<j/e Queen ^ Fa ance.
Written at the COUNTRY SEAT of
Governor of St. Helena, ^une 1794*

I By Eyles Irwin, Esc>,

i*TTrT HAT breaks this folemn calm!

[ W what omhious notes

!Of fear anil horror Echo’s fighs awake !
Ko more wild muficthro* the valley floats,

Or Peace repofes on that endleis lake*.

[By rebels brav’d, behold the world inarms!

A Titan race ! who Heaven and Earth defy ;
Whofe mad ambition vulgar fpirits charms.
On crimes ftiil rifing, Virtue’s force to try.

Again it comes! — thefliriek of anguifh wails
A deed, unrivall’d in the page of guilt;
The facrilegious axe the Qiieen alfails,

That late the blood of injur’d Louis fpilt I

Unhappy Fair ! could not thy beauty plead
With men, once confeious of her magic
fpell >

iThy fine attra<5fions, nor thy graces, lead
Thy flepstofafety, from the loathfome cell !

A Queen thou waft— by birth and place fu-
preme;

Yet loft thy freedom in a loyal land !

!Nor could the wife, the parent’s worth, re¬
deem

The life, denounc’d at Anarchy’s command!

lA.ccus’d, prejudg’d, by perjury and fraud.

By flander goaded, and by fiends defam’d ;
Indignant Virtue the allembly aw’d.

And feeling Candor ample credit claim’d.

They toriure not” — -Who mercy thus de¬
fines r

How faint the body’s torture to the mind 1
I Avaunt, Democracy! thy dark defigns
Leave Damien's dreadful punifhment be¬
hind I

For, Fancy dies, to picture hut the feene,
Where writhe Atfei^lion’s feelings on the
rack ; [lean,

The flendtr comfort, on which hope might
A filter, daughter's rainiftry to lack I

f Then, at the hour when demons only roam,
To glut vile fadtion, from her prifon torn,
To view tlie Queen, fupei ior to her doom.
Cl iip, in hcrai ms, her fair, and elder boru.

Deny’d a laft adieu to Boutbon’s heir,

She fcorn’d tofwell the triumph of her foes ;
My daughter, ftill Religion be thy care,
And on the faith of better worlds repofe.”

A dungeon damp receives that tender frame,
Nuis’dby the Loves, and lull’d by Flattery’s
breath ; [fame,

And fhe, wl)ofe fmile was wit, whofe notice,
In dreary filence walls a flianicful death !

* The Atlantic; whofe capacious hofom
is never ruffled in this quarter, fave by the
gentle breath of the Trade-wind.

(SkNi. Mag. Scjf>Uml>crj

They torture not” — Alas! how vain the
boaft ! [chords might Hart ;

Who charges prefs, whence Nature’s
And drive, in breafts to nice fenfations loft.
The blood in boiling torrents to the heart I

What hate engender’d was by malice fped.
Which, not content to crop this folar flow’r.
Dat ’d, while the world fang requiems to the
dead,

Her mem’ry by a f libel’s fangs devour.

Unmanly wretch ! could envy point thy ftkig ?

Her lot, one keen variety of woe 1
Could vengeance ? tho’ abhorr’d the name of
king—

For, death difarms the paffions of a foe !

For this, may hope ne’er wanton in thy breafl*
No parent’s fondnefs to thy foul be known t
May friends deceive thee, and r.hy Judge deteft.
When, rous’d from death, thou tremblelt
at his throne!

Yet, to her fame no fairer fhrine could rife
Than what unweeting enmity lhall rear.
The monftrous tale its antidote fupplies,

And laurels fhoot where hemlock clogs
her bier !

What tho’, by atheills decent rites deny’d,

Her relics moulder in a namelefs grave.

On Britifli fiiores upheld, the Exile try’d
In vifions oft with tears the fpot lhall lave.

And when Heaven wills to whelm this mot¬
ley Bate

In dire concuflions, that regenerate Peace ;
When this Chimera bows bis crefls to Fate,
And Fadlion, Rapine, Murder, Ruin 1 ceafe

With Hope’s light tints the future feens fhall
glow;

A nation’s loud acclaim the Throne reflore ;
A column Ipr ug, hiftoric of her wo?,
Whereloyahy (hall kneel — lament— adore !

4 This alludes to the obfequies performed
at the Spanilh Ambaifadoi’s chapel in Lon¬
don, and the other eouris of Europe, to the
memory of the Queen, while tliat infaracus
publication, called ‘ The life oftlie late Qiiecn
of France’, was circulating in Paris, and, I
am grieved to find, in London. If the free-i
dom of the prefs allow of fuch an < un age on
d-cency and probability as the libel extnt.u^, it
is fortunate, that, in the extravagant and weak
malice of her enemies, her defence may le-
curely be eflablifhed. And this, without the
additional plea, that not one of the intrigues
there fabricated was brought in evidence
againfl: her in a trial, which lacked of ail
evidence whatever: a plain proof, that tb.-is
very monflers, her judges, confulered il;a
life alluded to as applicable to any liarlot jie
the purlieus of the Palais Royal rather than
to a characler, which mull have enforced
as much of th'eir i as hatred.

Fcgr

$4^ poetry^ AnUent and Plodern^ for September, 17<5f4*

For me' — -wlule Iheltci’d \v\ thefe tranquil
' ihailes,

By Wi,r’> rude (hocks unfcar’d, oi rebel yell,
Which but the dove or tropicbreeze invades,
To foothe Maria, miftrefs of the fpell !

My feet, reludlant, had the haven left.
Where Health, an alien, lillen’d to my
pray’r;

But Love, of whofe dear eonverfelong bereft,
Myfpeedinvckes, to ilillthe throbsof care.

ODE.

i?y THE Author of “ The Recess.”

OT in the defolated void
Of cities level’d, man deflroy’d.

Fair Libehty delights !

Her pure feet fhun the track of blood,

Her eyes abhor th’ eafanguin’d flood,

Shq loaths the brutal rites !

When with fond vows to Gallia lur’d,
jWhat miferies the nymph endur’d
, Ere yet the flaoie the fled !

The blocd-flain’d lilies in her tears
Fv’n now flie fteeps, nci' numbers years
But hallow’d by the dead 1

Ah \ fliall again her hand divine,

Rich Burgundy, thy cluflers twine ?

Or, guiding Lyons’ looms.

Give the induftrious poor that fenfe,
Wak'd only by her inflnence,

Which quickens Nature’^s blooms ?

•J.o ! in yon Ifle with olives crown’d,
Whofe rocks made furges rage around,
Yet, Nympli, thy fpirit glows 1
A hardy race, unknown to art,

Thefe boaft each virtue of the heart.

And all thy will beftows.

There, like the patriarch of old,

His gallant fon a chieftain bold
, On thy green altar plac’d —

TThe little vKSllm flerniy imird ;

..But, oh ! thy favour fpar’d the child.
Whom foon 'thy gloi y grac'd I

In him a nation’s hopes reviv’d j
For thee and Corfica he liv’d ;

He fought — he fled for tliee !

'For thee re-trod the fatal ground ;

I'lo Ollier charm to being bound.

Devoted Faoli 1

"Fardltlant by his fortune
His mind revolv’d the ages paid,. '

The prefent he leview’d,

From each its vital jiovv’r to draw,

Make freedom, order ; virtue, law?

And glory, gratitude.^ ,

■'J-JoF vain the with — hi Britain’s ifle
‘Again, O Nymph, he met thy fmile,

'■ And wcoW thee to his ov\ n.

Ah ! greet the hero on the Ihore;

Then bid the tide of Genius pour
Around thy lyl' U'U throne !

Not who deny our FiiJI Great Caufe
Can know the fanftitude of laws
' Which erring will controul ;

To reafon facred be that check
Which binds the wicked, guards the weak^
And guides the noble foul !

Nor wilt thou. Liberty, defpife
The force of voluntary ties.

Whence peace and virtue fpring !

Oh ! when thy hand the crown betlows
How graceful look the monarch's brows!
How dear is then a King I

July 1%. S. L.

SONNET. To THE RIVER Ouse,

Fair Oufe! thatlov’flthy windingflreara
to lead [vary’d flow’r,

Through meads bedeck’d with many a
’ Along thy banks at evetide’s fober hour,
Sweet contemplation w’ooing, oft I tread
What tim.e pale Cynthia, emprefsof the night,
Refledls a glimm’ring luftre on thy wave.
And huzy man, toMorpheus’powersa Have-,
iSufpends his labours till returning light.

Ah ! then the foul, by no low wifhes bound,
Detach’d from earth, in blifs extatic flies
On Fancy’s pinions to her native fkies,
Forgot meanwhile each care,* — hulh’d each
intruding found, £tow’r,

Save tliat from yonder high embattled
The dee^)-ton’d bell recounts each palling
hour. Classic®^

SONNE T,

IVihten by the Bedfide of a poor Woman.

By M I ss Locke.

glifl’ning tears that wet thy wrinkled
, cheek

Proclaim the feelings of thy grateful heait,
And to ray mind a fofter language fpeak
Than all the eloquence of flattering art.

I thank thee for that warm and fervid ray.
Which, beaming from thy eyes, afeendsta
Heav’n ;

h fupplicates fome Angel to repay

That foothing pity I to thee have giv’n.

i will not Ihun thee, tho;’ terrific Death
Stalks round thy bed, and fhakeshisawefal
dai t ;

.Humanity fhall catch thy fleeting breath,
And fee thy guiltlefs foul in peace depart.
Turn to this feene, ye gay, a ferious eye.
And learn of virtuous Poverty to die.

SONNET. To THE Nightingale.

B Y MisS Locke.

SECUR’D wuthin the fhelter of ihfs grove,
O! let, fweetbird, your rat king Arams
refer, lid;

'Or tell at eventide your tale of love,

To charm your Iittk family around.

N.ature, whenCer her glorious works we
view*,

Impartial and benef;cent vve End }

SlT«

SeleSl Poetry y Antient and A^oderrit for September, 1794* 843

Sire gave the pow’rs of harmony to yo'^,

To me an humble and contented mind.

Sequefter’J from the gay^ndfplendid throng,
Whobowpblequioasroundproud h afhion’s

throne,

[n privacy, like you, 1 tune my fuug,

I And make the fweets ofleifureallmyown;
Content if he my iimple kys approve,
Whofcpraife 1 honor, and whole worth I love.

Pastoral.

WHERE filent Clwyd amidft her
poplars flows, [ty glows.

Where dwelltrue fwains, where faireft beau-
iTw© blooming virgins footh’d the parting
hour [o’er ;

[With tears and fighs, that pierc’d the valley
iWhen thus fvveet Nell with mournful accents
i cries,

|And thus fair Morven to her plaints replies.

NeJ}.

And doll thou, Morven, leave 'by native hills,
Thefe groves, thefe verdant fields, thefe chryf-
tal rills? [hind,

[And doft thou, Morven, leave thy Nell be-
|To mourn thy abfence to the ruthlefs wind?

I Morven.

I As fome fond mother her lofl child deplores,
And o’er its grave the briny tribute pours ;

I leave thefe elms, that roof,imbowi ’d indiade.
Where peace and nature all their bleflings
fpread, [s^'^c :

|J. leave thee, Neft ! — ourfweetefl: hopes are
1 Like idle flreams that lull the fvvain at noon !

' NeJI.

i’Twas herein childhood’s tender lap grew,
iOn ^JircuFs banks, midfl; acorn-cups and
clew ;

[ Beneath the hawthorn tripp’d the rofe-clad
j Where hlelTed elves and nightly fairies tiod;
lorchac’d a fly, or liften'd to the note
f Of blackbird w hiftling with melodious throat,
i VVhilft unperceiv’d, unknown, fweet friend-
fhip join’d

I Our attlefs bofoms and our artlefs mind 1

Morven.

I Oft on a winter’s n ght, when lofl in fnow’S
t The lifejefs.traveiri to the tempeft bows;

I When, wrapt in night, the d fappointed maid
I Decks her love’s grave, and wets the facred
glade,

I Renews her vows, invokes the confcious flat
I TAat gives a faint, weak glim’ring fi om afar ;
i We prefs’d anmnd, wlnlll with loquacious
’ longue

The long-recoided tale fome beldam fung
Of Ihepherd-lad, a long niglit doom’d to ftray
Thro’ pools and brakes, and many a wicked
way ;

Of nighfly gliofl that vv.alk'd yon manfion
' round,

Shook hit foul lock', and yell’d a difmal found]

Whilft Fancy, lifl’ning with attentive ear,
Rousfd by the blafl, beholds the fpedre near !

Ncjl.

Oft in yon copfe we fat (that waves its head
O’er Denbigli’s tovv’rs and Clwyd’s fmooth
poplar bed)

Midfl hazels thick, and foft melodious airs
Fi'om fhepherd-pipe, and flute difpelliug
cares ;

Or pierc’d the thick- wood fhade, and her¬
mit's cell.

Where 'livnig w'aters down tlae cryflal fell,
Where the good father dealt his fylvan ftoi e ,
And taught high, truths and deep experienc'd
lore,

Morven.

Farewel, fweet Clwyd! wbofe woodland
globes difpLay

The richeft treafures £0 the eye of day ;

Were apples, nuts, and corn, luxuriant grow,
There milk and honey in rich fountains flow,
And fweet raethegiin as MonCgom’ry boafts
To grateful travell’rs from Salopian coafls 1
F^arewei, ye cots ! beneath w'hofe roofs re¬
found [found.

The midnight feng and harp’s harmonious

Neji.

Cut whj’^, my Morven, wilt tliou leave thefe

joys,

Thefwecteft vale, and peace that never cloys?
In Saxon land the bufy hum of trade
Drowns the foft thought attendant on the
fhade ;

There gain and commerce ev’17 breaft engage.
And bloody wars and Icwylefs fadfions rage ;
Nor pipe, nor flute, on mountain fide is heard,
Nor cow-boy whiftliug to his jocund herd i

Morven. *

Yet, ah ! ^weet maid, what ’vails or pipe or
flock,

If groans the mind beneath oppreffion’s yoke I
See how the primrofe hangs his little head,
Wlien cruel tempeft s tear the flow’ry mead.

NeJi.

Some youth, I ween, on Ceflrian plain has
flole

Thy foft affedlions, and thy gen’rous foul ;
Who nowperhaps preparesthe nuptial bow’r
In Deva’shauntswithvariousfweetsand flow'r:
Ordoft thou lovewhere Thames majeftic runs,
Midfl penfive willows and high-feepter’d
towns ?

Or wouldft thou dwell in Herefordian glade.
And wear out life beneath the apple fhade ?
Where’ee thou art, let earlieft rofes blow,
Shinebnghtefl Ikies, and pureft waters flow !
Where'er thou ait, lo Albion’s hind, relate
Cambria’s fweet flene';, how rude, liow fair
how great !”

Thus fpoke the maids, when bitter flghs again
Tore tlieir foft breafts, and fmote vviih ten¬
fold pain.

PARO-

^44 Poetry y Antieni and Modern^ for September, 1794,

PAPvODIES OF SHAKESPEARE. No. XV.

r^T'^Owed? or, not towed? — that is the
1^ queftion :

Whether ’tis better for a man t’endnre
The wants and cravinns of a fcanty fortune,
Or to take refuge in a fair-one’s arms.

And by efpoufing end them ? to wed ?— -t’
unite —

No more— and by that match to fay w'e end
The plague of keeping lioufe, and otfier cares
A Batchelor’s heir to — ’tis accommpdauon
Pevoutly to be wifh’d-— 1 o w'cd ? t unite *
T’unite ? — perchance be hen-peck’d — there’s
the rub.—

For his princely banquets; and his firm voices
Turning towards the Common hall alfembled.
Defends the peace, trade, commerce, fran-
chife, rights,

And fplendor of his great Metropolis ;

Or*, iffuing forth, his calm intrepid prefence
Awes Fadfion’s daring riots; lall eminence,
That fiiines difiinguifli’d in the city’s eye”.
And he with confeious dignity fiipports.

His Seat in Parliament; fans oppofition.

Sans place, fans penfion, promife, contraft,
bribe.

As YOU LIKE IT. ii. 7.
MASTER SHALLOW.

For in that hafty deed what ills may come,
'When we have fiuiffled off this fingle ftate,
Muff give ns paufe : there’s the refpedf ^

That makes celibacy of fo long life ; [time,
For w'ho would hear the creeping waffe of
The fpendthrift’s lofs, the mifer’s contumely,
And diftant kin curfing our death’s delay,

The infolence oi long-kept feiwants, and the
frauds

That patient ignorance of the tradefmen takes.
When he himfelf might his quietus make
With a bare ring ? wiio would the mark’d tax
bear,

And fit down dally to a folitary meal.

But that the dreadof fomething after marriage,
A fcolding wife! from whofe outrageous
tongue

No prieft can untie us, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear the ills we have
Than fly to others which vr e think much worfe.
Thus felfiihnefs doth make cowards of us all ;
•And thus the native .ffrength of conftitution
Wears out, through this pale caff of thought;
And lovely women, of greatwealth and beauty.
With this negledl are fuffei ed to go bv,

And fo the family name is loff. — —But fee,
In charming weeds the widow !— — in thy rich
dowry,

Lady I be all rny debts o’erpaid. —

Hamlet, iii. i.

At firft, the Errand-boy,

Singing, like lark, the fpirit-flirring- ballad
Of Whittington and ’s Cat: and then the
’Prentice, [civet,

With powder’d morning head, feented like
Serving the Ihop; and then the Journeyman,
Sighing, like zepliyrs, with a craity couitfliip
Hade to ins miff refs’ daughter: then, the
Farmer,

Full of defignsand patent new inventions,
Seeking his money’d repuLition [man,

Even in ’Change alley : and then the Alder..
In fair round belly, with fat tuitle lin’d.
Worth a whole plumb; and in his Sheriff's
year

Full loyally goes up with an addrefs,

And fo gets knighted ; the next rotation
Chairs him, Right Hoiuourable 1 he Lord

Mayor; [fore him,

With chain on ’s neck, and fwoid borne be-
Tlie Manfioa-hytife fcarce -wide tiiicugh

CARMEN OL. GOLDSMITH, M. B.

La TINE RKDDITUM.

( Continued from -p. 747.)

STILLANTEM fenidr lachrymam con-»
fpexit — (et illi

Anxia mens fuerat, parquedoloris onus) .
Ah mifer, enarres ludlus — age, fare,” pre-
catur,

<< Tantus folliciti pe£loris unde labor ?

Exul, inons, erras? an dtilcia tedla tuorum,
Expulfus mutas vi, patriamque domum. }
<< Saevane amicitias fimulatae verbera mentem
“ Tam graviter torquent? an malefidus
“ amor ?

<< Hei mihi ! ne fallat vultu fortuna fereno ;
Spemve ferat ridens infidiofa levem —
Fortnnae, mihi crede, caduca et inania dona
Vir cautae mentis fpernit — ineptus amat.

Et quid amicitia eft bodie nifi fabula, nomen>
S opitae mentis philtra, miniftra doli ?

<< Non incerta comes famse, vel divitis auri,

“ At miferum curfu linquere prona cito.

Tuque, o perfide amor, muito magis irrite I
quern vult

Ludibrium fieri virgo fupeiba fibi !

Quern terra ignorat — nifi forfan vifere nidura
Turturis hand fpernas, mutua corda fovens.

Proh pudor, infanum tacito preme cord«
dolorem,

Nec tibi fit tanti foemina caufa mali
— Vix hsec ediderat, cum frons fuffufa rubor©
Convivam afoniti prodit ad ora fenis.

(To be continued.) H, G. B .

THE SNOW Y-D A Y,

A pastoral Sketch
By Dr. Perfect.

Earth' s univer fa! Face, deep -hid and chilJ,
Is one wild daz.zling iVafie that buries ail
The i'Vorks of Man,"

Thou Fancy^' legitimate fon,

Defeription’s moft favourite child|
Immortal ’s the wreath thou haft won
From fubjedls ter rife and mild\

When Spring with her rofe-fprinkled veff.
Or Summer wuth chaplets of green,
Brown Autumn luxurioufly dreft,

Or Winter, environs thefeene.

Poetry, Antient and Modern, for September, 1794* 84S

I Thomfon ! like thee could flie foar,

The Mufe to depaint might afpire,
lelodious, the feafon deplore,

Or wake to her forrovvs the lyre ;

)enied thy pretenhon to fame,

He venial her flight as refign’d,

Jnhallovv’d if rifes the flame,

Uncherifh’d by bards more refin’d.

Does Janus lead forward the year.

While Terror awaits on its birth ?
in vai-ied folemnity rear
Aquarius, to govern the Earth ?

[n ciii6lure of fable, the ftorm
The breaft with opacity Ihrouds,]

Its quietvtde can it deform ,

When Virtue refiftcth its clouds?

The mind felf-colleiSfed fhall fland,

Secure of contentment in bloom,

Integrity ftretch forth her hand,

Appall’d not at tempefl: nor gloom.
Lyfander, then droop not, my friend.

Nor figh o’er the wafte of the day ;

Let Winter her tyrannies fend,

Thy heart fhall ftill mantle in May.

The fnow (than thy morals lefs bright)

A landfcape unufual affords.

Involves the,high mountains in night,
Infenfibly fcatters its hoards :

Digreihve, the fubjedt I’ll pafs,

Comparifon Ample to make ;

The wealth that pale mifers amafs

Augments like the fnow on tire brake.

Or, as thro’ the crevice its fleece
Grows filently up to a heap.

The wretch eyes his fplendid increafe,
Which robs liim of comfort and flee p.
The fimile farther extends:

His glafs of mortality run.

His piles feme yonng'prodigal fpends,
Whichvfmk as the fnow in the fun.

While flghs the fharp wind in the rock,
What found do I hear fr5m the fane 1
Methinks ’tis tlie frozen-tongu’d clock
. Slow mutters the time to the plain.

Ah ! no, to my terror-ftruck ear
Thy knell ’tis, Amanda, that peals :
What eye is exempt from a tear 1
What heart but of adamant feels.

As beauteous as Spring, when fhe rear’d
Her locks vdlet-woveu wuth bloom,
Amanda to Friendfhip appear’d

As beauteous, I'uuk down to the tomb :
Her hand, poor Neceffaty’s guard,

Supp >rted tlie children of Woe,

Could Virtue her fenteuce retard.

The tears of the Mufe would not flow.

How loud are the eddies that roar
Thro’ Medway, as circling they fly.
Snow-fed from the pondermas fhore I
As loud is the Villager’s Agh;

O Death ! not a current more pure
Haft thou ever check’d iia its courfe ;
Could Beauty thy terrors allure,

Thy dart mult hav^ loft all its force.

The Genius of fnow from the North,

In mantle of brilliancy dieft,

1 tremble to fee him come forth,

And lord o’er the country diftrefs’d.

The nymphs of the valleys and groves,
Afh'ighten’d, abfeond from his pow’r.

O name not the Graces and Loves
So chill’d by the rain-frozen fliow’r.

But let ns regret not the aid,

That Providence grants to the earth;
Vegetation, thus timely array’d,

Is nourifh’d and nurs’d into birth,

BeneAcent Meteor ! how kind,

The plants thus to wrap in thy fleece !

In regions' more Northern we And
The flowers fucceed thy decreafe

The hedges are cover’d with fnow,

The roads o’er their fummits afeenci.

Into figures anomalous grow.

Over corn-Aelds and fallows ext'end:

Unable to combat the glare.

The poultry remain in their cove;

In her feat, fullen, fits the fad hare.

Till hunger compels her to move.

See mountains on mountains arife,

A fplendid tho’ terrible weight ;

Sure Zambia has fhifted her Ikies,

Or Rhodope lent us her freight.

From Zambia’s unciviliz’d coaft.

Admit that the Genius of Woe
Forth iffues a numberlefs hoft, ,

An army mail-coated in fnow.

Shall Winter, on vvhofe icy car '

Congenial rigours await.

The morning and evening flar
Illumine, to beam on her ftate ?

Shall Froft forge his flrong, Alent chains.

In bondage rude Nature to liold,

A tyrant rule over the plains,

Exclude from their paftures the fold ?

Then come, my Lyfander, if rhime,

Uncontti and grotefque as the day.

Can fui hifli amufement to rime.

Let Fancy replenifli the lay.

To her foft feduff ion let’s yield, ''

And blame not the innocent cbCvat ;

Be all her wild portraits reveal’d,

With novelties countlefs l eplete :

With her in her curvetings rove
Creations illuAve t© view,

She comes full of fport from her grove.
Enchantments around her to ftrew.

Permit us, gay Pow’r, to attend,

InfpeCling each vvhimAcal feene.

Which thou, fond Magician, lhalt lend,
Romantic, anticpie, or fereue.

The lhallow of yonder vaft drift,

Lyfander, come let usex;’ilore5
Her tube Fancy gives us to lift,

Extend all thy ci itical lore,

* In Sweden, the earth in April is n t
diveftedof fnow more than a fortnigtit bef re
^ue face of the country is coveued with flower-.

And

84^ pQctry, Antteni and Modern, for September, 1794.'

And here, fee the chi (Tel of Art
A pnlTage has cieft in the fnow
"While gems tlieir rcfplendence impart,

A }o\xn\<cy Jubnivial we go.

See high on yon ftied, pafiing ftrange 1

Tiieie perches, or feems perch’d, a fowl,
Young Fidlion might call it ihy change j
Ny/^ymene turn’d to an Ou 1.

Here pillars of marble are fcen,

There biiihiings and bridges, fo grand 5
Columns flratter'd, whofe portals between,

In ruins, fpi ead over the land.

Tlrere figures half-buried appear,

Hierogly j'hical rnonflers arife ;

A lion, or crocodile, here,

A camel there proftraied lies.

Still wave, plaflic Fancy, thy wand,

Of tombs and o^ books let me fuig,

Of lupiter turn’d to a fwnan,

For Fidlion’s creative of wing.

On precipice huge feems to rear
An abbey, a church, or a Low’r,

Coloffus, of vifage fevere.

Or temple as light as a flow’r;
Soft-bofora’d in white-tufted trees,

Some manfion of marble we fee;

Bur, the moment it ceafes to freeze,

No longer the phantom is free.

Here ftruts an Flerculean man.

An Eagle and Gan)mede there,

A Neptune, Apollo, or Pan,

Or Syhphus Iiigh in the air ;

Thro’ a half-fracflur’d arch w^e behold
Vafl rivers of fnow in the vale,

Faums an.d Satyrs alternate unfold,

Then a fort, or a flhp under fail.

Fnongh of Similitude’s feene,

To f oliefome Fancy adieu!
l.et Pity lier fenate convene,

T!ie anguifti pj Nature to view:

She points to the fnow-buried cot,

Humanity catches her flame :

Enlivens the comfortlefs fpot,

And crdls up, to Ciiarity, Fame.

In mantle a*^ white as the fnow
Religion is feen in lier li'ain,

In queR of difpirited Woe,

C^u■ifl^anity raeafures the plain ;

Hail, firfl-boni of Heaven, whofe charm
Defpondency cattles tofmile.

Where blclfings tite feafon can warm.

And clierilh the otFspring of Toil.

O Charity, born of the Ikies,

Tlie hymn of Contentment receive,

From gratitude bear it arifs

To thee, ever prone to reheve :

AfPi'ftiou who late in the vale

The Tear of Anxiety flied ;

Wliofe ir.f-.nts with hunger were pale,

Shall woribip the hand that lias fed.

_ \_ _ _ _ _ _ ,, .

^ A large arched long extended pallage
which had Uendug and cut under the fnow.

Blefl: Ifle, wdiofe beft bounty appear,

To flow from the fource of the heart.

To wipe Sorrow’s cheek ftain’d with tears,
And fhap poor Misforttiite’s barb’d dart ;
How fweet the fenfatinns of thofe,

Like cherubs of heavenly light,

^ MTio foften the feafon of woes
Epitomize Poverty’s night !

Benevolence, blefiing divine I

FNir native, down-wing’d from abovft
The tale of fweet Sympathy ’s thine,

The talk of afFeftion and love;

To raife up the fad penfjve eye.

To pour healing halm upon xVoe?,

Bid Indigence banifh her figh.

And kind Hofpitality flow.

Y e herds, who frequent the rude ftalf.

Ye folds, that in flocks croud the pen^^

O ! ftart not at Nature’s white pall.

Nor fhudder, ye fowls of the fen ;

The fun from the South fhall unbind
The menacing fetters of froft.

The fnow fiiall diflolve in the wind.

Her empire be conquer’d and lolt.

New beauties llaall open the year,

Thefe terrible objedts recede,

Y^oung Spring in gay mantle appear.

The Graces determine the lead ;

The mazes which carl from the glade,
Wliich erfl bluft’ring Boreas blew.

Shall lengthen an enviable fhade,

A boaft to each pidlurefqus view. ^

In veflure of velvet the grove
Zephyrus (hall wlrifp’ring Hn,

The choiillers warble forth love,

Pure blifs ! the perfedtion of man,

The God of each feafon to praife,

Let Fseans inceffantly flow ;

’Tis his, Winter’s' triumphs to raze
Wiiofe goodnefs emaciates the jnjw,

INTER AMICOS NE SIS ARBITER.

FIEN Nell and Jobfon are exchan¬
ging blows, [rattle ;

When oaths refound, and heavy cudgels
Think not, miflaken wdght, to interpofe.
But fly with all tliy fpeed the field of battle ;
For, he that with their quai rels interferes-
Will find their ftiur big fills foun rattling
round his ears.

THE FLOWER and the LEAF.

A Full-blown flow’r, of rofiefl: hue,

And dew-hefpangled pride,

Diidain’d the humble leaf that grew
Unh eded by its fide.

But mark the event! the lowring fkies
Defeeud in ftormy rain;

The flow’r, all drench'd and broken, dies.
The leaf deth Hill remain.

Oh 1 let the haughty man of pow’r
His pageantry forego;

Tlte florm, that fpoils the gaudy flower.

May lay the boafler low. Ebor.

PRO-

f 847 ]

»ROCEEDINGS of the NATIONAL CONVENTION of FRANCE; /owp.75?.

fan. \ Deputation from the Committee
17. of the Arts inviteii the Conven-

ioa to continue its prote6lion to the arts and
ciences, to caufe the national palace to be
inifhed, and to grant prrzesto tlie as tifts who
hould excel in portraying inftaxrces of he-
oifm and virtue.

Ofi the motion of Thuriot, the Committee
)f Public Inftrudlion was ordered to prepai e
1 plan of prizes for artills.

Decreed— That the linen of the fuppreffed
dnirches fhall be applied to the fervke of
;he military hofpitals.

Decreed — That the makers of paper fhall
put their names, and the name of their ma-
uifaftories, on every piece of paper they
make, under a penalty of 3000 livres, and
confifcation of the paper not fo marked.

A deputation from the Popular and Re¬
publican Society of the Arts f^aid, that, the
indefatigable zeal of the Committee of Public
Safety having opened a profpecf of the period
when they fhould be able to lay down tlieir
arms and, refume their pencils, they requell¬
ed that the Convention would order a Tem¬
ple to be built id Public Liberty and Happi •
nefs, to be adorned with the hell picjd ac¬
tions of all the artifls of the Republic.
Referred to the Committee of Public in-
Rruflion.

On the motion of Boiffier, the following
decree was p. lfed :

1. On-board the fltips in the fervice of the
Republic fhall he embarhed the following
number of officers ; In (hips of above i 50
tons burthen, one Captain and two officers.

2. The Captain fliail receive 100 livres
pay per month ; the fecond officer in com¬
mand, 70 livres; and the tliirJ, 60 livres.

3. In tlie ling voyages, and upon cruizes,
their pay fla.ii be fixed in the feas of Europe,
in the following manner: A Captain ffiall
have 7 livres per day ; each of the officers,
three livres ten fous per day. For long crui¬
zes, or to the colonies, the Captains fhall
have 10 livres per day; and each of the
officers, four livres ten fous.

4. By means of thefe regulations, tlie Cap¬
tains and officers embarked ffiall have'^no
claim to any other pay, or allowance of pro-
vifions.

Jan. 20. Couthon, in the name of the
Committee 6f Public Safety, propofed that
a provincial fum of 500,000 livres fhould
be placed in the hands of the Mini tier of the
Interior, for the fuccour of the families of
tlie national foldiers — many voices cried out
that the fum was not fuffic.ent.

Cambon Lid, that nothing lefs than ten
iriillions was fit for a gieat nation to give to¬
wards this object ; they had no right to cail
Vipon young men to quit their families and
tight for tlieir country, without making an
ample recomperice to their families for their
lols.

Couthon fiiid, that this w'^as only a provia
fional propofition, until a general report:
could be made on the fubjeiSl ; he perfeiftly
agreed with the opinion of Cambon; and the
fum of ten millions was voted accordingly.

Barras made a report on the liquidatioa
of public offices, and feveral articles weie
decreed.

Jan. 27. A Deputation of Americans
relident in France requeited the Convention
to liberate the Ex-Deputy Thomas Paine,
imprifoaed in the Luxembourg. As a rea-
fon for their requefl, they adduced his pa¬
triotic writings, and his fervices to America,
and mentioned the joy his imprifonsnent af¬
forded to Great Riitain, w'ho had proferibed
him. Theyalfo requefted leave to take him
with them to America, his country. The
Prefident obferved to them, that Thomas
Paine was born in England; that his wri¬
tings might liave been ufiful to America, but
he had contributed nothing to the revolution
of Fi ance ; that the Convention would, how¬
ever, take their petition into confuieration.

Jan. 28. Ruhl movetl, that the War Mi¬
ni fter fliould give an account of the execution
of the decree in favour of the hoftages at
Mentz ; that the reprefentatives of thepe>-
ple fhould order the Eledlor Palatine to pay
to the King of Fiullia, witiiin 24 hours, the
fums which he claims as a ratifom for the
French at Mentz, under pa n of feeing his
ele^Slorate deflroyed by fire and fword ; that
tli^ French generals ihould be enjoined to
bring all the grain, fxc. which they find on
the eflates of the German Princes into
France; that the National vengeance may
begin to difplay itfelf; and that the cafile of
the Eledlor of Mentz, at Worms, might be
dellroyed. Refensd to the Commiuee of
Public S.ifcty.

Jan. 31. A deputation from the DiflricT;
of Lille prefented all tl'e gold, filver, jew*
e’‘^, &:c. to a large amount, which fiiperfiition
had ccileded as agreeable to t!ie Divinity,
Notwith Handing all tliat their fituation had
obliged tnem to apply to the pui poles of u ar,
they ha i Odd churcii p-operty to the amount
of 19 miiiiony, of wiw h millions and a
half were aJready paid into the National
Treafury. The movc..ble property of Emi¬
grants^ amounted to two millions ; and the
fale of their immoveable property was m full
aiRivity, at more than double the valuation.
The Convention would then judge of the cie-
dit due to the calumnies agaiult the people of
Lille, who had always rtfii^ed the clelpot-,
and baffied the traitors. ’

pameutary Ipeech: iliey were rcfejieu n
the Comniitteeof Public Safety, to give infor
mation on ihe prefent ftate td I, die,

Feh. I. Raffi’on prefented Tome remark
againlt the intended ell,ihliihin''nt of an nra
dca y for ti e doaftind dumb. Le though

S48 Proceedings of the National Convention in [Sept,

it would be better to apply the money
whicli fiich an eftabliftiment would coft, to
the maintenance of thofe who were the ob-
je^bs of it, with their relation*;. Thefe obfer-
vations were equally applicable to elbablifh-
men's for the blind. — Referred to the Com-
jnittee of Public Succour.

Ftb. 2. Bentabiale addrefled to the Con¬
vention the funci of 10,000 livres, deliveied
to him, as a contribution for carrying on the
xvar, by a woman detained as a fufpefted per-
fon, her fon being an emigrant.

Danton, obferving that the property of
that woman belonged to the Nation, and
that flae otlered as a piefent what was not at
her difpofal, caufed the money to be fent to
the Committee of General Safety.

On the motion of Danton, feconded by a
report of the Committee of Finance, the
law, enaifbing the giving of fecurities for ob¬
taining public charge^, was abrogated, as a
Tujiy Itain o>f the ancient government.

The Committee of Public Safety prefented
the report rep efling Ihip-bullders, dock¬
yards, and every civil branch of the navy,
together with the plan of a decree, confining
of thirteen articles. *

On the rcpc,rt of the fame Committee it
was decreed, that every captain or other
oliicer of the navy, who (hall Ibrike and
furrender a fhip of the line to the enemy,
without having fought a force at leaft double
her own, fliall be declared guilty of treafon
againfl their country.

The Convention decreed, at the fame
time, that ilie fcamen who Ihall capture an
enemy’s lliip, of one third greater force than
their own, (hall get promotion, and alfo be
otlierwife revvaided.

Feb. 3. The Minifler of Marine tranf-
initied a Memorial, containing the meafures
which he took to put under rrreft Polverel
and Santhbnax, decreed in a Rate of accuta-
tion.—Refened to the Committee of Public
Welfare.

A citizen fent a method of procefs to make
foap of potatoes. He allured the Convention,
iliat tins foap had all the properties of that
uiecl in common.— Referred to the Commit¬
tee of Agi'iculture. ‘

Tlie Scclioas of La Unite and La M'on-
t.agne brought foui teen hogfheads of faltpe-
Cre, which they had gathered;' and laid,
that liencefoi th the ornaments of the church¬
es fliould now be fublliiuted by faltpeire,
which was the emblem of freed Frenchmen,
d he Prefident anfvvered the Deputation in
a fpeech full of vaunting gafeonades agamft
the Britidi Na.tlon.

The Convention admitted, among the
number of their colleague?, a black, a Mu¬
latto, and a Whito, who were received with
the civic kits from the Prelident, and ac¬
knowledged as the Repi efematives of the
c-dony of St. 'Domingo.

Feb. 4. The Natiounl Convention de¬
crees, tliat liavery is abolUhed in all the
i.rcnch colornss.

It decrees, in confequence, that all the in¬
habitants of the French colonies, of what¬
ever colour, are French citizens, and from
this day forward fhall enjoy thofe rights
which are fecured to them by the Declara¬
tion of Rights and by the Conftitution.

Feb. 7. A citizen demanded, that the
Society of Arts do withdraw from the galle¬
ry the produdlions of thofe perfidious painters
and artifls who, availing themfelves of the
decree which diftiugnifhes them from the
emigrants, remain rampant at the cqurts of
all the tyrants.' — Referred to the Committee
of Public Inlirudion.

Feb. II. , Oouthon moved, that honour¬
able mention be decreed for the picture re-
prefenLing tlic battle of Hondfehoote, offer¬
ed to the Convention by citizen de Lorche;
and that the fame cit/zen be permitted to re¬
pair to the armies, that he may be enabled
to prailife liis talents there, and depidf tha .
courage of Frenchmen in a faithful manner ta
pofterity. — Decreed.

A Deputaiion of the inhabitants of the
Diftri6f of Montbebard, formerly belonging
to the Duke of Wirtemherg, came to de¬
mand, that that Diftri6t be united with
France. Referred to the Committee of Pub¬
lic welfare.

A citizen of Moudidiey announced, In a
letter, a method to prevent the weevil’s
getting among the corn in the granaries.
This procefs confilts in cleaning thoroughly
e /ery granary or barn where this infeit in¬
troduced itfelf, to air them for ievei'al
months, and to rub well afterwards the
planks with green leeks, which are to re¬
main fome time before they are taken away :
the corn is then to be poured in, and to. lie
thick enough on the floor to prevent, by its
fraell or the return of the weevil.—

In thofe granaries w'here no. corn has been
put, the fame procefs is to be obferved, to
prevent the introJuifion of that infccf.

Citizen Dutaiily, who reflded feven years
at Rome, and fuflered a molt rigorous im-
prifoameni in the caftle of Sr. Angelo, after
having been plundered of all his property by
the rnoh, was granted, by virtue of a decree
of the Convention, an anr.ual penfion ot
loco livres, to begin from the month of Fe¬
bruary 1793, when the French were flrld
perfecuted at Rome.

The Committee of Relief made its report
refpedting tiie claim of the lifter of Mira-
bqau, whohad been Ihut up in a convent ever
fmee fhe was four years old. The Commit¬
tee gave it as its opinion, that her claims
ought not to be gr.anted.

Feb. 12. The provifory Adminiflrators of
the National Domains wrote to give an ac¬
count of the produce arifing from the fale of
the property of Emigrants.

The Dillridt of Grenoble has already ad.
judged four aublions, which produced
8,000,000 of livres.

(Tv be.d’itirHisd J

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Intelligence of Importance from the Continent.

FoRKTON L>aTKLL10ENCF.

Ge.nn.'a^ 25. On the i8ch inftapt^

M. M. Soulavie and Merle, conimiffioners
rom the French Convention, refident here,
;ave a grand dinner to the principal mem-
oers of a fociety, entitled The Club of the
Mountain, aliai the Marfeillefe Club, con-
fifting of the moft violent patiiots of tins ci¬
ty. On breaking-up, which did not happen
till an early hour in the morning, the mem¬
bers of the club had recourie to arms, and,
arming the populace at the fame time, took
poflelhon of the gates and arfenals. They
next proceeded to eie<fl a revolutionary Com¬
mittee, or Committee of Public Safety, com-
pofed of feven members, by whom every
perfon inimical to their interefts was inrtantly
apprehended. As it was impolFible for the
prifons to contain the whole of thofe, they
were conveyed to the watch-towers of the
baftion, entitled “ The Ballion of Holland,”
and to the different public magazines. The
number of pei fons thus apprehended amounts
at this moment to nearly a thoufand: aoo,
who rverein a ftate of profeription, have con~
trived to make their efcape. It is w'orthy
of remark, that no one female has yet been
imprifoned, notwithftanding feveral have
been ordered before the Committee, inter¬
rogated, and infulted. Whether in feizing
on the perfons of individuals, or in making
domiciliary vifits to come at thofe they wifh-
ed to apprehend, the Kevolutionifts have
paid but little refpedf to properly. In arreff-
ing M. Necker, late Prime Miniffer of
France under the Monarchy, at his country
feat, they took poffeffion of his plate, and
a confiderable fum in fpecie. The houfe of
M- Saladin de Craus has been plundered, as
have alfo feveral others : but on thofe ®cca-
fions no perfonal violences have been offered.
At the firft moment of the llevolution,
feveral mulkets were difeharged, by which
two perfons were wounded.

On Sunday the zolh, the Revolutionary
Committee, named by the Clubs, pnblifhed
a proclanriation of “ Equality, Liberty and
Independence 5” which w'as approved, and
a Revolutionary Tribunal e!e<5led on the 21ft
by about 3000 voices.

A circumffance which chara<5lerifes this
event is, that, among the prifoners, all the
Ecclefiailics, no one excepted, are compre¬
hended ; the Revolutionifts even went fo
far as to apprehend one of them in the pul¬
pit, in the midft of his fermon. According
to fome, this has been owing to the defirc
of pillage and robbery, and to favour the
efficiency of the Revolutionary Government,
entirely unconnected with French politics,
the Genevefe Revohttionifts aiming at a tho¬
rough independence. Others, on the contra¬
ry, conhder Soulavie, the Frenchman, as
being the chief mover, and as liaving brought
about the infurredlion with a view to put
the city into the poffeffion of his countrymen.

CxNT. Mag. Se^tembiT 1794.

849

The Revolutionary Tribunal was no
fooner elected, than it proceeded U> exercife
its fundlions. On tlie 22d it fenteuced to
death fourteen perfons j feven of thofe fen-
tences were confii med by the Revolutionary
Mafs — the others were changed into banlfti-
ment or imprifonment, with confifcation of
property. The populace, fmcethe Revolu¬
tion, and al this hour, pillage every wdiere,
and are eager in endeavouring to diffover all
whom they confider any way inimical to th«
prefent fyflem.

Stocklyolmy Aug. i . Sentence was yefter*
day pronounced, by th© Court Tribunal,
againft thofe peifons convi6led of being
inculpated in the confpiracy of D'Armfeldt,
amidft the affemblage of an immenfe crowd
of people. Baron D’Armfeldt was declared
outlawed, with the lofs of his honour, and
the confifeation of his property. Von
Ehrenftrohm is to have his right hand cut off,
and afterwards to be executed, with the lofs
of his life and honour, and confifeation of
his property. Counted Rudenfkold is to
lofe her life and honour, and her poffeffions
to be confifeated. As to the other accom¬
plices, Aminoff, Forfter the Manager of
the Opera, and Mineur the valet of D’
Armfeldt, there was not fufneient evidence
:o convidf them. The former, however, hag
not been acquitted : his trial has been refer¬
red to farther examination. Mr. Von
Franc the fecretary of ftate and port di-
redlor, Lieutenant Colonel Lilie, Sources,
Merchant, and Signeul, have been honou¬
rably acquitted.

Vienna^ Aztg. 4. Some nights ffnce, very
unexpedledly, feveral perfons of various
ranks were arrefted, and their papers ex¬
amined. At the fame time a guard was pla¬
ced at all the gates of the city, the watch
was doubled, the foldiers had ball-cartridges
delivered out to them, and various other
raeafures were taken for the public feenrity.
It is pofitively afferted, that an infurredfion
was in agitation, which was to have broken
out a few days ago, had not the above mea-
fnres been taken. A commiffion is parti¬
cularly inftituted to enquire into thisbufineff,
of which the Vice-Diredlor of the Police,
Count Sauran, is prefident ; and the mem¬
bers who are chofen from the various depart¬
ments are men well known for their honour,
integrity, and the foundnefs of their princi¬
ples. This day fome perfons have been
arrefted, and among the reft one of the
Council of our Magiftracy. The Commif-
lion of Enquiry will fhortly commence their
fittings, and are to report their proceedings
to the Upper College of Juftice. Every
meafure is taking to enfure the public tran¬
quillity, as well by night as by day j A
watchful eye is kept over all the coffee,
win» I and beer hoafes, to prevent tu-

Intelligence f>om the Continent, and from America.

[Sept.

tumultuous affemblies and difturbances ; all
nigbt drong patrole.s parade the ftreets, and
the doors of the great houfes are ordered to
be thu' fooner than ufoal. All the city gates,
which have not been llmt for many years,
are repairing, and are to be Ihut at dufk.

AxMEKTCA.

The Legiflature of Pennfylvania, with a
view to folten the rigour of penal law, have
palled' an adt, declaring that no crime, ex¬
cept murder of the firfi degree, rtiall be pu-
nifhed with death. Murder in the firft
degree is defi ed to be a killing by means
of poifon, bv lying in wait, or with otiier
kind of wilfn’, delibera'e, premeditated in¬
tention, or which thall be committed in the
perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any
arfon, rape, robbery, or burglary. All
other kinds of killing lhall be deemed mur¬
der in the fecond degree. The kind of mui''
der to be afcertained by a fury. Perh ns
liable to be piofecuted for petit treafon fha 1
be proceeded agaiaib and punifhed as in^other
cafes of murder. High treafon is. punifhed.
with confinement in the prifon and the peni¬
tentiary houfe, not lefs than fix nor more
than 12 years j rape not lefs than lo nor
more than z i years ; murder of tlie fecond
degree not lefs than five nor more than i8
years ; forgery not lefs than four nor more
than years, with payment of a fine not
to exceed icoo dollars; manflaughter not
lefs than two nor more than lo years, and
giving fecurity for good behaviour during
life ; maiming not lefs than tvvo nor more
than lo yeai's, with a fine not exceeding
loco dollars. Perfons being charged with
involun'^ary manflaughter, the Attorney-
General, w'ith leave of the Couit, may
waive tlie felony, and proceed againft them
as for a mifdemeanor, and give in evidence
any adf of manflaughter; or the attorney
may charge both offerees in the fame indidl-
ment, and the Jury m.ay acqmt the perfon
of one cr both. The benefit of Clergy is for
ever abolifhed.'”

New Totk, June 1 1. On Monday evening
the Committee, appoiified by. the Tammany
Society to addrefs their congratulations to
Df, Prieflley, reported their addrefs and his
anfw^er; both which are much too violent for
the decency of an Englifh publication. What
follows however, being of a different de-
criptioii, we vei y readily tranferibe.

To JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L].,D.F.R.S.

Sir, The alfociated teachers in the city
of New-Tork beg leave to offer you a fincere
and hearty welcome to this land of tranquil¬
lity and freedom.

Impreffed with an idea of the real im¬
portance of lb valuable an acquifition to the
gi owing inferefls of fcience and literature
in this country, we are particularlv happy
that the honour of your firft reception has
fallen to this Stite, and to the city of New-
Yoik,

‘‘ As labourers in thofe fields which you
have occupied w ith fVie moff dilVinguifhed
eminence, the arduous and important talk
of cultivating, the human mind, we contem¬
plate with peculiar fatisfadlioa the aufpi-
cious influence whicli your perfunal refi-
deuce in ttiis country will add to that of
your highly-valnable feientific and literary
produblioi s, by wdaich we have already been
materially benefited.

“ We beg leave to anticipate the happi-
nefs of Ibariiig, in fome degree, that pa¬
tronage of fcience and .literature, whicli it
has ever been your delight to afford. This
will give facility to our exertions; diredt
and encourage us in our arduous employ¬
ments; affill us to form the Man, and
thereby give efficacy to the diffufion of ufe-
ful knowledge.

Our . mofl ardent wifhes attend you,

I gnod Sir, that you may find in this land of
virtuous fimplicity a happy recefs from th*
intriguing politics and vitiating refinementf
of the European world. That your patrio¬
tic virtues may add to the vigour of our hap¬
py conftitution, and that the bleffings of this
country may lie abundantly remunerated into
your perfon and your family.

“ And we rejoice in believing tliat tli»
Parent of Nature, by thofe fecret communi¬
cations of happinefs with which he never
fails to reward the virtuous mind, will her®
convey to you that confolation, fupport, and
joy, which are independent of local eifeum-
flances, and ‘‘ w'hich the world can neither
give nor take away.^’

, Signed, by order of the Committee,
William Payne, Chairman.

Edward Shephard, Secretaryi-^^

TO THE ASSOCIAT ED TEACHERg IN T H ft
CITY OF NeW-YoRX.

G ENTLEMEN,

A welcome to this country from my
fellow'^-iabourers in the inflrudlions of youth
is, T affiire you, peculi iriy graceful to me.
Clnfles of men, as well as individuals, are
apt to form too high ideas of their own im¬
portance ; but certainly one of the moft im¬
portant i', that which contributes fo much,
as ours do, to the communication of ufeful
knowledge, as formingthe charadfersof men,
thereby fitting them for their feveral ftations^
in fociety. In fome form or other this has
been my employment and delight; and my
principal objedl in flying for an afylum to
this country, “ a land,’* as 1 hope you
juflly terra it, “ of virtuous fimplicity, and
a recefs from the intriguing politics and vici¬
ous refinements of the European world,*’ is,
that Lmay, without moleflation, purfue my
favourite fludies. And, if 1 had an opportu¬
nity of making choice of an employment for
wliat remains of aflive exertion in life, it
would be one in which I fhould, as 1 hops
1 have hitherto done, contribute, with yon,
to advance the caufe of fcience, of virtue,
and of religion, J. Priestley.”

INTEL-

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Horfe-Guards, Whitelmll^ ^9* Copy

of a dirpatch from Gen. Sir Chailcs Grey
to the Rt. Hon. Henry Duncias.

BervlUe camp^ oppofite Poinl a Pet e, Guadaloupe,
Sir, yA/yS, 1794.

In my difpatch of the 13th ult. 1 had the
honour to acquaint you of my intention to
land on the fide of Fort I'leur d’Epe?, and
try to rea;ain Grande Terre, fo foon as wliat
force could be drawn from tiie other iHands
fhoukl be collefted ; accordingly, having
been joined by moft part of it, I ordeied
Brigadier-general Sym-^s to make a landing,
with the grenadiers under the command of
lieutenant colonel Fifher., and the Uglit in¬
fantry under the commawd of lieutenant-co¬
lonel Gomm ; which was etfedled, without
lofs or oppofition, early in the morning of
the 19th ulr. at Arce Canot, under cover of
tw'o frigates, the Solebay, Cant Kelly, and
tlie Winchelfea, Capt. Lord Garlics, the
enemy retiring; and the fametrcKips moved
on to Cozier, and took poffefnon of it in the
afternoon, wdiich tlie enemy abandoned,
burning fome houfes. As the enemy had
polfelfton of a fituation that commanded the
road to fort Fleur d’Epee, I detached three
companies of grenadieis and thiee companies
of light-infantry, under the command of
lieutenant-colonel Fifher, who marched, at
twelve o’clock, in the night between tire
sqth and zCth u't. by a circuitous and moft
difficult path, coming on the back of the
enemy at fix o’clock the next morning, who
fled. One of tlieir fentries fell into his hands,
and he took polfeffion of that and two other
commanding heights. Having fent two
amuzeites to that detachment tlie fame day,
the enemy made an attack upon the efcoit
w'hen mounting the bill on which lieutenant-
colonel Filher’s detachment was pofted, wdio
attacked and repulfed them The enemy
continuing in poffeffion of a chain of high
and woody grounds, with difficult palTes be¬
tween our poft and Morne Mai cot, the re¬
mainder of the grenadiers and light-infantry,
wdth Capt. Robertfon’s battalion of leamen,
■were pufhed forward to the fame poft, and
on the 27th ult. the enemy were attacked on
all fidesby brigadier-general Symes, with the
grenadiers and light-infantry, completely
routed, driven down to Morne Mafcct,
where they again made refiftance, and, being
charged with bayonets, they fled into fort
Fleur d’Epee. having colledled confidera-
ble force from the town of Point a Petre and
the neighbourhood, arming Blacks, Mulat-
toes, and all colours, they advanced in great
nunsbers the fame afternoan, under cover
of their guns, from fort Fleur d’Epee, which
fo completely rak^d tiie top of the lull, that
the grenadiers could haruly appern- on it, un-
t:l tl'.e enemy were alio there, and atracked
that part of .Morne Mafeot where lieutenart-
coiunel Fiffier was poiVed with lire g-ena-

diers, when an obftinate engagement took
place, wiiicli lafted for fome time, the front
being witliin a few yards of ea.h other, and
tlie e'liemy’s number being very fuperior ;
but the grenadiers forced them down the hill
again with great daughter. The 29th, the
enemy, liaving colledteii a ftiU greater fuxe,
cloatliing Mulattoes andB'acks in the Natio¬
nal Uniform, to the aniount of 1300 men,
again attacked the fame poft ; and at this
lime they had a field-piece on the rigiit,
which enfiladed tlie granadiers, in addition
to their guns in front, which fired round and
grape ftiot from the fort. Having obferved
the enemy making a movement towards the
rear of the grenadiers, to take polfeffion of
a houfe and ftrong ground, which the 2d
battalion of liglit-infantry, under major Rofs,
was then ordered to occupy; but, having
lome diftance to go, four companies of gre¬
nadiers were detached under major Irving '
from the poft on Mafeot, hefoie the engage¬
ment com.menced, who feized the poft in
tiie rear, left the enemy might get there be¬
fore our light-infantry, which had, however,
reduced our foice on Mafeot at the time of
its being attacked : but major Rofs, with
the 2d I’ght-infantiy, reaching the poft in
the rear foon after major Irving, the latter
inftantly returned to Mafeot with -the four
companies of grenadiers ; and, having rejoin¬
ed when the engagement had lafted for fome
time, the enemy were charged with bayo¬
nets, and driven from the height with ftill
greater flaughter than on their former at¬
tack. During the fir'd day’s engagement,
lieutenant-colonel Fiihcr was ftruck with
grape-ffiot, occafioning contufions only, and
on the laft his hoiTe w^as killed under him.
During this time, major Rofs, with the
2d light-inf.antry, was alfo engaged with the
enemy, and repuifed them with lofs on their
fide. The ivny feafon being already fet-in,
and this being the laft month foradling befoie
the hurricane feafon, at the fame time that
the troops were expnfed alternately to heavy
rains and a vertical fun, together with the
circumftances of the great flaughter recent¬
ly fuflered by the enemy in the two attacks
they made on' Morne Mafeot, determined
me to make an efToi c for finifhing the cam¬
paign at once; and I concerted meafures
accordingly, ordering brigadier- general Symes
to march in the evening of the ift inft.
from Morne Mafeot, with the ift hatla-
lion < f grenadiers, the ift and 2d battalions,
of light-infantry, and the ift bat alion of*
feamen, commanded by Capt. Roberlfon,
who attacked the town of Point a Petre be¬
fore day of the 2d inft. but, being raifled by
our guides, the troops entered the town at
the part wdiere they were moft expofed to
the enemy’s cannon ami fmall arms, and
where it was not poffible to fcale the walls
of the fort j iu confequeuce of which, they

fuffeied

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[Sepf

fuffered confiderably from round and graps
(hot, together with fraall arms fired from
the houfes, ice. and a retreat became un¬
avoidable; the more fo, as the troops are en¬
tirely worn out by fatigue and the climate,
fo as to be quite exhaulled, and totally inca¬
pable for farther exertion at prefent. It gives
me great concern to add, titat brigadier-gen.
Symes was wounded ; lieut.-col. Gomm (an
cxceileht officer), and fomc other meritorious
officers, were killed on this attack; as was
alfo Capt. Roberefon, of the Navy, a valua¬
ble officer, and a great lofs to the fervice.
Inclofed is brigadier-general Symes’s report,
accounting for the failure of that euterprife.
I had every thing in readinefs at the poll of
Morne Mafeot for :m attack’ upon fort Fleur
d’Eppe, by ftorm, with the id oaitalion of
grenadier', 65th regiment, fix companies
of Giande Terre, and the id battalion <'f
feamen, commanded by Capt. Sawyer; wa t-
ing, as concerted, until I fiirould hear u lie-
ther brigadiei -general Symes, with his divi-
fion, fucceeded, or had taken poft near the
town of Point a Pei re; but his fail re obli¬
ged me to reliaquiffi tlie medicated attack
upon fort Fleur d’£i;ee, by laying me under
the neceffity of detach ng the id battdion of
grenadiers to cover the retreat of brigadier-
general Syraes’s divifion. The feafoa for
adlion in the field being pad, and the troops
debilitated bythe fatigue of a long campaign
and the climate, fo as to become unable for
farther contefi, without ffielter from the
fcorching heat of a vertical fun, or the hea¬
vy rains now fo frequent, there remained no
choice but to retreat; and I brought the
troops, with every thing we had at Morne
Ivlafcot, back to Cozier, on the night of the
2d inft. detaching the ad battalion of light-
infantry and loyalifts, by Petite Bourge, to
Berville, &c. on the 3d followihg, to fecure
BaffeTerrc; and embarking the remainder
of the troops during the eafning night. I
have now occupied the ground with my
whole force betw^een St John's Point and Bay
Ivlahault, having eredled batteries with 24
pounders, and mortar batteries, at Point Sa-
ron and Point St. John, oppofite to the town
of Point a Petre and the ffiipping, both of
which I ffiall endeavour to deltroy ; and
which fituation gives perfeift fecurity to
Bafie Terre. As the harbour is alfo perfedt-
ly blocked pp by the admiral, the enemy
muft fuffer every difirefs. 1 tranimit a re¬
turn of our killed and wounded.

I have appointed colonel Colin Graham,
of the 2 1 If regiment, brigadier-general,
and to command tlie troops in Bafle Terre,
Guadaldupe; of vthxh 1 hope his Majefiy
will approve. ' When the intelligence was
received that G rande Terre had bfecn retaken
by the French, Ijeiitenant-colonels Coote
and Craddock were both at St. Chnflopher’s,
fo far on their way to England, for the reco-
vfery of their healtii, having had my leave of
abfence after the clofe of lait c.ampaigni aptj;

although they were moil dange^iufly ill of a
fever from which they weiC* then only
recovering, they rejoined me, and have been
very effentially ufeful and ferviceable on the
occ ifion, when officers were fo much wan¬
ted, and efpecially officers of their merit and
ability. Lieut.-col. Coote will have the ho¬
nour to deliver this difpatch; an officer of
infinite merit, who returns home for the
re efiablifhment of his health; and he is well
qualified to give you any farther information
that may be required.

I have the honour, See. Charles Grey.

P.S. I cannot fufficiently acknowledge
the great affiffance I have received from eve¬
ry officer and feaman ih tlie Navy. The
unanimity which has prevailed between
them and the army, upon this as upon every
other occafion during the campaign, could
not be exceeded; nor can I omit once more
to exprefs my warmelf approbation of the
gallant zeal and goad condurt of every offi¬
cer and foldier of this brave army, who have,
through a campaign in the worif of climates,
endured hardffiips unparall< led. C. G,

[ Then folio --VS a return of killed, wounded,
and miffing, in the army commanded by his
excellency General Sir Charles Grey, K B.
ice. from June 10 to July 7, amounting in
the whole to i lieutenant-colonel, 4 captains,

7 lieutenants, 7 ferjeants, 2 drummers, 91
rank and file, killed ; 1 major, 3 captains,

7 lieutenants, 13 ferjeants, 8 drummers,
298 rank and file, wounded ; i (erjeant, 3
drummers, 52 rank and file milfing.J
To Sir Charles Grey.

Sir, ’ Grozter, yuly z.

In obedience to your commands, I march¬
ed at eight o’clock yefferdav evening from
the heights of Mafeot, with the ift battalion
of light infantry, commanded by lieutenant-
colonel Gomm, the 2d commanded by major
Rofs, the battalion of grenadiers commanded
by lieutenant- colonel Fiffier, and the ill bat¬
talion of feamen commanded by Captain
Roberifon of the Veteran, to attack the ene?
my at Point a Petre; and, if we could ap¬
proach it undifcovered, to polTefs ourfelves
of the Morne de Gouvernement, which com¬
mands the town, and which they bad taken
much pains to llrengthen ; or, if that was
not found pra«5licable, to dellroy the provi-
fions which had been landed from the ffiips
and depofited there. The troops marched
with the utmoft filence through deep ravines,
in hopes of reaching the enemy undifcovered ;
but our guides, whether from ignorance or
the darknefs of the night, led u^ in front to
thole polls of the enemy which it liad been
propofed to pais by, and which they allured
was pradlicable : to efFedl our put pofe by
fuiprize became therefore iiiipoffible. At
lour o’clock in the morning we approached
the out-polls of the enemy, which were
attacked and driven-in by major Rofs and the
2d battalion of light infantry, with the gallan¬
try and good condud which, in the cout fe

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of the campaign, has fo ©Ften tllftingiiifhed
that officer and corps, wliich entered the
town untler a heavy fire fiom Moriie de
Gouvernerr.ent, and cleared the fireets with
their bayonets. The Morne de Gonverne-
ment was to have been attacked by this bat¬
talion ; but the noife of our approach had
perniitfed them fo ftiorgly to reinforce it,
joined \vith the extreme difficulty of accefs,
which admits only two to approach in front,
rendered the fnccefs of attacking it highly
impoffible. To deftroy the ftores in which
the provifions were lodged, we were then
to diredf our efforts, which I liave no doubt
would have been atteiuieJ with the moft
complete fnccefs, the town being at this
time in our pi'fleffion, and lieutenant-col.
Gomm, Captain Robertfon of the Veteran,
and Captain Burney affifiant qnarter-mafter-
gen. being charged With tlie execution of it ;
when, by a fatality as unforefeen as impoffi¬
ble to guard againfi, we were prevented
from completing what carried fo fair an ap¬
pearance of fuccef^. Our troops, to whom
you have fo ftriftly enjoined, in night attacks,
never to fire, w ho have uniformly fucceeded
fo often by a firiifl obfervance lo that rule,
and who, till tliis moment, had not in the
courfe of the night fired a ffiot, moffi unfor¬
tunately began to load and fire upon each
other, nor could all the efforts of their offi¬
cers put a flop to It. I was at this time dif-
abled by a fcvere w'ound in the right arm,
and much bruifed by my horfe, killed at the
fametimp, and falling upon me. Finding it
impoffible, under thefe circnm fiances, to
complete the defirudlion of the enemy's
ftores, which we had begun to effeft, the
troops were ordered to leave the town, and
form on the heights at the poll: of Caille;
whence in approaching we had driven the
enemy, and taken two pieces of cannon : at
this poft, w'hile the troops advanced into
the town, a referve of four companies of gre¬
nadiers with eighty feameii bad been placed.
As the enemy made every effort to hari afs
us in our return, it became neceffary to occu¬
py with care the ground by which it could
be mofi effedtually prevented: In this dilpofi-
tion of the troops, J leceived the moft clfen-
tial fervices. '1 he zeal and gallantry fhewn
by all the officers who compofed the corps
tould not have been exceeded.

It is with extreme concern I inform yon
that our lofs has been conficlei able; and with
infinite regret I find that lieutenant-co).
Gomm, and Captain Robeit'oo of the V’'tte-
ran, both eminently diilinguithed for their
gallantly and good condudf, are unfortu¬
nately of that number.

I have the honour &c.

Richard Symes, Brigadier-general.
Admiralty Office j -c4ug, icj. Ext rati of a let¬
ter from y ice-admiral Sir fohn Jervis, to
d>lr, Stephens, dated of Point d Petre, Gua-
daloups, July 6, 1794.
vunce my ktter of the 13th ultimo, by the

Dafiiw'ood packer, every effort has been
made to ccdledl a bi dy of troops from the
different ifiands, to enable tl>e Geneial to
make a defeent on Grande Terre. The Ve¬
teran arrived or the 17th of |une with twm
flank cotppanies from St. Vincent's and four
from St. Lucia ; and two battalions of feamer,
under the comm.md of Captain l^ewis Robeit-
fon of the Ve’cran and Captain Charles Saw¬
yer of the Vanguard, w ere attached to the
army. Thefe two Ihips, with the Splebay
and 'Winchelfea, were ortiered up to I’Anco
a Caaot, be' vvem this road and Sh Anne’^,
under the command of rear-admiral Thomp-
fon, that bay being judged a morefafe place
to debark at, botli on account of the fnrf and
the f.^ce of the country which furrounds it,
than tlie bay of Grofie', and the event jnfti-
fied the meafurej for, by the able condu6l
of the rear-atimiral, the erptains and officers
under his command, the whole corps wm.s
landed early in the morning of the igtlr,
without the lofs of a man, and took poft at
Grofier the fame evening, whore the Sold-
bay, VVinchelfea, and AlTuiance, were placed
to furnifh w'ater and other fupplies to the
camp. The Redbridge returned from St.
Chnftophcr’s, with tlie two companies of
the 2 2d ; and on the zbtli, having received
intelligence that a French frigate witli tliree
tranfports had been feen off Fiaaocois in
Grande Terr@-, 1 detached the Solebay and
Winchelfea in qneft of tliem ; and, if the in¬
telligence tbould jn’ove unfriunded, to cruife
off Port Louis, and endeavour to in'ercept a
pnrtizan of the name of Palchall, who i had
reafon to believe was fitting out veffels at St.
Bartholomew to bring over a number ’of
deTperate Bvgands, who had fled from this
iffand on our taki’-g poffeffion of it. On th«
fame day a fchooner I had lent up to Marti¬
nique arrived whth two companies of grena¬
diers from Marin Bay, and''was fallowed
the ni xt day by a third company in a fraall
lloop. From the day. of debar kation the
boats of the fquadronwere conftantly em¬
ployed in landing artillery and ftores, and
fupplying the troops wntii pi ovifions and wa¬
ter during the day, and rowing guard at
night. Three more gun-boats liad arrived
from Martinique, and were incelfintly em¬
ployed in battering the foi ts at Point a Petre,
and the fort of la Fleur (FEpee. The unfuc-
cefbful attempt on the town, on the 2d in-
ftant, will be deferibed by the General. I
have only to oM'erve, tliat every pofiible ex¬
ertion was made by the army and navf
that the debilit.ited fiate of the officers and
men would admit cf. It is but jufiice to
them to declire, that they were quire exhauft-
e.1 by the unparalRled fervices of frtigue and
fire they had gone through, for fiich a length
of time, in the w'orft climate. Upon ti e ?d,
the general, having communicateil to me the
propriety of withdrawing the aitllloi y, ftores.,
and troops, from Grande Terre, and re in¬
forcing the pofts in Baffe Terre, difpofitions

were

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were immediately made, and, on the night
of the 5th, the embarkation was completed
without the lofs of a man, under the direc¬
tion of rear-admiral Thompfon, Tlie fate
of Captain Lewis Robeitfon, who had cif-
tinguiflaed himfeif highly, fills ,my mind
with I be deepeft regia t : he had long beenla
child of misfortune, although he podelfed
talents to merit every fuocefs a''d profperiry ;
and, as I am informed he has left a widow
and infant fami y unprovided for, 1 beg leave
to recommend them to the protedfion and
good offires of the'r lorddaips, to obtain a
fuitable provifioo, winch will be<a great en¬
couragement to officers in limdar circum-
itances to emulate fo great an example.

f'lclofeJ i;- an account (d" the killed and
wounded, in tiie naval b ttalion, fincQ their
landing on Grande Terie.

I am, See. J. ]ervis.

£7 killed, 25 wounded, iG milling.]

Ifliitehall^. Sept. i Letter from heat. -gen.
the Hon. Charies Stuart to Mr. Duiidas.

Sir, Calvi, Augiiti 10 1794.

I have the fatkfadion to inform you, that
the town of Calvi furrendered to Ids Majef-
ty’s for;es on the lotii inflant, after a fiege
«>f fifty-one days. As I perfectly agreed
with Lord Hood in opinion that the utmolf
cMfpatch was neceffary, in order to enable the
troops Jeledled for the fiege of Caivi to begin
tUeir (>4>erations behire the c<)mmer!cement of
she unhealthy leafon, every effort was ufed
60 forward tiie neceffiry preparations; and
fo- effetffual were the exertions of the diffir-
tnrt departments, that, in t'.e courfe of a very
Cs'.v days, tlie regiments embarked at Bahia;
atul Captain Nelfon, of ins Majeliy’s ffiip
AgameniKon, confented, in Lord Hood’s
sdiience, to proceed to Port Agra, where a
landing was effected 0,1 the iqthof June;
rmdj iu the courfe oftfiC fame day, the army
eucanaped, in a ilrong p'ofuion, upon the
Serra del Capuccine, a ridge of iTwunt.dr.r,
three miles diftant from the town of C-dvi.
From many (if the out polls, and patticular-
ly ffam thofe the friendly Corficans were
ordered to occupy, I could diflindlly difeover
that the town of Calvi was ifrong in point
r>f fituation, well fortified, and amply Inp-
plied with heavy artillciy. f he exterior de¬
fences, on which the enemy had liePtowed
% confu'C’ a''l.- 1 ibour, confilied in the bomb-
proof. Stone Star Fort Mozello, mounting
pieces of ordnsuce, with a battery of fix
guns on its right, flanked by a ftviall en¬
trenchment. in the rear of this line (wliioh
covered the town to the VVeftward), on a
rocky hill to t'ne Ealt, was placed a battery
of three guns. ConfiJerably advanced on
the p'ain tu the Sou'Ji-weft, the fort Molli-
noehe'eo. on a fteep 10. k, commanded by
tiie communication between Calvi and the
Province of Balagni, fnpported by two fri¬
gates moored in Uio hay, for the purpnfe of
raking the iatci media. e country: but Che

principal difficulties in approaching the ene¬
my’s works did not fo much arife from the
firengih of the defences, as from the height t
of the mountains and ragged rocky fui f.ice
of the country it was necelfary to penetrate ;
and fo confiderable were thefe obftacles
againfl the ufual mlide of attack, that it was
judged expedient to adopt rapid and forvvard
movements, infiead of regular approaches,
in conformitv to this i)lan of procmeding, the
feamen and Ibldiers were JabdVioufly ymploy'-
ed in making road-?, dragging guns to the
tops of the mountains, and collecting milita¬
ry ilores for the purpo'e of erecting two tnoi'-
tar and four feparate gun batteries on the
fame , night. One of thefe was intended
ag linfi: the Moll nochefc^K) ; the fecund to be
conftrudle.l on rocks to cover tl'.e principal
one of fix guns; which, by a fudden march,
and the exeitions of tlie whole army, was
to be ereifed within feyen hundied and bfy
yards of the Mozelloj- from fbme miftakephe
batieiy propofed agairift the Mcliinochefbo
was built and'opened t^vo days before the ap¬
pointed time, and conliderably damaged that
for". Obferving, however, that it was the
determination of thfj enemy to repair and
not to evacuate it, the Roy^i Iriffi regiment
was ordered, on thej evening of the 6th of
July, to move towards their lefr, expofing
the men to the fire of their aniilery. This
diverfion was feconded at fim-fet, and during
the greater part of the night, by a feign¬
ed attack of the Corfreans, wh ch fo effedtu-
ally deceived the enemy? that they witndrew
a confiderable piipiet fiora the fpot where
the principal ba"tei y was to be conflrudled,
in order to fupport the Mollinochefco, and,
diredfing the whole, of ihe r fire to that
point, enabled the troops to complete their
work. This important pofition ellabliffied,
tiie enemy was compelled to evacuate the
Ivlollinochefco, and to withd.ravv the ffiipping
under the protedlion of the town. A very
heavy fn e immediately commenced on both
fideSj and continued, with little intermiffion,
until the i8th of that month, when, obfer¬
ving that their batteries wei e confidcr.ably
darrrged, and a breach appearing pradfica-
ble on the weft fide of the Mozello, a difpo-
fition was made for a general attack upota
tlie out works, under cover of two batteries,
ordered to lie eredfeJ that night, which,
from their pofr.ion, would, in. the event of a
check, appear the principal object of the
movement. Fro.n the zeal of lieutenant-
colonel Bauchops, and the great exertions of
the 5cth regiment, the battery, which he
undertook to conifrudt within thr ee hundred
yards of the Mozello, was corapletei', an
hour before day-break, without difeovery:

A fignil gun was then fined tVora it for the
troops to advance. Lieutenant Newhoufe,
of the P*.oyal Artillery, with two field-pieces,
cc'e e.l the approacii ; and the grenadiers,
light infaniry, .and 2d batialion of the Royals,
under the command of Licuienunt-colonel

Moore i

(794*] Iriierejting Inielligmce fy

Moore of the cifl re^imcnr, and Maior
Breietrn of the 30th legiment, proceeded
v,'in\ a cool, I'teady tonfidence, and unloaded
arms towards the enemy, fotced their way
tl.rough a Im.lrl fit e of mnfquetry, apd reg'ord-'
le.s (t l!\ e Ihell.i flung into the breach, or
tite adrlitional defence uf pike*^, formed the’*'
Mozello; u h)le'lieutenant-co onel Wemyl's,
with the Royal liifli regiment, and two
pieces of cannon, un- er the diredlion (,f lieu*
tenan-t Lemoine of the Poyal Arrillery,
ecpially legardlefsof oppofltion, carried the
enemy’s b tteiy on the left,' and fo ced their
trendies without firing a ^bo^ The polfef-
lio't of thefe very important yofis, vvhidh the
trcops maintained under the heaviefl fire of
fheJh, and gr pe-ilrot, induced me to ofler
to confider focli terms as the gairifnn o^'Cal-
vi miglit be inchned to propoie ; but, recei-
V ng an unfavourable anfwer, t'le navy' and
army once more united liieir effort", and, in ■
nine days, batteries of 13 gnm, four mo: tars,
and three howitzers, were completed v.'ithin
600 yards of the tovs’o, and opened v\ ith fo
vvell-direifed a fire, that the enemy were
unable to remain at their guns ahid in 18
hours fent propof b, whicir terrninated in a'
C'*pi!u!aticn, and the expuifioa of the French
from Corficn.

It is with fincere regret (hit I l,ave to
inent on thclofs Cf Captain Sn-oroid of the
Navy, who was k lied by 2 c inhon-fimt when
adu ely employed on tlie battt ries. The af-
fiftance and co-operation of Captain Netfon,
tlie adlivity of Captain Hallowe!!, and t: e
exei lions of the navy, have greatly coh'.rihu-
feil- to tne fuccefsof thofe moyements. T he
fj>irrt, zeal, and willingntfs, with wliich this
army l as undergone the greatelt labour and
fatigue in tlie molt opprcfiive v\eather, a'te
haruly to be deRriheV ; ard, fuel) lias he< a
the derernhned aivmation of both ofinceis and
men, that the Imalleif murmur has never
been heard, uillefs illncfs deprived them
from making then- fervices ufeful to the'r
country. [ am much indebted to lieut.-c< 1.
Moore for liis alliflance upon every ocoafion ;
and It is only a tribute due to liis worth to
mention, that he has diflinguifhe*] himfelf
upon this expedition forhis bravery, condudi,
and mditaiy talent. Jc is with the utniolt
corfl.lence I pre ume to recommend to his
M<sjefl:y my Aide du Cam|), Captain Dun-
c.-.n, ol theRoml Artdleiy, whoi'e adlivity,
zea', and ability, in his own and the tn^p-
netr tlepaitment, merits the highefl com-
mendat.on and advancement. Captain Ste-
phei s, the ofliceis and men of the Royal
Artillery, have diftinguifhed tiiemfelves witli
their ufual ability in the management of ti e
batteries, and their attention to the different
blanches of that line. Sir James Eifkine
and Major Oakes have been elfentialiy ufeful
m their different departments, and 1 ermit
me to affure you, that a cordi.Jity fubfifls
throui'hout the army, wdiich promifes the
moil flgaal fuccefs on any future undertaking.

■om ihc Londdn Gazettes. 8^5

I have the hapninefs to inhirm you, that
Captains Mimdunald and Mackenzie, and
the other wounded (hficers and foldiers, aic
in a fair way of recovery. C ipfain Stewait,
an. ofll-.er ( f great meric and rny Aide du
Camp, wt!l have tir-; linnour of deliverin^^
th s difpatcfi. C. Stuart, Lieut. Gen.*
[Then follow the Articles i f Capitulation.]

historical. CHRONIfLE.

T^ivcrton, June. A fire, di eadful in its
con.equcnce, broke out in that part of this
town which IS called Weft-end. 'I'he buiUL
mgs being luofily thatched, and exUeraelyr
dry, it fpiead with great rapidity, and was
not got under nil four o’clock the next
morning, deitroying between 40 and 50
lioules in tliat quarter. The wind being ra-
thci Jiigh occcfioned the fire to communicate
with the houfes in tne main flreet, fevera! of
wliich are totally confumed, and others
much da.maged. The inhabitants in general
vvei e under the necc fifty of removing their

g )bd.s.

Eton, July 28. This day was hdd the
annual eleciion at this fchoo!, to fill up tlie'
vacancies at King’s College, Cambridge.
The fpeakers upon this occafion were more
num.erous than ulnal, confifling of all the
young gentlemen of the head form ; and the
manner in which' tiiey acquitted themfelves
was hgiily creditable to their talcnis.

‘Tburfday, .eilugu/t y.

The Storm in i^undon, p. 763, commen¬
ced; b x^ween 3 and 4 P. M. and was accom-
pan ed by long and vivid flafiies of lightning,

1 he ram at the fame ciir.e hurlf down fronj
tji- cloiK S hiCe c itai acls. The oideft mha—
b.ta it of London, it is I'clieved, never vvit-
n-Aled fo awful an event, 'the thunder
V, a.i lo louii, that thole who have faced the
rage of the elemtnts in all dimes do not re-
nicniber ever to have lie.ird peals of fucii
force. Tlie lightning, attraded, it is belie¬
ved, by an iron weather-cock, flruck the
i-ool of the Examinees office in Rolls-yard,
C!iancery-!ane, and made a hole large
enougli for aman to creep through, ffiatter-
ing many t les,bricks, &c. and juit afterward
a ball of fire fell nearthe lodge in tlie fame
yard, which felled two perfons f«,r a mo-,
rr.e it wi thout liurting them, and, rifuig
again, made its tonne through one of the
w’lndows, which was open, of the Crown-
office in Cliaacery, and, it i appiehunded,
mult have pafl'ed out at one of the back-
vymdows of that ofiice, which was aUb open,
tiom the clouds of fii'oke that immediatefy
iliued anil continued for leveral minutes, it
w.ts feared the office was on fire ; but. on
opening the door, it was happily difeovered
to haveyeceived hctle or no injury. On exa¬
mination it was found, that the n-fils a..d iron¬
work, wffiich the lightning met vvitli in its
paflage, had been melted, and partly vitri¬
fied by the intenfe heat. The Cock public-
houfe, Temple-bar, received fome damage;

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iortanately, however, it did not catch fii a:
the- flafh wliich hnVt this houfe was feen to
come down, in an iouTienfcbody, a few yards
Eaft of I’cmple-har; it wheeled about with
great velocity, and If ruck, the ftreet with im-
menfe force. Fortunately tiie heavy rain had
driven every perfoii front the ftiee:, and no
coach w'as palFing;. The firft cfl'eif obfer-
-ved was fimilar to that produced by an explo-
fion of gunpowder ; every particle of hraw,
mud, and even the water, was completely
iwept from the flreet ; and the doors and win¬
dows of the honfes, patticularly on the North
lide of die flreet, were hiaken and fome
others driven open. In Falcon-ftreet, Al-
derfgate-lfreet, a razor in the hand of a
baker who was fhaving hinifelf was literally
raelted, and dropped inflantaneoufly from
the handle ; the man fell to the ground, but
received little injury. A peifon, by pro-
feffion a Ihoemaker, w^as ftruck dead whilft
Handing at his door, near A id gate. The
centre beam at Lloyd’s cofee-room fud-
denly cracked during the florm, and a great
part of the ceiling fell down : the torrent
of rain was fo great that in a few minutes
the floor was covered with water i no acci¬
dent, how'ever, happened in confequence.
In Great VVincimill-flreet, tw-'o balls of fire
fell wdthin ten minutes of each other, the di-
redlion ofwhich extended towards the South,
*>f prodigious length, butwithout much inju¬
ry. In VVardnur-ftreet, Soho, and I'everal
others to tlie V/eftw'ard, the fame alarm¬
ing fcene prefented icfelf to ihe aftiighted
lahahitants. A waterman, croffing Lambeth
Marfli, was knccke i down by us force, and
bis recovery was for fome time deemed
doubtful. At lllington, a cow' was killed,
its head being completely fplit. Several
Iheep alfo were killed near Farnet.

Friday y jluguji 8.

A melancholy and lamented accident hap¬
pened at Corvesy about eight this morning :
a party fiom one of tlie tranfpc.Trs, under
convoy of the Nonftich man of war, and
fome gun-bo atr, lying at anchor here,
bound to Jerfey, obtained permiflion to land,
that they might take the benefit of fea-
bathing from the fhore. Returning to their
ihip, the wind blowing flrong from the not th,
and tide at ebb, the fina'l boat in which they
were, not I'eing more than 14 feet long,
•'overfet, and unhappily 16 foldiers of the 3 id
regiment, and two Tailors, ma.king a propor¬
tion of 28 in nurhber, v.-ho firft left the vef-
fcl, were drowned! the others, with the
^rsateft d fliculty, were picked up, by the
aflfflance of boats in the harbour.

Saturday^ jJuguJi 1 6.

A fire broke out in the Neptune Weft-
India fliip, lying in the Pool. Her cargo, no
part of which had been landed, confifted al-
moft entirely of rum. She was immediately
lowed out of the tier, and run on fhore on
Ihe Southwark fide. She burnt very fierce¬
ly tiU late on Saturday evening, but without

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extending to other veflcls the calamity wliicl
had occurred to her. Eithmby the w'armth
of tha weather, or the quantity of rum, de-
ftroyed on-board the Neptune, the fifh in the
Thames were fo affbifled as to float up with
the tide in fuch numbers, that they were col-
leifled by the peoj>le, on both fhores, in
bafkets full. The Neptune had on boaid fc-
veral hundred calks of rum, with a great
quantity of fugar. Of thefe only one pun¬
cheon was faced. When the oil-warehoufes
in Thames- flreet were burnt, fome years
ago, the fifh were nearly in the fame condi¬
tion, fick and floating on the furface of the
water ; till at l ift the oil wuis partly gather¬
ed up or difperfed by the tides.

Sunda)iy Augujl ty.

The fire at AJi'ey^i, wliich began near the
engine-houfe and refer voir, rapidly commuai-
caced to the byx-lobbyand circus, and thewhole
Tlieatre, with the Henery, wardrobe, &c,
were foon entirely deftroyed. Mr. Aftley,
jun. w as nearly being burned in attempting
to get out the engine belonging to the
Tlieatre. The lofs js eftimated at 30,000!.
a fmall part only bf which was infured. The
horfes were all faved.

Thurfday, Augujl 21.

During a very fevere florm of rain at
Great Waltham an aftonilhing clap of thun¬
der was heard, and a very flrong flafih of
lightning followed, which, it appears, pe¬
netrated the ground under a large old alh-
tree in a field behind Mrs. Turner^s yard at
the Crown ; the tree, being decayed about a
yard high from the bottom, took fire within
fide, and was feen burning with great fury.
Two cows, the property of Mr. William
Po’lett, Great Bardfield lodge, were flruck
dead by the lightning.

Saturday, Augujl 23.

The colours of the Royal Manchejler
Volunteers weie this day confecrated at
St Anne’s church in that town j when an
applicable ferraon was preached by the Rev.
R. Secidon, Chaplain to the regiment.

Monday, Augud 25.

About two o’clock in the afternoon, a
dreadful fire broke out on-board the Free-
manile, Atkins, from Jamaica, moored off
Deptford, and the veli'el, witli a valuable
cargo of rum and fugar, was burnt to the
w'ater’s edge. The fiie alfo communicated
to the Jamaica of Jamaica, but by tfie great
exertions ufed it was extinguifhed on-board
her without doing any confiderahle damage.
This accident was occafioned by the careleff-
nefs of a perfon, ,who, wifhing to fee the
mark on a hogfhead of rum, the head of
which was flaved in, held the candle fo near
as to communicate with the rum, which in ‘
an inflant blazed up with fuch rapidity as to <*
completely envelope him with fire, and hci:
was indebted for his life to the prefence of
mind of fome of the crew', who, perceiving
that all his cloaths were on fire, inftanxlyi'
threw him into the river, whence he wasH

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taken without fuftaining much injury. A
confulerable quantity of the rum had been
fold and entered, though unfortunately not
goton-fliore.

Monday f 'Auguji l

The town of Lynn was alarmed by a moft
tremendous tempeft, a' tended by a torrent
of rain, which literally defcended in fheets
of water. The lightning was not fo remark¬
ably ftrong and vivid as we have obferved it,
but the thunder waS awful beyond defcrip-
tion. A dreadful clap burft over feveral
houfes in Purfieet-rtreet, one of which it
nearly fliattered to its foundation, tore up the
chimney and roof, ftruck one woman fneech-
lefs, and killed a girl about 8 years of age on
the fpot. What is very fingular, a linnet
which hung in a cage at the window received
not the flighteft injury, notwithftanding that
the glafs of the window was fhivered to
atoms, and the frames rent from the wall.

During the {form, a tree was fplic, and
five ftieep killed, belonging to P. Metcalfe,
efq. at Haiujiead.

Friday, Augud 29.

At Banbury, as the workmen employed
in building the church were drawing up a
large cornice ftone, the tackle fuddenly gave
way juft as it was got above its ftation in
order to be let down upon it, when, owing
to tha great projedtion of the ftones in the
lower row of cornice, and the fmall hold
they iiave on the wall, the weight of the
falling ftone forced feveral of them out of
their places, and two men who were ftand-
»ng on them were unfortunately thrown to
the ground. One of them was taken up
dead, having his Ikull fradfured, his lower
jaw broken, all his teeth knocked out, his
right arm and thigh broken, and his watch
driven into the fore part of his belly. The
other man was taken up alive, without any
hurt oil him j but has never fpoke fince. and
it is thought his infide will mortify, fo that
there is not the leaft hope of his recovery.
Another man that was ftanding on the fcaf-
fold, rather below the top of the wall, efca-
ped miraculoufly ; for, at the inftaat that
the falling ftones forced the fcaffold from
under him, he held by his fingers on the top
of the wall, and fupported himfelf there till,
perceiving a cord near him, which was faft-
pned to fome of the timber on the roof, he
got hold of it, and let himfelf down to fome
fcaffolcling poles that were left ftanding at a
fmall diftance, and by chefe he got fafe to a
lower part, and ihencc to the ground.

At fix this evening L’Impetueufe, one
»f the large line-of battle flaips lately captu¬
red by Earl Howe’s fleet, and which lay a
fmall difiance from Bortfmoutb-dtek, was
perceived to be on fire, the flames burfting
nut with great rapidity, and forming a pillar
of file tliat had the moft aweful appearance.
Sigivils being i.mmediately made, all the
boats from the fliips in harbour were man-

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i I

ned, and, forming tbemfelves into two divi-
fions, their boats Ihfiied together, they con¬
trived, at imminent hazard, to grapple the
L^Impetueufe fore and aft with ftrong’chains,
in order that, when her anctior-cables were
burnt, file fhonld be kept from moving fo
as to endanger the Northumberland, which
was ne r her, and prevent the conflagration
from, fpreading, as might be the cafe if fhe
W'ere aiirift. With thefe grapples tlie boats
could alfo force her wherever the fire
would be leaft dangerous ; and tliey accom-
plilhed their purpofe by keeping her in a
proper ftation until fhe burned down to the
W'cter's edge. There Were a few Spaniards
on-board, one of whom \vas prefervsd after
being much fcorclied by the fire. The
others, it is faid, fell a facrifice to the flames,
which were got under about nine, but not
totally extinguifhed tilPtweive o’clock. The
flames fpread with fach raoidity as feemed
at flrft to threaten the deftrueftion of the
whole clock-yard ; and IMmpetueufe being
moored near the Powder-Magazine alarm¬
ed lire inhabitants fo much, that great num¬
bers of them fled in every direcdiou.

This day the Leicejierjhire Volunteer Caval¬
ry received their ftandards in form ; a
ceremony as iaterefting and fplendid as
the occafiau was momentous and gloriou'; ;
the appearance of 300 refixuSlable neigh'^
hours, voluntarily ftanding forth in d fence
of their country, attended by the Civil pow¬
er of the county and town, as if uniting
themfelves in fupport of each other ; honour¬
ed by the prefence and refp eft of the neigh¬
bouring Nobility and Gentry; furrounded
by a numerous concourfe ot their fellow-
countrymen; and crotvned with the appro¬
bation and fm las of all the beauties in Leicef-
terfhire, who feemed to look up to them as
to the “ manly hearts whn guard tbs
fair !” — Early in the raornhrg au officer's
guard, under the command of Capt. L-eu-
tCxiant Burnaby, mounted guard at head¬
quarters, and attended the perfon of the Co¬
lonel (Sir Wm. Skeffington) through the day.
At 11 o’clock the troops alTemhled, from
their different alarm-pofts, and fornried a
hollow fquare in the marhet-place ; after
wdiich, an officer’s g'uud, from the coloner.s
troop, condufled Mffs Liin\ood, a’tended
by Mr. Hungerford (who repielented the
Lord Lieutenant of the county) and a fplen¬
did affemblage of ladies and gentlemen of the
county and town, to head-quarters, with the
truly elegant Banner, which that lady, whofe
unequalled genius alone could produce it,
had, to her infinite honor, wrougfii, as her
patriotic donation to the corps, and which
was afterwards, at her defne, pre fenced by
Lady Skeffington. 'i'he Leicefter troop,
under the command of Capt Heyi ick, then
conduced the Mayor and Con o atioi. from
the Gui-ldha'l in th-eir foriruilitics, to the
Market place, where they we; e letsived by

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,t1ie Colonel, and fainted as they pafiTed the
y.ne. The Royal Banner, wliich was ex¬
tremely elegant, and the donation of I.ady
Charlotte Curzon,. daughter of the gallant
Karl Howe, • vras then difplayedto the troops,
and afterwards pre'ented by her Ladylhipto
the Colone’, efcoited by the High Sheri tf
and Earl of Moira; at the fainc time, Lady
Skeffington, attended by Mr. Hungerford
and the Mayor of LeieeRer, difplayed the
Tiovincial Banner,, given by Mifs Linwood.
Th^. prefenting Ladies were attended by a train
fff ladies and gantiemen sn tiniforms. After
.palling in h'ont of the line, the banners were
pr«£enfed to the Colonel, who delivered
■them to ttie ffenior Cornets, accompanied by
a manly and appropriate fjreech. On the
Standards beiirg received, they were faluted
by the trpyps.

The Colonel then', with animation and
dignity highly becoming his character atid
rank, thus^, addrefied the corps.,

Oa prefenting the Royal Standardi

Gen TL EM EN,

I have the honour to prefent th'a Royal
Standard to the Corps, being the gift of La¬
dy Charlotte Curzon, as a tcRimony of'her
Ibyalty to her Sovereign, her zeal for the
glorious caufc we are engaged irv and' her
lingular regard for the honour and w'elfare
of r.he Loy d Corps of Leicefteidhire Volun-
tlcer Cavalry. — rUhder the influence of the
tionnp.^ of the daughter of tlie vic!oricu,s
Earl Howe,. I am conhdeiit that, whenever
occaflon oflers, it will incite you- to valorous
deeds ; to the honour of the donor, and the
cReem hf your country ; remembering that
it is th beval antly defendecl, and never yield-
®tl but with life. — Long live tire King !

Oh frcfcnthig thejpi'ovincial Standard.

G'P N T LEMEN,

ImprelTed with an unalterable ’Hyalty for
her Sovereign ; nd attachmefit to her coun¬
ty, Lady Skcidlngton experiences an heait-
felt fatisfadlinn iu the upportun.ity Jif this
public declaration of her tentiments. Tlie
prefentaticn of the provincial Standard .the
eReems net only a, an appropriate duty, hut
alfo as an Loaour winch lae ever muR re¬
member with fenfaiions as .animating as tb.e
memorable caufc we fo g’oricufly are. enga¬
ged in, S!ie warmly participates in th.e ap-
proba'ion excited by MBs Linwood, to whofe
inget uity and loyalty we are indebted for a
Stait'.'ard, winch ever,, in point of v\ork.,
muR be eminently »onfpicuous. Lady Sktf-
hactoti, maintaining a RedfaR eReem for
the fpiriteJ and gallant Corps ot LeiceRer-
Riire Cavahy, ardently hor'CS an unvarying
profpenty may happily diRinguilh our pa¬
triotic regirnem, for whole welfare the
ever muR retain the moR anxious regard,
STneerely wilhing each individual yeoman
every fnccei's w'nich wdoun nuiR deferve,
fhe exhorts you to remember th.ct this Stan¬
dard, the Insignia of Honouh, like Ho¬
nour, Riouid be yicidsd but u’lth life.

C HRO'N-IC LS. [Sept.

After the. Ceremony of Prejentatlon nPAt concluded
GenTI. EMEN,

The gratification I experience at the glo¬
rious fight of my countrymen alfembled here,
is not to be deferibed ; confident I am there
is not a breaR but which glocvs v/ilh an ani¬
mation equal to my ctvn : Tn« circum Ranee
mnft fenfibly felt by me on this memorable
occafion is, having the honour of being ap¬
pointed by oni' gyacioiisSovereign.ro the com¬
mand of a Cor>>s of Rich honourable and pa-
triotic Gentlemen,.which I fhall ever eReem
the moR elevated Ration of my liie; and this
day will be a memorial to remind your
conirtry of the aifedlion you bean it, by
Randing forth in defence of every thing hu¬
man nature holds moR vakublep and at
a time wlien you, were looked up to for its
defence Since then,. Gentlemen, we giver
a proof that the fame heroic aialor glows ia
our veins which did in. our valiant anceRorSj
let us emulate tiicrn who fo bravely fought and
bled in defence of a ConRitution wdiich is
tile pride and envy of the world ; and let us
by their bright example be Rimulated to the
laR drop of our blood in defending our be;ie-»
ficent King, our Religion,.our Country, and
its Laws. Long live the King! and may
profperity, uninterrupted, await eveiiypart o#
his MajeRy’s dominions !

After this, as well. as after the preAntn-
tion, the band p’ayed “ God fave the King
the officers falutingjand the l egiment pointing;
their fwoids totvards tlie Standards r thea!
the Colonel proceeded;

G-E NT L EMSN,

I cannot tpiit ihe-diirpiring fuhje^ without
faking the liberty to intimate, that tlianks ar®-
toD deficient for your late worthy Reprefen-
tative in Parliament Mr. Hungerford, who
fo long in his fenaiorial capacity conferred
honour oii the Ration you wei'e pleafed to
Call him to, and w!io retired from the ardu¬
ous talk to en’vy liis well-earned reward, the-
approbation of a vja'.eful county. How
then, . GcntLmen, can we fufficientlyacknow'-
ledge our cbligations to liim,.. who, on the
iiiRant this glorious undertaking was deviled^
Rew with a zeal that kept pace with his for¬
mer aiRs, and never quitted tlie euterprize
till, by his fedul-ous and attentive care, the
mei itorious caufe we are engaged in was ac-
Gompliihed ! Thanks are his due ; but let us
do more; permit tlie renoembrance of his
attachrrent to tlie King and Country, an4
the fervice he has rendered the caufe, to be
engraved indelibly on our hearts.

After the Chtiplain (ihe Kev, T. Grcfley
B^A.) had very folemnly coaRcratevI the ban¬
ners, the tro»p.s marched oR to the Abbey
Meadow, where they went tliio' their ex-
ercife, to iho approbation of ti e Colonel,
and the admiration of a great concaurie of
fpe'ftatoTs. From the field the troops were :
marche.l again to the market-place, vvhcie*:
the banners were deliveiaid. into the li.inds of
tlie toLniei,. I'he. day concluded with at

bail-.

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‘hall and fnpper given by the corps, which
was unme^ou^ly attended by thr nobility
^nd gentry of the county and town,
amongft whom where the Conntefa of
’Denbigh, Lord and Lady Curzon, Lady
Charlotte Curzon, Lady Skefhngton, the Mift
■'Morrifes, Mr. Skeilingtor., Iruiy Biomle.y,

■ the Hon. Mil's Citrzons, Sir Charleys Cave,
Sir John Palmer, Sir Charles and Lady Hud-
?fon, Mr. and Mi's. VVhnldanley, Mr. and
Mrs. Pack, Archdeacon Burnaby, Stc. &c.
The rooms (by requeft of the corps) were
'tu'nameiued under the direiBioa of Mifs
Linwood ; the decorations of which were
■■in a ftyle of .elegance peculiar to herfeU,
•■whofe loyalty and tafie througliout tliis oc-
•cafion rehedi equal hononr on herfelf and
^the corps. .The Horfe Guards hide, quar-
ttered in. this town, under the cons m and of
"Qnarter-maher Kutiedge, very politely offer¬
ed their fervices, to keep tiic ground clear
of intruhen, which they executed tuuch to
their credit. The utmoft im.mimity and fa-
itisfadlion prevailed the whole day ; and Lei-
■..cefferllalre feenled to have ‘but one heart,
in the ranks we wiere pleaL-d to ohferve,
Charles Loraioe Smkh, and Clement vVin-
ftanley. jun. Efqrs. wiio have fet an example
rthat reflefts the h giieft credit to theraleU'es,
and is worthy of imitation by all the genile-
,tnen of the count v. As. the po'icy of thefe
inrtitutions is deemod wi.e and expedient, i’t
furely is a duty they owe themfeives, who
■have mofl <ct jUihy to follow up their pecunia-
#J.*y aid with y^er/ovii/ njftflanct,

Ahndaj^ Sejit.

At Manehe/ier, there was a violent fall df
•rain, the effects of which weie moil feveiely
‘felt in the honfes at Shooter’s Brook, au-
vjoining the pottery in Ancoats-lane. At 2 in
..the morning tlie inhahitai.ts w'cre alarmed in
their beds by WHter.ru filing into their boufts,
which they were obliged U) leave with the
greateft hafle to preferve tlndr lives, as tliey
chiefly fieep on the ground floors. A num¬
ber of them, with their ch Idren, rvere at
that untimely hour forced to go into the
ffreet, aud get their bedding away as well
as they could. It was a railerable fltuatioa
■for the poor fufferers, two of w’hom (aged
-women) muff have perilhed but for immedi¬

ate afliflance, and the others would hav«
fuffered much moi’e than they did had not
their neighbours given them all poiffble aid.

The fame day the church ul St. Peter, in
that town was confecrated'by the Right Rev.
tiic Lord Bifliop of Chslter ; who was
pleafed to.exptefs, in the llrongefl term?,
kis approbation of the decent and becoming
elegance with whicli that heautiiui ftruiflurs
has been finiibcd. At the fame time, tjie
Rev. Samuel Hall, M.A. vvas nominated and
appointed rniniffer of tlie church.

Tuefday, 9.

A procb.mation was this day flgned by his
Majefly, at his Cooi t at Weymouth, lor pro¬
roguing the Parliament toINov. 4; then to
meet tor the difpatch of hnfinefs.

Saturday f Sebt. 20.

'Dlfpatches were received from the Duke
of York, announcing his having retreated
acrois tile Meuie ; of which the particulars
lhail be given in our next.

Thurfday, Sept. 25.

At a full Court of Common Council, a
motion to recommend a temporary Susp en-
sxoN of the London MiUcia A6t w'as nega-
tived- by a majority of more thanqo .to i. — ■
A petitionffor an amendment of the Bd,l
ii expeded at the next Court (fee p. 824).

Fit'daVy Sept. 26.

At Waltham Abbey fair, Flockton’s booth.
feildi)wn.-: one perfon was killed j feveral
had their limbs broken ; and others w'erc.fe-
verely bruifed,

Saturday y Sept. I'J.

T.heir Majeffies left Weymouth at ij this
morning, and happily arrived at Windfor by
hall paff. fix in the evening. Tlie royal ex-
curfion fliall lie fully related in next month.

Suudiyy Sept. 28.

The Privy C uncil w'as convened for the
examination of a Plot, happily difcovered in
time to prevent an event which this Nation
would have had fevere reafon to deplore,

'i he harveff has been got in fo early this
-Seafon, that the Farmers are already fowing
thsir wdieat and rye. The late rains have
been of infinite fervice to the fallow land.

A variety of reports from the Continent
are hourly in flucluacion j biu none, of any
imperrance, that we..can give.vyitli aqtheritya

P.. 772. Pnrfuant to the will of the late
ijohn Tempeff, efq. S r Henry V.me is to
aifume the family name on taking poffeliion
«f tlie eflates of Tempeff.

Ibid. Mr. Culman v-ias born at Florence,
wdii-re his father was minift-r.

P. 773. In the prefent circumffantes,
the death of a Miniftec, charged with tlie
conciliation of interefls between two great
nations, is an objebl worthy to hx the atten¬
tion of the politici.m. In the hands of De
Mercy was the deffiny of Europe ! One fen-
tence from his pen could have eftabliihed its
peace, or prolonged its hoftilities. Pofferity
¥/ill judge of tiimfrom th-e perhaps deceptive

pag-e of hiffory. The prefent obferver may
gather his true cliTi aiffer from the fenfatio i
excited by liis deatli in the breaft of the
Emigrant and the Brabancon, Fro.m both,
tlie exclamation was un.form. ‘‘ VV''e are
faved ! Heaven ha< not peimiitted die genius
of Duplicity and Intrigue to difturb the land
of Integrity and Honour.’' f he Ficnch
apoffrophlfed ium, as the fhackle of thetc
energy and the betrayer of their princes ; as
the malign inf fplrit whicli facrificed tliera
etptally to the Jacobins and the Conflitiuio-
n.illffs. Sit' h was the funeral oration upoii
the pupil of de Vergemtes, and tlie favourite
of Kauiiiiz. .In Lie meridian of his political

caiesr

86o Additisns and CorreSflons,^

career he obtained the firft diplomatic fitua-
tion, i^-mbalTador from the Court of Vienna
to that of France. From that moment he
attached himfelfto the Cabinet of Verfailles,
and co'nfidered France as his native country.
He tranfported thither his wealth, which,
with himfelf, he proftrated before the feet of
a finger at the opera, called Levaffeur, bet¬
ter known! by the name of Rofalie- This
nymph became his Egeria, the difpenfer of
his favours, and, it has been whifpered, his
wife. When the tocfin of the Revolution
founded through France, the Count trembled
for his property. He united himfelf to the
agitators; and, as the price, obtained from
Montmorin the letters of naturalization he
requefled. With perhaps unlooked-for fa-
tire, he was told, the French had never
regarded him as a foreigner, but as one who
attached his fortune to that of the Revoluti¬
onary Party. His property was therefore
fecure amid the fubmerfon of the moil
fplendid fortunes. Tlae Minifter Plenipo¬
tentiary from the Emperor to the Pays Bas,
Til. de Metternich, has feen and read thofe
letters between Montmorin and the Ambaf-
fador. His policy, however, led him to
quit France in the feafon of its anarchy. He
returned to Vienna and folicited employ-
rnent — he was fent to Brabant the harbin¬
ger of ds Metternich; and to his difpoftion
for intrigue, Brabant has probably been in¬
debted for the uiftrufl of its Monarch, tlie
diflenfion of its councils, and the devaflation
and plunder of its provinces.

1 Births.

Aug. A T his houfe in Beaumont-flreetr,
22. X Lady of Cant. Douglas, a daugh.

’. 25. At ThornhiP, Devon, the Lady of
Thomas Glutton, efq. of Kianerfley»caftle,
CO Hereford, a fon.

27. At Southampton, Lady Eliz. Ricketts,
a daughter.

29. At Mr. Sullivan’s houfe in Arlington-
flreet, Lady Harriet Sullivan, a daughter.

Lady of John Snriith, efq. of Finfbury-
fquare, a daughter.

31. Mrs. Levett, wife of Mr. NorrilTon
L. grocer, of Hull, two daughters.

Lately, Mrs. Ludford Harvey, a daughter.

' Seft. i. Lady of Henry Lambert, efq. of
jWanchelder-fqnare, a fon.

2. Lady of J. P, Burliau, efq. of Hertford-
flreet, M,;y-fair, a fon.

3. At his vilU in Hertfordfhire, the Lady
cf Thomas Tyrwhitt {ones, efq. a fon.

8. At Helyreod-houfe, Lady Augufla Cla-
yering, a fon.

9. At Holly-hill, Kent, the Hon. Mrs,
Madocks, a daughter.

Mrs. Yates, wife of Lieut. Y. of the royal
navy, and niece to Mr. Y. the comedian, a
fon. This lady has performed with mucli
applaufe at the Hay-market and CovenC-
garden theatres.

10. Lady of S. Tolfrey, efq, of New Bond-
jftreet, a fon.

— Births and Marriages^ [Sept*

At Carlton-houfe, co. Nottingham, Lady
of William Eaiie-Welby, efq. a fon.

I t. Mrs. Shepheard, wife of Mr. George
Wallwyn S.of Southampton-buildings, Chan¬
cery-lane, furgeon, a fon.

12. Lady of Ew'en Cameron, efq. New
London-ftreet, a daughter.

Lady of Thomas l urton, efq. of Starbo-
rough-caflle, Surrey, a daughter.

13. Mrs. Bafs, wife of Mr. B, of SwTarby,
near Sleaford, two fons and a daughter.

14. Lady of Jonathan Micklethwaite, efq.
a daughter.

16. At Wemyfs-caftle, Mrs. Wemyfs, of
W'emyfs, a daughter.

The Wife of Mr. Charles Brifcoe, furgeon
and apothecary at Walthamllow, a daughter.’

17. At Putney-hill, Mrs. Boyd, a fon.

21. At his howfe at Blackheath, the Lady

of Ajlderman Macaulay, a fon.

25. Lady of John Perring, efq. cf New
Broad-flrest, a fon.

Marriages,

Teh. A T Bombay, Mr. Fawcett, fon of
F. of Scalehy-caftle, co. Cum¬
berland, and nephew to Howland Ste phen-
fon, efq. of Queen-fquare, hanker, to Mifs
Helen Bellafis.only daughter of Joiin B. efq.
major of artillery in the Eaft India Compa¬
ny’s fervicc.

Aug. 14. Rev. John Palmour, redlor of
St. Juil, Cornwall, to Mifs Arundell, eldefl
daughter of the late William Arundel! Har¬
ris, efq. of Kanagie ; and, on the iSth,
Lewis-Charles Daubeny, efq. to Mifs Wil-
mot Arundell, youngell daughter of the a-
forefaid gentleman.

20. At Dover, Francis Pettingall, efq.
lieutenant iu the Somerfet militia, to Mifs
Chailotie Woodcock, daughter of the late
Rev. Dr. W. of Bath.

25. Count Adalbert de. Petigord, fon of
the Count de P. to Mifs St. Leger, daughter
of tjie late John St. L, efq. of Ireland.

John Taylor, efq. of Hercules-buildings,
to Mifs Clark, of Mount-row, Lambeth.

At Hertingfordbury, Hon, Wm. Brodrick,
to Mifs Preflon.

At Ctieflei field, Mr. Lockett, attorney,
in Derby, to Mifs Anne Bilbie, one ©f the;
daughtei s of Wm. B. efq. late of Berry-hill,
cq. Nottingham. *

26. At Lakenham, Mr. Rich. Matthews:,
attorney at law, Hadleigh, Suffolk, to Mifs
Julia Petit, youngeft daughter of the late;
Rev, Peter P. vicar of Wymondham, and
commillary of Norfolk.

At Leicefter, Mr. Wm. Forfell, one of the,
members of the loyal volunteer corps of iu'^
fantry, to Mifs Sheppard.

Rev. Mr. Furnace, of the Methodift con¬
gregation, toMifsMary Lupton,,of Blackburn.

27. Mr. Edmund Peel, of London, mer¬
chant, to Mifs Grace Peel, daughter of jo-
natlian P, efq. of Accrington*houfe, near
Blackburn, co. Lancafler.

Mr,

1794*1 Marriages of eminent or remarkable Per fans, 86 1

Mr. David Hunter, of Broad-flreei, Lon¬
don, to Mifs Helen M‘Clure, daughter of
Mr. David M'^C. merchant in Liverpool.

28. Robert Graham, efcj. of Jamaica, to
Mrs. Lowe, late of the fame ifland.

folin de Mierre, efo. merchant, to Mifs
Suifannah Turner; and Robert Williams,
efq. jun. of Birchin-!ane, banker, to Mifs
Frai.ces Turner ; daughters of Jolin T. efq.
of Putney.

By fpecial licence, Henry-Thomas Earl of
Ilchefter, to Mifs Maria D'ghy, third daugh-
le'’ of the late Dean of Durham.

Mr. VVefton, of the potteries in Stafford-
Ihire, to Mifs Fallovves, of Ellefmere.

29. Mr. Richard Clark, herald -painter,
of Bath, to Mifs Maria-Anne Collins, daugh-
of Mr. C. author of The Bruflr.”

30. At Braughing, Herts, Rev. R. Hervey,
jun. vicar of St. Laurence, in the ifle of Tha-
net, to Mifs Anne Wade, of Brangling»

At M.ary-la-bonne church, the Rev. Ben¬
jamin Lawrence, curate of that parilh, to
Mifs Giews, daughter of Robert Grews,
efq. of G1 uitefter-place.

■ Lately^ at Cockermouth, Jofliua Lucock,
efq. to Mifs Wilkinfon, daugliter of George
W. e q. late captain in the royal navy, who
was unfortunately loft in the Ville de Paris.

In Ireland, Lieut. Philip Donovan, of the
royal navy, to Mifs Eliza Eagle, of Cork.

Standilii Lowcay, efq. to Mifs Allen,
niece to the late Pvcv. Dr. Downes.

Mr. Goodwin, of Ayfton, Rutland, to
Mifs El. Laxtou, of Uppingham.

Mr. PurftT, farmer, of Bedford, to Mifs
Anne Whitehoufe, of Great Staughton.

At Bath, Mr. George Hulbert, plumber,
to Mifs Banner, dau. of Mr. D. f. builder.

Mr. James Evil!, baker, of Grove-ftreet,
Bath, to Mifs S Gerlick.

At Manor Owen, co. Pembroke, Rev.
David Jones, redtor of Llangen, co. Gla¬
morgan, to Mrs. Bowen Parry, relidl of
John Bowen P. efq of the former place.

Rev. K. Moore, M. A- of Sheiborne,
to Mifs Frew en, of Briftol.

Mr. Arthur Harnfon, of Ripon, York-
fhire, to Mifs Prichard, of Weft Ham, Ef-
fex, niece to tlie late John Story, efq.

At Manchsfter, Mr. John Mullion, linen-
merchant, tm Mifs M. Brooke.

Mr. Carrington, fadler, of Cambridge, to
Mrs. Barton, of Quendon, Elfex.

At Eweiby, near Sleaford, Mr. Bowles,
Lmmer and grazier, cf Heckinptnn, aged 65,
to Mifs Allam, of the forni'a' place, aged zt.

At Beveiley, Mr. Chnftopher Blackftan,
to Mifs Dunn, of Hull.

Mr. Timothy Ball, of the Hyde, in the
parifh of Hinckley, co. Leicefter, to Mifs
llulkinfon, of Strctton Baikerville.

Sej>f. I. VViliiam Stephen Poyntz, efq. of
Midgham, Berks, to the Hon. Elizabeth-
Mary Browne, fitter and heirefs of George-
Samucl Vifeount Montacute. (See the ac-
Cpuut of his Lordlhip’s ^leatb, by an unfor¬

tunate accident at the falls of SchafFhaufen*
in our vol. LXHL p. 1054 ; and of the de-
flrudlion of the family manfion at Covvdray,
p, 858).

Mr, Wm. Ewart, merchant, of liverpool,
to Mifs jaeptes, of Bedale, co. York.

Rev. John Owen, fellow of Corpus Chrifli
college, Cambridge, to Mifs Charlotte Green.

Rev. Mr. HanfeJl, one of the minor-ca¬
nons of N' rvvich cathedral, to Mifs Garland,
daughter of Mr. G. organift of that church.

3. G. P.gott, efq. of Cookham, Berks, to
Mifs Archer, of Welford, in fame county.

Rev. Charles Hales, to Mifs Anna-Maria
Byng, daughter of ttie Hon. Jbiin B.

At Dowles, co. Salop, Rev. Samuel Bur¬
rows, vicar of Highley, in that county, to
Mifs Short, daughter of Jolui S. efq. late of
Minehead, co. Somerfet.

At Beechw'ood, Henry Lafcelles, efq. 2d
fon of Edward r. efp. M. P. for Northaller¬
ton, to Mifs Sebright, daughter of the late
and fifttr of the prefent Sir John S.

4. At Sculcoates, Capt. Clutterbuck, to
Mifs Watfon, both of Hull.

6- At Brillo!, Henry B. CunlifFe, efcj, fon
of Henry C. efep planter at Jamaica, to Mifs
Martha Jones, youngeft daughter of Thomas
J. efq. mei ch uit, of Briftol.

Stephen Cofteker,efq. of Great Eaftcheap,
to Mifs Philippa Young, of Felfted, Effex.

7. Francis TuUoli, efq, of Lincoln’s inn, to
Mifs Simfon, pf Portland- place.

g. By fpecial licence, Gregory Lord Say
and Sele, to the Hon. Mifs Eardley, d.iugh-
ter of Lord E.

Nathaniel Bbgrave, attorney, of B.artlett’s-
huiklings, Holhorn, to Mifs B'lTon, daugh. of
the late Daniel B. efq. of Weft Ham, Elfex.

Mr. Charles Hill, of Barbican, to Mifs
Anne Marriott, eldeft daughter of Mr. John
M. affty matter at Gol ifmith's-hall.

Peter Currie, efq. captain in the Eaft Mid-
dlefex regiment, brother to William C. efq.
M. P. for Gaiton, to Mifs Hubhold, daughter
of Li*ut. col H. of the fame regiment.

9. At Ciaines, near Worcefter, James
Jones, efq. to Mifs Pritchard.

Mr. Chailes Phillips, of Cambridge, to
Mifs M. Clieveley, of Tilty Grange.

Mr. Richard Raw'fori, hofier, to Mifs
Mann, both of Leicefter,

Mr. Favveet, of Scaleby-caftle, co. Cum-
berlaiul, to Mifs Farifh, fitter to the Rev.
Mr. F. of Magdalen-college.

Mr- James Ford, of Dundee, merchant, to
Mifs Barbara Beil, daughter of Samuel i$.
efq. architect, of the fame place.

JO. At Chefter, Mr. Breley, many years
poft-mafter of that city, aged 90, to Mifs
Tompkins, aged 27.

II. Mr. Annifs, of Great Prefcot-ftreet,
to Mifs Eliza Wontner, of the Minories.

13. At Bath, Nathaniel Cidville, efq. of
Witbech, in the Ifle of Ely, to Mifs Purvis,
daugliter of the late Rev. Thomas P. of Nel-
ton, co. Suffolk.

Mr.

Mayyidfes and Deaths of remarkable Ferfms*

[Sept^

8S2

Mr. John Hartley, fchool mafter, to Mifs
"E- Ratciiffe, (laaglitcr oF Capt. Thomas R.
"ootli of Dxjver.

14. At Hinckley, co. LeiceRer, Mr. W.
‘Green, clerk ot the market in that town,
snd o’lC of t'ne h.igii conllables for Sparken-
k'oe hundretl, aged 7a, to Mrs. Whitmore,
Telidt of .the late Mr. W. of Hinckley.

ic. Mr. Jeremy Samboook, wu'ie-rner-
•chant.of Peter- ilreet, Bloom (bury, to Mils
Hehecca Akchley, of High Molborn.

At Holkhain, co. Noi folk, Thomas A^n-
^on, ek^. of Sinrghorough,' co. Sraltbrd, to
Mifs Anne Coke, young&tf daughter of Tl)o-
5rias- William C. 'cfq. of Holkham, M. P..
ifor Noriollt. '

At Beminfter, co. Dvorfet, kfr. Hornhuc-
■kle, of Nottingham, to Mifs Mine, eldeit
<lan. of Mr. Tho. H. clotlder, of that place.

1 5. At vVe'ix Ham, Hllex, John New-
^aurv, efq. of Broad- ftreet, met chant, to
Mil's Soj^hi.i Wag'ner, niece to Sir Thomas
Th'yce, hart.

.. .,iS. Mr, John Buncombe, furgeon, of
’Taimtoiijto Mifs Goodenoughjof Blandford.

Mr. James Winbolt, of New Bafinglrill-
ffreet, iiUo>n:y, to Mil's Mary Adams, of
AiOiied, CO. Surrey.

A.t Oxford, Rev. Henry Rici... B. D.
treblor of Bi’fhey, Herrs, and late feUow of
Exeter-ccllege, to 'Mil's Badeock, of Oxford.

22. At Bentley, Hams, VVMUani Parker
Terry, efq. of Alton, to Mifs Rebecca
■White, daugKer of .the late •Benjamin W.
iofq. of Mardand..

At Bath, Mr. Jolin BuR, of tfie public U-
'braty on the walks, to Mifs Miles-.

23. At Richmond, Capr, Williams, of tlie
foot-gu.rrds, to trie Countefs of iiarrymore.

At Ciieberfn:ld, Mr. MarPnall, of Hatioir-
garden, to Mifs Hardwick, ofNewboiJ.

2a. Mr. lohn Fortnorn, of the Bank of

.j '

England, .and nepherv to the late Cci. F.
•chief engineer of B'ort William, iler ga.!, to
Ales. H. Gnieber, reluT of Niciiolas .G. efq.
chief of Dacca, in Bengrd.

2:;. xAt Ealing, Middlefex, Dr. John Gil¬
lies, uf Portmati-fTreet, to Mifs Catiiarine
Teaver, daughter of the late Rev. James B.
of Lewkmu', cb. Oxfoi d,

. Lewis- William Branneker, efq. to Mifs
Harriet VViifon,of Guildford, Sm i'ey.

Mr.'VVarberton, of the Strand, to MifsNew-
.nian, dau. cf Mr. White N .of Newgate-llr.

Death-s.

2793. JN his igtii J'ear, on liis-palTiige fo
JVfr72. . . . China, Mr. John Lire, hrlt ofh-
cer on board tiie Surat Cafiie, of. R imbav,
and thiid ion nf the Rev. Mr. Robeit U.
iminifter of Airth,

1794. ¥cb.. . . At Wampoo, in Chima,-

George Cockbnrn, efq. eldell fon of the
Hon. Arc!iib..ild C, one of the barons .of .tiie
Couit cf Exchequer in Scotland.

Afr'v .... At Guadaioupe, Capt Robert
JohnRone, of the 39th regiment of foot.

T G Ait Martinique, on board his Ma-
jefty’s Blip Boyne, the Hon. Arthur Tur-
nour, fecond fon of Edward late Earl of
Winterton, by Anne daughter of Thomas
Lord Archer.

'June .... At Tobago, Lieutenant-colonel
Durnrord, vvho commanded the royal engi¬
neers on Sir Cliaiies Giey’s expedition to
the W'efl; Indies.

At Guadaioupe, the Hon. Capt. Akxen 'er
Douglas, of the 3gth regiment.

6. At his brother’s, Mr. Roger Bolton^
Hockerrll, Mir. Jolin B'j’ton, of Old Bond-
llreet, a . emifient vvine-merchant.

24. At Pert-an-Prince, the Hon. George
Colvill, lieutenant in the 41ft regiment, and
youngeft fon of Lord C. of Culrofs.

25. At the fame place, the Rev. Thomas.
Chevallier, chaplain of his Majcfly’s fhip
Seeptre, and. third forv of the Rev. Temple
C. of Afpall, CO. Suffolk.

2-9. Of a gunfliot wound, received in his
head at the attack upon Morne Mafcol, ia
the ifland of Guadaioupe, Capt. George John-
fon, late of tiie 64th regiment.

y/ffy 18. At Bahia, in Ccrfica, Mr. Met-
.calfe Egginton, M. B. phrfician to the arrrFy
there, and l.te of Qiieen’s-coliege, Camh.

At St. Lucia, Major Alexander .^dolphus
Dailey, of 6ih regiment of foot, only 'fon of
tlie Lite Cob D. of Woodhoufe, near Leeds.

At B.ath, in her Soth year, Mrs. Fitch,
iOf Cecil-fireet, London, relidl oF the Rev.'
Heniy 1'. of High Hall, co. Dorfet, M. A.
prebendary of Weils, redtor of Lythvard St.
Laurence, co. Somerfet, and one of the off. ♦
ciatmg cieitjy of the collegiate cliurch of
Winhorne Minffer. [Of this truly refpedf-
able and amiable lady a farther account ffudi
be given in our next.]

24. At St. Dun dan’s, Canterbury, Mrs,
Allen, rehdt of W’m. A. efq. brew'er there.

28. At Paris, aged 35., imtler the gudlo-
tine, with rrcar 7,0 of his party, members

of the Convention, - Robefpierre,

This emulator of Cromwell was ihojt in fla- /
tnre, being only five feet two er three inches 1 ^
in height : Ihs itep was firm; and his quick ^
pace in wa'king announced great aclivity.

By a kind of contradfion of the nerves, he .
uled often to fold and connprefs his hands in
each other; and .pafmodic contra<5lions were
perceived in his ihouldersand neck, the lat¬
ter of whkh he moved coiivulfively from
fide to fiJe.. Jn his drefs he was neat and
.even elegant, never railing to have his hair
in the bell order. His features had nothing
remarkable about them, unlcfs that their
general afjiedl was fomewhat forbidding^
his complexion was livid and bilious; his
eyes dull and funk in tlieir fockeis. Tlie
conllant blinking of the eye-lids feemed to
arife from convulhve agitation; and he was
never without a remedy in his pocket, Ha
could foften nis voice, which was naturally
Jiarlh and cro.aking, and could give grace to
ins prcyiucial accent. It was rcinai ked of

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5794-] Ohliuary of remar kahle F'erfom ; with Biographical Anecdotet. 86'3[

s • •

him, that he coukl Revet* lock a man fall ire
the face. Me v\a5 mailer of the talent of
tleclamation ; and ns a public fpe;,ker was
not amil's at comporition. la his harangues
he was exti'emely fond of th.e figure called
M7ttithejis\ hut failed, w henevei* he attempted
irony. His diiflion whs at times harfh, at
others harmonioufly modulated, frecjuently
brilliant, hut often trite, and was conllantly
blended with comm.on-place digreffions on
•virtue, crimei, and c&fijpiracies. Even when
prepai Cvl, he was but an indifferent orator.
His logick was often replete with fcphifms
and fubtleties ; but he was in general lleril
of ideas, with b.ut a very limited fcope of
thought, as is almoll always the cafe with
thofe who are too much taken up with them-
felves. Pride formed llis bafis of his cha-
radler : and he had a great thivll for f terary,
but a Hill greater for political, fame. Hs
fpoke with contempt of Mr.. Pitt ; and yet,
above Mr. Pitt, he could lee 'nobody unlefs
himfelf. Tile reproaches of the EngliPi
^urnaliHs were a high treat to his vanity
whenever he denounced them, his accent
and exprelhon betrayed liow much his ftlf-
love was flattered. It was delightful to-
him to hear the Prench armies named the
“ armies (d'Rohefpierre and he vvasciiarm-

ed with being included in the lifl of tyrants.
Daring and cowardly at- the fame linne, he
threw a veil over his manoeuvre', and was
often imprudent in pointing < ut his vi(5lims.
if one of the Repref n'atives made a motion
which difpleafed him, he ludileuly turned
round tov\ ards him with a menacing ai'paCt
for fome minutes. Weak and I'evengirfid,
ft'ber and fenfual, chafle by temperament,
and a libertine by the etfeCl of the imagina¬
tion ; he was fond of attradliog the ivotice
of the women, sn\l had them imprif.ined
for the foie p'e;irure of refloring them their
liberty. He made tliem Ihed tears, to wipe
them from their dieeks. in pradlifing l is
delufions, it w^aa his paitlcular aim to aifl on
tender and weak minds, hie fpai eJ lire
priefls, becaufe they could htrrward Ins plansj
and the fuperflifious and devoU-es, hec ipfe
he could conveit them in.to inftrumcpts to
favour his power. Hib flyle and eximeffion
were in a manner tryllical ; and, next to
pride, fuhtleiy' was the moll marked feature
of Ins charadler. Me was for.ounded by
thofe only whofe conduifl had been highly
criminal, becaufe he oould iv th one word
deliver them f>ver to the punilhiTient of the
law. He at. once protedled and terrified a
part of tlie Ckinventicn. Me converted
crimes into ernnirs, ; nd en wirs into crimes.
He dreaded e^.’en the Ihnd. .s of tire martyrs
ofl ber'y, iofliuu -.e lie weakened by

fubftltu'.ing his own. He was fo extremely
fufpicious and dilbuftfiv, t'nat he could hare
found it ill his heart t\> guilioii>ie tiie dead
themfd'. e . To enter into a IhiPi anah hs
of his charadle: , ( beipi-.i-re, born with¬

out genius, could nut create circuauXtauces,

hut profited by them with addrefs. To
the profound hypocrify of Cromwell he?
joined tjie crueitv of Sylla, withou' poirefling
any of the great military and polit!c;il quali¬
ties of either of thefe ambitious adventurers,
H is prkl'e and his ambition, far above his-
means, expofecl him to ridicule. To olTerve?
the emphafis with v/hich he boafled of ha¬
ving proci.aimed the exifleiice of the Su¬
preme Being, one might have faid, that, ac-
c.ording to his opinion, God wmuld not have'
exifled without him. When, ou flie night of •
the 27th of [uly, he found himfelf aban¬
doned by h.is Friends, hedifeharged a piflol ire
his movrth 5 and, at the fame time, a gens.
cT arme wounded him by the dtfeharge of ano¬
ther. Rohrfjfierre fell Irathed in blood ; .ani
a Sa)ii Cnlate, approaching him, very coolly
pronounced thefe words in his ear, there exijh.
a Supreme Beiiig. Previous t-o his executio ',
the bandage being taken (df his head, hitf
Jaw fell down, in confeqU'=‘nce ©f the wound
which he had given kimfelf *

A^g. 7,. At Cliatham, aged 2c, Mr Roper
Thompfon, fon of Mr. Peter T. of Wifbeach,
in Camhridgcfliire,

5. At Rome, aged 7 r, Cardinal S.dviati»
He was created cardinal by the prefetH:
pope, Pius V"l. in 1777.

8. At Giindbc'Ui'ne, Suffex, of a volent
fever, Mrs. H-onrietta Hay, eldefl; daughter
of the late Wm. IL efq. author of the Elfay
on Defoiraity,”' and feveral other valuable
works; which, by t.lre laudable attentions-
of ihis lady and a furvivireg filler, liave 'a ely
been giren to the puhbek in a handfcm.e edi¬
tion, liighiy honourable to therafelves and tf>
the eflablifheti' reputation of their ex^celieiiK
father. (See <mr Review, p. 834.).

q. At Klay, in Argylcihire, Kirs. Camp--
befl, relift of Colin C. efq. of Hailiuaby.

1 Ac the c...flle of VVeinheim, of apo¬
plexy, aged' 74, th.3 Eleftrefs Pala'ine of
Bavaria, who had been married to th.e Elec¬
tor, h.er C'infoit, fince [an.. 17, 1779.

17. At Canterbury, Mrs. Gooch, wife of
Licut. G. of the 3d or Fiince of Wales’s x'e—
g.iment of dragoon-guar.k.

18. A.. ed c", at his h.oufe in Cornhlll,
after a v ry fl'j.rt ii!ne-''s, Mr. Burchall, a
principal pa.vlner in the h<'u'e of Hurchali
a-^d Sw.-ine, and brother to Mrs. Burchall,
late milliner in Bank-flreet.

19. At Potton, CO. Bedford, J.ames Ray-
mi>nd, cfq.

At Salilbury, in his yptt* ye?r, Mr. Tho¬
mas hike, late of Cannon-ti reet, London.

Aged 76, after a very ibort illnefs, at
Fryars, in Anglefey, Sir Mugli Wibiams,
hart, ot Nnnt, in Carnarvonilii'e, a lieute-
n nt- colonel m the army, and M P. for
Be nim n is-

At Panfi Id, near Edinbuigh, Mrs. Callo¬
way, wife of iVIr. [ohn G,

2 1. At her houi'-i in Great Ruffel- ft reet,
Mrs. Lloyd, rtlift of Dr. L. of Stowe, co,
Nortliamptuii.

864 Obituary of rmarlahie Perfons ;

At Caftlehill, Mifs“Anne Begbie, daugh¬
ter of Patrick B efq.

22. In Suffolk-ftreet, Cavendifli-fquarc,
Mr. Mary Campbell.

Mrs. Vines, wife of Goodfon V. efq. of
Wotton-Underedge, co. Glouceiler.

Ac Brandon, aged near 90, Mrs. Mary
Dent, who many years kept the Maid’s
Head in that town, but had lately retired.

23. At Coldftream, Re^. Dr. James Bell,
nainifter of that parifli.

At Bath, Mrs. Frederi«k, widow of the
late Col. Charles F. in the Eaft India Com¬
pany’s fervice.

Mr. John Gibbons, of Eton-col!ege, fon
of Rev. Mr, G. of Windfor.

At Newmarket, after a long and painful
illnefs, Mrs. French, wife of Mr. F. furgeon,
Baker-Rreet, Portman-fquare.

24. Mr. Browning, of Devonfliire-Rreet,
Ponland-place.

25. .At Whalton, near Morpeth, the Rev.
Thomas Bates, D. D. many years red'lor of
that place, 'and in the commllhon of the
peace for the county of Northumberland.

At Gravefend, in childbed, Mrs, Min-
flaaw’', wife of Mr. M. owner of fcveral
Gravefend paflage boats.

In her 97th year, Mrs. Alfop, widow, of
St. Martin’s, Stamford Baron.

26. In his 92d year, the Rev. Thomas
Cobb, .M. A. redlor of the united parifnes of
Great Hardres and Stelling, in Kent, of
Hope All Saints in Romney-marfh, and
perpetual curate of Fairfield.

At Hawkflone, co. Salop, Mrs. Jane Plill, -
daughter of the late Sir Rowland Hill, bai t,
and fifter of Sir Richard Hill, one of the re-
prefentatives for Salop,

At Greenwich, in her 74th year, Mrs.
Hardy, relitR of Jofiah H. efq. late his Ma-
jefty’s confwl at Cadiz, and one of the daugh¬
ters of the late Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of
Knowlton, in Kent.

28. At Lexden, near ColcheRer, Effex,
Robert Deighton, efq. late a captain in the

regiment.

In Cockfpur-flreet, in her 90th year,
Mrs. Bridget Creuwys, a maiden lady.

29. At Vicar’s-hill, Hants, in his 78th
year, Lieut.-geu. Cleaveland, of the royal
artillery.

Mrs. Frances Plubbard, widow of Mr. H.
au61:ioneer,lateuf iVlarfiial-ftrcet, St. James’s,
and of Aiflon, Middlefex.

At Horncallle, in Lincolnfhire (where he
had pradlifed medicine upwards of 50 years),
John/Thorold, M. D- agsd almoft 90. He
was probably the laft furviving pupil, in
ihefe kingdoms, of t!ie celebrated Dutch pr'o-
fefinr, Dr. Boerhaave. For many years he
enjoyed a degree of celebrity, and an extent
< f pr.iiflice, that was equaled by few, and
excrl'ed by none of his contemporaries in
the county where he refu'ed. Of late, how¬
ever, I'ls circuit had been much contrafibed
ft 3na the luroaus made by acigiibouiiug

With Biographical Anecdoin* [Sep^

pradlitioners ; and for feveral years paR,
efpecially fiuce the refidence of two other
phyficians at Horncaftlo, his profeffional
engagements have declined rapidly, and for
the lafl three years he was very feldom- con-
fulted. As a man, Dr. Tiiorold was fober,
induftrious, and plain in all his dealings; as
a phyfician, he fufFered no confideration to
interrupt his profeffional duties. For many
years he fubjeiffed himfelf to the laborious
em))loyment of midwufery, which he prac-
tifed through fuch an extent of country, that
he was often expofed to the greateil fatigue,
and his life was feveral times brought into
the utmoft danger, owing tp bad roads, and
the want of inclofures in the neiglabourhood
where he refided. /

30. Mrs. Eliz Coxeter, wifeof Mr. James
C. of Kemfington-green, Surrey.

At his houfe in Caftle-ftreet, Reading^
Berks, Wm. Tiffin, efq. captain in the royal
regiment of artillery.

At Blawith, near UlverRon, co. Lancaf-
ter, aged 81, Mr. Robert Lancafier; of
whom fome farther particulars lhall be
given in our next.

31. At Ware, in Hertfordfhire, aged 84,
Alexander Small, efq. F. A. S. formeily an
eminent furgeon in London. He was de-
feended from an old and refpedlable family
in Perthfhire, and came to London as early
as tlie year 1736. It is fingular that Mr. S.
erme up the Thames with the fame tide that
brought the hte Princefs-dowager of Wales,
the King’s mother; and he has been heard
to fay, that the decoration of the Ihipping,
the roaring of the cannon, the feflivity and
population of the city, difplayed upon the
banks of the river, and in the fireets, and
the grandeur and novelty of the whole
feene, made an impreffion on his imagina¬
tion which w'as never effaced. After having
finiflied his general education, and fiudied
his own profeffion in a complete and liberal
manner, and having vifited the raoft polifh-
ed countries in Europe, he fettled in Lon¬
don, where, for near half a century, few
men were more efteeraed by all who knew
him, as a profeffional man, a fcholar, and a
gentleman. Perhaps few men ever poffefled
a more generous fpirit or a better heai't, a
flronger mind united to a found and culti¬
vated underftanding. He lived on terms of
friendlhip and intimacy with the mofl dif-
tinguifhed men that adorned the various
walks of fcience in this country 30 or 40
years ago ; and, having furvived mofl: of
them, he reckoned himfelf in part defundf.
In that retirement to which his infirmities
have confined him for many years, no
changes, no pain conki afieifl the vigour,
adfivity, and benevolence of his mind ; and,
from the fruits of his leifure, and recreations
of his retirement, our Magazine has been
frequently enriched with elfays on agricuD,
tur.ii and phyfiologic&l improvements ; one
of which appears in our prelsnt month, p»

1 7 94*] Ohiftia^y of remarkable Pirfons \ with Piograt>hical Anxedoiee. S65

7S1. Colonel ^6, the prefent governor of
Gviernfey, is his only furviving brother.

At her feat at Bayhild, co. Norfolk, in
her 79th j-^ear, Mrs. Jo..lre!l, widow and re-
li'fl of Paul J . efcj and only furviving d mgh-
ter of Richard Warner, clq. late of North
Elrrdiana, co. Norfolk.

Mr. Weldon Guadern, of Diuldington, co.
Northampton.

Found drowned in the pond in Burley-
park, Rutland, ag^d 74, Mr. John Tyors.

Aged 36, John Flollis Piggot, M. D. of
Dei by.

Suddenly, at Wragby, iteir Lincoln, much
regretted, Mr. Paddlfun, many years a re-
fpecLable furgeon and apothecary theie. He
•was returning home from a neighbouring
village, and, it is fuppefed, fell from his
hoife in a fit of apoplexy. He was found in
the road within half a mile of lus ovvn
houfe, but never fpoke afterw'a rds.

After alone' and painful illnefs, in his (5ad
year, Rev. John F;'r.’'en, minifler of Baflow
and Beeley, both co. Derby.

Lately, in ti e VVefi: indies. Lieutenant
William Forefler, of the 34th regiment,
brother to Cecil F. efq. M. P. for Wenluck,
CO. Salop.

Rober?- Charles Dering, efq. a lieutenant
on board his Maiefly’s fi-^ip Iphigenia, and
third fun of Sir Edward D. hart, of Sureu-
den, co. Kent.

Major Rowley, of the 2ifl regiment.

At St. Vincent’s, Hon. John Robertfon,
judge of the Court of Admiralty of Mar¬
tinique.

At Guadalonpe, Coi. Clofe, of the 63th
regiment.

At Martinique, Lieut. Warren, of the 5th
regiment.

At Rome, aged 80, Cardinal de Bernis,
fa '•merly ambailador from the King of
•France to that city. He w.as not lefs cele-
L: ' te<i for his diplomatic talents than for his
t ifie for the belies lettres. Three cardinals’
hats are now vacant.

At Pifa, whither he had gone for th.e re¬
covery of his health, Francs Moneneffe,
efq. youngefl fon of Dr. M. of Brinol.

At the palace of Tnam, in Irtland, Right
Hon. and Right Reverend Dr. Jcepli Dean
Bourke, archbifhop of ru.arr*, primate of
Connaught, hiflicp of Ardagh, md Fail of
Mayo He was the fi'cond Ion of )oha
Boui he, created Lord Naas of N.aas, in the
county of Kildare, Anguft i, 1776 ; .ad¬
vanced to the dignity of a v ifeonnt oti the
13th of J.-nuary, 1781, by the title of Vif-
c< unt Mayo, of M-inycro\ver, in (hat
county, and Earl of ilie county of Mayo,
24tii ju’ie, 17S3. Fmhiacing the clerical
fuatfion, ho vv^is dvau (T the diocele of
Di'om ce whcnc.''. he w'as traiifi.ited,
to the He (E Lc’ghlin and Ferns, and to the
arclihifii.)i.r,ck of Tuam, v itli the united
Lilhopntkb of Rna h oeu and Ardagh, in
G a ^ 'r . Mag. Se^tanber.^ 1 7 gq..

3782. His Grace fuccseded his brother as
Earl of Mayo, and took ids feat as fuefi,
Jan. zo, tygr; and was manied to Eliza-
betli, fifier of Earl Clanwi'liam, in Oclobor,
177Z. Tlie rrch'epifcopal fee i- now va¬
cant 5 hut he is fucce^ded as Eaii of Mayo
by his fon, John Vifcouni Naas, M, P. for
the borough of Naas.

Suddenly, at lier hrotlier’s, Sir P. Wldch-

cot, Mrs. W. M.ip.ners, wife of - M. efq.

of Spittlegate, near Grantham, co. Lincoln.

At Fried one, co. Lincoln, Mis. Norton,
miilrefs of the Havcock inn at Wansford,

Aged 68, Mrs. broke, rtli-il of Rev. John
B. late reCRorof Hinclelham and Hadfon.

At hi^ father’s houfe near Leeds, co. York,
in his 36th year, Tliomas Fenton, efq. late
of Liucoln’s-inn.

At Melton Mowbmy, co. Leicefier, Mr.
Yardley, of OuiKlle, co. Northampton.

Suddenly, ('u the road between Exeter and
Exmouth, Rev. Robert Dodge, of Exeter.
It appears that he had difmounted fiom hi.s
hone, and was leading it dowm the hill,
when it is imagined he was feized with an
apoplexy.

Aged 79, Mrs. FromantecI, reliifl of Rev.
Daniel F. redlor of Aldby, co. Norfolk, and
curate of St. Michael at I'liorn, in Norw/ich,

At Warley camp, after a iLoit illnefs,
Jolin Da.wfon, efq. lieutenant of tlie Derby-
fhire militia, whofe death is much regrcttell.

At Bath, Mr. Tliomas Field, formerly an
eminent bookfeller in Che.ipfide.

At her hou.e lit Fulham, M;ddlefex, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wright, Lhl furviving daughter of
the late Sir Martin W.

In Addenbroke’s hofpital, Cambridge, in
confequence of a broken leg, Robert Ford-
ham, who formerly kept the Half Moon op-
pofite Pembroke-coilege.

Mrs. Hart, wife of Mr. H. attorney, of
Bourn, co. Lincoln.

Mr. Robert Evinfon,Jnn. of Skirbeck, co,
Lincoln. His death was occafioned by a
Ir'.He fiiling upon him on his return home
from Bofion.

At Hawlifh. co. Devon, Mrs. Grant, wi-
dow of Archibald G e^q. of Pittencrief.

At Lambetli, aged 97, Mt. J^hn Aple-
dore, v\ h.o was at the hymg of tlie firtl:
Rone of VVefiminPer bridgf^, and w'orked
as a mafen till it was ftnnheJ. He has Lfc
7 fons .and 5 daughters, a'^out 20 grand-chil¬
dren, and 3 great grand. chilJien.

In Bond ilreet, Henry Booth Blindfh.an,
efq. of jaroaica.

In Henrietta Rreet, Cavendifh-fquarc, in
his 79th vear, Charles Selwnqeki. of Down-
hall , iffex.

ui Si. Martin's-lane, in liis 7 sth year, Mr.
William Fell, fen. an emin-nt tavloi

In the Ni iciJiefex- hofpi’ a , Mr. C<,'utteuay,
the celetoazed performer . -r ttie bag-f^ipes.
He died of a dvopry, which he is luppc<ed to
have contracted by hard-drinkutg j and was

buried

866 Olliuar^ of nmarkahle Ferfons

but ted ill Pancras cbnrch-yard. The funerai
procelfion was exceedingly numerous,, and
extended from the HarnpOhre Hog, in
Broad-ftreet, St. Giles’s, a confideraWe way
into Tottenham-court-road. The number
of thofe in mourning could not be lefs tlian
So or go- couples, who were preceded by
two Irifh pipers, one of whom pkvyed on
the union pipes ufed fonnerly with fuch
wonderful efFetSb by the deceafed,. The body
was ’Waked at the Hampfhire Hog, and all
the expences of the burial and it were de¬
frayed by Capt. Leefun; whole motive for
ordering the wake to he held there was his
great fuccefs in recruiting by means- of the
deceafed, who had, fome time lince, enlidfed
ill his corps, and bad, by Shat gentleman,
been appointed a ferjeant. Courtenay w as
a wet foul; and every thing about the body,
to its interment, w'as entirely correfpondenta
During the eontinnanee of the w'ake, tiie
greateft profufion of liquors was diftributed.
At the' church-yard the fame liberality in
the diftribution of liquors to e'/ery one who
chofe to drink was obferved ; and the com¬
pany happily parfetl without fighting.

Sept . . Prineefs Chrifliana, of Meck-

lenburgh Strelkz, filter to our molt gracious

Qnesn. , .

At h'S houfe in Geravd-ftreet, Soho, af--
ter a lingering . decay of t\yo years and a half,
Robeit iVellti, efq. furgeon and apothecary,
a gentleman whole profeltioual eminence
and excellent private charadter require
fometliing move than a mere memoiial of
his death. He was of Scotch extraction,
and, in the e^'.rly part of his life, ferved as
furTCOn .in the a>rmy, in which ftatioa he
was prefect at the famous fiege of the Ha-
•vanuah, When he fettled in London, his
mimerous military fi lends piocnred him an
extenfive circle of patients, width were con¬
tinually* increabng, till, in 1792, his own
health, tob rnudh impaired by many years la¬
borious praaice, lio longer perm.itted him to
leave his houfe... His medical knowledge was
of the fn ft rank, and his application of it
perfeaiy difinterefted. His attendance was
punaual, his fkill confpicuoas-, his exertions
.indefatigable alike to the rich and to the
poor. Mr. W’s [Wivate worth k heft evin-
4-d by the high efteem , and regret of his
Vefv extenfive acquaintance ; his unaffedled
ftmplicity of manners be! poke theintegiity
of his heart;' and his knowledge of tire
world, found and deep judgement of men
and things, 'enlivened with much pkafant
"anecdote well told, rendered his converfa-
tiun highly interefting, and his plain but ho-
fpitable table much frequented ; nor was his
purfe lefs liberally open to thofe of his old
military friends whofe worth he knew, and
whofe fervices might perhaps be il! requited
by a fcanty income from their ha’f-pay. A
rnore circumftantial account of his life the
w' i'er of this article is in hopes his nephew
and partner, Mr. Murray Toibes (author of
1

; with Biographical Anecdotes » [Sept

an ingenious Difquifition upon Gravel an<
upon Gout, reviewed in one of Mr» Urban’:
late Numbers), will undertake,

1. George Barnard Kennett, efq-. one oi
the ferjeants at arms to his Majefty, ant
eldeft fon of the late Alderman K.

At Chelfea, Mrs, Elizabeth Walker, dan,
of Mr. John Bet ffelaer, formerly an emineni
cabinet-maker in the Strand, and widow oi
Mr. Wm. Walker, of Rawcliff, furgeon.

At ftochefter, Lieut. John Skinner, ol
the marines,, quartered in Chatham barrackSj
and f(f>n of the late Mr. Jofeph S. furgeon
and apotliecary, of Chatham. He was much
beloved, and greatly diftinguifecd alfo for
his (kill in painting portraits.

At Weymouth, Mr. Southeram, one of
the gunners who w'ere wounded by firing
the platform-guns om the arrival of £lie
Royal Family.

2. Alexander Cottin, efq. of Clieverell's^
Herts, in the cammiflion of the peace for
that county.

As Birmingham, in his 85th year, Ed¬
mund Hedfor, efq. the Ichool-feilowq andp.
tlirough life, the intimate friend, of the late
Dr. Samuel J.obnfon ; a gentleman eminent
for fkiU and afftduity in his public charadler
as a furgeon, and mvich and defervedly ef-
teemed in jjrjvate life for his benevolence of
difpofition, liberality of fentiment, and ur-
baniry of manners;

At his feat at Staines, in a very advanced
age, John Pei kins, efq.

At Maxey, co. Northampton, aged 74,,
Mrs. Anne Wortley, wife of Mr. Tho. Vy.

3. Mr, John Cook, oftlce-meirenger at
the fecretary ©f ftate’s office.

At her apartments in Hampton-court-pa-
lace, in her 67th year, and after a lingering
iilnefs, Vifcouniefs Hefter Malpas, reiidt of
George Vifeount Malpas, and daughter of
Sir Francis Edwards, hart., of Shrewfbur/.

4. Sir James Johnftone, bart. one of the
members for Weymouth and Melcombe-Re-
•gis, a lieutenant'-cdlonel in the army, and
elder brother of Mr. Pulteney, who fucceeds
to the title and eftate..

At his houfe, Carltbn-hall, co. Suffolk,
Ofborne' Fuller, efq.

At Edinburgh, Mr. John Craig, merchaPt
in Glafgav/, brother of Lord Craig.

Mrs, Wilton, wife of Jofeph V/. efq. of
the Royal Academy, Somerfet- place.

5. At Huntly, in Scotland,- Mr. Hugh-
Garden, manufacturer.

In Dublin, aged 79, Right Hon. John Fely
Kutehinfon, principal fecretaiy of Hale for
Ireland, ope of the moft Honourable privy
council of that kingdom, M. P. for the ciny
of Cork, pioroft of Trinity-college, Dub¬
lin, and LL. D. one of the moft extraor¬
dinary charadlers, peihaps, that ever ex-
ifted. He arrived by fplemlid abilities to
the fttuation of prime ftijeant at law, ami
haid very great pradfice at the bar. He was
a leading linaa in thefenate, and commanded :.j

attentions

® 7 94*] remar'kahle Terfom ; with Biographical AnecdoUu 867

iitteniion whenevei lie fjioke. He had the
vcle.irell he^Hl that ever cooceived, and the
fweetefl; longue that ever uttered, the fug-
gefiioiis of wifJom ; but he bad his faults,
and was always deemed what is underftood
by tlie world a rank courtier. When he w’as
appointed provoft of the univerfity of Dub-
lifl (which fituation, fince tli,e reign of Eli¬
zabeth, who founded the college, was al-
w'nys filled by an unmarried man) the Ce-
iihacy of Fellows, \vhovv'treiaterdi6tei.l from
•conjugal rite?, role up in ai ms againft him.
Some of the bell fatirical writings, in profc
and verfe, that the Irifh ever read, on this
occafion made their appearance in the daily
prints, and were afterwards publiUted, in a
pamphlet, hy tlic title of Pranceriania', Mr.
Hutchinfon for many antecedent years hear¬
ing the name of Prancer. Tlie conflict in
the univerfity w'as fo great after he became
provoft, that he procured a decree permit¬
ting the fellows to raan'y. This, however,
■did not anfwer; a moft formidable party
was raifed againft hi-m. The prefs teemed
with pafquiuades, and even the fiz;?.rs of the
houfe infuUed inm. ’Soon after Mr. Hutch-
iiifon obtained that eminent fitiuation, he
i]uarrel!ed with the then aUoiney- general,
Mr. Tifdai, a gemleman about 70 years of
age, and fent him a challenge. Mr. Tifdal
replied by moving for an information againft:
Mr. Hutchinfon in the Court of King’s
Bench, and a rule nifi was gi anted. Some
of tlie ableft men at the bar offered their
fervices to the attorney-general on this occti-
Iton, and tte pleadings began. The Provoft
undertook his own defence ; and, after fpeak-
ing for three days, the confideratioii was ad¬
journed to the f< ilovviF.g term. This bufinef?,
however, never erme on again, the attor¬
ney-general dying within the time, and the
proceedings of courfe finally ftopping. Ne¬
ver before did Mr, Hutchinfon, oi' indeed
any other man, difplay fuch eminent talents
as he did on this occasion. He delighted his
auditors by the beaiity of his language, and
aftonifhed tlte Bendi with the amazing force
of his reafoning. All tlie flowers of rheto-
rick feemed by him to have been culled to¬
gether to ornament his didion ; and iroi>es
and metapliors were moft artfully intro¬
duced to dazzle the miixl’s eye, when it
met with a guilty fad that found argument
could not do away. His power and his
wealth gained him many adherents, and he
ftemmed the torrent of oppofition with re-
folution arid with fuccefs as to flrength of
parfy ; but, on an examination for a fellow-
ftiip, w’here lie w’as to pafs the prji
in refped to the anfwer given by one of tlie
candidates to a quefliw, he unfortunately
faid Bene, when all the fenior fellows, who
proaotfneed their decifion afterwards, faid.
Non omnino. In the univerfity, as a man of
literature, he was therefore never efteemedi
as a lawyer, an orator, and a good compa-
mon, he ranked highly la the eliimaiion of

his fi iends and the pitblick. He was a man
of high fpirit, and of undaunted courage, if
fetting no value upon his life merits that
honeurable appellation. Although vefted
w’ith an authority to fuperintend the educa¬
tion of the rifing generation, and ading aS
provoft, which ought to be a pattern of mo¬
rality and virtue, he accepted of a ch.allenge
from a Mr. Doyle, and fought him at a place
called Summer-hill, a part of tlie fuburbs of
Dublin. No mifc.hief enfued. Doyle was
near-fighted, and the Provoft had a Jitong fit
of tlie gout. The public papers at this t. me
teemed with the moft bitter invedives againft;
Mr. Hutclilnfon ; and, perhajis, in the annals
of diurnal publications, even [unius not ex¬
cepted, fdtire, in its moft pointed, cl iffical,
and beautiful drefs, never came forward in
greater perfedion. It was a refiurreSlion of
genius, which an attack on the frudery of
■celihracy had roufed into adion ; and it took
every form which Sarcafm found convenient
to its purpole, and which Ingenuity could
invent to anfwer its end. The confequence
was, a pamphlet puld.iihed by the Provoft.,
in which he defended' his condud ; but this
only ferved as food for liis enemies. The
pamphlet was turned, grammatically, into
ridicule, by an anonymous writer, under
the fignature of Stultifex Academkus, fup-
pofed to be Mr.'Malofie, the commentator
on Sirakfpeare j and a moft humourous and
excellent compofition it was. The partizaits
of tlie Provoft, finding that The Hibernian
Journal,” printed by Mr. Mills, was the par¬
ticular vehicle o^f wlrat militated againft their
patron, formed a plan, in which they fuc-
ceeded, of forcibly taking this man from his
houfe, and ainveying him, at fix o’clock in
a winter’s evening, to the univerfity, in de¬
fiance of the police. This they did ; and
putting him into the troitgh under the col¬
lege-pump, 'gave him the difeipline of u hat
they called a ducking. The young agents in
this bufuiefs were foon difeovered. Some of
them fted, but of thofe tl at remained was
Mr. Brown, now a member of the Irifh
parliament, who was tiied and convided as
one of the moft adive perfons on the occa-
fion and he received judgement accend-
ingly, — Mr. H. was extremely fevere on his
enemies in the univerfity ; and having a par¬
ticular diflike to a Mr. Shewd'iridgc, one of
the then junior fellows, he abfolutely refnfed
him leave of ahfence to go into the country
for the benefit of his health. The co ife-
qnence of this (at leaft tlie fcholars of the
univerfity reported it fo) was, that, in a flrort
time after, Mr. She\vbri<Jge died, and the
college was in an uproar on the occafion.
The Provoft gave orders that the great bell
Jhovdd not toll, aitd that the corpfe ftiould be
privately interred, at fix o’clock in tlie
morning, in tlie fellows’ burial- grouuU.
The fti'ulen's immediately polled up pla¬
cards, infifting that the great hell Jhould ull,
and tliat the futieK*! ftiould be by torehJdght

868 Ohliuary^of rma^kahle Pe^fons\

at night ; and they carried their point ac¬
cordingly. Mi«no<d: every fludent in the
urdverluy attended the corpfe to the grave,
in fcarfs and ' ntb'^ndt, at iheir own eX-
pen.ce ; and 'when the funeral oration was
prnnounred, one fpirit of rever;ge, in the
rhanner of e'chnci'y, ran through them all,
and ,hey fltw like lightning to the Provort’s
tUveiling-h nife, horlding o,,en his doors, and
fnrdhi 'g t > pi -ces ah that o rtrucfted their
fury. Fortnnrttely tlie Provofl h.id intelli¬
gence of th, s intended outrage ; and fie and
h;s finiily were removed, m coniequence,
to hh country-fe .t, about foun' miles from
the m n'on d's, fome hours antecedent to
fth’s bu*" n'-fs. !'• v'’as feveral weeks before
the tnnuii cmr^ly fubfule ’, aird the young
gei.;' If-'^'an ret rued to thei'' ftndie*^’, but the
fate o:f She's Bridge rankled in P’eir boforns
for ■'atip ■year. aPer'v .qrds, ahhough the fa¬
culty def-Iared that this gentleman could not
have fui'vived, wl. ether he went to the
cotir.try 'or not, his diforder bemg of that
namre wbi.-h fet all pofiiladity of p- clonging
lik t defiance. Tile hiltory of Me. Hutch-
in fon, will be de'-.ilen from fludent to fln-
dei t, in the un''^:rrit;:, -as long as that

univerfuy exihs. B“ing a-t one and the
fame time a prii y-c' uu ellor, reverftonary
fecre'^aiy uf fta e, major of the 4th regi¬
ment of' horfe, prov/oft of Trinlts -College,
Dublin, and fearch.m, packer, and ganger
of the port of :rtrangr''rd ; the late Earl
Guildford rrsade the following remark on
him : “ If Englarut a.>d Ireland were given
to this man, he ^v(nlld folicit the Ifle of
Man for a potatoe- garden.

At his nepiiew’s houfe at Chelfea, in his
90th year, John Turner, efq. comptroller of
the houfehold, and (leward ro the late Prjn-
cefs Amelia, all the years her Royal High-
nefs kept houfe. '

At heicefler, aged 74, Mr, Turlington.

At his houfe in .Vlary-la bonne, Robert
Grew?, efq On the preceding Saturday he
attended the marriage of his daughter at
Mary-la bonne church, was immediately
taken ill on Ids ivturn home, and never
quitted his bed until his deceafe. He had
been fuccefsfully as well as extenfively en¬
gaged in the new buildings eredled in that
P'.ipnlous and o]nilent parifli ; having by a
life of induldry and oeconomy, joined to the
moft perfeifl integrity, realized a foitune of
upwards of 70,000!.

At Wickham, Plants, in an advanced age,
John Siffmore, efq. many years belonging
to tile v'ldtualing department at Portfmouth.

Of a dropfy, at Ids houfe on Enfield-chace,
aged upwaids of 70, Humphry Bache, e'ep
formerly cliief teller at the cuftom -houfe,
from which place he was difiTuffed laft year ;
proju ietor and builder of the buddings called
after ins name at Hoxtou (where his wife
^ died May it, 1792), and of two lioufes on
Enfield-chace, on the inclofure of which he,
With Sir Thomas Halifax, kniglit and alder-

with Biographical Anecdiiles, [Sept.

man, obtained a fpeclal daufe, limiting the
rent to be paid for the land allotted to tPierxi
refpedlivdy to 365. per acre; and alhfpro-
piiecor of an eifate at Watford.

6. At Walworth, in his 55th year, Mr.
Thomas Feilder, late of Idol-lane, Great
Tower Rreet, fruit-broker.

At Hereford, Mrs. Leigh, a maiden ladi-,
daughter of the lite Rev. Egerton Leigh,
D. T. archdeacon of Salop, and canon-refi-
dentiai y of Hereford cathedral.

At his houfe at Stratford -grove, EfTex, the
Rev. Peter-Thonias Burford, rector of Mag¬
dalen Laver, in the fame county, and vicar
of Braughing, Herts ; the former in the gift
of Thomas Burford, the latter of truflees.
He took the degree of LL. D at M ;gda'ea-
college, Cambridge, 177c, and was formei ly
master,- as was ' his father before him, of
Ai'dihiihop Harfnet’.s free grammar- fchool
at Chigwell, m which he fucceeded Mr.
Lloyd, 1782.

7. Mr. -Bobert Gohing, furgeon, Per¬
ch, urch-ftrcei, tranhatr.r of a chirurgichi
journal lately publilh-ed from the French of
M, Default.

Rev. Guy Fait fax, M. A. of Newton-
Kyme, co, York. While performing di¬
vine fervice in his parilh- church, he fell
back 111 the ceading defk, rvithout any pre¬
vious intimation of indifpohtion, and in-
ftantly expired. His death is fuppofed to
have been occafioned by the rupture of one
of the large arteries near the heart.-— It i.s
doing very impcrfedl juftics to his chsradttf
to iay, he was a man of tlie mildeft and
moll amiable manners; of tiie mod difin-
terefted bei.evolence, as uno{l;ent,atious as it
was diffufive ; and that fuch was the invari¬
able exemplarmefs of his conducf, that his
whole life, in whatever point of view it
might be contemplated, appeared but as one
continued adl of preparation for a better.
Under thefe circumftances, fevere as mult
be the affli{flion of his furviving family for
the loL of fo invaluable a member of it, the
manner, at lead, of his death, preceded by
neither ]>ain nor fickneis (for he died with¬
out either a ftriiggle or a groan), mufl be
matter of confolatinn rather than regret.
He was formerly fludent of Chiiil Church,
Oxford ; where he took the degree of A. M.
^759.1. fur feveral years held the va¬
luable living of Wigan, in Lancafhire, for
bis re'ation, a younger fon of the prefent
Lord Bradford, in whofe favour he refigned
it in the year 17S9. He held no other pre¬
ferment at his death but tlie redlory of
Nevvton-Kyme abovementioned, and Bab-
worth, in tlie county of Nottingham. He
was delcended fro.m an elder branch of the
family of Lord Fairfax, the parliamentary
general.

At his houfe in Par! lament- Rreet, in his
yqtli year, George Stubbs, fen, efq. keeper
of the records of the Court of Common Pleas.

Mr. fliomas Watts, attorney, of Lynn,

Tohmas

1^94*1 Obituary of remarkah 't Ferfons\ with Biographical Jmcdotes, 869

Thomas Lyon, efq. eklijft fon of the Hon.
Tliomas L. of Hettou-lioufe, co. Dm ham.

Mrs Caruthers, relict of the late Aider-
man C. of Nottingham.

8. At Hvill, ages! 60, Mr. W. Donkin,
upwards of 30 years clerk in the houle of
Jofepli Sykes, efq. Son and Co. merchants.

At Feltham, in her yytii year, Mrs. H I!,
relich of H. Hill, D.D. late redtor of Bux-
hallj CO. Suffolk.

At Hor'ham, SuTex, in a very advanced
age, Cli.'U-le.s Draper, ei'q. a luperannuated
captain of di agoms, and uncle to the late
S'.r William Drapf^r.

At Cr.ih, the hh'n. Mrs. Somerville, 1 ',dy
of the Hon. Hugh Sumerville. of Fitzhead,
CO. Somcr.et.

9‘ At c^urt, Mifs Grace Watfon,
youiigeli daughter of the Hon. Mr. W.

Sudde.dy in his chair, after eating a very
hearty dinner, )ohn follifte Tufnell, efq. of
Langley^-, in Great W ihha.m. He was one
of the m -h we dthy commoners in Eng"r. nd ;
the reiHal of lii.> landed propei ty in EiFex
and the North amounted tw i8,ooci. per
annum, m'.«l li-" ready money and fttmk jn
the funds is expelled to amount to near
i5C',oacl. He has left three fens, the ekleft
of whom is fuppofed to be inenmnetent to
the fneceffion ; the fecond, Wili am, for-
me'iy a ca!>tain in the dragoons, will there¬
fore prob.ibly fucceeil to the inheritance of
t''e eif.'pes ; th'* third, [ohn, has for many
years been a refident at Houlogne, from his
father’s too rigully peiTiiling in not dif-
chargiug feme inconfiderahle debts which
he contradled in an early period of his life.

At VVa'thamliow, in her 23d year, Mrs.
Free, ulfe of John F. efq. banker.

At North Wingfield, co. Derby, of which
he was re6lor, aged 83, Rev. Wm. Burrongh,
alfo vicar of Barrow on Soar, co. Leice.fier,
in the g-.ft of St. John’s college, C.ambridge,
of which he wnas formerly fellow; B. A.
I "4b; M. A. 17505 B D 1 7... 5 F. A. S.
J764.

At his lodgings in Charles-fbreet, St.
James’s-fqaare, John xVlair, efq. formeily
i'ui geon-general to tlie army in Aniericaj
under Gen. Wolfe.

10. At Blockley, in the county and dlo-
ceie of Worcelier, the Rev. Charles Jjf, er
Seiwyn, lM. A. more than forty years minif-
ter of that pariPa ; of w'hofe exe.mplary
character tiiey can only fpeak as it deferves,
who had t e happinefs to be moR inti¬
mately acquainted with his virtue , which
criginated from the moR endeai ing fweet-
nel’s and Ivenevolence of natural difpofi-
tion, improved and heightened by the in¬
fluences of true religion. 1 his pentleman
wa.s of a very ant ent and refpedlable fa¬
mily, nearly connected W'th Lonls Sydney
and Bolton. He was educated at A efi-
niinller fchool ; and liis amiable cliaraher
and condudl there ftill live in the menn^ries
of his contempyrarics. He was eledled

thence to Chrllt Church, Oxford, in 1755 ;
and, foon after he had taken his fii ft degree,

married Elizabeth, the daug!it'?r of - -

Coxet!^, efq. of Bampton, co. Oxford. Not
many years after his ordination lie was
placed by his friend Mr. Congreve, the lat©
generous and v/orthy vicar of that pari.fii,
in the curacy of Blor.klcy, with a handfome
Itipend ; and his faithful labours, in an ex-
tenfive and laborious cure, fo recommendevl
him to his liberal-minded princijial, that he
peimihed him to apply to Dr. Johnloi:,
tin a biflaop of Worceiter, wlio was no
If ranger to Mr, Sehvyn's character, to cnn~
fent to the refignation of Mr. Congreve, atiil
to collate his excellent curate to the vicarage.
In that Ration he waas enabled, by tliis for¬
tunate iiicreafe of income, to extend his
bounty to hi.s poor parilhionci s.

“ By him were riches rightly underRood
To he a larger power of doing good.”
About 20 yern s ago he qualified as a juRice
of the peace for the county of 'WorceRer ;
and, not many years fince, he alio qualified
for tlie county of Gloucefler : .and in this
arduous fitnation, in a diili icfi of thirty miles
extent , witli very few refident magfifrates,
he acquitted himfelf with fucli unbialfetl in--
tegrity, fuch unw^earied patience, fuch F und
judge.T’.ent, and fiicli Ri idr adherence to the
laws, as gave univ'crfal facis^adlion o th.ofe
to who‘e benefit and accommodation he tie-
voted his time and his abilities. In woial,
it is difficult to <’ay in which chara i.r he
fhone moR ; w heClier as an aRefti mate
huR):md, a tender and indulgent fatiier, a
pious rainiRer, an upright magiRrate, or
(as tlie writer of this ai tide witli tears of
grateful loi iow now reflects) as .an atten¬
tive, benevi lent, and faithful friend. During
a long and levere illaefs he exh bited an ex¬
ample of patient fubmiflion to the w 11 of
Got!, full of concert to himfelf, and of in-
Ri'udtion to thofeaicund him; particu'ail/
to his aflediionatc dfildren, vviio, from the
momcmt of their mother’s deafii, had Imc
one omntefl with each other, which of -Miem
fhonlil be moR dutiful and attentive to the'
beR of fathers. He was abended to tlie
gi'ave. by a mournful train of children, pa-
nlhioners, and friends.

At her lioufem Portman-fquare, the dow¬
ager r.ady Rous, mother of Sir John R. bare,
am! M. P.

In her 87th year, Mrs. Cant, relidh of the
Rev. Mr. C. of vy'artnaby, co. Lticelfer.

Major-gen. tohn Campbell, of Ba. nvek.

It. At BoRol, near FocheRer, Mrs.
Spong, wife of Mr. Stephen S. gemleman
farmer, of P>oRo!.

Mr. [nlin Dav, porter-brewer, of Nor,
wich, who fvrred the otkee of flienfl of
that city in the year i"83.

In Spital fquare, D -.n. Mefinan, fim. efq.

Mr. Wm. Hodgkinfoii, hull-a, of Gainf-
borough ; a man o very refpectable clia-
laRcr, and much e.fleGmtd,

Syo Obituary of remarkable Perfom

At his houfe in Newport-ftreet, aged 74,
Rev. Mr. ivlnrray.

12. At Little Chelfea, in his 94th year,
Mr. jainefon, upwards of 40 years a luper-
aunuaied mafler of the royal navy.

At his feat the Guo!!, co. Glamorgan, S:r
Robert Mack worth, hart. Having left no
iifre, the title and eftate defcends to his
next brother, a very refpedfable charade' ,
whom tlieir father always intended as heir
to th.e paternal eflate. The young widow,
Lady Maclcworth, enjoys a fettlement of
i.aool. jrer annum, in lieu of 30,0:0!.
which foe' brought lier deceafed hirfband.

At lier houfe in Mortimer- ftreet, ^Trs.
C'ilvett,r!-h(5lof NicholasC.efq. of Hunfdon.

Mr. John Clarke, an eminent farmer and
graz'd', of Bol nbroke, co. Lincoln.

At the houfe of the Rev. Wm. Marfhall,
at Great SIrelfurd, in his 23d year, Mr. VVm,
Girton, fnr'ent of Magdalen college.

At Tottenham, co. Middlefex, Abraharn
Gray, eftp or e of the pCople called Quakers,
and formerly in the v/ine-trade in Newgate-
llreer, where he acquired a large fca’tune.

At Hitchin, in a deep decline, aged 22,
Mr J. Pierfon, eideft fon of Mr. J. M. R,
banker there.

A.t Witcham, near E'y, the wife of Mr.
John Headley, of tliat place.

IP At hroraplon, near Ch.atham, Capt.
William Moore, of the divifion of marines
quartered in Chatham lower barracks.

At Highgate, Mifs Anne Divett.

Aged 48, refpeded by all for the mil ^nefs
of his difpolition and the propriety of his
condud, .Mr. Jonathan ''harp, organiR of
Sr. John’s college, Cambridge, and one of
the ling mg men of King’s and Trinity col¬
leges. In his profelLiou he was allowed to
be a rno'R ufefu! performer, having acquir¬
ed, witii very little affilLuice ftom infliuc-
tion, a ct'nbdei able tlegree of Ikill on feveial
inRr'.imerifs, and a facili'y of finding at fig!it
even of intricate mul'ick, and was frequently
admitted to the fociety of the mufical part
of the univerlity.

14. At Cl'mte, near Andover, Hants John
Freemait, eftp of Fawley- court, near Hen¬
ley ui'on 'I bames, nepfiew of the late Sir
Jeremy Samhiook, hart.

In liei 65th year, xM’rs. Mary Duppa.-w/ife
<')f Hald-^viu D- eAp of Malraams- hall, Stoke,
in the hundred of Hoo.

15. At hedford, in his §8lh year, Mr,
Thomas Gadfiry.

At his houfe in Alcrchant- ftreet, Edin¬
burgh, Lieut. Fram Keir, of the royal navy.

in lier y^'th year, Mrs. Agnes Trail,
daughter of the Rev. Mr. James T. late mi-
nii^er of Montrofe, and relic‘1 (of Mr. Alex.
Ttiomlon, formerly bookfcller in Aberdeen.

ib. At Ills houfe in Clerkenwell-clofe,
in an .'..Ivanced age, V\'m. Blackborow, efq.
formerly and. for many years ir, the commif-
fion of Hie peace lor tlie county of Middlefex.

Aged go, Mr. Richard Btnky, of Liu-

w/fb Biographical 'Anecdotes [ Sept,

coin, formerly a furgeon and apothecary at
Kirton in Lindfey, but for feveral years palt
a refident of Lincoln.

Drowned, in crofiingthe Thame.sat Chif-
wick, benjamin Vauderguolit, the famous
picture-dealer and colletftor. He was the
only fon of Mr. John V. pictnrc-deakr in
Lower Brook-Rreet, and was one of the firft
ftudents at the R.oyal Academy on its inlli-
tutinn in 1769. He was returning from
Cbifvvick, where he was cmiplnyed in clean¬
ing and arranging the duke of D-vnnfli ire’s
piiftures. A barge, by the careleffnefs of
the hoy who was guiding the hoife in the.
towing-path, ran foul of the boat, which
oveifet. As Mr. V. could fwim, it is ima¬
gined he, wxis drowned by the clinging of a
woman- palfenger, who funk with, him and
had in her ar.ms a child a few months old,
■which was providen'.ially faved by the hu¬
mane exertions of another of Cne palTengei'S.
After two hoiSrs fearch, his body w'as found
and taken home. His fate is the more to be
dejdortd, as he has left a worthy and ami¬
able w idow', and eleven children, to lament
I heir great lofs. Mr. V. was one of the firib
connoiffeurs in painting; be had indeed
more experience in the art than any of his
contemporaries. He was a temperate, pla¬
cid, unoffending man, and very mucii at¬
tached to liis family.

17. At h.is houfe in Brighthelmftone, aged
63, of a very fevere but fhort complaint
in his bowels, Ctiarles Eyre, efq. of Clap-
iram, Surrey. He paffed through life w'itb
a charadler unimpeached, and has left an
affiibled widow and three childien to la¬
ment the lofs of a kind huftiand and moft
alfe6lionate father. Society alfo at large has
loi< one of its moft worthy members, as his
chai i*y was unbounded, to w'hich W’as added
a fpint pei feClly meek and harmlefs. He
filled tlie office of high-ftrei iff for the county
of Surrey in the memorable year 1780 with
peculiar dignity and fteadinefs. in the midft
of tire moft jrolite circle of acquaintance, Mr.
Eyie was neither affiamed nor afraid to de¬
fend by his adlions and argurnent.s tlie truths
of Chi'iftianily ; and it is no fmall honour to
his memory that tlie late Bifhop of Norwich
was heard to lay of him, ‘‘ Mr. Eyre is a
nvin of very fingular piety ; he is, indeed, a
chofen vclTel.” He was t!ie youngeft of a
very numerous and very antient family in
Wiltftiire, and brotlier to Dr. Jolm Eyre, of
M ilts, wliofe death and excellent charailer
were mentioned in vol. LXII. pp. 104-^.
105 3. 121 8. His eideft daughter was mar¬
ried fome time fince-to Roheit Thornton,
efq. M. P. for South w'aik ; and his only fon
was lately elefted a fellow'' of All Souls col¬
lege, Oxford, He laboured for the three laft
years under a very peculiar difeafe of a ner¬
vous nature, w'hich, though very oppreffive
to his fpirits, lie bore 14 1(11 a lemaikable
fumuefs aiid refignation. A.mong many
moft exemplary vatues; the prefent times
/ fuibid

17Q4*J Obituary, — Tbeairica’i RrpJIer. — Bill of A fcnallty, • 871

forbid our not mentioning his keeping holy
the Sabbath-day, and uiing contiantly Fa¬
mily prayer; never negledting, when op¬
portunity offered-, the pleafures of focial
worlhip, or the duty of cohii-nunicating at
the Lord’s table.

Suddenly, aged 8S, the Rev. Augufiine
Filh. He was the oldeit incumbent m the
diocefe of Peterborough, having' been retfor
of Sy well, in Nortlvamptonfhtre, where he
died, upward? of 50 years.

In the alms-houfe at Kinglfon, Surrey,
aged 95, John Greenhoulc, formerly a
coach -niak^'r.

18- 'At Teddington, of a paralytic flroke,
I>rewry Octley, efq.

At Nunton, near Salifbury, James Neavey
efq. one of the direbfoi s of tlie South Sea
Company, and brother of Richard IS. eiq.
one of the bank dircdfors.

19. Aged 26, Anthony Morgan, of Slone,
CO. Stafford.

At Soutl,amptO!i, after a fudden illnef'-',
M ifs Mylne, eldelf; dan. of Mr. M. ai'cliite6t.

At Camhcrwch, Surrev, William Dunbar,
efq. of Fen- court, Feuchurch {freer.

20. In the 85tli year of his age, William
Prowting, efq. an eminent apothecary in
Tower-flreet, London, and treafurer of St.
Luke’s Hofjbtal ; an iuifitution which, from
a (leader origin, lie had tlie fatisfaif'o \ (for
he was one of its eai lied promoters) to fee
rife into one of tlie moil ex'enfive and bed
regulated of its kind in Europe. He
lilcewife treafurer of tiie company of Apo¬
thecaries, of ivhich he was tlie oldeft mem¬
ber, and had repeatedly ferved the ofllce of

THEATRiCA

mafter. , He was a fenfible, ^v’-ell-informecl
man, of uncommon mtldnels of tempei-, and
of the dh6fcd integrity ; qualities whicli.
conciliated the refpedt and efteem of all who
knew him." Mr. P. was a native of Hamp-
(liire, and for many y^ars has been in tlis
hahit of paying an annual vifit of a fev.’ days
to his native country. He was there as ufual
(in tlie neighbourhood of Alton) about a
month be.^ore his death, and ■'was appare'ntlv
in good health and. fpirits. Tliere is a good
portrait of this tru'y benevolent man, liy
Romney, in the committee-room of Saint
Luke’s Hofpital. As a pn.feirional m^n,
Mr. P. was greatly refpeded. Asa man of
the world, his condiud W’as irreproac'nable.
He was a friend to the friendled, and a father
to tlie poor. Though a brilliancy of parts
was not a drikiwg feature in his charailer,
yet his good fenfe and pl'cid manner feUloni
failed to blunt the iFahs of Satire and put ill-
natured Wit out of countenance.

At Ids houfe at Croydon, Surrey, aged 70,
Samuel Wilfon, efq formerly an apothecary
of Hatton -g..rd(Ui,

At hishouie in St. Lawrence church-yard,
aged 6S, Mr. John Dun, merchant.

22. Ac Chatham, aged upwards of 70,
Mrs. Frances (meg, a maiden lady, of conir-
derable fortune.

2 p Mrs. Smith, wife of [ohu S. efq. of
Finflaury-fqioare, and daughter of 7'homas
Bonqe, efq. commiflioner of the cutloms.

At Chatham, Mrs. VVariiig, vsufe of Mr.
GuPavus W. alTiRant brewer to Meffieuis
Bells, brewer's, of that towm.

Promotions .2, w/ Preferments rV; our next

Sept. Hay-Mar KcT.

1. Britain’s Glory — Ways and Means — My

Grandmi'ther. [Hexliam— Ditto.

2. All in Good Humour — The Battle of

3. The jev/ — The Apparition.

4. Rule, Britannia — i he Village Lawyer —

'I he Apparition.

5. Anld Robin Gray — The Son-in-Law —

The Children in the Wontd.

6. Inkle and Yarico — The Prize.

8. 1'he Mountaineers — My Gi andmother.
g. Ways and Means — My Grandrriother-*-
The Agreeable Surprize.

30. Seeing isBslieving — The Mountaineers —
The Pm fe. [ The Village l^awycr.

11. The London Hermit — Peeping Tom —

12. Heigho for a Hui'band! — My Granei-

motlier — The pnrfe.

13. Inkle and Y'arico — The Son-In-Law.

15. The Liar — Peeping Tom — .V'iy Grand-

mot ’'ler.

Chrillened.

Ma'es 642
Females 652

Whereof have died under two y^ears old 601

Peck Loaf 2s. yd.

Sept. New Drury-Laxe.

t6. The Jerv—My Grandmother,

18. The Wcurder — The Prize.

20. The Heii’efs — My Graudmotirer.

23. King hleniy the Fif.h — No Song No

bnjrper.

2 5. The jew — Ditto.

27. The Provok’d Tlufbnnd — LodoiQca.

30. The ClandePme M.u'iiage — Ditto.

Sept. Coven t~G ARDEM.

15. The Rival TTcem: or, itrary -J^aae an.i
Caveat- Garden — 'Tlie Snfpicious
band — Sju igs of Laurel.

17. Othello — Netley Al>hr,y.

19. Toe Beaux Stratagem — - 1 he Po'ir Soldier.
22.. Macbeth — Harleipiiu and Fauifns.

24. She Stoops to Conqn-T — Rofma.

26. The Travellers in Switzerland — Mo¬
dern Antiques.

19. Ha-mlet — liai Icqniri and Fanftus.

BILL of MORTALITY, from Sept. 2, to

1294

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Males 6r
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LoND.GazB T TK
General Even.

Lloyd’s Evening
Sc.James’sChron.

London Chron.

Londcu Evening.

The Sun — Sti.''

White 1.. a 11 Evea.

London Prxket
Rnjlifh Chron.

Courier — Ev ."tvTa.

Middlefcx Jouni.

Hue a.Ml Cry.

Daily Advrrtifer
Times — Briton
^forning Chron.

G azetteer, Led ger
' Herald — OrtcTc
:M.Poft& World
I Publicans ridverr.

I r ^ Weekly Papers
! Bath a, Brlftol 4
Birminghsif=.i 2
i Blackburn
I Bucks — Bury
:Cambridg£ 2
Canrerhtsrv 2
Chelmsford
Cheller

C O N T A

}The Meteorological Diaries for Sept, and 061. 874
i Extraordinary Inftanc of Sagacity in a Dog 875
[True Chara6ter of the late Rev. Mr. Seward 876
'Mr. Herbert Marlh to Archdeacon Travis S77
I A Vindication of Mr. Polwltele’g Devonfhire 878
The EnglifnEpifcopaliaY) Church in Scotland 879
Dr. D.^Iacqueen on the OrigiiTof the Pi6ts 881
lA6ls relative to Highways and Poor Hates ,884
I Advice to the Clergy — Montagna’s Letters 885
j Stings of Wafp — Stone Blue is not j'/oifonous Ih,

!, State of theEnglifhEpifcopalians in ScoMand 886
1 A j.etter from Mr. Wakefield to Mr. Urban 887
/ Remarks on the Travel^ of the Rev. .Mr. Gray ih.
IMr. Robinl'on’s Remarks on Hydrophobia 888
^Dr, Dawfon — The of Mr John Jones ib.

'Lady Derwentvvater — Clerical Corpulence 8S9
Provifion fqr Families of deceafed Clergymen 890
Statfordfhire Memoranda— W'etton deferibed ib.
Curious GhiVurgical Operation— New Nofe 891
, Public Cemeteries are I'candaloufiynegledted 892
i The Defcendancs of the P\.ev. George Pierce ib.

Hydrophobic Cafes unfnr unately are not rare ib.
I Laic Letter of the famous Sir Thomas White ib.
Defeription of Lnllihgton in Somerfetfhire 893
Originaf Anecdotes of Frier Noel at Lyons 8 94

OCTOBER, 1794

Coventry
Cumberland
D. rby, Ext.tC:
Gloucefter
Hereford, Hull
Ipfwich
Ireland
Leeds 2
Leicester 2
Lewes
Idverpool 2
M&iddone
Mane he her 2
Newcafllf 3
Northampton
Norwich z
Nottingham
Oxford
Reading
Salilburv
Scotland
Sheffield 2
Sherberns 2
Shrewlbnry

Stamferd a
W’^incbeffiei
White! laven
Worceftei
York 3

IN I K G

TheHrax on Regifters ineffedlive — Eddifli
Lilt of Book Catalogues with marked Prices
Original Pidfure by Hogarth at Stifued Hall

896

897

The E^amily of the Rev. Tho. Pagett of Mells //.
Dr. Wells’s Replv to Dr. Darwin on Vihon 90 ^
Mr. Graham’s Charadfer of .Mrs. MacauLay 907
Fall; Bergliolt EsPs, why placed in a Cage 90S
St.Giies’s,‘'aIop — C^iai'ter-maflerWmVVliite 9C9
Account of antient Keep of Cliilham Caliie ib.
Critiqueon King’s Plans of Canterbui y Caffile 9 ic
Another Human Phaenomenon — and another 9 lu
Remarks on tire Reliques of Ancient Poetry 913 j
Proceedings of the lalt belfion of Parliam-nt 9 r < |
Mifcellaneous Information, Qneriesanfv^ G' cd 918!
Obfervations on various bubjeclp for Odh.'ber 9 i 9
VValfalljW dleiihall, Wolverhampton — Qticry 92c
Review of New Publication's 921 — 935
ForeignLiterary Intelligence— /rabA/W/cu/sr/V.' 59 3 6
Sel ecu Poe T R Y, .Antient and Modernp 37 — 042
Proceedingsof NationalConvention in France 943
Important Intclhgence from London Gazettes 944
Hiltorical Chronicle — DomellicOcc^irrences 9 vo
Marriages, Deaths, Preferments, &c. 954 — 967
Theatr, Regifter — Monthly Billof Mortditv 96-
Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 968

! (

Embelliihed wiitli a FuTurerque View of Lulling ro>- Church, in Somersetshire;
a PoBTRAir iiluffirative of a remarkable Chukuroical Operationj
and accurate Pl^ns of the K kep s f)f Ca ilh am and Ca n x erbu rv Castles.

By S r L ^ N US U R B A N, Getit,

Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero’s Head, Red- Lion Prdtage, Fleet-Ri-eet ;
where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addrelTed, Post-paid. 1794.

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874 Meteorskgual Dtartes for September and October, 1794.

Days

Wind. I

Barom.

Therm

Hygromi
feet in.

State of Weather in September, 1794*

S gentle

2'9 >76

r4 I -3

dark (ky, ftiov/er

W briik

•3

^vhitc clouds, fair

N calm

•4

blue Iky, pleafant

SE gentle

dark Iky, bland and' pleafantr

E calm

29,7^

rain all the day

E gentle

dark Iky, pleafant

N briik

•5

dark Iky, fair

E brific

blue fky, heavy thunder fhower

N moderate

overcaft, fair

^ 0

N E moderate

. 98

white cloud :, very pleafanC

1 f

N gentle

30,. 8

2 .0

clear expanfe, fine day ^

1 2

SE calm

grey, no fun

N calm

dark Iky, little rain P.J^.

E calm

29,80

5 ^

' .t

dark Iky,, no fun

S 'calm

1.8

dark fky, little raim'

1 6

S calm

dark (ley, rain at night

l-r

W calm

flight Ihowers

SE calm

t 2:

0.9

very heavy rain

S moderate

57-

r.4

blue Iky, clears up P.IV^.

SE moderate

28,86

• J

Ihowers all day

% 1

W briik

29 ,42

white clouds, rain at night

W briik

0,9

rain without intermiftion

2 ;

SE calm

after a heavy fhower, white clouds ahd faf?

.24

iSW gentle

1.3

white clouds, rain at night

2£,

N calm

•3

white clouds, fair !

N calm

clear Iky, ram at night

2-7

N gentle

2 .0

dark Iky, pleafant

:SE gentle

30, 7

58.

dark Iky, little ram at night

jS calmi

1 .0

white clouds, very pleafant

!s calm

wliite clouds, pleafant

z. Nuts gathered ; good, and in great abundauGe. — 6. G-orfe and heath in full bloom, an'i’
make a beautiful mixture upon the commons. — 14. A pear-tree in bloom, having loft its
leaves in the fcorching drought, re foliated, and put forth frelh bloom and in great plenty.
Cobwebs abound upon tiift thorn- hedges.— 21. The ground ftrevved with leaves from laft
night’s' ft or na. — 26. i.auruftinus in bloom. — 27. White froft this and fubfequent mornings.

Fail of rain this month, 5 inches 2~iolhs. Evaporation, 3 inches z-ioths.

WaJtm, near Liverpool . J. Holt.

Height

9 •

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Srpt.

G. i

42.

A'Ieteorological Table for Odober, 1794.

of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.

Height of Fahrenheit’s Theroiometcr.

52;

•p,,o 1 1 i

3&rom.
ill. pts.

Weather
m Oct. 2794.

1 4

1 r-

'0 P
0

A T

• •

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Q ^
00

0 fch

Barom
.n. pts.

Weather
in 061. 1 794

oa.

3Q>24

fair

1 2

29 ,91

fair

^ 23 5

lair

,91

,38

fair

>50

rain

j37

cloudy

>87

fair

f34

fair

30>i5

,27

rain

>05

hazy-

,06

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For OCTOBER, 1794.

BEING THE FOURTH NUMBER OF VOL. LXIV. PART I£.

Mr. Urban, Stockporf, 03. 16.

. MBOF.DENED by your

infertion of feveral com-
T7 I w niunications from me, I
^ again refume my pen in
^ ^ order to pofTefs a column

of your valuable Mif-
cellany. In your Ma-
.gazine for July, p. 626, I laid before
your readers an inftance no lefs wonder¬
ful than true of the inftinflive aiFeftion
of animals. As I am fond of obferving
the aftions of the irrational part of the
creation, many things of courfe occur
to me which are in reality furprizing,
but which ceafe to furprize by being
^common.

My father, Mr. Urban, is a true
fportlman ; one, I mean, who doats on
the purfuit of game, but is totally in-
dilFerent to it when poffefTed : the hrft
friend that he meets generally reaps the
fruit of his labour. Having been led
one day farther than he intended by the
wildnels and continual evolutions of the
covey he was purluing, night furprized
bim. Being unwilling to return through
the length of way which was neceffary
if he fhould take the proper road, h€
chofe to cut off a part by taking an al-
•tnofl tracklefs route through the fields.
This road he had travelled, but not of
many years; he kept, therefore, in the
track he had formerly known; it was
by the fide of the dangerous Merfey,
whole waves had in one place under¬
mined it, wafiaed away the folid parts,
and left the turf only remaining, above
20 yards from the furface of the water.

When he came to this place, it lunk
with his prelTure, and he had inevitably
perillied had not his gun, which he car¬
ried under his arm, caught two trees
that had inclined, but not totally yield¬
ed, to the waves. Even fiill mull he
have remained in this fituation, or,
when unable to endure it, muit certainly
have fallen into the river, h.ad not one
cl his iaithful dogs relcued him. Had
he moved, his gun would have hyll its

hold. He was uncertain what to do.
The grateful animal looked round in.
feeming defpair, whined, and gazed full
at him ; and at length, with all the firm-
nefs that a friend is capable of difplay-
ing for his benefa6for, feized him by
the collar, and abfolutelv drew him
from his precarious fufpenfion. My fa¬
ther, when delivered, lay on the ground
for fome time thunder-ftruck and mo-
tionlefs. The poor animal watched
him with all apparent folicitude ; but,
when he perceived him rife, it is im-
poffible to exprefs how he bounded
round the field, leaped up as high as
his head, bounded again, and ufed
every geiticulation to mantfeft his un¬
bounded joy. This, Mr. Urban, is, I
think, beyond any thing that has ever
been made public concerning this wife
domeilic animal. For this, Mr. Ur¬
ban, fhali 1 ever pour out my thankf-
givings to that Power who made this
poor dog the inftrument of liberating
from imm'ature death a moft indulgent
father, a mod tender hufband, an un-
lltaken friend, and a truly lionell man.
It is defigned that there be a Itone
erected to the memory of this grateful
dog, at the place where he faved his
mailer’s life.

His faltem accumulem donis, et fungar
Muncre.” [inani

Yours, &c. F. C.

Mr. Urban, Lichfifld, 03. 20.

AIRIEND of Mr. Seward requefis
an early inlertion of a ciitique 011
his pifture as drawn by Dr Johnlon,
and fo ungeneroully placed by Mr. BoD
well in his exhibition. I might with
more propriety have called it a carica¬
ture, as it bears no re fe mb lance, of the
original. Dr. Johnfon’s definition of
a Val.erudinariaa, in his Diftmnary, i.<?,
“ fitkly, weakly, infirm of he-.ith.”
Mr. Seward, on the contrary, a

very Itrong confi ituticn, and enjoyed In
general a robult' Hate of hea th Irom the
time 1 firft became acquainted witli

him.

CharaSler of Mr, Seward.- — Letter to Archdeacon Travis. [0£l.

iura, which is above 26 years ago, till
the ii.hrniities of old age carne on.
Xhe Valetudinarian is a careful being,
attentive to every liitle incident which
lie is apia^ehcnlive may diminUh his

frnall doi k of health : but Mr Seward

' »

was ren.arkablv carelefs .>f himlelf, the
confeqnence of which was his taking
cold perhaps oftener than other people;
and rb-n indeed he would quack him-
leif, and let about mending iiimfelf, as
the Dofior exprtffes it. But furel-,
IVir. Urban (to ufe the Doctor's own
words, which I hea.rd him repeat at
Mr. Seward’s hoipirable table on ano-
iher occafion), “there is no law, ei¬
ther human or divine, that forbids any
Snan to endea'sour to’- become well
when he is ill. It probably was at one
of thefe fittings that the Dodfortook his
caricature , but the implication, that, as
a Valetudinarian, he indulged himfelf
an the grofi'eft freedoms, is a grofs rriif-
reprefentation of him. Mr. Seward’s
demeanour was always that of the gen¬
tleman. He was very fond of fociety,
of which he was a very worthy an.d en¬
tertaining member ; but his conveiTation
was toraljy unaffe-ffed, and without the
]eaft tinftnre of the ambition the Doc¬
tor imputed to him. I wilt pot omit
this opportunity of adding another trait
to his chtiradfer, which is, that any of
his friends might at any time confer on
him a fenfible pleafure by only piointing
our in what way he could be of fervice
to thern,

Th.e fpeech of Dr. johnfon, alluded
to above, was in anfwer to a queition
put to him by Mifs Seward. The con-
Terfation had turned a good deal upon
Dr. Dodd, whole forfeited life Dr.
Johnion had greatly CKerted hnnfelf to
iave. Mils Seward alked him, had he
been King, -would he have pardoned Dr.
Dodd ? To which he replied, “ Why,
IVladarn, had 1 been placed at the head
of the Ifcgiflature, IThould undoubtedly
have iigntd his death-warrant, though
there is no law, either human or divine,
th^t forbids any man to endeavour to
deprecate punilLment.”

KiCH. Geo. Robinson.

Mr. U it 3 AN, Lichfield Ciefe, Oa. ii.

^-EVV^ARD requefts me to
ail ere your readers that, however
friendly to her the paragraph might be
jn p. 815 of your Uil Magazine, it is a
inUtaken inggeif-on.

F.'-o.m no individual inftance of falfe
reprelentation, fiom no wound of per-
loiiui Itehngs, arole her cunviitioq of

Dr. Johnfon’s propenfity to defame ;
but from a counthd's number of imputa¬
tions concerniiM? the cha <-a6lers of others,
groupdieCs as ti u woich Mr. Eolwell
has generonjly recorded concerning her
father, at whole houfe he ha ’ been fre¬
quently entertained with the moil friend¬
ly horp'talitv.

Every perlbn who knew Mr. Se-vard,
and has Den his dillorted portrait by
Dr. Johnfon, is cn feious of its injul-
r ce, and remembers that no -'ne had
lefs of the felfiflu folicitudes of a Valetu¬
dinarian ; that his confimtioo and
frame were robuft ; ttr^t 00 man was
ever more entirely free fr .n groiTnefs of
indelicacy in his manners, whiph were
thofe of a fcholar and a gentleman j
that, however lively, frank, and full of
anecdote, he never declaimed • that his
benevolence, which was unbounded,
infpired the wifh to pleafc and amufe,
without the leafi appearance of talking
for fa«e.

When fhe faw thefe falfe traits of
Mr- Seward given in the dark fiiades of
Johnfunian malignance, fiie laid, “ My
poor father fhares the almoft general
fate of thofe who were fo unlucky as
to have any perfonal acquaintance witli
Dr. Johnfon.”

The letters figned Benvolio, in the
Gentleman’s Magazine, for February
and April, 1786, and for Augull, 17S7,
fhe has acknowledged, and they were
' written feveral years prior to the ap¬
pearance of ih's ftigrna on ner father.
They evince that her convidlions were
not the offspring of filial indignation,
though Are muff have been loft to natu¬
ral affe^lion if it had not aiifen over
that accumulated proof of the juftice of
her opinions concerning Dr. Johnfon.

Yours, K, White.

Letter to the Rev. Mr. Arch¬
deacon TRAyiS.

Rev. Sir, Leipzig, Sept. 30.
AVING difeovered, during my
late refidence in Cambridge, ihac
one of the feven Greek rnanuferipts,
quoted by R. Stephens at the celebrate J
paflage 1 John v.. 7, is now preferved
in the Public Library of the Univerfity
trf Cambridge, I thought the intelli¬
gence would be acceptable to every man
engaged in facred cnticifm, and for that
reafoti I communicated it to the pu'blick
in one of my notes to Michaelis’s “ Xn-
trodublion to the New Teffament'’ (vol.
II. p. 7S9), which 1 publiAied at Cam¬
bridge in the year 179-3. You have
thought proper, Sir, to call the diLo-

veiy

1794*1 Letter from Mr, Herbert Marfli to Archdeacon Travis. 877

very in q.ucdion ; and, in the laft edi¬
tion of your letters to Mr. Gibbon (p.
410 — 4'4)> you have endeavouied to
Itjew that in'y opinion is without foun¬
dation. This attack, Sir, has occa-
fioned, on iny part, a new and more
CuCQplete exaruination of the fubjedf. 1
have we'ghed your argurrrents with all
that attention which is due to your cri¬
tical abilities and your refpeftable fta-
tion ; and liave already prepared an an-
fvver, which I have dr^wn up in the
epillolary form, and which I ac fir ft in¬
tended to publiih in the Oentieman’s
Magazine. But, as my materials have
increafed beyond my expectation, and
as 1 am in duty b; und to give a full in-
veftigation of the matter in difpute (for,
a fuperficial anlwer to a profound critick
would be an unpardonable affront), I
have found it neceH'ary to alter my plan',
and to make a leparate publication in
the form of a pamphlet, becaufe the
whole will be too much to be printed at
fence in a literary journal ; and, if it
were publiftied in detached pieces at
monthly intervals, the chain of argu¬
ment would be in a great meafure de-
ffroyed. My difiance from England
will unfortunately prolong the time of
its appearance 5 and, as fome months
had already eiapled between the publi¬
cation or your valuable woik and its ar¬
rival in Leipzig, though I fent for it as
foon as I heard that it was printed, you
will conclude, perhaps, if i remain any
longer iilenr, that it is not my intention
to make a reply. I pubiifh, therefore,
tire preCent letter, in order to remove
all apprehenfions of that kind, and to
inform both yourfelf, and the publick
at large, that it is not my intention to
Ihrink from a controveLy in which you
have thought proper to engage me againft
my own inclination. As this letter is
merely an advertifement, I fhali not an¬
ticipate the refult of my enquiries; and
will merely oblerve, that all the argu¬
ments which you have brought agamft
me have had no other eff'eiSt than to
confirm me in my former opinion. One
of us niuft of coLiile be millaken ; but
which of the two, the Learned will de¬
termine when the documents ate laid
before them.

Farther, Sir, I give no6«ce that, as
our controveily' lelates to the identity
of Stephens’s MSS, I mean to extend
the enquiry beyond the limits of that
fingle MS. whicii formed the fubjedf of
fny note, and was the occalion of your
attack. 1 intend to examine nut only
the general principles by wiiich you

prove the nnn-identiry of MSS. but al fo
thole particular examples which y on
have produced fiom the eight MSS,
borrowed by Robert Stephens from the
Rova! Library This enquiry is fo inti¬
mately Gonneiffed vviih the queftion,
whether the MS. marked Kk, 6. 4. in
the Public Library of the ‘Univerfrty of
Cambridge, is the fame as the Codex
Stephani ty, that 1 cannot well avoid it;
for, if I c^n fhew that you have proved
nothing in the former cafe, where you
have quoted many examples in your fa¬
vour, it will follow a fortiori that you
have proved nothing in the latter, when
you have been able to produce no more
than dne. With any other part of the
general controverfy in which you are
engaged 1 have no immediate concern ;
nor ffiould I have taken even this fmall
portion in it unlefs you had called me
forth by giving me a public challenge.
I ffiould have thought it even prefunrp-
tion to make the attempt, ffnee the con¬
troverfy at large is already in the handis
of a perfon vvhofe learning and abilities
are infinitely fuperior to mine. Whe¬
ther he Will think proper to reply, I am
unable to fay ; but this I will fay, that
I think it wholly unnecefl'ary.

Laffly, Sir, 1 give notice, that it is
my intention to favour you with a com¬
plete demonftration , in your own man¬
ner, that the Codex Stephani d is not
the Complutenfian edition. It is true,
tliat Simon, Newton, Le Long, La
Croze, Matt. Wetftein, Griefbach, IMi-
chaelis, Zlc. have uniformly afferted
the contrary. But who cares for the
opinion of fuch criticks as thefe after
what you have written againft them ?
The only difficulty which I have to en¬
counter IS, that Stephens himfelf de¬
clares them to be one and the fame.
Bat this difficulty i fhall overcome by
ffiewing “ the contrarieties, the inecon-
cileable diffenfions, which interpofe
thtmlelves between the margin of Ro¬
bert Stephens” and the Comp!utenfi"in
edition j an edition “ whiola fets foitli
readings luttrly difeonfonant from thofe
in which Robert Stephens declares that
a I his copies agreed an edition
which, in hundreds of examples, ‘* re-
fufes to coalelct” ei'her with Stephens’s
text or witii Stephens’s margin. “ All
tliefe confpiring circumttances” are a-
bundantiy (or, to ufe yourotvn expref-
fion, “ more than abundantly”) con¬
vincing, that the Codex Stephani « is
not the Complutenfian edition. In ffiort,
Sir, they prove tfiat RobeVt Stephens
iiimfcif was Kiiffakca, and thereby

“ decide

Vindication of Afr» TolwheWs Devonfhirc# [0£l:.

decide tlie fate of this great queftion.”
I murt acknowledge, however, that
your demonftrations are fuperior, upon
the whole, to any that i feall be able to
produce ; for, in the comparifon of
Stephens’s margin with the readings of
the Paris MSS, you have clete6led dif¬
ferences which would have eluded even
the microfcope of a Leuwenhoeck. On
the other hand, you appear, in feme
cafes, where the evidence was perverfe,
to have laid ycur glaffes afide : and, in
the examination of 'Stephens's diafiole,
you nmft jiave looked through a lens,
which reprefented the obje6i:s in fo con-
fufed a manner as to make it impoffible
to diftinguifh the one from the other.
This, Sir, is a word to the wife^ and,
if the unwife fhoutd not underlland nae,
'I will explain myfelf more fully here¬
after. In the mean time I remain, Sir,
your moil obedient humble fervant,

Herbert Marsh,

Mr. Urban, 05i. 3.

H E word ufed by R.

Stephens in his margin as to the
difputed paffdge of St. Matthew, may
be rendered a comma, or other flop, or
mark of that kind. But there ate ob-
jeftions to this conftru£liun. It may,
however, be thus conftrued : the quef-
sion is not thought worth the difpute by
A Friend to Mr. Urban.

Mr. Urban, CamhridgSy Ott. 4.
N Mr. Polwhele’s Profpe6lus the de-
iign of the Hihory of Devon is ex¬
plained at large. But, if your carping
correfpondent X. will take the trou¬
ble to read even Mr. P’s Preface to the
fecond volume, he may eafily compre¬
hend the delign of the whole work.
Mr. P’s firft volume (containing the
Natural Hiftory, Antiquities, general
liiftory, &c, &c.) will have juft as
much connexion with the chorograpby
(of which the publifhed volume is a
part) as Borlafe’s Cornwall hath with
Carew’s. Another Subscriber.

Mr. Urban, OB. 14.

T is very clear and evident that what
your correfpondent X. (p. Soz)
obferves of hiinfelf is ftiibily true, njix,.
that he is no conjuror. It is hkewile
equally clear and evident that, though
a jubjeribsr to the Hiflory of Devon, he
is no friend to the author. If he had
been either one or the other, he would
not have obtruded on the world fuch-—
criticifms brail 1 call them ? No, Mr.
Urban, I ^ought rather to fay fuch ca¬

villing, fuch puerile, fuch infantine
obfervations.

Are Mr. Polwhele’s expreffions of the
fubllitution of “ nenjo in the place of old
Commandments, on account of their
rotten date,” fo myflerious as to be
looked upon as really unintelligible ?
And does Q^X. conceive that a more
than common proportion of fagacity
and penetration is requidte to develop
the meaning of the words, that, as
Eaft and Weft Teignmouth are confo-
lidated, the latter, as being the larger
parifli> has two-thirds of the fer’vice

That Mr. P. *•* fliould feldom men¬
tion where the tower of a church is pla¬
ced” is not furprifing, becaufe it is well
known they are almoft in variably placed
at the Weft end. Mis obferving, there¬
fore, that at Blfliop’s Teignton it is
ere^ed on the Eaft end, is a proof of
his accuracy. As an exception to the
general fuuation, it was incumbent on
him to notice it.

Q^X, with the confidence that cha¬
racterizes the literary infeBs of the day,
afterts, that “it is perfectly novel to
fend vol. II. in.to the \v®rld before voi.
J. has made its appearance.” He is
moft indifputably miftaken. The fe¬
cond volume of the “Loves of the
Plants” was publifhed before the firft.
If Mr. P. was to alfign his reafon, I
have no doubt but that it would be as
fatisfaCiory to the publick as Dr. Dar¬
win’s.

Give me leave, Mr, Urban, to infi-
nuate to you, that 1 have of late been
rather furprized, that fome of the
epifiolary effulions I have read Ihould
have found admiiiion into your valuable
Mifcellany. Papers indeed of rational
and liberal difquifition, when cloathed
in a Jiyle of language which proves that
the writers are adfuated by a love of
Truth, and that they are defirous of dif-
covering her by fuch methods as neither
impeach their abilities as criticks, nor
their urbanity as men ; papers of this
defeription are calculated to extend the
boundaries of literature, and to widen
the horizon ©f fcience : but fuch as re-
femble the one that has occafioned thefe
reflexions muft necefi'arily produce the
very reverfe of thefe effeCls* By pub-
lilhing them you gratify malice; but, at
the fame time, you deprefs genius •:
you encourage, envy, but you deftroy
emulation. In ftiorr, Mr. Urban, you
can have no conception ro what a wide
circumference (if 1 may fo exprefs my¬
felf) the radii of uncandid or illiberal
criticifm extend tbemfeives, and the

fnifciuef

1794*] Motives of the Yxzviz\\ War againfi, the Emperor,

xnifchief they produce, when they have
the honour of being circulated through
the medium of the Gentleman’s Maga¬
zine. Orsames.

Mr, Ur RAN, Dundee, OB. ii.

OBSERVE that forrre of the more
violent of the party- papers, though
obliged to confefs that no evidence of
an ofienfive and partition trea^ at Pil-
nitz has ever appeared, ftill endeavour
to lupport the credit of its exillence by
arguments drawn from probability. One
of thefe refls upon many of the Emi¬
grants refufing to enter into the fe'vice
of the Combined Powers, taking it for
granted that their views extended to the
difmemberment of the French monar¬
chy. This proves only that the Emi¬
grants gave credit to the alfertions con¬
tained in the French declaration of war,
which for fome time were alfo very ge¬
nerally believed in England. In the
declaration of w'ar againft England the
fame affertion was made with refpe£l to
ourfelves, and gained fo much credit as
to deceive Mr^ Fox, as appears by the
queftion he put to Mr. Pitt in the Houfe
of Commons. The falfehood of that
allertion is now evident.

The next argument adduced is taken
from the offenfive operations of the Au-
llrians and Prufiians, and taking pof-
fefTion of the towns in French Flanders
in the name of the Emperor. It might,
however, have occurred to thele gen¬
tlemen, that every war, though under¬
taken purely on defenfive principles,
necellanly becomes offenhve in its ope¬
rations. A nation that was to adt purely
on the defenfive would foon invite at¬
tacks from dll quartets, becaule they
might be made with perfedl fecurity to
the affailants; and ip all wars that ever
were, or ever will be, each party will
naturally endeavour todifirefs its ene¬
my, and conquer from it as far as its
power extends.

When any thing is pnhtively aiferted
we expert fome proof of the fatt. The
difficulty of proving a negauve ;s known
to every body ; but, in the prcfetit cafe,
whoeverwill carefully perufe Dr, i'.jooie's
Travels will be fatistied with regard to
the motives of the French in cecUiing
war againft the Emperor. Bi ifiot, then
a miniftei, was the friend of Dr. Moote
and Lord Lauderdale. It appears that
the party, of which he and Roland were
the chiefs, iiad a meeting at Cliarenton,
where it was agreed to torce at ail events
a declaration of war againft the Empe¬
ror, which would eahly aftord an op»

portunity of accufing the king of com¬
bining with his brother-in-law, of at¬
tacking him in his palace, dethroning^
him, and faving the S-tate, w'hich vvasr
the term they adopted for forming a re-
publick. Being in pofteftion of the ad-
miniftration gave them an opportunity
of fully executing every part of their
plan; and, when at the height of their
power, they detailed it in their Jour¬
nals, boafted of it as the greateft goocl
they could have done to their country,
and differed only about the fliare which
Petion chimed in its execution. It
would be difficult to get ftronger proof
of any fa6l of that kind. Dr. Moore
will not be fulpefled of exaggerating
any thing againft BrilFot and his party.
This account, which Teems to have
efcaped the Reviewers, is to be found
fomewhere about the middle of the fe-
cond volume, and is explained by a
pafTage in the Appendix, which mull
be combined with it to make it intelli¬
gible. ' Verax.

Mr. Urban, Edinburgh, OB. 12.
WAS a good deal furprized, and
fomewhat hurt, at the Queiift’s let¬
ter in your laft Magazine, p. 787 ; and
1 truft your well-known candour will
induce you to give an early admillion to
a few remarks I have to make upon it.
Nor be afraid, Mr. Urban, of its lead¬
ing to controvcrfy; for, after the few
oblervations which I have now to make,
I fhall leave the fubjedl to the candour
of your readers, and of thofe more im¬
mediately concerned, without taking
notice of what the Querift may be far¬
ther pleafed to fay upon it, or in hia
own defence.

He informs you, Mr. Urban, that the
Engnffi Epifcopalians will never confenc
to embrace the unfcripturaL ijagns 0/ the
Seotch E^pifcopaliafiS \ and ttiac, theie-
fore, the E<uglifh Liturgy mutt be foon
annihilaied in Scotland, unlels the
Englifti bifhops hill connnue to oidaia
men as formeily for the Enghlh chapels
here. Now, Mr. Urban, I mult in¬
form you, that I mylelf am an Englilh-
man, and, as /uch, a wavm admirer of
the Church of England ; and, though,
only a layman, will venture to lay I
know as moch of tliat church as your
Clerical Querift. Having beiides lived
a good while here, i am tolerably well
acquainted with what is called the
Epifcopal Chuich of Scotland; that
your correlpondent is not acquaint¬
ed with It, IS cvideiu from the manner
in which he exprelies hiinfeif; but can¬
dour

S8o Situation of the Engllfh Epifopallan Church in Scotland.

dour fihould have taught him, not to
ipeak illiberally of a feft whofe tenets
he did not know; a feft which has been
much mifreprefentecl, but which it is
indeed unworthy of a clergyman of the
Church of England rthding in Scotland
to mifreprefent ; that he has done fo,
however, is plain from the paflage
xvhich 1 have quoted ; for, though i
have attended a Scorch Epifcopal chapel
in. this city for feveral years pali, far
from feeing unfcripiural ufasres, I have
never (een an ufage at all different from
thofe of the Church of England. Nay,
it is certain, on the contrary, that the
very fame Liturgy is ufed, the fame
triages adopted, and exactly the fame
tenets profeffed, by them as by the
Church of England; nor have I feen a
iingie deviation from that Liturgy, and
thofe ufages, for the few years pad that
1 have attended it. In moft of their
chapels, indeed, they ufe a Communion
Office of their own (the only point
in which any of them differ); but,
in that I attend, they ufe the Englifh ;
a'nd all the chapels are left at perfedl li¬
berty to ufe which they think moft pro¬
per. Nor can the Scotch Communion
office give jud caufe of offence to any
man who knows wliat the Church of
England is; by the moff eminent Di¬
vines, of which it has been approved of;
nor does it differ in anything material
from that of Edward the Sixth, or that
in the old Scotch Common Prayer. Where
then are their unfcriptural ufages? The
only thing that can be c;ad up to thefe
men is, that they aie tire fucce’ffors of
the Clergy who were edablilhed before
the Revolution, which is. furely no dif-
credit to them, or that they were at¬
tached to the Houle of Stuart, whicli is
now done away. It is indeed lamenta¬
ble, Mr. Urban, that unity fliould be
fo little regarded among Cluidians, as
that, when two parties agree iu fa6i,
they ffiimld differ in words, or that,
when one party has come forward and
offered to uni.e (which the Scotch have
dene), the oilier ffiould accufe them of
unjcripfiiral ujo.gei> whicli do not exdl.

You! Cfuend IS much afroid of the
Id's of the Ei giilh Liturgy in Scotland,
and of his •’ wn dipend. About the lat¬
ter 1 can give iiun no inft>rmation, or I
would Will ngly dc' it ; but 1 lliould
luppole, unlcis he Uas managed his oar-
gain very ill, he fuie of u. About
the (0 r'lf s.: he ne; n be q d'e fo much
aian ed , it is ; i > i-pc Eu, hfli C ergy
Ifcdurng here a.iSro: audis indtbLcd

for the prefervation of that Liturgy fo
long it was the Scotch Clergy vvho in¬
troduced it, and have done mod for its
continuance. But furely the Liturgy,'
excellent as it is (and no man more fin-
cerely admires it than I do), is not the
moil important' tiling of which the
Church of Enpland has to boaft. If the

c.*

Querift thinks fo, 1 can only fay I do
not agree with him ; and I am pretty
certain that the belKinformed members
of that Church will think with me.

If the Englifh -bifliops keep to their
ref.jlution, ;.:nd 1 know many of them
wi|!, of ordaining no more young men
for Scotland, I cannot fee how the peo¬
ple of the Englifli chapels baVe any
right to complain of the Legiflature,
when they b.ave enadled It to be lawful
for any perfon to attend the adminiftra-
tions of Scotch ordained pallors, who in
every thing agree with thofe of the
Church of England, except that they
are ordained by different bifiiops, and
are under their immediate government.
But it is more than probable, as I am
well informed bv thofe who attend th&
Engiilh chapels here, that, were it not
for tire Clergy themfe!'!: es, and the arts
they iiave ufed, the lay-people would
have had no f>bj?6tion to unite; the
moff refpedlahle members of the iargeft
Engiilli chapel here, 1 know, would have
none. And lure! y the Clertjv themfelves
have, nothing to fear, fur the Scotch
bi flops want nothing of them but to live
in Chriftian fellowlbip, and to be in per¬
fect communion with them; and they
do not furely ail altogether like the fol-
lo'vers. of the Prince of Peace, nor do
they lake the moll effe6lual method of
fupponirig Epilcopacy in this country,
when rliev throw anv obftacles in the

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way of fo deffrable an union. On the
whole, I admire the Church of England
as much as the Qmerift; and, though
but a layman, would do as much to ex¬
tend iier influence as he, though a cler¬
gyman. But I own I think with Biffiop
Hoilley, that.no Englilh or Iiillr bilhop,
wlio knows what he does, will ordain a
man for Scotland, when there are re.gu-
lar bifliops here, tokrared by Govern¬
ment, profelling the fame faiiii, adopt¬
ing the fame uffi.^es, and ufing the fame
Liturgy. Forgive me, Mr. Urban, for
having extended my ..e.ter to a length .
far beyond my fftft intention; and, for ■
the i,.;ke of the caufe I iiave efpoufedfL
which is unqueff ionably a good one, ex--
cule the prolixity of !

An Episcopal Layman. |

Mr.i.

88i

l794*j Macquecn on the Origin of the Pi£ls and Scots.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 30.

TXTHILE forty or fifty Families are
^ ^ deluging all Europe in blood, to
ftnp the progrefs of opinions that are
holfile to old cuftoms, fables, and pre¬
judices, it is pleafing to avertthe horrid
pifture, and the miferable prcfpe6l of
devaftation and cruelty, by employing
leifure in literary refearch.

It was during the civil wars of Britain
in the lafl; century that Newton, and
Boyle, and Locke, with a memorable
groupe of literary alTociates, of njubom
modern Britain is not nvortby'f applied
themfelves to fcience and to literature,
and found, in Grefham college, at Ox¬
ford, and in their peaceful clofets and
learned focieties, a balm to heal the
wounds infii6led by Faftion and by
Dilcord.

It is thus that I, your old corre-
fpondent, intrench myfeif againll the
invafion of accurfed political ftrife, and
fheUer myfeif friun the ftorm of Britiflt
phrenay under the wings of Apollo and
of the Mules,

While employed in this manner a few
days ago, I happened to difeover among
my papers an Efifay of the late learntd
and worthy Dr. Donald Macqueen, of
the Ifiie of Skye, of Scotland; which,
as a proper channel of communication
to the Learned, I fend to the Geniie-
inan’s Magazine.

Dr. Macqueen was minifter of the
parifh of Kilmuir, ia Skye.

He (with the reverend Mr. Stuart,
minifter of the parifh of Lufs, and other
learned minifters of the Gofpel) was
employed by the General Aflembly of
the Church of Scotland to revife the
tranflation of the Five Books of Mofes,
commonly called the Pentateuch ; and,
in the courle of performing tbis talk.
Dr. Macqueen wrote very learned and
interefting remaiks on the cuftoms and
religion ot primitive nations, contained
in a leries of letters to Mr. Luis, well
worthy of being communicated to the
Republick of Literature.

Except the library of the late celebra¬
ted Sir James Macdonald, of Slate, Dr*'
Macqueen had for many years no ac-
cefs to books of erudition; and ir is a
proof of his great attachment to learn¬
ing, that the genial current of his foul
was not frozen in that fituation 10 which
he was allotted.

Some of this learned minifter’s wri¬
tings are to be fimnd in the printed
Gent. Mag. Ociobtr^ *794*

Tranfa^fions of the Society of Anti¬
quaries of Scotland, of which he was aa
early and zealous affociate.

A fon of this worthy clergyman is
minifter of Applecrofs, in Rofsfhire,
Scotland ; and another is fettled as a
phyfician at Norwich.

It is pleafing to preferve the names
and memory of men that have been ufe-
ful to fociety. It is a talk which I per¬
form with exultation. Albanicus.

J Speculation on the Origin and charae^
terifiical Manners of the Pi c t s and
Scots, nxtrilten in OStohtVy 1778.
UR people of Britain and Ireland,
like other nations bothantient and
modern, taking the advantage of the
darknefs of antiquity, have not only
indulged their credulous vanity in gi¬
ving themfelves an old fetilement in
their feveral countries, but have fetched
their anceftors from afar wherever
their pride could be tickled by an ho¬
nourable defeent, by a ifimilarity of cuf-
toms, or, perhaps, merely for the fake
of going out of the common road, and
conne£l:ing themfelves with diftant ftran-
gers ; as if it were of confequence to the
prefent generation to know, or rather to
guefs, the origin of the barbarous peo¬
ple who pofleftTed their countries many
centuries ago, on account of the vain
refemblance of name. Had it not faved
our friends pen, ink, time, and patrio¬
tic zeal, to be laid out on more ufeful
fubje6fs, if they had from the beginning
contented themfelves with the ulual
courfe of things, and peopled Britain
from Gaul, the next continent, and
Ireland from Kintue, or Galiaway, or
perhaps from the coaft of South Bri¬
tain, when fome of the more anrienc
Nomades, in need probably of (ubfift-
ence, prefl'ed forward by new adventu¬
rers, and ftanding in dread of the mili¬
tary tribes who had advanced beyond
them, would trull themfelves to fuch.
courraebs'^' as they or their fathers had
crofted the Briiilh channel in, invited
by a land juft in their view ?

The pruning-knife of Criticifm is
from age to age lopping off the extra¬
vagant fi6lions of former tinaes, and
will at length reduce them to a mote
natural appearance. The emulation
which is common in clofe neiglibour-

Tlie Cymba Sutiles of Charon was one
of the kiiul

hoods

882 Dr. Macqueen on the Origin of the Pi£ls and Scots. [0£l.

hoods determined the people of South
Bjitain to derive their origin one
way ; the Caledonians having been fplit
" near the end of the third century into
two principal branches, the Pi£ls and
Scots, have gone differently to work.
The Pi61:s, who had no writers among
themfelves, muft come from any coun¬
try on the Continent where painting the
body was falhionable; and the fimila-
rity betwixt the word Scot and Scythe
hath Judidou/ly determined fome of our
vyriters to think them the fame people ;
though the Irifli have given themfelves
and the latter a more honourable de-
Icent, which, by falling under the ani-
madverfion of the Learned, is better
known than fuch trifles deferve.

The courfe of population, and of the
improvement of manners, may other-
wife be traced out, as fuggefled to us,
by the fcanty lights caft upon it by the
Roman writers, who are the only fare
guides, more fo than the fanciful un-
autheniicated reveries of ignorant ages,
though vindicated, fupported, and more
plaufibly dreffed out, by their more
learned fuccelfors, led by the preju¬
dices which the belief of ages brings
along with it.

It is univerfaliy agreed that all the
Britains painted in the following man¬
ner: they ftruck the hgurcs or outlines
of different animals on the bodies of
their young children by ufing an able
anifl: to prick them wjth a needle or
bodkin, and rubbing the diminutive
marks of the iron with the juice of a
certain herb, which gave a blue and
Jafting colour. The unextinguilhable
charafters, enlarging in the advance of
years, looked in the eyes of civilifed
flrangers as if the figures were immedi¬
ately painted off j which was the reafon
why the Romans called them PidSf
though the word Bunds would, have
been nearer the fa£f, and a literal tranf-
lation of the Gaulic word peackigh,
pricked, and of the Greek cr^uTOi, u(ed
by Hercdian. The noblelie and the
commons were diftinguilhed here, as
well as in Thrace, by the figures of
different animals, and by the largenefs
or rniallnefs of the chaia6?ers, as were
alfo the fever al tribes fiqm one another j
and, that they might not hide thtfe
maiks of diftintSlion theii breafts, ttieir
backs, and arms, were expofed to view,
efpecially in time of battle, wfien it was
neceffaiy in the huny of arms to find
,out <i.e friend or relation with the
pLuce of an eye, and to have vyiincfles

of the prowefs or cowardice of the mi¬
litary man among his own acquaintance.

In our country, as among all undifcii-
plined lavages, the ta£lic art was little
known ; they engaged in a loofe tumul¬
tuary manner, without rule or order or
inferior officer. Fingal and Cuchuilin
were as much engaged in the affray
as any com»mon foldier. Experience
would foon convince them of the expe¬
diency of marching in companies under
leaders, and of being able, by certain
marks, to diflinguifli their companies
and leaders from each other. The
gum was their only covering, a Gaulic
word derived from a hide, which

they threw away in time of a6lion, that
they might know wibom to join.

In fome parts of the world the fol-
diers were marl<ed with the enfigns of
their general, as were the votaries of
certain falfe deities with fomething pe¬
culiar to their fervicej and Tertullian
affirms, that the Bntains were ditlin-
guifhed by their fiiimutaf as other na¬
tions by their particular enfigns. An
unmixed people, who all, from the
liighelt to the lowed, were bred and
educated in the fame hardy manner,
prefeived the fame colour of hair, the
fafne milk- whicenefs of Ikin, great fi-
milarity in their features and in the pro¬
portion of their limbs, would require
thefe vifible marks of diftindlion, efpe¬
cially in the firft periods of fociety,
when men went almofi quite naked. For
the fame reafons, which Nature fug-
gefied to all in fimilar circumftances,
we find the Americans painted fiorn
one end of their extenfive continent to
the other; fome, in the abfoiute want
of iron or any other metal, pricking
Rie'r flefh wuh a pointed bone. It is
perhai,^ true, that the gr^at dates of
Mexico, Peru, and the repub'ick of
Ralcala, were advanced fo far in civili¬
zation as po have few traces of this cuf-
tom remaining when the Spaniards fiilt
vifued Them. Al! ihcfe, indeed, who
now live dole to the neighbourhood of
tfie European fcttlements, by deahqg in
furs and other fmali branches of com¬
merce, or by fome fervices, have pur-
chaled cloaths, which rendered their
corporeal enfigns inyifible, if they do
not fometimes mark their faces and i
wear their hair in a particular diflindtive !
mode. Thus, when Soutli Britain be-'
came fubj^di to the Romans, and the!

* Interiorcs Bnttones pellibus func vef--
titi, Cg:f.

debateablei

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Or^. 27. 8t

1794 ] Macqueen on the Origin of the PlSts and Scots.

debateable lands betwixt the walls were
at length converted into a Roman pro¬
vince under the name of Valentia, pof-
ftfTcd by provinci 1 Britains, Romans,
and afterwaids by Saxons; fuch of the
Datives as dreaded flavery moft flew to
the forefts of Caledonia and Galloway,
and perhaps a few may have got them-
felves wafted over to Ireland. Thefe
fugitives, from the feVerity of provin¬
cial dilcipline, and the inhabitants of
the unconqoered parts of the ifland,
had the denomination of Pi6fs given
them by the Romans, and by the South
B'ltons who had fubmitted to tlieir
laws and cufloms. This name was ap-
propri:sted to them from the end of the
third and the beginning of the fourth
century, as the cuftom exprefled by it
was peculiar to them, and laid afide by
the provincials • and, at the fame time,
the name of Scots is beftowed by the
Romans on the inhabitants of the Weft-
ern fide of Caledonia, But how came
it about that the Scots, a branch of the
old Caledonians, quitted the barbarous
practice of flriking their bodies with the
figures of different animals, while their
E flern neighbours continued it, and
for feveral centuries were known by the
appellation of Pi61s, is a queftion of
Ibme little curiofity.

The Pidfs, lo called, being hemmed
in betwixt the German Ocean and the
vaft clufter of hills called the Grampian,
i. e. the Foiks, which ftretch themlel ves
from Strathern to Loch nefs, and far¬
ther, had no outlet by which they might
intermix wuh ftrangers but by the pal-
fage of BodolriOy towards the Roman
provinces, if not by the tjihmus betwixt
the two firths, where fm li b^ats would
feive ali their purpufes, piobdbiy thole
on the coalt of the Firth, for .hey had
DO iflands to frequent on their own
coafl , and they nihed none, for it
Would be no lels than iacrilege to plun¬
der the waters, winch were in them an
objedt of worliiip ( bto fef Adamnanui ) \
and It is probable that F.Otana, as well
as Soutii Britain and every cthei coun-
I try near the If , e of N.nure, was fplit
into many independent principaiuier ;
j for, it IS not hkely tiiat Brideus, wliuin
' Coluinba found in his palace, ai the
( Norto end of I^och-ntls, had another
j feat in Abernethy, or near it. Tiiere
} ^^oulcl certainly be little of the fpuit of
Dn.on arriong thele independent
txi'pt when the, favv a common enemy
c o.c to then gates, as in the cafe of
■Afjiitola and the Empcioi: Stverus,

Thus fcqueflered from the commerce
of other men but when they fallied out,
fome of them only upon a plundering
party, and returned quickly when they
got their hands full or were beaten
back, they might continue long enough
in a ftate of the utmofl barbarity if they
were not conquered by a more poliflied
people than themfelves.

But how came the Scots to be that
people w'hen they were almofl at the
fame diflance from the fchools of civil
life, originally inured to the fame cuf-
toms and way of living? To the Scots
and Pidfs, men unattached to any land
by houfes, for they had none but the
huts of a day’s labour, by temples, by
agriculture, or property of any kind,
every foil would be equaf. As it flands
upon irrefragable authority that they
fiihed none, hunting the deer was their
principal occupation j which, when they
failed, or, in their own words, nuar a
chealagb ati fiailg, their next choice
was to go to war. The neceflity of pro-?
viding fubfiftence for themfelves and
iheir families ennobled the profellion of
jobbery and arms, and compelled them
to a wandering itinerant life in queft of
game — -they mull have chofen to die of
famine, orto hunt down the deer of ano¬
ther country, or to plunder and fight.
The inhabitants of the Weftern coaft
made the earlier progrefs, Imail as it
was, in the arts of order and civility, as
being nearer the Roman colonies, tQ
which hiflory bears teftimony they made
frequent fallies attended often with a
band of the Pi£ts, They would alfo
go to the Weftern ifles, which were
clofe to their neighbourhood, and eafily
iubdued, as being fevered from one
another, thinly peopled, and under in-
fui mountablt difficulties of leaguing to¬
gether for mutual defence; and, though
they were at fiAl but a fingle tribe of
the P.^fs, feparated from the reft by a
ridge of inholpuable mountains, they
would gather ftrength, ano be tempted
to lad o<er to Itelaiid, a country fa-
vouicd Dy Nature wito very hne har¬
bours, vvh ch were herter known, and
rnoie titqucnted by ftrangers, than thole
of Biitain. Here they would Ice civi-
I zed pcop e, exchange their furs, their
ffiare of the Rt-man booty, wharever
trinket* they liad to Ipare, for the r.e-
ccliary ornaments, and enter gradually
inioniore refiued manners and faffiions.
Would not thefe men learn the art of
war from the Romans by an apprentice-
fliip of about 3o;» years ? gnd would not

they

884 on the A^s- relative to

they alfo learn from the folly of their
neighbours in South Britain., who never
purfued any common intereft, to form
themfeUcs into indifToluble bands by
the treaties and alliances? Thus

prevailing in power, policy, and num¬
bers, Ireland, whither iht fertility of
foil and mildnefs of climate would
tempt them to make freq,uent vifits —
Ireland, where the inhabitants have not
yet been ('aid to fight without their own
jfland, woulid become an eafy purchafe,
at leaft in part} a land where, as yet,
the habitations, were common and un-
circumfcribed, not at all appropriated
by an extenfive monarchy. If a fingie
legion, with a few auxiliaries, would
conquer in the days of Domitian, the
probability of this fuppofition can
fcarcely be called in queftion after being
pelted by the Belgae and the Northern
rovers; for, it Teems they gave their
name to Ireland for Tome centuries }
a name wiiich was, very probably, gi¬
ven them by the Brltains and by the
lri(h on account of the vagabond life
they led-— dwerfa 'vugantes — for,
Jcbuiis fignifies wanderers ; as, in the
V/eftern ifles, they call the Campbells
veffels, who go from loch to loch in
qaefi. of herrings, the black fchjdts,
which might naturally enough be Lati¬
nised into Scott.

(To be continued.)

Mr. Ur-BAN, OSi. 8.

Loveright, if that is really
hrs name, might ealily have (pared
bimftlfthe trouble of writing, and you
ot printing, his hinta of two matters to
be introduced in a new highway aft, as
to accounts to be given by TuiVeyors,
and the appointment of one with a ('ala¬
ry, where the jullices think it neceflary.
Thefc things are already provided for
by an aft of the preTent king for the
ametidtnent of the highways; perhaps
the be(i, and befi-framed, aft that has
been palled in the prefenc leign.

As to his propuTal of prohibiting a
prefentment at the affiaes or Telkons
(t xcept by the judges or jufi ices) unlefs
s previous couiplaint had been made,
without elfeii, to the juftices of th<j
difirift, 1 can by no means agree with
liim. Would a Jury be willing to find
a bill when they were told that the
neighbouring bench would not order the
i(/rid to be repsiircd ? Would the jufii¬
ces -It (ellions attend much to a com-
j>iaiot, 'vvhtn tuo, three, or nvsw e of
liiteir breiliien would be theie to lay

Highways and Poor-Rates. [06t

that it had been previoufly made to
them, and they did not think an amend¬
ment necedary ? This would go far
towards making a jury ufelefs. And
that juftices may Tornetimes h-ave their
own reaTons for not vvifliing roads in
their neighbourhood repaired, Mr<,
Loveright may have heard. He may
perhaps have heard that two jufiices
have been found to endeavour to Hop
the repair of a road, by certifying it to
be in good repair, when on trial of the
indiftment it has been proved, to the (a**
tiafaftion of a jury and a judge, that
the road was not in good repair. It is-
by defending Inch indiftments on fri¬
volous pretences, kiftead of at once
amending the road, that enormous ex-
pences are incurred. I could give him-
an infianee of more than looi. being
Tpent in this way, and the parilh at lall
obliged to repair, wken 50!. would at
firft have done ail that was necefiary;:.
buta neighbouring juftice did not choofe
it fliould be done. If a pariih would fet
about a repair as Toon as a bill of indift-,
rnenc has been found, the iayV-ex.pences
would be very trifling.

That poor-rates are in many places e«
normous, and tithes are a burthen, I
agree with your correfpondent j but, if
jufiices will make improvidentorders to
relieve idle and worihlefs poor, before
enquiry of the parifh-officers intO' their
real fituation ; if needlcTs Talaries are
paid out of county-rates, and if the rage
for building bridges and gaols conti¬
nues; enormous as poor-rates now.are,
they mufi become more To; and, if the
fear of innovation prevents a propoial
for a fair and adequate compeniation to
be given in lieu of tithes in kind, thefe
burthens, which continually increafe
in weigiir, will weigh us down.

Mr. W. L’s PoftTcript is truly curi¬
ous ! So is his queftion, whether a
juryman ought to find a bill when oatli
14 made that a road is founderous?

Yours, &c. S. D.

Mr. Urban, Sept. tS.

OBSERVING Teveral letters in your
Magazine tor July, propofing a
coalition between the Church of .Eng¬
land and that of Rome, ray allonifhmenc 1
was To great as induced me to re(tr to a, I
fecond and third perufal of the above 1
letters, TuTpeft-ing that I rtiuft have j
miTunderfiood what new clearly fiaiids-!
recorded in the pages of tiie Gent c- f
man s Magazine, iiating (ucii an. un-
ctruiiiion and moli; .urpriiing inopoial.

1 794*i to the Clergy. > — La^ M.W, Montague. — TV(tfp- flings.

What, a coalition with the tenets of a
religion which, at fome particular pe¬
riods of this country, from its grofs bi¬
gotry and fuperftition, deemed all other
profefTions of faith, differing from its
own, heretical and diabolical, and whole
power deluged the Ignd in blood f The
pro1pe6l of fuch an event, were it ever
probable to happen, would be dreadful.
I am, therefore, led to the following
obfervations and reffexions on the pro¬
bable caufes- of fuch a propofftion ; and
cannot but help thinking that, from the
great numbers of emigrant French priefls
that have been fome time refidents in
this country (and numbers llill conti¬
nually coming, and who are, no doubt,
invited or induced to come hither from
the univerfal chara£fer of our benevo¬
lence and hofpuality,. and where their
temples of worfhipare pretty numerous^,
they have been induftrious enough, by
their politinefi and fuauity. of manners, to^
have inftilled their pernicious doftnnes
into the minds of mi>ny of the lay~metn~
hers of the Church of England. This
conjefturq^is a fair one. But, to go
farther, this, 1 am well informed, has
abfolutely happened at a panfh in the
environs of London. Ceremonies which
carry with them the appearance of awe
and Ihovv, added to the gaudy trappings
of the p'iefis, incenfe, chantings, bril¬
liant illuminations, &c. have a won¬
derful effecl on weak minds, who are at
firft led by curiofity to view their leger¬
demain performances; but, when in
-conhant communication \viih the per¬
formers as inmates, there is no great
difficu ty of becoming profelytes to the
Papiftical faith. To remedy this evil,
I fliould hope, as thcie emigrant
prietls have now received bountiful do¬
nations from tbe people of Great Bri-%
lain, particularly from our dignified
Clergy, that Government will provide
lome place dillant from thia country to
which they may be fent. To prevent,
therefore, fuch a monftro»s abluidity
as the Piotehant faith of the Church of
England being united to- that of Ronie
from ever happening, let our dignified
i&ooui ers in the pure Golpel of Chrill
heartily and indulirioufly enter into ihe
good work of increafing the numbers of
our Eftablilhed Church, by feduloufly
examining and appo.nting fuch men
for the lacred order as are eminently
Calculated for I'o divine a work, and to
turn the current of their betieticence and
relief to their ovvn necelhtous brethren.
When the piofecuiion of luch a work.

goes on with a determined reriouTners,
the Church of England will fiave no¬
thing to fear from tlie artful infrnuations
of Popery, or any other iefA on earth.

A Layman of the Churcb "
OF England.

Mr. Urban, Ofl. 2.

O the fievera! correCpondents the
citation from Lady Craven’s Tra¬
vels refpefting the authenticity of Lady
W. Montague’s letters has occafioned
you, permit me to add one more, for
the purpofe of relating a circumfiance S
once heard in converfatiox on that f'ub-
j£6f, when a perfon prefent made the
following affertion : that the materials
for thofe letters were indeed mpplied by
Lady W. M but that, for the luxuri-
ancy of defeription with which they a-
bound, they were indebted to the pen of
Cleland, of whofe talents for that fpecies
of writing there is extant a weli-known
and inconteftable proof. In fupport of
this affertion the fame perfon added,
that the prefent Dowager Countefs of
Bute had this circumftance mentioned
to her, and was afked why, if the let¬
ters were- aot her motbei’s, they were
not difavowed ..by the family ? Her re¬
ply was fai^to have been, “ the publi¬
cation does my mother no difcreditj,
why then fhould her family difavcw
it.?'” As this relpedfable lady is ffill li¬
ving, It is to be wifhtd, Mr. Urban,
that foe could be prevailed upon to con¬
firm or riffute the kbove .anecdote, and
to clear up all doubts concerning this
literary myftery.

Another constant Reader.

Mr. Urban, Ofi. 5.

A SOUTHERN FAUNIST, in his
obfervations on tlie cure of wafp
(lings, p. 817, “having oblerved that
wetted ftone blue is the befi, bur cantK,t
be applied within the mouth, becauie ic
is poifonous I beg leave to flare, tiiat
Srone Bfue is not p.>ildnous. in mv
manufadlory I had,, and have, men tlus
enjoy as good he^ah as in any otiitr
fpecies of manufaffute, and who, having
worked 45, 40, 30, 23, an( 20 years
in It, mull iiidividurij y, frott; the very
great and continual duft, have Iwallow-
cd more in one day titan a whole fami¬
ly, who deep with tt.eir mouths open,
and conftquently get Itung witii vv'aip.s,
wt)uld rtqu.re to cure .hem.

i know not, IMr. Urban, whether it
is good cuic or nor ; Lu am ctiCtia
..4 — b y 0 Lii V. c i i -Rn 0 w It iiumanity -ind

tinT,

S86 The Engllfh Epifc(H>GUani in Scotliincl. — -Tohacco defended, [O^

^Tttention to the welfare of fociety will
induce you to admit thi-, to prevent i^-
Borance from depriving thofe who ate
in p-<in or a leniedy (‘A^h ch he allows it
to be) that will eafe them.

A Blue-maker.

Mr. Urban, 08. j.

CAN alFure your querill, p. 787,
that Englilh Epdcopalians in Scot¬
land may ci)nEc*nt thenileUes with the
Jminiftiations of Scotch Epifcopalian cler¬
gymen, who are Now legally per¬
muted to ejrercife their t’un6i ions under
Scotch bijOiops, wljip derive their Epis¬
copate from the Englin-i Church at
the Rcfloratiun. The uja^es of Scotch
Epilcopahans are exaftlv the fame with
thofe of the Church of England ; and
her Liturgy is that ufed in the feve-
I’al Scotch Epifcopal Chapels. There is,
fndeed, fome trifling difference in the
forms of the Liturgy drawn uo for
Scotland before the abolition of Epifco-
pacy in chat kingdom and thofe of our
Church ; but the Scotch bifhops aluoays
allowed their clergy to ufe either one
or the other ; and the Englifli Book of
Common Praver is now uni*'erfal!y
Lifed in Scotrh Epifcopalian Chapels, as
I am informed it is aifo beyond the At¬
lantic, inflead of the mutilated Book of
Common Prayer which fome of the
Ametican States recommended to their
and clergy.

As to the probability of Engliffi or
Irifh bifliops in futui e ordaining perfons
to olFiciase in Scotland, the Querift may
reft afl'ured, it is 'Very jmalt.

Now that there are no Nonjuring bi-
ihops or c!er^,y in Scotland, and mvo
that no perfons are forbidden to fre-
ijuent the chapels of the loyal Scotch
bilhops and clergy, what pretence can
any man have to apply for orders HERE
lo officiate T H E. R E ? Biffiop Pioi Iley has
given a decided and well-grounded opi¬
nion on the matter; and, 1. dare lav, ail
bu brother bifliops in England and Ire-
jiiitd will a£f in couioirauy to his opi¬
nion. Bifhop Talbot, of Durham, re¬
filled to ordain candidates to-. Epifcopal
Congregations in Scotian*.! i’o eaily as
when he was Bifliop of Durham, al-
Itgu^gj t/jere VL^sre biftops in Seat-
land. The bilhops in that kingdom are
BOW five or fix; and they ordain cler¬
gymen enough for the perfons of their
communion, who are faid not to exceed
, or 100,000.

The enjuners of the few Eoglifh Epif-
copal Ciirff iiis, bu it a. a nine wne.a the
5

Lejiiflaiure infl!6led pena ties on the

frequenters of Scotch Epifcop.ai Chapels,

muff turn thofe hovife^ to other purpofeSf

An EnolIsh Clergyman.

Mr. URBANj Sepf.Z.

N yofir publication of fome time
fince, the fmokmg of tobacco ha¬
ving been attacked and reprobated, I
come forward as the defender of that
pra<Bice. In the autumnal and winter
feafons, in our infular fituation, fubje^t
as we are to fuch conftant rain';, damp-
nefs, and moift air, fome defenfative
againft thofe feafons, and in fuch a ftate
of air, is both ufeful and neceflary;
How is it now p ovided againff ? Why,
to (peak generally, in affluent fituationsj
by the convivial feaff, plentiful and
hard drinking ; in low and inferior iife^
by that delperate refort the noxious
dram. If the praffice of fmoking to¬
bacco was more general, and adopted ill
the different fituations of life, mucll
public benefit would arife from it ; the
luxurious feaff would decline, molt
fmokers nor being epicures, or having
voracious appetites ; and the hard
drinking matches would be greatly
checked ; fmokers are not in general
hard drinkers, and feldom rapid drink¬
ers. In mixed company, the circula¬
tion of the bottle is ufually flopped by
the (moker. Another fignal advantage,
to fociety would arife from it, the pro¬
portional difu(e of cards and gaining;
the fmoker cannot conveniently engage
in either; befides, his mind becomes (b
tranquil and pleaLnt under his pipe,
that any other engagement would be a
difagreeable interruption. Half a cen¬
tury ago fmoking was much in pra£tice
at the univerfiti.es; luxurious dinners
and card- playing were not then the fa-
Ihion, and hard drinking in no degiee
compared with the piefent pradiice.
Indeed, the grand objedtions to this
praftice originated from i\\t peiits -mai^
tres and effeminate tribe of fafliionable
young men of that titne. It was then,
as It now is by the lame tribe of men,
reputed a dirty pradtice, and offenfive
in its fmell to delicate no(es ; though
the prefent very cleanly pradlice of po¬
matum and powder, generating vermin
in the head and dileale in the body;
and the agreeable fmells of muik, am¬
bergris, Icented powder, and other mo¬
dern perfumes, notorioufly hurtful to
health, are unobjefted to, approved,
and pra£ti(ed ; (ariblioned only by the
trflhion of a diflipaced and not, as

3 794-1 Letter from Mr, Wakefield.

it ou^ht, reprobated by the pen or prac¬
tice of fueh men of authonry, ('enfe,
and underlfanding, whofe exertions in
Oppofition to it, inilead of criminal in¬
dolence and palfivenefs, would Toon gra¬
dually -^ct'.ngu ' fli the above, as well as
manv other, hurtful habits and fafliions
of this time.

Verax et Benevolus.

M*" Urban, Hackney, 03. 4.

OU fuin fh me at every opportu-
-1- nitv with (uch uneqniyocal marks
of your good- will, bv exerting vourlelf
to the utmort in delivering me from the
•woe attend art on thofe, of whom all
pien /peak avell that I cannot doubt
your jeadinefs to infert in your RepoG-
tory this fl;ort addrefs to your corre-
fpondents.

I uifli to remind them, that the
little hefitation with which I prefix my
jiame to any compofition of my own
entities me to the fame degree of open-
nefs in any advetiary who wifhes a re¬
ply to his objeftions ; otherwife 1 pm
filent. it is with me an eftablifhed
maxirpi, that no man of underfianding,
who does not labour under the mod
palpable and acknowledged prejudice ;
po man, who has proved himfelf by his
life and writings a Gncere lover of
truth ; can poliibly be an advocate for
pur prefent fyftem in Church a*nd State.

I take it for granted, therefore, that
every anonymous libeller of niyfelf and
my writings is fome dignitarv of the
JLJlabliJhment, fome CuJiom~hoi:fe de-
pendjnt, fome CoM^/rlycophant, fome
placeman or fenfioner ; in fliort, one
connefted immediately or indirefifly, by
poflTeliion or expe6lation, with the poli¬
tical and et clehaliical emolument of our
prelent “molt excellent and happy Con-
(litution in Church and State.'-’ Let
his name be given ro the publick ; and,
if delerying, he fpall find on rny part
that homage invariably paid by me to
^aients and virtue wherever they exilt.

In the mean time, my de^r Mr. Ur¬
ban, I intreat yop to continue your ta-
vours, by lupp ying me with reiterated
demonltratioii' cf my reititude in prin¬
ciples and condu6t, Irom the malice of
jiour ad'oireis. it is the higheft pitch
of niy ambition amidu the general in-
fatUdiicn and degeneracy of ErtghjDmen.

Ef,' ayQpw^oc, oi ^ civoi-

I ant, bil, your obliged fiiend,

GlLe^lRT Wa^kefield.

’-Remarks on Gray’s Travels.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 23.

T BEG leave to trouble you with %

few remarks on the Travels of the
Rev. Mr. Gray, whom I do not mean
to cenfure, only to fugged to him fome
Cprte£fions for hi? fecond edition.

The Dance of Death, oir Bafle (Gent.
Mag. p. 684), was painted by Holbein,
rot Rubens.

P. 637. The name of Mr. Necker*g
feat is toppet. famous wine of La

Co’e is made in France, not in Switzer¬
land. Hannibal, if he ever marched
over Mount Ccn*s, cou d not fhevv the
plains of Piedmont, much lefs thoL of
Lombatdy, to his tropps ; no point ia
that pafiage where any army could
clamber commands a view into Italy,
becaufe the winding chain of moun¬
tains that forms the valley of Sufa ob-
drufils aU pro(pe6f.

The Ring of Sardinia’s refidence is
Monualier-, his burial-place is La Su-
perga. The archue6i: of this chuich
was Philijt Juvara, who gave 'he piaa
in 1715. The building was finifiied in.
*735 Now, I cannot believe that there
is a M/.Collini, or any other arch te^,
dill alive in Pruliia, old enouj^h to have
been at the head of his proftfilon iri
1715; nor can I believe any but an emi¬
nent archited w mld ha-e been fdeded
to give a plan of lo great and national a
work.

P. 658. Adi is the Roman HaP\a
fompeia, not Pons.

Novi is part of the domin-ons Ge¬
noa,* and, as none of its inhabitants
have a jeat in the lenare, u cannot Witf^
propriety be called free town.

The Georgium fdi^s, p. 734, is called
\Jrama by fore gneis.

P. 738. How can Mr. Gray think of
putting Leopold upon a par, as a pro-
te6tor of the Fine Ar.s and Commerce,
with the princes of the houle of Medici^
who were undtiubcedly for many gene¬
rations the greated traders in the woild,
and the molt iheral patrons tiiat men of
genius or talents ever knew Leopold
was a good lieutenant of police j he
found means to humble the nobility, tp
equalize taxes, edablilh a I'vltem of cc-
conoiny, and dcfnoy ad confidence and
union among his lubjedfs bv hemming
them in with a legion of /pies and in¬
formers; bur he knew notumg of the
gitat principles of comnatree, or even
guvei ni.uent, as hr plainly evinced writ it
iie ex-hanged his F o etuine toy for the
weighty iceptie of the Empire. All he

did

15^88 Remarks on Gray’s ’Travels.'-

did towards foftering the Fine Arts was,
to bring from Rome the furniture of the
Villa Medici, to fit up a faioon for the
iS^iobe, and to put the gallery in more
model n trim ; at the fame time felling
whole cart-loads of elegant and valuable
produftions of art collefted by the Me-
dicean connoifTeurs. Few of the nobi¬
lity can regret the times of the Medici,
whofe fplendour they never faw ; but
many may regret the times preceding
the reign of Leopold, when they durft
think and fpeak with freedom-

Mr. Gray is in an error wlren he af¬
firms, that the antient Greek fculptors
were fond of copying the violent move¬
ments of the ftronger palfioas ^ and, on
that fuppofinon, declares his preference
for modern pi£l;ures. as exhibiting mild,
er and more Chnllian-like afFeftions.
Kothmg can be fo contrary to faft ; for,
the Laocoon is almofl the only work of
antient art where violence of pain and
palfion is exprefled ; and, except in the
group of the Farnefran bull, fome gla¬
diators, and Difcoboli, I fcarceiy recoi¬
led a f'pecimen of bodiU exertion among
?he antient ftatues ; whereas every co;!-
Jedio.n of pidures abounds with mur¬
dering Judiths, flaughtered Jnnocents,
tortured martyrs, battles, and other
ice nes of blood. If Mr. Gray has noit
fome better reafons for his pr-sdiledion,
bis decifion will have little weight vvich
men of true tafte.

P. 737. Pafquin and Marforio, before
they were mutilated, were reprefenta-
tions of beings which the antients re-
fpeded, and never could think of ren¬
dering the repofuory of their libel$.
The cullom of pafting fatires and hbels
upon them is of modern date.

The Farnefian Hercules ne^’cr was at
Portici.

None of the MSS. of Herjculaneum
have been publilhed, though two or
three have been unrolled.

Yours, &c. D^MASigPUS.

Reply /o Medicu.s Londinensis.

Chip- N O' tan, Oti. 3.

L. firll notices a mifnomer in the
, title of the cafe, vet he confiders
the event as ‘very extraordinary ^ and
worthy of future invejiigaitsn. if the
cafe vvas not remarkable^ how could the
event be deemed ‘very extraordinary ?
The cafe was ofieied to the publick
with no other view than to prove the
inefficacy of falivation, and to lubmii it
for future invefiigation ; Mr. Rubinfon
tonfidering it as his duty, in a cafe fp

-Robin foil on Hydrophobia.

important, to ftate the principal fadls
that came within his knowledge, well
knowing the uncertainty of any medipal
agency in that difeafe.

M L. next adverts to the unfavour¬
able effeils of bleeding in that difeafe;
and proves it to be uniformly fatal, by
allowing, that there is not one inftance
of recovery after bleeding-, and repeat¬
edly and unjulfly imputes that operation
to Mr. Robinfon. Is it not clearly de«
monftrated, in the recital of the cafe,
that the patient was bled, &c. on Wed-
nefday, and that Mr. R. had no con¬
cern with him until the Friday morning
following ?

M. L. next tjonfiders the opinion
which is given of the probable refult of
the cafe as a cenfure, forgetting, I fup-
pofe, his own cenfure upon the bleeding.

And, in fupport of the praftice
falivaiion in that difeafe, he obferves,
that favourable relations have been gi¬
ven of mercury-, but does not produce
one fa6t to prove that any good effe6ls
have been derived from mercury, when
ufed to produce fahvatipn in thofe cafes.

What medical application is more
debilitating in its efFefts, or more bane^
ful to iut conftitution, than Jaltvation-,
which, at the beft, Medicus Londinenfis
acknowledges to be but nn uncertain
remedy f

Reply ta Dc, Crane’s Obferuaitons.

Mr. Robinfon is very much obliged
to Dr. Crane for correcting the errors
in the cafe of hydrophobia-, which, in
the hafte of tranferibing, were not per¬
ceived by him 5 but, at the fame time,
obferves, that it would have appeared
more dijinterejiei and impartial if he had
alfo noticed the unjult imputation of
bleeding the patient, which MediciiS Lon-
dinenfii has alleged to have been done
by him.

Mr. Urban, Kings land. Sept. 22.

iN anlwer to a correlpondent, p. 506,
who enquires after the authority of
an alfertion in the jPreface to my edition
of “ The Grave, in Rhyme,” I can
only give the following account : that
the biographical dates and references
therein contained were derived from
fome papers in MS. which J became
polfcHtd v,f by purchale at public fale of
the el^e^s and library of fbomas Danx-
yiw, M.D. whoreiided at Hackney, where
he died April 2.9, 1782. Thele Iketches
were moll of them in the hand- writing
of Mr. John Jones, I beiipve chaplain

1 794*] ^SS. of Mr. Janes.--Derwentwater.--C4'r/W Corpulence. 889

and amanuenfis to Dr. Young, of Wal-
wyn 5 and contained bcfides, a mifcel-
laneous collc6lion of letters, written by
various hands, upon the fubje6l of the
Confelfional and the alteration of the
Common Prayer, by D^. Clarke. After
I had'availed myfelf of their informa¬
tion for what I had need, 1 gave them
to the felf-created DoSfor, the noted
author of Gaffer Greybeard^ and the
pun6fuator of Lord Lyttelton’s Hihory
of Henry II. The fubftanee of many
of thefe papers, at different limes, found
their way into your IVIagazine through
the medium of a cos refpondent who
flgned Eugenio, and who, 1 fuppofe,
bought them of Old Saunders, Who
Mi. Mitchel was, 1 mull: candidly own
I am now at a hand to fay ; bur, if the
papers in queftion are not deftroyed,
their authority, I think, will remain
unquehioned, as it was from fome of
the(e letters, or fome paffages therein
contained, that the late Dr, Johnfon
was enabled to inform the publick, that
Mr. Wca was a pertinacious Deift be¬
fore he publifhed his book upon the
Rerurre61ion . 1 wifli I could go farther
in (atisfaftion of your enquirer, but fo
remains the prefent Rate of the queftion''<'\

Some time lince, an enquiry appeared
from a country correfpondent concern¬
ing the time of the deceafe of the Lady
Derwentwatcr. The foil owing I ex-
iraiff from the Chronological Diary of
the Hiftor cal Regifler for 1726:

Nov. 5, died at Paris, aged 5^ years, or
thereabouts, tlie Lady Mary Tudor, Coun¬
ters of Derwentwater, relift of Francis Rat-
cliffe, fecond Earl of Derwentwater, who
had ilfue by her three fons and on<i daugh¬
ter, viz,. Janies, who fucceeded his father
in the earldom, and was beheaded for high-
treafon on lower-hill in 1716; Francis,
and Charles, and the Lady Mary Tudor,
blie was twice married aftei the death of the
Earl, her full hulband, viz. to Pleiiry
Grashme, e(q. ; and, aftetr his deceafe, to

- - Rooke, efq. fon of Brigadier-gen. R.”

You.s, &c. Hen RY Lemoin E.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 14.

1 ^ your excellent Repolitory for May,
^ P* 433» a letter from a Berklhire
correipondent refpe6ling a fuperftitious
cuftom, which obtains in his neighbour¬

* On the fubjedl of a paragraph of Mr.
Lemoine (which we here omit) we fhould
like to know farther particulars. The pa¬
lmers he alludes to were purchafed, and that
on Weft in particular was fhewn to Dr.
Joliufon, by the w'riter of this note. Edit,
Gent. Mag. October ^ *794»

hood, of applying a piece of filver col.
Je£led at the Communion to the cure of
convulfions, when worn as a ring. In
anfwer to his queries, I beg leave to in¬
form him, that we have in Devonfhire
a cuftom very fimilar, and made ufe of
for the fame purpofe. The materials
are, however, dilfei ent; with us the ring
muft be made of three nails or ferews
which have been ufed to fafien a coffin,
and muft he dug out of the church¬
yard. The force of imagination in a cafe
which I recolledt produced a temporary
cure; and the patient, having unfortu¬
nately loft her ring, was fo fliockec! at her
misfortune, as flie thought it, that her
rpafms returned, and were cured a^ain
by procuring another ring made of the
fame materials. I fiiould he moft ready
to afcribe the origin of thefe fuperftitious
cuftoms, the rings, the touch of a dead
man’s hand, &c. to the fame fou,rce.

In p. 596, a philolbpiiical reafon is
aftigned, from Dr. Arbuthnot’s rea-
foning upon aliment, &c. to account
for clerical corpulence. But, Mr. Ur¬
ban, it is worth the enquiry, whether
it be not a vulgar prejudice that the
clergy are more inclined to corpulence
than other men who lead fedentary
lives, or are by their fituation exempted
from labour^. I am myfelf a clergyman,
and have a tolerably extenfive acquaint¬
ance among my brethren; but I declare
I am not acejuainted with more than one
who is diftinguifhed for more than or¬
dinary corpulence ; and at a late Viftta-
tion, attended by nearly forty, there
was not a fingle clergyman deferving
notice for extraordinary obefity, and
only two who might with propriety be
faid to poflefs the embonpoint \ I fhould
have laid, deferved to be called jolly
men, if X had not expefted that fuch an
exprellion would have excited the fneer
of fome frivolous or prejudiced perfon.

Oa this point I have to obferve, that
I am forry to fee Mr. Urban fhould
have diftinguifhed by his feledfionf fo il¬
liberal a poeiri, if luch it may be called,
as appeared in the Magazine for July,
p. 653, under the title of Gaffer Gray.
Thar “ the priell ne’er gives a mite to
the pool IS as falfc as ttie conclufion.
That the poor man a/one,

When he hears the poor moan,

Of his morfel a mot fcl will give,

I believe, Mr. Urban, tiiat, in pro-

* Terrje Filius in onr next. Edit.
f Our cori Gfpondcnt is too faftidious. The
Song was fektfted by a liberal Divine. Ed.

porcion

890 Famll'm of deceafed Clergymen,

portion to their ability, there is no clafs
of men whatever who give fo hberaliy
to the poor as the Clergy ; and 1 fee! an
utter indignation againft any one who
lhall abufe, like Mr. Holcroft, the
charming gifts of the Mufe to fuch' ge¬
neral, fuch illiberal farcafm ; and think
he deferves the difapprobation of all li¬
beral men, who fhould difcourage ca¬
lumny againil whomfoever levelled.

A CONSTANT Reader.

Mr. Urban, OSl. 6.

T certainly is an extreme hardfhip on
the family of a deceafed clegyman,
that they fhall not receive a proportion
of the profits according to the time he
lived, and did the duty of the parilh.
Jufiice requires it ; and why a fpiritual
tenant for life fhould be in a worfe fitu-
ation than a layman, I can fee no good
reafon. It is, perhaps, very true, as
your correfpondent obferves, that the
deceafed may have'a6i:ually paid taxes
for three quarters of a year, and may
not be entitled to one quarter’s profits.
Was there no other iimony than a
Patron ftipulating for a proportionable
allowance to the family of the late in¬
cumbent, it would be very pi aife- worthy
limony, unlefs indeed the oath which
Tufed to be taken on inftitution would
reach to ihis^ — but, query, whether that
oath is not aboliflied, as purchafes by
the clergy themfelves are every day
made openly and notorioully ? Much
honour would the bilhops receive if they
would promote a reformation in this
cafe; and fureiy they need not be afraid
of fuch a reformation. There is one at
leaft, on the bench, who does not think
the care of his parochial clergy beneath
his attention ; who even receives curates
at his table ; whofe regulations in favour
of that much neglefted, though molt
ufefu!, part of the body, will be long
remembered with gratitude in his late
diocefe. Would he come forward on
this occafion, he could not fail of fuc-
cefsj and the bltffings of the fatheriefs
and' widows would be his reward !

When I am fpeaking of reformation
in the church which could not be attend¬
ed with any dangerous confequences,
let mention another, not merely
equally harmlefs, but which I am fure
would produce elFeffs firongly in favour
of the clergy. 1 mean, il the bilhops
would enquire into the lhameful and in-
creafing negle6t in the performance of
divine fervice in country churches,
X^umerous are the places where once on

— StaiFordfhire Memoranda. [0£l.

a Sunday is thought by the re6lor or vi¬
car to be a futficient performance of his
duty. If thefe hints fhould be thought
worthy of attention, I ftral! feel myfelf
happy to have contributed my mite to fo
good a purpofe.

Mr. Urban, Sept.

N addition to my laft (p. 723) re-
fpcwling Cauldon, in the hundred of
7i»/monflovv, co. Stafford, I have to
obferve, that Mr. Wheeldon, who re-
lideth in the village, is lord of the
manor, and hath likewife in his gift
the nomination of the minifter, a per¬
petual curate. The moil antient regif-
ter there, now extant, beginning in
1579, is in the earlieft part much defa¬
ced, fo as to be nearly illegible. Ha¬
ving not feen the regifter-books down to
the prefenttime, I am obliged to decline
giving you a ftatement ofeert? in averages
of baptifms, &c. as well for the prefent,
as for a more remote aera; and will now,
Mr. Urban, lay before your readers
fome memoranda relating to Wetton^ a
populous village, fituated North-eaft of
Jlam, fo well known for its pidlurefque
feenery. Waving all account of the
celebrated E6lon mine, the no lefs fa¬
mous river Manifold, of which various
deferiptions have already been given to
the publick, your prefent correfpon-
dent, friend Urban, will content him-
felf with obferving, that the church at
Wetton, the living of which is a per¬
petual curaev, hath nothing remarka¬
ble in its ftru£lure to engage the atten¬
tion of the beholder. The edifice con-
fifts of a body with one aile, to which,
in their commonly-appropriated fitua-
tions, adjoin a chancel and a fquare
tower. In the laft-mentioncd part are
three bells. The inferiptions on their
different verges are the foliowing : on
the iargeft, in Saxon charafters, lESV
BE OVR SPEDE. J. CANK. WARDEN.
1699. another, in Roman letters,

GOD . SAVE . HIS . CHVRCH . I.
WOODWARD . WARDEN . 1603. On
the third, god . save . THE . QVEEn.
T. HALLOVVES . WARDEN . 1703. , A
curious femicircular arch over the door¬
way leading from the North porch, the
only one, into the church, merits atten¬
tion. The mouldings of this arch are
in the zig zag faihion. In the com¬
partment below the femicircle, and im¬
mediately over the entranc , we may
indiflin6lly perceive, in rude carving,
two figures, which, * though’ hereto¬
fore beautified by the whuewafliing of

fomq

1 794*1 T>efcnpiiQn of W clton.

fome honefl churchwarden, emulous, no
doubt, of future fame, are fti!) fo con-
fpicuous as to afford us a fufpicion that
they were dcfigned to reprefent a dra¬
gon preparing to devour a Iamb .

The regifler- books for this place reach
back to 1657; but, from a note in-
fcribed in one of them, it appears, that,
in 1693, J. Malbon, the then incum¬
bent, tranfcribed from loofe papers all
the entries to the lafl- mentioned date.
Mr. Malbon, to whofe diligence in fo
ufeful a work much praife is due, ^ied
about 1738, and was buried at Butter-
ton, a chapelry in the parifli of Math-
field, where abia s plate to his rhemory
records, that his days had been in num¬
ber more than thofe wh’ch a century
contains. In Wetton a fingular cuftom
in pad times Teems to have prevailed
very generally,, as its regifter certifieth,
in giving “ an account of the perfons
who have Z'm tranfported into, or out,
or through, the ionune of Wetton, for
which fix fiiillings and eight pence have
bin paid to the curate for each tranfpor-
tation.”

Then follows a lift of the perfons*
names, where brought from, or whither
taken, &c. From 1691 to 1741, when
the cuflom appears to have ceafed, the
whole number of the deceafed, on
whofe account the fee had been paid, is
27. Not noticing the quaint ufe of the
term tr anfportationy and at the fame
tim.e obferving, that there is a cuftom
no way uncommon, by which the
clergym.an of one parifh demands a
double fee for every corpfe brought
from another for interment; may I be
allowed to enquire, whether a praftice,
fimilar in e^ery refpedf, hath exifted
elfevvhere ? The number of baptifms
and burials, for the period of fsven
years, ending 1793, as alfo for an equal
portion of time a century back, is ex¬
emplified in the two fubfequent tables.
Table [. Table II.

A.D.

Bapt.

Bur,

A.D.

Bapt.

Bur.

1687

1787

1688

1788

1689

1789

1^190

1790

169 1

1791

1692

1792

1693

1793

1 2

44-

149

Not wilhing to trefpafs too much up¬
on the patience of your various readers,
1 remain, for the prefent.

Yours, &c. Medeveldiensis,

Curious Chirurghal Operation, 891

Mr. Urban, 03. 9.

FRIEND has tranfmitted to me,
from the Eaft Indies, the follow¬
ing very curious, and, in Europe, 1 be¬
lieve, unknown chirurgical operation,
which has long been pradlifed in India
with fuccefs - namely, affixing a new
nofe on a man’s face. The perfon r««
prefented in pla^e 1. is now in Bombay.

CoTJonsjee^ a Mahratta of the caft of
huffiand m iH, was a bullock -driver with,
the Englilh army in the war of 1792,
and was made a prifoner by Tippoo,
who cut off his nofe and one of his
hands. In this fiate he joined the
Bombay army near Seringaoatam, and
is now a penfioner of the Honourable
Eaft India Company. For above 12
months he remained without a nofe,
when he had 3 new one put on by a
roan of the Brickmaker caft, near Poo-
nah. This operation is not uncommon
in India, and has been pradtifed frocn
time immemorial. Two of the medical
gentlemen, Mr. Thomas Crufo and
Mr. James Trindlay, of the Bombay
prefidency, have feen it performed, as
follows : A thin plate of wax is fitted
to the ftump of the nofe, fo as to make
a nofe of a good appearance. It is then
flattened, and laid on the forehead. A
line is drawn round the wax, and the
operator then dilfefts off as much fkin
as it covered, leaving undivided a fmall
flip between the eyes. This flip pre-
ferves the circulation till an union has
taken place between the new and old
parts. The cicatrix of the ftutnp of
• the nofe is next pared off, and imme¬
diately behind thi.s raw part an incifion
is made through the fkin, which pafl'es
around both ala, and goes along the
upper lip. The fkin is now brought
down from the forehead, and, being
twifted half round, its edge is inferred
into tills incifion, fo that a nofe is
formed with a double hold above, and
with its ala and feptum below fixed in
the incifion. A little lerra Japonica is
foftened with water, and being fpread
on flips of cloth, five or fix of thefe are
placed over each other, to fecure the
joining. No other drefling but this ce¬
ment is ufed for four days. It is then
removed, and cloths dipped in ghee (a
kind of butter) are applied. The con-
nedfing flips of fltin are divided about
the 25th day, when a little more diffec-
tion is neceffary to improve the appear-
, ance of the new nofe. For five or fix
days after the operation, the patient is
made to lie on his back ; and, on t-fe

until

892 NcgleJl of Puhllc Cemeteries.-—

r^nth (Iny, bits of foft cloth are put into
the noftrils, to keep them fulliciently
open. 1 his operation is very generally
luccersful. 1 lie artificial nofe is fectire,
and looks nearly as well as the natural
one; nor is the fear on the forehead
very obkrrvab'e after a lengrh of time.
'1. lie pi^lure f(om which this engraving
is made was pointed in January, 1794,
ten months after the operation.

Fig. t.‘ the plate of wax when flat-
tene<l.

Fig. 1. and 3, the plate of wax in the
form of the nofe.

Fig. 4. I. figure of the fkin taken
from the forehead ; 2. and 3. form of
the of the new nofe; feptum
the new nofe; 5. the flip left undi¬
vided; 6. 6. 6. the inc'.fion into which
the edge of ihefkin is ingrafted.

Yours, &c. B. L.

Mr. Urban, Shadivell. Oa. n.
OUR correfpondent Pbilotaphon,
J p. 818, laments tlic ravages of
T. ime and the “ facrilegious hand of
Folly" deftroying thofe venerable and
beautiful monuments in Weftminfter
Abbey; he difeovers his feelings and
his tafte, and hopes for a fubfeription.
Permit me to lead, his thoughts and
yours to an objeif of flill greater im¬
portance to this metropolis, the ceme*
teries, and their crowded ftate, with the
beft means of prevention. In a parifh
not 100 .miles Eaft of the Tower, the
parifhioners may weekly fee, when they
/approach their place of worfliip, the
^ mutilated remains of their feilow-pa-
rifliioners lying above ground ; and the
foot frequently encounters thofe bones,
expofed on the furface, much, I think,
to the difgrace of the living. Happy,
however, may we pronounce thofe who
can fo calmly fubmit to this; as it
proves their high ideas of Chriflianity,
that, when the fpirit is departed, “ the
tabernacles of clay" are of little confl.
deration. Yours, &c.

Mr. Urban, Exeter, Sept. 29.

'he underwritten is by the lady
herfelf, m anfwer to a query in
p. 619, flgned Tivertonienfls :

In anfwer to the query in the Gentle¬
man s Magazine refpedtiog the defeendants
of the Rev, George Pierce, the unniarricJ
gentlewoman, the great grand-daughter (a
Mis. BavvdeiiJ, tlicrein alluded to, is now
living- in the parifli of St. David, in the city

Exstei , and flie lias a fifler in the town
South MoUon,aud like wife a nephew thsrey

The Ba^i’dens. — Hydrophobia* [OifJ:

who is a great great grand fon of the above-
faid gentleman, and are the only lineal de-
feendants that the family know to be living.’'

7'he lady living at South Molton is
named Calmer. The nephew of thefe
two ladies, who lives at South Moltrm,
is M'-. John Bawden, a banker there,
who has two Tons ; one, an attorney at
Chard ; the other, intended for a cler¬
gyman, now at Oxford.

Yours, &c. ExoNIENSIS.

M.r. Urban, Oa. <)•

APPY fhould I be to fubferibe to
the opinion of Verax ht Bene-
■VOLUS, p. 780, on the lubjefl of hy-
dropiiobia; but, unfortunately, his ;/>/<?
dixit, however refpeftable, is not fuffl-
cient to contradift the melancholv ex-

perience of fo many ages, the well-au¬
thenticated cafes of fo many diflin-
guiflied phyfleians. He, in fa£V, fays
either too much or too little. If he can
prove, that, in the cafes generally fup-
pofed to be hydrophobic, the canine
'virus is not concerned ; if he can only
fatisfy the unfortunate, that the effefts
of the bite of a rabid animal never ap¬
pear at any diflant period, he will de-
ferve well of the publick, he will im-
m -rtalize his name by the difeovery ;
but, unlefs he can do this, I fear his
letter will only tend to lull the patient
into a falfe fecurity; and, from the
negle£l of the ufual precautions, render
one of the moft deplorable maladies to
which human nature is obnoxious,
much more frequent and incurable.

Let Verax et Benevolus attend
to this. To elicit proofs and cafes, not
theory and aflertions, are the objeits of
this letter. You, Mr. Urban^ cannot
devote an occafiona! page of your valu¬
able Magazine to more humane and
ufeful purpofes, than to fliew hovv ap-
prehenfion may be fafely difpelled, and
deep-felt ills alleviated. Morva.

Mr. Urban, Frlmrofe-ftreet, Oa. 6.

INCLOSED you have the laft letter'
written by Sir Thomas White to the
Prefidenc and Fellows of Sr. John’s
College, Oxford*. The original is now ■
preferved amongft the archives in th«:<
tower thereof; and a tranfeript of it:
remains at the farm-houfe at Fifield,,
Berks (formerfy tke manfion of Slrit
Thomas). It has been engraved 'alfo,!,,

and a fac-fimile made of Sir Thomas’sj

- *■ ^ - - - - — - - - — . . .

* We thankfully accept Mr. Ellis’sIi

very polite ^ 1

hand-

Pig*. 1 .

Ge-nt. Ma^. Oct i;ip4^. Tl .Tl.p .893 .

Door wo^^ in. LuUington Churchy .

C'ook^ . del . rrontey..

1794-] Letter of Sir T. White. — Defcrlptlon of Lullington. 8c; 3

hand- writing, but has never, I believe,
hitheito been publifhed.

Yours, ^c. H. Ellis.

N. B. At the bottom of the letter is
written,

Obiit Anno Salutis 1566, regni Eliza-
hethae oilavu, et die undecimo Februarii."

Mr. Prefident, the Fellowes, and Schol-

Icrs, of St. )ohn’s Colledge, Oxon.

Mr. Prefuknt, witli the Fellowes and

Schollers,

** 1 have me recommended unto you even
from the hottome of my hearte, liefyringe
the Holy Ghoft maye he amongfte you un-
lill the ende of the worlde, and defyringe
Almightie Goil (hat everye one of you maye
love one another .as brethren ; and I IhaM
defyre you ail to applyc your learninpe : and
foe doinge God Ural! give you his blcUing'*,
both in this worlde and in the worlde to
come. And, fui thermore, if any variance
or Urife does arife amonge you, 1 fliall de¬
fyre you, for God’s love, to pacify it as
rnucli as you mayo ; that doinge, I put noe
doubt but God lhall blelfe everye one of
yon ; and this flrall be the laft letter that
evei I flrall fende onto you, and therefore 1
flrall defyre everye one of you to take a
coppye of that for my fake. Noe more to
you at this tyme; hot the Lorde have you in
his k eping untill thende of the worlde.
W' riuen the 27 of Janu.rrye, 1566. 1 de¬

fyre you all to praye to God lor mee, that I
maye ende my life with patience, and that
be maye take rute to his mercy e.

“ By mee Sir T homas Whi ' e, Knighte,

, Alderman of London, and founder of
St. John’s Colledge in Oxford. ’

!Mr. UrLan, Frame t Sept. 8.
ULLINGTON is a fmall parifli,
Ikuated three milss North of Frome,
in the county of Someilttj the church
whereof, as it now is, appears to have
been built ar difFereirt periods of time,
part being evidently Saxon, part Gothic,
and part modern architefture (fee plate
ll. fig. I.) In the middle Hands a
Iquaic embattled tower, fnpported by
four cluflered piPais, whicli are orna¬
mented with wreaths, figures of birds,
beafts, &c. The arch which divides
the nave from the chancel is enriched
with the Saxon zig- zag ornament.

On the ouifide of the North wall of
the church is a beautiful antient door¬
way (the entrance clofed) of the true
Saxon ornamented archite£lure, having
in the upper arch, within a corbel,
a mufiiated figure of the Virgin Mary
in a fitting pofiure holding on her knees
the Holy Child. See fig. 2.

Collmfon, in his faithful and yery

valuable Fliflory of Somerfetfiiire, tells
us, that the advowfon of this church,
before the diffolution, belonged to a
priory of black canons at Longleat, ia
the county of Wilts; which priory, ia
the 29rh of Henry VIII. was united
with the monafiery of Carthufians at
Hinton, in the county of Somerfet, and
was, by Prior Hard, furrendered to the
Crown, The advowfon of this church,
in ihe 32d year of the fame reign, was
granted to Ednverd, Eail of Hertford.
who fold it, wi'h tiie beautiful place of
Longleat, (9 Sir John Thyttne, fron»
whom it defeended to the Marquis of
Bath, the prefent lord of the manor.

Yours, &c. A* C.

Mr. Urban, Odt. 3.

S the Abbe' Noel, who has lately
made fuch a figure on the bloody ftage
at Paris, an Eiiglifh ecclefiaflic, whoaf-
fumed that name about fifteen years ago,
and who was refident in Lyons in the
year 1782 ? I remember meeting a
monk of this defeription at that unfortu¬
nate 'city, who contrived to introduce
himfelf to a party with which I was
then travelling, and who, to do him juf-
tice, was no unpleafant companion .

As he was extremely communicaiivc
on the fubje^f of his life and adventures,
I had no difficulty in committing tiie
following anecdotes to my pocket-book,
where they have repofed for more than a
dozen years. If you think them wor¬
thy a place in your Mifcellany, they are
much at vour I’ervice.

Father Noel is defeended from a
rerpe6fable proteftant family in Oxford-

fhire, by name Pr - r, who have been

fettled for fome centuries near Burford.
Hist jrly education was among the gen¬
tlemen of oue Alma Mater; but diffe¬
rence of religious opinions drove him ta
a country, where he might ptofefs his
favorite tenets without embarraffmenr.
For fome time he was a tutor in the uni-
verfity of Louvain ; but, as his income
was veiy infufficienc fur a man of his
expenfive turn, he left Fiandets, and
efiabliflitd h nifelfat Lyons as a teacher
of the Englifii languigs; under w'hicb
charailer, and the lamSlion of a white
friei’s diefs, he gained accefs to fcveral
families of ddlinilion.

His appearance was in his favour;
he (eemed (Sept. 17S2) usft the middle
age, but in a very fine autumn ; his
difcouife was gentle and plauhble ; and
he hid a /'mile for every word he heard
uttered arouiid him. His couveifatioa

alinojl

8g4 Original Anecdotes of Frier Noel when ref dent at Lvons.

almoft univerfally turned upon the two
delicate fubjefls of Politics and Reli¬
gion. He often took care to infinuate
that his ahfence from his native coun¬
try was merely occafioned by confci^enii-
ous motives ; and mod: iindifguifedly
did he (though it vvas a feafon (;f hofii-
iity between France and this country)
exprefs the warmed attachment to the
jnterefts of England. But in the de¬
meanour of this fpecious frier there
feemed to be art •, and ai t concealed in
the mod dangerous manner, under an
appearance of primitive fimplicity. I
could not help imagining that this wor¬
thy ecclefiaftic was very pofhbly em¬
ployed, either by France or England, or
perhaps by bosh, in aHervice, which is
generally confidered as involving in
tcfelf more of danger than of honour.
His introducing himfelfto all his coun¬
trymen without any form or ceremony,
and his apparent franknefs as to his own
affairs, might occafionally lead an in¬
genuous mind too far; efpeciaily as he
ventured to fay fuch things in the poli¬
tical line as would, under the then con-
ftitution of France, have endangered his
r.ars at lead, if not the head to which
they belonged, if a general privilege had
not been tacitly given him, for fome
purpofe or other, by his fuperiors.

He was the oracle of the hotel de
Provence, to which he had at all times
fieeaccefs, as language-mader and con-
feffor to Madame Girard and her pretty
niece ; and he carried on a decent retail
trade in feals, rings, watches, fnuff-
boxes, &c. ; “ articles njohlch a particular
friend oj his lately died pojfejfed of\ and
rwiib which his patriotifm induced him to
accommodate the Englijh, in preference
io all the world.'’

For one or for two days,- the Frier
may be highly entertaining : but I
Ihould prefume to think him not very
eadly dilmilfed, after he had indnuated
himfelf into the acquaintance of his
countrymen. The diortnefs of our flay
at Lyons made this circumflance in no
way dangerous to us, and we therefore
fuffered him to be of our party for a
whole day. He brought, by way of
addition, an Englifliman of fome for¬
tune, who had been refident at Lyons
for fix months, to the no fmall emolu¬
ment of Pere Neel.

He was lively in the morning; but
after dinner he became flill more unre-
ferved, and defcanted with as much
enthufiafm in the caufe of his country
2s hypocrites ufualiy do in that of
religion.

When the news of Rodney’s famous :
vi6lory arrived, he was confined to hi»«
bed in a high fever. He rofe immedi--
ately, put on his cloaths, threw all his
medicines out of the window, filled his
calotte^ with hermitage wine, which
he drank off as a libation to King
George, Old England, and Admiral
Rodney ; and declared himfelf to be in
the moll perfect health. He never af¬
ter had the flighteil return of his com¬
plaint.

This fiory, as it came from himfelf,
we received with the fame degree of
allowance neceffary to be given to the
account of miracles in the legendary
hiftory of a faint.

As he rejoiced at our vivTories,^ he
fympathized with our national dif-
trefiss : in either cafe, to prove his joy,
or mitigate his forrow, he had recourfe
t-o one and the fame fpecificy with
which the vine-dad hills in the neigh¬
bourhood fupplied him, in high perfec¬
tion. When forne of the officers token
at Minorca, and reieafed on their pa¬
role, came through Lyons, in their way
to England, he was the- firfi perfon to
prefent himfelf to them, to condole
with them on the misfortune, and to
recommend fome of his infallible anti¬
dote againfi; care and anxiety. The
propofal w'as liftened to on all fides;
and “Better fuccefs to the Britiih arms”
was toailed, till the Father forgot Mi¬
norca, Britain, and himfelf. As the
fpirits of the company heightened, our
hero, who had been a fportfrnan in Ox-
fordfliire, in the days of his youth, rofe
fuddenly, took a poney out of the hotel
yard, and galloped him up and down
the ftreets of Lyons, crying “ Tally-
ho!” “Tally-ho!” in the true accent
of a foxhunter, and totally regardlefs
that he was in the habit of his order.
When he awoke the next morning, he
found that his mifehievous companions,
with the help of a celebrated Lyonefe
nymph f, had contrived to place him ia
a fiiuation not perfectly confiftent with
his monadic vow.

Intelligence of the deftru£lion of the
floating batteries at Gibraltar, by the
brave General Eliott, arrived at Lyons
the day before we were introduced to
the Abbe Noel, As it was his forte at
that moment to profefs the higheft at-

^ The black concave of leather which
covers the clerical tonfure.

F “ Addit fe fociam, timidifque fuperveniC
^gle ;

.®glc, Nai’adum puldierrima

tachmenl

^794*1 Letter which prohc^hly produced the Repeal of a trifling Tax, 895

tachment to England, he was elated by
this news in a manner there is no de-
feribing. When his brethren of the
convent attempted to check his joy,
commanding him to fear the Grand
Monarque, and to fpeak more refpeft-
fuiiy of the exertions of his armies, he
told them very freely, that “ their
King and his foldiers Were a parcel of
fcoundrels like themfelves; and that he
would talk, and fing, and rejoice at
their defeat as much as he pleafed, in
defiance of them all.’* They then pro¬
ceeded to more ferious threats.

“ Look you, gentlemen,” faid he, I
have not lived for fo many years in your
fociety without being in polfeffion of certain
fecrets ; now, you are the beft judges of the
propriety there may be in divulging them,
and of the pleafant reception they would
meet with among our governors. What fay
you ? If you are filent on one fubjeft, 1
am fo on the other. If you betray, depend
upon it, I WILL BETRAY TOO.”

The menace was not to be difregard-
cd, and the Frier came olf with flying
colours.

Such was the man whom I have at
this moment in the eye of my fancy —
Homlnem baud impurnm — patria qui ab-
ligurierat bona.

Ellum ! confidens — catus - ”

I cannot go on — for, no man living
could fay of the Abbe Noel,

Triftis feveritas ineft in voltu, atque in
verbis fides.”

I really am anxious to know, Mr.
Urban, if this loyal, this Antigallican
Frier is the Pere Noel of modern days,
who has appeared in fo very different a
chara6ler in the damonocr atic Conven¬
tion. Some of your correfpondents
will not fail to recolleft my Lyonefe
hero; and perhaps they may be able to
identify him. If the perfonage fliould
be one and the fame, my old acquaint¬
ance muft have made no fmall facrifice
of former principles, or at leaft profef-
fions, to have enrolled himfelf among
^he faints itfthe Republican Calendar.

Yours, &c. E. E. A.

Copy of a Paper Jeni by the Poll Dec. 24,
1792 ( bui -ivrtiten Joon ajier
mas) to a confidential friend of Mr. Pitt,
H E growing furplus of the public
JL revenue warrants the hope of a
faither reduftion of taxes in the ap¬
proaching fefiion of parliament; nor,
Jn that cafe, can it be an unreafonable
cxpedtation that an impofl will ceafe
which is felt by the poor only, and fub-
the Clergy to the no very refpe^t-

able office of colleftors, certainly with**
out an adequate , compenfation, and in.
fundry inftances, as may be proved,
with lofs of pence.

Small indeed is a three-penny tax on
a birth, a marriage, or a burial, to a
man in eafy circumftances, fuppofing
him to be really the payer of it; but, to
a labourer, it is a fixth part, and, in
many places, a larger portion, of his
earnings for a day. It is befides drawn
from him when a change in his condi¬
tion that ought to be encouraged, or an
increafe of ilfue, or an illnefs that has
proved fatal to one of hi,§ family, may
have occafioned an extraordinary ex¬
pence. And, unlefs he is in law lite¬
rally a pauper, the clerical ga.therer i*
not at liberty to remit the tax without
rifking the penalty of his bond, or dif-
charging the tax himfelf; which muft
not unfrequently happen, from his be-
ing afl'urcd that the party liable to it is
more an objeftof diftiefs than his neigh¬
bour, who beci>mes on a frivolous pie-
tence a burthen to his parifh.

Perfons, however, in affluence, and
of a generous dilpofition, are, in fa6t,
free from this impofl, becaufe it is de-
du6led out of the voluntary overplus of
the furplice-fce due to the officiating
minifter. Even a country vicar may oc-
cafionally be favoured with a tender of
a little piece of gold for fervice done;
but when half-a-guinea, inftead of ten
fhillings, is laid by a farmer upon the
book, three of the fix pence, that would
othervvife be a perquifite to the clergy¬
man, muft be conveyed to his Majefty’s
Exchequer. To hint to the bridegroom,
that three pence are payable to the king,
might be ha2aldous, left he fliould re¬
ply, “ Y'ou are to give me three pence in
change.” And now and then a ruftic
wag is to be met with, who, after with¬
holding both furpiice-due aiffl tax, boafts
over his pot of beer that he hath cheat¬
ed the king and the parfon, and will
cheat them again.

Ten per cent, may be an allowance
equivalent, nay liberal, in the receipt
of pounds, and even of fliiliings; but
when a coUe^ior is to pick up the money
by tlirte pennies, and theie muft be
at forty ditferent times a reckoning of
240 half-pence, with an account there-
ot kept in v»iiting, before he earns one
{hilling, (ubjeft 1 kewife to the taking
of Birmingham half pence, which a
fub-diftributor of the (lamps will caft
afide ; it muft be admitted that, under
the moll favourable contingencies, there

^9^ Entries in Parochial RegiJlers,^VAd\^^\ explained. [0£l,

jTs rot a juft rule of proportion between
tht? work done and the reward.

By way of illuftration is inferted the
jftate of a y^ear’s account in a fnaail pa-
irifh, from 06\ober 2, 1789, to Oftober
ly 1790 : S. d. You?idage

.Received for 23 entries 5 9 =r 6|:
Dsdi;6f for extra gratuities, as
above remarked — 9

Without computingother Ioffes, —
minus to the vicar — 2^

And for this minus a clergyman lias
been compared to a Scripture publican,
(though perhaps not quite fo often as
might be expefted); whereas it may be
truly averred, that there is not an indi¬
vidual layman, in any department of the
public revenue, who fo well mejits the
appellation of a patriot.

If it were the defir n of the Legifla-
ttire (but it is not alleged ihat it was)
to make the Clergy more attentive to the
regifters of thetr pariflies, it cannot
anfwer the purpofe, becaufe the claufe
is wHfuMv unheeded which requires the
proper officer of the ftamps to examine
the regifters, and check by them the
accounts delivered. And fortheomif-
fiun this cogent reafon is aliigned by
each diftributor in his circular letter,
that the produce in many pariffies is
likely to be fo very (mall that the tra¬
velling charges would probably exceed
the receipt.” The comrniftioners of
the Stamp- office liave, therefore, adopt¬
ed and recommended a pi. an not counte¬
nanced by parliament, which is, that
the reverend colle^tftr fha:i be at the
trouble and expence of carrying or fend-
jng, it may be from one to half a dozen
or half a fcore rrriies, the money recei¬
ved, to a fub- diftiibutor at the market-
sown neareft to Itis place of refidencs.
■But, though the diftrjbutor is allowed,
the clergyman is not, for horfe- hire, or
the payment of turnpikes : and yet,
were the clergy to tefign their poll of
honour and prefir, the tax wait be
wiio ly relinquilhtd for the realon ur-
yed bv the commidioners.

a j

What may have b'lcn tlie amount
yearly of the reglfler-iax has not yet
tianfpired ; but, after a conceffion fiorn
the Board, that, to prevent its being
gaiiilcfs, there rnyft be a deviation from
the mode of coliecling enjoined by law,
the prelumption is ffrong, that the fum
niuit be trivial in a branch of the re¬
venue which in one week of Auguft
iaft produced 75,928!.

At the time the a6f palled, the exi¬
gencies of Government were preffing,
4

and difficult was it to find ways and
means of levying fupplies,- it might,
therefore, be then requifite to catch at
any objedf of taxation that was likely to
yield a pittance of revenue. But, after
its being announced from the throne,
that theie was fuch an increafe of reve¬
nue as would admit of tb“. fubjefts being
relieved from feme exifting taxes, it
was conc'uded that, in eafe of the poor,
and in deference to the clergy, a tax fo
difproportioned, and fo troublefome,
would have been the firft repealed, in-
ftead of a preference being given to the
ceffation of a light duty on waggons and
carts. Bu^, unluckily, this was deem¬
ed a more popular manoeuvre.

Pending the propofed motions in the
Houfe of Commons for an abatement of
taxes. Can any fubfiantial reafon he af
figned nvhy the duty on chriftenings, mar.,
ridges, AND butials, Jiould not be dif-
coniinued ? ^as a quejlion fubmitted to
the cotifideraiion of ihe FremieCs right
reverend friend to niihom this paper is
addreffed. The event of the inuendo
was not fortunate ; may fuccefs await
this fecond attempt!

Two correfpondents in the Gentle¬
man’s Magazine'* have animadverted
(one of them in fliarp terms) on thi$
paltry, oppieffive, and unprofitable tax,
A private mode of reprelenting the grie¬
vance is ftill judged more advifable by
the writer of this paper. But, not ha¬
ving ihe vanity to flatter hnnfeif that
ilie name of an oblcure country clergy-
rsan can add any weight to his ioiicita-
tion, he chufes to “relume the lignature

Rusticus.

Mr. Urban, OSl. 9.

T N anfwer to E, who, p, S24, affis
*- the meaning of the word eddjb, pleale
to inlert theie explanations :

Eddish (e^ijich, Saxl) the latter paf-
ture, or grafsf , w hich comes after mowing
or reaping.” Kaylky’s DiAionary.

“ EIddish, or Eadish, the latter pafture,
or grafs, which comei; after mowing or reap¬
ing ; othervvife called ear.gi'ifs, earfij and
£icb” CyCLoPAiDiA, by Kees,

Yours, &c. J. Holt.

* in that for July, 1792, pp. 596, 597?
.and in that for Auguff, p. 716. In the lor-
mer, which is dated from Oxford, and fub-
fcribed A P'riend to the Poor, a hope is ex-
prelled that it may pafs into the hands of
.Mr. Pi*t, efr any of bis friends,

f lleuce a fpecies of cheefe, made at tliat;
period of the year in Leiceflei'ihire, is called
(ddijb 'cherfe, EiiiT,

Mr.

i794*] Puhlijheri of Book Catalogues with marked Prices, 897

iVIr. Urban, 08. 3.

OU hold out fo fair a challenge to
continue the circulation of Learning
bv Catalogues of bocks with the prices
affixed, that I am tempted to take up
loy pen once more, to gratify the curio-
fity of yourfelf and your readers, by
fuch a lift as a pretty regular perambu'
iation among the various Bibliopoles of
the metropolis, for a courle of at lead:
40 years, enables me to make our. So
little do we refteft that the purfuits of
early life will contribute to the infor»
mation or amufement of fnore advan^
ced age, that it required the (Economy
of a Rawlinlbn to preferve fufficient
materials to render this lift complete.
You muft take it as it is j and, if the
bookfellers who have furvived, or the
reprefentatives of thofe who are no
more, can fill up the hiatus, they will
iherit your and my thanks, and prevent
our regretting that fo many of their
catalogues have been added to the
“ Boghoufe mifcellany,” or other mft-
cellanies of equal utility. The intrinjic
merit of fome has kept the feries almoft:
uninterrupted ; while others, who had
iiot even “ a name to live,” are loft in
Lethe’s ftream. Such as have names
will ffiew pofterity that the dignitaries,
the lords, the efquires, and men of all
rank in the prefeut century, had libi^a-
ries, and perhaps will obliquely point
out to biographers the dai6s of their
deaths or preferments. D. H,

^nderfon, john, Hdhorn-hil!, 1787.

1790 Hon. John Scott, Lincoln’s-inn.

179Z

Biiker, Samuel^ Tork ji-reet.

1737 Ar thur Afliiey Sykes,' D. D. dean of
Burien; John Young, M.D. Chef-
hunt.

1758 Dr. Tho. Rundle, bifhop of Derry ;
and Italian and Spaiiifh books of a
decealed Nobleman.

- - Hon. John 'I'albot, a VVelfh judge;

A-braham Caftres, efq envoy to
Lilbon ; and Mr. Holloway, of
Cheapfide

t759 Rev. Dr John Scott; Richard Ince,
efq.; and Robert Helyer, of the
Temple, efq.

•— Peter NouiTe, I'eflor of Droxford,
Hants, and author of Difeouries
on the Homilies and his fon.
Rev. Major N. minifter of High-
am,Kcnt, and fellow of St. John’s,
Cambridge.

1761 Pei foa of quality ; Charles Lethieuil-
iici', elq,; Rev. Mr. Gunn, of
Cokhefter, Rev. Mr. Nunns, of
Tately.

Gent. Mag. Oidder, 1794.

1761 Dr. Vernon, reiflor of Bloomffiury ;

Dr. Heriugham, vicar of Tilbury;
Rev. Mr. Spateman, minifter of
Chifwick j and Mr. John Mon-
crieff, author of the tragedies of
Agis, Appius, hz.

1762 Rev. Mr. Woodford, canon and trea-

furer of Wells; Robert New, efq.
F. A. S.

176 ; William Corry, efq.

1764 John Ant. Balaguer, efq. fecretary
to the late Earl Granville ; and
Dr. Charlton Woolafton, F. R. S.
1766 Dr. Mansfield Price, fen. fellow of
St. John’s college, Cambridge ;
Mr. Afheroft, redlor of Mepfall,
CO. Bedford ; Thomas Thompfon,
M. D.

Baker and Leigh,

1768 Sir Brydges Baldwin ; Dr, Lawfon j

and Mr. Lobb, of Feter-houfe,
Cambridge.

1769 Rev. Mr. Wettenhali, minifter of

Waltham ftow.

1772 Dr. Michael Fefting, redforof Wyke
Regis, Dorfet; Richard Phelps,
efq, provoft-marflial general of the
Leeward Ifland.s ; and Meftieurs
Pvicliardfons, eminent portrait pain¬
ters, of Queen fquare.

1775 Sir Thomas Abdy, bart. of Aihyns;

Rev. Stotherd Abdy, minider of
Cooperfall; Dr. Dowfet, phyfician
to the Chai terhoufe ; and medical
part of Dr. Daniel, of Colchefter.

1776 Rev. Joieph Sim^, prebendary of St.

Paul’s; Dr. Edward fackfou, rec¬
tor of Chrift church, Surrey,

1777 Mr. John Channing, apothecary, of

Efl'ex-ftreet ; and Dr. John Ro¬
bert'^, of Pvofs.

Ballard, S. and E. Little Britain.

1758 Randolph VValker,efq,; JarvafeScot,
efq. ; Rev. Dr. Bar. Buikeley.

1777

177S - Wayman, M.D.

Barker, J. Rujfel-court, Drury -lane, 1 790.

Bat hoe, i'Vm. near Exeter-’ change. Strand,

W m. Hogarth, efq. ferjeant-paiater.
Becket and De Hondt, Strand,

Books imported 1761 — 1766.
Blckerton, William, Devereux‘COurt,Templc'har,
1727 P.'uil Beach, efq.

Bingley, William ( by commijffion ).

1793 - Dome, bankrupt, at Feverfham,

in Kent.

1794 George Smith of Peircefield, efq. in¬

cluding that of the late Dr. Smith,
the learned Editor of Bede.

Brindley, P. Nexu Bond-Jlreet, 1738.

Brozun, Dan. Black Savan, ^without Bemyh-har.

1727 Walter Richards, efq. and Dr. vVtod-

houfe.

1728 Charles Spelman, efq.

Several others.

Brown ^ U'lUiam^ EJfex-jinet y Strandy 4794.

Caterf

898 Puhlifoers of Booh Culaloguss with marked Prices* [O^l.

Cater, IVm. HoJborn.

1767 Lord Willonghly of P:irhatT!, P. A.S.

1774 The iate eminent antiquary, Cud-
worth Brack, efq. of Wallingford.

i'’77* 7^> 79c3o.

17B1 Rev. Mr. Spooner, of Chefham, and
an eminent mathematician.

Ves Carricres, Union-Jtr. BiJJjopfgate-flr. 17S8.

Chapman, Henry, 0/d Round court, Strand,

177^) 77> 7^> ^2., 83, 84?

85, 87.

1781 Dr. Heniy Chapman, dean of Wor-
cefter.

1783 Collection of Tracts hy Dr. Mead.

c - - - with King and Collins, on

Snow-hill.

— - — -i - i— ^ — with King, King free t, Cq~

vent-ga rden, 1 7 9 o .

- - - - - Chandos-flreet, 1790, 92,

93, 94; fince' removed to VVood-
Jiock-Jireet, Oxford-Jlreet .

Claris. Win. New Bond-Jireet , 1793-

Collins, Wrn. 1778, Bops's Head alley ,hitrnt out

1779, Exchange- alley, 1781, 8 2,83,84.

1785 Part of Eve and Mead’s trafts.

1787 Lake Trusfieid, efop of Reading. ‘

Conant, Nathanael, fucceffor to Mr. WhiJ/on,
Fleet -Ji feet.

1776 Samuel Speed, M. A. reftor of Mar¬
tyr V/ orthy, Hants.

Cuthell, John, Middle-row, 1787 — 89, 1791,
1792—94

Ht Davies' s Cojfee-houfe, Little Piazza.

1727 Henry Kellbn, efq. late fecietary to
Sir Robert Walpole.

Davies, Thomas, Ruff'el-Jlr. Lovent-garden, T 7^14.

Mr. Peters, reddorof Hie worth, from
fanuary to March ; William Shen-
jftone, efq. ; Dr. Oliver, of Bath ;
John Parker, painter ; and a gen¬
tleman refident in a public charac¬
ter in Spain and Italy, J uly and. Sep¬
tember, 1764.

Pemainder of thefe, April and June,
1765.

Rev. — — RulTel, of Guilford, and
William Thomfon, of Queen’s-col-
Tege, Oxford, 1768.

William EafV, efq. Mr. Jn. Thorn¬
ton ; George Macaulay, M. D.
5766.

John RatclifFe, efq. Undated.

J769, 71, 73' , 1 '

Curious and icarce pamphlets, m or¬
der of time, 1771.

Another ditto.

C. Inert Elliot, of the War-office;
Rev. Mr. More, of Plymourii ;
Ambrofe Stapleton ; and vVilliam
Moiefwoi 111, efq. of Wembdon,
CO. Devon.

1775 Rev. Mr. Barnard, of Bardfield,Effex.

1776' Charles Chauncy, efq. and an eminent
Antiquary.

Undated : Wm. Obly-', efq. Nor»-oy king
at arms, author of the Life of Sir
Waller Raleigh 4 Rev. Mr. Emmet,

of Yarmouth; and Mr. WiUiam
Rulh>

Davis, I^ochyer, and Charles Rymers,

Dr. i homas Church, vicar, of Bat-
terfea; Dr. Tliomas Wood, reilor
of Earrowby, co. Lincol i ; Rev,
Thomas Wright, ieblurer of St.
Andrew, Hoiborn, Mr. Nathanael
Worley, of Staple-inn, attorney ;
and an eminent furgeon.

1757 Hon. Henry Finch, efq, F R. S.
Henry Watkinfon, M.A. lecturer of

St. Olave, Hai t-ffreet.

Phineas Fowke, M. D.

The learned VVilliam Wafey, M. D.-
late prefident of the College of
Pfiyficians,

1758 Sam. Haffel, M.A. affi Rant-preacher

at Kenfington.

Richard Holland, M. D. F. R.S.
James Hickes, of Hatton-garden, fur¬
geon.

James Wallis, D.D. profeffor of gea-
metryr at Oxfoiah
Barrows Harris, efq.

Rowland Charlton, M. D. ^

John Burm, M.A. one of the mailers
at Merchant Tailors fchool.

1761 Jn. Hawes, of the Cnflom-hcufe, efq.
Stephen Le Grand, M. O.

1762 Hugh Wyat, M. A. vicar of Well

Ham, and redlor of St. Alphage,
London-wall.

John Hutchinfon, lecturer of St. Bo-
tolph, Aldgate.

1763 Rev. Mr. Henry Crifpe, and Lau¬

rence F.ufden, M. A. poet Liureat,

1764 ....... of Guilford.

George Pfalmanazar.

Peter . of Gray’s-inn, efq.

1765 Sir James Creed ; Mr Jenkin'^, lec¬

turer of St. Martiii, Ludgate ;
Rev Mr. Preflon, a learned ma¬
thematician and an eminent fur¬
geon.

1766 Rev. Mr. Newcome, of Hackney,

author of the poetical edition of
Harvey’s Meditations ; [(;hn Ro¬

berts, of Lincoln’s-inn, efq.

1767 Dr. Squire, bilhop of St. David; Dr.

John Felling; Jornua Tilldtfon, M,
A. fur-mafterof Sr. Paul's fchool.
176S Zachary Grey, LL. D. editor of Hu-
dibras; Malacln/ Poftietlivvayte,
autlior of the Duflionary of Trade
and Commerce ; Thomas Cran-
raer, M.D,

Ditto John Martyn, M.D, F.R.S- profeffor
of botany at Canabndge ; and the
fingle trads and volumes of ditto
of Dr. Grey.

Eochyer Davis alone.

1770 Mr. A-lleyne, redor of Stmtoii, co.

Leiceiler; Dr. Jolm Barham, of
Lewes; and M '. Richard Webb,
furgeori to St. Bartholomew’s hoC-
pitaL

'mi

794‘J Puhi'Jhers of E.ok Catalogues with marhd Prices, 899

:77i EclmnnJ Herbert, efq. deputy pay-
mafter to the marines.
j|!773 Mr. Humj'hry Chctharn ; Francis
^ Sv> inton, M. D. of Poole; Mr,

1 William C<nvper, furgeon to the

ifl regiment of dragoon-guards ;■
and thc.law lihraiy of the 1 te Ed¬
ward Chetham, efq.

t775 Ep. Lloyd, Wcacofler ; Dr. Wll-
j liam 1 loyd, chancellor of that dio-

c^'le; }o!'n Ldoyd, redlor of Pvy-
ton, CO. Duiham ; and the law li¬
brary of Matthew Locke, efq.

1779 Sir Thomas Kare, bait.

1780 Rev. Mr. Tliomas Baker, late of
Welfnnnfler; and RichardBlack-
I burn, M. D.

ii[ij84 Mr. Gibfon, re6lor of St. Botolph,
Biihopfgate ; Payner Heckford,

1“ efq. of Thaxted ; and Mr. Hum-

' phries, attorney.

1786 Dr. John Negus, fellow of St. John’s
college, Oxfoid; Rev. Mr. Daniel
Noble; and John Andree, M.D.
J790 William Ludlam, B D. fellow of Sr.

Jo’ n’s college, Cambridge; and
theologic.tl part of Dr. H. btch-
bing; and the medical part of a
late eminent phyfician, F. R. S.
Odghton, Johrij Cambridge, 1784.

Watfon Tookey, reclor of Exning,
SiifFulk.

- - - JuccrJforto Cater, Hoihorn, 1786.

Ore every ye.ar.

- - juccejfor to L. Ida'vis, 1793*

lell and Co. Holbo}?’, 1765.

Jell alone, 1767.

- - Herring, efq. of Bickley, Devon ;

a B .dfordlhire cleigyman and a
Suffolk furg..oa 1 788.

789, 90, 91. 92, 93.

Jre^U) John, Tetter-lam, lyQt. Mifcellanies.
^dlin, Thoma%.

1728 Cciiedlion of a very curious gentle-
m in .

^.di.vardi and /ori5. Tall mall.

1784 N. V» 11 fan, efq of Pontefradl: ; two
eminent antiquaries, deceafed ; H.
Bradrnaw, efq. of Marple-hall,
Cheihire.

1787 J. Ma'uwaring, M.D. an eminent ci¬
vilian, fkc.

1790 Salichetti of Rome, and .Zanetti, of
Venice.

^gerion, Thomas and John. Whitehall, I/Sqj
fuccejjor to Join Milan.

Msllan's collection.

1785 John Muller, pioh ffor at the royal
academy at VvooUvlch-
Thom s I)eletanvil!e,erq. author of a
Trench and Englifh Dictionary.
1786 Dr. Geoi Haddon^ rcanr of Stepney.
‘ Dr. johnBradlhaw, bilkop of Bi iiiol.
1787 Dr. (ohn Jebb-
L. D. Nelme. efu.

4788 Dr. '-laikham,reCtorrf Whitechapel.
V\ iilr'.m Pagett, efq. of the Middle
'J'emplc.

1789 Dr. Francis Plackburne, archdeacon

of hic. mond.

Richard Ward, prebendary of Lin-
coin.

1790 \\ jlham Young, and Ricliard Knight,

efqrs.

1791 Francis Hiorne, of Warwick, efq.

F. A. S.

Thomas Ofborne, D. D. rector of
Clifton, Bcdfordfliire.

Heniy Br(H)ker, efq. keeper of the
Augmentation- office.

Marmaduke Overend, of Chlfwick,
efq.

Kenton Coufe ; ai'chiteClural books,
and library of a phyfician.

1792 Peter Whaley, M. .A. editor of Ben

Jrnfon.

Michael Monis, M.D. F. R. S phy-
fi c i a n t o t h e W e ft m i n 11 e r i I i fi I • m a r y .
1793' Two parfs. Another fame year.

1794 [ohn Smeaton, F. R. S.

E-vans Whomas. King Jheei, Covent-garden.

1769 Ducliefs of Doifet, and an antiquary.
1771 Sir John Ci\Ts

— - - near Xork hulldmgs, StranJ.

I774,*V770.

178a A baronet ; and John Walter, efq.
By auction, 177c, Dr. Van Svvinden;

■ and J. H. Schoeman, efq and part
of Hc-ydinger’s ftock, 1776.

Taulder, Robert, New Bond fueet, 17' 9.

1781 Hon. John Maitland.

1786 Dr. F(jlev. de.io of Worcefter.

Rev. Mr. Deguihon.

Tox, JV. liolhorn, I "•7 3, 74, "5, 76, 77-
Gardner, Henry, opyof;te St. Cfemenfs church,
Strand, 1786, 81, 93.

Gorge, Anthony, Midd!e-rov>, Broad St. Qilcs,

• t / 3> /

Wad. Brands, Strand, 177!.

Hamilton, near Gi ay^ s-inn, I 792.

Harlow, Eliz,ahetb, St. James' s-Jreet, 1790.
Hayes, Samuel, Qxford-Jlre^t .

1776 - - Cute'-, facing Si, An-

drenv'^s church, Holborn.

Chalks Tl'Oi ['.bury, efq. ; Mr Wor-
liilge; G. Crnand, M. D. iTternber
of the Society of Sutgeons i;i Lon¬
don, and of the f oyal Academy
of Surgeons at Paris.

1777

17; 8 Francis Fawkes, M. A. reCtor of
H.ayes.

Charley Stanley, ef(|.

. I'orriaao, reCtor of Chingford,
latth. Armftrniig, efq.

577,9 - OJord-lhect.

Rev. William Etwall, B. A. of Mag-
dalen-to’Uge, Oxford, vk.nr of
Staues, editor of Pl.ko’s Dinlogues ;
Jolin Maule, M A. fellow of
King’s ; Hei bsit NetiLton, efq.

I ’^80, 8 1, 8c, 87, 88 89, 90, 91,92, 93, 9 y.
Hayes, John, High Holhorn.

1779 Lord Archer; Dr. S. Sm.Tllbrook ;
Thomas Greenfield, M.D.

1 7 Z-3

Puhfificrs of Book Catalogues with marled Prices. [0£t

900

3780 Henry Alcrofr, efq. of Mitcham ;
John Hntton, efq. of Gaiirfboro’.

1786 Herman blown, efq.

1788 — Q't.

JUrbert, IJaac, Vall-mall^ 1793) 94*

Heycihger, G. Strand, 1771, 73; not priced
1772; and two fnpplements.

}:hng'j}on, Milefon, Strand, near Terngte-har.

Edward Francklin, of Rainham ; and
Dr. Bradfhaw, of Upmlnher.

Merchant in the city, and gentleman
of Effex, 1770.

Sir William VV'ifeman, hart.; Dr.
Wingfield, hofpitaller of St. Tho¬
mas ; Thomas Thomfon, vicar of
Eltham.

]<ev. John Lindfey, 1772.

Mr. Riggs, of Hollift, Kent ; and
Mr. /Vndrew Soiinus, undated.
er, Samuel, Ludgate-hill.

- - - and Davis, undated.

'fefferey, Edvuard, J'VarT.t:icl~Jlrcet,, Golden-
fquare, 1 788.

The parliamentary and confiitutional
library of a man of fafliicn, gone
.abroad, 17 89.

> The lounging books of a gentleman ;
the library of his excellency Baron
Hopp.

r,- - - - - - Hall mall, 1 79C.

Library of a gentleman from Marl¬
borough.

yohnfon, ’Jojefh, cgpofite the Monument.

Stock of john Ward, bookfeller.

Khtg, Thomas, Loiuer Moor fields, 1780,81,82,
8?, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90.

Anthony Purver, 1786.

Lncklngt-on, J- Chifiiuell Jlreet, 1781,88, 89,
90, 91, 92, 93.

Lackingion, Allen, and Co. Firifbury-Jqu. 1 794.

La^v, ‘John, St. Martins church yard.

hcacroft, S. Charing crofis.

W7 3 Moody, redlor of Dunton,

Bucks. .

3776 George Oidmixon, efq. ; John Mor¬
timer, painter; Rev% John Board-
man, redlor of Cheadle, Chefhire.

— Dr. Charles Owen, antlior of the
Hiffory of Serpents; Edmund
Watfon, -M. E'. of Stockport.

1777 George Alexander, efq. of bturt-loe,
Hontinpdonfhlie.

Leigh and Sotbeb)/.

' iqic) A noble.man, deceafed.

1781 Mich ael Tyfon, M. A. fellow of Be-
i.et-coll 'ge. and E- tb.S.

_ Sir jofep'i AyloJfe, hart. F.R. A.SS.

ami Robert Young, efq.

1785 Dr. i ! omas Moreil, reclor of Buck-

land, Herts, F. R. A. Sb.

1786 87, 8;; . 91.

Lowndes, If Ilham, Fleet-Jlreet , 1785, 86.
Llwjh, Charles, Charing- crejs, I7'‘'4-

Lord Melcouthe; D-anu-l Gell, of
Wedmiiillcr-ab'vsy, efq. ; John
Trenby, of D6.R01S Coiiirnons.
Manfon, J. F. Klngjlreet, IVepnlnJler,

ManJon,y.F. Duhds- court, St. Martin s- lane^

J 7 8 8 — 9 1 •

Robert Salufbury Cotton, efq. F. A.S,
1789 or 17QO.

Marfom, yohn. High Jlolhorn, 86.

Mears, hVilliam, Lamb, without Temple -bar,

1727 An eminent lawyer.

Noorthouch, Harman, Cicero'' s Head, Great
Plaz,z.a, Covent -garden.

1727-8 A rchbiihop Dawes,

1728 Mifcellaneons.

Ogilvy, David, Midd'e-row, Holhorji, 1786,

Dr. Brereton, of Winchelier, 1785.

Rev. Mr. Smith, 1786.

- - and y. Speare, 1787-8.

T. OJborne, Gray' s inn.

1736 Vol. I. Dr. Thomas Gale, dean of
York, editor of the Hiftoria^
Anglicana; Scriptores Reger
Gale, efq. the great antiquary ;
the learned Mr. Henry Wotton ;
and Dr, Francis Dickens, Regius
profeflbr of civil law atCambridge,

Vol. II. Dr. Coneybeare, bilhop of
Oxford and dean of Priflol.

Gilbert Walmeiley, efq. of Lichfield.

Vcl, III. John de PeRers, ebj. ; Dr.
Coneybeare.; Dr. and Mr. Gale ;
and Mr. Walmefley.

1738 Rev. John Creyke, chaplain to He?
neagp Finch Earl of Winchelfca.

1760 Sir Luke Schaub, b.art.

Edmund Sawyer, mailerin chancery.

1761 Hon. AuguRus’ George Egerton ;

Dr. George Hepburn, phyfician,cf
King’s Lynn ; Dr. Edward Mody,
phylician to St. George's hofpital.

1763 Rev. Drs. Philip Bearcroft, rnafler
of the Charter- houfe, Thomas
Morton, fellow of Corpus ChriRi
college, Oxford ; and Mofs, fel¬
low of New-colHge, Oxford ; Dr.
Charles Feake, phyheian to Guy’s
hofpital; Dr. Richard Conyers,
phyfician tp the Foundling hofpi-
pital and army ; John TwiReton,
efq. of RovvcHff ; Mr. Walter
Bii minghaiTi, door-keeper to the
Houfe of Lords.

I 1 766 Dr. James Shei rard, and his brother, 1
conful at Abppo ; Hon. Admiral I

I. cRock ; Wiliiam Eyre, efq. fer- i
jeanr at law ; Hon. Gen. Murray* I
Mr. Alderman Dickenfon, chair--
man of ways and means; Rev. >
Mr. Bryan, editor of Plutarch ; |
Dr. Vionk, of WalthamRow;;
Samuel Herkely, efq. bencher ofl
Gray’s-inn; and Mr. Noble, af--
icrnoon preacher to that Society.

J768 Remaining Rock in trade, and 1769}!
and at I1R by S. Paterfon, 1769. ;

S.ile by Shroplhire at Exeter-’change, ■
o'l announcing diffol tion of pait-
nei lhip between T. Ofborne and 1

J. Slvptun, three partq and pam-
pi'.kts. ^

Olildgt)

1794*3 Puhlijhirs of B^ck Catalogues with marke/i Prices.

qox

Otridgc^ IVillicmy Strand, I7SC, 1788.

1790 W. Cuming, M. D. of Weymouth;
Mr. Robins, an eminent mathe¬
matician.

Owen^ Wiiliam, 'Tem^''. e-gate. Fleet -Jireet , 1787.
fqrker, Samuels New Bond-jireet, 1776.

Hon. Mr. Montagu, mulateil.

Mr. Richard Dunthoi n, furveyor and
fupci'intendant to the Bedford Level
corporation, and a computer to the
commilTioners of longitude ; a re¬
verend divine; and a gentleman
of the war depai'tment ; undated.

1779 Archibald Duff, efq.

178c Emanuel Langford, vicar of Hayther,
Lancafnii’e.

Bayne, Bhomas, Round court, in the Strand, Qp-
polite York huilding%.

Eeb. 29, C Curious Books in Div ini'’y, Hif-
? 740 7 t'-tyj Cl ilhcks, Msdicine, Voyages,
Natural Hittory, 5cc. Gteek, Latin,
French, lialian, and Spanifh, in
excellent condition, and moftly
gilt nr lettered.

1755 at the Mews gate.

George Bagnall, efq. and Rev. Dr.
Croxall.

17 57 Gihfon Dalzell, efq. Rey. Mr. Davis,
Dr. Wooclhoufe, &c.

<■■■■■- Sir William Keate, Arthur Pollard,
efq. conful at Aleppo.

1758 Monfieur Sanfon, R.ev. FranpisPeck,

1759 Robert Dalzell, efq.

I 7:; 9 1760 two 1761 two.

^763 AuguBine Erie, efq. and Richard
Reynol is, efq. of Hertford.

' 7764 Ralph Thorefby, gent. F. R. S. of
Leeds.

7765 Sir John Barnard, knt, ; Dr. Simp-
fon, vicir of St. George in the
Eafi ; Dr. Middleton, of Bridol ;
and Dr. Rofs.

— Nich. Munckley, of Hampflead, efq.

1767 John Dupre, efq.; Hugli Barker

Bell, efq. ; Lewis Senraeder, efq. ;
Rev. Mr. Cooke ; and Rev. Mr.
Langham.

- Alexander Scrahan, efq.

1768 Ditto, and Rev. Charles Scottovve.
7769 R. Thornton, efq, ; Dr. fn Mitclielj

Dr. T. Haves, of CheRer,

- Edward f^awlett, efq.

1770 John Grey, efq. F. R. S. retRor of
Manfclial- college, Aberdeen.

— — Perfon of qu.ility ; Rev. Mr. Lea ;
and Dr. Wiikinfon 1 linfli.ard, fel¬
low' of the College of Phybeians.

1772 Rev Dr. Mafun, of Trinity-college,

Cambrid; e ; Rev. Mr. Ray.

1773 * Hall, of Magdalen college, Ox-
I fol d (brother to Mr. Hall, Abp.

Seeker’s chaplain).

J774 Thomas Cab'erwood, Henry Henley,
Samuel Brooke, John Fearnlide,
efqrs. ; Rev. Dr. Charles Hall j
and Mr, Woodefon.

1774 Nicholas Linwood, efq.; Rev. Mr,
Hvitchms ; Dr, Nugent, F. R, S.

1776 Eifhop of Bangor; Kev. Dr. Mur¬

dock ; Rev. Mr. BarOaam ; Rev,
Powlett St. John ; and VVdliani
Lowndes, efq.

1777 John Danvilh, efq. ; Rev. Mr.

Charlton ; Rev. Mr. Beachcroft,
1778,79,80,81,22.

1783 Edward Chamberlayne, efq.; Pvev,
Mr. Wibberfley, ofNewcaftle.
:j784 Samuel Crifp, efq. of Surrey; Dr.
Kennicot, of Oxford ; Rev. Mr.
Green.

Francis Grofe, and the claffical part
of Rev. Stephen Whillbn.

1785 Dr. Richard Cuft, dean of Lincoln;
and Dr. Thomas WHdgrave, vicar
of Wafnington, Suliex.

1787 William Rofe, LL.D.

1788 A nobleman ; Rev. Mr. Bonchery,

of Swafftiam ; Rev. Mr. Laurents,
of Bury; and Dr. James Beauderk,
bidiop of Hereford-

1789 ?. Newcome, efq.; Dr. Newcome^

dean of Roch.efter; Rey,

■ Ne’vvcome, of Hobbits, Suffolk;
Rev. f.'Tr. Brereton, vicar of Ac¬
ton, Chefhire.

1790 Charles Wolfran Cornwall, fpeaker

of the Houfe of Commons, and
Samuel Martin, efq

1791 Dr. T. Newton, biffiop of Eriffol

and dean of St. Paul’s.

1792 Dr. Philip Lloyd, dean of Norwich,

and Rev. Henry Homer, fellow of
Emanuel- college, Cambridge.

1793 M. de Lamoignon, keeper of the

feals of France.

T794 Mifcellaneous.

Bayne, Henry, Rail-mail', bankrupt 1 78 2,

Bote, 'Jojeph, March YniO)--, Golden Boor,
over again/} Suffolk Jlteet, Charing- crofs.
1726-7 Library of Richard Lapihornc, of
New Inn.

Bridden, John, Fleet Jlreet.

177; Rev. Co >te Leicefter, prebendary of
Peterborough, l edlor of Elfendon
and Y old on.

1777 Mr. l.yonr, teacher of Hebrew at
Cambridge.

Rev. Mr. Heath, reflor ofKimpton,
' Herts.

Rev. Mr. Dugard, redlor of Weil
B'.-urne, SnlTex.

Thomai Milward, M. A. of Queen's
college, Ox‘’ord, maffer of Ap¬
pleby fchool.

^*r. Male , M. A. fellow of Bra.zcn
Nofe college, and redlor of Lin¬
coln ; Mr Dtlangle, M. A. redlor
of Danbury and VV'oodiiam Fer-
rars ; Rev. Mr. John Herries ;
Rev. Mr. Turnbull, diffenting mi-
niffer at Hammerfmith ; Sjdney
Evelyiqefq.of Upton Grey, Hants;
Mr. Georgs Vaughan, furgeon at

Greys;

902

PttMiJJ^ers of Book Catalogues with marked Price t»

<3x675; Rev. Aaron Methcfins,
M. A. mindler of t!ie Swedith
church in I’riiire's fqaare.

^.emnartty Jas. Si. yohn'-s-lane, J'Kcft Smithfield.
1793 Lnglildi and foreign, particulai ly ihofe
nubluhetl in and near Gemiany.
"Yamesi Ne-U) Bond Jfrect.

1765 Fiom Dr. Merd and M, Folke?, efq.

. — . Liearenant-geiie al Guife ; jofeph

Grove; efq of ili' hnr.ond, part of
Rev. Chailej Morgan, prebendary
of Durham.

1767 Eutler Chauniey, efq of Bunting'-
f )rd;-and Rev. Clrarles Parkin,
of Oxburgh, Norfo.k.

176S Sir John Evelyn,- bxt. ; Edward
Spelman, efq tranflatoi of Xeno¬
phon ; Dr. Kufbands, redfor of
little Horkfley ; and a general
officer in Albemarle-flreet.

$769 Df. Bland, prebendary of Durhani.

- - Duke of Newcahle.

S770 Duke of Nev caf'tle.

Natural hiitory and antiquities of
En.aland,

1775 Rev. Mr. Cowper, fellow^ of Benet-
coUege, Cambridge.

1772 Dr. Walwyn, prebendary of Canter¬
bury ; Dr. ltcham, redtor of Great
Badow; Rev. Mr. Arnald, author
of the Paraphrafe on the Apocry¬
pha ; W. v'ackworth Pr 'ed, efq.
17.73 Jofeph Smith, conful at Venice.

1774 A perfon of diftindfion ; George

Edwards, efq. F.R.A SS. author of
Natural Hiftory of Birds.

1775 Dr. Hm'ton, M.A. of Chrill Church.
1777 John Murray, efq. aiubalfador at

Condautinople.

2778 Richard Loiur, eup

1779 T. P. AVung, prebendary of
VVeflmmfler.

1780 Samuel Mufgiave, M.D.; John Her¬

ring, efq. ; Rev. George Bough-
ton, M.A.

178.2 Ebenezer Muffe), of Bethnal-green,
efq. ; and- Col. (Griffiths.

1755 [oha Staker, M. D. ; Rev. J. Dock-

wxay, D. O.

1756 Solomon Dayrolles, efq. refident at

Brulfels ; and folm. Eilis, efq.
Pk R. S. antlior of the Effay on
Corallines, &r.

Bohfon and Clarke.

1787 Natural hiflory in a diflinguiffied

mufeuiT!.

Bobfen alone again.

1791 Robert butler, efq.; and a general
officer.

SasI^ G. Strand, ('’91, 92.

Ske^pnjon Reynolds, Oxford flrect, 1784.

1788 Rev. Mr. Allen, of Dot king.

1793 Rev. Mr. Spry, of Yardley, Herts ;
and Dr. Poole, of Levt^a?.

S'-xopf he, Jf alter, Ne-w Bond Jircet, 1768.

Rev. Thomas Archer, red! or of St.
Martin’s, Ludgate, and Finchley,

and prebendary of St. Paul’s; and
Benjamin . .rcher, rector of Slower
Provf)'T, and Todbere.

Simeo, John, Great S^een-Jireet , Lineolu s- hin.-
fieiis, r 88, 90, 92, 9 3) 94-
Smith, Robert, next Barnard! s inn.

Snelting, Thomas, Fleet Ji'eet., *7 592 6^'

Stohoef Luke, Covcntry-court, Hay-7narketf
17-27 B'blintheca Curiofa.

- Bit'hob'eca Dubourdieuana.

Thane, "fohn, Gerard Ji^ect. I t-wo.

Thornton, Theophdns, Southampton Jlreet, Cq^
nient garden, 1783,8b.

1787 Everarti King, efq. of Boughton.

1788 Rev. (ofeph ConunSr huruerly of

Exet r cohege, Oxford.

Trueman fTStr a?id,cornor of Burleigh Jirect,i^')t^.
Tandsnbergb Sitnon Fhiloliblian iJbrary, Pic-
cadilly 177.’- 73 — 79.

Vanderdocok, Tbram and George Richmond^
French Bookfellers, oppofite Kxeter-change,
t72'’-8 Bibliotineca Stancta
Vernoi and Chafer, Ludgate -hi 11, 1767
Ver nor alone, FofC Jlreet,

I'Vadc, ‘J. near G ay’ s-inn, 1^86.

IVagfiaffe, Brick lane, Sp ^ a! -fields, I77I>73>
7'>, ' 9. ?] . 82.

Walker, ‘ffohn. Paternofer-roev, 1778.

Ifrael M.anduit ; Mr. Forfter, fur-
geon, Harleflon, Suffolk; '-Vil-
liara FreJerivck Glover, furgeon of
■ the Eaft ElTex militia.

1789 Nathanael Booth, M. A. late, of Mer-

ton-cohege, and vicar of B-ickle-
bury, Berks and John Adams,
M. D. Brffiol.

1790 Rev. Mr. Wroughton, of Welborne,

Lincoiafpire,

JValker David, High Ihlhorn, 1786.

ITecblev, A- llolborn 176’,, 63.

FThifon, "Cohn, Fleet -ftreet.

1766 Henry Banks, M. D.; Mr. Adam

Anderfon, author of the Hiflory
of Commerce.

1767 Dr. John Wills, prebendary of Sa-

runa, and a commiltioner of nxeife.
176S Dr. Charles Reynolds, chancellor of
'Lincoln ; George I.oiiington, efq.
of Braccbhdge, co. Lincoln.
Wh'Jlon, fohn, and White, Benjamin.

1756 Rifl -y Riflev Brewer, efq. ; Rev.

Stephen Duck; air' Thomas Wal¬
lis, M. D. of Stamford.

1758 Rev. VViiliam Gibboiw, preacher at

Bridewell, and vicar of St. Dun-
flan in the Weft ; and John Hand,
efq. counfellor at law.

1759 Serjeant Lomax Martin ; Henry-

Thomas Carr, efq.

1760 Edw'ard B.irker, baron of the ex¬

chequer.

. — ^ — Tliomas Potter, efq. M.P- : Vigerus
Ed.-vyards, tfej. of Bedford- row.
3761 Dr. Burton, reClor of S'apl'.hnidl,
Kent;, Rev, Mr.Colfon, F. B- 5.
Lucafian prol’slTor at Cambridge.
1763 Tliomas Williams, efq.; and Rev.

WiliiatA

1794*] ■ Puhlifners of Pooh Catakgim with marked Prices^

William Harris, M. A. of New-
college, Oxfoi ti, vicar of Horn¬
church.

— • Chaiit's Dclafave, e'‘q. of the fecre-
taty o; (hue’s r.dice, and of VVich-
luv, U'ilts; Wdliain fickard,
ttq f Edme.’Mtoii ; an i >he learu-
Cvl and revoread Mr. Dauhuz.

1764 Dr, James runtfal!, vicar of Rc'ch-

dale ; Her. Mr. C lare, of Ricli-
mraid.

• - - Bartho'nn-iew jefferey, efq. of Exe¬

ter; Rev. Thomas Axtoo, chap¬
lain to ihe Biiliop of Roci e'ier.

1765 Edward Smith, efq. ofEdmondthorpe,

knight 01 the llnre for the c un'y
of Ee’celfer; Henry Bromfield,
efq BeJforrl row ; Rev, Fh >cion
Henley, redlor of St, Anne’s,
Riackfriers.

IJ'hite, Benjamin.

1766 Rev. Tl’.omas Negus, D. D. recftor of

St. Mary, Rotlitrhithc ; and Mr.
William Price, glafs- painter.

-■ -■ Rev. Samuel Rollellon, archdeacon
of Salifbury.

1767 Dr. John Thomas, b fhop of Salif-

bury; and Sir William Calvert,
late M. P. for London.

— — - William Flail, tf<}. deputy clerk of
the Pells, and fdlaw of King’s col-
■ lege, Cambridge.

1768 [Dr. Seeker’s j.

1769 Rev. joleph Spence, author of Poly-

metis ; and Wiltiatn Duncombe,
tranflatorof fdorace,

1770 Di-. Hutchinfon, editorof Xenophon ;

Rev. Mr. Madge, of Plynioui;!),

1771 Ricli.'.rd Cavendiih, efu. and Dr.

jortin.

- Rev. Granville Wheler, of Otterden-

place, Kent.

I77Z Cheller Mi^or Hall,' of Sutton -hall,
Etlex, efcp ; P^ev. Tho. Clarke,
redlor of- Kirkby Heaton, and
roafierof Wakefieijfchool,

■ — ■ Alexander Thiftlethvvaite, M. P. for
Plants.

1773 Lye, author of the Saxon
Difhonary ; Rev, Mr. Delafaye,
of Canterbury; and TliomasKing,
efq. of Farnham, Surrey.

— — Dr WiUiam Borlafe, author of the
Hiftory and Antiquities of Corn¬
wall and. Scilly ; and Dr. jofeph
Nicol Scott, of Ipfwich.

1774 John Neville, efq. of the Middle

d'emple ; and Dr. Cornwall Tath-
well, of Stamford.

- Rev. Mr. Botham, of Alhury, Surr.

1775 Dr. Edward Wiliis, lufl.iop of Bath

and Wells ; Rev. Mr. Thi'ml n(oo,
of Rochford; Rev. Mr. Fierring,
of Chevening; law of Rohei t Har¬
ley, efq. of L'ncoUi's inn.

Dr. Gloucefter RnUey, of Poplar.

1776 Two uniiiinied ; ar,d oas 1777.

9C.3-

1777 Dr. Maty, F. & Sec. R. S. principal

librarian of the Britiflii IVIufei:m.

1778 Di'. fohii Green, of {.Jieenvvicli ; Rev.

Mr. Allif -!', vicar of Wardfvvorth.

1 779 Dr Puller Forrefter, of Cofgrave,co.

Northamptan.

1781 17S2 Two each.

17S3 Dr. Thomas F.awrence, of E&-X-
fb eet ; and |ohn V\ ariiig, furgeoa
of t. Thom, ih'sliiRpical, and F S.A.
1784 Chariet, Hedges, efq. late of the Gar-
ter-houfe, Wiudfor callk ; aad
Rev. VVilliam CHc, of
1783 Francis William Skipwith, efq.

1786 Ellis Jrmes, M. A. of Chnfl Churchy

Oxf id, vicar of Staverioji, ca.
Noit’nampton.

1787 jofnua Steele, efq. and Rev. Ed¬

ward '.ubery.

1788 Sir Ridiard jebb, bart. F. R. S. ,

1789 Rev, homas Bagfhaw, M. A, of

Brom1e\, and red'torof SrmthfieSdj
Rev. John Lighefoot, M. A. drap-
laiii to the Countefs.dovs'ager o£
Portland, and author -of Flora
Scotica.”

1790 Rev. John Bowie, M. A. F. S, A.

of Idmiflon, near Salilhurv, eilii-
tor of Don C^iixote, in Spassifh,
with various readings and note<-,
3791 Edmund Bolt, efq. of Chriffehurds
Plants; Robert Adah', efq. 5n-
(pedor general of his M.ijeify's
military iiofpitah ; and the nau?-
ral biff or y part of John Blake^ciq.
of Pa r i i a m en t - iT j'e ct .

179^ Part of Dr. W liliam Pitcairn, l.’te
‘ tieafurar of St. B-irihoioutcw's
itorpilai.

J'Khite^ Beyij^min and ^ehyi.

1794 John Pitts, ivctor of Great BnckiriF.
White., yoji’phj Hdhorn, 1779, I78?..

1783 John Fail Ligonier, field- marflial
and commander in chief.

Several others, to 1791.

Bl'ilhiCy ‘John, St. PauTs church yardf I771. <

IFUJon and Nice!, 77 3.

George Mnckeire,;e.

Dr. f-ienry Sacheverel.

J'J'oodman vin\\ Lyon, RujJeH-f-feet, Cev -garden.
i-jZj James bu Poirier fieur de la Ra'mee,
pl.iyfii;i.an at Tours, a;is counlellor
to the King ct Praute.

1728 Harduin Fortin de la Hugnette,
aioldriftiop of Sens, primate of
France and Germ-’iiy,

• — — Rent du Longneil Seigneur de Mai-
L us, prfcfuient an Muitiorof t!ie
pjiiiianient of PHris.

Mr. Urb.^n, Sept. ac.

R. IRP.Cl.AND having pub-

-L'^ -il- liflied a lifi t-f Hoj-arth’s

Wo.ks, i trtkt the libertv of (cndiug
you an at count of a pidure, rcpintd to
be Mr. of (danfy portrausj

pro habiy

904 Original Figure hy l{Qg2iXiti.-^F^mily of Mr, Paget,

probably unfinlfbed, but extremely
well propoitsonedj drawn, and grouped;
bought at a fa!e of the effedfs of the
late Mr. Hammond, of ColchefLc’, an
ingenious coach and houfe painter,
>si>o, it is faid, worked feme time un¬
der Mr. Hogai'rh. It is now at Stifled
hall, Efi'ex. The canvas is 27^ inches
long by 23^ inches wide. T’ao thin
tall ladies, drefl'ed in white and blue, in
a ftvle of fiifliion about 30 years ago at
leaft, are playing at a card-table, ombre
probab'y, covered with a deep carpet,
-with a tall middle-cged genileman
drefl'ed in black, and a ^ery full-bot¬
tomed wig. The figures are about
16 inches in length. Near one of the
ladies, direSling her play, is a itout el¬
derly gentleman drefl'ed in grey, and a
very full-bottomed wig. Thefe are
all on feats. By the fide of this gentle¬
man. Hands Mr. Hogarth, looking and
pointing as if fketch ng their likenelTet!,
drefl'ed in brown and a green velvet cap,
agreeing perfeftly to a print of him be¬
fore his engraved Works. Behind Mr*
H ogarch, as aflifling him, ftands his
f'ervant, fuppofed to be Hammond. At
the feet of one of the ladies is a black
cat j and at the bottom, in the corne^
behind the gentleman in black who is at
cards oppoiite to her, is a Mulatto boy,
dreffed in green, carrying a cup to two
figures that feem ludicrous, not fuffici-
enily finiihed to be made out.

Yours, &c. No Collector.

Mr. Urban,

Sept. 23,

defciiption of Mells church.

&c. in your laft Number, pp. 701
j, i have peiufed with fo much plea-

fure, and particularly the monumental

inkription it inc udes on the late vene¬

rable incumbent, that I am tempted to

jncioi

latisCdlion

a hafly tranhation of it tor the
of many of your readers,
and as a feeble tribute of lelpeft to the
name of the perfon it commemorates:

In fure hope of rifing agai-',
near this place lie the remains of
the Rev. Thomas Paget,
rector of this church near 34 years;
who nut only fulfilled the duties of a man, a
citizen, and a miiiifter,
but alA) adorned them ail.

Asa man, ingenuous, jufl, and pious;
as a pallor, learned, inuuflrious, and bene¬
fit enr.

He faithfully watc.hed over his flock
not only Willi wiflies for iheir wellaie,
but cheerfully afliited by Jus touafel, his
pui le, cr his tabic,

all who w'ere diftrefTed in mind, in body,
or eflate.”

He fo happily attempered tlie feverer fludieS
of divinity

(which principally engaged his attention)
with the "races of polite literature,
as th attach all good men to him
by the fweetnefs of his manners and the'
fleadinefs of his morals.

Finally ;

in every fituatinn he fo condiufled himfelf,
fo mingled tl',e becoming with the virtuouSy
that (ill death larneuted as through life be¬
loved) V

he left to poflerity a memory mofl dear.
Hedeceafed on the zd of Jan. 1783, aged 78.

^ The following flight family notices
may probably induce your intelligent
correfpqndenr IH,. to render them
more complete :

Mr. Paget^ before he catn6 to Mells,
was fome time mafter of a gram=-
mar-fehooi at Pynington, in Dodet-'
Ihire, where he was warmly patronifed
by Sir Gerard Napier. He united him-
I’elf in marriage to Mifs Cobb, a lady
of an Oxfordihire family, by whom he
had iflue as follow :

Thomas, his etdefl fon, had an employ

in one of our foreign fadtories, and d>£d

abroad many years ago.

John, a clergyman, and redlor of
D owiton, near Bath, whole death was
caufed by a fevers fit of the gout, to
which diforder he had long been fub-
jedf. He left behind a widow and two'
daughters*

Richard, M- D. a very refpeftable
phyfician, refident at -Chilcomptoc,
whofe j'econd fon, when ofi Magdalen
college, Oxford, gave eafneft of diftin-
guilhed ta'ents. If a calual conjedlurs
may be nlked, this gentleman is no un-
frtquent contributor to the Antiquarian
columns of the Gentleman’s Magazine.

WtLliam, late a clothier at Shepiont
Mallet, where he died fome years be¬
fore his father. He ieft an only daugh¬
ter, fince married.

Robert, LL.D. late Fellow of Mag-
'Tl dalen college, and efquire beadie of
law in the univeiTity of Oxford. Died
a bachelor in Auguir, 1793.

Elizabeib, married tis T'ho. Strange-
ways Plorner, tlq. of MelU Park. Has
iflue a (on and daughter. The latter is

married to Henry tiippifley Coxe, elq.

M.P tor the county of Someil'ct.

Mary, mamed to the Rev. John Bi-

fhop, D D. te61or of Mells and What¬

ley. Has no family.

A third daughter died an infant, S. K. 1

Mi. ..

ijOi-] Wells’s Reply to Dr, DarwIn on Vi/iom

90S

Mr. Urban, 2.

HEN we flop ourfelves while
giddy from turning, our eyes do
not return to a (late of reft along with
our bodies, but continue to move for
i<»me time after. Of this, however, we
are not confciotls ; and hence we ima¬
gine the relative motion between our
eyes and objecSis at reft to be poftcfted
by the latter; in like manner as a per-
fon gliding down the ftream of a ftnooth
and fvvift river fancies its banks are
pairing by him. Such is the oudine of
the opinion which I have faid lias been
attacked by Dr. Darwin.

That a motion of the eyes exids in
the giddinefs which enfues upon turn¬
ing ourfelves with the head ere^f, tne
only mode [ had tried when [ publifiied
my opinion, Dr. Darwin admits; and
he does not diretlly deny, that we are
inconfeious of it. If he did, 1 fhould
willingly fubmit to the decifion of any
unprejudiced perfon, who would take
the trouble to determine, from experi¬
ment, which of us was miftaken.

But,” fays Dr. Darwin, “ this rolling
of the eyes after revolving till we become
vertiginous, cannot caufe the apparent circum¬
gyration of objedfs in a cliredlion contrary to
that in which we had been revolving, firft,
becaufe, in pnrfuing a fpedlrum on the (ky
or ground, we perceive no retrcgreftlon of
obje<fts.”

To make this more clear, it rnuft be
mentioned, that Dr. Darwin has elfe-
where remarked, that, if the daik fpot
which is occafionec^ by looking I'ume
time at a fmall luminous body be not
exa^ly in the centre of the eye, we
turn the eye to where it Teems to be,
expe6fing to bring it into the centre of
the eye, that we may view it moie dif-
tin611y : from which it happens that the
fpot always appears to move in the di-
reftion in wliich the eve is turned; and
that he imagines the motions of the
eyes, which take place in the gidd'nels
alter turning, to depend upon the fame
circumftancc which induces us to pur-
fue the fpot. To fliew, however, that
this opinion is not jufl, it need only be
(aid, that thele motions exift when there
ire no fpeflra in the eye. KVery argu¬
ment, therefore, drawn from it mull be
without force. The prelent one is
lautty in another refpefl j for,, when we
put lue 1 he fpot, the movement of the eye
i^njo/untary ; whence, as in all fucli cafes,
we alcribe to the eye alone the relative
motion between it and the objcuis at
Gent. Mag, O^iober, *794.

red, over which it pafles; whereas in
giddinefs the movement of the eye is
inqjoluntary, and without any indicatiori
from confcioulnefs of its exiftence.
Where the previous circumftances dif¬
fer fo eftentially, different events muft
neceflariiy follow.

pr. Darwin proceeds to ftate that my
opinion muft be erroneous.

Secondly, becaufe the apparent retro¬
grade motion of objeft', when we have re¬
volved till we are vertiginous, continues
mucli longer than the rolling of the eyes,”

How Dr, Darwin has determined
this point I know not; but 1 can affert,
that what he'fays upon it is contradi61-
ed by my experience. I take for grant¬
ed, what muft be evident to every one
the leaft tin6tured with optical know¬
ledge, that, when an apparent fpot has
been produced by viewing a fmall lu¬
minous body, every alteration in its po-
fttion, with lefpeft to objedfs at reft,'
muft be owing to fome movement of
the eye. Now, when I have produced
luch a fpot, and have made rnyfelf gid¬
dy by turning, I have Gonftantly found, ‘
that, after flopping, and while attempt¬
ing to keep my eye fixed upon fome
obje6l: at reft, the fpot continued to
change its poficion with regard to that
objeft as long as either it or any other
obje6l feemed in motion. The real’
motion of the eye muft therefore have
had an equal duration with, the appa¬
rent motion of the furrounding bodies.

“ When we have revolved from right to
left, the api^arent motion of objedts is from
left to right ; and when we have revolved,
from left to right, the apparent circulation
of objedls is from right to left; yet in both
cafes the eyes of tlie .revolver are feen
equally to roil forwards and backwards.”

This IS Dr. Darwin’s third argu¬
ment. The words circumgyration^ cir-
cu/aiion, are neither of them ftri6lly
proper when applied to the apparent
motion of objedls in giddineis; for
thele, in fa6T, Teem only to deferibe
portions of circles, and then to get
back, without our well perceiving in
what manner, to their original places.
The caufe of this phenomenon is ex¬
plained in my work upon \-ifion, though,
perhaps Dr. Darwin has overlooked it.
For 1 tliere mentioned that, if, while
giddy, afid in pofftihon of the fpec-
trum of a fmall luminous body, I dirett
tny eyes to a fheet of white paper, fixed
to a wall, a ipot Lnmediately appears
upon the paper; that the fpot and paper

afteiwarda

o6 Dt\ V/eHs’s Reply to Z)r. Darwin on Vljlon, [0£l:.

afterwards feparate from each other to
a cerrain dihance, the latter feemingly
moving from left to right, if I had
turned fiom right to left; but from
riglit to left if i had turned the con¬
trary way ; and that then they fuddenly
come together again. My conc’uhon
from this experiment is, that, although
the eye during it moves forwards and
backwards, ftiil the two motions are
not exafily firnilar, but that in one the
pidiure of ' the paper travels flowly
enough over the retina to allow me to
attend to the apparent progrelilon of
the paper; while in the latter the paf-
fage of the picture is lo rapid, that no
fuccelfion in the paper’s apparent places
can be obferved.

Dr. Darwin’s fourth reafon for rejedl-
ing my opinion is,

Becaufe this rolling; of the eyes Back¬
wards and forwards takes place during our
revolving, as may be perceived by the hand
lightly preffed on the clofed eyelids, and
therefore exifts before the efka aferibed to

it.” . .

ff I underftand this rightly, it is

equivalent to affertsng that there is no
apparent motion of obje£fs while we
turn ourfelves round. My anfwer will
be taken from Dr. Porterfield, who
cannot he fuppofed prejudiced in favour
of an opinion which is contrary to that
maintained by himfeif.

If a perfon turns fwiftly round without
changing his place, all objedfs will feem to
move round in a circle the contrary way ;
and this deception continues, not only nubile
tho j'^o^Pon tuY?is Touficly but, which is moie
furprifing, it alfo continues after he flops
moving, when the eye as well as the objedts.
are at abfolute reft. ’ Forterfald on the Eye,
vol. II. p. 4^5.

The fifth and laft argument urged
againil my opinion, by Dr. Darwin, is
tlie following:

I no.v come to relate an experiment in
v/hicli the rolling of the eye does not take
place after revolving, and yet the vertigo is
more dillrelllng thsu in the iituations above-
mentioned. If any one looks Ileadily at a
fpot in Cite cielmg over his head, or indeed
at his finger held high over his heaci, and in
that fituatlon -urns round till he becomes
giddy, and then Hops and looks liorizontally,
hs i-iew finds that ll.e apparent rotation of
objedls is from above dowuivvarck, or from
below, upwards ; that is, that the apparent
circulation of objedls is now vertical, in¬
i’ ead of horizontal, making pat t of a circle
round the axis of tlie eye, and this without
any rolliiig of die eye-l ah'i. The reafon of
liieie being no rollin,:^ of tlie eye-balls per-

cejved after this experiment is, becaufe the
images of objedls are formed in rotation
round the axis of the eye, and not from one
fide to the other of the axis of it; fo that,
as the eye-ball lias not power to turn in its
focket round its own axis, it cannot follow
the apparent motion of thofe evanefeent
fpedlra, eitlier before or after the body is
at refl.”

As Dr- Darwin gives no proof, from
experiment, that the eye does not roil,
upon its axis during the giddintfs
wiiich h'l.s been produced in the above-
mentioned fituation, I ptefume he refls
his b'llief of the fa£t altogether upon
the inability of the eye to perform fucK
a motion. But furely the parts which-
conne6l the eye-ball to the focket are
fufficiently flexible to allow it to move
in fome degree round its axis; and,
whoever beftows the leafl: confideration
upon the origin, ^rogrefs, and termina¬
tion, of the oblique mufcles of the eye
muft perceive that they have the power
of giving it fuch amotion. That the
eye aflually does roll upon its axis, is
jliewn by the following experiment :
I placed a long thin rule parallel to the
horizon, its edge being towards me,,
and gave it fuch a pofition, in other re-
fpe6l;s, that it was the only objeft in¬
tervening between my eyes and a bright
fey. I afterwards fixed my eyes upon
a mark in the middle of its edge, and
having obtained in this way a long nar¬
row luminous fpe6lium, I turned my-
felf, having my eyes pointed to a fpot
over iny head, till I became giddy. I
therr flopped and dtreSVed my eyes to
the middle of a perpendicular line
drawn upon the wall of my chamber.
A luminous line, the fpe6lrum of ihe
rule, now appeared upon the wall,,
crofilng the real and perpendicular {ine;
at right .angles, or nearly fo. The two
lines, however, did not for a moment
pielerve the fame pofition with regaid
to each other, but continually moved
round their common point of interfec-
tion, in fuch a manner that the ex:re-
miiies of the one alternately approached
and neceded from the extremities of the
other; the motion of thofe of the fpec-
tral line liaving therefore a diteSlion
contrary to that of the apparent motion
of the extremities of the teal line, and
of the apparent motic»a of every other
body within my view. When the fpec-
tral line ceafed to move, the appaieiu
rotation of objefils likewife ceafed.
Now It is evident from this experiment
lhar, duiinii- the time tb.£ furround-

(

1 7940 Graham’s farther VlndtcoUan of Mrs. Macaulay. 907

ing objefts feemed to move in a vertical
circle, the centre of which was in the
axis of the eye, there was a real motion
of the eye in a contrary direction round
its axis; and, confequentiy, that Dr.
Darwin’s chief argument againil my
opinion tends only to confirm it.

Before 1 conclude, 1 beg leave to
mention two fa6ls, which appear to
■flrengthen my theory, but do not, as
far as I can fee, admit of an explanation
from any other. The fixft is, that when
we have become giddy by turning, if
the apparent motions are not confidera-
ble, we can iiop them altogether by
viewing any paiticular objeft very fted-
fafily ; but that, if we fhortiy after
withdraw our attention from ir, and
look carelcffiy at objects in general,
their apparent motions will ie-com~
mence. The other is, that if we have
made ourlelves giddy while our eyes
were dire6ltd to a point above us, the
apparent motions do not continue
nearly fo long as if the giddinefs had
been produced while the head was
ereft, the body being turned the fame
number of times in both cafes. Upon
the fuppofition that the apparent mo¬
tions are occafioned by real and invo¬
luntary motions of the eye, thefe two
fa6fs are readily explained. For, with
refpeft to the fir It, it is eafy to con¬
ceive that a ftrong exertion of the will
is fufficient to counteraft a flight difpo-
fition in the mufcles of the eye to in¬
voluntary movements; and, in regard
to the fecond, when we confider the
' tnechaniral refiftaiice to the rolling of
the eye upon its axis, and the fcebl«-
nefs of its oblique mufcles, which alone
can give it this motion, it is natural to
expe^if that, when produced involunta¬
rily, it fhould continue but for a very
Uiort time.

William Charles VvT'lls.

To Mr. I. D’ISRAELT.
Sir, Oel. 13.

PON looking into the Genilcmiui’s
Magavine tor September, p. 817,
1 was i'jrprized to find that you have
bad the effrontery to attempt a vindica¬
tion of your con(iu6t rcfpefcbng the late
Mrs. Alacaulay. But you are an extra¬
ordinary 7nan ! and my furprize ceafed
-when 1 recolleifted that it was the author
cf “ A Dilltnation on Anecdotes” tiiat
1 had to contend with.

Your firfi, attempt to vindicate your-
felf is, that 1 have not given the whole

of the extraff 5 and you fay it ftiould run
thus r

Upon examination of this book, Nov;

•12, 1764, thefe four laft leaves weie tom
out. C. ?VIo8TO»-.”

“Mem. Nov. 12. fent down to Mrs.
M'Aulay,”

And what does all this prove? But
that the MS. was examined on the 12th
of November by Df. Morton ; that he
found four leaves w-'cre torn out j and'
that it was afterwards fent down to Mrs,
Macaulay for her perufal. The fa6f is,

1 never faw the MS. but employed a
friend who has been long in the habit of
aftending the Mufeum, knows perfe«ff]y
all the lorms of the houfe, and on whofe
integiity I could affuredly rely. Dr.
Moiton, in his aniwer to my letter, in.
which I fent the fame extra£f, after con-
lulting the Mem.' referred to along until
the pretent keeper of the MSS. does not
impeach the corre6fnefs of my friend’s
extradf ; and, therefore, the argument
you attempt to fee up is as trifling and
unfounded as the refi of your charge..

As for what you call the faft’s being
well known to feveral gentlemen in the
reading-room ; fuch an. afiertion from
you is of very little confequence to the
publick or myfclf. I am fatirfied in op-
ponng the teftimony of Dr. Morton to
your malicious attack ; and, if thofe
gentlemen you allude to in the reacling-
rcom zteyour friends, they are certainly ^
much indebted to you for concealing
their names.

As for the word rather, in Dr.
Morton’s letter, which you leem to tri¬
umph fo much in, it is the moderate and
modeft exprelfion of a Gentleman who
confiders well what he writes ; and, had
you been aifuated by a fimilar principle
in the compilation of your Anecdotes, I,
as well as many otheis, migfit have gone
out of the world without knowing "that
fuch a man as Mr. 1. D’lfraeli ever ex-
ifted.

But the fame charge you make againfi:
my friend, in not giving the whole ex-
traSl, may with much more propriety be
applied to you. Without dwelling upon
the word RATHER, you ought to have
done Dr. Morton and the publick tiie
juflice to have given the whole of the
i'entence; where he fays, “that, after
having perufed the Manufciipt referre.d
to, together with the prefent worthy
keeper of ^the MSS, he finds that the
n .'te inferted at the end, dated Nov. 12,
1764, does not contain any evidence that

the

9o8 CharaSier of Mrs. Macaulay in Domsjilc and in Vullic Life, [O^.

the three lea^es w anting at the end nvere
torn out by Mrs. Macaulay ; and, on the
contrary., it raiher appears to him, that
the faicl three leaves were already njoant-
ing nvhen the Manufcript moas fent donxm
to the reading-.room for the ufe of Mrs.
Macaulay.^* And yet you have the au-?
clacity-to fay, “that Mrs. Macaulay af¬
terwards had the infolence to confcfs that
Hie had torn them out, and, in confe-
quence, was refufed farther accefs to
the Mufeum.” Oh! Shame, where is
ihy blulli ?

And here, Mr. D’lfraeli, let me re¬
mind you that, whether you have re-
TiOunced the Ceremonial Law or not,
we Chriftians hold the Ten Com¬
mandments, delivered to Mofes on
Mounl Sinai by God himfelf, in the
highyft veneration; and, in this inftance
at lead, I am much afraid that you have
violated the ninth of thofe Command-
iTients.

What your motive could be in making
fo wanton and malicious an attack on
the memory of a moft worthy and ami¬
able woman, three years after her death,
I am at a lofs to conceive. Jf it was to
bring yourfelf into fame notice, you have
certainly lucceeded ; if emolument was
your obje61:, 1 hope you have not been
^(difappointed.

And now, Mr. D’lfraph, I fhall take
this opportunity, for which I thank you,
pf bearing a public teftiinony to the cha-
ia6ler of a woman who, from party- fpi-
rit, has been much abufed, and much
mifreprefented. J, who lived with her
wear twelve years in the uninterrupted
habits of domeflic intimacy, had an op¬
portunity of knowing her betier than
any other perfon. And hers 1 declare,
that I never knew or ever heard of a
more perfe6t character A facrtd love
of truth, a dttcftation of every bale and
pnworthy a6iion, a heart filled with the
purefi; benevolence and kindnefs to the
whole human and brute creation, unre¬
mittingly influenced ail her actions. She
pofldTed fuch an equanimity and placid-
r.efs of temper, that, before I was ac¬
quainted with her, I conficlered as in¬
compatible with human nature; and, if
I can flatter myfelf that i am poflelled of
a Angle virtue or good quality, it is to
|ter 1 am indebted for it.

You fay, Mr. D’Lraeli, that I haye
treated you with virulence. Had I not
feSt a virtuous indignation againfl you,
I fitould confider myfelf as totally loft to
eveiy principle of honour and virtue,
rWhei^ the p^ a^|ady wa^ io

foullv flandered, whofe memory and vir¬
tues I fhall ever revere.

You isXk oi your moderation and
virulence ; but, if the love of truth, and
the deteftacion of a bafe and bungling
calumny, be virulence, I certainly am
gudty.^

Until you, Sir, can produce fomethhg
better than daring and impudent aflerrion
in oppo/ition to iadls, I fhall not trouble
the pubiick with any farther notice of
you, but leave you to the enjoyment, as
you call it, of “your religious attach¬
ment to truth.” I am, Mr. DTfraeli,
your humble fervant,

William Graham.

I have alked three gentlemen, who are
officers in the Mufcum, if they ever
knew, or heard, that Mrs. Macaulay
was excluded the Mufeum (as Mr.
D’lfraeli alTerts) in confec^uencs of ha¬
ving torn out four leaves of.the Harleian
MS. ; and they declated they never
knew, or heard, that luch an order was
given. W, g.

Mr. Urban, Eaf Berghclt, Sept. lo.

After a plcalant tour through
Norfolk and Suffolk, I find myfelf
at this very pleafant village, about two
miles from Dedham, nio'ft delightfully
fituaied on an eminence commanding
beautiful and extenfivc profpefts. In the
village there are many hancifome gentle¬
men’s houfes. The redlor’s houfe (built
by one of the Hankeys, who had very
confiderable property in this part of the
world till the late Thomas Flankey, efq.
the banker, converted all his houfes and*
acres into guineas for his hufinefs) is
pieafantly and confpicuoufly fituated on
the top of a hill at fome cliftance from
the church ; which has much engaged
my attention, and awakened my curiofi-
tyy from the extraordinary circum fiance
pf the bell’s being jnclofed in a large
wooden cage on phe ground, v^ery much
reftmbling a houfe of ccrrefition ; and,
upon enquiring of the inhabitants, I can¬
not learn the caufe of their parifh -churcii
bells being thus difgraced and imprilon-
ed : but it is more than proba!)'e that
fome of your numepous and inreiligcnt
readers will be able, and, I truft, willing,
to gratify my cuiioficy, and explain tiie
meaning pf this uncommon apperirancs:.
My landlord tells me, that the heMswere
fentenced to fuller their prefent punilfi-
menc from having rung on the Preten¬
der’s birth-day ; but 1 do not find that
he has any authority for this afl'ertio^.
In hopes that your next month’o Mifcel-

lany

I’laai of thcGronnd Floor ^Trincipal Story of the Keep of
C’ AfN TE RBUfO:^ , CAS TBE .

Tlaii of the aiAient Keep of CHILHAM CASTLE .

1794-] St. Giles’s, Salop.— Keep o/Chilliam Cj/lle.

•909

lany will give the true reafon of the hand-
feme church of this place being thus dis¬
figured, 1 remain, Mr. Urban, your
confiant reader, A Traveller.

Mr. Urban, Salop, Sept. 18.
^■^AE (ketch of a tombflone in Sr.
-S- Giles’s church, Salop, which was
engraved in youriaft moinlds Magazine,
being exceedingly incorre6f in many
refpe6(s, but more particularly in the
infeription ; I have herewith inclofed an
exaft drawing of it (fee plate III.).
It lies dire£ily under the Eaft window
of the church, and was probably the
tomb of an ecclefi^fiick belonging to
the neighbouring monaftery of St. Peter
and St. Paul.

In the church-yard are the following
lines upon the grave-ftone of one Wil¬
liam White, who was a quarter- niafter
of the horfe in the reign of King Wil¬
liam III. :

“ In IriHi wars I fought fpr England’s glory; .
Let no man fcolf at telling of this (lory :

I law great Schomberg fall, likevvife the
brave St. Ruth, [youth.

And here k come to die, hot there in my
Thru’ dangers great I have paffed many a
ftoiTn :

Die we mu ft all as fure as we are born.”

Yours, &c. R.

Mr. Urban, Sept. 27.

The ingenious Mr. King having,
in a part of his letter to the late
Dean of Exeter on the fubje6l of antient
cattles, put)lifhed in the (ixth volume of
the Aich^eologia, expreffed a wifh that
fome perlon would examine Chilham
c^nie, in Kent, which he fuppofes
niight furniflj a notable example of that
Iptcies of Norman architefture ; I took
the opportunity of a ihort refidence in
the neighbourhood of A(hford to vifu
that caftle ; and, if no perfon of more
leilure to invefti'gate, and greater ability
to delcribe, that remain of antiquity,
inouid have furniflied a more accurate
P'^n, I offer that which accompanies
this letter. (See plate UL).

I abo fend you plans of thofe parts
of the antient Keep of Canterbury cable,
which correfpond with the plans given
fiy Mr. King, and will be found in the
pxch volume of the Archaeologia, p.
3C1, plate 36, fig. 38, 39.

As the plans 1 now offer, which
Were the refultof two days clofe invefti-
gatioa of that ruin, differ materially in
po'nt of fadt from thofe given by Mr.

[ have thought fi.t to accompany

them with fome remarks, for the better
explanation of that difference. J. P.

Chilham Castle is (even miles
South-wefi of Canterbury, in the high,
road thence to AfHford. It is firuated
upon a bill on the North fide of the ri¬
ver Stour, which irtll Hies with a gentle
alcent for about a qua’-ter of a mile from
the level of the meadows, and is termi¬
nated by a fteep defeent ou the North
iide, upon the extreme edge or pi’eci-
pice of which defeent the Keep, which
is the only remains of that antient cafiie,
is fituated foas to give it a great natural
flrength and fecurity on that fide.

That hill was rfToft probably a Britilli
pofl before the invafion of Julius Caefar,
and the feene of feveral bloody confli61s
between the Romans and Britons Toon,
after his landing ; and tradition reports
that it was afterwards an important Ro¬
man ftation. The natural fituation of
the ground, its having the river Stour
in front on the South fide, and its not
being more than a reafonable day’s
march from the place where Csefar firft
landed, are circumftances that favour
this report; and it is flrongly corrobo¬
rated by the alferiicns of feveral hifto-
rians, that, when Sir Dudley Digges
built the prefent manfion-houfe, which
nearly adjoins to the Keep, he difco-
vered, in digging the fou/rdation, feveral
buildings apparently of Roman confiruc-
tion, and alfo urns, vafes, coins, frag¬
ments of arms and armour, and other
veftiges of that people ; and, it may be
added, tiiat this does not wholly reft on
the alfertions of hiftorians; for, the fame
veftiges continue to be found to this
day.

It is difficqlipto form any conje61:urc
of the fhape and extent of the caftle
which was built here in after-ages, and.
probably long before the Norman con-
queft; but, from the account given rue
by a very intelligent gardener of the
foundations of walls dilcoveted in dig¬
ging, ] conceive the outer wall of cir-
cumvallacion to have been of great ex¬
tent.

The Keep (aground plot, or the ich-
nography, of which is hereunto annex¬
ed) is apparently of Norman conllruc-
tion,^ though, io its preient ilate, void

aimoft all thofe contrivances for de¬
fence and fecurity wliich are obfervable
in other edifices of the fame kind ; and,
uolefs it was fecured on the S'.'uth and
Eaft fides by the deep ditch winch ap¬
pears on the North and Weft, or by
iQine Oitcwoiks (either or both of which

was

*The Keep of Chilham Cajllc particularly defcrlhed. [O^,

910

was mofl probably the cafe before the
prefent manfion was built), it prefented
very little difficulty to an enemy in pof-
feffion of other parts of the cable.
Explanatory References to the Plan an~
nexed.

AAA A, External wall, about five
feet thick, inclofing an area of about 90
feet diameter; which, fuppofiiig the wall
on the South fide to have been continued
in a direft line, would have been nearly,
though not exaftly, equilateral, having
four turrets, now in ruin, one at each
anglcp with a very narrow rampart and
flight parapet round the walls.

B. Odlagon tower, about 40 feet di¬
ameter in the outward extent, and about
2.5 feet within, the walls being about 8
feet in thicknefs. The ground-floor of
this odtagon is now ufed as a brewhoufe,
and is about 30 feet high, having over it
the principal bate apartment, which, in
its prefent bate, is handfomely W'ainfcot-
ed, and fitted up as a billiard-room.
There were narrow loops in four of the
angles of this odtagon, and a large chim-
jaey in the fifth ; but three of thefe loops
have been enlarged, and converted into
handfome falh-windows, and the chim-
jjey modernized,

C. An irregular and ill-fliaped build¬
ing projedling from the oftagon tower,
and terminated by the South wall of the
quadrangle. This proje<9tion has three
ftories, the lovvermolt of which, appear¬
ing to have been antiently a kitchen, now
ferves as an appendage to the brewhoufe,
and has a communication with it at letter
p by a very wide and Itandfome arch.

The next bory above is alfo an ap¬
pendage to the brewhoufe, having a nar¬
row winding paffage taken off from it by
a bone wall, and terminating in a recefs
which appears to have been a privy. The
third bory is upon a level with the bate
apartment of the odlagon, and feems to
have been intended for a library, having
a handfome chimney in it, and a fabi-
vvindow, 'formerly a narrow loop.

The two upper bories above deferibed,
as well as the bate apartment, have com¬
munications with the great bairs, letter
I), the area of v/hich is about 12 feet di¬
ameter; and they are continued to the
top of the caflie, which is roofed and co¬
vered with lead, and from which tliere
is a mob pkafing view of the circumja¬
cent country.

ITe entrance to thefe bairs is at letter
C by three or four beps through the
thicknefs of the wall j and at letter a is
a delcent by leveral bairs to what was

probably a dungeon under the brew-
houfe, the paffage to which is now bar¬
red by a foiid wall at the foot of thofe
bairs.

Whether there were any other, or, if
any, what buildings in antient times
within the quadrangle, it is impofiible to
fay ; thofe marked with dotted lines, and
numbered i, 2, 3, are of modern erec¬
tion. No. I. is a fmall building, cover¬
ing a very deep and inexhaubible well.
No. 2. is a long range of ffieds for vari¬
ous domebic purpofes, with a gallery
over them, open on the South, for dry¬
ing of linen, and communicating with a
laundry over No. 3, the lower part of
which is a walh-houfe.

The door of entrance into this qua¬
drangle is at prefent on the South fide at
letter b\ but this entrance feems to have
been of modern conbrueVion. It is pro¬
bable that the antient portal of entrance
W2S on this fide; but there is no vebige
left by which its antient form or exa6l
fituation can be afeertained j and it feems
very doubtful whether this entrance into
the o61:ag6n at letter c was the original
portal of entrance to that part of the
Keep.

The opening in the external wall at
letter d is nothing but a modern breach,
made for the convenience of a communi¬
cation between the offices of the manbon
and thofe within the Keep, fo chat the
fervants might pafs from one to the other
without going through the pleafure-
ground.

N. B. A great part of the wall of the
quadrangle at letters eeee appears to be a
modern repair, much lower than the;
original wail.

R^emarks on the Plans of Canterbury;

Cafle, as given by Mr. King in his.

Letter to the late Dean 0/ Exeter, pub~-

lijled in the Sixth Volume of the Ar-'

chaeologia.

1. In the plan of the ground-floor, of’
vaults, of this cable, fig. 38, and in that,
of the bate apartments, fig, 39, plate 36,1
fol. 301, Mr. King makes the centre di-i
vifion to be narrower than the other two,:
whereas, in fa6f, it is double their
width, being 30 feet in the clear, and
the ether only 15 feet. See the annexed-
plans, taken upon the fpot after feverali
days clofe invebigation.

2. Accoiding to thefe plans of Mr.,
King, it was uupoffiblc for the ordiiiaryi
ganifon'to pafs to their lodgment in thej
upper part of the caflle, or to defeendj
into the vaults, without palling thioughj
the bate apanmerits; an inconvenieucej

1794-] ^^rnarh on Mr, King’s Tlam of Canterbury Caftle,

that could not exift in any ftate of that
fortrefs.

3. There is no fuch ftaircafe in the
North-weft angle as is defcribed bv Mr,
King at Letter X in figure 39, and in
figure 40 in the lame plate; t;^ie only
iiaircale on the Weft fide of the caftle
(and it is the principal one in the vvliole
building) being at No. 2, figure i, letter
A, in the annexed plate; and to this
ftaircafe, which leads up to the top of
the caftle, there is a large arched door¬
way opening to it from the great hall, or
centre divifion, and a curious zigzag
narrow paftage from the veftibule or
warder^s lodge through what appears,
when viewed from the vaults below, to
be only a narrow loop for the admiffion
of light. See No. 2, figure i, letter D.
And it was by this paftage that the or¬
dinary gariifon, entering at the antient
portal on the Notth fide, and paffing
through the warder’s lodge, letter D,
could afeend to the upper ftory without
interfering with the ftate apartments,
and from which lodge the heavy ftores
were drawn up into that ftory through a
wide opening in the North-weft angle
of it, which Mr. King has miftaken for
the well of a ftaircafe. See No. 4, fig.
1, letter D.

4. The interfe£ling or. crofs wall in
the North divifion was not where Mr.
King places it in fig. 38 and 39, but
much nearer the Weft end of that divi-
fion, appearing from the foundation of
it, which is ftiil more than a foot above
the ground of the lower vault, fig. 38,
to be not more than nine feet diitant j
and tliis is farther confirmed by the
marks on the walls on each fide of that
divifion where it has been broken off, and
which arc more particularly diliing.uiOi-
able over the centre of the two niches, at
letter M, fig. 39, which Mr. King fup-
pofes to have been a magnificent portal
of communication between his veftibule,
letter V, and the grand bad or great
ftate apaitment: but, that lie is greatly
min.rkcn in this conjtifture, is not only
evident fiom the teal fituation of the in-
terleding cr...f3 wall, but alfo fioni a
dole examination of the wail through
which he conceives this magnificent p..rv
tal paifed, in which there is not, on the
fide next the great hall, the fmaiieii:
mark of any perforation, the face of it
being entire and plain as it was in its or -
ginal coiiftruotibn. 1 conjetture, there¬
fore, tliat what Mr. King fuppofes to
have been t'.vo arches of a uiHgn’hcenc
pouai W’tre, in iioihing muie than

niches on each fide of the crofs or inter¬
fering wall, the onp ferving as a feat or
recefs for the warder who had the care
of the ftate apartments, the other for the
warder who had the care of the lodge
and palTages opening into it. Bur, to
whatever ufethefe niches may have been
appropriated, it is paft a doubt, from
the fads above ftated, that there was no
fuch magnificent portal as Mr. King
fuppofes.

' 5. It is farther evident from the fore¬
going fads, that (contrary to what Mr.
King fuppofes) there muft have been a
paftage ftraighc forward through the
thicknefs of the wall from the original
portal ®f entrance into the warder’s lodge;
and that the zigzag palfage, which he
defcribes as the only entrance into the
caftle, was, in truth, the paftage to the
ftate apartments, as will be more fully
feen in the annexed plate. No. i, i, let¬
ter D, fig. I ; and, what ftill farther
confirms this fad, the marks of a very
ftrong door (the atchitrave of which is
plain to be feen) flievv themfelves at the
end ©f the paftage next the lodge. Nor
(lid this dired paftage into the warder’s
lodge in any degree diminifh the ftrength
and fecurity of the callie ; for, fuppofing
an enemy to have gained the oucw'ard
portal, anci to have forced their way into
the warder’s lodge, they would not have
been an inch nearer their objed, as the
natrow zigzag paftage from that lodge to
the flairs preiented the fame difficulties,
in a greater degree, to their getting any
farther, that oppofed themfelves to the
gaining an entrance by the other zigzag
paftage that opened to the ftate apart-
nierts.

6. Mr. King fuppofes that the vault
at the Weft end of the North divifion,
underneath the veliibuie, was a dungeon,
for the reception of prifoners, ainf de¬
fcribes a trap or pipe by which they were
Kt down from liie apatmitnc above.
X here is, however, no fuch trap where
he places it, the face of the wall being
fair and level ; l»ut there aie m r.iie
Norcii-weft angle of the warder’s iodge
lome appearances of fuch a trap or pipe.
When it is icmarked, however, that the
vault utidernvach tl:ac lodge is barely
nine feet wkic, and that the very narrow
loopj vvh»ch hr, con:eives fuppl-ed it with
light and air, is in faft on . Uie £aft fide
of the crofs mterfeding wall, as may be
feen in the aniKHcd plate, fig. 2, letter
A, No. 5, it IS higliiy improbable that
tuis vault couhl be-ufed for fuch a pur-
pofe ; bu; to wbal other ufe it could be

appropriated.

giz Canterbury Cajlle. — Another Human Fhcsnomemn.

appropriated, I arn, I confefs, at a lofs to
tonjetSure.

After thefe comparative remarks upon
Mr. King’s plans of this antient callle,
and of that hereunto annexed, the can¬
did and accurate obferver muft decide
lipon the difference 5 but f think it ne-
ceQ'ary to add fome ffort obfervations on
certain appearances not explained in ei¬
ther of them.

In the inveftigation of the ruins, I
wiflied to leave no part of them unexplo¬
red that I could lafely get at; and, by
ihe help of a ladder, gained the en¬
trance of the zigzag palFage leading from
the warder’s lodge to the principal Hair-
cafe, wliTch, as I have before obferved,
appeared 'from the vault below to be only
a loop for the admiffion of light. Palling
through this zigzag, I afcended the flairs
to the height of about 12 feet from the
level of the floor of the Hate apartment,
when I found, on the left-hand, an
opening to a paffage which led through
the thicknefs of the wall to the North-
weft angle, and was terminated by the
loop or window delineated by Mr. King
in his 37th plate, and marked with the
letter h. In this paffage, on the left-
hand, and at about midway between the
flairs and its termination to the North,
was another loop-of a fimilar conftruc-
tion, and three large openings on the
right-hand, the farthermoil of which was
the well by which, as I have before ob-
Itrved, heavy flores were conveyed into
the upper apartments ; but of the ufe of
the other two I could form no conjefture,
unlefs there had be'en, as poffibl}- there
might be, a chamber or floor over the
warder’s lodge and between that and the
upper flory ; and, if there was fuch, ic
was probably a ciepofk for heavy flores
that could not be conveyed Ingher with¬
out being carried up a winding ftaircafe,

Ac about eight feet higher up ibis
fUircafe was another opening, on the
rfgiit-hand, to anorlier pafiage leading
through the thicknefs of ilie wall to the
Well at No. 3, letter B, hg. i, and
which paffage was, I conceive, carried
ail round the building, and was lighted
by narrow loops, winch appear on the
outfide of every front.

Exf>lanatory References to Figure r.

A. Great flate apartment, 60 by

No. I, fuppofed grand portal of later

times; 2, entrance to principal ftaircafe;-
3, 4, 5, doors of communication; 6, 7,
windows.

B. Other ftate apartments on the
South, each ^8 by 15,

No. I, ftaircafe defeending to vaults
below ; 2, large excavation in the South-
weft angle ; 3, opening to the well ; 4, 5,
windows; 6, 7, doors ; 8, excavation in
South-eafl angle, fuppofed to be a privy;
9, 10, windows; 11, 12, doors of com¬
munication.

C. State apartment on the North, 20

»5*

No. r, opening to a ftaircafe that
aff. nds from the bottom to the top of the
Keep; 2, chimney; 3, opening of a zig¬
zag narrow paffage leading from tiie oti-
ginal portal of entrance ; 4, cavity or re-
cefs, probably a feat for the warders ha¬
ving the care of the ftate apartments;
5, 6, 7, windows ; 8, door.

D. Veftibule or patfage, 15 by 8|.

No. 1 5 original portal of entrance;

2, opening of a zigzag paffage leading to
the principal ftaircafe, and having a fmall
loop or window opening to the Weft ;

3, cavity or recefs, probably a feat for
the warders having the care of the vefti-
bule and-prdfage leading from it; 4, nar¬
row vi^ell or pipe defeending to the vault
underneath the veftibule.

Explanatory References to Figure z*

A. Vaults corfef ponding with the
apartments above, the ufe of which muft
be left to coniefture.

No, s, ftetircafe on the South leading
up to the ftate apartmen’s ; 2, ftaircafe
on the North leading up to the top of
the Keep ; 3, Well, Iraving a communi¬
cation with all the apartments from top
to bocrom ; 4, vvindows ; 5, narrow loop
or air-hole paffing through the wall and
external flairs leading up to the original
portal of entrance. J. P,

Mr. Urban, Edmonton, OB, 16.

TH E account of Wiliiam Kingfton,
near Shepton Mallet, extratfted from
Coliinfon’s Hiftory of Somerfet, in your
Magazine of laft month, p. 81 1, is not a
more extraordinary inftasce of the defi¬
ciency of Nature, being fupplied by the
uie of the feet than was exhibited at our
fair laft month. A woman, who has for
many years been known by the name of
Mifs Horton, was born without arms ;
and who can with her toes thread and
vvork well with her needle; can cut out
watch- papers, and ufe her feilfors with
great dexterity ; can take up a poker
with one of her feet and ftir the fire,
and do many other things ne(*Lilels to
enumerate. When young flie was re¬
markable for having a verv fine fhape
and neck; hut fhe is now grown lufty. I
believe is mainvd, and has iuveral children.

Another

® 794*1 Remarks on the R^Uques of Ancient Poetry.

Another extraordinary inftance is now
in London. A boy, about 14 or 15
years old (the fon of a poor woman),
who was born with flumps of arms not
quite fo low as the elbow, and thighs
not quite fo low as the knees : he can
walk, well on his thighs, asd has fuch
extraordinary ufe of the flumps of his
^rms, that he can draw flowers and
•landlchapes with a co)re6lnefs that is
wonderful. This boy formerly lived
with his mother in the neighbourhood of
Tottenham-court- road. If any of your
■correfpondents can give information
where he now refldes it will render a
■fervice to the boy, as feveral perfons are
dtfirous of feeing him, and encourage
the induftry with which, I am informed,
■he endeavours to fupport himfelf.

Yours, &c. W. C.

■Remarks on the Reliq^ues of
Ancient Poetry j Jrom 614.

P. 24-

In every corner of the houfe
, Was melody delicious,

For to here precious,

Of Jix mens fong.’'*

Dr. Burney thinks that the very fong
which was fung upon this occafion was
the old canon which he has printed in
Hift. MuCi vol. II. p. 407 : and which
is, perhaps, one of the earlieft attempts
at paftoral defcription in the language.
It runs thus ;

Sumer is y-cumin in,

Lhude fing, cuccu —

Groweth fed,

And bloweth med,

And fpringeth the wde nu.

Awe bleteth after lomb,

Lhouth after calve, ca—

Bulluc flerteth,

Buck verteth,

Murie fing, cuccu.

Well fiugs the cuccu,

Ne fwik thu naver nu.

P. 25. “ Our anceflors could wield

their Iwords much better than their
pens.” “ In Saxonia certc fcio — de-
ccntius enfibus p’ugnare quam calamis.”
Luitprand. in Legaiione ad Imp. Nice-
phor. p, 482.

Ibid. Mr. Stafford Smith (Co!le6fion
©f Englifh Songs) and Dr. Burney
(Hift. Muf. vol. li. p. 384) jj.ave given
very different notes of the mufick fub-
joined to this fong.

P.49. Puttenham calls poets
ierSf^ from afi:'e6tation of a Graecilm.

Gent. Mag. Q^iabtr^ ‘794*

9*3

“ Verbum 'txioiBv in re Epica folenne eft,
Arifloteles de Poet. c. 8. ' 0 'ixTOivle^

toinacTiv ocroL tuii/ H-

xcci 05iTr)V'5'a, Kai roc> roiavloa
‘C^OiV/jCulcC tCreTTOinKCX.criy.'* Xoup in Sui-
dam, vol. 1 1. p, 476.

P. 50. The great grand-daughter andl
cor-heir of Thomas Lord Vaux, the
poet, married Henry Lord Abergaven¬
ny, whofe grand-daughter and heir
married Sir John Shelley, whofe daugh¬
ter and heir married Richard Vifeount
1' itzwilliam, whofe grandfon, Richard,
is a claimant of the barony of Vaux.

P. 60. The charafter of James V.
refembled in licentioufnefs and genius
that of another poetical fovereign, Wil¬
liam IX. count of Poi6fou ; from whofe
article, in the Hiftoire des Troubadours,
it appears that he, like our Scotnfh mo¬
narch, tiled to wander about in dilgujfe,
and engage in low intrigues; one of
which IS well told in the book above
cited, vol. I. p. 8.

P. 64. This indecent exultation upon
a fallen ftatelman reminds one of |uve-
nal’s fpirired defcription of the triumph
of the brutifli multitude at Rome upon
the difgrace of Sejanus, X. 56 — 113 :

Meruit longa atque Infignis honorum
Pagina ; deicendunt ftatuae reftemque fg-
quuntur. [ggiis

Ardet aduratum populo caput, & crepat in-
Sejauus ; -

Sejanus ducitur unco

.Spedtandus : gaudent omnes : lahra^

^ nu \jnavi

J uitus erat ! nui^uamy Ji quid mihi credis^ a~
Jturtc homniem : jed quo cecidit fub crimi?ie ?

■Delator r - Iquifdam

■fj “ Nil horum : verbofa & grandis epijioiu venit
ad Capreis. ^ Bene habet ; nil plus inter ro-.
goN Sed quid

Turba Remi SEt^uiTuk for tun am, ut

SEMPER, £ T ODIT

Damn AT OS — iScc.

But the whole paffage is highly worth,
perufal and attention, and might ferve
to fliew one how equally undefei vtng of
notice are the fliouts Or "bootings of the
mob, if the retrofpefiV to fenv ^eeks be-
Jore the firfi of June laji were not iufii-
cient to convince one of this great truth.

Permit me cotranlcribe the following
appofite lines from an exceiient poem,
“ Patriotifm, a Mock- hei oick,’V 1765,
zd edit, by Mr. Richard Btntiey, Ion
of the great cntick, dcflgner of the ap¬
propriate ornaments for a tolio edition
of Gray’s Poems, and, I believe, ori¬
ginal partner with Mr. Wedgwood in

his

914 Remar J^s on the Reliques of Ancient Poetry,

his imitation of Etrufean vafes. The
poem is extremely fcarce, and the ex-
traft is from a dekription of the politi¬
cal Eiyfium :

But, far remov’d from reach of party jobs,
7'he war of pamphlets, and the pelt of mobs ;
l^rom Dunkirk clamour’d (as the peace is
now) ;

From an ungrateful monarch’s alter’d brov/;
From Shaftfburys and Buckinghams (fo call
The Pitts and Townfends who then led the
brawl) ;

ThereClarendon with his Southampton reigns,
Knit in eternal FriendQiip’s holy chat is.

Hail, facred charadler ! The claim to praife
Abufe and injury but ferve to raife.

What tho’ no riots fhouted thy lov’d name,
Flo Guildhall-portrait glar’d thee into fame,
Ko city-letters ftufl’’d thee with applaufe
(Thefcare-cowrtraalkin of a defp’ratecaufe) j
Yet felf-approvingConfcience, which furvey;-,
Without one pang, the tenor of her ways,
Sees all her aims concentring to this end,

To fix the Crown, yet be the people’s friend ;
To curb, but not by fadlion, power of ill,
And fave a venal ffate againft its will 5
Bids warmer tranfports in thy hofom glow
Than gratified ambition could bellow.

Yet — -while 1 may-— oh ! let me hither
bring

Fach fragrant produ6lof the blurhingSpring !
And, while 1 heap rhefe altars, all thine own,
And clear away the mofs Negleifl has fown,
Do thou accept the late, but honefl wreaths,
W’^hich Envy holds from Virtue while fire
breathes*. [commute

All hail, unblemifh’d Hyde ! who would
Thy banifhment, or tlie retreat of Bute,

For all that Pitt of windy triumph feeh.
With all a Common- council at his heels f ?

Canto V. 201 — 232.

P. 79. “ Qur Lady of V/atfingham”
, is a!fo mentioned m Erafmus’s humour-
pus dialogue, “ The Shipwreck,” int.
colloqq. p. 215 : Aderat Anglus qui-

dam (jui promittebat monies aureos vir-
gini Wriira.mg arnicas, fi vivus attigilTet
terram.” She was alfo the peculuar
obje6l of the devotion of PJenry VII,

A Norwico, tanquarn in peregrina-
tione quadam facra, Walfinghamias
temp'um, Virgini Marias dicatum, et
multis miraculisrcelebre, vilitavit ; &
vota pro falute fua nuncupavit,” Baconi
IFift. Hen. VII. Amftelod am. 1695,
p. 47. “ Poll prsslium [quo Lamber-

* “ Comperit invidiam fupremo fine do-
mavi.’’ .Hor. ad Aug. 12.

finds Envy never conquer’d hut by Death ”

Pop E Imit. Hor.

T«y HK cvlci (tixccQ iTramiy ^

Thucyd. lib. 2, p. 63, edit. H. Steph.

f ‘‘ Andmoretruejoy Marcellnsexil’dfeds
“F ban Csefar with a jenate at hi^ beeh."

turn devicerat], ut devotiones eju$ ple¬
num ejus circulum complerent, mint
vexillum fuum ad templum B. V. Wal-
fingbamisB, in oblatlonem ; ibi vota fol-
vens ubi nuncupaffet.” Ibid. p. 51.

P. 83. Puttenham borrows his defi¬
nition of the acyrony or double entendre,
from Qiiin6lirian : Ei [proprietati]

contranum eft vitium, id quod apud nos
improprium, anv^ov apud Grascos voca-
tur : quale eft :

— — tauturn fperare dolorem
aut quod in oratione Dojabella?,, emen-
datum a Cicerone ariiiotavi, morten}
ferre ; aut qualia nunc laudantur a qui-
bufdam ; quorum eft, dc cruce 'verba^
ctciderunt." Lib. 8, cap, 2.

It is obfervable that one of Quintili¬
an’s examples of ambiguity, the ufe of
Jperare for metuere, (which may be pa¬
ralleled by Virgi/s

At Jferatc Deos negmores fandi atque ne-
fandi.” ^Ln. i. 543, ubi cf. Heyn.)

is the fame a$ that ai.eged by Puttea-
ham, in which the tanner fays,

I hops I fhall be bang’d to- morrow.”

The rude author of the Origines Lan^
gobardica, 410, p, 31, ufes the fame ex-
preftion ; “ Clerici tiwueriint, fperantet
quod vivere non poffent.” It is, indeed,
only one inftance out of innumerahlfi
others of the metamorpofes effeded in
lauguage by the influence of the paf-
ftons ; a fubjeft which, in proper hands,
might afferd much curious matter for
metaphyfical fpeculation, Hope and jeof
are manifeftly on'y different names for
the lame paflion, i.e. expe61ation, as
applied to future events, either happy
or unfortunate} and thus they are
treated hy the poets

Hin c metuunt, cupiuntyup. ; dolent gaudent-
qne.” ViRG. ^n. VI. 733.

“ Qni timst his adveifa, fere miratur eodem
Quo cupiens paclo.” Hor Epift. I. vi. 9. ’

“ Gaudeat an doleat, cupiat metuatn&y quid ad
rem lb. iz.

evidently formed from the paftage of
Virgil.

‘‘ \ntev Jpemquey curamque\ tmores\nXQr h iras,
pmnem crede diem ubi diluxille fupremum.”

Id. £p. I. iv. 12.

W^e are rjqr, therefore, furprized wlien
we fee the v/ord hope affume the lignin -
fion of mere expedlaiiQn j as in this of
Homer ;

Qy ya.p oy’j EEAITETO 0^

yccTcx, Qvfxov

E^9clVT j 7) Tfu>«To-i)/ >1

11. N, 9.

■ — Parliamentary Proceedings, gi^

^ /94*] Peliques of Ancient Poetry,

He did not EXPECT that any of the Gods
*ujould def end to the ajjifance of either
party. So Ifocrates, ad Demonic.
JM'di^ETTols EAHIZE Xfiativ, If you commit
a nie(in aditony do not EXPECT that it
•Will be concealed.

In the Came fenfe Chaucer:

** Our naanciple I hope he wol be ded”

Rev e’s Tale, 4027.

and (,^s Mr. Tyrwhitr, who has antici¬

pated my remark, obferves) Shakfpeare;

I cannot hope

Cdsfar and Ahtony Ihall well greet together.’*
Ant. and Cleop. a£l 2. fc. i.

The exiftence of thefe tranfmucations
of fignification in ages fo dihant, lan¬
guages fo different, prove them to be
the produce of the mental affections,
which are of the fame or of a fimilar
growth in every age and every country.

PROCEEDINGS IN

H. OF commons.

April 8.

H E Chancellor of the Exehequer
prefenred a bill to enable the lub-
jeCts of France to enlift as foldicrs to
ferve on the coniihent of Europe, and
certain other places j and to enable his
Majefty to grant corrimilfions, as ofii-
ters, to fubjeCls of that country in the
laid corps, to be paid, &c.

The bill was read the firft time.

Mr. Harrifon prefaced a motion on
the fubjeft of finecure places, Blc. with
obferving that, in the prefent critical fi-
tuation of the country, and the great
calls which were made on its financial
lefources, it was neceffarv that every
nerve Ihould be ftrained on the occa-
fion, and, as much as polfible, in a
manner that would not increafe the too
great burthens of the poor. With this
View he was induced to brino forward
Iiis prefent propofition, and to call ort
thofe who enjoyed confiderabie emolu-
rnents, furnilhed by the publick, to
Contribute their fhare towards allevia¬
ting the buithens of that very publick
to which they are fo much indebted.
After feveral obfervations, he moved
for leave to bring in a bill to appropri-
»te certain proportions of the emolu¬
ments on finecure and efficient places
and penfions, to a certain amount, to
the pubdc fervice during the war, at the
dilpolal of p .rliament,

A debate took place upon this qu^f-
tion, wh ch lafted till near one u’c ock
in the mornings when the Houle diVi*
ded, Ayes 30, Noes 119.

H. OF L 0 K. D 3.

April 9.

The H oufe went in the ufual form to
Wefiminfter-hall, to proceed on the trial
of Warren Hailings, efq.

In the Houfe of Commons, the fame
cay, the Houfe went into a Commuiee

PARLIAMENT, 1794.

of Supply; and it was refolved to grant
the fum of 475,000!. to his Majefiy.

The Houle having refolved itfelf into
a Committee of Ways and Means, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, that it
was with much pleafure he could in¬
form the Committee, that there was at
jSrefent in the Exchequer a furplus fum
of 231,0001. ariling from the revenue of
lall year, and which he intended to ap¬
ply to the fupply of the deficiency of
grants in the courfe of the lafi twelve
month"; From this circumfiance the
Committee would perceive that, in the
firft year of a war, and of a great tem¬
porary commercicil failure, the revenue
had only fallen Ihort ioo,oooJ. of what
it had produced in time of peace and
the greatelt profperity. He then moved
the refolution ; vvhich was carried.

H. OF LORDS.

April 10.

Earl Moira wilhed to know if the
learned Judges had as yet returned an
anfvver to their Lordihips refolution of
laft feflion refpefting the regulation of
the laws betvveen debtor and creditor;
or whether it was likely that an anfwec
would loon be given to the Houfe.

Lord Kenyon replied, that the Judges
had not neglefted the fubjedt ; and be¬
lieved he might take upon himfelf to
affure the Noble Lord, that they would
very Ihortiy prefent their anfvver to the
Houfe; and he would alfo affure the
Noble Lord that, fhouid his military-
duty occalion his abfence at the difcuf-
fion, nothing Ihould be wanting in him
to endeavour the attainment of that dc-
iirable meafure, which the Noble Lord
had fo warmly and laudably undertaken*

In the Commons, the fame day, Ma¬
jor Maituind, after enumerating all ihtt
dilalters that took place in the courfe of
the laft campaign, which, without any
q^ualification, he imputed to ihemifcon-

916 Pcriiarneniary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1794*

of Adminiftration, concluded by-
moving, that the HouCe ftiould appoint
a Committee to enquire into the caule of
the* failure of the army before Dunkirk,
under the command of his Royal High-
uefs the Duke of York; and alfo into
the caufe of the evacuation of Toulon
by the forces under the command of
Gen Dundas and Lord Adm.- Hood.

This produced a de'bate of confidera-
ble length, which terminated in a divi-
lion j for the motion 35, againilic t68.

H. OF LORDS.

April 1 1.

The Attorney-general concluded his
reply in the appeal from Scotland, Agli-
anby and Maxwell,

In the Commons, the fame day, upon
the order of the day, for the fecond
reading of the bill to enable his Majefty
to take into’ Britifh pay certain French
emigrants and others, Mr. Baker ftated
a variety of obje6lions to the bit), which
induced him to oppofe it in the prefenc
flage.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer en¬
tered into feveral arguments in fupport
of the principle of the bill, and con¬
tended that the meafure was founded in
yuftice and policy^

The queftion was put ; when there
appeared for the fecond reading 105,
againfl it ii.

H. OF LORDS.

April 14.

The Houfe relolved itfelf into a Com¬
mittee' on the volunteer corps bill (Lord
Walhngham in the chair); when the
feveral claufes of the bill were agreed to
with fome amendments.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr*
IAain<u:aringy after a few preliminary
obfervations, moved for leave to bring
in a bill to enable his Majefty to grant a
licence for the performance of dramatic
reprefentations at the Royalty theatre,
Weliclofe-fquare, during rhefuinmer;
which was almoft unanimoully rejeded.

H. OF LORDS.

April 15.

Earl l.auderdale moved for the pro-
dudion of the minutes of the proceed¬
ings in the trial of Meli'rs. Muir and
Palmer. This his Lordfhip declared he
intended, if granted, lo follow up with
an Addrefs to his Majefty upon the li-
tuatioa or thsfe unfortunate gentlemen.

It was negatived without a divifion.

The Lord Chaneellor then movedV
“ that it is the opinion of this houfcji.
that there are no grounds for any inter¬
ference with regard to the fentences
palled on Mefffs. Muir and Palmer.”

Earl Stanhope moved, as an amend¬
ment, “ that the feveral papers and do¬
cuments, by which the merks of the
queftion could be decided, have been
refufed;” which was negatived, and
the Lord Chancellor’s motion immedi¬
ately carried without a divifion.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
lottery bill was read the third time, and
palled.

H. O F LORDS*

• April 1 6.

TheirLordlhips having returned from
Weflminfter-hall, a Ihort debate took
place refpefting their devoting another
day to the trial of Mr. Haftings before
the Eafter recefs. A divifton took
place ; when the numbers were, for de¬
ferring the trial till after the recefs 5,
for proceeding to-morrow 4. A mef-
fage was fent to inform the Commons,
that they would proceed farther on Mon¬
day, the 28th of April.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
volunteer corps bill being returned from
the Lords with an amendment, which
allowed pay to the troops when embo¬
died in their own counties, it was deem¬
ed a money claufe'; on which the Chan’*
cellar of the Exchequer moved, that it be
taken into confidcration this day two
months ; which was agreed to. He then
brought in a new bill containing the
necelfary proviftons ; which was read
the firft time.

The report of the French corps bill
having been brought up, *

Melirs. Shendan and Fox obje£led to
an amendment of the Attorney-general,
which left the oaths under which this
force was to be attefted at the diferetion
of his Majefty. This produced a very ,
long converfation ; at the conclufion of'
which, the Houfe went through the dif¬
ferent claufes with their feveral amend¬
ments. To that claufc which providesii
that the eftabhlhrneot of thele corpsii
ihall be duiing the war, Air. Sheridafi\
obje6fed, as inconfiftent with the provi--
fion Oi the mutiny bill, and not at alll
neceiiary lo the purpoles in view.. He!
piopoleJ, as an amendment, that ihef
iliabiilhaieiu Ihouid be annual. Thisf

produced^

Parltamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1794* 9^7'

produced a converfation of fome length ;
after which the Houfe divided, for the
amendment 29, againft it 118.

H. OF LORDS,

April 17.

The royal affent was given, by com-
miffion, to 44 public and private bills.

Lord Loughborough prefented a bill
for the relief of infol vent debtors; which
bill, he faid, was in many refpefts a
tranfcript of the bill ©f 1781, with this
difference, that, in the former a6f, per-
fons were reftrifted from its benefit who
owed more than 500 1. ; whereas, in the
prefent one, the fum was extended to
loool. It was read the firft time, and
ordered to be read a fecond time on the
48th inftant.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
volunteers bill went through the Com¬
mittee, was afterwards reported, read
the third time, and paffed.

The motion was made for paffing the
foreign troop bill.

Mr. Harrifon objedled to the motion.

Mr. Fox expatiated againft it.

Mr Dundas was in favour of it.

Mr. Burke, with his ufual eloquence,
fupported it.

Mr. Sheridan went largely againft it.

Lord Mulgrave fpoke in favour of
the bill.

Mri fF'. Smith faid a few words a-
againft the principles of the bill.

The queftion was then put, and car¬
ried without a divifion.

H. OF LORDS.

April 28.

Lord Crennjille prefented a meftage
from the King, relative to a treaty wirh
the King of Prulfia. Ordered to be ta¬
ken into conlideration next day.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
Dundas prefented a meftage fiom his
Majefly, to tfie following effe6f : “ That
he had ordered to be laid before the
oufe, copies of the treaty of conven¬
tion entered into at the Hague, in the
tourfe of the prefent montfi, between
the minilfer plenipotentiary of his Ma-.
jefty and thofe of the States General
and the King of Prufha: that his Ma-
jefiy relied on their aliiftance to enable
him to fulfil the ftipulation of the trea-
and to make provifipn for defraying
the expences to be incurred in confe- .
quence.’’ He then ni^wcd, that the
meftage fiioufd be taken into con lid era -

tion in a Committeff'of the whole Houfe
on Wednefday.

Meffrs. Fox and Sheridan obje6fed to
fo early a day, and moved, that it be
put off till Monday; which was nega¬
tived, and Mr. Dundas’s motion was
agreed to.

Minifiry being called on to ftate fome
of the outlines of the treaty; the Chan¬
cellor of the Exchequer ftated, that, by
the treaty in queftion, his Pruffian Ma-
jelly was bound to furnifti, over and
above his contingent troops, 30,000 men,
to be employed for the defence of Hol¬
land, and the a6live operations of the
war. For thefe, in the firft inftance,
was to be paid the fum of 50,000 1. per
month, and alfo the fum of 100,000 1.
per month for bread and forage for the
troops. The fum of 300,000!. was to
be paid in order to put the forces into
motion, and the fum of ioo,oool. on
their return. Thefe two latter will be
paid by the Dutch. Should the war
laft to the end of the prefent year, the
proportion of expence to be incurred by
this country under the prefent treaty
would be 1,350,000!.

H. OF LORDS.

April 29.

The report of Howard’s divorce bill
being received, the Duke of Bedford
propofed a clauie, that 7,500!. Ihould
be fettled as an annuity of 350!. pi'r
annum for the lupport of Mrs. Howard.

The Duke of Norfolk moved an
amendment, to enable Mr. Howard te
retain a fufftciency of the faid 7,500!.
for the purpofe of defraying the law ex¬
pences.

The Houfe divided on this amend¬
ment, Non-contents 15, Concents 3.

The Duke of Bedford then moved a-,
nother clauie^ by which an annuity of
150I. a year is fettled on Mrs. Howard.

The D. of Nerjolk oppofed the claufe.

The Houfe divided; for the clauie
15, againft it 3.

In the Commons, the fame dav, Mr.
Curaven moved, “ that the Houle be
called over this day fortnight,-” whicb
was negatived. For the motion 19,
againft it 98.

K. OF LORDS.

April 30.

The order of the d<iy being read, that
all the Lords fhould be lurnmoncd to
rake his Majefty’s meftage into conli-
Uei^uou 3

Lord

©t8 Parliamentary Proieeiitngs. — Mifcellaneous tnformaihn, [6^*

T^ard Gren^Me opened the bufiners
by ftaiing that, fuch was the fituation
of this country in the prefent cunteO, it
required every exertion to cou0tera6l
the dthgns of our enetnies, ike.

Marquis of Lanfdoxvn anfwered his
Lord (hip, and gave the lilotidn his de¬
cided negative.

The I)uke of Portland, Marquis
^o^wnthend, Earl Mansfield^ Lord

M awoke ih icry , and Lord AKckland, fpoke
3B favour of the motion ; Lord Lauder¬
dale fpoke again ft it.

The Lord Chancellor put the queftion
o>n the motion for an addi^ls 5 when
the Houfe divided,

Contents 75 Non-contents

Ftoxies 24 Proxies d

(To hs continued.)

Mr. Urban, 08. i%.

INCE you have inferted, in your
Msy Magazine, the confutation of^
Dr. Foerfeh’s account of the Pohoon
Upas, or poifon-tree of Java, I have
read the whole narrative by Dr. E, at
the end of Dr. Darwin's poem, intituled,
“The Loves of the Plants.’' It bears
fuch evident marks of invention and fic¬
tion, that one is furprized it could have
gained the fmaiieft degree of credit in
ihis enlightened, age. The world is,
however, obliged to the correfpondent
who communicated to you the antidote
to the poifon.

'I'here is nothing in the portrait of
King William tne Lion vvliich be-
ipeaks it of the high antiquity afiigned
10 It by your correfpondent L. p. 593.
The eariieft period it can claim may be
of the 15th or 16th centuries, perhaps
of the time when to many fi6titious por-
tiaits of the kings, of Scotland were
drawn ; perhaps coeval with the chain,
which is a great falling-off from the
time of Huwe the monkj for there is
hardly a good one of the clafs in the
whole kingdom. As to ihe dimenfions
of looms in the different buildings, there
'is no comparative meal'ure of them; and
ttioic at Hampton -couit certainly iliouid
nut be brought into competition with
tiiolc of earlier date.

It is now above three years fince your
correlpondent Adjutor gave us hopes
to expedl an account, by Mr. Baldwin,
of P^omaii buildings, See. found at Bath,
1791 (lee your vol. LXL p. 103). Sir
li. C- Englefield (in Archtuoiogia, vol.
X. p. 735) gave ihe only account ct
them, except tlie flight one in the news¬
papers at the time of dilcoveryi Belidss

the infcription on an altar, mentioned in
your Mifcellariy and the Archjeologia,
it has been faid there was another, ort
two fragments c>f a frize, v^hich have
been thus varioufly read in two lines:

,...AND1VS LIGVR lUltENTE ARVSPICYM
C0r.LEGlO LONGA SERIE DEFOSSA
HANC AEDEM E NlMlA V£ TV STATE LA-
BENTEM tLLlC I N V E N T A P E C-VN I A
ilEElCI ET RePINGI C^RAVIT:

Or,

AVLVS. clAvbivS ligvrivs SCDALI^
Asenvs FAERORVM COLLEGIO LON-
fe A S 6. R 1 E *

DEFoSSA HANC AEDEM E NIMIA VETVS-
TATE LABENTEM DR INVENTA 'LLIC
tECVNIA REFICI ET REPINGI CV«

ravit;

It is m'Uch to be wifiiisd that fome of
your correfpondents would attempt a
copy of the origiiral, that one might be
able to judge which of the two, or whe¬
ther either of the readings, be right, as
there is fomethirig novel in the conftruc-
tion of bothi

P. 758, li 10, ii, dele as re’petition j
and number the next page 759.

Your correfpondent Gr.^culus (p.
786) will find, in Wood’s Aihente Oxo-
riienles, il. 6rE, the following additional
particulars ot Cbrittopher Angel : — chat
he went, by the Bifliop of Norwich’s re¬
commendation, to Cambridge, where he
found relief, and ftudied in Trinitv-coU
lege (or near three years. About Whit-
funtide, 1610, he journeyed to Oxford;
was exhibited to there, and ftudied in
Baliol college; did very good fervice
among the young fcholars in the univer-
ftty that were raw in the Greek tongue;
and continued among them till the time
of his death, Feb. 1638, and was bu¬
ried the next day in St. Ebbe’s church
there, leaving behind him the eharadter
of a pure Grecian, and an honefi and
harmlejs man, Fiis Enchiridion” falling
into the hands of George Thelavius, a
minifter of Danczick, was by him ren¬
dered into Latin, and learnedly noted,
Fiancfort, '655, 8vo, intituled, “ Status
et Ritus Eccleliae Graeca:.'’ Whether
he has an epitaph, or what it is, perhaps
Mr. Gutch can inform you.

M- Green (p. 791) will find an ac¬
count of thcDigby pedi^ee in Mr. Pen¬
nant’s “Journey from Chefter,” p. 328;
that he had the ufe of it from his worthy
triend anti neighbour, Watkin WilliamSi
efq, ; that it coft Sir Kcnelm Digiiy
xzocl. ; confilts of 589 veiiurn leaves,
the firft 163 oi’'amenied with the coats
of arms of the fainiiy and its aiiic-s, and

i794*] Mlfcelianeous Remarks for 0£lober, 1794?

of all the tombs of the Di^bys then ex¬
tant, illuminated, in the richefl and rnofl;
exquifi'e manner: the reft of the bonk
is compoled grants, wills, and variety
of other pieces, (crying to ilJuftrate tlje
hiftory of the familv, drawn froro the
mod authentic records, the title fers
dorth. Mr. P. lias given from it the
will of Everard Digby, of Dry Stoke,
dated in 1508.

If Philo Gothicus (p. 802) will
tape the trouble of looking into Captain
iGrofe’s Hiftory of aotient Arnrour, pi.
,XXX[. he will there i'ee th.e >01 rn of the
\r/J} , and in p. 45, not'.: (t), it is de-
ferihed as “a kind of moveable iron
\briickeiy fixed to the right hde ff the
cuirafs, for the purpofe of (upporting
I the lance. A. figure of one may be leeu
in his mifcelianvous plate.”

It is not eafv to (ay what Philo^-Go-
thicus means l.y his reference to the
•Peerage ah'ut Robert Pity. Hammon, cr
Robert the copful; foi, though
“defeended from the fame family as the
Granvilies, the latter bore very dKferent
arms.

The term Si/JJir/e (p- 617), though ncJt
itfelf in die G.olfary, is dertved from a
verb and noun, which ate there : fufflars
I appodiare, falcir-e; and fu-^amen admi-
I niculum, (uftentaculum, appay. 1 can-
: Jioc find this futport applied to any par-
; ticuUr purpofe. and ftili lefts to an or-
: gan. Nor do I difeover the ufe of cla-
1 rion m this ftente. P.efls, therefore, ap¬
plied to an o'gan, mult mean ftops.

If your coriefpondent has an oppor¬
tunity of looking at the portrait of Ar-
, thur ot Bretagne, earl pf Richemont,

. conftabie of France, afterwards duke of
j Bretagne, third of the name, in Lohi-
! ^eau’s HiOpire de Bretagne, I. 66c;, he
will fee a reft on the right bread of his
' armour, exa£f!y like that vyhicb is en-
. g;t avcd in the Hiftory of Luton (Bibiio-
1 titeca 'Popographica Briranrdca, A'ilL
. p. 47), from the windows of the North
chapel of Luton church, and vvhicli, if
1 placed ptrpendicuiarlv, would anfwer to
j the bracket in the G-anville arms,

Mr. Edmondfon gives the Greenville
arms, three clarions, or horjemen’i x<ifU.
i He adds, in his Ginlft^ry, v. Rejis,

“ Refts, or CLricn-. V\Grters d'lTcr
i much concerning the ufe of this figure ;
I feme alb rt it to be the rej} in which
tilting (peats were fixed when carritd on
I horfeback J others as ftrongly affirm it
1 to be an antient wind infttumeur, and
I call it tlie clarion,'"

y. Clarion, he fays, “A kind of ftrrill

9I9

trumpet. In heraldic language it is alfo
calierl a vejir' His figvne of it is very
unufual, except it he a fiftula, or pipe.,

In your vol. XI If. p. 610, you tell
us, that John Dean was rev^arded (or
(aving tl^'c Hiaft -Lidia fiftip Sufjex. Be
(o good as to inform us vvhen ant! how
that (hip was in danger of heintj loft.

I wifti your coi refpondents would
give us chapter and yerfe for alTertions
fo pofitive as that of Can DID E yefpeift-
ing the Earl of Warred being a iicenfer
of beer-houftss (p. 797). They Ihould
prove that iuch licences were required^
and that the Crown grants the exclufive
privilege of iiluing, and likewile tell n«
how. Yours, &c. p. H.

Mr. Urban, if,.

ERMIX me to correft a few euor?
of one of your correrpondents.

P. 7! I. Handfworth is only two milest
nearly North of Birmingham.

Col. 2, 1. 7. The North aile Ihould
have been South aile. The monunieni
there defertbed ftood formerly in ano¬
ther place, and was removed vvhen the
prefent pulpit was eredfed. Inftead of
lying Eaft and Weft, it lies North an4
South. On the ftone on which the
arms are cut are the initials W. S. and
date 1570. The fkeleton, as it is called,
is not at the foot of the tomb, but at
the fide, and repreftents a perfon mucji
emaciated, and nearly naked.

\u. 31. The tablet is a monument
wiih an infeription to the memory of
William Brearly, gent. Arms : Az. a
crofs potent Gules j and no other charge
in the fiiield except a fleur-de-lis (I
think) on the dexter quarter.

L- 37, read John Piddock.

L. 45. The nariie of John Fitlnethy is
plainly r@ be read on the monument.

P* 713? '• 37 a'^d 44, read, a bend
between a role and fleuf-de-iis inftead
pf two roftes.

P. 714. R. G. is wrong in his ortho¬
graphy of Waljali and lVillenbaU\ and
his account of ihe roads erroneous, as
Shrevvfbury is nor more than 30 miles
from WolverhaiTipton. Though his
knowledge of Walfall is probably no
more than his paliing through it in
his way from Birmingham to Wolver¬
hampton, he might Ccift.y have recoj-
ledled that it is not paved at all in the
carriage-way the wiiole lengtli of the
town, which IS more than half a mile,
Ring (freer, Fouiuain-ftrcer, Ablewell-
ftreet, Bndge-ft reef, and Park-lfreet,
being under tlie I'uperintendance of the

commiflioneis

Mifcellaneeus Remarh for 0£lober, 1794*

commiffioners of the turnpike-roads.
Therefore, if fuch places are not paved
at all, they cannot be ill-paved. As to
the other ftreets, they are as well paved as
in moft places. He alfo miftakes in fay¬
ing that the meeting-houfe is at the end
of the town ; for, there is a long ftreet \
between it and the town^s end. He fays
that Willenhall is hmilar to Walfall ;
but I do not know in what refpeft, it
having no refemblance in iize, fituation,
tOT manufafilures, which at VVillenhail
are chiefly locks; whereas the principal
trade of Walfall is buckle-making, a
bufinefs fo much injured by the vile fa-
ihion of wearing flioe firings and flip¬
pers, that many of the workmen are out
of employ. The town is become a great
thoroughfare of late between Birming¬
ham and Stafford fince a new road has
heen made over Cannock wood, which
makes the diflance two miles fliorter
through Walfall than the other road
through Wolverhampton. Many car¬
riages of the nobility and gentry, as well
as ftage-coaches, pafs through the town,

I forbear to give any farther account
of the place, as I make no do,ubt it will
be done in a proper manner by Mr.
Shaw in his intended County Hiftory,
he being enabled to do it from perfonal
infpeftion ; and to him 1 leave it.

Your correfpondent fays, the old
church at Wolverhampton has a fpire,
which is a miftake; and he never men¬
tions the new church there (an elegant
and commodious ftru6ture, ere£led a-
bout 30 years fince), in which there is
an excellent organ, built by the famous
Harris (in the time of Charles If.) tor
the Temple church at London, and af¬
terwards fet up in Chrift-church cathe¬
dral in Dublin, where it flood more
than half a century. Wolverhampton is
now nearly twice as large and populous
as it was in 175 1. E. G,

Pfalms, viz. “ The io8th Pfalm is
formed out of the 57th and 6olh, there¬
fore T have omitted it.”

P. 800. May I be permitted to fug-
geft to your refpeffable correfpondent
R. G. a doubt whether the firft of the
13 quarterings here given be not Graf-
iOHy Party per faltire Sable and Ermine,
a lion rampant Or? The fecond is Tal¬
bot, and the flth, I fancy, Troutbeck%
the fiirrups at the head are Gyffard of
Chillington, Staffordftiire.

P. 8or. The vicar of Albrighton is
Henry ^mfield, M. A. vicar alfo of
Middleton, alias Long-Parifh, in Hants^
and formerly mafter of an academy at
Weft End, Hampflead.

P. 809. Mr. Brand died the 21ft of
February laft, as may be feen in your
Obituary for the following month.

P. 836. In the critique upon Mr.
Hurdis’s Critical Remarks, let the pe¬
riod after the words “ at large” be con¬
verted into a comma, and let a period be
inferted after the words “ upon other
paffages.”

P. 836, b. The Ele£l:rers Palatine
was married Jan. 17, 1742 (not i779)>
being the day on which flie attained the
aged of 21 years. She died, if my ac¬
count be right, Aug. 17. E,

Mr. Urban,

10 f

P779, col. 2, 11. 20, 34- Viator fpeaks
. “ mq/i provokingly” of the ladies,
lb. 1. 19, for “cohors” r. “chores.’*
*P. 7B0. If Dr. Johnfon were now
alive, he would be induced, I imagine,,
to revoke his opinion refpefting the en-i
couragernent of agriculture. See his I
“ Univerfal Vifitor,” p. iir.

P. 802. brings to my mind ai

painter’s bill i favv fome time ago in the:
Weft to the following purport, viz.

“ Mr. - , Churchwarden, to - Dr,

“ To mending the Command- f. s. d.
meats, altering the Belief, and

Mr- Urban, OB.m.

IN your laft, p. 7S4, a. !. 1 2, r. “ While
on this fubje6i:.” L. 16, r. (p^Bvee^,
L, 18, r. j 19, r. fA.v^oi,

L. 34, “Abon Haflan 45, “ Sinbad.”
Col. 2, 1. 53, r. “ to that in China.’*
P. 794. 1 cannot but wonder that
your intelligent correlpondent A. R.
Ihould think “ it not eafy to fay why”
Dr. Watts did not tranflate the io8th
Pfalm, when the Do6ior has inferted
the following note (which is Hill to be
found in all the large editions of his
pfalms) between the 107th and 109th

making a new Lord’s Prayer i i o

P. 8'o8, 1. 4, r. “nefarious praftices.’*'
P. 824, col. 2, 1. 5^, r. “thankful.”'
P. 834, 1. penult. 1 rather think you.
ought to read “ Thomas Dunharo
(not Dunhorne) Whitaker.”

P. 856, col. 2, “the Rev, Thomas^
Seddon.” P. H.

Mr. Urban, Sepi. 9.

IN whdt fermon is there this palfageri
“ The womb of Nature is the flure-:
houfe whence the Almighty Maker oi;
Things makes his diftribution amonei
his creatures^’ CL. ^

1,62.

iyg4*] Review of New Puhlicaiions* 921

162. The Defeription of Greece. By Panfa-
llias. Trariflated from the Greek, ^ath
Notes, in which much of the Mythology <f
the Greeks is urf aided from a Theory which
has been for many Nges unhnown ; and iUuf-
trated with Maps and Views, elegantly en-
graved. In TNee Volumes.

AUSANIAS is iuppofed to have
lived in the reigns of Adrian and
M.arcus Aurelius. He travelled not only
through Greece, Macedonia, and Italy,
but through the gieafeft part of Aha, as
far as the orncle of Jup'ter Ammon, and
vihted Jordan and the Dead Sea. In the
picfcnt work lie has, “with the mofi con-
i'ummatc accuracy and diligence, given
an account of the temples and remarka¬
ble buildings, the ffatues and leldivals,
the games and facred offerings, the mu¬
tations of empires, and the illuftrious
tranfa^fions of kings, in every part of
Greece. He has, befides, given a con-
cife hiftory of fome of the inolf eminent
'Warriors, and r dated fome of the moft
untereftirg, battles of former times. As
he was a man pious too, though not in
conjun!*dion with philofophy, he every
ivvhere difeovers a mind imprelfed with a
I'enfe of the hiyheft duties, and fhews
ihimfelf to be one to whom, in the lan-
iguape* of the emperor Julian, “it ap¬
peared more proper to give credit to
cities in certain hiflorieal particulars,
than to the ntebemently nattfe, whofe Utile
foul is indeed acute, but beholds nothing
with a vifion healthy and found,” Hence
he is careful in noticing the punifhment
with which impiety is frequently .attend¬
ed in the prefent life, and the remark. a -
;b!e manner in which oracular predidtions
have been verified. In this iafl paiticu-
ffar, indeed, his book may be conficlered
as a tfe-afure of popular evidence for the
truth of bis religion. For, if it be but
ionce adnhtccd that fuch oracles were
given, and that luch events afterwards
haoDened, as are here related, to which
[thefe oracles referred, it is impoffible
I that fuch a regular ferles of prediefions
[iliould, in lo many iuftances, have been
I accomplifhed by anv cafual concurrence
of circumftances, or any tricks of fraur
(dulent priehs. In fhorr, the phllofopher
and the naturalift, tlu poet and the pain-
iier, the fatuary and the architeft, the
i geographer and the antiquary, may find
in this work an ample fund of folid ii;-
* ftru6fion and refined amufement ; for,
iPaufanias had the art of aptly uniting
concifenefs with accuracy, and the inar-
Tellous of Venerable traditions and mvl-
itic fables with all the fimpl-city of una¬
dorned defeription. Yet, notwithftand-
i ing tbele excell nces, his language is in-
Gent. Mag, Ociober^

elegant through its abruptnef , and in¬
tricate through the peculiarity of con-
flru6f’:on with which it abounds. Indeed
the obfcuiity of his di^iinn is.fo great,
tl a: he may perhaps he confidered a. the
moft difficult author to tranfate of any
in the Greek language, for his meaning
is frequentlv, on this account inacceffi-
ble to the moft cQx\I\imiWa\.c qjerbaUJis,
and can only be penetrated by one who
is in fbe habit of underfiauding words
by things, as w«ll as things by words.’*
TL he tranflator of fuch an author has a
claim to lenity from the liberal reader, as
he has been under tlie neccfficy of com-
pofing the whole of this work in the fpace
of ten months. He clTures us, this tranf*
latioa is not made from iheLatin, French,
Italian'*, or any ocher language but the
Greek. That it is not frorb the Lotin,
any on"? but the male\o!ent critick ma^
be convinced by comparing it with the
GiCck , and that it is not from any living
language is no lei's certain ; for, as thoi’e
acquainted' with him well know, he nei¬
ther underfiands, nor defires to under-
ftand, any modern tongue but the Eng-
lifh.” With refpeift to the notes, his
principal defign in compofing them was
to prevent the knowledge of the ancient
theology from being entirely loft; “and
to accompHfh this, I have unfolded in
them a theory which feems, for many
ages, to have been entirely unknown. It
is true, indeed, that the authors from,
whom the theological and mythological
information which the notes contain is
derived, i. e. the latter Platonifts, are
confidered, by verbal criticks and fophif-
tical priefts, as fanaticks and corrupters
of their rn after’s dod'trine. But, whatever
weight the opinions of men of this de¬
feription may have with the vulgar, the
difeerning and liberal leader well knows
that the former of thefe never read a
book but in ordyr to make diff;rent
readings of words in it ; and that the
latter wilfully pervert the meaning in
iome places, and ignorantly in others,
of every valuable author, whether an-
tient or modern. Let the liberal reader
too tonfider that the latter Platonifis
had, moft probai)K', a traduionil know¬
ledge of fome leading parts of their phi -
lolbphy; that they l;ad liooks to confulc
which are now ioft ; and that they arc
aeknowleogi-d to have been men of great

* I ne tirft tranlLtion of Faufanias into
any modern language was into Italian, by
i^llonlb Bonaco'.uoh, at Mantua, 1593, 4to.
He had tranflater; Strabo, 1362;" and his
verfions of both thefe author' come nearer
the original than chat of Abbe Gedoyn,
Arafterdam, 1733, 4 vok. i:ino.

genius

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Revhw of New Puhluations*

[oa.

genius and profound erudition, even by
thofe who read without thinking, and
by thofe who read but to cenfure and
pervert, my intention, therefore, in
the notes was to unfold and propagate
the wifdom of the antients with all the
ability I was capable of exerting, and in
as capital a manner as opportunity and
the fize of the work would permit, I
have been (paring in philofophical and
biftorical information: yet, notwith-
Handing this, I have given a large, and,
I prefume, a f3tisfa61:ory account of the
perpetual lamps of the antients, and a
curious hiHory of human bones of pro¬
digious magnitude, which have been
cUfeovered, from Phlegon Trallion ; and
have, from antient authorities, explained
two or three palfages in the Iliad, which
have been mifunderflood by all modern
commentators and tranllators of that in¬
comparable work. To tlie reader who
is not farisfied with this, I fliall only ob-
ferve, that it is neither fafe nor honour¬
able to del'cend from philnfophy to phi-
lology 5 and that it would be as abfurd
to expeft that a man, who iias given
himfelt up to the embraces of th.e for¬
mer, lliould afifociate much with the lat¬
ter, as that the eye, which has often be¬
held with rapture the coftly rooms of
fome magnificent palace, Ihould fre¬
quently delight to view the narrowed
and the lead confpicuous of its ave¬
nues.” The Oracles are trandated into
profe onlybecaufe the tranflator confi-
deis them as invaluable pieces of com-
pofition; in the tranflation of which,
every word ought, as much as polTible,
to be prefer ved from the obfeure and
profound naeaning with which every
word is pregnant, which it is impolfible
to edefh by poetical verfion into any
modern language. “ Some fafiftonaWe
readers will, I doubt not, think that my
tranflation abounds too much with con-
neflive particles. To luch I fftall only
cbferve, that beauty in every compofite
confids in the apt connexion of its parts
with each other, and is confequently
greater where the connexion is more
profound. It is on this account that
the found of the voice in finging is more
pleafing than in difeourfe, becaufe in
the former it is more connefted than in
the latter; that a palace is more beauti¬
ful than a rude heap of dones, a king¬
dom than a democracy ; and, in fftort,
whatever is orderly and regular than
whatever is difordered and confufed. In
the prefent age, indeed, it cannot be an
objeft of wonder that hooks are com-
pofed with fcarcely any conne6tiYe par¬

ticles, when men of all ranks are feized
with the mania of lawlefs freed{j1n, bear
indignantly all reflraint, and are endea¬
vouring to introduce the moft dire difor-
der by fubverting fubordination, and
thus deflroylng the bond bv which alone
the parts ©f foc'ety can be peaceably
held together. Of the truth of tliis ob-
fervation the French at prtfent are a re¬
markable example, among whom a con¬
tempt of orderly connexion has produced
nothing but anarchy and uproar, licen¬
tious liberty and barbaric rage, all the
darknefs of atheifrn, and all the madnefs
of denrocratic pouter.” Mr.T’s Englifh
readers will tell him that the conneftivc
particles are moft aukwardly and uncon-
neflingly introduced in his work, though
not fo in the original \ and that his tranf¬
lation in general is much too literal.

“To criticks in general I fhall make
a declaration fimilar to that which I
have elfewhere given : that I (ball pay
no attention whatever to criticifms that
are merely the refult of ignorance ; but,
if I find them attended with malevo¬
lence, I (hail not fail to expofe the bafe-
nefs of fuch fpecies of compofition in a
copious appendix to my next publica¬
tion : and, would every author, whole
labours have been infamoufly ahufed,
adopt this 'plan, he would, either by in¬
timidating fuch literary bullies, fecure
himfelf from their attacks in future, or
render them the fcorn and derifion of.
every man of difeernment and worth.”

By this time it is probable our readers
have dilcovered that the tranflator of
Paufanias is the fame with the tranflator
of the Commentaries of Proclus, noticed
in our vol. LIX. p. 434. W^ith the
lame view of explaining and reftoring
Pagan theology, Mr. Taylor has pub-
11 died tranflations of the Cratylus, Phae- ■
do, Parmenides, and Timaeu's, of Plato;;
of Saliufi: on the Qods, and of the empe- ■
ror Julian’s oration to the Sun, and to 1
the mother of the Gods; and a difterta- ■
tion on the Eleufinian and Bacchic myf- •
teries. With what view fuch explana- ■
tions are introduced in notes’-^ on Pau--
fanias, where they are lead: neceffary, |
may eafily be feen. Thus on his de- ■
fcrlption of Jupiter’s ftatue holding ai
victory and a fpear, we have a long dif- ■

* Tliere is a fingular typographical biun- >
der in the beginning of the notes. The third 1
volume of Paufanias’ defeription concludes!
with p. 2 1 7 : but on the back of that page is i
printed p. 222, which is the fourth page, of i
the notes ; the whole of iheet P being, by !
a miftake of the workmen, tranfpofed at th* 1
prefs. cuilioai

I '704*1 Review of ISfew ruhlicatioYiu 9^3

cuflion on the firfl fubfiftence” of Ju¬
piter, as the Demiurgus or artificer of
the world ; whence he is received into
^11 the following orders of gods; whence
. there are various Jupiter*., who p redid e
over the different parts of the univerfe,
and are all fufpended from the firft Jupi¬
ter, the Demiurgus. The fame mu ft be
underftood of every other divinity, con-
lidered according to his higheji fubjji-
e*ice \ viz. that various other divinities,
of the fame chara£terirticks, proceed from
him into the different parts of the world ;
and, if the reader carefully .attends to
this theory when he reads Homer, or the
fables of any other antient theological
poet, and is able to apply it properly ^ he
will find that the theology of the antients
is founded on a theory no lefs beauiijully
cotineded than aJioniJbiny;ly profound ; no
lels enchanting than Jcieniific\ no lefs
true than marvellous and myjiicd' We
hope Mr. T. will acquit Mr. Urban’s
Reviewers of Malevolence, and pity their
Ignorance, if they declare themfelves in-
lenfible to the beauty, and incapable of
comprehending the depths, of Antient
Theology. The caufe of this may be,
cither that our prejudices are not entirely
defiroyed, or that we cannot find a mid¬
dle courfe between thofe who, on the
one hand, would plunge us into the myf-
ticifm of Paganilm, and thofe who, on
the other, would teach us to renounce
Chriftianity becaufe it has fomething in
its compofition which no divine revela¬
tion can be without, certain articles as
inexplicable to human comprehenfion as
others in natural philofophy. We muft
therefore be content vvith adhering to
that laft beft declaration of the will of
God to man; in which man is as fully
informed in every particular effcntial to
ids nature, his duty, and his happinefs,
as his limited and depraved underftand-
ing can comprehend ; and, at all events,
more lo than he will be bv the abfurdi-
,ties and incoherences of abftrufe meta-
phyfical fables and jargon, which want
the aid of fo much grotlnefs and fenfua-
licy to make it comprehenfible by com¬
mon underftandings.

As a fpec men of Mr. T’s notes, and
of his want of candour, vve ftiall prcl'cnt
the leader with the turn he gives to the
fable of the Minotaur, from the manu-
feript commentary of Olympiodorus on
Plato’s Gorgias. The Minotaur fig-
nifies the lavage palbons which our na-
turecontains ; the thread which Ariadne
gave to Thefeus a certain divine power
sonjoinsd with our nature j and the la¬

byrinth, the obliquity, and abundant va¬
riety of life, Thefeus therefore, being
one of the moft excellent chara61ers,
vanquiflied this impediment, and fteedl
others together with himfelf.” This he
prefers to the conftruftion of the Abb6
Baniex, who, with all the lavolefs levity
of a Frenchman, and in the true fpirit of
a Catholic divine, favs, that the Mino¬
taur, with PafiphaS and the reft of the
fable, contain nothing but an intrigue of
tbe<pjeen of Crete with a captain named
Taurys, and the artifice of Dsedalus
only a fly confident. And in this im¬
pudent manner he explains the moft ce¬
lebrated fables of antiquity, making them
more ridiculous than the riddles com-
pofed by the ingenious Mr. Newbery
for children.

As nothing in thefe iHyftical notes
(which almoft overwhelm the entertain¬
ing writer) detrafts from the intrinfic
merit of Paufanias as an informing topo¬
grapher , and perhaps one of the firft of
that clafs among the antients, at leall
who has come down to our times
(though, if we miflake not, his authen¬
ticity has been impugned), we lhall pro¬
ceed to a review of the tranftation, which
has hitheito been among the depderata
of claftical literature in this country.

Whether Mr. T. is to be commended
for luch a ftri61: abftmence from every
preceding tranflator may be doubted. His
own veilion is ftiff and literal, without
conveying the original meaning. Thus^
who would difeover that the ftatues of
the Surnames are the ftatues of thofe he¬
roes vvhofe names tlie Athenians gave to
their tribes ? It is true the original
word is sTravvjwwv; but the Latin is
“ ducum unde tribus appellafa funt;’*
and, though this has been explained in
p. 19, yet furnames can never convey
the fenie of crrmviAog, which fhould ra¬
ther be tranilated “thofe from whom
the tribes wete lurnamed;” the pcrlon
giving, as w’ell as the ptrfon receiving,
a name being equally intended by ircmv
fjLog, which here has the firft of thefe
lenles.

P. ^r. Archias was a native of Thu-

Uixm.

Avo^cc Ad^EIAHS (O'Vso'ovJci n; wcAi-
IS too clolely rendered “a man
who applies himlclf voitbout parjimony
to the government of a rcpuirlick ra¬
ther, a man who gives himfelf unre-
fervedly. — Mt^Tro]? TjAtvIijcrai is

ftiffiv rendered <‘end his days wttj? JeU~
eitj”

P. 47,

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P. 47. There is a temple of the
Diofcuri, in which they are beheld
landing.”

P. 49. “ A {l>itue wliich deferves to
be itifpeBedV ©fac aijov.

Ibid, “In the fame ambit.'* TLepilooXog.

P. 52. “ What I am now going to re¬
late is not fo delightful to the ear as
wonderful to behold.” Ay.av'Tccai (jav

ofj.oi!Oi; BTTCcfafcy, ®ocv/xu

P. 65. T he Athenian ioixicr, and the
lower of the Athenians (p. 70) is the
Acropolis. So alfo the Acropolis of the
Phliafiars fp 171). Both are the citadel.

P. 73. “ The h'flory of the Athenians
called to miod the deeds of their ancef-
tors.” Here the tranflator follows the
Tatin and French veifion ; for the Greek
is only oo'j^^yov 'mo'Kkovq.

P. 85. “ Bacchus the Liberator.**

If this means Deliverer,
why not tranflate it (o, and not prefer
X vlandei^ Latin name? if it be de¬
rived from a place, why not lay Eleuthe'
reus., or ELutkerean P

P. 86. “ Thellalian knights.'* Is not
^TTTTfwv horjemen P

P. 88. Oi^ -ES-E^i Kc^rvGol/ 'STECroylsC^ is,
thofc fed, riksi per ijbedy at Corinth.

P. 93, Splendour-bearing Diana
7ia.iy(p(gov~\ is rather Itiminous.

P. 95, AovAot is JlaveSy not fervants.

F, 97. “ Stonj^ mangers of the horles
of Artaphanes, and in the fione veftiges
of a tent.” ^a,lva,i >r0GV, mangers of
Hone ; xar tv 'nrs^fxiq oKr,VY)Cy and

traces of a tent on the rocks.

The note in p. 101, about men wor-
fhiped as gods after their death, aferibing
the heroic age to one of tbofe “ fertile
periods wherein men, ttanfeending the
herd of mankind, both in pradlical and
intelledlual virtue, abounded on the
earth,” as well as men an<i animals of
iTiunllrous properties, oppoied to the fte-
rile period, and thele two peiiods de¬
pending on the diHerent circulations of
the heavens, is truly laughable.

P. 105, for Oryon read Geryon.

P. I 63* ©so? ycipavvoiq avlov adlsKocvcrg.

I)it'intiy deliru'jed it by lightning.

P. 187. Afirsid ate icr compare.

P. 233. Though Paufanias fays Ho¬
mer was deprived of his fight, he
afcrlbes it to hard ioriune\ and fa s not
a word of Helen’s being acceffary it ;
Air. T. therefore exceeds his commif-
fion by accounting for it Elaiomcally^
and niriking a p'ain tale unnecelfariiy
marvellous. “ Fables,” in his opinion,

“ intend to fignify by Helen all the
beauty fubfilling about generation, for
which there is a perpetual battle of fouls,
till the more intelledfual, havinpf van-
quifhed the more irrational f rms of life,
return to that place from W'hich they
originally came. But, according to feme,
the period of their circulation about
fenbble forms conGits of 10,000 years ;
Gnce 1000 years produce one ambit, as
of one vear. For 9 years therefore, i. et
for 9000 years, fouls revolve about ge¬
neration j but in the joth, having van-
quif'lied all the barbaric tumults, they
are faid to have returned to their pater¬
nal habitations.” According to this
free-mafonry we may expedf lome future
Air. T, at a proper interval, will give a
myflical explanation of Aliiton’s Para-
dife LoH, Mickle’s Lufiad, or Pope’s
Rape of the Lock. Of the fame com¬
plexion is the next note about an intd-
ledlual eye ftrong enough to perceive
that all things fympatkize with all;
which, if it has any meaning at all,
mutt be left to Plaronifis to hnd out.—
One more lample will fuffice. “ Bac¬
chus is the immediate or proximately
exempt producing caufe of the Titans,
01 ultimate artificers of things, and Se-
niele the divinity of fublunary fire, fuf-
pended from Bacchus *'

It is curious to fee the defence of the
Pagan oracles, which, it is admitted,
ceafed when the Chriftian religion made
i^s appearance; not becaufe they were
the ttirks of defigning priefls, or the
effedt of the influence of evil fpirit, but
heraufe they were produced by divine
influence, and ceafed when tlie Chriflian
religion appeared ; “ becaufe the parrs
of the earth in which the oracles were
given then become too impure to receive
the prophetic infpiration.” “ Jt is only
becaufe the eye is dreadfully . blinded by
the darknefs of perfect atheifm, which
has now fpread itfeif among all ranks of
men, that men fufpedl a collufion in ge¬
neral in the antient oracles.” HI. 304.

P. 279. \\"e have four afleiifks, as if
fomething was wanting; but, though
our tranflator thus .adopts tlie opinion of
Kuhnius, who wiflied for an oppor¬
tunity of confuhing the MSS. in the
King of France’s library to iupply the
deftcf, he is fihnt about it ; nor can we
find where the defedt lies. Paufanias
opens his Laconics with faying that, af¬
ter pafiihg by the Hermae, Laconia
preftiKs itfeif to vieO'/; and immediately
pafTes to the hiflory of that country,
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his Laconics. After which, he refumes
the topographical defeription of the
countrv. We cannot ice what interme¬
diate paragraph was neceiTary.

r. 3 1 1 . Amycla fubverted by the Do-
r]enfes, i«, Am vela deitroyed by the Do¬
rians. — Paufanias favs, ^in£ elevates ;
Mr. T exp'aitis, infflleB is of an eleva^
nature. Review rs will fmile here.
Which is the rnoO: probable, let the
tcader judpe.

P. 34 5. “ Glaucus was much fuperior
to hi', father in piety to the Gods. For,
when in the temple of jupuer, on tlie
fummir of Ithome, n > honours were paid
to the Gods by tire D.tiienfes, except by
the famibars of PoLcaon and Mefftne.
Glaucus ordered that he (h mld be vt ne-
rated, w'as the bill: that facrificed to Ma-
chaon the ion of Eiculapius, inGerenia,
&;c.” The pafTage is one of the molt
perplexed m Paufanias, and may be thus
rendered: “For, the temple of Jupiter,
on the top of Ithome, not having any
honours from the Dorians, or except,
or without (sci/ty), fram the famllv or
defeendants of Polycaon and MelTcne,
Glaucus was the perion who ordered
that they fliould be woilliiped. The
Dorians invaded the territory firit occu¬
pied by Polvcaon and his wife Melfene,
and neglefled the worlhip of Jupiter at
Ithome, which leems to have been paid
only by the friends or defeendants of
Poiycano and MeiTene, Glaucus therefore
ordered that worlliip fhould be paid to
ihem alf). Gedoyn tranbates it more
paraphraUically : “Polvcaon and Mel-
iene had already received the worlhip and
ceremonies of the great goddelles at An-
dania"'^, Glaucus eftablilhed the worihip
(of Jupuer among the Dorians, after ha¬
ving built a temple to him on iVIount
itiromef.” Amaijeus renders it, “Tlicre
being no worlhip paid in the temple of
Jupiter on Ithome to Paulanias and
MeiTene, Glaucus ordered that vvoilliip
Ihould be paid to them.”

P. 390. i'-Ad/emon Ihewed Aribomenes
a paliuge by which he might make his
cfcape.” O ^a^iiJLUv is the Deity y not a
particular daemon, and anfwexs to arru
©EOT afterwards i which Mr. T. ren-

^ Of tbir, however, there is no evidence
in Paufanias ; nor does one fee where Ge¬
doyn got fiis great goddejjcsy from whom he
transfers the v\'or hip aftciw'ards ordered to
be paid to Polycaon ami Meli'ene.

f It rather appears, from Paulanias, that
this temple was theie earlier.

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ders “ without the interference of a di¬
vine power” f p. 391)*

Mr. T. lupp' lcs the Atabians tranba-
ted Paufani.as, and borrowed from tiie
adventures of Anbomenes in the cave
thofe of Sisihad the tailor in the Arabian
Nights Entertainments.

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** Prior and poJierior'E\\:\C9,y'' we think,
would have been luutcr rendered “Eliaes,
bo< ks I. and II.”

P. 31. In the defeription of the batue
of Jupiter at Elis there is a palTagc
which has puzzled the criiicks ; Mr. T-
not profelbng to explain any verbal dif¬
ficulties in his original, paffes it by.
The w'ords are, Ettj mv BaO^ov rov
3'^ovov re ave^oHo; Kat OPO£ aXAoj ho<7-
fjiog Toy Aia. “ In the bale which
lupporis the throne and the mountain,
other ornaments are placed about Jupi¬
ter.” By this it biould Teem as it Ju¬
piter’s throne was fixed on a mountain g
and the correfifion of Ktbinius, wpo? for
ofoj, is certainly harih. Gedoyn gets
over the difficulty by tranllating it “ le
p edebal qui foutient toute cette ma£e.'^

P. 37. “Evident tokens exib at pre-
fent of Tantalus and Pelops having
brought a colony into Greece.” “ Of
the refidence of Tantalus and Pelops
among us” is the original,* trap’ v^ixiv.
Amafaeus tranbates it “ in Graciatn j”
as if he had read EXXna-iv: where¬
as it rather refers to the country of Fau-
fanias, which was Afia Minor; and this
agrees with his argument. '

P. 40. The account of the feveral a’-
tars ac Olympia has occafioned much
perplexity. Ti e Greek runs thus ;
®vovai Efix ixiv ^svle^ea $'e tco

OAep(.7r*ty Att, olieg avri ruv Taiv

£ylog rov vaov eon (tog ^aiy.ov xat

(xvlv) *> (pocnx m/xTilcc

^vovai A(lnvz skIx E^fxyyj, “They
hrd of all lacrihee to Velfa, in the next
place to Olympian Jupiter, and thefe two
altars are within the temple; in the
third place to Mercury ; in the fourth
place to Minerva ; in the fifth place to
Diana; and in tlie fixth place to Ei-
gane.” Gedoyn, following the fcholiaft
in Pindar, Olymp. VI. makes fix altars
to twelve deities, two deities to an altar.
Paulanias enumei'ates but fix altars, and
as many deities. The two firft are to
Veba (perhaps the fcholiab’s Rhea) and
Jupiter Olympius : on the inner altars for
oHeg w'e may read ©Yov^e:; the third
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skar of ^.Tercui'V or Apolio: for t-voq
read E^iueo,*, or A'sr&AXa.’i'o^, or E^ueoc x.at
AToAAfo’ysi ; ihc fifth to Diana j the fiitch
to Minerva Er^ane : the fourth is to be'
iupplieci with Bacchus and the Graees,
We fnoulci Irave correfifcci the fiith,
KAI AA<&EH2, but that thefe
two aie mentioned below' at> havincr one
common altar. Gedoyn has fuppiied the
pafiag.e from Pindar’s Scholiaft.

Ih re(>f:c7r'lxi Koii rovloi.i;

is not “ On tiicfe there is the following

P. 99. ‘‘ Daritss, the bailard fon of
J\ I taxerxes, dethroned the legitimate fon
of Artaxerxes. The name cf this fon is,
in Paulanias, Icrofa-toc, which Hmuld be
eovrecled Oy^iavo?, from Diodorus Si¬
culus in Pa merius.

Ibid. “The top of the cavern had
fome v.'ide gapes.

P. 117. As an inftancc how little re¬
gard Mr. T. pays to cridcifm, take his
not correfiling the 123d Olympiad to the
126th with Palinerius.

P. 119. The negative particle is omit¬
ted. “ Thefe ottes the decree which
■was paifeci by the common confenc of
the Arcadians regularly comprehended,”
iliould be “ comprehended as in

the origmal, OT

P. 141. C. 20, 1. 20, add after “ god”
‘and otters cakes kneaded with honey. ^

P, ! 54. “ Adiieta^ exercife them-
fclves m wreill-.ng in this inclofure, and
iuch as be;ng at htjure fratn KJoreJiiir,g
contend with fofter coats of mail.”
AQAvfl^tc ou IIAAAISONTAS et; ; not
yet fit tor wreiliing, or perhaps for box-
jpg, by the niiftake of one word for an¬
other.

, P. 215. It wets not the king’s daugh¬
ter Ituc ihc king hiirifelf who ttave ii’s
daughter in marriage, 0 Tn/ vn.Q]£pri c-rTw
cj^ouc, that committed the acl of violence
theie meiitioned on his pet fon,

P. 245. “It is evident that this tem¬
ple was iiedicatcd at firfr to Iphigenia.^’
As we i'.ave no evidence that Iphip-enia
was deified, it feerns moic proper to'Vcad
yiTr’ I^ifs’jsicc rlian making i-

p'nigenu ti e dedticatrcis or builder of the
t on pi ; to Dia.na, tinn tiie temple erefii-
ed or dedicated by apy other perfon to
j^'-'logcnia. Her ftatue l>cing in the tern-
.pie is ro objcdticn to this interpretation j
and the Italian tranfiacor of Psufarnas is
.Of the fame opinion.

^ P. att. “ One of th.efe drivers) which

now:. to/Egiia is called Crius, from the
Titrat uf Ins name. Eut that which.

' foa

defeending from the mounfain Sipylus,
flows to Hermus is called Alfus.” PTr
AAerog Palmeriu? reads AAAo<; and then
it fhould be tranflatcd as is that which
defeending from Mount Sipylus,” &c.

P. 255. “The divine nature is no
longer produced out of the human ; or,
in other wot els, men are no longer gods.”
This is a paraphraftic tranflation of
©t05 ifinlo STI £| ccyQfM'Trov,

Note on p. 238. Ear/hguakeSf njuar,
pejidenct'^ famine^ and ocher contingen-
ecs, are emploved by divinity as the
lelfer means of purifying paics of the
earth . j the grcatc.r means aie deluges and
conjiagratwas.” It feems as if the greater
and lefler means are here inverted; and
it is not eafy to fay what is meant by
confi'agrations.

P. 270. Crude tiles are more properly
unbaked bricks.

P. 273. “ There is a Vefla called
common, of a round figure, and in nvhicb
Auconoe, the daughter of Cepheus, is
reported to be interred. There is a pil¬
lar o<V£r the tomb, and a horfeman on
the pillar; this man is Gryllus, the fon
of Xenophon.” To (xsv Es'ix 'A.ct>.oygtvJii

ytotvvi ’UJiffitpsceq b^cvjo..

avloOi sAsyelo KitcrQcti Tr,v T<y

rxiAy) Ts Kxt avr/p ijrTzev;

fa,jj.svo(; eriv etti rr) rnAj?. It may be
doubted whether Autemoe, or rather
Antinoe, lies under the 'V'efta. The lafi:
paragraph ihould be tranflated a horfe-
man carved on the pillar, Gryllus the
fon of Xenophon ; otherw’lfe it miglij:
leem as it Pau Tanias gave the words of
the inlcription under the ftatue,

* P. 2S5. “ riie road is again bifsSledd*
rather, “ again dividesd^

P. 287. Paui'anias fays, a brafs ftatue
was not dedicated by Ulylfes; becaufe
“in tiiole times thcv did not know how
fo make, ftatues of folid brals, but fabri¬
cated them from laminee, one over an¬
other^ fmil&r 10 the manner in vohich a
garment is ’ivove.” Paufanias’ word?,
Ov yxp ’SccoTToli rov ^a^^Hov tk afa'^iaalz
OCX 'maylo; t-7ri-avlo spfuaao'dxi '/.’X^xsTip
iab'/i X i^vtpxivo'diCy convey a meaning
<lirt£lly oppofiic ; liiat ftatues of biafs
were mu then made like garments, of
One piece, hxxt piece-meal \ and fo he de-
feribes that of JUpiter at Sparta (Lac.
c. 18), the limbs formed feparate, and
faftentd on tvith nails.

P. 316. “Except the Lycofurenfes
and Trapezuntii, who revoked from the
Athenians, &;c. Paufanias mentions two
other pco])!e, the 77/rff/?«rand the l.y-

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ceati ; but thefe are*omitteci in the La¬
tin, though adopted by the French
iranfiaror.

- 337' (fi«oi ^oKSi) za.?;cy-

/usvov, dots not I'eem to expreL “ it ap¬
pears to me that formerly there we e
other towns after thefe and fCai
TOlS riAXlN A^itayiav tjjv
(pucFiV tviccvQcc, is an unufual conftruftion
for “ It is univerfally agreed that all
thefe p'aces belong to the Arcadian's.”
Perhaps we fhould charge roig •t^acnv
into tjravlaTracTiyj OF 'Kraaty alonCy OF
^a<Tiv into ^ociviicn,

P. 343. “ I am afraid of difclofing the
name of Defpoina to the uninitiated.”
E^tKToi will relate to Paufanias j but, if
it relate to Homer, it fhould be vvritccn
t^EKTEr. If y^x(Pii,v means only fimpiy
to nvritOf Paufanias has got over his
fcruples. If to explain, neither he nor
Homer have done (o much.

P.356. ‘‘I facrificed to her planted
trees.” Tat te avro tojv y;f<,spct}v roe

TE aX>.a, is, the produce of planted or
cultivated trees, and other things. —
Wool full of the fordes oi llieep ; why
not the dirt of fheep r

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P. 57. Hercules tied the horfes under
the chariots. YHO roig

Ibid, “Prior to the Theban kings,
indeed, no one was acquainted with the
meaning of the Oracle, and thefe in fuc •
ceihon unfolded it to each other.” Ettj-
yaerGaJ ?£ r&yj ^aaiXfaj evotv aXXov

1? TO |uavT*U|sia is^ literally, Before the
kings, no other perfons knew (the
meaning of) the Orae'e, 'It cannot
mean, as Amafaius and Gedoyn fay,
that “ the kings referred themfelves to
the Oracle, and accounted nothing cer¬
tain but what came fiom it ” Sphinx,
^he favourite daughter of Laius, was
entrufled by her father with the oracle
which Cadmus brought from Thebes ;
and none of his fons iiaving knowledge
of it except Oedipus by a dream, fiie
puzzled all of them who applied to her,
till file found his acquaintance with it,
v'hich fecured to him the fuccellion.
Paufanias therefore means to fay, that
rone but the legiiimare branches of the
royal family knew il\ere was an orach',
w’hich was a kind of faibboleth for the
fuccellion. The natural fons of Laius
could net guefs at it. How much more
natural is the hillorical explanation of
hphinx, that fiie was the natural daugh¬
ter ot Laius, than that fits means the

phantafy in man, and cether in the uni-
verle ! Let us apply the fame key i)y
which Mr. T. would unlock the fabu¬
lous. hillory of Greece to Rome, or later
periods, and fee what work would bs '
made.

P. III. “A marine man,” Sat-
XacrcTioc, “ who covered Jenjsn acresf*
could not he an officer of marines, ai
Gedoyn tranflares it, but a fea-monfter.
Mr. T. fuppofes “ the great eartblimfs
of the prudence of Tityius is implied btr
his being extended over nine acres of
ground.” When he piques himfeif ia
his preface on having given a curious
hiflory of human bones of prodigious
magnitude, that have been found, he
fhould have illuftrated them with better
authority than Phiegon Traliianus.

P. 113* AtGoi XvJxL; aicrctJPfVfXiVOi^

are Ifoneb gathered together on an heap,
an oxa6t heap of fionts, and not
Hones piled in an heap.”

The confufion of Delphi, the people
of Delphos, and Delphc?; for Delph/, the
citv, might eafiiy have been prevented,
Delphi is cettafnly the name of the city,
and De!ph/<ai7j of the people. In the
Greek, AiXtpcs is the place, and A£Ai^O;>
A'Acpoi, inhabitant or inhab tants of it.

P. I25« &BCUP01 are peifons fent out
on dilcovery, or to make enquiry at the
oracle, impropetly tranflaieci Jpeculators^

P. 177. The Ions of Atreus adminif-
terthe oath to Ajax. Amvloc s^opKoveru
Amaleus renders it as Mr. 'f. ; but Ge-
doyn, reieaje Ajax from hts oath, which
he had offered to make by way of excul¬
pation concerning his violence to Caf-
landra.

Ibul. “That the whole pifture might
cor ref pond to the totnb of Neoptole-
mus.” On UTTE^ rov NEodloAEp.ov rov ra-
(pov 9) ypct(p'n 'usxrri lyi.iK'hsy ai^af yevt]-
o-icrBai, Gedoyn fuppoftd this painting
was moveable, and to be put in the tomb
of Neoptolemus. Paufanias feeros only
to mean, that, as the tomb was juli: b ■ the
painting, it had a particular reference to it,

Thele fpecimens may fufHce of the
manner in winch this tranflation is exe¬
cuted. Had Mr. T. bellowed a little
more attention to ciicicifm, he would
have given a more improved edition of
his author, whofe ftyls is lingular and
brief, and has fuliered by tranfci ibers,
as well as have rendered his own hook
more an Englilh claibck, by a more
pleafant and uqatfe6fed ftyie.

The p'ates arc copies from Stuart of
thi umple of Jupiter Olympus, the

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temple of the Win(^s (not clefcribed by
Paufanias), the Ionic temple on the
IlilTus (which W'e fuppofe Mr, T. takes
for that of Diana the huntrtfs '* ), the
nmnumcnt of Lybcrates, comrncnly call¬
ed the lantern of Dernoffhenes (not in
Paulanias), the Doric portico.

j6^- A Specimen of a Commentary on Shak-
fpeat e j containing, I. Notes on As Ton Like
It 5 II. An Att^empt to explain and illujirate
•various Vajfnges on a ne%v Fi inciple of Criti-
eifn, derived fi cm Mr. Locke’s of

the AJfociation of Ideas.

MR. Walter Whiter, who addrefics
his rcacleis from Clare-hall, tells them,
he has laboured with confiderahle dili¬
gence to convince at once the reader and
the commentator rhat the (lore of know¬
ledge* are not ultimately exhauOed in
the elucidations of Shakfpeare, and that
he may lie teoipted to proceed in the re-
fearch, and enlarge tlie boundaries of his
fpecimen. In the attempt to explain and
iliuftrate various palTages on a new prin¬
ciple Of criticifm he has enclearoured to
•un'ohl the fecret and fubtle operations
of Genius from the mod indubitable
fio^lnne in the theory of metaphyfKks,
I'le refers to Mr. Malone’s editit n,
which he confirfers as forming a diilin-
guifhed era in th.e ftudyof Shakfpt-ate.

We cannot fuid'eribe to Mr. VV’s
trnendation, “ Here feel we not the pe¬
nalty of Adam/’ inftead of “ Here feel
we buif See.; the ooec intending to
fhew that thev felt cn/p the alteration of
feafons, the f.fte6\ of his cuiTe, whicli
they had hardly time to attend to in the
hurry and pomp of courts. Again, U
'Jupiter! is certainly a mere exclama¬
tion, not yet out of fafhion, and me
more conneofed with Jo^imlny than Jo-
•viality with Jupiter or Jove ; nor is
‘iveary to be changed into merry. It is
immaterial whether we read tune or
turne a merry note; and we need not
travel into Yorkfhire for this difeovery,
Lme your fongs, or your notes, being a
common phrafe. Common rea'dets, not
bltfled with metaphyfical ideas, will
make themfeives merry with the f<tce-
iious old (quire's Duck fong. There is
no accounting for Shakfpeare’s corrupt
Latinuy : and he may have ufed it here
wuh as little meaning as in other placer;

* The note on this name of Diana is,
through certain nnapparent powers refi-
deut in tlie rays of the moon, of which ar¬
row's are an image, ihe takes away from;
or, in otiier wmrds, receives back again the
iugural life which fire gave,”

and, if we are to fuppofe to Anit prefer-
alrle to to Amicus, we fhall have, as
ft range a word as Due ad me, which
Jaqiies certainly ufed affe£fe'dlv.

if the butter- woman’s rank to mar¬
ket means the^^ig trot rate (as it is vul¬
gar! v called*), with which butter- women
uniformly travel, one afier another, in
their road to market, Cvhv fhould we
change Shakfpeare’s word rate for
rtiot. k P

Many correftions noticed by Mr. W.
ferve only to fliew how apt cricicks are
to overaft their part j as on 1. 159, 165,
168, 170, 172.

Better part, applied to Alary, is a re-
feience to Scripture; wb^^ti applied to
Atalanta, means her chafiiiy, as the
quota-ion from Romeo and Juliet plainly
evinces:

To,^ca(t me off wlien thou hall culled th«
better pal t of me,

Robbed me of my shajiityd'

The other quotations are not-t® the pur-
pofe; nor is all the epifode about painting
and tapeftry, becaufe, whoever is con-
verfant in either will find tiiac they
were remarkably deficient in expiefiion
and efiarafftr, though laughing and <rry-
ing are not too difficult to be exprtfleci
by the vilefi fign-pofl daniier. But fuch
is the alfociation of Mr W"s ideas, that
every vvord is to be prefTed into the fer-
v\zt o{ paindfig. “1 believe,” fays lie,
“that priAd"^ is a word of this fort”
(p. 47). — P. Si. Wat m. and moifi may
be well cotitraffed when applied to a
Jhirt, but not witen the toimcr is applied
to a firirt and the latter to trees. If we
are to read moijl, it would lie better to
underhand the two fentences as enforcing?
each other by improbabilities ; will the
cold air grow warm, or the rotten trees
move about, for thv accommodation? In
the fo frequent afTociation of wiih
drefs and n.veed, the affociation of ideas
muff either prove that he was quibbling
or punning upon words, or that he did
not underftand them. Id the inftance
from As You Like It (p. 93) Dr.
Johnfon anti Mr. VV. have humbled on
the fame thing; .and chafe was certainly,
i)y the poet himfelf, intended for reafon-
ing or argument. But furelv it is the
quinteffence of metaphyfical refinement
to difeover, in Falftaffe’s defeription of
the efTefif of wine on wit or learning, any
intended allufions to either univerfity.

‘te- In the line,

To have the Couches deareft priz’d.”

1794'] Review of New Pullicaiionu

In the pafTage from Hamlet (p. 117),
Many fuch like ASES of great charge,^’

the word in capitals is the plural of ASj
not of Afs ; and charge is moment, or
importance i and bearers are Ictter-
bringers, without the Icafl reference to
alTes ; nor can vve fee the imagined con¬
nexion between that animal and bearing
or charge in the other (juotation (pp.
1 18, 119). Yet, on the other hand, we
mull differ from our critick in regard to
evgrojfing Death (p. 123), who is the
engrolfer or completer of the bargain,
without regard to his over-beating, all-
monopolizing power. Nor can we be¬
lieve Shakfpeare was deceived by the
analogy of vu'gar pronunciation between
reafons and raifins (p. 127) to “convert
his reafons into tangible fubfancesJ^
Reafons may be weighed without feek-
ing them in a grocer’s drop; and boulted
language (p. 129) is only ufed meta¬
phorically for fpeaking corre£lly. V/hat-
tver error Milton (p. 13 i— 134) miglit
he guilty of in h;s “ bueb^e dsbiors of the
foie fur," furely Mr. W. is not clear of
error in his expofition of “ you fur your
gloves with reafon which means,
l:mply, you are furniflied or fiocked
with realons even to the lining of your
loves i you have a reafon ready for all
occafions againll the war. We wonder,
when cramm'd reafon was mentioned,
lie did not refer us from the grocer’s to
the poulterer’s, and find fome antient
mode of llufEng animals with raifins \
as he runs a rigg on other culinary lan^
guagCf and the broken meats, orts, or
fragments^ of BROKEN tears (p. 136);
which means no more than tears imper-
ffcifliy dried up, or ftanding in the eye
till the fait formed a Icdimtnt. H^d
Mr. W. been of St. John’s college in-
Uead of Clare hall, he could not have
dwelt more feelingly on culinary mat¬
ters; for, who that knows fmall La in,
can doubt that fragments and broken
meat are fynonytuous, whether in the
New Tefiament or Shakfpeare. Thus,
aifo, the candy of language or enuntrv,
connefted with the fa<iMntng obfeqttioif-
nefs of a dog, requires no Oed pus to
unravel. Tiie palfage from 'I'linon of
Athens,

Will the rt)ld brook.

Candied with ice, caudle thy mornint^ talVe ?’»
has not the imallelt relation to either.
Nor need we go to Homer 10 know that
cogs will fawn on their mafiers after
dinner, in hope of obtaining the broken
meat or fragments; or that the poet uftd
Gent. Mag, O^ober^ i794*

an image more pertinent than that of
feeding them w'ith the kneaded bread
with which their mailers have clean fed
their hands. A kybe has no connexion
with paging or fpanneltng at the heels—
though the fame word, candy’ d, is menr
tioned in pafiages where ihofe emphatic
phrafes occur.

P. 147. “Tie fsafon of all nature'^,
fleep,” in Macbeth, is happily explained
that which frtjer'vts it, and keeps it frejb
and lajling ; nor lefs fo tlie *^good biiTing
cannon” ia Hamlet (p. 150). As to
Hamlet’s calling Polonius monger , is

it not a token of infamty in him? Ve¬
nus in Jonfon was a fiftmonged s daugk~
ter, only as fprurg from the lea.

From p. 153 to 19S we have iliuftra-
tians drawn from the ffage and its ap¬
purtenances, concluding with that fub-
lime paifage, “ leave no: a rack behind,”
explained to mean the body of clouds
confidered as a conflituenc part ia the
machinery of a pageant.

Mr. W. proceeds to vindicate the ori-
ginalicv of R.owley, and to compiimenC
Mr. Gibbon as an author of induflry in¬
defatigable, accuracy fcrupulous, and
reading immenfe. So flrong is the ai-
fociation of ideas in Mr. W’s mind,
that he can ring changes without end oa
the peep}7ig out of puppets in a puppet-
fhow or pageant (pp. 240, 241.)

If the reader vvifhes for any ilrorger
proof of the ajfociation of ideas, let hsm
take the following ;

After all the illuilrations which I hav'e
laid befote tlie reader, both of the nature
and the effedt of tfie alTuciating pi inciple,
his curiofity will ffill, I tnid, be gratifievi
by the following example, of which, in my
opinion, the evidence is diredl and irrefifli*
b!e. We flratl there find that an allufion to
a well-known narrative has recalled to the
mind of the poet certain terms which it
contains, though the wo’ ds are there applied
in an abdiadled fenfe, wtiich, in the origi-
11 d, are Confined to cor]>or«al affe-^ion?.
The paifage occurs in Mrsafure for Meafure,
where the Duke is reprelcntmg to Angelo
tltat the excellent qualities which w^ere
given us .by Nature were not intended to
remain ufelefs in the hands of t!te polielfor,
hut were delimed to be employed for tbu
benefit of others.

For, if our virtues

Do not fo fo)th of us, ’twere all alike

As if wc liad litem net.

Every one perceives that the poet fieie al¬
ludes to the nat.facive in tlie Gofpel, when
Jefus is con I cions “ that virtue had gone out
of l:m," when the w'oman was cured of an

iffui

Review of New PuNIcatWns. fO«5F<,

ijjue of biv. '' by touching his garment, M'arL
V. 25.”

Would the reader believe that thefe
latter words are ufed on the preceding
lines, though they are applied by the
)Doet to the operations of intelleft ?

Spirits are not' finely touche^'

Sut to fine ijfuc%r

That is, elevated minds are not endowed
with fuperior qualities but (as Johnfoa
obfeives) to great confequences, and for
high purpofes. The force of fuch an
example would be weakened by the
forcible aflidance of an iiiuiiration or
comment (p. 255).

Here then we' take our leave of' Mr.
Wj obferving, that,, among a multitude
of over-ftrained and relined conje61ures,.,
fome few found criticifms will be race
v;ith.

164, T'he Infant Vifion of Sbakfpeare-, 'with
an /^pojirophe to the immortal Bardj and other
Poemr, By Mr. Harrifon.

THE Poet of Nature is hete pre-
fented -with a globe, as a toy, which he
contemplates as the habitation of men of
various chara^lers, andAfurrounded^ in
the ether by angels, demons,, a-nd furies.
The fpirit of Sbakfpeare is n© mprs em-
ploved in the defer! ption of this childiih
petition than in the burlefque print of
rite Sacrifices to thefljrine of Avarice, in
which Shakfpeare’s charafters are cari¬
catured. Could not Mr. H. have been
content with Mr? Gray’s animated lines
on Shakfpeare, without this fupeifluous
dilatation of them ?

To him the mighty mother did unveil
Her aweful face ; the dauntlefs child
Stretcht forth his little arms and fmil’d.

This -pencil take, faid Ibe, whofe colours clear
Richly paint the vernal yeaiv
Thine too thefe golden heysy immsrtul ooyy
This can unlock the gates of joy,

Of horror that, and thrilling fears,

Of ope the facred fource of fympathetlc
tears.”

161^. A friendh Addref to the Me^nhen of the
feveral C,Iui>s in the Barijh of St. Anne,
VVeftminfter, affociated for the Purpsfe of
obtaining a Reform in Parliamefit. By Wil¬
liam Knox, Efa-.-

“ TN confifjuence of my having pro-
pofed the rdolution for appUing to the
msgiftrate to take away the licences of
fuch viftuallers in the parlih of Sr, Anne,
Weftminfier, as fuffered feditious clubs
to be held in their houfes, which was
upantmoufiy agreed to by the parilhion-
m at their general meeting in Novem-

her, to preferve the public tranquillity, I
was foon after attended by fome mem--
bers of the clubs who met for the pur-
pofe of obtaining a reform in parlia¬
ment, Vsdth. a declaratiomof their attach-
ment 10 the Britifh confiitution ; and ar
the fame time expreffing their vvifh thar
the right of eledion fhould be extended’
ro all inhabitants who paid taxes, upon
the principle that all- who contributed to
the fupport of government ought to
have a fhur® in its formation.. The ar¬
guments I then ufed to diffuade them
from fuch a purfuit made fo great am
impreffion upon fome of the.m, that they^
requefied 1 would put my reafons upon*
paper, and give them to- them to read irt
their clubs j which I accordingly did ?
and* having fince feen that the higher
dalles of reformers puifue the feme ob-'
Jed: with thofe ro whom I addreffed thar
paper, I conceive the publication of it,
with fuch additions and alterations as
farther confideration of the fubjed has
fuggefied, may be of fome utility, by
expofing the abfurdity of that novel and-
mofi: unconfiirutional dodrine, that the
Houfe of Commons is merely a houfe of
delegates or reprefentatives of the peo¬
ple, and bound, as fuch, to obey their'
inftrudions, which leads fo diredly to-
the eftablifhmeflc of democracy and
anarchy.”

166. A SermoTif preached in the Cathedral
Church of St. Paul, before the Lord Mnyory
fudgesy Aldermen, Serjean)s at Law, Sheriffs f-
and City officers, on Sunday, May 11,1794,
being the firji Sunday in Eafler Perm. By'
George Stepney Townley, M. A, Chaplain,
to bh, Lordjhip.

FROM Pfalm'xlijs. 2. Mr. T. takes
occafion so combat the fafhionable doc¬
trine of Equality ; and fhews that the
exiftence of “ high and low, rich and
poor,” is not prohibited in the two au¬
thentic teflimonies of the divine will,,
the Mofaic and Chrrllian covenants ; and
that the inequality obfervable in humane
condition proceeds, in a great degree,
from the circumllances of our nature.

167. Vindiciae Britannice^ bcingStriBuress?f
a late Pofnphlct by Gilbert VVakefield, B.A,
late Fellow of Jefiis College, Cambridge,.
intituled, “ Fhe Spirit of Chrifianity com-
pared with the Spirit of the Limes in Great
Britain.” By cm Under-graduate.

THESE flridures are inferibed to the
Right EJon, William Wyndham, Efq.
M. P. “ In an age like this, when the
tery fundamental principles of ChriOia-

nity

■‘794]

slity and civil fociety are called in quef-
tion ; when, under the mafic of free in¬
quiry, do^rines are broached tlie nictl
aibfurd that ever entered the imsgination
of a maniac-k, the moft diabolical that
ever -entered the . brains of a villainy
when Government is treated as a farce,
and Religion as a joke ; it is furely a
duty incumbent upon every perfon to
exert his reafoning faculty (however
bounded may be its rapacity.) on the
fide of iTirth, Virtue, and Religion.’^’
if this firfl: work of the under-graduate’s
be received with any fymptoras of pwlj-
Jic approbation, chefe will confirm him
in a defign, which he has formed from
bis eariieft youth, of dedicating his life
to the political fervice of his Ring and
country. He is eonfeious that his in¬
tentions are purej and is confident, as
the celebrated Mr. Craggs, in his reply
to Sir Robert Walpole, profeffed himfel-f
to be, that, ten years hence be will not
entertain opinions diffimijar to his pre-
fencones.” VVith good intentions, and
now and then a good paragraph, this
writer ieems to us to have miftaken his
talents, and has much to improve, both
in ftyle and argument, before he will be
engaged in the fervice cf any party.,

r68. Remarks on the General Orders of ihe
Duke of York to his udrmy on June 'T,
I7q4. By Gilbert Wakefield, B.A> Ut-e
Fello^iv cf Jefus College, Cambridge.

- — Tribus Anticyris caput infaqabiie !

— - Di te, Damafippe, Dexque

Verura ob cenfilium clonent tonfore. - -

- PoftquaTn omnes res mea Janum

Ad medium fradla eft, a'iena negoHa euro
Excuffm fropriis,"- ■

- infanis et tu, ftultique prope otnues 5

- pudor — -te maius urget,

infunos qui inter vereare infanus haberi,
Primum nam inquirani, quid fttfurere: hod
■ft erit in te

Solo, nil verbi, pereas quia fm titer, addara.

— - - Clamet tamica

Mater, iScc.

Hk folTaeft inger>s,hic rupes maxima ; ferva:
Ron magis audienc quam Fufms ebrids olim,
CCim ilionam cdormit, Catienis tnille du-
ceatis, [^gutn

Mater, te appello, clamantibus, iiuic ego vul-
Errori fimilem cuixftum infauire docebo.

Danda eft ellebori multo pai s maxima _

Refcio an Aalicyrara ratio illis deftinet om-
nem.

S69. An Enquiry into the Laws of Falli'nv
Bodies. By Robert Anftice.

“THE utility of du'y underftanding
(whatever relates to the fubjeft of the

9Ji

following pages, muft be acknowledged
by all who conficitr the general applica¬
tion of machinery to almoft every branch
of our in’£Tiufa61ories, to be both expe¬
ditious and expedient, as much cheaper
than manual labour, and necelTary, as
manual labour is inadequate, in many
cafes, to the fabrication, and in others to
the demand, of our manufa6tures. The
very refpedlable authorities to which the
author found he had to oppofe his opi¬
nions in ■federal parts of this enquiry,
for fome time pmevented his publifhing
them } but having been fuccefsful in
the application of thofe of his princi¬
ples, whidi he has reduced to pra61ice,
and his treatife on wheel- carriages ha¬
ving met with a favourable reception,
he is induced to lay them bufore the
pubHck.”-— This is an effay to prove the
Lubentian do61'rine of the progrelTioD of
bodies in motion, which is dire^f
■oppofition to the Newtonian fyftem ;
that the comparative force or impetus of
bodies in motion is as the fquare of
their velocities, multiplied into their
quantities of mact-er.

t ya The Pious Mother ; w, Evldenees for
Heaven, written in the Tear 1650, hy Mrs.
Thomafin Head, for the Benefit of her
■Children. Publifihed from .the original MS.
h James Franks,"^, ilf. and Curate df
■Halifax.

MRS, HEAD, a native ©f England,
was refident in Ireland at the time of
the dreadful mafiacre of the Proteftants
in the reign of Charles I. ^ of which a
full account is given by Bifliop Burnet,
and epitomifed in an introdu^ion to the
little vvork before us. The perfonal
fufferings of Mrs.H. and her family arc
alfo narrated in a prefatory addrefs to her
children 5 in which it appears, that tiiey
fled for their lives to the Ifle of Man,
where, without money to help, or friend
to fpeak for them, they were hofpitably
^eltered by the heft family in that
ifland, and at laft, after many difficul¬
ties, brought fafe to their native land.
With the fubfequenc hiftory of Mrs. H.
Mr. Franks proftfTei himfelf unacquaint¬
ed, any farther than that “her huffiand
(urvivtd the troubles in Ireland only a
lliort time;” that “his death was at¬
tended with aggravating circumfiances
and that “ his widow refided f@tne time
at Dorchefter."

Thefe pious produftioos of Mrs. H
which made their firft public appearance
in the fecond volume of “ T'he Theolo¬
gical Mifcellany,” confift of five diltindl

ellays :

Heview of New PuhlUathns

932

Review of New PuUkaiions,

[oa.

effays : I Evidences for Hesven II.
“ Creed III “ Auarojiy of Sinceriiy
IV. “Vanity of the VVorld j’* V- “Glo--’
ries of H'. aven.'’ Of thefe, the firft is
the rnoft finif]:ed ,• the two lad are re¬
markable for a judicious application of
hiRorical fafts. The thiee fxrft were
lately the property of a lady, who left
them to Mr. Franks, on account of the
regard he had dircp(!ered for them. The
ocher tvvo were bought fome time ago,
at a public audiioe, i)y a clergyman, to
whom they atprefent be’ong. Mr. F.fo-

. of the Pandora frigate, of 24 guns and
160 men ; which, arriving at Santa
Cruz, proceeded by the llraits of Ma-
gellan, and, Jan. 31, 1791, faw Cape
St. Juan, Staten ifland, and New Year’s
ifland, and weathered Cape Horn with¬
out accident. The thanks of every one
on-board are due to Mr. Cherrv, epm-
miHioner of the vidfualling-office, for
his uncommon attention to the visual-
ling. March 4, they reached EaRer
ifland ; and, 24, Ocaheice ; and, befo'e
the end of the month, apprehended 14
liciis farther information refpefiling either of the mutineers, wlio were there, and,

Mrs. Head or more of her MSS.

Recommenditrg the perufai of this
little manual, we fhall give a fmall rp"ci-
men of the language, from an effay on

AbRraflion from the World.”

“ Who would confide in the applanfe of a
giddy multitude ? who would lean upon the
promife of a wavering friend, who varies as
often as a v'aire, whof& word changes as of¬
ten as the moon, and whofe heart is fo de-
ceirful and defperatdy wicked, that he him-
felf cannot dive to the bolt '-m of it ? How
hath the faife frieud'.hip of the world de¬
ceived me ! hovv firm and eredl have thofe
reeds flood in the calm and funfhine of rrsy
profpei’ity ! But when the lafl tempeft of
trouble and adverfity, hath cotne, and the
world hath feemed to frown on me, they
have quickly hung dowm their heads, that
they might not fee rfie, or framed idle ex-
cufes for not afiifiing me. They, who have
the will, often plead inability. 1 have never
leaned on thefe reeds, but, they have either
heat or broken. They have been like an
old ruinous houfe — when I liave come to
them for fhelrer and protedlion againfl a
florm, they have fallen upon me, and crufii-
ed me to the ground ; fo that this worldly
friendfhip hath, in my adverfity, not only
become unprofitable, but even hurtful.
Their kindnefs and love have degenerated
into malice and hatred.”

with a tender in company, quitted the
ifland May 8, and vifited the Society
iflands, till they left them on the 13th.
They afterwards loft their jollv-boat,
and, on the zzd, parted from the tender,
and proceeded to Anamooka, carrying
with them its king to Tofoa, to colleft
tributes frbm the iflands under his ju-
rifdidlion, the chiefs of which lowered
their heads over the fide of their canoe,
and he, agreeably to their cufiom, put
his foot upon their heads (fee Jofhua
X. 24). Hence they paid a vifit to fe-
veral ciufters of iflands, and returned
again, without hearing of the tender.
In one or thefe iflands Mr. H. deferibes
a fpot, where volcanic eruptions have
happened, as bearing the figure of a
piece of a fiat table land, without the
flighted: eminence or indention, anc!
fmoke was ifiaing from the edges round
its whole circuit. Purfuing their courfe
among various new iflands to the Wcfl-
ward, and keeping Endeavour firaits
open till they got among breakers, irs a
part of the ocean re prefen ted by Bou¬
gainville as extremely dangerous and
perfefliy unexplored, here the fbui
flruck on a reef of rocks in a dark
hot my night, and, jufl before day¬
break, went down; 35 men and 4 pri-
foners w'ere drowned. In two days time
they let fail from the wreck in the pin¬
nace, red yawl, launch, and blue yaw!, tbe
principal part of their fuhfifience being
in the launch. A large found, to which
Dipejjei experienced by the Crewy from Ship- they gave the name of Sandw'icb, is (le‘

1 7 r . A f^oyage round the
’aiidora

World, in His Ma-
jejiy's Frigate Pandora ; performed under the
Hireclim of Captain Edw.ards, in the Tea^s
■J790, I '91, and 1792? nvith the Difeove-
ries made in the South Seas, and’ the many

nvreck and Famine^ in n Voyage of iico
Miles, in open Boats, between Endeavour
Straits and the If.and of Timor. By Mr.
<^e®rge Hamilton, late Surgeon cf the
Pandora.

GOVERNMENT having refolved
to l.ring to puniihmsnt the mutineers of
the Bounty, and to furvey the flraits of
Endeavour, in order to facilitate a paf-
fage to Botanv-bay, appointed, Augufl
279®> Capt, Edwards to the cemmand

feribed as extremely well fituateci for
a rendezvous on furveying Endeavour
fira’its ; “and, were a little colony- fet¬
tled here, a concatenation of Chridian
fetdcrneiits would ench.a’n the world,
and be ufeful to any unfortunate fliip>
of whatever nation, that might he wreck¬
ed in thofe feas ; or, fiiould a rupture
take place in South America, a great
yvein of commerce might find its way
through this channel.” Sept. r79H

Rtvifw of N^ew Puhiicatiomt

1794-]

they entered the ^reat Indian ocean, and
had a voyage of looo miles to undertake
in open boats. They could not tow each
other above four days, and the flcerlman
was fo expofed to the coup de foUil, that
nothing could have Caved him but wet¬
ting a Ihirr, and putting it on his head,
and that not for above three or four
days, as the great abforption from the
fkin, that takes place from the increafed
heat and fever, makes the fluids become
tainted with the bittern of the fait water,
fo that the faliva became intolerable in
tbe mouth. Thofe alfo whodrank their
own urine died in the fequei of the
voyage. When they put into a creek at
Timor, a Chinefe chief came down, and,
with tears in his eyes, offered them horfcs
to conduof them to Cuupang, a Dutch
Eafl: India fettlement, 70 miles to the
Eaftward, which they declined, and,
proceeding on their voyage, landed.
Sept, 17, at Coupang, the Montpelier
of the Eafl to the Dutch and Portuguefe
fettlements in India, and, from the lalu-
brity of its air, the favourite refoit of
valetudinarians and invalids from Bata¬
via and other places; a fertile, beautiful
ifland, as large as the ifland of Great
•Britain, its principal trade wax, honey,
and fandal wood. The Dutch encou¬
rage feuds among the petty princes, who
fell them their prifoners, to be Tent to
Batavia, wlience tbe Javanele prifoners
are transferred hither. Here Capt, E.
met with the eight men, a woman, and
two ciiildren, convicts, who had efcaped
from Botany-bay, and lurvived fhip-
wreck. They palled for the crew of an
Knglifh Kaft Indiaman, and were re¬
lieved by the hofpitalicy and attention of
Governor Vanion.

On the 6th of October the crew of the
Pandora embarked on-board the P,.em-
bang Dutch Eafl: Indiaman, and by
THEIR exertions faved the Ihip in a vio¬
lent florm of dreadful thunder and light¬
ning, which drove the Dutchmen below.
The navigation of the flraits of Alice,
from Timor to Batavia, is extremely
intricate. At Java they met the tender,
which, milbng them at Anamooka,
traded at Tefoa, and boldly beat ever
the reef wlieie the Pandora was lofl ;
and, after palling Endeavour flraits, met
with a Dutch (hip, which took therri for
the pirates defcribed by the Engiifli Go¬
vernment, and f^tthem, under a guard,
to Ag ainfl. Batavia, and the man¬

ners of the people, Mr. PI. vents moft
violent cenfure. In pafTing Bantam he
** viewed the lelicks of Lord Cathcart.’"

933

The (hip’s crew returned from iTollsncl
to England. — The narrative would be
more entertaining w^ere it Icfs befprin-
klcd W'ith provincial words"-'' and volup¬
tuous ideas, from which few of our
Ocaheitan voyagers can abftain, and to
which Omai, it appears by this narrative,
fell a viffim in two years after his return
to his native country.

lyi. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court
Martial held at Fortfmonth, Angnft 1 2,
1792, on ‘Ten Per fans charged with Mutiny
on hoard his MajeJly s Ship the Bounty ;
with an ylppendix, containing a full ylccount
of the real Caufes and Circumjianccs of that
unhappy TranfaSiiony the ynojl material of
which have been hitherto withheld from the
PuMick.

TPIESE minutes were taken by Ste¬
phen Barnev and clerics employed to give
afli fiance, before the court martial, to
William Mufprat, one of the prifoners.
They were not continued beyond the
evidence for the prcft cution, nor do they
comprife the wh«le of the evidence re-
fpe6ting tlie capture of all the different
prifoners at Ocaheite. They were not
intended for publication. Repeated af-
furances have been given, that an im¬
partial flatement of ail the circumftances
attending that unhappy mutiny, as well
as a complete trial of tbe piilbneis,
fhould be publifhed. The anxious re¬
lations of the unfortunate parties in that
mutiny, worn out with cxpedladons of
that publication, have repeatedly folicit-
ed my confent to pubhfh my minutes ;
and, as fuch publication may, in lome
degree, alleviate their diHrefs, I cannot
chink myfelf juftified in withholding
fuch conient; and hope this will be a
fuflicient apology for my condu6V. I
affirm that, as far as thefs minutes go,
they contain a jufl flate of the evidence
g ven at the court martial. Stephen
Barney, Portfmouiii, May i, 1794.” — ’
No evidence of the mutiny is wanting
in thefe minutes. The unhappy men
who fufFered for it did not deny it ; and
one of them dtfired his brother feamen
to take warning by their example, ne-xter
to defert their cjficen ; “ and, fhould they
behaxje ill to you, remember it is not then:
caufe but the caufe of your country you
are bound to fupport.” The appendix
is fubjoined at the particular dehre of
Pfir. Edward Clirifliao, of Grav’s-inn-
Iquare, as a vindication of his namefak-’s
(and, we fuppofe, relatibn’s) condur.t,

* It is printed at Berwick, and the au¬
thor’s portrait is prefixed.

Review of New Publications,

an involving tliefe unhappy men in what
their dying lips called the dreadful crime
vf mutiny and defrtiond* Adinittingj,
in the fulleft extent, the improper and
^mworthy condu£l of Captain BJigh to¬
wards Mr. Chrillian, the ftrong fenfe of
injuries by the latter, and the feeling
ffefentment of a relative, we confefs our-
felves unable to discover that extenuation
•of the crime of running away with 'his
Majefty’s fiiip, and defeating the raoft
Saudable obje6l of her voyage. It ap-
f^ears from this narrative, that '‘Chrif-
tian fet of his followers on fhore at
Otaheite ; one of whom, in a q^uarr^l
about their arms, was fhot by another,
who was put to death by the natives, as
an a£l of juftice. The other fourteen
were taken or furrendered to Capt. Ed-
ivards, and four of them were loft w’hen
the Pandora was wrecked ; four were
honourably acquitted ; two received his
Majehy’s pardon ; one was difcharged
hy the opinion of the judges -5 and three
I'uffered death, Chriitian took with him
from Otaheite S Englishmen, about 25
■men, u'omen, boys, and girls, of Ota-
iieite, and two men from Tobooy. The
Ship was feen ftanding off the ifland next
morning ; but from that day, during the
i.q months that the others lived at Ota¬
heite, they never faw nor 'heaTcl any
thing more of Chriftian, and could give
Capt. Edwards no^^arther accoutit of the
Bounty. The circumftances concerning
the ftilp fubfequent to the mutiny muft
sieceffarily be colle61ed from the ieven
f>erfons who were left in the feip, and
who are now, or were lately, in Eng¬
land. Thefe lav, that lie was always
forrowful and dejefted after the mutiny;
and before he left them had become fuch
an altered man in his looks and appear¬
ance /as to render it probable that he
would not long lurvive this dreadful ca-
taftrophe. Indeed, it is impofhble that
he fhould have appeared otherwife, if he
deferved the chara6ter which all unite in
giving him. Though, they fay, he kept
up good difeipline in the Ihip, yet he
was generally below, leaning his head
upon his hand 5 and when they cam^
<lown for orders, he feldom railed his
head to anfvver more than yes or no.
When he took leave of Mr. Stewart and
Mr. Heywood, and told them he (liould
fail that evening, he defired them, if
ever they got to England, to inform his
friends and country what had been the
caufe of bis committing fo defperate an
a6t. ’ The vindicator concludes with re¬
marking, “ The fufferings of Captain

Bligh and his companions, in the boat,
hov/ever fevere they li^iay have been, are,
perhaps, but a fmall ^rcion of the tor*
ments occafioned by thexl readful event ;
and, whilft thefe prove the melancholy
and extenlive csofequences of ilhe crime
of mutiny, the crime itfelf, in this in-
ftarnce, may a.Tord an aweful lefibn to
the navy, and to mankind, that there it
a degree of prclTure beyond which the
heft formed and principled mind muft
either break or recoil. And, though
public juftice and the public fafeiy can
allow no vindication of any fpecies of
mutiny, yet reafon and humanity will
diftinguifh the fudden, unprecedented,
aff of dsfperation and frenzy from the
foul, deirberate contempt of every rell"
gious duty and honourable fentlment;
and will deplore the uncertainty of hu¬
man profpedls, when they refieef that a
young man is condemned to perpetual
infamy, who, if he iiad ferved on-board
any other fkip, or, perhaps, been abfent
from the Bounty a ftngle day, or one ill-
fated hour, might ftill have been an ho¬
nour to his country, and a glory and
comfort to his friends.”

173. The IVind-mill o'verturncd hy the 'Barley^
cake ; being a Reply to Pucker’s friendly
Hint ; Kviihfome Account of the Long Acre
Verfecution^ and a faithful Narrative of the
dark Tranfahlions of a Religious Society called
Societas Evangelica. By Michael Nafti.
MR. NASH having got himfelf dif-

milTod from a religious fociety, for Ids
iritemperat'C zeal againft the French emi¬
grants, and the pew-opener and his wife
involved an the lame fentence, deals out
vengeance on thofe whom he calls his -
enemies and traduceis in weak and un-
connefiled drains of virulent abufe. Mr,
N. is author of Gideon's Cake of Barley-
meal (LXIII. 936), and in this pam¬
phlet replies to an anfvvtr to it (ibid.
1200). He is alfo author of Paine's Age
of Reafon meafured by the Standard of
Truths Wakefield's Examination of, and
a Layman's Anfiver to, the Age of Rea¬
fon, both ’Weighed in the Balance and
found nvanting ; in which, with equal
flirewdnefs and orthodoxy, he has hand-
fomely trimmed both thofe pert, felf-
lufficient fcribblers, firft in the lift, and
with them Romainifts, Churchmen, and
Difl'enters; for, he allows the Layman’s
to be the beft defence he has feen.

174. A geographical and hiforical Defcriptlon
of the If and ^'Corfica, from the earlieji Ac¬
counts to the prefent Time ; fis-xving the x.>a-
tIous Revolutions xuhich the If and has undet-

gms :

1794*1 ^cvlav of New FubUcaiions. — Foreign Literary Intelligence. 935

^one : alfof an Account of its prefent StatCf
with refpeB to Gover/mefzty Situatio?iy Pro^
duEtioTtf^^c.

A SHORT compilation, Ghiefly from
Mr. BoTwell, very ufeful on the prefent
occahon, when theCorllcans and Britons
, are united under one Sovereig^n.

175- 77)« Po^s of B'aron Haller, tranjlated
w/o Englifh. By Mrs-. Howorth.

THE writings, both in profe and
verfe, of Baron Haller, are well knovv^n.
Family misfortunes have given birth to
this cranflation by the wife of the fon of
Iheut. H. whofe wife is knov/n by her
etchings after Mr. Malchair and Mr.
W athsn. On all thefc accounts we can¬
not withho'd our recommendation of this
lutle work, which claims for its patron
the prefident of the Linnean Society, Dr.
J. E. Smith.

I'76. The CaWiniftic and Sociman Syfims ex¬
amined and compared as to their Bioral Ten-
dencyy in a Series of l.etters nddrejfed to the
Priends of njitai and prueiicul Religion. The
fecond Edition, with' Additions and Correc¬
tions. By Andrew Fuller,

TO what was faid in vol. LXIII. p.
1023, we have only to add, that, “in
this edition the author has attempted to
strengthen his argument, and to remove
fuch objections as havehiiherto occuired.
The principal additions will be found- in
letters IV, (the argument from the
number of converts to Socinianifm exa¬
mined) 3nd XV". (on the rciemblance
between Socinianifm and Infidelity, and
the tendency of the one to the other).
The no'e toward the latter end of the
former was occafroned by a report that
Dr. Prieftley complained of being mif-
reprefenHd by the quotation in the fir It
page of the preface. This note contains
a vindication, net only of the fairnefs of
the quotation, from Dr. PriefUey, but of
another, to the fame purpofe, from Mr.
Bslibam, and an anfvver to which is ad-
vercifed in its behalf in the Monthly
Re view. For the accommoriaiion of the
purchafers of the former edition, the
abovementioned addiuons are printed
lejTHrately, in form of an ap^^endix,
price 3-d. which may be bound with
k.” "I'here is more of fair and acute
reafoning in Mr. F. than his antagonifts
are aware of, or are prepared to meet.

177. Tie Importance of Sxm<\zv-fcl ools at the
prefent Crijis ; with a fhort Aildrefs to the
Prelates and Clergy of the Church of EngLind,
earnejily recommending farther Exertions to
vake them more general. By a Member of

the Society for promoting Chrifian Knowledge^-

THE utility of Sunday-fchools has
been repeatedly pointed out, but per¬
haps by none fo energetically as the pre¬
fent writer, as an efpecial means of ftop«
ping the progrefs of infidelity.

In the St. James’s Chronicle of 0(511,
11 — 14, a friend of the Hiftorian of Devora
(or (liall we be much befule the mark if tve
prefume it the Hiftorian of .Devon himfelf ?)■
rinder the fignature of Cr ito, brings a heavy
charge agaiuft our Review for mifrepre-
fenting his account of Kenton church, hia
general plan, and the number of his pagea
and plates. Admit, for a moment, that, in
the multiplicity of Reviewers’ work, the:
particular defeription of Kenton church was^
overlooketl 5 anil that, in fo indiflinft a de¬
tail, there is no cine to lead to the refpeiftive
parhhes, by index or raa';ginal references;
Jias Crito done away the charge of minute-
nefs refpedling the w'indows ? The pages
are 382 ; and, if that number does not ap>-
proach near to 400, we mull requeft a bet¬
ter definition, as alfo a more corredf flate^
ment of the plates : and, if Mr. P. under-
Itands, or has fettled his own plan, his fob-
feribers have a right to demand a more cop-.
re<5l one than that which our Reviewers
are charged with- having fabricated. After
all, when their errors are fet forth in fchs
Rrongeft colours, the bulk of their critique
remains in full force againlt Mr. P.

Foreign Literary Intelligence,.
Commentationes Societatis Psegia Got-
TINGBNSI3, pro A. 1791, ’

The phyfical articles are, chemical
experiments on the Cadus Perttvianus-.,
by ProfelTor Gmelin ; Mr. Dentus on a
metiiod of curing deafnefs; Mr. Blu-
menbach’s feconrl decad mf the dilferent
crania. Mathematical : Mr. Kaefinor
on the polar Par, and on parallel curves j
Mr. Schroetter’s account of the palTage
of the moon over Aldebaran ; and his
defeription of Mr. Schrader’s teicfcope.
Hldorical ; a lift of the monuments of
the arts, &c, at Confiantinople, by Mr.
rieync ; a (hfiercacion on the cofmogra-
phy of the G/ceks and Romans, and on
the knowledge and commerce of the
Romans in India, by Mr. Hecren; Mr.
Tychfen on the velliges of the religion
of Zoroafier out of hi§ own country ;
Mr. Gatterer on the origin of the Ruf¬
fians, Poles, and other Sclavonic nations,
derived from the antient Getse and Da¬
cians; Refearches on the knowledge
which the Arabs had of Greek litera¬
ture, and on the log'ck of the Greek
philofophers before Ariltotle, by Mr.
Buhlc j Conlideraiioas on the advan-

^36 Foreign Literary Intsirigence.-~^li\^tyL Indlcatorius. [0£l.

lages and difadvantages of the Greek,
gymnafin, by Mr. Meiners. The hif-
tory of the Society, during the courfe of
the two lad years, is prefixed ; and at
the end is Mr. Heyne’s elogium on the
late Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick,
who was an honor/.ry member. Fifteen
plates accompany thefe mpmoirs.

Mr. Tfchilke, at Leipsic, has pub-
lifhed L, Ampelhis, for the ufe of
fchools, in the third volume of his Auc-
tores Latinl Mn^ores^ part I. ; and be-
flowed more pains on him than he de-
ferves ; and, in the fecnnd part of tlie
fame work, M. Falerii MeJJala: Cor<vini
Ithelhis de Augujli pro^enie^ with the
notes of Hearne, who firfi; publifned it
at Oxford, from a MS. in Lincoln col¬
lege library, 1703. Though not really
written by Mefi’ala, it contains home
events and fc.®is not generally known,
antecedent to the building of Rome.

The fecond volume of LibaniuSy pre¬
pared for the preis by Reiike, from MSS
now firft collated, and illufiraied with
critical and hiilorical notes, contains 30
orations, from XX H to LI, publifiied
at Altenburg; the others appeared
in 1784.

"An edition of Diodorus Siculus has
been publilhed at Deux Fonts; the
two firft volumes containing the thice
firft books, with diftertations on the au¬
thor, and the fources and fubjedl of his
hiftory, and a general view of it by
Hcyne and Eyring; a lift of editions,
and Wefteling’s preface : the various
readings and Latin tranflations are un¬
der the text, 'and Wefleiing’s notes at
the end of each volume. The editors
promife the collation of a valuable MS.
preferved in a great library.

M. Hailes has publifhed the third vo¬
lume of hts new edition of Fahricius’s
tlibliolheca Grt£:ay comprehending a-
bout haT the fecond in the former edi¬
tion, and large improvements, particu¬
larly in the article of Xenophon; an
account of the hiftorics of Alexander,
of Plato, and Ariftotie, their followers,
and other philofophers ; lift and critique
on the writers on mufick ; the GfEtk
iranftation of the Old Teftaraenc and
the apocryphal writings of the jews ; a
new account of Theophraftus and his
writings ; and farther accounts of Ly-
cophron, Theociitus, and Callimachus.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

The p’eafant admonition of ‘‘An Old
Friem)” is particularly kind. — We are alfo
much (bilged by Mr- }.l allison’s hint;
and are furry we cannot infert the Prices he
ai d o' hers fo earneftly recommend, without
fubjeding ourfelves to ati enormous expeace.

An“OLD CoRRESPONDENT’^at St AINES
has our beft thanks. This gentleman is of
opinion, lhattheV ALETUDiNARiANjp.yqi,
might with more propriety have confulted
fome of the experienced medical pratftition-
ers in bis neighbourhood ; adding, “if either
pecuniary confiderattons, or prejndice againft
the faculty, induce him to feek advice elfe-
where, let him apply my grandmother’s re¬
ceipt for leaving off a flannel nightcap : Cut
a fnip out of it daily till the whole is cut
away.” — V. Be B, in anfwer to this and
other queries, obferves, s , ihzl Flannel neyil
the fkin is more prejudicial than bene¬
ficial in nervous diforders, or flow fevers.
Its greateft ufe is to rheumatic patients. Its
difcontinuance after being ufed lliould be by
taking it off in bed, about the middle of the
night, the outward covering of the bed be¬
ing fomewhat increafed, and W'earing it a
few days over the fhirt. — 2. Vinegar (p. 803)
is preferable to water for burns; it pofleffes
atftive power's, and is a great antifeptic, and
corredfor of putrefcence and mortification.
The progreffive tendency of burns of the
unfavourable kind, or ill-treated, is to pu¬
trefcence and mortification. Where the out¬
ward Ikin is not broken, it may be freely
ufed, every hour or two ; where the fkin
is broken, and it gives pain, it muft be
gently ufed. But equal jxirts of vinegar and
water, in a tepid ftate, ufed freely every
three or four hours, is generally the heft ap¬
plication and beft rule to be direcled by. —
3. The Scots pills (p, 803), an ufeful and
cheap medicine, are fuppofed to he pretty
w-ell known ; the ingredients are fo che.ap as
not to induce adulteration : it is therefore
not very material the vender or maker,
though in all cafes the original inventor
fhould have a preference.

M. M, aflcs, T. Did any of the family of
Uvedale, whofe name occurs in the appen¬
dix to iowth’s Life of William of Wyke-
hara, and who were, at a very early pei iod,
lords of the manor of Wykeham, marry
with any of the confanguine^, or female de-
feendants, of William of Wykeham ? — 2. Is
the prefent Sir Thomas Champneys, bait, of
Orchard ty, in the county of Somerfet, de-
feended from Agnes Chawmpeneys, who, in
N° I. of th.e fame appendix, is recorded as
the fiflcr of Sir William of Wykeham i

K. St may receive a fatisfaiftory anfwer,
by applying at Mr. Cadf. i. l’s fhop.

There is no other obje(ftion to S. G. D.
but the great length of it.

I/idagator L.ondinenfis, is received.

By an unavoidable accident, the Diary of
the Royal Excursion is obliged to be
omitted till next month ; when the Angular
account of the Water near Settle, Faws-
LEY Church and House, Mr. I.ocke^s
Remarks on Somerfetfliire, fhal! alio have
place; with (if polTibie) Antk^uakius
OxoN. ; Mr. Caley; A London Rec-
7 0r; Cal edoni kns is ; R. B. ; K. S. ;
VV. W. ; Emeritus; Mr. W. Crop;
Vlriexcvs, Nugator, kc. Sec. SiC.

SeleSi Poetry^ Anticnt and Adodern^ for 0£lober, 1794.

937

R.EFI.ECTIONS ON THE. RuIMS of A
liloNASTERY, NEAR THE Sea, AT - .

T^ehet injanabile muitot
Scribendi cacoetbesy et cegro in corde feriefcit.

Juv. Sat. Yl,

The rage of fcribbling, to no bounds confin’d,
Grows old, and revels in the fever’d mind.

I^ROM fcenes, where diflipated tribes
^ contioul

1 he powers of reafon, and unman the fovd ;
Where noife and tumult fill thethroneot fenfe,
And emulation glows but in expeace:

Where riot and debauch from life’s young fpray
Tear the green fruitSj and hurry-on decay,
Glad I depart, the renovated mind
Frames not a wifti for what it left behind ;
£ut joyful Fancy with unfetter’d wings
Explores her native fields, and as Ihe files fhe
fings.

Hail, awful Fabric ! Meditation calls
The Mufe to vifiC thy defened walls.

Hail, rugged Tower ! whofe battlements arlfe
High o’er t!ie fubjedl woods, and pierce the
ficies : [of age,

That moukl’ring now groan with the weight
And totter wh'le conflidling tempefis rage.

In better days, tlsy wide-furveying height
(Now’ the foie refuge of the bird of night)
Could for its tenant boaft as fair a maid,

As ever Convent held, or Love betray’d.
Matilda here, each fad-revolving day.

Retir'd to thinlc and figh, to weep and pray :
And raouru a father’s wretched thirrt of ore,
That drave her love to many a diftant lliove.
Here, when the glimm’ring of departed light
Call’d Cynthia’s aid, pale regent of the night ;
While, onthe wavingtrees and fpangled glade.
Her filver beams in modeft fplendov.r play’d :
Oft would tlie mourner view lier face, that
ibone

Cbaile and ferene, the emblem of her own.
Or, when the clouds, portentous from afar.
Roll’d the black rage of elemental war ;
When howling whirlwinds fwept the drift¬
ed plain,

Andtofs’dthe wild w’avesof th«reftlefsmain ;
Far o’er the boundlefs Ocean firetch’d her
eyes,

And bid tlie angry billows ceafe to rife.

Ye raging winds, and agitated deep*;.

Ah ! fpare the youth for whom Matilda
w eeps :

Ye fecret rocks, forbear to fpill his blood ;
Nor let Loienzo’s dea'h polKuethe flood.

O Father ! tender as the favage train,

That haunt the woods, and fcour the dufky
plain : [bore

Kind as the bird* that leaves the young fhe
To every danger on the fandy (bore ;

Wiiy force the youth in fearch of care to rove,
And leave behind him ha) plnefsand love ?
Cnbleft the wretch, whole avaricious mind
No ties can govern, and no feelings bind ;

* Oftrich.

Gent. Mag. 06h}lcrj 1794.

Who feeks in tracklefs deferts to defcry
Unreal joys, what gold can ne’’er buy j
Who, foe to peace and fw'eetdomeftic cafe.
Courts a wild phantom o’er the llormy feas !
JMethinks I fee him from the rock’s fharp
fides

Mangled, or buried in the roaring tides.

Or, if the roaring tides the youth Ihould fave.
Weak, and enfeebled from the briny wave,

I view liim hopelefs at the cLd'e of day.
Along the dreary w.afle purfue his way,
What time the wild beafis roam in fearch o£
food,

And range the fore ft prodigal of blood.

Fear flies before, with all her pallid train j
And threat’ning danger follow'So’er the plain.
Dreadful they roar, all ftartieJ Nature round
Trembles, asd horror fvvells the frantic found.
As late I wander’d in the dulky ftiade,
Afuddenftorm thefaceof Heav’no’erfpread ;
Keen howl’d the Winds, the Lightning Ihot
around

Its rapid fire, and Thunder fliook the ground.
Yet not tins awful feene my foal could move.
To drive from thence the image of my love ;
Yet not this awful feene canid lhake with fear
My fieadfall foul, thoughDeath hi.mfelf were
near.

The fwift, ethen'al blaft, the wind and rain,
Coufpir’d to move me, but confpir’d in vain ;
W^hen, as foiTnelter from th’ inclement &y
Inftinctive Nature gave my feet to fly,

I heard a voice amidft the tempeft roar.

That feem’d to fay ‘‘ Matilda, hope no more :
In vain thy prayers afeend, tliy forrows flow.
Doom’d to long mourning, and pe ri’ietual woe ;
Thy Love is gone — 'runk m the greedy w avc —
Heav’n gave a requiem, and the main a grave!
Unheard, around his head the billows loar :
Ceafe then to hope — Lorenzo is no more.”
Thus wept the Maid, whom time had
taught to bear

The fport of Fortune, and a W’eiglit of care.
But Heay’n, that bids the beams of radiance
play

Through clouds of woes and renovate the day.
Call’d from a foreign land the wand’nn^
youth,

And fafe return’d him, the rew'ard of truth.
He preft the Chore, in gold and beauty blelt.
And thy relenting walls expell’d the’ir gueft.
Inworthy near KclvedoH, Ejjex, N. B .

To DREAMS.

A SONNET.

By Mary Julia Y’oung.

Hail gemle Spirits ! — who with magic
wing

Chace the dark clouds of fallen Night aivav.
And from her murky cave my freed foul bring
To revel in the radiant beams of day 1
What are yod, fay; or eartldy or divine.
Who thus can chear the paufeof dull repofef
With chemic art the dfofs of Ileep refine.
And beauteous fcenes to curwin'’d eye|
difdofe 1

Wh«

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What are you, who, fubdnlngtime and fpace^
Toblefsthefe moments can a friend reftore ?
I h^ar that voice — hehold that form — that face,
Ai^d grateful own, your power can give
no more.

Hail, gentle Spirits ! to whofe guardian care
i owe fuch blifs — yet know not what you are.

SONNET TO LOVE.

OThon, who bid’ll the gay, romantic
mind.

That Hope’safpiring,trembling pinions bear,

Range the fweet realms of Fancy unconfin’d,
And glow with rapture for a ilranger fair !

Sa;,- can thy influence, wild, excentric Love,
Wlien fouls, already kindled, long to meet.
In breads unknown congenial wifhes move.
And bring thy votaries to the fame retreat?

Ah, no ! — too flatt’ring, vifionary thouglit !—
- When Reafon fhares the liglit, and bars
the way,

I ought to turn, but cannot what I ought,

I go, in darknefs and defpair to ilray.

Yet bled, if fhe my fimple lines approve,
Whofe praife 1 honour, and whofe mind I
Cant ah. |[love.

The Rise akd Fall of Poetry.
ODE. To Mu8.*:us,

THE DisciPi-E OF Orpheus.

HEN Man the fabled Mythic fram’d,
The pnv/tr of verie old Gre«ce
contefs’d j

Orpheus and Hefiod were carefs’d
And Pmdar mud fubli.mely nam’d.

I^omes, temples, altars, Athens grac’d,

Her groves with fculptnr’d gods enchas’d ;
The folemn hymn with fumigation bled,
The fedival’s ini' dated pried ;

Tiie pious crowd, the pure enlighten’d choir.
Confirm’d the power of the Mufe’s lyre.

Nature ! mechanic mother, thy great phn,
AU-fage, all-hallow^’d, puie t'seocracy,

In myd'.c rites reveal’d to dudious raati ;

And, iron-bound, conceal’d phtlofophy,

By contemplation’s charm thrown wide ;
Each God fuhordinate to mighty Jove,
Fair Rhea’s energy, prolific love !

The facrcd Mu'e explain’d in rapt melodious
pride.

Tiie Arch.cr w'th religious dread,

The regal and tlie facial joiti’d ;

F;om th’ iniepaianie tie,

Sprang the meed of Ptietry ;

And, aruumi liie Orp' ic head,

The lam tl wreath entwin'd.

Obedient to t! e myftic facred fong,

'i'i.e crowded city pour’d hrr wilnng throng ;
T'lie Gods were fei y’d, the hate fecin cly found,
.HerfameTbel^ftittS Hie lyre’s loutid.

And wildly fonr’d the dithyrambic line,

In fportive numbers of the hallow’d Nine ;
Excurfive pennons fwept the fky.

In all tiie power of majefty ;

Like Ganymede with Jove,

Towering above. - -

And panting heroes for the Elian* wreathe
When from the facred games they breathe ;
Court the Poet’s daring flight,

Ambient to tlie folar light ;

Refounding plaudits through wideheavenfly.
And Jove records th’ Olympic vidlory.

So Greece once charm’d — fo Pindar’s fame—*
The hero’s pride in meafure glow’d ;
Pytheasf rewards the lyre’s found—

The 1 ifty verfe far fpreads his name,

And the Nemean crown beftow’d
Tlie viiSlor triumphs on Pindaric ground.

O fay, Mufae.is! where the Poet now
Shall cull til’ unfading laurel for his brow ?
What realm, whafchmeinvokcsthelyre’said.
The frontlet honours, or beflows the meed 1
Say — if to Greece his glowing genius flies,
What liil’niiig crowd applauds his melodies^
In vain lie treads the ground, where once th«
fane

RefoundeU with the folemn choral train ;
There fculptnr’d capital, beneath the fod,
Lies mould’ring with its bafe and votive God ;
Tiie grove, the altar from the Mufes torn.
And Attic grandeur a wide w'afte forlorn.
The fpot, great Athens, wherethyturretsflood.
By vvardifpoil’dand batli’dwitii human blood.
Scarce can the claflic traveller defciy— —

So chang’d, fo fadiy chang’d, th« glorious fee-
nery.

No patron, Greece — thy realms of art o’er-
thrown.

Thy learning Ccalter’d and thy genius. flown.
Or flaould the Mufe attempt with flcill divine,
On northern lands to chant the Orphic hue;
’I'here Ge rgon fpells Apollo’s voc’riesciiii).
There fqualid lucre other arts inftili,

Save the felecledfew, whofe traveli’d lore,
Pvefiu’d by genial climes, owm Albion’s Iko: e.
And O ! in thefe hard ruthlefs days whaC
praife i [bays.

When arms, and commerce, only ciiim the
No fpreading beach extends it’s patron fliade,
Noiiil’ning crowd, no olive garland made,—
Cold, cold the welcome of the tender foag ;
The lyre unkindly cherilh’d fcarce is flrung :
Yet flill the Poet tunes iiis haplefs lyre,
Nature and trutli hisguiltlefs verfe infpire :
The foutbei n breeze but beais to heedlefs Ikies,
His lyric foi gs, his melting elegies;

His only meed, the big lound dropping tear,
Ti.e peal of Pity, on the Mufes bier. A. H,

* A city of Elis, where the Olympic games
were flrfl inflltuted.

J' ll'j9(-g SLiQficreyyi;

NiK'i fspayov-

Fuldar, n.‘. f.

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Mr. Ur BAN. Gibraltar y 2,''^ ^uly^ 1794*

TAKE the liberty of fending you an Oc-
cafional Prologue to the Tragedy of the
Orphan, performed byOtficers of this Garri-
fon on the 6th ult. at a Theatre then opened
forthe purpofe ofeftablilhing a fund to fupport
tite Widows and Orphans of Soldiers fer-
vingin the Mediterranean. — The Song wh’ch
follows it was written by the fame, and
fung by an Officer of the 66th Regiment,
after the Tragedy of Douglas, on the 14th
infl. when the News of Lord Howe’s vidtory
was received here.

The occasional PROLOGUE.

OBEDIENT to defprttic Cuflom’s laws,

I come, a luppliant for your kind applaufe.
Our kind applaufe 1” (I hear a critic cry,)
Our -patience rather, — th.it you’ll furely

Keen Sir, fupprefs that fneer upon your face,
Whilft I, in humhle fable, Rate the cafe :

A frozen Lake, in England’s happy land.
Once tempting lay before a youthful hand :
Sometime, with caution fage, in deep debate,
Upon the dang’rous brink they hefitate ;

Till, from tlie margin of the icy plain,

A pond’rou? ftone they throw with might and
main:

With force it ftrikes, andtoa diRance boupds;
The poliflvd furface with the blow refountls;
Their fearsdifpell’d, the troop; elate an.i gay,
Clide, fport, and gambol, o’er the level way.
Such vent’rous boys are we, this play’s our
teft ;

And, fink or fwim, we’ll try to do our beft.
Should your applaufe uphold this bold effay,
More noble efforts m.ay your fmiles repay.
Perhaps a ray from Sha'kefpeare’sbrow divine
Shall on this infant ffage hereafter ffiine.

Sad DeTdemona, — wild Ophelia, — here,

And haplefs Juliet, — may excite a tear;

And the fat Knight, with many a prank and
joke.

And droll difafler, laughter may provoke.
Great Harry here his triumphs may ddplay,
And Jhadowi Richard’s guilty foul difmay.

In this fam’d fortrefs, the dramatic art,

In times not far remote, h.ns reach’d the heart.
A Briton’s heart, to pity ftill alive,

_ To touch, with Otway’s melting ffralns we
fh ive.

Yet, whilfl yon for the poor Monimia r rleve,
Thiukof the Orpduins you to-mght relieve !
Think ! and rejoice, with confeious pride to
know^ [woe; —

You wipe fiom Sorro'.v’s cheek the drops of
You raife tlie Widow’d Motliei's drooping
hc.ad,

Whofe gallant hnfband for his country bled ;
And, ’monglt the benefits your bounty fends,
If to our faults your charity extends ;

If this attempt your approbatiiin gains,

Mort a.mply then you lecompenfe our pains.

The song. T\im, To Anacreon in lleav^nt
J^ROM her furge-beaten throne as Brt«
tannia efpied
Old Ocean to offer his homage endeavour.
She enquir’d the occafion ; the Grey-beaial
replied ; [ever.

Your fons have effablifh'd your Empire for
Mo ft humbly 1 bow
To you, and your Howe :

Long flourilli the laurels which, twins
“ round his brow 1”

Then folding about him his mantle of green,
He bending acknowledg’d his ^etn.

He prefents then a fcroll to the Queen of th«
Waves, [teation ;

Who views it with looks of concern and at-
And diftimffly is heal’d Fajlcy, Bowyevy and
Gravesy [mention;

Hutty Montagu, Berleley, and DouglaSy to
She anxious , proceeds,

And fighs as ffie read'', [their deeds>
Till, cheer’d wlien ffie hnds fo dillinguiffi’d
“ I’ll boafl: of thefe Heroes as oft,” ffie ex-
claim'd, [nam’d.’*''

F As Britain and Howe fhall together, he

The bold Tars of Old England, ffie frankly
avow’d, ' ' [delighted ;

Had ofteji her heart wdth their triumphs
But e’ 'nil Rodney's gvQcXilixy had not made iier
more pioud [united :

Than Howe's, in which Valonrand VVifdom
My children,” the cried,

Who fought by his fuie, [died,

W ho glorioufly bled for their country — or
I now wilt reward with immortal renown,
“ And laurels unfading the heroes fhall
crown.”

Says tld Ocean, O’er me may your rule
never end ! [dominions,

« Enough by the Winds are diftuib’d my
“ Let them not with the French and their
“ politics blend, [opinions,

“ And drive me to rage with their fforiuy
Left, fcorning the ffiore,

Nor bound any more,

“ My waves on the Nations their furv ffiouUl

pour.

['eign.

But .o’er my wide bofom nmft:

“ Whilft ffae and whilft Nature tiieir Laws
‘‘ fhall retain.”

Impromptu. To a Lapy.

HIl.E Ollier Bards indignant diufe
Mail’s frailties t> expofe.

More ph;nfiug themes employ niy Mufe,
More grateful far iliau tiude.

A Fair-one’s viitues to portray,
olie fain her powers would prove,

But fears the weak, though wiUi.^g, lay,
Pity, not praife, miglit move.

Unequal to fuch bold effays,

Siie yields th’ app’aufive meed.

And humbly of that Fair-oiie prays
“ T’ accept the will for the dned.”

C 1. A S ■

' CITS.

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S O N N E T,

RITTEN ON THE CoAST OF D E VON.

HILE, from this craggy point, my
wor.d’ring eye
The Ocean’s vaftexpanfebeneathfurveys :
To Him, wh<^ fix’d its bounds, Great Power
on high,

My mind looksup Vvith gratitude and praife.
Now, hear the angry fpirit of the deep!

Loud howls the tempefl ! threat^iing bil¬
lows rife !

And, rudely dafij’d from yon tremendous fteep
The boiling furge feems mingling withthe
ficies.

Now the pale moon-beams on its bofora play,
Or on th’ unruffled wave, refiedled, fhine
The orient morn ; or now the fetiing day
In brighter radiance marks its golden lines.
His hand is feen, in ev’ry varied ffate,

■Who rides the ftorm, and knows the fpar-
row's fate.

SONNET TO A ROBIN
SINGING ON A Tree while the Leaves

V/ERE FALLING ROU.ND HIM.

By Dr.Mavor.

E.A,RD you that faint, that dying flrain.
In cadence with the falling Leaf?
With me, fweet Bird, canft thou complain,
For fading Nature wakes my grief.

Her chequer’d tints, that mark decay,

Fill eveiy Senfe wnth deep, with fad difmay.

The tortur’d Soul by cares opprefi.

The Frame by ills too early bent,

Witii thoughts defponding cloud my breafi,
And fpeak that Pleafure’s glafs is (pent.
Renew, fweet Bird, thy plaintive fong,

In unifon our feelings move ; i
Unheard, you fing amid the throng,

Negle(Sed, ever will my forrows prove !

The Humble Petition of DUCE,
AN Old Pointer.

ITY the forrows of your poor old Duce,
VVhods trembling limbs your helping
hand require g
Permit her ftill to crawl about your houfe,
Or reft contented near your kitchen-fire.
Oft f«m your fport 1 brufla’d t!ie morningdew ,
Oft rang’d the ftubble where the partridge
lay ;

Wcll-pleas’d I labour’d for, Itoil’d for yon,
Nor wilh’d for refpite till the fetting day.
With you, my good old mafter 1 have I rov’d,
Or up the hill, or down the murm’ring
brook ; _ _ [mov’d,—

When game was near, no joint about me
I fti ove to guefs your wiflies by your look.

While you, with bufy care, prepar’d the gun,
I friQc’d and fported by my maflei ’s fide.
Obey’d with ready eye your fign to run,
yet ftill abhon’d the thoughts of ranging
■vvidot ^

O thefe xvere days ! be they remember’d ftill f
Pleas’d I review the moments that are paft j
I never hurt the gander by the mill,

Norfaw the miller’s wife ftand all aghaft. '
I never flunk from the good farmer’s yard i
The tender chicken liv’d fecure for me ;
Though hunger preft, I never thouglit it hard.
Nor left you wliiftling underneath theiree.
Thefe days, alas! no longer fmile on me,

No more I fnuff the morning’s feented gale.
No more I hear the gun with wonted glee,

Or fcour with rapture through the fedgy
vale.

For, noiv, old age relaxes all my frame, [eyes,
Un-nerves my limbs, and dims my feeble
Forbids my once-fwift feet the road to fame,
And the fond cruft, alas! untafted, lies.
Then take me to your hofpitable fire,

There let me dream of thoufand covies flain.
There reft, till all the pow’rs of Nature tire,
Nor dread an age of raifery and pain.

Let me with Driver my old faithful friend.
Upon his bed of ftraw, figh out my days !
So bleffings on your head fttall ftill defeend.
And, w'eli as Pointer can, I’ll fing your
praife.

Pity the Sorrows of your poor old Duce,
Whofe trembling limbs your helping hand
require,

Permit him ftill to crawl a'oout your houfe,

Or reft contented near your kitchen -fire.

Postscript of a Poetical Epistle
FROM A Gentleman to his Friend.
E’VE been mightily pleas’d to fee
juft now fail by [on high)

(As we ftood by the Light-houfe all mounted
Seven ftiipSjfpite of ftormsand Fi’euch thieves,
fafe and found ; [they’re bound.
From the Weft-India Iflands to Briftol
Pray, now, were you not glad w'hen that Ro-
■ beiTpierre fell ? [Hell.

Sure fo fiend like a foul ne’er before enter’d
May all ruffians like him foon be hurl’d to
that pit, [fit !

And a George on our throne undiftuiVd ever
And when He who now reigns, whom all
good men mu ft love, [above,

Is call'd hence to enjoy the choice bleffings
His example may thofe who fucceed keep in
view, [tue purfue !

A^nd his fteps through the rough paths of Vir-
That I’m grown Politician, from this do -v
not fear : I

’Tisafubje(fllhate;butmy King I revere, L
And would breathe for his welfare a W'ifli j
moft fincere. ' J

Such as don’t like a King, to France may go
over ; [in clover.

As mifehief they love, they may there live
And leave true-hearted Britons in quiet to
fing, [George ouv King I

God pref^rve nur good Monarch 1 God fave
IJjracomh, Devo?z. i6 Seft. 1794.

A favourite Horfe,

CASIMIR

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CASIMIR. Lib. I. ODE XIII.

To Tar qjjinius Lav'inus.

HAT tlioiigh the fnn has difappear’d—
Shall he not to-morrov/ rife
In the blufhing Eaftern flcies? —

This gloomy darknefs then fhall all be clear’d '
Fortune, with her rattling whefel,

May pufh and roll you on the ground j
She plays her jokes, but ftill you feel
You’re rifingas t!ie wheel turns round.

Live, myTarquin, live in hope.

And envy not the great,

Who walks in dignity and Rate ;

The dull beneath his feet you now lick up:—
But Fortune’s w'heel turns fwiftly round }
Wait till it turns, and turn it mull.

Then, wrapt in fmoke and clouds of duR,
His purple and his pomp lie flutt’ring on the
ground :

But ftill forbear to laugh, forbear to frnile —
Lord of the purple once, though now he’s
vile —

Feaft not your eyes with this, nor trample on
his name, [ble game.

Remember, Fortune fometimes plays a dou-

V. U.

SONG FOR THE Bir th*Day OF Sir.

GILBERT HEATHCOTE, Baronet.

Sung at the Fete given on Empingham
Heath; on his coming of Ag e, 1794.

Tune — Duke of York’s Nuptials. . Dibdin.
PIRITS in blifs! your joy we fhare.

We join in your exulting long;

We greet — we fing your favour’d heir,

The darling theme of every tongue.

Chorus. Parent of Good ! to thee we raife

For Virtue’s fake th’ enhearted fongj
The Worth that vve delighted praife
To life's completelt date prolong.

Rejoicing in his natal feaft,

Her guardian Son Britannia boafts.

And treads on Anarchy deceas’d,

And fmiles upon her martial hofts.

Chorus. — Parent of Good !
Emblazon’d wltli the facred flame,

“ That beam’d from Burley’s patriot lord.
Shall Hiftory gild my Heathcole’s name,
And Rutland’s adlive zeal record.”

Chorus. — Parent of Good 1

Nor but for Valour’s fake approv’d,

N'or but for Fortune’s gifts rever’d.

For e/ery grace fhall he be lov’d.

By every excellence endear’d.

Chorus, — Parent of Good !

See, at his hofpitable gate
The Seraph Charity defeend ;

See, on his elevciCed ftate
Benign Complacency attend.

Chorus. — Parent of Good !

Hark 1 echo from the tliriving field,

Secure, Contentmeni’s happy lay*^.

And, mark ! by fond refnedt reveal’d.

The eafy tenants’ grateful praife.»-

Parent of Good!

And hail, matur’d, the gen'rous mind,

That youth’s ingenuous glow difplay’d,
Tliefire, by manly, fenfe confin’d,

Thefuture Senator portray’d.

Chorus. — Parent of Good !

Ord.ain’d for love ! whofe angel face
Tfiy correfponilve foul declares.

Daughter of Edward’s royal race,

Improve each joy thy Heatlrcote flinres.

Chorus. — Parent of Good I

With him, Plantagenet, partake
Exalted merit’s perfect meed.

Till Nature’s filver cord Ihall break.

And Heav'n’s eternal blifs fucceed !

Cho. Parent of Good ; to tiiee we raife

For Virtue’s fake th’ enhearted fong
The Worth that we delighted praife
To life’s completeft date prolong.

SONNET TO a LADY.

By Ephraim Epigram, Efn.

Dum fplroj fpe'O.

S Lucy quitted Swif t’s domain,
Oppi eft with thought and grief.

Her guardian Sylph [>erceiv‘d her pain.

And thus advis’d relief :

Check, Lucy, check the ri fing figb,
Supprefs the woe-fraught tear 5
Renounce th^ forrow-fad’ning eye,

And let gay joy appear, —

Let joy on Pleafuie’s wings, fublime,

“ Condudl thee to that fhore.

Where canker'd care, and hoary time.
Can trouble life no more.

Defpalr not, Maiden — he it underftood,

A prefent evil may be future good.”

Sonnet to STELLA. By the Same*
Forma honum frapile.

TELL A 1 though Beauty’s Queen denies
To grace thee with exterior charms,

A ruby lipf and fparkling eyes^

Such as excite impure alarms ;

Nature moft bounteoufly has giv’ii
A heart fufceptible and kind ;

And more — the choiceft gift of Keav’n,

A virtuous and enlighten’d )7iind.

Thefe, Stella ! are poffeflions far
Surpaffiag all exterior grace ;

The charms of Beauty tranfient ire — -
Witnefs old C h lo a’s painted face.

Ah ! vjhdS-zve llpsinieyes we beauteous call —
Viitue and Senfc, like thine, exceed them all.

The four EV NGELTSTS.

TjpOR Hebrews Matthew vvrote, for Gre-
cians Lqke, [rebuke.

For Romans Mark, John for blind guides*
7'he firft and laft we two Apoftles call,
Alfociate Mark of Peter, Lutse of Paul.

Euthelius.

’*■ Ebion, Cerinthus, &c. wlio denied the
Divinity of our Ble lied Saviour.

942 Poetry^ Anilmi md ?Aodern, for O£lober, i 794.

On the Death of Charles Eyrf,

(Scep.%^0).

HEN excellence like thine is fnatch’d

, , awav,

Praife is not a// furviving friends can pay.
Reflexion froni the eye a tear will fi vce,
While awful filence hovers round thy corfe^
Infpires the funeral train, penfive and flovv,
And makes each heart vvitii emulation glow.

“ Oh I may ave live (fay they) and die like thcCy
jd?7d thu% be happy in eternity /”

In each endearing a<5t thou didft excel.

My friend ! my friend ! -

A folid Chriftian, and entirely free
From wild entliufiafl; dreams or bigotry.
What many only taught thy pvadlice knew,
Studious'to gain the juhJlancg WQV&ihd^Vi fhew ;
No fedl or party could thy judgement move
From the juft centre, charity and
Be thy few frailties to the grave configii’d,
Dieoneacli tongue, and vanithoff each mind :
But let thy virtues on tlie memory dwell,
And like a box of precious ointment fmell 1

■tllUfUM* ■■

EPIGRAM.

C“^OQUETTA, thinking Ihe has fway
j O’er her ofiicious Swain,

Bids him upon a fatal day.

Not fee her face again.

Th’ aftonifh’d Youth firft trembling flood,
Nor knew be what to fry ;

At length, he in a penfive mood
Juft uttsr’d, “ I’ll obey.”

He fliid, then left her, try’d to eafe
His mind of whst he’d heard,

And, fatal to Ccquetta’s peace,

' Too ftrictly kept his word. Classicus.

CARMEN OL. GOLDSMITH, M. B.

> Lattnf. REDDITUM.

( Continued from p. 844.)

TA M decus egi egium formae fplendef-
cere—jamque

Milie novas veneres luxnriare videt —

Sic varii radiant adverfo.Sole colores —

Non a'iter radiant — non aliter fueiunt !

Et labia, et vultus, rofeas et cervicis honores
Virgiuoi oftendunt flgna pudica metus —
Kec" pvicr ingenuu?, forma at I’rseftante

P U E L L A

En'tet. O qnantus fu'gct in ore decor !
Eq iv'iiferere,” inquit — “ nec vuUum avertc
“ petenti— —

“ Da veniam infauflse, qunm malus error
Felices fine lahe domes, caftofqne la celfus
Aufaeft facr lego (p/w vio’aie pede.

Si noftri feriem vacet exauclire^ahnrr,

“ Accipias quanii caufa dtd.oias amor :

‘‘ Ffvrtnna evaunir — tranquilljc g nulia vitse
“ Fugere aeternUrTw Nil nifi enra maaet.’^

H. G, B.

Dr'A'MCES, «//rr.5 Sh ERin an, loquitur.

E M pnpulo invifl'.ra, atque bonorurn
JS vocis egeritern j fandns

Coninl!'^, impiadoe riuiade, fcclcrumqus ne-
iloitator, Pan ’;.cq ;e [..lab afpei r’anus hoflis !

Des jlbertatem fandi, flatufque remittas
Cujus oh aufpicium hifauftum, malcfane Mi-
nifter, fraineris)

(Dicam equidgm, fi vin’cla mihi Turremque
Lumina tot cecidilfe Ducum, Patriarnque vi-
demus

Confidiffe ipfam lurftu; dum Gallics rentant
Caftra, fnges fidem, Britmum fpes altera^ ^ et
amens

Anftria : deft-ruit fcedusfociofqueTyrannusf
Ifts 'Borujforum infidtis, fraternaque luflt
Agmina. Qiiid miferosin apcrtapericulacives
Projicis.^ O Patria, caput horum et caufa
malorum !

Beilum importunurn, incafium, cum gen-
Itferarum

Invidlifque viris, gerimus; quos nulla fatigant
Freelia, nec vibfi pojfunt ahfijiere ferro."

Nulla falus Bello: Pacem tepofeimusomnes,
Pittiade, pacem vel cum Jacobinibus ipfls.
Primus ego {Invifum quern tu till fingis, et eft
Nilmoror)Qn fupplexvenio: mifereretuorum,
Pone animos : cedunt Britones. Sat funera fufi
Vidimus, externos et defolavimus agros.
Scilicet, ut nutu Regni modereris habenas
Ipfe tuo, et Belli et Pacis fis arbiter idem,
Nosanlmag viles,inhumata, infletaque turbs,
Steinamur Carapis.”

T u K N u s , alias Fit T f refpondet.

“ Larga tibi femper, Sheridane, eft copia
fandi [vocatis

Tunc cum bella manus pofeunt, patribufquc
Primus ades ; fed non fervanda ef Anglia verbis^
Quae tuto t ibi magna volant, dum nulla cocrcent

Vincula Te infidiis ! . .

Devidli Britones? quifquara, fcecliflimejvidos
Arguet, hoftilitumidumqui.crefcere Rhenuni
Sanguine; captivafque rates a dalTe yi debit
Angliaca, merfafque alias peri'ffe profundo }
Nulla falus Bello? Garolot cane talia demens
VileSfo, fociifque tuis : proinde omnia magno
No celTa turbaie metu, atqus extollere vires
Gentis Tartarece: indecores certamine primo
tleficimus ? cur ante turbam timer occupat
a! tus ?

' Multa dies variufque labor rraitabilis asvi
Reitulit in melim : mihi Coifica, et Infula
capta

Phn ima, fint tefter, quas Sol cafurus inaurat.
Sunt et opes nobis, atq- e imperterrita corda,
Daanimis patria favor eft, et cenfeia vittus.
Non eft auxilio nobis Hifpania, forjan;

At Franficus erit, Dubior queque Belgicusy et
([uo

T ot popuh mifd e duces : nec parva fequetur
Gloria Scotorum turma*^, atijue agmina lernae,
Ccmbiiaci eft generis juvenis§ decus ifjle,
aninio'um [caiervas:

Agmen cgi^ns eqaitum, et fpirairtcs arma
Eft et C('! nwallis, per /frmw notus Ebam, ^
Perque, Columbe, tuam ; eft proles quoqu®
Moira Grr-divi.

Interea mentem hello, rebufljue gerendls
Foi'tster, f pfe bonis quannuam communihus objhsy
Picnades, nulli veterum viitute fecundus,
Devovl.” - - - — -

D. of Yovk. f K. of P) Ulna.

J Mr. Fc-x. § St \V W. W.

1 X> f >■' ' I ■; f; ! f. S

[ 943 ]

PROCEEDINGS of the NATIONAL CONVENTION of FRANCE ; p. 84^.

Teh. H E Comptroller General of Af-

13* X fignats announced, that thirty-
millions of Afljgnats would be burnt this
day.

Feb. 15. In confeqnence of a report of
St. Andre, the Convention paffed the fol¬
lowing decree :

I- The maritime flag decreed by the
National Conftituent Affembiy is fupprelTed.

2. The National flag fliall henceforth he
formed of the three National colours, difpo-
fed in three equal bands, put in a vertical
direction, in fuch a manner that the blue be
affixed to the flafi' of the flag, the white in
the middle, and tlie red floating in the air.

3. The flag called the Jack, and the flag
on the flern of the fhips, ffiall be ditpofed
in the fame manner, obferving the ufual
proportion of flze.

4. The ftrea.mers fliall likewdfe be for¬
med of three colours ; of which one filth
lhall be blue, one fifth white, and three fifths

red.

5. The new National flag (hal! be hoifl-
ed in all the fhips of the Republic on the ioth
of May ; and the Minifter of Marine (hall
give the necclTary orders for that purpol'e.

Merlin of Thionville, in the name of the
Committee of War, made a report on the
quoftlon. Whether it is necefiary that officers
fhould be able to read and write ? —The
Convention decreed, that no citizen ffiall be
jTomoted from the rank of corporal up to
that of general, unlefs he can read and
^vrite.

Feb. 16. One of the deputies from the
Ifie de France and Ifle de Bourbon rofe, and
laid, “ You were yeflerday told, that nine
fhips richly laden had entered the harbour
of L’Orient : but you have not been told,
that thoie Ifies, entirely negle<fled, and left
to tiiemfelver, without receiving any allif
tance from France, remained nevcrthclefs
faithful to the Republic, fitted out a gteat
number of piavatecm, and w ere fo fuccebTul
in their ci uifes, as to have prizes from ilie
Enghfli to the amount of 45,occ,coo livies.”
(Aj-'plaufe and h-Oiiourahle mention.)

On the report of the War Committee,
the Convention decreed,

1. Th.e foreign free Legions being fup-
preffed, tlie capitulation made with tlie Dutch
officers eniph.yed m Uiefe corps can no
lo))gei take jdace.

2. d lie Dutch employed in the

fervice of i!te Rc5)nldii:, faull have tlie fame
rank as the National oflheis, and fliall have
no penfion befides tl.eir pay.

3. Thcfe Dutch ollicers, who ffiall quit
the fervice to letire, or be re-formed, or
difbanded, fhalienjoy the fame penfion which
they had former ly.

, Feb. zi. Louis Portiez, deputed by roife,
laid, Next to ihe energy of the people,
Sfid the heroifm of the Fiench foldiery, the

country refls its mofl: foliJ hopes upon the
national domains. Tiie raafs is at prefeni;
compofed of ci-devant ecclefiaflical effedis,
the ci-devant civil lift, the emigrants effedls,
thofc of condemned and tranfported confpi-
rators ; — in a word, of the alienated
domains.

“ We cannot at prefent give you, even by
approximation, a Iketch of the refources of
the Republic in this refpedL The produce
is not yet terminated; nevertlielefi, from
what has come to the knowietlge of your
Committee, it is juftified in telling you, that
your refources in national domains are fuch,
that, notwdthftandingyour immenfeexpences,
the creditor of the ftate ought to make liim-
fe!f eafy, whilft they terrify the coaluiou of
crowned defpots.

“ Sell the efleCls of the emigrants, and
yon wdll take av/ay ail hopes from thefs
wretches. — Sell the national domains.

“ The accelerat oil of tlie fale of the emi¬
grants’ efietfls ffiould be the toncliftcne of
the patriotifm of the ailminifirators, as the
avidity to purchafe on the part of the bdmi-
niflrations is the type of confidence in tiie
fuccefs of the revolution.

Eighty-two departments have commen¬
ced the fale; the o'dier four have delayed on¬
ly on account of their being the theatre of
war. '1 he fale of the emigrants’ elfetfls is
at prefent m.ore rapid than thofs of t!ie ec.de-
fialtics' w'ere. Tlie principle of dividing inta
fniall lots is cnnftantly followed.”

The following is the plan of the Decree ;

The National Convention, after hear¬
ing its Committees of Donations aad Ai ena-
tion, decrees, that live lift of;ihe diidrids
whkii have not commenced the fale of the
emigrants, and the motives of the delay,
ffi.ill be printed and made public, and fent
to the iTepartmeuts.” — Adopted.

Feb. 23. Earre came to fubmlt to tl>«
Convention the laft ai tides of the law of the
Muxhnunif which w'ere decreed.

Claufel. — “ The law which you have juft
dec reed will be difficult in it< execution, or
even nfelefs, as you have addeil no article
to it, to fix the wages of the ivorkmen.
How can you requiie of a ffioemaker, for in-
ft.ince, to fell his ffioes at a fixeii ju'ice, if
the workm ui whom lie emph.ys afles of him
wages which come tip to or exceeds the jn'ice
of the fhoes ? 1 w 11 no failiier dwell on Clus
fuhjed, as every body muft be ft ruck with
the ncccffity of taking a proper meafure ia
this refped.”

Legendre. — “ There exifls a law whidi
fixes the price of m.".nual labour, and whicii
has not been repealed,”

Earrere.—'^ I f I were to give my opintoni
now on this fuhjed, 1 wou'd call to your
niind tlie priiicij les laid dovvii in feveral
good uorks wriiten in the beginning of the
Revolutiun. — Tlie vvoikinau ouglit to fiini

944 Proceedings of the National Convention in France, [0£!-,

Jn his work \v!ierewithal to feed and fupport
his family, and to procure refources for old
age. Work is the real wealth of a nation j
that honourable work ought to be profita¬
ble : but, as the refults of tliofe great princi¬
ples ought to be matured by reflexion, I
now confine myfelf to move, that the obfer-
vation of Claufel be referred to the Commit¬
tees of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public
Ti' el fare. — Decreed.

i'dh, 24. Damon fpoke to a Motion of
Order. He faid, that the Hall of the Alfem-
My was not fonorons enough, and that a
Member who wilhed to be heard required

INTELLIGENCE of IMPORTANCE

Extradls of Letters from Lord Hood, to
Mr. Stephens,

Vi6fory, Martella Bay/y Aug, 5, 1 794.

My letter of the 15th cf June would in-
form you, that having forced the French
flrips on the nth, wine!) failed from Tou¬
lon the 5ih, to feek their fafety within the
fiioals in tlie Bay of Gourgean, and under
the protedlion of the batteries of the iflands
cf St. Honora and St. Margareta, and on
Cape Garoupe j that I had left Vice-Admiral
Hotlinm to watch them; and that I was
returning to C oiTica, to join lieutenant-gene¬
ral Stuart for tlie redudlion of Calvi, which
1 have the honour to acquaint you, is now,

1 believe, on the point of fiurendering to
the arms of his Majefiy. Upon my jundlion
with Vice- AdmiraLHotham off this Port on
the 9tli, I detached Captain Nelfoa in the
Agamemnon to Baftia, W'ith orders to em¬
bark tl e troops, and proceed witii them to
Maitello Bay, where lieut.-gen. Stuart em¬
barked on liie 15th; and exprelfing a wifh
to proceed to the attack of Calvi immedictely,
Captain Nelfon comphed with it, and on the
19th all the troops were landed, under the
diredlion of Captain Cooke, in a fmall cove,
about three miles from Calvi. I anchored
In Martello bay on tl^e 1 9th ; and fo foon
as I had embarked the orunaiice am! otlier
fl-ores the general had defired, whicli the
boiflei ons weather for fome days prevented,
atid had forced the Agamemnon and feveral
of the tranfports from their anchors; but his
Majelfy’s fmaPer fiiips, and the reft of the
tranfports, which were clofe under ths land,
and had not room to get under fail, vei'y for¬
tunately rode the gale out, cvitliout an acci¬
dent to either, the wind not blowing liome
to the (hore with fo mndi violence. On the
26th I failed, having previoufiy feat Capr.
Hallowell and Capt. Seiocold (w'ho were
eager volunteers for the Trvice, as we. e aPo
the lieutenants Ferriers and Moiganj with as
many able feamen as the Vidury conk! then
fpare, to airilt in dragging up the ordnance,
and ferving the baittries. The journal I
herewith iranfmit from Captain Nelfon, who
had the command of the feamen;. will ftiew

alraoft the lungs of Stentor. He moved
that the Infpeiftors be required to confult the
arlifts to remedy that inconvenience.-—
Decreed.

The Sedions of Paris prefented a petition
againft foreftallers and monopolizers, who
now come forth as contradlors for the armies,
and ftarve the indigent.

A young female Citizen, who ferved in
the iirnay, demanded to return, and join Ixer
colours.

The Prefident anfvvered, “ Be a wife and
a mother 1”

('To be continued. )

FROM thf. LONDON GAZETTES.

the daily occurrences of the fiege, and whofe
nntemitting zeal and exertion I cannot fuf-
ficiently exprefs, or of that of Captain Hallo-
w'ell, who took it by turns to command in
the advanced battery twenty- four hours at a
time ; and I flatter myfelf they, as well as
the other officers and feamen, will have full
juftice done them by the General; it is
therefore unnecelTary for me to fay more up¬
on the fahjedf; but I have to lament, and
which 1 do moft fincerely, the lofs of a very
able and valuable officer, Capt. Serocold,
who was killed by a grape fhot, while get¬
ting the laft gun in its place, foon after the
enemy bad difeovered our battery. The
King has not a more meritorious young Cap¬
tain in his Majerty’s Navy : he commanded
the floating-battery which was burnt by
red-hot ftrot before Baftia, and afterwards
ferved, with infinite reputation, at the bat¬
teries on fhore. Independent of my regard
and efteem for him, I feel his lofs to be a
public one. Much credit is due to the Cap¬
tains VVolfeley, Hood, Sir Charles Hamil¬
ton, Sir Harry Burrard, Cunningam, Mac-
namara, and Robinfon, for their vigilance
in keeping fuccours out, by a fteady perfe-
verance in preferving their refpedlive fta-
tions, under manifeft difficulties; and I
ought not to ornit to mention my tribute of
praife to Mr. Gibfon, commanding the Fox
hired cutter, of whom all the Captains fpeak
in the handfomeft manner for his diligence
and punctual obedience to orders. For near
two months they did not receive at Calvi any
intelligence from the Continent, until the
night of the 29th, when four boats got in,
the port not being then fo well and cldfely
guarded, having been obliged to fend off
tlii’ee frigates to Naples and other places, for
ftores, which the general prefled for, and
the night’s being dark. On the 27th J arri¬
ved off Calvi, and have kept clofe off the
port ever fince, in order to receive the
wants of the army every morning, having
ftatiored a frigate at anchor off Cape Reve-
lata, and another off Point D’Efpana. I
have landed from this fhip feven of her lower-
deck gur*s J and;i from time to time, all re-

quifitionsp

» 794-3

Inttrejling Intelligence fiom the London Gazettes.

945

tjuifitions, for various other ftores as well as
for men, the general has made, have been
connplied with, under gie t inconvenience,
that the operations of the army fhould not
fland flill. On the zqth of laft month I had
the honour of a vifit from Gen. Stuart, who
brought letters that had paffed between him
and the Commandant of the Frencli tioops
relative to a truce for tweiitv-five days, which
appearing to be inadmiffihle, in the afternoon
of the 3c th of July our batteries were opened ;
and on the morning of the ift inft. the w'hite
flag was difplayed on the citadel, under the
national one, and the firing ceafed.

Viaory, off Cahi, Aug^ g 1794.

I herewith have the honour to tranfmit,
for the information of the Lords Commifho-
ners of the Admiralty, duplicates of my <!if.
patches of the 5th from Martello Bay. I
failed on the 7th, and got off here the next
morning ; and herewitli tranfmit a copy of
Captain Nelfon’s journal from the 28th of laft
month to the 8th of the prefent one} alfo
the copy of a lett-r i have received from
him, highly creditable to lieutenant Harri-
fon,' a tranfport agent, as well as to Mr.
William Harrington, mhfter of the Willing-
ton, and the tranfport’s men, who were all
anxioufly eager, either to ferve on fhore, ( r
on board his Majefty’s fhips. I have order¬
ed Captain Wolfeley to take po(fc^fli.)n of
the Melpomene and'Mignone. frigates; the
^rmer is one of the fiaeft ever built in
trance, carries forty guns ; the other only
thirty t''. o } and 1 have received an account
from the Coniu! at Zante, that his Majefly’s fri¬
gates which I fent into the Levant, under the
command ofCaptain Montgomery, have taken
the Sibelle, twun fifter to the Melpomene,
Captain Cunningham, who has cruized with
infinite diligence, zeal, and psrfeverance,
under many difficulties, for tliree months
paft, off Ccilvi-, is charge^d with my difpatch-
es, and is competent to give any info' mation
their Lordfhips may wiflv to ha- e } and 1
beg t,) recommend him as an officer ( f great
merit, and highly defcrving any favour that
can be fhewn him.

Viaory, off Cahi, Aug. 10 ie^4.

Having received from lieutenant-general
"Stuart the Articles of C.ijdtulation ; he made
with Cafabianca, the commandant ot the
French troops a Calvi, I have tne honcur
to tranfmit a copy thereof.

northward of Scilly; bur, not having feen
them, 1 ftretched over towards the Pen-i
marks, and on the 23d, at four A. M. I
difeovered one of the enemy’s frigates,
made the fignal for a general chace, and
continued the purfuit until four P. M. when
his Majefty’s fhip Diamond, in company
wnth the Artois, Santa Margaritta and Diana,
engaged and run her on fhore near the Pen-
mark Rocks, w'here they left her on beam
ends, difabled, and irrecoverably loft. I
underftand, from tl-ie report of the feveral
officer:., that flie was La Fehcite, of 4.a'guns,
upon a cruize, and had left Breft fix days.
Having feen two ffiips, corvettes, to wind¬
ward of point De Ras, I gave chace,-in com¬
pany with his Majefty’s fhip Arethufa, when
the enemy flood into the Bay D’Hodierne,
and anchored off the Gamell Rocks : per¬
ceiving my intention of clwfing with them,
they got under weigh, and ran aground un¬
der cover of three batteries. The two fhips
continued engaging till a cmarter after fix
P. M. wffien the corvetts mans went by the
board, and the ore vv's got on fhore. I im¬
mediately ordered our boats manned and
armed, withdircdlions to put themfelves under
Sir E. Pellew’s orders, and to fet the enemy’s
fin PS on fire, or otherwife deftroy them ;
which fervice was fully performed, he ha¬
ving reprefented to me that there were fi'om
20 to 30 killed and wounded in the Alert,
and a greater number in the L’ Efpion ; and
that it was impolhble to remove the wound¬
ed to the two frigates, as many of them muft
have fuffered in fo doing : for the fitke of
humanity, I judged it proper to let them re¬
main, as the enemy’s veffels were bilged and
fciUtled, the rocks appearing through their
bottoms ; and it being impoffible to get them
off, it would have occafioned much delay,
being then only nine leagues from Breft. L
therefore brobght away 52 prlfoners, and
flood to fea. The deftruflion of the French
veffels was obtained with little lofs.*, and that
every effort was made by the officers and men
in the different fhips in the executvon of their
d«tv, whicli was performed with the utmoft
alaevky, and will, 1 trull, meet with their
Lordffiips approbation. I beg leave to add,
that the fquadron on the 27th inftant recap¬
tured the Qiieen, of London, from Jarnsaica;
alfo the Mary, a brig from New Orleans,
bound to London, laden with furs, indigo, &c.

Extraa of a Letter frmn Sir fc^hn Borlafe War¬
ren, A. B. Captain of hn Miajejly’s ffip Flora^
to Mr. Stephens J'almouth, Aug. 29, I794-
3 beg you v\ili inform their lordlhips that
1 put to fe.i, With his Majefly s fquadron
«ider my command, on the 7th inftant,
and on the 14th in the even ng hond to the
northward, to obtain information of a
French fquadron of frigates that were fuppo-
fed to be cruizing to the weft ward
. Mag. Oaober I794.

The following difpatch from the Duke of
Yoik has been received by Mr. Dundas.

Sir. Head Sfiarters at Grazfe. Sept. 17*
In my laft letter, of the 1 3th, I aapiaint-
ed you, for His Maiefty s infornnation, with
a report, w’hich I had juft received, of tlie
Enemy ’s having made a movement towards

^ Diamond, 5 wounded.

Saata Margaritta, i wounded.

Oofterwyclu

Inter ejilng Intelligence from the London Gazettes.

Oofterwych. It appeared, however, by the
account of the next day, that this corps had
fallen back, in the night. The fame accounts,
confirmed by the reports of deferters, allured
U3, that a very confiderable detachment, a-
mounting to 1 5,000 men, had been made to¬
wards Maettricht. On Sunday afternoon afud-
denattack, in which it appeared that the Ene¬
my were m great force, was made upon all
my polls of the rights and that of Boxtel
which was the mod: advanced, was forced,
with confiderable lofs, to the HeffeDarmftadt
troops who occupied it. As the hue of my
out-polls upon the Domniel could not be '
maintained while the Enemy were in pof-
feifion of Boxtel, it appeared necelTary to
regain it ; at the fame time the degree of re-
fiftance which the Enemy would make
would ferve to afcertain whether this attack,
was fupported by their army, with a view
to a general attack, or was merely an affair
of out- polls. I therefore ordered Lieut,
Gen. Abercrombie to march with tne referve
daring the night, with cliredions to recon¬
noitre tke poll at day-light, and to adt as he
ihould judge beft, from what he Ihould dif-
pover of the force of the Enemy, Lieut.
Gen. Abercrombie having advanced as di-
redled, found the Enemy m fuch ftrength as
left little room to doubt of the proximity of
their army, and he accordingly retired, but
in fuch good order as prevented the Enemy
from making any imprellion, although they
followed him for fome diflance. About this
time I received private information, upon
which I could rely, and w'hich was confirm¬
ed by the obfervation of my patroles, and
the reports of deferters, that the Enemy had
been reinfoj,xed by the Corps which had hi¬
therto been adling in Well Flanders, as well
as by a column of the army whiefi had been
employed before Valenciennes and Conde.
The fame information allured me alfo, that
the Column which had been marching to¬
wards Maeftricht had fuddenly returned to¬
wards us. From thefe accounts, and what
I knew of the previous flrcng'h of the Ene¬
my, it appeared that the adtual force now
advancing againlt me, and whofe objedl
could only be an attack upon my army, could
fcarcely be lefs than 8q,o©o men. The ha¬
zard of an adlion with fuch a veiy great dif-
parity of numbers could not but become a
patter of the mofl: lerious confideration ; and,
after the moft mature deliberation, 1 did not
think myfelf at liberty to rifk, in fo unequal
a coutell, his Majelly’s troops, or thofe of
his Allies ferving with them. 1 had the ut-
poft reliance on their courage and cjifcipline,
and I had no diiubc but that thefe would have
enabled me to refill the firft efiorts of the
Enemy ; but it could fcarcely be expected
that even by the utmoll exertion of thefe
qualities they woulh bp able to vvithfiand the
reiterated attacks whicli the vail fuperiorliy
oi the enemy would enable them to make,

and which we know, from experience, Is a
general principle upon which they a<5l. Ac¬
tuated by thefe aeafons, and the further in¬
formation, which 1 received about noon,
that the enemy were marching confiderable
columns towards my left, in which part my
pofition was moil vulnerable, i determined
on retreating acrofs the Meuf^. The army
accordingly marched at three o’clock, and,
without any lofs weatever, took up a pofi¬
tion, which had been previoufly reconnoi-
tered, about three miles in front of this place,
from which they croffed the River yefterday
morning. Tlielofs in theattack upon theout-
polls has fallen chiefly upon the Heffe Darmr
ftadt troops, vvith fome of the Foreign troops
newly raifed for his Majefty's fervice. I have
not as yet, however, received the returns.

Inclofed I fend that of the Britilh*.

I am, k.z, FREDERICK.

ExtraSl of a Let/er from Lieut, Gm. Simcoe,
to Mr. Secretary Dundas, dated NavyJoaLf
Mug. 30, 1794.

I take an opportunity of fending this dif-
patch by means of Mr. Hammond, to whom
I lofe no time in giving information of the
important event, that ME Wayne, with the
Army of the United States, penetrated to the
E'cit at the Miamis, which he fummoned to
furrender ; and, upon Major Campbell's re-
fufal, at prefent appears to have retreated.
It is impoflible to exprefs the fenfe I enter¬
tain of Major Campbell’s moft wife, firm,
and temperate conduift, in his very peculiar
and difficult fituation ; fuch notice as the
military part ©fit highly deferves, I prefume,
will be offered to you by Lord Dorchefler,
who muft be fully competent to judge of its
merit ; but t fhould do injuftice to myfelf,
did I not ftate to you. Sir, my humble and
earneft hope, that the condudl of this Gen¬
tleman, which in fubftance may have pre¬
vented the greateft miferie.s to the Province
under my Government, and who, in fiis
manner and language, has in a very trying
fituation moft nobly fupported tlie National
charaifter, will recomrnend him to your at¬
tention, and be found worthy of his Majefty’s
approbation.

iVhitehall') Ofl. 26, ^794.
The following Difpatch -was received from
-His Royal Highnefs the Duke of York^
by the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas.

Sir, Head garters j Nimeguen, 0,dt. 2 o, 1 7 94.
Yefterday morning the enemy attacked
the whole of the advanced polls of my right
vviug, in very gpeat force, part cularly that
of Drutin, which was defended by the 37fh
Regiment, and that of Appelthern, where
the Prince of Rohan’s light battalion w.as

^ This is given in the Gazette j but is
not very confidertible^

1794-] Intelligence from the Eaft Indies, and from Ameflca, 947

potted. Kothing could exceed the gallantry
vvith which the whole of the troops on the
advanced pofts, (particularly thofe two corps)
behaved ; but at lafl the port on the left of
the 37th regiment, which was occupied by
a detachment of Rohan hulfars, having been
ferced, Major Hope, who corhmanded the
37th, and who dirtinguifhed himfelf exceed-
ingly, was obliged to retreat upon the Dyke
along the Waal, v\hich he continued f(>r
fomc time, without being much annoyed by
the Enemy. Unfortunately, however, a
llrong body of the Enemy’s Huffars being
mirtaken for the Corps of Rohan, the regi¬
ment allowed them to come upon them Un-
Inolerted, when the Huffars immediately at¬
tacked, and the narrownefs of the Dyke,
which, on every other occafxon, muft have
afforded a fecurity to the Infantry, in this
inftance adled againft them, as they were
<lriven off it by the Enemy’s charge, and, I
am forry to fay, have fuffered very cofider*
ably. As they were upon the advanced pofts,
I have not as yet received an exadt return
of their lofs ; but I underftand that Captains
Baird, Headley, and Duff 5 Lieut. Mitchell,
Thompfon, Colquhoun, and Murray ; with
the Qtiarter- Matter Mr. Duxall, were made
prifeners; of w'hich number Captain Duff,
Lieut. Mitchell, and Colquhoun, are wound¬
ed. All the prifoners who were taken
agreed in the intelligence that the Enemy
had brought over 30,000 men ; and at the
fame tjme 1 received the report that a very
confiderable body of them, having palled
the Meufe between Ruremonde and Venlo,
were advancing upon my left flank, and had
already taken poffellicn of Cleves.

Under thefe circnmftances never having
intended to rifk an adlion in my prefent por¬
tion, which I only kept in order to preferve
a communication with Graves, and to cover
the reparations w'hich were intended to
have been made to the fortifications of this
place, I determined to pafs the Waal, and to
take up the different cantonments, which
W'ere already marked out, for the defence of
the river, leaving General Walmoden, with
a Corps, to cover the Tow'n.

Part of the Troops began their march
yefterday Evening, and the remainder this
Morning, without any moleltation from the
enem y.

lam, &c. FREDERICK.

P. S. I am forry to add, that Lieutenant
W adman, of the Light Infantry of the 37th
Reg ment, who was upon picquet, ard had
diUinguifhed himfelf by his intrepidity and
prudence, is alfo dangtroufly wounded, and
was brought in the evening to this town.

East India N f. w s .

Madras^ March I, The Princes of Myfore
rtiuck their camp on the Ifiand this day, and
proceeded on ::)ieir return to Seringapatam.
They halted that night and the next day at

the Mount, where they were met by
Highnefs Omdat ul Omrah ; and the next
morning they proceeded on their route.
Mr. Oram, AflGftant Surgeon, accompanies
Captain Dovqton as his medical ftaff. Among
thepiefents from his Flighnefs the Nabob of
the Carnatic, on this remarkable occafion,
were 40 _ Abyffnian flaves. The other
princely gifts w’ere all equally fumptuous and
elegant j and valued at not left than 50,000
pagodas, about 20,000! . fterling.

Bomhay, March 12. Accounts from Chit¬
tagong have been received within thefe few
days, bringing the intelligence of a niime-.
rous body of Burmahs, to the amount of
io,ooo, having made an irrup'ion into that
Province, and encamped w-ithin the Com¬
pany’s territory, where they have fortified
their camp with entrenchments.

We underftand that the above hortile pro¬
ceeding of the Burmahs lias been accompa¬
nied with a demand, that neatly zoco men,
whom they name and deferibe, and allege to
be defaulters, that have taken fhelter under
the Company’s protedion, fhall be delivered
up to them; and, until this requifuion ftiall
be complied with, they exprefs their deter-
minatitai nor £0 remove from their prefent
encampmenr, Ip confequence of the pre¬
ceding intelligence, a detachment of the 3d
European battalion, and two battalions of
fepoys, and a detachment of artillery, t’ e
whole under the command of J-ieut. Col.
Erficine, is ordered to proceed immediattly
to Chittagong. The two ba'.ralions of fepoys
marclied from Barackpore, and are to
tinue their route by land with the utmort
expedition. The 3d European battalion aud
the detaenment of artillery embark on-board
the boats ready for them conveyance, and
proceed to Chittagong through the SuUder-
bunds.

A letter received from the Shah Hormu-
zear, lately arrived at Tellicherryy from Bo¬
tany-bay, fays, «A moft unhappy occur¬
rence befel us in a newly-difcovered ifiand
near New Holland. Mr. Carter, a young
gentleman, late of Calcutta, and Capr. Wil¬
liam Hill, of the New South W^ales corps,
with fix other Europeans, who had gone a~
ftiore with one of our boats, were cut off by
tile natives, and devoured by thefe animals.”

American News.

A dread fill fire took place at near¬

ly at the fame time as the late ffiocking fire
at Ratcliffe, Lonilon; and, what is vei y re¬
markable, from the fame caufe (the boiling
over a pitch-ketrle), 'whicli burnt v/ith fucfi
rapidity as to coofume nearly one fourth of
tha.t place, deftroying feveral whaifs and
rtnres in a few hours. The lofs of property
is eftimated at ioo,ocol. fterling, and, it is
beheved, the whole is uninfured; if that is
true, it will eccafiou the ruin of many very
refjiedlable faraiLes,

Blymciutle

948 Interejtlng Intelligence from America, the Country, [0^:.

Plymouth County, New England. This is
becoiiie.one of the mcfl populous diffrifts of
the United States, notwithilanding the bar¬
ren and late uncultivated ftate of this part of
the country. The inhabitants are enligtu-
ened and virtuous; crimes apparently are un¬
known, or, at lead, feldom, if ever, com¬
mitted'; fofj a capital eKecution has not taken
j'lace there for upwards of fixty years ! 1 1

Country News,

An a6\ion was tried at the lad Shyewjhury,
alTizes before a fpecial jury, brought by two
young gentlemen of the name of Paflingharn
againd a Mrs. Lloyd of Cheder, to recover
edates of the value of 150,000). which die
liad enjoyed for to years. , The plaintiffs
produce4 104 witnelTes in fupport of their
claim, which was clearly edabUihed ; and the
jury returned a verdiid in their favor.

One hundred and five fnakes, in one ned,
were difeovered and killed in a dunghill, at
Ilaiefiiury, in, Wilts.

Stanley, who was lately executed at Ilchcf-
ier, was about three years fince eieeded King
of the Gypfies. — His wife and daughter at¬
tended at the place of execution, and were
not more remarkable for the beauty of their
perfons than fur the very eodly appearance
of their.drefs.

TheDnehefs of Marlborough has jud built
a,nd endowed fix alms-boufes at Blenheim, for
the rcfidence of a's many indigent females,
who are to haye an annuity of lol. each,
and linen and fuel for life.

Auguji r8. Yederday the Halifax Gentle¬
men Volunteers made their fird appearance
in their uniform, and marched in proceffion
to church, to hear an excellent fermon that
was delivered to them by their chaplain, the
Rev. Dr. Coulthiird, the vicar, which was
touched m terras at once nervous, impref-
five, and elegant. And this day they pro¬
ceeded to tjie confecra’ ion of a fet of beauti¬
ful and mod excellent colours, given them
by the Ladies of the town and neighbour-
bood, which were prefented to the Volun¬
teers by th'e Rev. Dr. Couithurd, in their
name, attended by a deputation from the
Committee, in tlie riece-hall ; after which
they marched to the Moor, and fired feveral
excellent volleys, amidfl the unbounded
lliouts and acclamations of an ipimenle and
applauding multitude. On the prefsntation
of the colours, Dr. Conlthurfl made a .tlaort
introdudfory fpeech, to the following effedt:
that the colours were prefented to them by
the Ladles of the town, parifla, and neigh¬
bor, rhood, of Halifax; th.at the Ladies hid
been the peculiar patronelfes of the didin-
guifhed fokliery in all ages ; that there were
indancps of tiiis in the hidories of Greece
and Rome, and of our own country, parti¬
cularly in the c Te of one of our earlv kitrgs;
that it was pleafng to rededt, that the grim
vifage of War migh.t lometimes he di .cthad
iy the mUd 3:iterniv;> ;pn^ r.vart y nn. .^rjy

fpeaking, the elegant heroifm, of FennaTe
generofity ; and even the raajedic fternnefs
of the foldier’s charadler might he mitigated
by the delicacy of perfuafion, and the cour¬
teous attradlions of refinement : and he con¬
cluded with lioping that thefe colours would'
be ufed wMth a degree of bravery and pru¬
dence in fome meafure proportioned to the
laudable liberality of their kind patroneffes.
Afterwards, the Do6for delivered an excel¬
lent oration and prayer-

About the beginning of the month of Sep^
temher, an inqued was held at Exeter on the
body of a young man, who died in the hof-
pital of a violent contufioii he received in an
adventure, which he feemed unwilling to
difclofe. It was prefumed in evidence, that
the deceafed had been making merry with
his fweetheart and fome others, and, after
accompanying them home, entertained the
projedl of feeing them go to bed, and
endeavouring to reach the window for that
purpoD, fell headlong into a pig-fty, where¬
by he received the w’ound in his head which
occafioned his death.

Sept. 15. An alarming fire broke out in
the new corn-mills and drying kiln, fituate
at Wigan, belonging to MeflTrs, Bevan,
Chapman, and Co. TJie buildings (which
coft r2,©oo/.) wereveiy large and extenfive,
beingfeven ftories in height, and wereentirely
confumed, as the fire commenced in nearly'
the attic Rory, whereby there was no pof-
fibility of faving it. Fortunately it was a
very calm morning, or the greater part of
the lower end of the town mnfl inevitably
haye been deflroyed. The fire was not ex-
tinguifhed the next evening.

S'ept. 14. This day (Sundav) Saffron-Walden
church vvas robbed of about 30 Prayer-books;
the thief made choice of alithemoft valuable*

Sept. 1 6. A fire broke out at Wincanton,
CO, bomerfe' , which burnt about eight houfes
in the front of the ftreet, and fome tenements
behind. It is fuppofed to have been occafi¬
oned by a fack of lime being put againft a
faggot-pile.

Sept, r 8 . The roof of part of Battle- Abhey^
in Suffex, which has been ufed for fome
time as a Town-hall, was by the violence
of the wind and rain driven in, one part of
tliat iroble building totally deftro-yed, and the
inhabitants of the town thrown into a dread¬
ful coarternation.

Sept. 19. About 9 o’clock this tiight,
as t!ie Stourln iclge waggon was going from
Oxford to W()od'dock, it was overtui iied in
palling King’s bridge acrofs the Oxford canal,
in the panlb of Woolvercott, by which
accident two men v/ere killed on the fpot,
and a boy fo much hurt that his life is de-
fpaired of.

Sept. 20. A lamentable accident happened
at Wigan, in I.fiacaihire. Five children,
playing in a fand-hole, were fudde-nly buried'
by the frdl of a large quantity of the fand ;
vHf? of them, a buyof fev^V'years old, wms
1 ■ • fuffucatedy

1794-1

fuffocatedj two others are expefted not to
furvive ; and the otlier two uninjured.

Sept. 24. Tlte ftorm of this clay was fe-
verely felt at KeaTt/, co. Wil s. The light¬
ning fenced its way tiirough the ftone walls
into the church, on the Weft fide, over the
window, and went in an exadl horizontal
Idle acrofs the cluirch, and out at the North
lide, driving many ftoiies of large magni¬
tude into the church and church yard ;
other lightning took its direftion in at the
belfry -window, flruck a very large beam,
and fliivered it into a thoufand fplinters :
thence it palfed down the wall of the tower,
and out at the churcli-porch, doing much
damage in its palfage. In the belfry, it rent
' the lock of the clock-cafe from the door,
and melted the vvires of the clock.

Sept. 26. Between one and two o’clock,
after a feiziire having been made by fome
cuftom-houfe officers at Dea/, affitled by
fome of the Weftmorland militia quartered
there, and the feized goods having been in
the poffeffion of the officers, a perfon (at
prefent unknown) malicionfly and inhuman-
„ ly fired a piftql, and fliot John Eelbeck, a
private of the above regiment, through the
heart, who immediately expired. The co-
rouer's inqueft fat on the body, and brought
in their verdift wilful murder againft fume
perfon or perfons unknown.’*

Fortchejkr, Sept. 26. A few days ago -a
brick building, lately eredfed for. ^ public
brewery, and juft covered in, was bk-wn
down from the very foundations, without
the leaft previous warning. It flood ih the
front of the OxforJffiire encampment, and,
wnfoitunately, eight men of that regiment
were employed in fiaiffiing a well of large
dimenfions in the centre of the building.
They were all covered by the ruins, and
three of them forced ir.to the well by the
fall of the rafters. The water'xvas 12 feet
deep, or more, yet one of the poor fellows,
miffing his comrade, adlnally went under
water, by means of the ladder -uhich was in
it, and brought him up, ftunned, artd nearly
lifelefs, having ixcei/ed feveral violent con-
tufions. This man, from immediate aftift-
ance being at hand, is now in a ftate of re¬
covery ; and the other feven, though fevere-
ly bruifed and wounded, were taken out of
the ryins, and are pronounced free from
danger. The building was 70 feet in length,
and only one brick thirk. i

Seft. 27, The following dreadful accident
happened at Heigbington, a village near Lin¬
coln. A fon of Mr. Brown, of that place,
took up a gun to play with, not knowing it
was loaded; unhappily it wa‘, and, being
tlifcharged, two little children, brother a: d
ftfter to the y<;uth, were Ihor, and died in :i
few minutes, the firft aged 3, th.e other 5.
Anotlier lifttf h:id a very near efrape, the-
fhot grazmg her deaths. Th.c young man
was playing with the fame gun the night
before, and then Jit was not loaded ; bur, earl'/
ill, the morning of lUe unfoitiuiate day, it was

VI 9

charged by a fervant-ma-n of the family,
with an intent to fhoot crows, and fet agtiua
in the fame place as before. The fathei%na
mother were at Lincoln at the time Ws
hope this, in addition to many fimilar dread¬
ful accidehts, will be a caution to all pei'foiia
how they leave loaded guns where there Isa
poffibdity of danger.

Sept. 29. A melancholy accident hap¬
pened at StradifiaH, in Suffolk, where a
chimney-fweepef’s boy, named JohnBrew-
ller, between 13 and 14 y ars of age, ftuck
faft in the tunnel of-a chimney ; and, altho’
every endeavour was ufed to extricate him,
it proved fruitlefs till .too late, aS he was
fuffocated, and all the. means 'ufed to reftor®
him proved inelfedlia).

Sept. 30. An elderly rnan, named Lee,
by profeffion a gardener, who, according to
annual cuftom,Tr^d ctime out of Kent to fee
fome of his relations at Groomhrldge, ip SuiTex,
w. s found dead in liis bed at the Crown ion,
at that pl.ice, and where his body had lain
undifeovered fince tlse preceding Sunday
night, when he retired to reft apparently m
good heaitli.

Brighthelmjforief Oci. J. A dreadful accident
happened yefterday at Hove, in confequence
of t!ie inadvertency of a boy who was at¬
tempting to blow up diies w'ith gunpow'der
at a public-houfe. 'He had. firmed a t,r^aia
fur this purpofe acrofs the fide of the room,
'at the end of which flood a clofet, contain¬
ing a great quantity of powder. A {park
of'the former unfortunately got among the
latter, and fuch were the dreadful confe-
quences of the explohon, tb.at tiie boy liad
one of his eyes biovvn our, and nig face nioft
ffiockingly mangled. Two Ibidiers have
likswife {uffered fo. much by the fame, that
their lives are defpaireJ t)f. There, were
feveral more in the ap rtufent, who efcaped
unhurt. That part of the room, however,
where the gunrbvvder hood, was etuir.-iy
knocked down by the violence of the ffiock,
and th.e honfe cenfuierabiy damaged.

Obf. 4. A very elegant fete was given by
S.r Gilbert Heathcote, on the occafi..n of
coming of age, to all the nobility and gentry
of 'th- ntighbourhood, and to near 800
of his LcOzciZ/i , and Rutland tenantry. T he
alfembled muhitude was fo great,, that it ap¬
peared as if' the whole of the fu- rounding
country had joined in a general* fentimvnt of
congratulation to the heir of t'le hofpit.i!>’s
manfioa of , Normantcir. An ertcum patent
was formeit in a co.mmaJKling iituahoa oti
limpinghnm heath, about levea hundred
fe<‘t in length, and two hu ulred in breadth.
At tile top was a p. Wilson lor too I, die.-;, in
which a table was ftii'ead with the moft
luxurious viands, and el -ganLly decorated.—
On each fid ; (iowu the 1.* m were covered
‘b '.o’hs, exteiidii.g the vGi--..’.-; ! ugtii ol the
enrempment, containing a nrv.ruiion of ge--
nercus clieer, placed on tab les, fufticimbior
rue accommodation of three tiio.ifand peo¬
ple. On the a/ings a: each end of the pa-

Vil on

Inter ejlwg InteUigence frsni the Country Towni.

^5^ tnUrefting Intelligence from the dounity Townsi [6(9'^

vitiortj Were the depots of provifion.' — Six
oxen, tliiity fheep, anti eight waggon-loads
of bread, fornaed part of the immenfe quan¬
tity confamed, and thefe were diluted with
forty buts of wine, punch, and old ale. An
ox and feveral Iheep were roaftcd whole be¬
fore the encampment, and diftrihuted to the
populace, with very copicrusfhowers of bread.
The order of the entertainment w'as admira¬
bly preferved. The company bega[i to ^af-
femble at twelve o’clock, the carriages en¬
tering at the lower end of the encampment,
pairing up the line, and delivef ing their
bright charge at the pavilion, where they
were received by the eleg.ant and accom-
pliflied Lady Hcathcote. To defcribe the
manly aud attentive coikIlkSI of the worthy
hiift, and the beauty and courtef/ of the fair
fctollefs, might appear to Grangers to be the
didtate of adulation ; but all who w'er« pre-
fent will allow that the language of panegy¬
ric would be only the hmple voice of truth.
When the ladies were affembled, tlie pavi¬
lion difplayed a moll captivating fcene of
falhion and of grace. On a ludden was de-
fcried, on the road fiom Empingham, along
line of cavalry, as far as the eye could reach :
they were the patriot bands of Lincoln and
Rutland Yeomanry, in complete uniform,
except their arms j thofe were ufelefs at a
feftival of peace. The compliment of pre¬
cedence was politely yielded to the former
by Lord Wincheifea, and a moft animating
fpeftacle it was to fee them enter ; preceded
by their regimental bands, they marched up
the encampment in double files, parading in
front of the pavilion, and faluling as they
palled, the Stamford band receiving them
with Britons ftrike home.” Having dif-
pofed of their horfes at pickets, provided for
the purpo'.e, they marched back on foot to
the encampment, and took their feats at ta-
bjes, the Lincoln on the right, and the Rut¬
land on the^efc of the pavilion. Tlie tenan¬
try were feateJ next to them, accompanied
by their numerous families and friends ; aful
the glafs and brown jug had a briflc circula¬
tion, and povverfai effeEl. V/hers the dinner
was over, a cirelc of vaft fize was formed
by the Yeomanry, linking tlieir arms toge¬
ther, and fui rounded by the tenants. With¬
in the circle the ladies and gentlemen affem¬
bled, with the different bands of mufic and
bugle horns. *^everal excellent fongs, in
allufipn to the families of Rutland and Heath-
cote, and complimentary to the corps, were
fung on the occafion. Various races, and
other (ports to which prizes were affixed,
w ere proclaimed for the entertainment of the
company } but the day was too Ibort for the
peiformance of them all. At fun-fet, mag-
nificenif fire-works were difplayed, and a
voft bonftte doled the whole of this noble
and delighthjf entertainment (See f. 941.)

Blight helmjionsy Otl. 7 The temped on
Sunday evening was the mod trea^endous
that kas been kaiown Uere fur foms years.

The fea came nearly upon tIfB Steyne^
whilft the wind wag fo violent as to take
away feveral parts of the adjcfining houfes.
The molt dillreffing event that occurred
took place about three in the morning : — a
fhip was driveia near half a league from the
town ; ..they fired hgnals of diftrefs, and
hoitted out the lights. The fifhermen
cf iided to the fea-fide, and, finding every
relief impracticable, tliey foon afterward,"?
became melancholy wttneffes of the (hip’s
finking ; and, what renders the tal» more
lamentable i', that we have not fiilce h^rd
of a fingle life being faved. -

A boat, with eight people on coard, was
upfet at Sandgete, when three of the palien-
gers were unfortunately drowned.

Hatnuich, 03. 7. Inured aS the inhabitants
of a feaport town are to the diftrelfes inci¬
dent to tempsftuous weather, yet the calami**
tons effetfls of a dreadful dorm of 20 hours
duration have been fo great as to amaze even
tiiofe mod familiar with fuch unhappy feenes.
The temped commenced about eight o'clock
on Sunday evening j and by eleven o ’clock
on the next morning there were 35 veflels
w'recked within 20 miles of Harwich har¬
bour, At, one o’clock bn Monday, the crew
of the Reftoration, Captain Walker, a fine
new (hip in the Norway trade, and the peo¬
ple from a North Shields collier, in three-
boats, with the utmod peril and difficulty,
made the harbour. They had been in their
boats from ii o’clock the night before, and,
when they at length happily reached the
(liore, were reduced by fatigue and the in¬
clemency of the weather to the grealed
xveaknefs. Capt. Wedker reports, that, in
the morning of Monday, he faw upwards of
70 fail of veffels making fignals of didrefs.
The wrecks of feveral veflels are plainly to
be feea from the town, and many lives mud
inevitably have been lod. — A boat with four
nten and two women, ip attempting to crofs
at Languard fort on Monday, was driven
out to lea, where th© unhappy people mult
doubt’efs have all periflied.

03. 13. The hofpitality and polite atten¬
tions of Sir Gilbeit Heathcote have not beea
Cv'infined to Rutlamd. Tiiat liberal fpinr,
which offered a feaft to more than 10,000 pei -
fons on Empingham Heath, again dilplayed
itfelf this day, among his friends in Lin^
cohifhiie. An elegant dinner, for which
every thing w.ts thought of except the ex¬
pence, welcomed many very refpebtable
freeholders of tlie county, and his numerous
tenants, to the Greyhound inn, at Falking-
ham. Never, perhaps, was a meeting at
which fedivity, and unanimity, were more
happily united. The p-leafing affability and
manly fentiments of the Prefident irnpreffed
an univerfal fatisfadlion, and called forth a
return of fentiment in the grateful, loyal,
and affecdionate toads which befpokeihe feel¬
ings of the company. To have faid that a
dumer was given by Sir Gilbcit Heathcote,

was

y794 l HIST OK.ICAL

was to have declared that hofpitality pre-
fitled at the table, and that “ Plenty crown¬
ed the hoard.’’ The declaration that many
of his Tenants were prelent, was an alTertion
that there were fo many hearts overflowing
with gratitude ; and of this the acclamations
with which they drank, the health of “ the
hrhigh Sheriff of Rutland^ the tenant’s Friend ff
offered a eonvincingand mo 11 delightful proof.
Among the many excellent fongs, which
heightened the feftivity of the meeting, Mr.
Raunlley's moft admirable aCdrefs to the
Brave Yeomanry,” fung in the true fpirit
of a Britifh Officer, was felt in every heart,
and chorufed by every voice, while his hu¬
mourous defcri lotion of John Bull’s refentment
of French villany couvulfed^the company
with laughter, and produced a very hand-
fome compliment from Sir Gilbert to honefk
John, w'ho was toafled by the worthy Baro¬
net with three times three ; nor was John
lefs cared for without doors than compliment¬
ed within. A large ox, and three of the fineft
Lincolnfhire flieep, were roaffed whole on
a hill in front of the town, and formed part
of the repaft of which feveral thonfand per-
lons partook. It could not be perceived on
this occaflon, that the Roaft Beef of Old
England was a meat ill-adapted to the appe¬
tite of our countrymen ; nor was rnore than
one fentiment heard — that which flowed
from a grateful people, in return for the
generous efforts of ©Id Englifh hofpitality.
Several hogffieads of wine, punch, and ale,
furnifhed the beverage of the day ; the lat¬
ter was fo difpofed as to give the affembled
populace a convenient method to help them-
felves 5 and, with the former, they were li¬
berally fupplied by the munificent mafter of
the feaft, whofe countenance glowed with
pleafure while he prefented large bowls of
the choiceft wines with his own hands. In
the evening, the tow'n was beautifully illu¬
minated, and the many elegant devices that
appeared in fame windows, with the fplen-
dld luftre of others, gave an additional proof
of univerfal joy, and afforded a moft delight¬
ful difplay of that generous emulation, with
which the inhabitants of Falkingham decla¬
red tlieir affectionate attachment to a beloved
landlord. Before the centre window of the
Greyhound inn was a handfome tranlparen-
cy, reprefenting the arms of Heathcote, guard¬
ed on one fide by Britannia, and on the other
by their gallant bearer hirnfedf, in liie uui-
lorm of the Linco'nlhite Yeomanry, i he
inner window of the large dining-ioom was
ornamented with another tranfparency, in
W'hich the numerous company beheld the
expreffion of the.i own moft f-.rvent wiflie^;
among thefe, the defire for a long and happy
life to the excellent Sir Gilbtrt and his Lady
— of piofperity to the houfe of Heathcote — ■
and the grateful declarati(»ns of affeeftion to
Thonias Forfyth, Efep “ the Tenant’s Friend,”
weie eminently confpicuous. Several par¬
ties paraded town, enlivening the fefti-

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val farther by fongs in honour of the cauls
of it 5 and, if the praifes of Sir G. Heatbeots
were, at times, fufpended for a few minutes^
it was to fing attachment to his worthy rela¬
tives, whofe prefence and obliging behaviour
were juftly confidered as additional favours;
and to celebrate the exemplary condudt of
the patriotic captains of the Falkingham and
Bourn troops. On the hofpitable hill, where
provifions had been diftributed during the
day, two large bonfires were kept up in the
evening, and the town of Falkingham was
treated with a fine difpl.ay of fire-works frora
the fame fpot. After day of the utmoft
feftivity, tlie evening concluded with moft;
perfeeft harmony. The .plentiful provifions
were diftribyted, w^ithout confufion, to the
populace, whofe refpedtful and orderly be¬
haviour teftified the juft fenfe they enter-
tained of the kindnefs that was intended them.
The dinner of the gentlemen was ferved up
in a manner that reflected equal credit on
the purveyor and the cook ; and, after ali
had feafted to their wilhes, a handfome en¬
tertainment of meats, and a confiderable
quantity of wine and punch, remained as a
regale for the following day.

historical chronicle.

In the reign of Charles II. tea was fold
only by Thomas Garrawny, in Change-alley;
at this time there are 30,000 tea-dealers,
at leaft, in Great Britain. There was a
time when there were not 10 plantations of
fugar-canes in the Weft-lndies, though novjr
the value of fugar-canes cultivated there a-
mounts to upwards wf 10 millions fterlinglll

Among the vaft number of perfons libera¬
ted from the King’s Bench prifon, a now al-
moft-uninhabiced place of confinement, un¬
der the late Infolvent A <51, was a farmer,
who had remained in cuftody there i x years,
for the cofts of an adlion, in which he fail¬
ed, for having killed a hare on his own
grounds !!!

DOMESTIC OC .'CRRENCES.

As a foil of Mr. VVilkes, of Moor-lane,
about 1 2 years of age, was looking over a
board at ilie top of a houlc in a court in the
Old Hally, where he was with an engraver,
the board accidentally gave way, when he
fell over the parapet into the court, and frac¬
tured his Ikull in fo ffiocking a manner that
he expired very foon ffterward.

The late fuhfcnption for the unfortunate
fufferers by fire at Ratcliffe difeovered traits
of univerfal charity peculiar to this country ;
but the following, tho’ of humole kind, de-
fei ves particularlv to be recon'ed On the
Sunday’s colledlion of the vifitants, who
thronged to fee this encampment of the
vvretcheil, 800I .md upwards were received ;
4:61. odd of this fum were colledleil in c<)p-
per, and 38I. 14s. beftowed in farthings, the
poor man’s mitc, flowing from the pureft;
iource-of cffitniy and benevolence.

Tuejday^

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. [OA

1‘uejdiiyy Sept. 2.

As the Gorpfe of a gentleman was proceed¬
ing to the burial-ground, it was arrefted
•fcy a ftieritf’s officer and his followers, under
tlie nfual iVvirrant on a writ of capias, ad JatiJ-
faciendmn. The (riends, who followed, im¬
mediately left their coaches, and told themtii-
cer, if he chofe, be v/as welcome to take the
foody, .but he fhould not l .ave coffin, ffiroiid,
or any one particle, in which the body was
enveloped, as tiiofe things were the- proj'ierty
of the executors ; and farther infilled, that,
as. the dcceafed had, by his will, bequeathed
his body to them, no execution would liold
good againft the corpfe. The hailiif,^ after
attending to many literary and. 'perfd;ifn''e-.
arguments, and having difcufled the matter
as fully as the time, and place would admit of,.,
was very properly convinced that the
Spirit of the law meant a livings and not a
dead, body, and accordingly nuarehed off
without infilling farther on the legality of
his capture. This, itis prefumed, is the firfl
and only inflance of the kind that has hap¬
pened fince the arreft of the dead body of
® Sheriff of London, not many years fince.

Maiiday^ Sept. 29.

A Common Hall was held this day for
the annual Eledlion of Lord Mayor, of the
City of Lomlon, which was moll numeroiifly
attended. On the uiipearunde Of the Lord
Mayor, and Alderjhn.en, to open the Court,
fome diffatisfadlion was exprelTed by a part
of the Livery with the Rqirefeatatives pre-.
Cent, (as it is prefumed) on account of the
late Militia Bill ; but the murmurs weie foon ,
fiienced by the plaudits of their friends.

. After the Court of Aldermen had left the
Hail, the Aldermen in rotation were nOmi-
eated to the Livery, that two might be re¬
named for Ele6lion by the Aldermen. Mr.
Alderman Skinner had almoll the unani¬
mous fuffrage of the Hall. Some doubts were
entertained relpecling the next choice, whe¬
ther the majority was in Mr. Alderman
Curtis, or Mr. Alderman Newman : the She¬
riffs were of opinion, that the former had the
jCuperiority ; and the Common Sergeant de¬
clared Aldermen Skinner and Curtis.

After the ufual time the Court returned £0
the Hullings; and tlie Recorder announced
the Eie<ftion of the Aldermen to be in favour
of Thomas Skinner, Efq. who "Was' accor¬
dingly introduced, by putting on, the cliainy
by the proper Officer ; w'hen he a'ddrelled
the Livery in nearly the following words :

“ Gentlemcin of the Livery,

The honour with which 1 am this mo¬
ment invefted, as it is the iiigheft to which
a Citizen can afpire, demands my w'ai mefl
— my moll grateful acknowledgements. —
You, Gentlemen, amongll whom I .h,ave
^pent roy life, know tliat I am not a man of
profeffiions ; that 1 have ever wiihed my ac¬
tions, -and n-'t my words, to fpeak forme.

J am fcnfible the prefent period is a critical
«ue, and that: it deraautls all the vigilance at¬

tention, and firmnefs, of a Ch\ef Magiftrate
prefiding over this great City. A continu¬
ance in the fame difinterefled condudi which
has recommended me to your favour, an
attachment to the glorious principles of o\.}g
moll excellent conflitution, and a firm ad¬
herence to whateye]^ may bell promote your
jntereft, are, I trull, the diHinguilhing fea¬
tures of the condudl 1 fhall purfue. Gentle¬
men, I am not confeious that I poffefs any
fplendid abilities : I put myfelf in your hands, -
and flatter myf^if, that I fhall meet with the
fuppoit and appi'obation of my fellow-citizens*
Monday^ Oci. 6,

The firfl bills fent to the Grand Jury at
Hicks’sTIali wa^ found, and delivered at the
Old .Baifey, thisqlay, tO the Lords Commif-
fioners adling under th? Special Commifiionj.
againfl the following twelve peffons ;

■ Thomas Hardy,

John Horne Tooke.

John Auguflus Bonney*

Rev. Jeremiah Joyce*

Thomas Holcroft.

Stewart Kydd. '

John Thelwall,

John Richter.

Jqhn Baxter.

Thomas Wardle, not in cuflody,

Matthew Moore, Taylor, not in cullody,
Richard Hodgfon, not in cuflody.

The bill prefented ^gainft John Lovett^
hair-dreffer, was not found.

Mr. Aitorney General, who attended, rofo
and made the motions \ufual on, fnch occa-
fxoiis, for afiigniug counfel to the prifoners,
who' Ihould have acceft to them at all proper
times f for furnifliing their'Counfel and At¬
torney with a copy of the jndidlment, and
other documents requifite to their defence ;
and for permitting every other advantage
they fhould themfelves deem neceflary to a
, fair, open, and impartial trial. Thefe mo¬
tions were granted by the Court.

Thurfday^ 0£i. '9.

This morning, at ten o’clock, purfuaht to
their lafl adjournment, the Lords Cornmif-
fioners attended at the Seffions-houfe, Clerk-
euwell, when the Grand Jury prefented a
true bill againft yohn Hillier, for high treafon.
Hillier is a tallow chandler, and at the time of
his apprehenflon kept a fliop in Bifhopfgate-
llre,et. The charge againft him i.'?, for having
a pike in his houfe, and aifling as an agent to
the London Correfpond'nig Society. '

Friday, OSi. 10.

The, Privy Council, after fev^eral adjourn¬
ments, met at the Council-office, Whitehall,
on the examination of Lf Matt re, ■ Higgins ^
Smith, znd UptcDL, whit aVe charged with
forming a j'l it to- L.ike away the life of his
Majefly ; and, when the Couhcil broke up,
they were fully eommitred to the following
pnfons for trial; viz. Smith to Newgate;
Upton, who pretended to be evidence a-
gainll the others, to Clerkenwell ; Le Mai-
tre to ditto j and Higgins to Xothifl-h dds.

Wsdnejday^

1794-] domestic OCCURRENCES. 953

iVcthiefJay, OB. 17.

Robert Watt, convicted of High Treafon,
Was ejjecuted at tlie weft end of the Lnckeii-
Ixjoths, at Edinburgh, purluant to bis fen-
tence. About half paft two o’clock, the two
junior Magifirates, and the Rev. Principal
Baifdfl walked fiom the council chamber,
to the Caftlehill, preceded by the city
conftables, and town officers, the city
guard foimlng a hollow fquare. When
they reached the Waterhoufc, (the limits of
the burgh,) thty w ere met by the proceffion
from the Callle, in the following order :

The two Head Officers of the ffiire of
Edinburgh, in black, with batons. — Two
county conftab'es with batons.

The Shei iff-depute, and Sheriff-fubftitute,
drefled in black, with white gloves, and
W bite rods.

Sixconnty conftables, 2?nd 7, with batons.

The hurdle, painted black, (drawn by a
wdiite hcrfe,) in which were I'eated the exe¬
cutioner drelfed in black, with the axe in his
hand, and the criminal drilwn backwards,
and tied to the hurd e.

Six under-conftables on ey^ch fide of the
hurdle, twelve on tlie outhde of them, and
twenty in the rear.

Two hundred of the Argylfhire Fencibles
keeping off the mob, walking tlie dead march
from the Cattle to the Wateihoufc.

Here the ibldiers went back to the Caftle,
and The prccetiioii came down efcorted liy
the city guard, the magihrates, conltaMts,
ice. going firft. Having entered the Tol-
booth, the criminal, foou after, attended
by t-he fner ff and raagiftrates, came out up¬
on the fcaffold, where he was affifted in his
devotions by Priocipal Baird. Aboutaqviar-
ter before 3 lie afeended the platform ; but,
craving fome longer indulgence, he came
down, and, kneeling, prayed, with much
fervency for a Ihoi t time, wdien he again
mounted, and, having dropped a handker¬
chief as the fignal, the platform dropped
about 3 o’clock. When the bodv had hung
about 31 minu'es, it was cut down com¬
pletely lifclefs, and placed on a table. The
executioner then came forward wnth a large
axe, and a:*, two ftrokes fevered the head
from the body. The head, having been re¬
ceived in a balket prepared for the purpofc,
w.a5 afterwards, in the ufual form, held up
by the executioner, who pronounced, “ Tliis

is the head of a T'raitor !” Tlie remains
werethen])utinto a coffiD,and conveyed away.
This execution was conduced with much
regularity, and the proceffion was folcnin
aiiJ imprrffive. Watt himfclf exliihitf-d a
piolure of rile moft abject dejection. Pie
was wrapt up in a great coat, a red night
cap (w'hich on the platfc.*'m he exchanged
for a wliite one), with a round hat , liis
Itockings hanging loofe, and his whole ap-
p. arance w retched in the extreme. During
the jiroC' ffion his countenance wa-. fixed,

Gent. Mag. OB'-.ber^ 1 7 y 4-

I I

his body motionlefs, and Ije fsemed altoge**
ther rcgardlrfs of the nviiltitude that fui-
rounded him. On the fcaftoid he aliumed a
little more animation, and, after finiftring
his devotions, took leave of the dergymaa
very collectedly ; and on the platform cen-
verfed with the executioner with much ap¬
parent compofure. He appeared very peni¬
tent, acknow'ledg'ng in general terms the
jufticeof his fentence ; but made no pariacu-
lar confeffioru It is faid he has given an ac¬
count cf fome circumftances of his life ia
writing. The crowd on this occafion wts
flow incolleCling, and, though numerous at
laft, fearedy amounted to what has appeared
on fprmer remarkable executions. When
the pl.at^orm dropped, little agitation was
perceptible amongft the fi>e6lators; thera
was evidently a becoming acquiefcence in tlie
juftice of the fentence, accompanied with
that filent fympathy, wliich even the moft
atrocious criminal never fails to excite. But
the appearance of the .axe, a fight to which
thoy were totally unaccuftomed, produced a
fhock inftantaneous aseleclriciiy ; and when
it was uplifted, fuch a general Ihriek or
Ihout of horror burft forth, as made the
Executioner delay his blow, w hile numbers
rufhed off in all direClions to avoid the fight.

M'j7id:iyy Ob. zo.

This morning, about half paft 9, a fire
broke out at a wax chandlti’s m Dean-
ftreet, Solio„ which confumed the wiio'e of
the premilies, and burnt very furioufly
b.'iCkwards, towards ti'e Iqisare, into wTiich
it made a co'mplete opeiiiug. in the wliole,
four houfes and the workfhops of a coach-
maker were totally deftroyed.

Saturday i OB. 23.

Til® judges under the Special Coramiffion,
at the Old Bailev, proceeded to an arraign¬
ment of the fever il perfons charged with high
tre.afon. On an application from the Counfti
for tl le prifoners, the time of trial W'as expend¬
ed to Tucfdny^ one of the ten clear days allow¬
ed by law’ liaving been left week loft by the
removal from the Tow'er to Newgate.

T'urfd.y, Ob 28.

Th.e trial of 'Epomas fl.ap'y began at 3 this
morning, andcontiiioed’.ii' lu a' ngh-,; whea
tlie Courc adjouriu d. I'iie )Try vv. ie ac¬
commodated (but very inconveniently) wicii
beds and raattratfes ia the Selfions-houfe.
IVcducJday, OB. 29.

The Court was refumed at 8 A.M. and fat
till 12 at night ; when, the Counfel for tlie
Crown having not quite ended, tlie Court
agiin adjourned j and the jury were permii-
ted to retire all together (attended by pi\ per
olficers) to t' e Hummu.up, Covent Garden,
7'huijday) OB. 30.

The Court, after having given time to the
Counfelfoi thgprifo e;sco d'gefttheevideuce,
met this d,-.y ;t II. They are itill ftti'^g j
and t!ie pil'd, ck, with an a-vlal anxie ,, cx-
pe-ti!'g ;he iiuly in poitun: dvterraiua lou.

Mr.

Additions to^and C'^t'reSIions tn^ our laji and former OhltuarUs» [G'ctv

Mr. Urbak, Canterbury, 0&. it. merrct-plice, M. P. for Taunton, and one-
In your Obituary for July, p. 673, I fiiul of the m ifters in chancer/. Her two bro-
fbveral errors in the biographical ftcetch of tliers, Henry and Thonnas, died in their
the late gallant Captain Harvey s family. ntinority. Mrs- F. was married in Anguftj
His eldell Ion is Henry- tViie Harvey, v/hO' 1745 (lea vol. X. p. 412), with a fortune of
now reiides at HerondSn,- in the parifh of SoooL for wh ch ihs had a fettlement arair-

Eaftry. His lecond fon is a lieutenant, not
H captain, in the navy. He was mide a
lieutenant in 1790; went out fuiVlieutenant
of the Iphigenia, with AUmird Gardners
fquadron, in the ipnng of 1793 ’ fume

time previous to the fiidl of June, Admiral
Ford toak. hini into the Europa; and, by the
lafl accounts from Jamaica, he was then
fecond lieutenant of that ihip. The }mungeil
of Capt. |. Harvey’s children is ten years of
age : and Admiral Henry Harvey's eldelt
fon was drowned from ihe Rofe frigate, and
MOt the Convert, as there dated. \V. B.

Mr. Urban,' OJC 2 1 .

At a time wiien when Europe is big
with, the ruins of reliques of antiquity, and
with a-'fad dsfo'ation of' family diftindlions,
it is the office of everv good citizen to pre-
’ferve ours. The Engliih, Baronets are tlie
flem of our Nobility ; like them,- their ho¬
nours are alfo hereditary, and the late pro-
Fnotions to thcm,r as rewards of Britiffi va¬
lour, mull give a warm and generous emo¬
tion in the bofem of eeery true lover of his
King and Country. — By a Ihl now before
me, principally from the free pen of the late
accurate B. Lungraate, excinfive of t!ic Ire
creations, there are not lefs tlian 143 b.iro-
netsfmee the year 177 ijWhemhelaft acc.mut
of tlTem waspubliffied. Oftheextjndd baronets
much i3 wanting. VVere they compiHd and
«iven us from fome able pen, it would gni-
tify the antifiuary,.- inform the hifLlurian, arid
open to tiie moi'alAing phiiofipher an arn-
•p'e field, fhewmg the mutability of ail fub-
lunary joys and comforts'-^. The very antient
family of Noi'wichjf lid to be extinil, is now'
obvioufly in an infirm paufer, fon of a b. liter
in the coir'ty of North impton ; and the f d-
lowing ped gree will ihevv ihat tlie baronet-
.age of Fvtcha is not exanedt
' P. 862, col 2. The Lite Mrs. Fitch waR
Dorothy lCc younger of the three daugfiters
•and co-henxius of Thom is Gatchell, of
■ -Monkt.in, near Taunton, co. , Somerfer,
efq. and f-ir vu-ry of NorfoLr-ftreer, in the
Strand, I.oridou, and one of the f:x derks in
ciiancery, - by Mary, daughter of Thumas
Ih'owiK , of Mark-lane, tnerc'iant, in Lort-
fSoii, who died, at iliegreit age of 92,011 the
, year 1761. Her fillers were alfo married
an two clergymen, both of Monkton; the
«!.lertoihe Kev. fwliii S Ihford ; and the fecond
to the Rev. Alexander Popham, whofe
«n!y fon is Alexander Poplubi, elq of So-

' * Since the zid of May 1611. Jf I naif-
take not, the»e are izoo creations, equal
nearlv the half cr Which, about b-oo. are
exunbr hy Mr, Beadbii.

ed of 300I. a-year. Mr, Fitch died iu 1768,
leaving two foiis, Henry-William F. of Higla-
H'dl, efq, who,, in 179P, was liigli-fneril?
(or Dorfef; and the Rev. Thomas F. who
refides now at Northaw, Herts ; both un¬
married. Mbliora, who died, unmarried in
178 r,' aud Mifs Anne F. now of Cecil-
Rreet, Strand. The Rev. Hear/ F. was the
younger of the fons of Vv^m. F. of lligh-Hal!,
efq. by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas
Leigh, knt. of Stoneham, Hants, whoffi
m >cher was afterwards married to VVm,
Fleming, of the fame pi ce, efq. to whom
lire bore ttvo fons, Tho.mas and William, at
the death of the furvivor of wham, a per-
fonal property of 40,000!. defeended to this
/amily, who were, as appears above, only'
v.diat 13 called half-blood to the FlemingSo.
His .elder brother was Tnomas Fitch, efqa.-
■vvtio married, in 1756, Mifs Benyon, of
Hertford, and died, and two of his children
aho; in lyqo^. His widow,,- with a fettle¬
ment of 4B0I. a-year, afterwa-'ds married--
jV'r. Mansfield ,..of Ringwoody.. the Hther of
Mr. M. tiie eminent connfellor at law, by a*
former Irulv, to whom f>is afterwards borer
four children. Three othc.pfons of Wilha.m,
viz, William, Edward, and Comiroi't, died’
young. Of hi? four daughters, Moliora t' er
eld'eR m.irried, i. Wm. Portman, of Briai:--
flon. CO. DoiTet, efq. who died in Febru iry,
lyzS ; 2. 'fho.' Fowneq of Stapleton, in the'
fame county, efq. to whom (he bore tw-o-
daughters, -i who both died young. Anne,.-
the (econd,. married Heiiry- William Port-
man, eiq, M-. P. for Taunton (fee vol. V'f,.
p. I'o), and heir to io,ooal. a-y-jar, ne¬
phew U) the above Wm. P. who was f m of
Sir Edward S-jym mr, birt, and nephew and*
Ireir to Sir William Portman, bart. of Or--
chard Portman, whofe n.ims he took; his-
only child i-^ tlis prefent warlhy proprieu-r
of Fortm’a I -fquare, aud of mau/ large cf-
tates ill Dorfetffiire, Somei-retfnire, Sec. not
lelsthanzojoool, a-year. His lady •lied March
1 7, T78 1. Ciitlrarine, tJie-thirddaught(rr,diet!ji
anma-ried, ot the fmdl-pox, at th r age of
32 (of wlv.c'n dif-;ab h'?r c-oufin, Sir William
Fitch, bait, alfo died on the fame (lay)j on the
point of her marriage with Mr. Bennet, of
Hertfordlhire. Mfiry, the fourth daughter,-
m irried the Rev. Clra. RulTell, of VVinborne
M nlisr, by whom (he had eight children,
or rvhoui a Ion, the Rev. Charles R, no v
hp'ds the prefer.'aejats of hhs late une’e, the
Rev. Heiij-y Fitch. — ^|o’nu, the Hther of
\Vihiam, and grandfatlier of Henry, was a
ni ne lant in London, and refi led isi Eifex-
ftreet. wm the drit or this famdy wlio
red-led in dh,;rfeMhiie. where he mo.rned*
Mffi Meiiora R-ulI'cy of Kiugtloii Lacej, in

ih£;

1794*1 Additions to^ and Cat regions in^ ouy' laji and fanner OhiiUdYyt

•tlic parifh of Winborne M nfter, folediugh-

-ter and heirefs of - RulFsl, efq. of that

place — He was the younger brother of Sir
'l'i-!oni,is Fitch’jbart. of South-end, iuEltham,
Kent, and of Mount- Mafcall, in North Cray,
in the fame county, w!io is defeended 'from
an an'ient fanrvily at VVoodliam Walter, co.
-Hdex, the elder branch of which are now
of Daiibury-place, where they retain the
antient fpelling of the family-name with all
<he antique dignity of old times. Robert
h'fytche, efq. had eleven children,- three funs
anl eight daughters; Robert, the eldeft,
was a captain in the royal navy, and in 'X745
/Commanded tire Ruby man of war; he mar¬
ried Mifs — Bak.er, and liad two Tons, who
•Loth died withovit ilfue ; Thomas went to
India, and returned with a large fortune to
•his paternal feat, where he died in t773, mi-
.marrietl : William vs ent al'.o to India, where
he remained 21 years; he was governor ctf
'Bengal, and married a lady there, bv whom
die Itad one daughter, who, at 'tite death of
-lier uircle Thomas, fucceeded to all the for¬
tune of the family. In 1775 married
i^evvis Difney,of Flintfnam, co. Nottingham,
efq. who thereon took the name of Ffytche.
This lady died in chil ibed, in her ^qtla year,
Nov. 17S7, leaving two daughters, wh.>, with
-their father, are now abro.aJ.-— Sir vTlromas
F^i-tch, knt. was brought up in London, an
-architect; he was knighted by Cha’"ks II.
at VVhitehall, Dec. 7, 1679 ’* ; he fubfcribed
diberaTy to many charities after the fire of
London, and was one of tlic firft'benefadlors
towards rebuilding St. Bride’s church ; and
:at his own coft and chargs rebuilt the alms-
houfes oi Sr. Peter’s hill, as may be feen by
khe infeription over the door. In the fol¬
lowing reign, viz. on the yt t of September,
3688, he wascreated a baronet, which ho¬
nour he did not long furvive, as we find he
died on tlie 2 id of the fame montli, and w.as
■fucceeded by his only fon, Sir Co.mport F.
iiy Anne, daughter of Richard Comport, o'f
Eltham, in Kent, eiq. who ma-nied Anne-,
only daughter of Lumley Robinfon, hart, of
Kentvvell Hall, Su folk. When his grandfon,
.Sir VV'^illi.am, the third and lafl baronet, who
had the title, died, in i 736, the etl.rte, which
was entailed, was expedled to defeend, with
the title,' Co his coufm and nsareft of kin,
Thomas Fitch, of High Hall, efq. From
■fome papers being loft, this matter has net
been cleared up, and the Dorl’etftii re branch
of the family have never claimed the baro¬
netage, which has been to be extindV.
The large eftates defcending by the will of
Alice, only filter of the laft baronet, and
w dovv of Sir John Barker, of Sproughton,
bart, whom file married in 1740, by whom
llie hid a fon. Sir John Fitch Barker, b.irt f

See Hail. MSS in the Rritifh Mufeum,
N" sSoz, p. 139, where he is ftyled Sir
Thomas Fitz, or Fitch, of Blackfi\eFS, Lon¬
don, and afterw’ards of Eltham, Kent, bart.
t Ms nuiried in M-ty 1759; Lucy,

who died in 1766, and whom flie furvived,
and w'hom u'ried, fecondly, 27th June,

Philip Brooke, efq. of Nadfon,,co. SuflL'.)lk ;
thefe eftates are nowq by her will, veftecl
in Ifabella, Elizabeth, and Thnrland, the
daugliters of Mr. Brooke, her hulh.and by
a former m irriage. The lady whnfe death
'v/e commemorate liad nearly readied het*
80th year, and yet olll age was hardly vi-
■fible upm her, from the Benevolence of her
rpind. She poffelTed much fwoetnefs of dif-
pofition and j'.urityof manners; was beloveil
by ail who had ever known her ; and, to
■fum up all, die 1 a good Chriftian. Since the
de ith of her hufband. Ilia ha l refiJed iti
London. For the laft nine months flie
had nervous and paralytic fymptoms, for
which, to oblige her f imily,ilie w'ent to Both,
with little hopes (»f rel'ef. With perfedt
refignation tothe Divine will, her laft words
Wvi'e, ’Tis with pain we c ime into the
world — with greater we quit it.” C. P.

B, 862. Coathou and St. [uft, we are in¬
formed, were the only two members of the
C invention who fulfered with Robefpierre.
Tlie othei vidims were of an inferior rank-
. P. 8^4, col. 2. Mr. Laiicafter was brought
up to tlie bufiiiefs of a houfe-carpenter^
went to London about th^ year ■17' ,36; and
v/as taken into the employ of Martyr?,, the
undertaker, in the capacity of joiner, where
die continued to execute any etigugement in
that department upwards of 40 years,; but
being, througli age, rendered unable to un-
derg.^ the fatigue of fo lab irious a fituation.,
and being naturally of a retired and ftudious
difpofuion, he qu tted that adlive feene, and
rrturned to hvs native country, to enjoy his
favour'te amufemen’', reading. He had made
a coiledlioR of ne ir 400 volumes, moftly in
hiftory, the nioft vdu -.ble of thofe publiihed
'in the Englilh language during his time. He
had been a conftant encourager of the Gen¬
tleman’s M.igazine fince the year 174c,
which he kept by him regularly bound.
Such was liis pcrfeverancs, that the writer
-of this article knows he read the whole let
over again in the fummerof 1793. He w'as
very pundfual in his religious duties, both
public and private. Wlien lie vvw, by un¬
avoid a'ole necelTity, prevented from attsnd*-
■ing the fervice at church, he made it his
conftant pradtice to read the fervice of the
Church of Engl .nd, with an homily, every
day this negkdt happened. He retained th.e
■u<e of his faculties in groa' vigour tothe laft.;
and his temper was remarkably friendly,
being never better pleafed than when he
had It in his power to obhge.

P. 868. The miftake of Mr. Burford's
hiving fucceeded Mr. J^i lyd in the matler-

yonnger daugliter of Sir Richard i^loyil, knt-
a judge, and M P. for Totneis, Devon, and
died, without iflue. His lady afterwards
m.irried Mr. Hamiilon, Ion of Lady Amic
Hamilton.

Ihip

^^6 Mirths and Marriages of remarhahlc Ferfons, [Ov^.

fhip of Cbiswell fchool, I7?2, aroe from
our Obittiavy, Feb. ii, 1781 (Lll- i49)>
where it is nated that Mr. L, who had Jor-
Vterjy kept that fchooljdied that year, where¬
as he had rehgned fome tune before.

P. 87c, col. I. Mr. Graj.', who died at
Tottenham, at the age of 85, has left behind
l)im laCjOocl. He lu;s given to each of lus
three fons and two daughters 2o,oooh ; has
left to his reli(5f, the filler of Ifaac tValker,
efq. of Lincoln’s-inn-fields, izooh pft' an¬
num, and 2C,oocl. in her own difpofal ; to
th-e Qiiakers feminary at Ackworth, to
Chriil’s hofpital, and to the Philanthropic
Society, rood, each; to St. Luke's hofpi¬
tal 5o.“'l.; befides feveral fmalier legacies
to various charitable inftiiutions, and other
private legacies. All this fortune was
raifed.from the retailing^ of wine in fmall
quantities, in a vault in Newgate-flreet, to
chance cufiomers, before the general pre¬
sence of taverns or publid-houfes where
wine was fold.

P. 871. Mr. Wilfon, wlio died at Croy¬
don lall month, had been a Lijbon merchant,
and notan apotliecary.

Births.

Sept, k T Penrith, the Lady of John Sin-
26. dair, efq. jnn. of Barroch, a foa.

26. At Canonhury, Illington, the Lady of
George Ward, efq. a fon.

30. At Biggin-houfe, the Lady of John
Rawlins, efq. of Hill-fireet, a daughter.
Lately, the Wife of Matthew Craven, jun.

of Bramley, three fons, fince named Abra¬
ham, rfaac, and [ac ib,

Oci^oer 4. In New Norfolk-ilrect, the
Xady of R. Dawkins, efq. a daughter.

5. In Portland place, Lady Cofby, a dau.

Lady of John Petre, efq. of Portland-
place, a daughter.

8. At his houfe in Bedford-fquare, the
Rady of Sir Alex. Munro, n daughter.

11;. Countefs of Hardwicke, a' daughter.

16. At Woodford, ElTcXjtiie Lady of Pe¬
ter GoJfrey,efij.,a daughter.

20. At his houfe in Park-ldreet, Grofve-
nor-fipaare. the Lady of Tliomas Barrett
Lenrood, efq. a daughter.

2:5. I'he Lady of Raw’fon Hart Bocldam,
efq. of Bud's-crofs, Enfield, two daughters.

24 At Wilton-lodge, near Hawick, Lady
Kapier, a fun.

|l I Vi III Wi >

15. At Wilton, near Co’'k, Ireland, John-
Moore Traverfe, efq. counfelior at i^wq to
Mifs Nickfon, daughter of Borenzo N. efq.
of Chapel-land.

16. Mr. Thomas Miibank, miller, of
Springfield, to Mbs Hubbard, dang, of the
late Rev. Mr. H. of Long Meiford, Suffolk.

17. At Utrecht, Rev. W. Douglas, only
fon of the Bifliop of S ilifbury, to Anne,
fccoad daughter of the late Baron de Brachal,
of Qqurland.

21. At Newark, co. Nottingliara, Mr. 'Wil¬
liam Jackfon, of Burton, merchant, to Mifs
Ailing, of the former place, and late of Bart-
lett’s-buildings, Holbourn.

Mr. R.Crofs, linen -draper, to Mrs. Brown,
both of Canterbury.

22. Mr. Wnti. French, of Stapleford-hall,
to Mifs Sally Excel, of Stapleford-A.bbocts.

Mr. John Shuttkworth, of Staplefofd-
Abbotts, to Mifs Eiiz. Fitch, of Baiters-hall,
CO. ElTex.

2;. At Claines, Thbmas Farley, efq. of
Henwick, near Worcefter, high flreriff of
that county, to Mifs Spilllbury, of the Ty-
thing, Worcefier.

At Bradford, ILev. W. H. Warren, to
Mifs Shrapnel], of that place.

24. Ax Bath, P.ev. W. G. BricknelJ, late
of Fafiiharn, Surrey, to Mifs Edwmrds.

2 -. John-Herbert Toley, efq, of Bridge-
w’ay,co. Pembroke, to Mifs Chambers, daugh¬
ter of ihe late A. C. efq. of Tcttridge, Herts.

At Everfiey, Han's. ThoruHS Lewis, efq.
of'Great Ja-mes-ilreet, Beeford-row, to Mifs
Aithara, youngefi daughter of the late
Reger A. efq. of Ifiington.

26. Mr. Williamfou, of Newark, to Mifs
Sutton, of Gretford. /

Lieut. Edmonds, of the 90th reginaent of
foot, to Mrs. Cave, a widow iadv.

29. AtBunv.ved, near Ourdia, Mr. Adam
Knibbs, of Geddington, to . M ifs Py well,
daughter of Wm. P: efq. ■ j-Sarimvell cafiie.

At Great Gleiiii, co. i .iCafter, Mr. Beiqo
Co ;per, gs azie!’, to Mqs Burgefs, daughter
of the late Mr. John B.t)f Leicefier.

,30. At Edmburgb, Rev, Mr. William
S'rapfon, one of the miniftet s of that city, to
Mifs Ifabclla Kerr, dmgluer of tiae late
James K. efq. (.f B ; ightrigg.

Rev. Mr. Dodg.o i, to Mifs Dl, na Dou .
gl.afs, botla of Lougliburough .

Mr. Hurft, hofie:, of Leiccfier, to Mifs
Davis, dau. of Rev. ?.Ir.D. of Grerx'd i .ftun.

Marriacfs.

"TV yf F-' john Gibb, of Market Deep-
28. lV|. ing, co. Lincoln, to Mifs Anne
OAaorn, of Stamford, the only daughter of
Roht. O. who formerly kept the Mack Sevan
at that place, but was unkrtunateiy killed,
Feb. 14. 1782, in die. 32d year of his age.

Sep. . . . Thomas, fon and partner of Ri¬
chard Fvdier, efq. banker, Cornhiil, to' Mifs
Sufannah Cromwell, great grand-daughter
of Henry Cromwell; youngeR furvuving fon
of tke Frotc^Rur,

I^itcjy, in Clarendon, ],m;u<.a, ^'Rorge
Atkiufon, efq. ifiand fecretary, to Mifs
Sufannah- M,achenzie Dunkley, of that parifh.

At Clnfidiurff, Kent, Robert Philips, efq.
of Hereford, barrUltr at law, t > b hE Mary-
Anne Rddutph, fecond daughter of Michael
B. efcp of f.vidbury, co. Hereford.

Mr. Hobday, faclor, of Birmingham, to
Mrs- Walford, late of Bath.

M-". Thomas March, of Swinefiaead, to
JVIifsV'dard, of SwayfieU!.

At vyuft-park in lieland, Tho. Naghton,

l'TQ4.1 K^tcrriagti and Deaths cf remarkahle Ptrfons* 957

fcfq. {'f Thomns-town, co. Rofcommon, to
Is^ifs Anne D’ArcV, daughter of the late John
D’A. e(q. of Houndfwood.

In Ireland, Nicholas Mahon, efq. to Mifs
D’Fiter. c, daugliter <.f the late Henry D’E.
efq- of Cafllc Henry, co. Cl re.

Mr. Key, attoi ney, to Mis. Beavor, both
of Godinaiu-heftcr.

Mr. HufKinfon, an eminent grazier of
Stretton Balkerville, co. Warwick, to Mifs
Wood, daughter of Rev. \Vm. W. he.ad,-
raafter of the free grnmniar-fehool of Mar¬
ket Bofw’Oith, and redtor of Peckleton,
CO. Leiceider-

At Soptiiarnnton, Mr. Jolin Ogle, fon hf
the Dean of \v incheller, to Mifs Sneyd, of
TeBwood.

Oeiober I. At Bath, William Bird, efq. of
Chelmsford, to Mifs Perry, niece to Colonel
Wollaftcn, of Lanfdown place.

z. At Melton Mowbray, Mr. James Dy-
fon, to Mifs Wallis, both of Newark.

4. At Streathain, Mr. Jn. Parkinfon, jnn.
of Fleet- Itr. to Mifs Ken ing', dau. of Mr. H.
one of the common council of the ward of
Farringdon Without.

6. Pev. Mr. Noble, redbor of Frolefworth,

CO. Leicefler, co Mb's Lambert, foie heii efs
of - La mbert, efq. of Matton, co. York.

Cant. King, of Brightlingfea, co. Eifex, to
Mils b. H-arvey, daughter of D. H. efq. of
Merfey-lfland; ,n that county.

7. Mr. Barclay, of Paiiton-fquare,furgeon,
to Mifs f. H. Duddington,()f Fife, in Scotland.

5. Fir. J. Peter Hardy, one of the band
of gentlemen penfioners, and agent for the
Pheenix fire-office at EtifielJ, to Mifs Big-
nal, one of the coheirelFts of Mr. Bignal,
late an eminent plumber in London.

9. At Tilton, Mr. Rob. Marriott, grazier,
of Old Dalby, co. LeiceBer, to Mifs Leive-
fon, of A'Tarkheld.

ID. At Chipping Sodbury, co. GlouceBer,
Mr. R: D. Woodfurde, attorney, of Bnftol, to
Mifs Arabella Montagu, daughter of the late
James M. eft), of Lackhani-lioufe, Wilts.

11. I am.es Carden, efq. ofFaper-buildings
in the Temple, to Mifs Walter, of Printing-
hoiife-fqaare, Bl.nck friei s.

12. Mr. Tb.omas Spuikes, to Mifs Elis
Cotlin, of Uppingliam.

13- by fpeciai licence, .at the honfe of Al¬
derman G; I, at Raifbury, Capt. Gill, of the
life-guan's, to Lady Harriet Fleming.

14. At Be.'.iconsne)d, f^uck*^, Mr. Hall, of
Gvacecbnrch-fireet, to Mils Stev^-nfon, dan.
of Joiepti S. efq. of White’s, Her'S.

15. At baUlerton, near Nevv.uk, Mr.
Doughty, to Mifs Scrimfiaaw, of C! ypole.

16. Mr. Cl’.arles Pell, of Lime-ftrccc, to
Mifs St. B:ythe, of Blackhea'.h.

I?. AtNorth WingfteUl,co. Derby, George
Setidon, efq. of Alderfgate-ftreet, to IMif.
Lord, of TupPuvhall, in Derhylhire.

19. At Pe’giMve, Horton, hofier, of
l.eicefler, to .Mifs i-lai ia Clayton ; alfo, the
nex^ day, Mr. Hawkins, currior, to Mifs
fcophia Clayton i dctughtois of Rev,.F»Ic» C»

20. At Cowie, Kincardinfhije, Alexan-i
der Aliardyce, efep of Dunottar, M. P. for
Aberdeen, S:c. to Mifs Hannah Innes, daugh¬
ter of the late Alexander I, efq. of Cowie. '

21. At Bethel fden, Kent, Mr. Samuel
Nev/ington, furgeon, of Goudhurft, to Mtfs
Eliz. Willmott, daughter of George W. efq.
of Betherfdeh.

2y. Mr. William Threfher, of Farehaip,
Hants, to Mifs Lydia Pigott, fecond daughter
oF the Rev. Mr. P. of Leicefter,

24. ReA> Benjamin Jones, M. A. vicar of
Builtli, CO, Brecon, to Mifs Nelfon, daughter
of George N. eiq. of L imbeth.

25. William Bignell, efq. of Seething-
lane, ttt Mifs Shaddock, cJf Shepherd’s buffi.

Deaths.

Feh. A T Pondicherry, in the E^fl Fndies^

. . . Captain lieutenant Robert Robert-
fon,of iDe 73d regiment, fourth fou of James
R. efq. of Liule

Mav 28. At Fort Royal, on-bo'’rd the
Charlotte tranfport, of ttie yellow fever,
Mr. William Wilkinfon, the mafter and
part owner; Mr. Samuel Holliday, the^
mate ; Mr. Nicolas Tindal Galabio, and
four other fearaen.

"June .... At Port-au-Prince, Capt. Tho¬
mas Chapman, of the 23d regiment, fecoud
fon of Col. C. of Bath, and nephew of the
late Archdeacon C. He has left 'a widoW
and feveu cnildren to lament the ravages of
that fatal diforder the yellow fever.

At the fame place, of the yellow fever,
Capt. Robert Watkin Lloyd, of Major-ge¬
neral G Wynne’s regiment of cavalry, only ion
of Robert L, efq. of §wanhil!, co. Salop.

Of the yellow fever, at Guadaloupe, in
the hands of the French, by whom they
were captured with that ifland, Captain
Henry Vignoles, of the 43d regiment ; and,
two or three days afte-, his wife, and their
only child Mrs. V. was the fecond daugh¬
ter of Dr. Charles Hatton, of Woohvicii,
and a very fenfible and accomplifhed lady.

30. At PotT-au- Prince, in the ifland (T
Si. Domingo, in his 3Cth year, Major Wil¬
liam Gordon, of the 4 lit regiment, eldeft
fon of Sir William Gordon, hart. His
death is greatly lamented by his difeonfo-
latc parents, relations, brotlier officers,
and, in ffiort, by every one w'ho had the
pleafure of his acquaintance. Polf&ired of
every virtue that can adorn human nature,
as a gentleman and a fcholar, few could ex¬
cel him in the know lege of the world and
polite literature: and, as an officer, fuffice
it to fay, that he ftudied under that excellent
foldier and difdplinarian the late Lord
Heatlifield, in Gibraltar, from the com¬
mencement of the fiege till the peace of
1783, in which year he got the rank of
captain, when little more than 20 years of
age. — At a period like the prefent, when
good officers are fo neceffary, the death of
Major Gordpa is a fevere iofs to his coun-

try,

Obituary of rema^lahU Perfon',

try, and parriciilarly to tlie 4 ill regiment,
-'in which h'S memory will be for ever'ilear.
S4is worthy father, who has been an officer
4a nee the year 17 5-5, has been peculiarly un-
•fortunate during tlie. three laft years, having
loft ihree iiromifing Tons in ihe fervice of
‘•t'neir country in the Weft Inches, and near
-tohng a (oorth oh hoard .the Winterton liaft
Indiamau.

"^uty . . , . In t!ie Weft Indies, on board'
■Jus” Majeliy’s llilp B'-iyrie, John Warbu' ton,
•el'q, fecond fon of fohn 'W. cfq. knight of
die fhire for iQyieerds county, Ire'and.

At P:Ort Royal, }an.iaica, of -the yellow fe¬
wer, Capt. Jcdin Cele, late of Ipfvvich. Tlie
greater part of his men fell a i’acntice to the
^ame f.-.lai diforder.

7,0 At Thoo.loufe, in France, 'Robert Pr-
'igott, efq. lie was formerly lord of the ma-
.^uots of Chefterton, in Huntingdoninire, and
cChetwyud, in Shropthire, beiules poffi-lfed
<of confiderable eitotes in thofe and other
^counties toihe amount of 9000I. a-year.

.1 5. At Port-au-Prince, Jcbi. Stewart, eftj.
>of Stenton,, co. .Perth, .lieutenant -of the aoth
3./Sgira.€nt,

20. At St. James's., in Jamaica, Mr. Jas.
fyi’Clellan, furgeon.

At Kingfton, in Jamaica, Mr.
Hobeit Fyfe, fon of Mr. Barclay F. rner-
Tchant, rf Leilli.

8- At Bervyick, in his 22d year, of
■a decline., Mr. Thomas Yel'oly, 'fiirgeon of
the royal artillery on the Bland of Antigua,
to which firmtlon he had been only a few
.^months aj'q'iointed. He -was the ekleft fon
'-of Mr. Thomas Yeiloly, mafter-gunner of
.that garrifun, whm i-n the delcent on Belle-
afie, in the fummer of .1.761, faved the life
of his captain, .now Sir .James .Langham,
bait, by Iwiraming w'ith him on fhore un-
•tier the lieavy tire of ib.e enemy, their boat
Faving gionnded on a hank a Ibort diftance
from tire beach, at diiernbarking.

14, At his houfe on Tow'er-hill, aged 68,
Mr. [ames Scott, an eminent tailor. He
was endowed with great natural abilities,
.and had a lively and engaging turn in con-
verfatioi-i. Langboura ward cotTee-Uoufe
■will long remember lum. On moft topicks
be c'niP.l difplay iiim.h-lf well ; on political
and religions fubjefts, probably, with more
•wnarmtii tlian vvifdom, whiclr Iris laft mo¬
ments feemed to prove, isnd of which the
l&fe we faytliC better. The florm r iiftd in
Jiis mind a few days preceding his death, 'by
the terrifx tiiunder of the 7th ofthis month*,
never fubfided there. -He had veiled much
of his foitup.e in the American funds, in the
fullnefs cf his heart, and had a thoufand
■times wiffied it .home again. On the 2oth
Ills remains were depofited in the church of
Allhallcws Barking. He had been ufed to
take his l-o:tle freely, but, for forae lime be¬
fore lie'di'.d, he got in the oilier extieme.

* See Gent. Mag, for iVuguft and Sep«
temberhiit, pp. 763 an-i 835.,

with Biographical Anecdotes. [Oc^.,

whicli his medieft friends thought was tlie
more iinmediate caufe of his death. He
has left one fon, aged 3 <;•

2.3. At Oxford, Mrs. Mary Fletcher, ePJeft
dauglitf r of Mr. James F. fen, bookleller in
that univerfity.

Sept. 3. At Fadua, the Countefs Ernsftina
Durazzo, daughter to the Count de Weif-
femvvolf, by liie Countefs de Marianna d'5
Palfy. This lady pofl'elwd, in an eminetfc
degree, every accompliffiraent, external and
tntcrnal; and w>s, at the age of 16, ap¬
pointed maid of honour and lady of the
bed chamber to her Imperial Majefty Maria
Tberefa, who decorated her with the ordef
of the Scarry Croft, in coiifeqnence of her
raie merir, and in teftimony of her royal
efteern. In the year 175a ffie w'as married
to his Excellency Conn'- James Durazzo, a
noble Genoefe, at that -time ..envoy extraor¬
dinary from tiie S. R. of Genoa to the Im-
ptriai Court of Vienna, and who was after¬
wards appo nted ambalfador from tlie latter
Court to tbe S. R. of Venice, in which c.t-
pacity he refuied upu ai ds of 20 years. — The
Countefs of Durazzo is greatly regretted by
her illufliious relaiions, -and all who. had
the bappinefs of her acqu.untance. The
poor liaye loft a protePerefs and friend ;
and her eminent virtues and amiab'e quali-
t'cs will hand her refpedlabie name down
to the lateit pofterity.

Ac Nevern, co. Pembroke, in her gzd
year, Mrs. }oaa Lewis, relidt of I'homas L,
efc-]. of Glaftyr. She had 9 children, 60
grandchildren, 1 56 great grand children, and
G-ae, great great grandchild.

3 2. At Warfarv, Prince Michael Ponia-
towllcv, brother to the ing of Poland, Arch-
biffiop of Gnefna, Primate of Poland and Li¬
thuania, Sovereign of tlie principality of
Lowutz, Abbot of Czerw in, and Knight of
the ordox.s of the Wliite Eag-le, Saint Stanif-
laus, and Malta; born 061. 12, 1736, This
truly benevolent prince was in London in
the year 1791, and during his refidence here
was ele6iled a Fellow of t!;e Royal and An¬
tiquarian Societies, and affided at fevcral of
Xheir meetings.

r6. Ac Bi ighthelmftone, of thexomplairit
W’hich has of Lite been fo prevalent in moft
pai ts of the kingdom, aged 18, Lieutenant
Parklrill, of the royal foot artillery, en¬
camped near Brighthelmftone., a promifing
yc'.ung man, who had been promoted toihe
rank of firft l.eutenaut about the time he
ilied, as the Gazette pubhlhed on .that day
annciunced his promotion. His fallier is a
captain in the army, and rehdes at Beverley,
in Yoikthire.

17. At Liverpool, Mrs. Hope, wife of
Mr. John 11. architedl. .

li?;. Aged 66, Mr. Whdd.ile, farmer and
•grazier, of Holbeach, co. Idncoln.

Aged 67, Taylor Calcroft, efq. of Lincoln,
lie fome years ago pradlifed the liw’.

20, Uuiverfaily lamented by all who knew

794-] ofrmarlabU P^rfins ; wlilJ Biographical A'necdoUu 9^59;.

\m, at Skipton in Craven,, co- York,
there he Ir.d pra£lifeil for half a centu y
vith great repArtation ami fuccefs, Mr. Jolin
Ahainn.iai!, fnrgeon and apothecary, agSvl 72.
Bvftcrl pending the nfnal time as an apprentice
n aVhop at Leeds, he ompleated his educa-
.ion at Edinburgh, in the ye.v.s 174'^ and
:'746, udiere his rapid progrefsin the acqui-
Stion of medical and philofopliical fcience
toon attraaed the notice of thofe very emi¬
nent profellors, whole names and writings
gave celel>rity, and fdll continue to fhed a
Ihftre, on the firft nniverfity of Europe ; all
of whom, during their live?, honoured Mr.
W. with a regular correfpoudence on lub-
jsas of medicine and phiiofophy j vVhich
was regularly maintained on h s part-, either
to obtdin their advice, or to commmi'cate
fmgular cafes that occurred iu hi? praaiee.
This he coaft'-intly ufed to mention as the
happieft period and ciTcumftance of his hfs,
and frequently lamented that the ravages of
death in the conrfe of a few years had depri¬
ved him of it. I-t was rather to comply with
the wifhes of a parent, and from other confi-
derations cf a domeftic nature, than bis own
inclination, thar he fubmitted to fit dow-n as
fui geon and ayxithecary in the humble litu-
arion of h;s native place ; in a neighbourhood
fo thinly peopled, where tra^le has not vet
l*|iread afflaenc“, nor the art? of civilization
polilhed the general manners or enlarged
the fo'itiments of the inhabitants.. From an
exalted and comnrsheiifive view of nature in
2fll her operations, he was convinced, tnat ilie
principal objeebof tire medical piofeffi, in was
th affifl her efforts by a cautious mildnefs,
not to ihwai t them by force ; and, fiom a
liberal and difinterelfei.! integi ity Oi min.i, he
refulved never to- fwell his bill with unnecei-
fary expences, which is now ca led, in tech¬
nical language, pufhnrg the pradfice tif tlie
profefiion.” On thefe principles he clearly
faw it was his duty to <i<fl ; and he rigi- ly-
adhered to them through a long life, though
they almoft da ly f’hiticSted him, from the
narrow- minde 1 and illiterate, to t!ie fufpi-
cion qI ignorancei n iii'^ jiroieiTion, or indolence
m his attend' nee. Inheriting from his fa-
tlier a comfoitPie independence', and being
i/aturally of a corpulent habit, which render-
t\l long journeys om horfeback unpLafant,
Mr. VV. early declined that extent of prac¬
tice, which perfons more fclflli than liim-
felf miglit think necelTaiy, and which the
c'aims of a young family leemed to demand-
But he preferred the r. tional coiivei faiion < f
a few felecl friends, the liber.il amufe-
ments of mufr , in winch he was a ^ o»i-
cient, and thd ple.alures of h'.s gai en, lO ttie
d'fagreable iiecefity of travel hug reep and
bleak mountains in a cold and v^et cl nnaie,
and iu dark niglit^, through roads narre-w
and rugged, and often impervious. He law
wi u pieafure a-ul furprize many of his.cr.n-
t'isn p< rarii s aiuV fellow lludenls, vshiim
chance or foi tu-ne' lia 1 p ac*(i ui mo. e i*-

vourable fituations, rife rapidly to a flate o£'
afiluence and grandeur ; and whom ]ireiu-
dice, not reafon, looked up to as of fuperior-
acquirements^ becaufc k had been taught to ■
rank them in what is called a higher line of
their profeihon. Ove- tiie general vices and
follies of raankifid he lamented with aTigli..
The affedled fetf-fufficiency and fopperies of
feiolifts in medical knowledge he beheld with
a filent fmils of deferved contempt. Withiri'
the Ihoft fpacG of fix years Mr. W’'s family
has been unfortunate in the lofs of many near
and dear relatives. In December, 1788,.
(feeonrvol. LVllI. p. ii3i'-) Dr. John VV..
afavour^ite fon.of the moft^ pleafing manners'
and amiable difpofition, taxed at' Spalding;,.
CO. Lincoln, died atihelige of ji years of a-
putrid' fore throat, caught by his anxiety and
unremitting attention to relieve the miferies-
of others, Aihont eighteen months ago-, his
fecond daughter, -Mifs Mary W. died fndden-
ly at Wil'bech, eo. Cambridge, where the;
was on a vifit to her elder 'brother, Dr-
Oglethorpe W. ; and it isfomsthing lefs tharir
a year fnice tiie death bf Mrs. W. at an ad¬
vanced age, who' had been his faithful fo;n-
panion for near fifty years. Mr. W. received'
from nature ftroiig abilities and a goo ! cni>-
llitution, which he prefervo.l bv a Ufe o-f
Lempera.'''3.e and regularity. Pt'ffcifei of rv
molt feehi’g mind, and (d the tendered af-
feCVinn fur his family, he (unX ulnfroft under-
the fevere mb fortune of lohng hfs younger
fon. Since that time, his wmnted fpirits uE
intervals forfook him, and bis bodily ftrengtli-
and mental exerto-is 'gradually failing, ho
appeared to retire voithin'hmrieif, and to 11 ye-
unincereds:! in the generd conC'trns of the-'
■world. A few days ji rev tons to his de-at’-i,
he bad the m sfort nie tro hreik. !ii.s leg by at
fall ; in Gonfequence of whiy,h u rapid mor¬
tification enfa nl, which bailed every etloro
(4 medical it*)!, and put a period to the
lifeof a man of derarrmned inttgruy, amt ot.
luperior infoniiafuni in his profelLoh. Fer-
feCily a-Aare of liis danger, and of the fhort-
thne lie had to Uve, her co'iverfed v^itlp Iv.s
family and friend; to the laff, moment, with¬
out a murmur, with chearh llnei's and rr.in-
quillity, as if dcTirous to fbew them an eK-
amplo of the immforts of a wc!l-lpeat !i!e
ami t(' let tiiem fee. what thev"' might Ir.'ve
read of, iiow a CliriUian could die. Tlie
writer of this impeHebb Iketch withes it ros
be coofidei ed ;iS a fmall tribute of gratitude
and refp.iCt to the rtcenvurr o*^ a dear and
lamented friend. Cunfeiou'; of inability to
dp f'.il! jullide to id? piuraCter, he can fatelyi
appeal t-' the hixail? of all A-h.o-k.new Mr-
VV, for th'J ti utn of wlnt he ha^ aJvartced.
Hie real eiiafe, whicti is conlu'erable, he-
fides fomeining handfome in perfonal elTeCt?,
goes to hiS eldeif, and iiow his only fon. Dr.
t)glechorj>e VV. of Wiibecb, co. Can. bridge.
For hi." two daughters,!, w'lo farvive him,
a id are bath nnmar' ied, he lias !aft a cor,-
fataok and p'endfu! pro'yifion. L.J-. S. L.

960 Obituary of rmarlahle Fer Jam \ with Biographical Anscdoteu fO£l.

Aged 74, Mr. John Woolfhafen, well
known at Canterbury as an excellent herb-
alift, and fon of Mr. W. formerly an emi¬
nent apothecaiy in tliat city;, who was born
at Strafbouig, in Alface, but quitted t!\at
place on account <^f the intolerable gover'n-
ment Louis the XlVth had introduced there.

ar. At Gordon-bank, John Gordon, efq.
of that place.

22. In Dublin, Mr. Henry Warren, law-
bookfeller.

At York, John Farr Abbot, efq. of Lin-
coln’s-inn-fields, clerk of the rules in the
court of King’s Bench, and F. A. S,

23. After a few hours illness, in his 77th
year, Mr. James Eves, of the Broad Sanctu¬
ary, VVeftminfter ; a very excellent bujlder
and an intelligent furveyor.

At Braid farm, Edinburgh, MifsAnneKerr.

At Blackburn, Ifabella Redman, wife of
Thomas R, a poor man of that town. The
Csfarean operation was performed upon her
the day before, about ii in the forenoon,
and a male child was extracted, which is
very likely to live. She bore the operation
xv^ith great fortitude, and did not cdmi iain
of much pain afterwards. Her fpirits and
Idrength were fuch in the evening as to af¬
ford fome hopes of a recovery. This po(m
woman had betn lame feveral months, was
in a very bad hare of health, and fo ex¬
tremely deformed as to render it impolhbla
to efFedf her delivery in any other way, even
by facrificing the child's life.

24. At his feat at Mount Mafcall, near
Bexley, in Kent, at an advanced age, John
Maddocks, efq. one of his iNJajeBy’s counfel,
and a bencher of the honourabR focieties of
Lincoln’s Inn and the Middle Temple. He
reprefented Weflbury, in Wilts, in the lafi
parliament. Mr. M. married, in May,

17.-S, a daughter of - Whitchurch, efq.

of Twickenham, whofe widow died in De¬
cember, 1792, at the age of 84; by which
lady, who is now living, he has left |oha-
-Ldward M. efu. who, in 1781, married Mifs
Frances Perryn, youngefl daughter of the
Hon. Judge P. This lady died in child-bed
of her feventh child, Jan. 22, 1790. On the
l.'fth of April, 1792, he married the Hon.
Mils EhzabeMi Craven, eldcft filler of the
prelenl Lord Craven, by whom he has a
daughter. Secondly, Jofeph M. efq. late of
the f'.)ot-guards ; and another fon, now at
i'cliool.

in Great CrmoiuRftreet, in child-bed,
Mrs. Smith, wife of Hugh S, efq.

Ac Munich, tlie lamous Father Unger, ex-
jefuit, and conlellor of the Eledlrefs-dowager
of Bavaria. '

At F.mnkfort, in his 26th year, univerfally
regretted, for his amiable endowments and
ruditary talents, Count Fnrlfenberg. He
w s buried there on the 26ti), with all the
ii.iht.ary honours. He began his career as a
foldier in tlie French fervice ; and ferved
aherwards lu Ruliia, where, by his bravery,

he obtained the order of St. Georee. He
made all tlie recent campaigns in iIil: Pruf-
fian fervice, iuid, owing to his gaii-.int con-
duOf in the aftion, of Hockheim, obrained
the order Pour le Ivlen'ie. He was wounded
Sept, 2c, at the capture of K«i:rerflau-ei-n,
and died, on the iqdr, the death of a heio,
and a vi(‘lim to his humanity, m come-
(juence of four wounds. He g . .e qnarcer .
to a Frenchman, but, ..ui tnriTii'g tound, tli®
Fi enchman toox no his mulkq. and killed
the Count in a daft 'idl'y and c<)H'ardly man¬
ner. Gen. Biucher fhewed himfeif eqadly.
humane, but had the good foi’iune to be
mi fled by the man to whom he had juft
given quarter.

By the rupture of a vefiei in her lungs,
Mifs Charlotte Hutton, yaiwigeft daughter of
Dr. Charles Hutton, of Woolwich; a iofs
by which her parents are left for ever in-
confolabie. Fur her goodnefs <he was uni¬
verfally beloved, and for her talents and
acquirements univerfally admired and re-
fpeefed by all who knew her. She was only
fixteen years of age at her death, and yet
Ihe had beeu for leveral years the moft
efficient ^lerlonage in the family, entering
into all its numerou? concerns, both domeftic
and literary, in the moll atftive and ample
manner. She was licr father’s amanuenfis
raid affiftant upon all occafioiis : ihe wrote
for him, and read to him, in all languages and"
fciences; fhe made drawings for him of all
kinds, mathematical, mechanical, &,c ; ar¬
ranged and managed his library, and knew
where every book ftood, and could, find moft
of tliem even in the daik. She knew feve¬
ral language."^, and almoft all fciences, .in a
tolerable degree ; aritlmietick, algebra, geo¬
graphy, aftronomy, mufick, drawing, poe¬
try, hiftory, botany, gardening, and aT the
ufual female •accomplilhments in a'fuperior
ftyle and degree ; moft of wh ch accom-
pliffiments were acquifitions chiefly made by
lier own talents and energy of mind, with
little or no alhftarrce from others. It w'as
fullicient for her, once to fee or hear any
thing done ; ffie fooii made it her own.
She was auihor of feveral ingenious calcula¬
tions and compofltions. She exttaifted the
fquare roots of moft of the fecond 1000
numbers, to tw^elve places of deci.iials, and
proved the trutii of them afterwards by
means of differe ices, arranging the whole in
a table ready for publication. Slie drew
■elegant geographical maps, and only the
fscoud day before her death began and com¬
pleted one whole hemifphere of the earth,
both the drawflng, the fhading, and the
writing. She was remarkable at compofi-
tion and ftyle, either epiftolary or .cientific,
exprefling herfelf well in any fubjedb ; a
fmallfpecimen of which w'e cannot avoid here
infortijig for the curiofity of the fubjedt. A
very few days before her death, when tlie
family joined her one morning in tlie par-
lunr (for ufually hi it up in tlie

moi niug,

^794*] Obituary cf remarkahie Perfons\ with Biographical Jnecdotii, 961

naorning, as well as laft at (he told

Ctiem a dream (he had in the niglit, which
leemed !o curious, that they dc(u ed her to
write it down ; which llie imnoediattly did,

1 re. Hilly, in the toliowiiig \V( rds, ‘‘ 1
dreamt tliat I was dead, and that my foul had
afceaded into one of the liars ; theie I found
fcveral perlons whom I bad formerly known,
and among them fo.ue of the nuns whoni 1
waspai ticularly attacheuto when in France'^.
Tney lold me, when they received me, that
they were glad to fee me, hut honed 1 fliould
not flay widi them long, the place being a
kind of purgatui ) , and tliat all Llie liars were
for the recepiion of diffeient people’s lends,
a different i'tar being allotted for every kind
of h d temper and vice : all the lharp tem¬
pers w ent to one flar, tlie fullcy to another,
the peevilh to aaiotheh, arid fo on. Every
body in eacli liar hemg of the fame temper,
no one would give up to another, and tiiere
was nothing but dilTenfuin and quantls
among them. So re of thofe who received
me, taking offence at the information niy
friends were giving to me achdd, it made a
quarrel, which at length became fo rude and
noify, tliat it aw'’ked me.” In fhort, had
fhe lived, fhe Ihewed fair to become a
lecond Hypatia. To her mothar, and the
rtft of the family, fhe w'as no lefs ufeful in
domeffic bufinefs, than to her f.,ther in lite¬
rary. For nothing cameamifsto h* r, being
equally {killed and adroit in all ufeful and
laudable concerns ; in managing tlie family,
the ferv.urts, m making purchafes at Ihops
or markets, &;c. She was the life and fo.il
of every company, wherever ihe came, en¬
gaging the chief or foie attention of every
perfon, men and women, young and old.
She had converfation for every one, and
generally took tlie lead when not checked.
In fhort, her g aodnefs and fweetnefs of dif-
pufiticni gained her the love nf every perfon,
2S her wit and die >rfalnefs fiKed their atten¬
tion, and her knowLdge and wifdom raifcd
their admiration.

.25 Mr. Sedgewick, in partnerfhip with
Favringdon and Gile-', cora-faiffors. Re¬
turning with his friends from Richmond,
having fome bufinefs which called him
home, he quitted them near Brixton caufe-
way, in order to get to his houfe at Cam¬
berwell. In pafling Cold Harbour lane, it
is fuppofed, the night being dark, that in his
fpeed he rode, in the narrow part of it,
agauilV fome carnage, by which he was
thrown from his horfc, and killed on the
fpot. His horfe, much bruifed alfo, went
on to Camberwell, about five minutes after
his wife and friends got there. In the morn¬
ing his body was found by fume farmers’
men, with half the fkull torn away, and
otherwife much mangled. He has left be¬

* She had been for two years educated
in a nunRery there.

G£NT. Mag, 1794*

hind him nine young children, and a difeon-
folate w'idow pregnant with a tenth.

At Aiine-grove, Edward Collins, efq.
raagiffrate for the. county of Tipperary.

i6. Ac Lambrth, after a fortnight’s illoefs,
age.i 4s, Mr. Willutm Hoare, fnuff .maker,
in Fieei ftreet, who has left a young wn-
dovv, with an inf.'jut daughter, and in a ftate
of foca being mother of another child. But
it is not only to his immpdiate relatives that
the death of Mr. H. is a lols. Elis perfe6l
integrity and unaffeiffed goodnefs of heart
render liim extenfiyely and lincereiy regret¬
ted. He will be paiticularly lamented by a
numerous circle of admirers, to whom his
Denevoknee had juftly endeared rum, and
from whom he asver could expedi any other
return (the pleafure refulting from good ac¬
tions alt'ue excepted) than the generous glow
of gratitude, which naturally expands the
unadulterated infant breall. By thofe who
h.ive been accuftomed to attend the veftry
roou of St. Bride’s on the Sunday after¬
noons in Lent, this allufion will be readily
felt. To the other readers of this article ic
may be pr(.)per to add, that an inflitutioii
w^as fome years fince begun, at the foie ex¬
pence of the prelent worthy Curate of St.
Bride’s, by which twelve Prayer-books,
bouni in a fupeiior ftyje of neatnefs, are
held forth as prizes to the children of pa-
riihioners of every defcription, who flrall
excel in repeating the Church Catechifm,
during the fix Sundays in Lent, .11 the pub¬
lic veilry-room (thofe in the charity fchool
and workhoufe excepted, who are publicly
examined in tlie church, and have each
a fmall pecuniary rev^ard from the fame be¬
nevolent hand). On thefe occafions Mr-
Hoare was the arbiter of the prizes, and, by
the judicious impartiality of his decifions,
gave univerfa! fatisfaclion. He had the good¬
nefs alfo to add twelve little religious trea-
tifes, as additional prizes ; which, with
twelve other books, contributed by a warm
well-wiflier to the parifh (who at- prefeni:
mult be namekfs) has occafioned conffantly
a coafiderable number of candidates for
what, we are happy to fay, is considered by
the inhabitants at lai-ge as an honourable and
refpe6table mark of diftinCtion, and which
we hope will be long continued.

At liis houfe in Park-flreet, Grofvenor-
fquare, Mr. Hatchvvell, furveyor.

At Cheltenham, in his C4th year, Walter
Murray, efq. of St. James’s, in the iliand of
Jamaica.

Aged 70, Mr. Edward Wilkin, farmer
and gi'aziei', on Vv^ifbech South Brink.

At Alceffer, co. Warwick, aged 74, Mr.
Francis Briftow, a very wot thy and refpedt-
able charafter, who, whilft he was playing
a game at bovvls, dropt down on the green,
and expired immediately.

27. In her 79th year, MiS; Anne MoTcy,
a maiden lady, of Bolton, co. Lu^coUn

Capt,

q(2 Obituary of remarhbkF^r/ons; with Biographical Anecdotes, [ 0<^

Capt. Thorne, of Weymouth. Going on
board his fhip, lying in tlie lower hole,
about 9 o’clock in the evening, by fome ac¬
cident he fell overbo .rd, and was drowned.
His body was found the next morning.

In St. Paul’s, C.onterbury , Mrs. W hi! held,
relia of John W. efq. of St. Marg-urei’s, in
that city.

At Shelford, co. Cam' rpige, Gregory
Wale, efq. eldeft fon of Thomas W. cfq. of
that place.

28. Aged 63, the Rev. William Clelye-
land, M. A redor of All Saints paruk in
WbrceRer, of which he load been iiwurn-
bent near 37 years, having, Pcb. S, T758,
fucceedcd his father, the Rev. William
Cleiveland, M.A. who had been prefented
to the fame by that excellent prelate Ihlhop
Hough, and Ljflituted by him Jane 10,
1731. So that the father and fon had held
this benefice upwards of 63 yeaia., even
from the very birth of the latter, who may
be faid to have fpent his whole life, fiom
his cradle to his death-bed, in the parfou-
age-houfe at Ail Saints ; for whicii he had
fuch a prediledion, and fuch an atmchment
to tins his firlT and only church (although
attended with very fevere duty, wihich he
continued to the baft to difebarge himfeU),
that no defire or profped of prefeiment
ctiuld tempt him to torfake it; foi, the per-
fon .who favoured us with tliis account bath
afTured us, th.at, to his knowledge, he once
refufed tlio offer of a cnnfideraMe treriefice,
which would have requ red liim to abandon
his beloved parifhioners at Ah Saints. This
eonfeitrntious, worthy clergyman (who has
died without iffue) w'as the iafi. of the name
of Cleivxlamo, of the family at Hinck¬
ley, which produced the celebrated Ro) aUft,
John CleivelaXu the Pott, to whom
this Mr. Cleiveland’s grandfather was ne¬
phew ; as may be leen in the Hiffosy o£
Hinckley, 1782, qto, p. 13^, & feqq. ; in
Dr. Nalii’s Hiflory of Woixelt ei Ihirc, vol.
II. p. 95 ; and iti Biograplua Briiannica,
V61.^ 11 1 . art. C L F I V v land.

At Batli, where he went foi' ll e recoveiy
of his health, James Plodgu, eiq. late of
Mafulipatam, fecond fon of the late Sir
James Hodges.

At her fon’s houfe near ile.aconsfi . Id, in
her 91ft year, the Hon. Mrs. Blair,

At his brother’s houfe m Lad-lane, Lieu¬
tenant-general Henry Smitl.', coLnel-com-
mandantof his Majesty’s marine force'. He
will be fncceeded in iiis marine comaiaud
by Majci -general John Tupirer.

At her father’s houfe near Dulwich, Mifs
Allan Ferguffon, daughter of Charles I-', efq.

At Rofs, aged near 78, Samuel Aveline,
efq. formerly one of tlie gentlemen of the
band belonging to his prefent Majeffy.

' At Eriftol Hoc wells, agerl 26, Jofeplf
Thorjie, efq. of Chippenharn-park, near
Hewmarket.

In his 51ft; year, Mr. William Handley,
♦f BliX):il-4i0ufe, near Retford.

29. At Renfield-houfe, Robert Hamhtoi'’,
efq. furveyor- general of the cuftoms at
Greenock.

After a Ihort illnefs, [obn Bellamy, efq. of
Kenfington-terrace. He was the fatlier of
t ie Whig Club of England, and, as a friend
to iv.tional libei ty, and to the genuine prin¬
ciples of the Coniiinition, he was as zeajous
in his exeriioas as he was temperate and
fteady.

At his fatlier’s houfe in Lower Merrion-
ftrect, Dublin, the Rev. Loftus Edward
Robinfon, fon of Capr. D. Robinfon, one of
tire royal friffi regiment of artillery, curate
of Leixlip, and many years full chaplain to
the Duke of LeinPi.er.

30. After a ffiort ii'nefs, brought on by
one of Lhofe overheais to ^vh ch tlibfe of bis
p.automimic induftry are lo liable, Mr,
Boyce, the SaClcr’s Vvells Harlecjum, Ko
man, in theatrical recoUeiftion, ever united
fo much active ability with fuch a conflant
and Heady attention to the bufinefs of the
flage. The managers of the Weils, as a
proper tribute to his public and private
worth, have fince kindly given a benefit to
his widow and children.

At Peterborougbi, Mrs. Draper, a lady far
advanced in years.

At Eaft-Hothfy, near Lewes, in Sufiex,
the Rev. Tiiomas Purler, M. A. upu aids of
40 years relident rector of that parilh, and
nearly that time of Ripe, in fame county.

At the Rev. Air. Price’s, at Knebwortb,
Herts, aged 85, Mrs. Grove, late of Leicel-
ter-fquare.

AtTuiriff, Mrs. Gordon, wife of CapU
Piyce L- Gordon, of the Korch Eencibbs,
and daughter of the latu Lieutenant-coionel
John Browne, of the marines.

At Derby, in his 55Ch year, Mr. Drevviy,
printer and proprietor of the Dublin Mei-
cury. Urbanity of maunei's, domeftic vir¬
tues, and punctuality in bufimefs, rendered
him a truly effimabie charaiRer.

In her 96th year, after a fiiort hut acute
itinefs, Mis. Beard, of Clerkemvcll ; dt-
feiaetlly eitet ined and refpecll'ully lamented
by all tier acqtuiniauce.

Ac hioiurofe, after a long .nnd fevere. ilU
uefs, aged 71, umverfaily andjuftly lament¬
ed, D..vid G.'ixiiner, efq. ol Kirktoi>hill.~—
Thi.s refpeClable oiiaradter affords an inftawce,
among others th.:C daily occur, how much in-
duffiy, fobri“ty, and integrity, cancoutribute
in a ct-mmercial and free country, indepen¬
dent of birth and family connexions, towards
ereifting the bafis of a man’s own fortune ;
having raifed himfelf folely by their means
to a confiderabic indepencence in life ; and
tile fumire which he thus honourably ac-
quiicd, he was w-iiling to diftribute in part
to oth.ers, being always rciidy to befriend
and slffft his fcl'ow-crcatures to the utmoft
of his power. In the various branches of
hulinefs in which he was engaged, his deal¬
ings were unifoi'ir.ly guided by the princi¬
ples

*794-] Obituary of remarkahle P^^fons; with Biographical Anecdotes. 963

pies of probity am! veracity; and the hand-
fome competency which hlell liis virt\ious
endeavours was by no means the fruits of
penurious faving or miferly living, as is too
commonly the cafe ; for, he always kept an
liofpiiable table, was glad to lee his friends,
and fupported a numerous timily in a gen¬
teel b.ue of life; and, in his dealings with
the world at large, he fignally fulfilled a re¬
markably exprelilve Scotch faying, viz.

Live and let live.” To every public cha¬
rity in liis neigbbuiiiood he was a ready con¬
tributor ; but of all men he had the leafl of
oftentation in his difpcfition, being much
more guided, in prefenting his offeri
the feelings of an honeft and grateful hea;t
tjian by the precedents and examples of
other henefaeftors. To the numerous fami¬
lies who earned their livelihood under his
protection he was a truly kind and generous
mailer. The widow and orphan, a long liil
of whom, as the wwiter of this article can
^attefl, was on his penfion-roll, vaere furo to
find in him the kind and compalfionate
friend. To his relatives he was ever obliging
and attentive, ready to alii ft them both with
his advice and pecuniary aid. In the habits
of domeftic liL^ he was very exemplary ;
being upright and ftrict in his morals, fim-
ple and unatfeCfed in his manners, modeft
and unalTuming in h's general deportment,
warm and fteady in his friendthips, and, in
the whole courfe of his life, conftantly ac¬
tuated by fincerity and inflexible integrity :
an affeClionate hulband, and a m.oft indul¬
gent parent : in ftiorr, an eminent pattern of
every focial and relative duty. In his reli¬
gious principles he adhered Co the Censts of
the Church of Erglaiu', was a member, and
manager of the Englifti Epifcopal congrega¬
tion at Moi'itrofe, in tlie chape’ -y aid of
which place he was burieh By that foexty,
in particular, Irs Infs w'ill be deeply fell ;
for he was a liimral fupporter of its fun Is,
and took an active intereft ii'i it-^ welfare ;
and, what may feem ftrange in this age of
dilnpation and inahgion, he rrter.il.’d upon
'divine worftiip twice every S in 1 ay. His
religion, however, confifted not in obferving
forms and ceremonies ; it u-as not loch as
floated only in the head or in'iagiintidn, hut
defeended into th.e heart, and was exempli¬
fied in a virtaoup and unfpotted life, 'hrough-
<>ut the wliole of which he maintained, and
juftly deferved, the cluu'adter of a leal ho¬
neft man, and mort valuable member of fo-
cieiy. ilehas left behind him, to deplore
his lofs, and imitate his good example, a
wife, who has been indefatigable in her at¬
tention to liim during his long iliuefs, two
fons and feven daughters.

Lately^ in the fall; Indies, Robert Morris,
cfq. late of Sw’anfea. He was the advocate
cf the late Lord Baltimore, in tlie memora-
hie trial of his Lordfh p for a rape on Mils
Woodcock, which ga ned him the confi¬
dence and approbation of his Lordih’.p ; af¬

ter whofe death he earned off his patron s
daughter, a ward of chancery, and, although
they were afterwards married in France and
Italy, yet, on their return to England, after
two years fojournraent abroad, by the lady's
defire their union was ditfolved.

In the Weft Indies, William Wells, efq.
only hi other of the Rev. Rober t W. re61or
of Penmaen, co Glamorgan. In a feries of
more tiian 48 years, by a fedulous attention
to commerce i^the natui'S of which few men
undsu'ftood better), he acquired an immenfe
foi'tutie in money and landed property in
the illa'id of Sc. Chriftopher's,

In confequence of the wounds he received
in the Lite unfortunate attack ora the French
a*; Guadaloupe, which caufed a locked jaw,

B r i g oul i e r - g e a e ra. 1 S y m e s .

in tbe illand of Antigua, of the yellow^ fe¬
ver,- Colin Patrick Scott, fecond fon of the
Re\n John S. minifter of Muthill.

At the fame place, on board his Majefty’^
fhip Avengeur, Mr. Wm. Shied, midlhip-
naan, only fon of Mr. S. grocer, of Bath.

On board the Sceptre, on the Weft India
ftation, L;ev!tenant-colone-l James Robert-
fon, of the marines.

Ac St.DoPoingo, Coh Lyfaght, of the zid
regiment.

On his paffage from the Weft Indies, on
board the Vengeance man of war, Lieut. -
col. Freernmile,, of the 39th regiment, M, P.
in Iriih pwhament for the borough of Fore.

f tn liis pailage from Jamaica to England,
Jerome Bernard Weaves, efq. of America-
jcn.ia-ie, M. nones.

Of the yellow fever, alfo on his pal'fage
/rom Jamaica, Mr. Alexander Frafer, fon
of James F. efq. trealurer to the Bank of
Scotland.

In his route for Lilbon, whither he was
going for the recovery of his health, Mat-
thew-Henry Lloyd, efq. of Carnarvon.

In his w.ay to St. lAteiTb irg, Mr. Peter
Simpfon, fargeon, only fon of vir, Janies S.
uirgeon, of .'■•onih Shields, .and nepliew of
Ml' John S. Uirgeon, of Dalkeitli. His foot
flipped on the deck, he fell overboard, and
was never feen iTinre. He was a very ami¬
able young man, and polfeffed great gentle-
nefs of m.mners-

At Aixifterdam, Rev. Dr. P.tchard Rn-
clianan, minifter of the Englilh church in
that ci y, and foimerly governor of Wat^
Ion’s hnipital in Edinburgh.

At Galway, in Ireland, Mr. Archib.ald
Steuirc, of London, a p.ilTengar in the War¬
ren Haftings Iri'liaman, arrived there.

At New Machar, in Scotland, aged 10^,
Agnes Melvi.n.

At Alnwick, Wm. Charlton, tftj. many
years agent to the Puke of Northumbtrlan'd.

At Caryfco-U-liall, CO. Nothurnbeiland, in
his 84th year, Wm. Shafto, efq.

Jolin Heaven, eiq. one of the aldermen of
Bedford, and mayor of that l o ough. At
the greal about lyOb, a kve noble

D.i xc .

^64 Ohitunry of remarkable Perfom';

Duke, it is otTered hjm 3000I. for !iis
intereft, which he honourably rejefted. He
was receiver-general of the Bedford cha¬
rity -ertate.

At Ringftead, co. Norfolk, aged 87, the
Eev. Sir Edward Caftleton, hart, vicar of
Thornham with Holme near' the Sea.

Rev, Owen Davies, many years curate, in
St. Mary’s parhb, Southampton, to the Dean
of VVinchefter.

Mrs, Marfhall, wife of Stanly M. efq. of
Friefton, co. Liaccln.

At Hightovvn, near Leeds, aged 99, Jof.
Attack, 'hufbandmaTj.

At Holbeck, n^^ar Leeds, in her 10 ill:
year, - Middltham, widow.

At her houfe in York, in an advanced age,
Mrs. Rachel Garnett, only furvwing filler
of the Rev. Dr. John G. late lord biiliopof
Clcgher, in the kingdom of Ireland.

At Melhurn, co. Derby, Mr. Spencer, a
gentlenaan long dillinguilhed at Leiceiler,
and in that ne giibonrhood, as the Ready ad¬
vocate of reform, and a Rrenuous opponent
of the prefect war.

Richard VVilfon, efq, of Pop.tefradl, co.
York, brother to the Recorder of that
borough.

At Plymouth, of a mortification, aged
62, Mrs. Jardiiie, relidl of David' J. efcp

Gf a fever, caught iu his attendance on
the fick, Mr. Spicer Fox, furgeon to Mill
prifon, at Plymouth.

Aged 6j;, Elen. Pratt, efq. of Haihledown.

At his houfe at Iflingtonj aged 62, Mr.
Thomas Pemberton, one of the fenior cleiks
of the B mk of England.

■' At Pinner, co. Middlesex, D.ani'^l Dancer,
eft], a man not more remarkable for his
riches tlnin for his having lived in a Rate 6f
apparent extreme poverty. Tnongh fcarrely
allowing bimfelf the common neceffaries of
life, he has left landed property to the amount
of 50^1. a-year to D.uuh M »ria TempeR

(daughter of - Holme.s, efq. ofWigRon,

CO. Lelcefter, and widow of St Henry Tem¬
peR. baix. of Tong, co. York); and, after her
death, to her only foil, Sir Henry TempeR,
of Stoke End, Hereford. During D's laR
fickuefs, L'bly T. acch'enXiily called upon
him, auo hading lum laying up to the neck,
in an o'd fack, 'withorc even a lliirt, remon-
Rrated agairiR the uTprOpriety of his fitua-
tion ; when he re'disd, that, having come
into ibe world wtuoi t a lliirt, hs was de¬
termined to go out of it in the fame rnaii-
ner. Requeiling liim to have a pillovV to *
raife his head, he ordered his old I’ervant to
bring him a trufs of hav for that purpofe.
His iioufc, of whlcli C.ipt. Holmes (formerly
cf the royal navy) has taken polTelRon for
Ills filler Lady TempeR, is a moR mi-
ferable budding, aiad has not b.'en repair¬
ed for half a century. Tiiongh poor in ex-*
ternal appearance, it has been recently dif-
covered to he immenfely ricli within; Captl
ii. having, at different times, found large

'Ujith Biographical -e^necdoies. [O^,

bowls filled with guineas and half-guineas,
and jiarcels of bank-notes Ruffed under the
covers of old chairs. Mr.D. genendly had his
bo.ly girt with an hay- hand, to keep toge¬
ther his tattered garments; and the Roclc-
ings he ufually wore had been fo frequently
d.irned and patched, that fcarccly any of the
original could be feen; hut in dirty or cold
weather they were tliickly covered with
ropes of hav, which ferved as fubRitutes for
boots ; his wdiole garb much refemhl ng that
of amiferable mendicant.-^Notwithdanding
his extreme penury, Mr. Dancer poffeff-
ed many praife-worthy qualities. He obferv-
ed the moR rigid integrity in every tranf-
adiion, and was never avepfe to .TfiR thofs
of whom he enterrained a ^ood opinion, and
whofe emh irraffments required a temporary
aid ; although, at' the fame lime, it muR be
confeffed, be did not fend his money' with¬
out expecting the ufual intereR.' We have
not heard whether he has left any legacy
to his faithful and .only domeftic, old Grif¬
fiths, who, liovvever, has for many years
p:iR fared ituich het'er than his rnaRer, ha¬
ving been indulged with ivliatever he chofe
to eat and dcink, befides a good, and com¬
fortable bed to fleep on. The latter, Mr.
Dancer always deemed an unutceffary Fijr_
u>T-‘ — Mr. D. feems to have been the prill-
cipal branch of a thrifty tree, every feioa
of w'hich was of a fimilar texture. He in¬
herited a confiderable p 'operty by the deatfi
of a fiRer, who exa61Iy refemb'ed him in,
temper. She feldom quiTe:! her obfeure re-
fi 'ence, except on beingToufed by the noife
of hunters and then' hounds, when file would
f.tlly f'.Tth, armed with a pitchfork, in order
to check the progrefsof the intruders on her
brotliei’s grounds; on wliicfi occafions flie
had very much the appe.irance of a moving
bundle of rags.— A brother is Rill living^-
very rich, and faid to be, (if polTibie) more
penurious than the deceafed. '

Mrs. Bankart, fen. of LelceRer.

Aged 91, Wm. Rofejof Lmcoln.

Hoh. William Clement Finch, of Albury-
place, CO. Surrev, fecoud brother to the Eafl
of Aylesford. He was born. May 27, 175^5
appointed a cantain and' afterw.irds a rear-
a.'lmiral in the royal navy ; au<l eledled M.P.
for the county of Surrey 1791.

At Thome, co, Liiicoln, aged each about
70, MelT, R. and W. Stand'ing.

vVithin a few tiays of each, otlier, Richard
Saunders and Anne I'.is wife, maRer and
miRrefs of the workhnufe at Leake, co.
Lincoln, and late of Oundle, iu Nurihamp-
tonfiiire.

Mr. Deckener, maRer of the Talbot inti
at Peteibf rougti. A trifling wound he re-
C'fiveJ in one of his feet, and which he neg-
Isdled, i.s faid to have caufed his death.

At Cuiland, near Braibford, co. Derby,
aged ICO Mrs. Cope.

Rev. Ralph Hutchinfon, of Cannock, co.
Stafford.

! 794*1 Ohllua^’y of remarkable Pirfons^ with Biographical Anecdotes, 965

At. Uppingham, after a long anti painful
illnefs, aged 50, Mn. Taylor, widow.

■ At DoveU’ Robert Whiting, fervant to
Mr. M.itihrw Kennet. TIn^ very reputa¬
ble chara6ba' drove the old travelling wag¬
gon from Dover to London nearly 24 years,
and wav buried with every mark, of regard
due to fit worthy a fervant.

Mr. Sleath, late furgeon to the Leicefler-
fniry militia

Mr. Abel, fenior, p;irchment-makei, of
Leicefter.

in hi? 36'lr year, Educat'd Filmer, efq.
eldell; fon of the Rev. Mf. F. of Cfundafe,
in Kent.

At Clifton, near BriRol, in his 8^th year,
the moft Rev. Richard Robinfon, D.D. lord
bilhop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland,
and baron Rokeby.' He was admitted a
king’s fehoiar at Weftminfter in 1722 ;
felefted'to Chrift Churcli, Oxford, 17265
obtained a prebend at York 17...; and, m
17151, attemled the Duke of Dorfet, lord-
lieutenant of freliiid, as his firR cii.aplatr',
and was the fafne year promoted to the bt-
fhoprick of Killala. When the Duke of
^Bedford was lord lieutenant of Ireland, he
u’ .s trantlatcd (in 17159) to fhe united fees
of Leigh!'. n and Ferns, add, in 1761, to
Kildare. In 17615, witen the Duke of
NorthnmberLiiid was lord- lieutenant, he
was advanced to the primacy of Ireland,
and conftituted lord-almoner j and, by the
bake of Cumberland, then chancellor of
the univerfity of Dublin, was appointed
vice-chancellor, in which office he was
continued by the Dukes of Bedford and
Glnucefter, fucceffiive chancellors of that
univerfity. In 1777, when Earl Harcourt
ivas lofd-lieuten int of Ireland, the King
was plea.fe !, Feb. 26, to create him Baron
Rokeby of Arnnngh in the kingdom of Ire-
|ind, witii remainder to Matthew Robinfon,
of Weft Layton, Ycrk{liire,efq.‘; and in 178^
he was appointed prelite of the moft illuf-
trious order of St. Patrick. In 1787 he
was appointed one of the lords-jnftices of
Ireland, with the Lord Cliancellor and the
Speaker of the HouTe cf Commons. He
fucceeded to the title of baronet on the
death of Ids brother, Sir William, in 1785*
He was tlie laft furvivor, in the male line,
of the antient familv of Robinfon of Roke¬
by, where the fam lyhid refuled before tlie
Conqueft. — His G: ace's real eftates and the
title of Baron Rokeby defeend to Matthew
Montague, efq. M. P. To each of the
Melfrs Robinfins, his nephews, his Grace
lias left loyooci. He has willed his leat at
R okeby-lodge, co. Louth, and whatever
landed properly he poTeired in that county,
£0 his nephew, the Rev. Archdeacon R'oh.n-
fon (wliom he has appointed one of his exe¬
cutors!, on condition that he refides in that
kingdom.

At her houfe at Enfield, aged about 60,
Smart, of Mr. John S. late vef-

try-clerk of that parifli, who died Auguit
22, 1782.

At Edmonton, the Rev. Mr. Henley,
who kept a bqarding-fchoql at Enfield high¬
way 1790 (fee vol. LX. p.475)- His wife
died In April i'79i.

October I. At her fon’s houfe at Higharr,
near Canterbury, in her bed, witfiout a figh
or groan, and in her 68th year, Mrs. Hallet,
reliffi of John H. efq. formerly commander
of the J-lardwick Eaft fndia-m:in, hatband
of Eaft India fhipping, and'direcftor of the
Royal lixchange AiTurar.cs-ofiice, who died
in 1765 5 and on the nth inn:.Tnt her re¬
mains were interred in the family. v^ault aC
Dunmow priory, Effex.

After a lingering and moft excruciating
illnefs, Mrs. Davifon, wife of the Rev. Thp.
D. vicar of Combe, Hants. As Ihe excelled
bi the d.imeftic, focial, and moral duties, her
early lofs will he long and much regretted.

A-t Hull, fuddenly, in her bed, Mrs. Hor-
d«n, wife of Mr. Hanwith H. merchant.

2. At his houie in Serle ftreec, Lincoln's-
inn-fie!ds, after a lingering and painfLil ili-
nefs, Nathaniel-George Petre, efq ; by whofe
death a ior'une of upwards of 20,oocl. de¬
volves to E. B. Petre, efq. of VVeftvvick, co.
Norfolk.

At Lidgate, Rev. John Ifaacfon, B. A.
late of Magdalen college, C.imhridge, reeftor
of Bradley Parva, and peipetual curate of
Cooling, in Suffolk.

At the advanced age of loi, Mr Evans,
filverfmith and bucklemaker, of Fore-ftreet,
near Moorfields.

After a fliort illnefs, at bis houfe in King’s
Armsyard, CoHman-ftreet, Ed w. Payne, efq.
one of the diieffiors of the Bank of England,
and V. P. of Saint Luke’s hofpita'.

3. At the manfe of Tain, in the 5::th year
of his age, and 28th of his tniniifry, the Rev.
George Don pas. minifter that parilh.

4. At Margate, Mr. John B.iiky, rniry
years an eminent carpenter, of Fofier-la;ie,
Cheapfule, late a lietreuant-colonel in the
city militia, and one of the common-council
of the w'ard of Alderfgate.

Aged 88, Mr. Bo -th,,.f .ther of Mr. B. h-
quor-nisrch nit, of Stamford, co. Lincoln.

Mrs. Gieen, relidl of Mr. Wm. G. of
DowflDy, CO. Lincoln. — Alfo, on the fame
day, aged 215, Mr. Thomas Green, her fon.
They were both buried in one g^rave.

in child-bed, at th<j early age of ar, Mrs.
Wainewright, wife of T. W. efq. of Chil-
wick.' She vyas the only furviving daughter
of Dr. Griffiths, of Tvirnham-green, and is
greatly regretted, on account of her amiable
tiilpofition and uncommon accompliihments.
She is fuppo''e.l to hue underftood the wri¬
tings of Mr. Locke as rvell :u, perhaps, any
perfon, of either fex, now living.

At lier failier’s houfe in Lincoln, in her
i9rli year, M,fs Gra' c-Frances Kent, 0 ibr
daughter of l\ir. Alderman K. To a grace¬
ful and accomplilhed perfon were fup^r-

aUded

^66 Ohliumy of y^ma’lahls Ftrjcni\

aiUleil a well-informed mind, tin(Sl;urevi with
thejul^eft principlesofcliantyanci henefictncc.

e;. At Hull, Jonathan Fickvvith, el'q.
merchant.

At York, in an advanced age, Mrs. Har-
rifon, reliift of the late Jofepit H.efq. of that
ci'y, and motlier of Richard Acklom H. efq.
ColleRor of tire port of Hutl.

At Northaw, Heits, Mr. George Dafent,
fon of the Hon. Joitn D, deceafed, late chief
jnldice of the illand of Nevis.

At Gofberton, co, Lincoln, in her i8th
year, Mils Alienby, an amiaide daughter of
Mr. A. linen-draper, of Fleet-ftreet.

At Chatham, in her 83d year, Mrs. Re¬
becca Long, a maiden lady of confiderable
fortune, aiid whofe filler died very lately.

At Paradife row, Kppirg-foreit, afier a
long and painful illnefs, mud) lamented, Mrs.
Chapman, wife of Mr. Deputy C. of Cole-
man-ftreet.

6. Mr. Robert Doughty, youngefl brother
of Heniy D. efq of Bedford Iquare.

Mu':. Honour Davies, wife of Mr. Robert
D. gohlfroith, of Gracechurch-flreer.

At Southgate, aged 9©, of a fecond para¬
lytic flroke, Mr. Wood, goldfmith, of Lon¬
don. His daughter married Mr, Howitt,
mercer, of London, whofe only daughter is
married to Mr. James Moore, of Cheapfuie.
For the laft two years of his life he ufed to
ride on horfeback to town, every week, to
tranhidl bufmefs at Goldfmiths’-hall, being
the father and oldeftmemberofthat company.

At Weymouth, where he landed from his
Majefly’s packet, Capt. Wtiod, from Guern-
fey, Capt, Shirley, only fon of Sir Thomas
S. He cams over, in confeqnence of a fe¬
ver, for farther advice, but was too late for
medical alTillance.

7. Edwaid Hodfoll, efq. of the Strand,
banker, and a diRinguiftied colledlor in the
various branches of %)irtu.

8. At Oakley, Effex, in Ids 95th year,
Mr. Edward Smith, father of the Rev. Tho.

S. of Bedford.

At Eluntlonwood, near Elanchland, in ►is
103th year, ChriPopher K.odnam, many
yeai's tenant to John Ord, eiq. Ele was a
man of great temperance, and much refj>e<R-
ed by the neighboui liood in whiv.h he lived.

It may truly be faid, lie preferve.l Idsfenfes
to the lall moment of his life. as. not a quar¬
ter of an h^i'ur before lie d.ed, at his own re-
qut'R, he was fupfiorted to the door, ih.at he
rnighit fee iiis wortliy iandloi d and benefic-
r.ov and he had the fatisfadlion to have the
laft vvilh of his heart gratified.

9. y\t Swifieiliead, co. Lincoln, French
Nettletnn, gent.

At his houfe at Wily, aged 70, Thomas
H.ivter, ed>.

TO. At Ha’h, Tliomr.s T, C. Rigge, efq. of
Benton iio'ife, co, Nonhiimberland.

.'\t F<!inbuigh, in her 71ft year, Mrs. EH z.
S.r-'iiP, iiihft (jf fames Alifon, writer.

i j. At Milrorn. St. Andrew’s^ near Biand-

wtth Biographical Aacedotes,

ford-, in his 7 2d ye.ar, Edmund Mpreton . g
Pleyd.ell, efq. He iiad returned from huntf.
mg, and, while at dinner, comjilained of a
pain in his fide, which immediately proved
fatal. He was defeendt'd from an antient
family, origin. diy of Beikniire, which, liy 1
mariiage witli t’oe heiiefs of Moiron, be- ' {
came poffelTed of M Ihorn, in I'orfp", and j

the fecond brand) of wiiich is ail ed to the j

Earl of Radnor. Mr. P. rnarried the eldeft
daughter of Wm. Richards, efq. of Warm- .
well, Dorfet.

At Shrewsbury, in a very advanced age,
the Rev. Mr. Waring, clerk in oi ders of St, ,,
James’s parilh, VVeftminfter. Ge w'as on a
vi fit to his native town, which he had annue
ally rei^eared for upwards of fifty years (one
year excepted), accompanied by liis iprefs'iit
widow. Few Divines filled their pffice bet- ;
ter than Mr. Waring ; he was confeientious -
in a!! ti e ceremonies of th.e church to a de¬
gree that became his fituation. His concealed
charity todiftrelfed objedls was great. This ,,
feme of our public charities (in their greateft
difSculties) experienced, as well as private
individuals. Revered and refpeded by the
whole parifh, whe moft fincerely lament
the lofs of fo valuable a member, he was
fenfible of his approaching diffolution wdien ;
he left London, and faid tq a friend, “he did ■
not think it likely that he ftiould fee it
again,” tliough he appeared ftrong and
healthy for a man of his advanced age.

At Tottenham Higli Crofs, Mrs, Hardy, f
relidl of the late Rev. Sanmel Hardy, who
died Dec. 1 1 , 1793.

12. Mr. Samuel Rhodes, fen. of Hoxton^

cow- keeper. '

A.t Canterbury, after a few hours iilnefs,
in her 84th year, Mrs. VVadham Knatch-
hull, widow of Rev. Dr. K. I.L, D; pre¬
bendary of Durham, fnd reflor of Chilham,
in Kent, who died Dec. 16, 1760, aged 54..

13. On St. Margaret’s..bank, Rochefter,

Mr. Williams, of his Majefty’s vidlualling-
office at Chatham.

Aged near 90, Rev. Mr. Mofeley, vicar
of Paiafwick, co. Gloucefter, w'hich he held
1779. The living is in the gift of the pa-
rifhioners, and whenever a vacancy hap¬
pens, there ‘ is generally a ftrong conteft.
About 30 years ago, when Mr. Mpfeley
was eledled by vote, the conteft ran fo high
that it was near ten years before the vicar
was eftablifhed in the living. The bifhop
found himfelf under the necelTity of appoint¬
ing curates during that period. There are
upwards of 500c per fens in the parlfli who
have votes.

At Boreham, Effex, Rev. John Bullock,
many years vicar of that parifli, and redlor
of Radvvinter, in the fame county. To the
Ihft he was prefenteU in 1758, and to the-
fnft in 1770.

14. At Weybridge, in Surrey, MifsChar-i
lotte Watts, thi: d .daughtei' of Hugh W. efq.
ftfcrelary to the Sun fu e-oflke.

1794’] Ohiiuary, — Theatrical Regifier.

At Ramfj^ute, of a violent fever, in her

1 .tli year, Mil's Anne-Mutikla Kvime, eldclt
U iughter of the late Alexander H. efq. of
Etifteld, by his fecond lady.

15. Mrs. Highmore, wife of Anthony H.
efq. of Wincheap.

Edward Watt, executed this day at
Edinburgh, (lee p. 953)> aged about 36,
Was the natural fou of a gentleman of
fortune and refpedlability, of tlie name of
Barclay, but, as is ufual, took the name of
his mother. At about 10 years of age he
Was fent to Perth, where he received a-good
education ; and at 16, he engaged himfelf
with a lawyer j but, from fome religious
fcruples, took a difguft at his new em¬
ployment; and, removing to Edinburgh,
was engaged as a clerk in a paper- wa-e-
houfe, and lived happily for fume yea.r*^,
without any other complaint <iiau tlie fm dl-
nefs of his falary. Being defirous of be¬
coming a partner in the bufinels, he, by the
influeare of fome friends, prevailed on his
father to advance money for that purpoie;
and then made propofals to his employers: •
but his offer was rejected. Having money
ill pofiellion, he entered into the wine and
fpint trade, and for fome lime had tolerable
fuccefs; but was mined, it is faid (but we
know not how), on the commencement of
the prefent war ; and, unfortunately for
himfelf, began from that time to frequent
the meetings of the Friends of tbs Feopts.

r6. At Winciimore lull, Middlelex,in her
93d year, Mrs. Sarah Woods, formerly of
Baitbolomew-iane, and one the people
called Quakers. S!ie funk quietly into the

TEIEATRICAL

BUI of iVfortality, .967

arms of De.ath after a ffiort illnefs, her frame
being apparently worn out by the action of
its own machinery. The fame chearfiff,
even, contented difpofition whicli mftrkeJ
her character, and excited the love and re-
fpeCt of her rekilions and friends, coiitri-
bnied, probably, to prolong her days beyond
the ufual term of human life.

17. At her houle in Portman-ffreef, Port-
man-fquare, Lady Helen Douglas, relict of
Admiral Sir James D. bart. and aunt to ths’
Earl of (dlafgow.

18. At Southampton, Lady King, wife of
Vice-admiral Sir Richard K. hart.; a molt
amiable and truly virtuous woman.

After a few days illnefs, Mr. Treafure, an
eminent carcafe butcher in Clarp-marker.

19. In Auftin-friers, a.ged 82, Mr. Henry
Taylor, late of his Majelty’s tirff troop of
body guards.

20. Suddenly, at the houfe of Sir Ifaac
Heard, Gai ter in the College of Ar.ms, Mils
Elizabeth Hayes, filter of Ld.iy Heard.

2 t. At his Lordfhip’s houfe in the Grove,
Bath, the Countefs of Howth, wife of the
E.arl of HowUi, of the king iom of Ireland.

23, in childbed, Mrs. Nares, wife of the
Rev. Robert N. of james-ffreet, Weftmia-
iter. Th.e goodnefb of her liea’t was fo con-
fpicuous, and the fweet innocence of her cha¬
racter fo attractive, that her lots has excited
the tendereft regret, far beyond the circle of
her nearcfl relatives.

24. Hon. Mifs Cathcart, fifler to Lord C.
and to the Countefs of 'Mansfield, and one
of !ier Majefty’s maids of honour.

26. Geo. Drummond, efq. of Gower^'flr^

0C7. New Drury-Lame.

2. The Jew — Lodollka.

4. Douglas— The Prize.

6. King Henry the Fifth — Lodoifka.

7. Macbeth — My Grandmother,
g. The Jew — Lodoifka.

ir. Ifabella — No Song No Supper.

1 3, The Jew — Lodoifka.

14. Jane Shore — The Glorious Firfl of June.

1 6. The Jew — Lodoifka.

i8. King Henry the Eighth — The Glorious
Firft of June.

ao. The Haunted Tower — Tit for Tat.

21. The Gamefter — No Song No Supper.

22. Tlie Country Girl — Lodoifka.

23. The Jew — Ditio.

25. The Diftrefs’d Mother— Ditto. -

27. 1 he Pirates — The Sultan.

28. Emilia The Prize.

29. As You Like It— My Grandmother.

30. Emilia Galotti — The Devil to Pay.

Ocf. Co VEN'r -Garden.

1. TheGreciauDangliter — Hartford Bridge.
3. Caftle of Aadalufia — Follies of a Day.

6. FontainvilleForefl — Harlequin &Fauff us.

7. Cynibeline — Robin Hood.

8. The World in a Village — Netfey Abbey.*
10. Cymheline— Tom Thumb.

13. Hamlet — Harlequin and FauPtns.

14. TheProvok’dHufband — Ofcar& Malvina,

15. King RiCfiard the Tliird — Tom Thumb.

17. The Provok’d Hufband— The Farmer.

20. Romeo and Juliet — Ofcar and Malvina.

21. The Duenna — The Irilhman in London,

22. Romeo and Juliet — Ofcar and Malvina.

23. The. Rage! — Cymon.

24* Ditto — Tom Thumb.

27. Romeo and Juliet — Sprigs of Laurel.

28. The Rage! — Netley Abbey. -

29. Ditto — A Divertifemenl.

30. The Child of Nature— at Firtf^
mouth — Two Strings to your Bow'.

Sept, 30, to OCF 28, 1794.

BILL of MORTALITY, from

Chriltened.
M,V,es 888 7
Fh males 872^

Buried.
Males 84
Females 833

1674

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Feck Loaf 25 yd.

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C O N T A

The ■^■'eteoroliigic ’l Diaries for 061. and N'lv. 970
Coneife HiPnry of t!ie Scoltifh Corpora' ion 971
Great Mi(ch;ef of Horfe-races near London 973
I L. L. in H eply to feverai ofnurCorrefpondents 974
' A. Mountain Afh liearaig Pears — Salop, Szc. 976
’ I'awney/heanfientSea'ottheKnightlyFaniily 977
j-Iifloiy of S smerfet'hird farther illuftrated 97S
A iJafl; of He iry VII i. — Caftre InVrip'ion 980
! Remarka’.ile Sc'ls — RobeitD of Normandy 981
'Maccle-fiiTi — Oatsnot 'ohe C'.avn in Autumn 981
On die Ordination of Scotch Ejiifoopalians 981
i Mr.Tlu). Warinn’s !-t iflory of Fnrl ih Poitry ? 084
Topograph cal Defeript’on of Yatehy, Hants 98 3
Reniai konaPall igeinG ilibon — M rs.S'ym 9101198 5
Lilt of Oxoiraim, Traaflatirs of the Bible 98 7
Theincomerf I^ivings in Scotland improi ed 988
Garden Grub — Mr. Mel no'h’s PulIicHtions 989
The Penrr.as granted by Charl-^s 11. ni 1673 970
Sepulchral 1 nl'cription progi eliiveiy imoi oved 99 1
Telegrajihe l u'lrated — Agricnl ura'Not c«s 991
AV’arictyof GardcuGrub — Lite! ary Qneries 903
i.a'ilingtoa Church — A P dfage in (ieriidotus //^
Obferv.itio'is on Robinfon on Hydrophobia 99}

, 1794.

Coventry
0 umherland
O.^rby, Exeter
Gloucefter
Hereford, FJu 11
’pHvich
[re LAND
Leeds 2
Leicester 2
Lewes
Liverpool 3
M s id done
Manchedei 2
NewcafUe 3
Norihaitipton
Norwich 2
Nottinghim

OxroRD
Reading
Salifbury
Scot LAND
Shethcld 2
Sherborne a
Shrew lb ury
Scarnrord z
Winchefter
Whitehaven
W oi’cedei

York. 3

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Curious Phaanomenan near Settle, in C'-aven 997
Di'. Macqneen on the Origin of ti e Piets, Szc. 998
A remarkable Fa6t Rated by Dr. Symonds looo
Literary Qneiies— .A Greek-Englilh Lexicon ib.
Mrs. Vlacaul ly — Dr.Jolinfon — b'HwVs.wh.al? loai
Inrcription on Corporation Mace at llchefter ib.
The State of K.ittle Abbey in the Year 1790 looz
rheCaufeof Clencal Corpulencecontrovertad ib.
A d v i c e ■ o VI r . W a k e fie I u f ro m va r i ous \ V ! • 1 1 e r s I o ■ 3
Mackenzie on ths WHr with rippooSaltann ico6
Some Particulars of the Family of Paget 1:07
U 'lldf the Dave’s Invaf; m — Hydrophob a looS
Vin de la CXte. — Mr. Eihnund W Itliew ? 1009

B >dyof Henry IV. throum into the Thames 1010
Proceedings ol the laft St-iriouof Parliam nt 10 to
Review ov Nev/ Pun ligations 1017 — 1032
I :s D E X I NT D 1 c A T o K I u s — Quci i es anfwo red 1032
Se L Kca Po E TRY, AntientandMod. 1033 — ir.38
Froceedinpsfif NatipualConventioninFrance 1039
Important In tel T genre from LondonGazettes 1046
Di.iryof the Roy al Excurfion toWeyrnou li IC48 ^
hi hoi icalCiironii,!,' — Doir ellicOecui'rences 1030
Marriages, Deaths, Prefei nicui,s,^z i. 1051 — 1063
Theacr.Regirt.ei — M(>nthly' BillcT Mort ililv 1067

TheCafoof the R egimental Surg mns Rated 995.

Mr.DTLaeh’s !‘.u ting Word to Mr. Graham 999 Daily Variations in the Prices ofclieStockc 1064

Embelldbed with Pidlnrefcpie Views of Fawslev Church and Manor-moUjEj
a hue Burt of Henry VJil. ulien young; fume curiour Seals, 5:c.
and a correbl D .’lineatibn of the I elf. graph r.

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Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicer-Ts Head, Red-Lion Paliage, Fleet-rtieet ;
where all Letters to the Editor are defiied to be addrclfed. Post-paid. 1794.

9)0

Mdesrological Di arm for O^iober and Ncrs^ember, 1794^
Meteorological Table for November, 1794.

Heigbi of Fahrenheit’s Thermometer,

D. of

Month

% 0

I 1 o'cj

Night.

Barom.
in. pts.

Weather
in Nov. 1794

OB.

29 ,80

cloudy

rain

>37

cloudy

, 51

,76

rain

>54

rain

N.i

>87 .

cloudy

,90

rain

,60

fair

,28

rain

>15

,22

>5 3

>50

cloudy

>77

fair

30 >09

cloudy ^

,10

W. CARY, Optician,

Height of Fahrenheit’s Therm omet«jr.'

D. of

, Monrh.

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tn. pts

Weather
in Nov. 1794.

Not'.

1 2

^9 >97

rain

30,03

fair

,06

cloudy

»5

,21

r 6

,06

19 >97

3«

30,13

■3^

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fair

29 ,65

fair

2 I

>'-5

cloudy

>39

fair

>75

cloudy

>77

>6 5

>77

fine

. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand.

Wind.

Barom. '

ru Hygrom.

fherm lf .

jfeet in.

State of Weather in Oilober, 1794.

iW calm

14 I .1

overcafl, no fun

3 calm '

dark fky, but little fun

3 moderate

29 ,90

dark Iky, no fun

NW gentle

rain, cleai'S up

S gentle

0.6

white clouds, heavy rain P.K tempefluous

NW hrilk

28 ,98

5^'

•4

rain, fliowers

NW hrilk

29,39

•7

black clouds, ftormy

W moderate

fhowers, very ftormy, with hail

W moderate

fpecklsd fky, rain at night

S hrilk

1 .8

while clouds, rain at niglic

1 1

S moderate

blue fky, fhowers

1 2

SW calm

•4

fliowers, gloomy day

J t

SE calm

clear Iky, very pleafant

E brifk

rain, clears up P.M., Ihow’ers at night

S gentle

0.9

blue Iky, fun, and pleafant

S moderate

I .1

hi ick Iky, rain V*. M.

1 7

E calm

overcaft, fhowers and hail-ftorms

VV^ boifterous •

•4

mift, gloomy day, rain at night

SW calm

• 3

overcaft, rain all day

iSW” calm

0.5

overcaft, flight fliowers

'SE calm

30,26

1-3

clear blue Iky, rain, and pleafant P.M,

jSE calm

•4

mift, continual rain

NW moderate

29 ,72

•5

blue Iky, fair

»4

N VV cairn

•7

blue fky, rain in the evening

N\V calm

dark Iky, frequent fhow'ers

SW calm

0 9

rain, frequent fhowers

SE calm

cloudy, ftorrns

SE calm

1 .6

|White clouds, florms

NW moderate

) 47

•7

Tain, frequent fhowers

)NW calm

•3

Iwhite clouds, ihovVers

[w calm

•7

rain all day

5. Bavonaeter as low as 28.64 in the evening. — 8. Frequent lightning in the evening. — ■■
12. Hoar froft. Ver^ bufy taking up p rta oes. Crops in general but flight. — 21. The buflits^
hung with circular webs. Qu. Is this from the fame caufe as the golfamer — 27. Hail -,
ftorms, and mcnich lightning. — 28. Thunder and lightning, with fiequent hail-ftorms.—
29. Thundereand lightning.

There has been little fun through the whole of this month ; a general calmnefs has beem
predominant ; the fall of rain lias been great, and the evaporation but trifling ; fo that tliei

groumi

(971

THE

Gentlemans Magazine :

For NOVEMBER, 1794.

BEING THE FIFTH NUMBER OF VOL. LXIV. PART II.

AconciseViewof theS.cottish
Corporation jn London^

General court ofthecor-
w ^ poration having thought

^ A w proper to order a repuh-
^ licatlon of the lifts of its

^ officers, govern' rs, and

other benefa6lors, it was
^ deemed of importance to

pre6x a concife view of the inlliiution j
as a tribute of ncknovvledgment to thofe
who have already honoured it with their
Fupporr, and for the information of per-
,.fon8 into whofe hands the lifts may fall,
and who might thereby become dilpoled
^o promote a work of mercy.

During a long a rd dilrnal ptrrod, the
Inlubitants of England and Scotland,
whom Nature deftined, tioin the begin-
ng, to be brothers and '■fiiends, were
animated with fierce and implacable na¬
tional lutrtd. Frequent, bloody, and
defolating wars weie the confequtiice,
J^iom the fiift: dawning of Britifh hiftory
down to the Reformation in the fixteenth
century, this fell fpirit r.iged with unre¬
lenting, almoft unremitting, fury. At
that aera, A. D. 1560, union in religious
feniiment, and common danger from Po¬
pery, the common enemy, cemented a
politiCdi trieirdlbip be-tween the lagacious
Elizabeth and '.r.r Scottjfh reformeis.
'This, however, produced io little perlo-
unl intercourfe between the two nations,
tl'.at, in 1567, the ninth year ot Ehza-
heth’s leign. wliile commerce had attrac¬
ted no Ids than 383 S Flemings to L.on-
don, lelig on anu politicks had allured no
more than 58 boots ro that metropolis.
But the actelfion ot James to the tlirone
ot England, in 1603, produced a mighty
change ; for the n.uituude whicii acctnTi-
panieii or followed the monarch to his new
dominions, ami particularly to the feat of

government, was fuch, as to excite jea-
loufy, and give offence, in the Southern
kingdom.

The turbulent and unhappy reign of
Charles 1. could not poffibly be favour¬
able tofocial intercourfe between tlie two
nations : and ftill Icfs th^ period of the
Commonwealth, which was eftabJiflied
on the ruins of Monarchy : for no inter¬
courfe then took place, but what was of
an hoftile nature. The Reftoration, in
1660, again, and finally, opened the
communication between England and
Scotland ; and the firft charter of incor¬
poration is itfclf the moft undoubted hif-
torical evidence of the exienfive migra¬
tion, wliich, in the courfe of a few years,
had taken place, from the Northern
kingdom to the Southern metropolis.
The Scots are naturally reftlefs, hold, and
enterprizing. T he higher ftate of culti¬
vation, and the more extended commerce
of England, invited hither multitudes of
adventurous and induftrious mechanicks
of all defciiptions, leamen, labourers,
who at once benefited tiiemfelves, and
contributed to tlie population and wealth
of the country which received them: for
the Scottifti commonalty are amongfl the
heft educated in the world : tlisy are
trained up ‘rom infancy in habits of order,
temperance, and induilrv ; the moral and
relig'ous principle is ftrong in them.
Thtle principles and habits, their Ikili,
lobiiecy, ana inuuftry, their early and
prolific mairiages, w'ere undoubtedly,
therelore, a very vaiuab'e aerjuifition to
the cities of Lond in and Weftminfter,
While wealth and vigour remained, they
vvere able, not only thernfelves to lublill
comfoicabiy, but, many of, them, to icar
families, and to educate and provide tor
th m. Few however, in comparilun,
had the power of acquiring independence.

"round IS like a fpunge full of water ; the potatoes not yet taken up receiving much injury ;
ilie tallows not yet fowu with wheat, not fit to be come upon. The roads are fwimmiii^'
VMlh water; a d the cattle in general taken under shelter during llie night.

F.tll (T rain this month, 5 inches. iivaporaUoii, z inches 5 loths.
near Liverpool, J. HoLT.

972

CoKclfe Hljhry of ihe Scottilh Ccrporaiton m London. [Nov%

or even of forming what is called a fec-
tlcrnent. No d gree of tt-corromy or in-
dullry vva^i lufficient to make provifi n
againfl “ the thou^anvi natural il s tl\ac
flvfh i h' ir to'’ — di'eafe, acci(ienr, old-
age. Overtakenby all, or any one of thefe,
abfoluie mifery followed. They were
ilil! aliens in the, land which they were
helping to people and to enrich. Jour¬
neymen, labourers, lodgers, from the
beginning, they continued to to the end.
No claim to paiochial aliillance had been
eflabliflved, and of couife no psovihon
made ft r the dark iealon of lire. To beg,
or to perifl), W'as the d'readful alternative.

Time was continually increafing the
evil, by multiplying the number of ob-
jlcIs, and aggravating their diftrefs. It
became a bitter rtfleilion, after an abfence
of many years, that they were far fiom
iheir native land, and deOitute of the
means of reru nmg thitber; that they
had become perfonally unknown to ilieir
ntareft relations, or had fuivivtd moft,
if not all, of the friends and companions
of their better days ; in a word, that
they hadnow'here a kinfman, a fiend, a
home, a parifii, a country.

Even fo early as 1665, five years after
the Refloration, the diitieis of the low^er
Cider of Scotfrnon in thefe cities, thoufjh
rot yet ariived to its height, was fcnfibly
felt and deplored; to fuch a degree, that
the m.ore affluent of the Scoitifh n.ation,
rehdent in London, found ihemfclves
prompted by compallion to take the cafe
of the poor into lerious confideration,
and to devile a rerrgdy. A voluntary
aiiociation of lefpedahle rntrehants,
. tr^delmen, and oth.eis, was formed; and
it was agreed to pwition the Crown for
a charter of incorporation, in order to
ptocure co-operation, anti to givecfh.6h
to their plans of rtl ef to tlreir diftrelLd
countrymen. This was without hefna-
tion granted; anti letters pa'tnt, under
the gieat feal of England, fortiie purpofe
tleGred, were ifflued accordingly, hearing
date the 30th of June, 1665. By tliele,
iht perlons delcnbed in the charter weie
tmpuwered to ertift an hofpital in the
city and liberty ot Weftminiter, for tlie
ji.aintenance of old cr decayed ariihctis
ot the Scottiih nation, and for nalning
up their children to handicraft employ-
ji.ents .

With fo much ardour and unanimity
was the caufe adopted, and patronized,
by perfoijs of all ranks, Engliffl as well
as Scois, that in 1673 corporation
WdS enabled to tredV a hall, with fix ad¬
joining tenemenis, for fulfilling the pur-

pofe of the chatitv, in Bl ick-Friers, one
of the fuburbs of the citv of Londotr.

But experience fpeedily evinced, that
the powers granted by the charter were
in-^df quate to the defign. Tire very fi-
tuatlon of the hail had been determined
by local and temporaty c(>nfiderations,
Without regard to the expi efs terms of
the charter. The corporation was like-
wife put on a fcale far too fmall for an
undertaking of fuch magnitude; the
number of governors being rertri61ed to
eight, with powers almoft as limited as
their numbers. It became necefifary,
therefore, to make a fecond applicatioa
to the Cio vn, for an eniargemenc of the
corporation’s num.bers, powers, and pri¬
vileges. This too was readily obtained,
and new letters patent under the great
feai ifiued accordingly, bearing date the
i6th of November 1676; by which
thirty-three afiillants were added to the
eight S''overnors ; liberty was granted to
efiablifli their hofpitai' eithei- in London
or Weftminfler, as might be moft con¬
venient : and they were emrpowered to
purchafe and to hold lands, to the year¬
ly value of five hundred pounds, by the
name and ft vie of The Governor -

fx^d AJTJiants, of the Scottifh Hofp 'tial, c f
the Foundation of King Charles the Second.

From tb.e tenor of both diarters it
appears, that the original intention, and
this imention followed up for elevea
yeais together, was to eredl a houfe of
receprion for all the objeds of the cha¬
rity, whatever their calcs might be ; old,
young ; men, women ; p-rfons fuifering
under cafualty, lunacy, debility, difeafe,
all afiTembled within the fame precindt.
Tire impropriety, lilt abfolme impradli-
cability, of this, was quickly demonft ra¬
ted. VVhat funds c.‘uld have iuppoited
the expence of an eiLbiifliment fo*enoi-
mous, and that eltabi.llimeni incefthntiy
on the increafe ? The inconven;ence
and difcomfort attending the (eparation
of married perfons f om their families
and friends, at a fealon when Ivmpatliy
ahd aliiftance are moft necefiary, and
moft acceptable, pleaded powerfully
againft the idea of a pub be, general re¬
ceptacle. The uncouth mixture, and
iiiipropcr commutiicationv, of (uch a
motley allemblageof patients mud have
produced indecencies and immoralities
hot to he mentioned. The defign of an.
holpitnl, thercfi.'rc, was abandoned, al-
molt as fjon as adopted ; and in its place
was fubftituted the wiier mode of afiift-
ing and relieving the poor objefts at
tfieu' own habitations. Thus ihe flen-

der

I794'] C,QKcife. UiJIory (if the Scottifli Corporation In London. 973

der funds of the corporation were ren¬
dered mote extetjilveiy efficient, for
there was no expenfive fabric to be
railed and fupporteil ; the diffrefied ob-
jciffs were fuccoured in a manner more
congenial to their feelings ; and the
jobbing, but too generally Cf'nnefiled
with all great eftablifliments, was com-
plet' ly prevented.

The Scottiftt commonalty are, in ge¬
neral, aftuated by a laudable pride. It
is with extreme re!u6fance they fubmit
to the .degradation of being deemed a
burden to the publick. NeceHicy alone
can humble them to this. There is no
poors-rate in any pait of the prover-
bially-poor kingdom of Scotland. Fru¬
gality, induffry, and the art of living
on a little, prevent the multtplication of
faupen there. The fliillings and fix-
pences of the rich, the pence of the far¬
mer and tradefman, and the farthings
of the poor, caff into the plate, as titey
enter or leave the church, on the Lord’s
day, is all the proviffon that is made,
and ail that is found neceflary, for the
relief of the abfolutely indigent. The
land- holder is indeed obliged by law to
make up the deficiency, fliould any
exift ; but no occafion, except in very
rare inffances, has occurred, of relorting
to th u expedient. The idea of a pa¬
rochial charity-work-houfe is unknown
all over the country. Inffead of lock¬
ing to fuch an afylum with hope and de¬
fire, a Scottifli ruftic or artificer would
regard it as filling up the mcalure of hrs
wietchednels.

The admilTion of the lower order of
tradclmen, as fubl'ciibing members at
eafy rates, was undoubtedly favourable
to this honeft pride. The man paid with
chearfulnefs as long as he was able, for
he knew lie was ititieby laying a foun¬
dation for time to come, and purchaling
a title to c mfiderarion, and correipond-
ing fupport, wticn his powers Ihould be
impaired or exbaufted. Another btneht
flowed from ihts arrangement: the re¬
gular quarterly call for the quarterly
fublcription was a frequent and gentle
admonition to the contributor, to be
frugal, to be fober, to be diligent ; and
though the fum of fuch contributions
could not greatly fw'ell the public trea-
lury, it was a gracious offering, and did
good fo far as it went.

The mote affluent were, meanwhile,
endeavouring, with various luccels, to
keep Jiiive and promote the caule, by
Hated, by occafional, by honorary, do-
ndti-onsi by conyivi^tl meetings and tef-

tamentary bequefts. But 1 he increafe of
fund fry no means kept pace with the
incieafing demands made upon it. Few
of the nobility, and not many of the
gentry, had been induced to give it
warm fupport, either by their attentl-
ance, or their munificence.** Daring the
fliort and unhallo wed reign of James fl.
the public mind was in a ffaie of fer¬
mentation too violent 10 admit of at¬
tention to fober pldiis of mei cy ajid corn-
palfion.

(ro be concluded incur nixt.)

Mr. Urban, Noi>. 7.

R. MAINWARING’S fenti-
rnents re(j)e£ling the incre-de of
places of public diverfion, recorded vol.
LV. 832, are defervedly praifed, and do
him honour both as a magiftrate and a
man. The iate a£f, enforcing the better
obfervance of the LortRs-day, does him
no lels credit. But there ffifl remains
an additional merit to be derived from
the decreaj'e of certain public diverfions
which I have long conlldeied as a nut-
fance. There are horle-races within a
given fliort diffance from the capital.
The mifehiefs attendant on thefe in the
county of Middlelex were fo notorious,
that every good citizen rejoiced to find
that Barnet laces had fairly worn them-
I'elves out ; but have arilen ag^in under
the eye, one would hope not with the
concurrence, of Mr. M’s colleague,
who yet, perhaps, may apprehend his
parliamentary inteieff would fuller by
preventing them. Thole at an equal
diffance, at Enfield, were never able to
raile t hemic Ives to noturiet v till iheir late
revival. If any good rclulred from thefe
laff, it was that the noted Barrington
there finifhed his career, and obtained a
paffport to Botany-bay. Yer, as if they
were intended as a trap for pickpockets,
the life of more than one youth is on the
point of being forleiied to publ c jufiice
for robberies committed on the highway
in confequence of plans concerted there
this year. They are now avowedly pa¬
tronized by the very perfon who brought
the ringleader of thole gentry to his
fentence. Every one of your readers
muff feel, the more than impropriety,
the mifehief, of fuch diverftuns near the
metropolis. Mr. M. hmilelf, as a ma-
giftrate and a good man, muff be fenfible
of them, and his good lenfe and legal
knowledge can only fuggeft means of
preventing them. Odiey races, the
only diverfions of the kind in i]ie county
of ileitfurd, it is believed, have ceafed ;

and

<^74 chief $f Horfe-raccs near London candidly Jiated, [Nov.

Euu'i the next neared to [jondon, it is alfo
fcelie vet! , are at hvofoot ; the only in¬
stance of a 50!, piat-e at tliat diftance.
How eafy would it be to crufh a pecnni-
ary fydem which has not the {an6l:on
of one lenat^r or revjl gentleman to fup-
port if, and could at btfi only hurt the
fti-ade of a few publicans, and an equal
number of fltirpers 1 VVe (hall all, per¬
haps, live to fee that the manners of a
nation arc of equal valpe with its reve¬
nues, and that an honeft induftrious
Itvtlihood is far beyond the profits of
craft and robbery t and that the exer¬
tions of an afiive mag'firate and fenator
can far outweigh the debahng influence
©f twenty gentlemen of the whip or the
IcenncI, or their afibciates, the black¬
legs and alehoufe- keepers. Shame to
our rpeeies, when young men of foi tune
have not better purfuits, and nobler
objefls of patronage !

Thefe thoughts, Mr. Urban, are fub-
m it ted ro vour d ifpoia!, rrufi ing, t hat your
tifeftil iMifcellan.y may find its way to
^be hhrary of foms of our worthy re-
prerenrarives, and that the fubjcbf miay
obtain as fencus a reception in their re-
llcxions as the limiting of ('U’fide paf-
ftngeis on flage-coaches, or the ticket¬
ing of drivers of cattle about London ;
and that they will fhew the fame tenfier
cQOcern for the lives and property of
his Maj city’s fubj e it s out of town as
we!! as in ii. I fign myfelf, with grate¬
ful pleafure,

One of Mr. Matnwaring’s
Constituents.

Mr. Urban,

jVo^V. 19,

T 7 ARLOLS parts of your volume for
^ the cufient year, eipecially p. 530,
cxliibit fuch attacks on my letters as
nv.3‘/ appear to defsrve fome notice.

The feleition from Dr. Prieftley’s
Works, which i am referred to, pro¬
bably irad its meiit in lerving the com¬
piler’s purpofe; it was peculiarly cal¬
culated for the meridian of VVarwick-
Ihu'f, and appears to have made lufh-
c ent imprtdiion at a time when “ xtz?/;-
getion 9/ damages’' was the oh]e6t con-
tendecl for. Pr ophetic warnings of tlioie
allegorical explofions that may yet,
louie time or other, oeftroy all Babyio-
rr.fl', hierarchies, whether Proteftaiu rr
Fopifli, are, according to rhnny men’s
rde .s, required with no more than tra-
g c juliice, by burning down the prtacli-
lioufc, and ftcaling his tfie^ls. Per¬
mit me, liowever, to j-noiell againfl a
ouLtruie lo alarming 10 iiccl'.fuiilitks of

every perfuafion, though u'timately lefs
To to the Pre^ljyteriaB minifter, who has
not ipuch to loie, than to great dignita¬
ries and opulent pluralifts. If the /or-
ffier efcape with life from the brutal
outrages of a mob heated by religious
zea*, he bears with him into oilier re;-
gioos an unbiemiflied chara^her, with
abilities which no opprelTor can deprive
him of.; ftrangers, unbiafl'cd by fe6f or
party, receive him afFe^Lonately : while
the laiier, if once Gripped of thofe trap-
p ngs which conftitute ifietr only dif-
tin6lion, ar.e inftantiy degraded’ into the
lower ranks of fociety.

What Hands next in the fame page
had totally efcaped rfiy attention by its
title, Ophir and Tharfhifli,” till a
friend, pointing it oyt to my perufai,
furprfzttd me by mentioning, that full
half the difqirfition of that Caledonian
lover of vjijdom' concerned me. Inr
ftead of having a wifii to retort the
charge of aukwqrdnels, I immediately
followed the ckie. H nv natural is it
for an Epifcopalian heretick in Scot¬
land, after conrempl uing on the gold
of Ophir, and fliips of Tiiarflaifli 'aden
wiih a apes and peacocks” for tlie grati¬
fication of Solomon’s court, to caft a
wifhful eye acrol’s the T'weed on nis fa¬
vourite feft gamboling in clover at
Yoik or Durham ! But why vent Ins
“ uitnoji indignation” on me, whofe fen-
timeius about bifhops are lo neutral, fo
perfe6liy guarded ? Dijenttn^ l^pifcopa-
lian churches are fuch a folecifm as to
deferve no notice whatever. But, in the
Gaxetted prelate I hail a peer of parlia¬
ment often more nobly bom, as well as
more expenfively educated, than thole
fiihermen and tent-makers who origi¬
nally propagated the Chrillian religion;
a ptrlonage, without the impofition of
wiiole holy hands I mull not dare to
mount the pulpit in any Englilh Church?
but toalleit that his w'ay of life reminds
me of the auflerities pra6li(ed by Jcdin
the Baptifi, or the difintetefled alfiduity
of Peter and Paul in tending their flock,
or even to vouch for his legitiinaic dc-
(ceiU from the Apoflies, while fo many
aukwajd chafms ate vilible in a pedi¬
gree long and intricate like that of Cad-
vvaliader, exceeds my utmofl courage.

It is indeed moie difficult 10 afceriain
the ch;ua<5ier of large bodies of meri
than thr^fe of individuals. But wliy
may nut Oxford be called a Iceiie of
godlinefs and candour .I'” barely he, who
takes violent r>flence at the applicatior?
of thcl? terms to a learned umverfity,

m uil

I^Q4-3 L. L. In Reply to fcveral of oar Correfpondeni^. OyJ

;muft confu^er that univetfity as having
fomeivhat extremely rotten at the core.
If, in mentioning the excellent Dr.
Clarke’s Scriptuie Do61rine of the Tri¬
nity, any thing had been dated about
“ the godiinels and candour” of that
bed treatif'e on fo intricate a queflion,
though the words might juftly lie found
fault with as unmeaning, and by no
means chara<fleridic ; where is he, even
among the madgnaiu brood of Atlia-
nalius, who ci uid venture to pronounce
them a Incei ?

No ‘‘ Ibit’fh Criti:k” w'as d:rrel’pc-6i -
fully (pckm (>i oy me “ for avowing his
partr pr'ncip es,” Had that been all, I
ihou d not have piefumed to open ins
mcuih. But, in the few numbers which
calual.y fell into my hands, there was
an uncommon degree of alacritv in fad-
ening on the Priedleys, Fi ends, Geralds,
Muirs; in fho«r, all thofe whom they
found already hunted dtiwn by the Oi-
thodox or the Alarmids, accompanied
vvirh wordicus tendernefs towards a-
OJonved publications of the reputed
tors which it would have been far more
fe^niiy to lea'-e in tfie back ground. As
they love to drift their motto every
month, the followitjg fiom Fbuacc,
with its Engl fh pataphrafe, will be
much at t hetr lervice :

Laudat venalesqui vult extrudere merces.*’

“ Why mars yon did ant truvnpeter fo loud ?
He vemls tfale oyders to the gaping crowd.
Wlnle felf-applaufe yet rarely found a vent,
With one Revifvv our fathers were con'ent ;
The idle “Travtb” or dull ‘^Sermons” lay
Unheeded, till by chandlei s fvvept away :
but now each fcribblcr mounts the critic
throne,

And puffs that trafh he fcruples not to own.”

My old antagonid, the Rev. George
Gleig, immediately occurred to me on
reading the abovementioned letter yVewr
Scotland with itsG'^eek figoature ; and,
as I pioceeded onw-ard, the did article
your Review of Bo ks exhibited was a
fermon of that gentleman, didinguifhed
by the proportion wriich his drength of
paradox and weaknels of realoning con-
Bantly bear to each other. “ Luke-
warsnnefs in religion” he confiders as
tending towards fa^lion, wiihout aiiign-
ing any tuber realon than that his flock
do not love touting to hear him. This
1 fhould rather connder as an inftauce
of their return towaids loyalty, or at
lead towards orthodoxy. Tlie iinlchiefs
of religious % lolcnce are in every mouth.
On one hand, declaimers in fupport of
the Ffierarchv will have it that every
zealous Prefoyterian is of courfe a Ja¬

cobin ; while, on the otlier hand, the
feenes which have Iteen uitliin thrU;
veiyfew ycai s txh b tmg at Sirm'ng"
ham, ISIanthcfter, Noriingham, atvdl
various other puts of the kingdoruj,
diew that Clmich and King mobs aie
piompt to ind df eveiy outrage they caa
polhbly apprehend from their anta-
gonids.

The principal drifture T have to
make on what is advanced in p. 588 oa
fo delicate a topick as “ epdeopa! ru-
thorit)” is, tlia:, wherever abfolute de-
Iputifm does nor predominate, the very
circumll. nee of power hci limile i always
implies a more th-in ordinary dilcret’ori;
and, wliei ever this is found notorioufly
vvantmg, the Potentate’s adfions, evea
though he bear the keys of Sr. I’eter,
are lo.ble to be called in queilion. Wet
will not here wound the exqu fits fenfa-.
lions of Ipiritual rulers, by (uppofing
cafes in w hich it is mod obvious that
ther proceedings could net fail to be
ovei liavvltd by the couas of ordinary
jjciic’iture; fuch as their excomriuni-
cating, and afterwards illuing writs de
excommunicato capiendo, againd any lay¬
man belonging to a feparate, independ¬
ent, oithodox, tdabliihed Chorch ; but
treat only of tfiufe matters in wlrcli
they aie held to be incontrcul able, the
ordination of their own Clergy, and
nrodesof adminiftering difcipline among
them. If in a country whofe geogra¬
ph cal pofition is by no means th^^t of
Utopia, but rather a renovated Gotham,
they fhou d cake upon them to reject
candidates ff r orders, unexccptionably
qualified both in pomt of learning and
morals, merely on account of their ha¬
ving received no pait of their education
in this or that debauched and luxurious
leminary, which was too expenlive for
their finances ; or on the rid culous
plea of their having exercifed fume of
thofe handicraft trades from wh.ch the
Apoftles were originally called to pro.r
pagate the Gofpel : fhall we confider
luch church as being in a piogredive or
retrograde [fate ! One more llrort hy-
pothelis, and 1 lay down my pen. If
at fome future, and, it is to be hoped,
remote period, a Bifliop, inficad of ma¬
king the fmallefl effort to enforce
ral refidence throughout his diocefc,
fingle out one obnoxious individual,
and command him, on pain of depriva¬
tion, immediately to repair to his pa> ifh,
while he at the fame time knows him-
(elf to be furrounded by Icores t/f pam¬
pered pluralids, who nocorioully tu'a
their benefices into finccures ; Ih.iil wc

htfiiate

97 6 A MQunlain JlJJi hearing Pears. — Salop tnfcripPion^ l5c. [Nor^

liefitate to f^y t!in, however fucli Pie-
hate may hill rerain iiis authority, he
has judllv, and for ever, forfeited all
that couid render that authority in any
de<]:ree i efpefla bit ?

Though they have fometimes cenfu-
red me for followinj their txampie, rny
opponents, from the Prefb ■ ter to the Un¬
dergraduate, are, and always have been,
snonvinous. Mr. Gieig never exhi¬
bited hirnfelf by name till his letters
and mine, united together, wi h the
alhftance of a long peroration, ex-
prelfing his attachment to the bantflied
Stuatis, were grown ponderous enough
to form a lumping pamp-hlet inl'ctibed
to all the bifhops oF England and Ire¬
land. if an ordinary writer picks up
one Maecenas he is thought luckv ■ but
Mr. GLi.'/s, according to the Red -book,
are no Itfs tlian 4S; they c inPntufe ex-
a6liy four times the nemlrer of the
Apoflles, and fh -I! readilv pals mulier
for me as endued witli a fourfold portion
of their Irumilitv and other virtues.

P. 6SS. In the Latin ver'ts, 1. 4, for
“ Ervo” read “ En*. o.”

Ih. 1, 5, for “ anno” read “Anuop*
Anglue Hainaulr.” L. L.

Mr. Urban, AL*!; 2.

N tb.e rnidfl of the forefl, about th ee
miles fiom Bewdlev, not far from the
tuftipike ; o ni leading to L^udlow, grows
a tree of that kind called mountain-afti,
that annually hears pears. That this
tree never couid have been grafted, is
clear fiom the wood ?.nd leaves being
tile mountain aOi, and no'.h ng of the
fiear lnu the fruit. Scions of this tree,
which now is very old, ha''e been re¬
peatedly taken off and grafted boih on
pear-tiee, and mountain- afli ftoiks,but
vvirhout fuccefs. If any of vour boia-
focal corrtfpondenis, M-r. Uib'm, will
infotm me, if fuch tiee, as abt've de-
fciibed, e\er came withm their know¬
ledge, i fliall be very much obliged.

Gi'e me leave to retum thanks to
Mr. 1. Good^er (LXIIE 120 ) for his
excel'ent rernt dy ftu' tliat lOi rnenting
evil, corns. After having tried almoil
eveiv known receipt, i lia^e been cuicd
by hismtthcHi entire’y, and of one liiac
1 liave b.cu [)l:-igued with upwaids of
ihir y )eais. So fimple a thing as brown
paper iuany people mav diiregard, as
nnlikelv to have tiie eflc(?i, which is the
chefieafcn of my writing this; th-ac
others, L:i)our ng under the fame tor-
nitn , may reap the benefic 1 have,
and not pafs it by as univoithy of trial.

7 B. 1. B.

Mr. Urban, Shrenx^Jhury^ Nov, to.
was much fuiprifeci at feeing a (e-
cond fkeich of the old rtone in St.
GilePchurch, go^.Fiom Mr. R’s pofltive
language I expected to have found him
corre6f, T took both prints and minutely
examined them with it, and mufl fay,
Parkes’s drawing is the beft. R. has
given the infeription as perfeft there is
indeed the remains of one; but tfie truth,
is, Mr. Urban, the verge of the ftone is
To bruifed, that there are many fciatches
on it have as much the appearance of
letters as thofe lie has drawn, and he
might with as great certainty decypher
them. The feet-of the figure refl on a
plinth, as in P’s, and the foliage at the
extremity of the crofs is well executed,
not cjuire fo clumfy av in R’s; the fbme-
thing that he found at the left ear of the
figure, and which, from his drawing 1
could not m.ake our, proves to be a bell.
The bell, book, cand efiick, and cha-
I ce, being expreffed by lines funk in the
fione, and nearly tilled with rubbiih, are
eafily overlooked. A^Xdemicus,

Mr, Urban, Nov. iz.

1' appears to me affonifiiing, that
ynurcorrefpondent I. Phelan, (p 592)
who piofelfes to hi»e read many ot the
writings of our beft Englilh Divines,
cou d not be able to follow the ex impie
his old ft low ftLKlent, the Rev. T.
O’Bierne, a gentleman, whofe abilities
are admired and efieemed. Though X
believe it is now upwards of twenty years
fince I have had the pleafu e of feeing
him, having been much abroad during
that time; yet when intimate with him,
J liave often heaid him profefs, that he
was lt,rpri2cd he had been adupelolong
to ihe execrable follies of Popery; but,
added he, my time has been taken upin
leading theii books only. This, 1 have
undetft' cd, has been al ways one of the
chief iuppo! ts of that church; viz. dil-
cou' oaging fi ee intjuiry, and preventing,
as much as poliible, the circulation of
the works of Protefiani Divines amongft
them, nay even the Scriptures them felves.
Now that the Rev. T. O’Bierne, who
has undvubicdly read moft of our beft
Engiiib authorson contioverfi fubjeifs,
Ihould become aProteftant, can never be
thought lurprifing, as AXr. P. feems to
intimate; and indeed his fufpiCiODS ap¬
peal to indicate that Ibmething more than
confeience was concerned in the recanta¬
tion. The wonder is, that-Mr, John Phe¬
lan, if he rea.lly has done the fame, which
he proftlles he has,lhouid lliil continue lu
h u old &i i ors. B. 1. B.

Mr.

1794*] Fawfley,

Mr. Urban,

OOKiNG over your lall year’s
Magazine, I obferved, in the Sup¬
plement, an engraving of a brafs plate
in Wappenham church, Northampton-
fit ire, {cut you by J. Simco; who., at
tbs fame time, acquaints you of his go¬
ing laft fummer into that county to
get forne drarvsngs of churches, monu-
rneius, Szc done, in order to iliuilrate
Btidges's Kiflory.” I had taken ficeoches
from near 20 Antiquarian fabjeAs in
that county a few months previous to
the perifid he mentions, feveral copies
■of which he dirpoCed of for me. He
earneilly folicited me to make another
expedition, and meet him ; which I did
at Towcelt^r, I think, the beginning
•of September, 1793. We together vi
iited manv of the churches. I Hayed in
the county many weeks after he depart¬
ed, in the courfe of which time I copied
a great number of monuments, build¬
ings, ike. one copy of many of which
he ddpofed of for me; but a dii'pute
with him prevented me from proceeding
any farther with them, as i mylelf had
no connexion with any body either col-
lefting for, or interefted in, the topo¬
graphy of Northampton flhre. Some
luch may perhaps, and moft hkely are,
readers of your Uterory receptacle; for
whofe eniertainment, if you think it
worthy of a place, I fend a drawing of
Fawiley houfe (fee pi. /.), the feat of
the antienc fcirni/y of Kn'ghtly, of ac¬
count for Tome centuries back as of the
principal gentry in Northampton ihire.
W'hen 1 took the drawing, u was pof-
{elftd by Valentine Knightly, efq. whofe
gentlemanlike politenti's to me on that
occauon demands every acknowledge¬
ment. The Gothic bow-wiodow is un¬
commonly curiou'.. The church is
worth examining j it is within veryper-
fc6f, much more in iu p iniicive Hate
than any I ever ex imined Tliere are
fevcral very ccrioui. monuments, riiaiiy
coats of arms in the windows, and on
tn<; panneis of the ant'ent leats carvings
in wood in an uncommon grote'que
ft)le. It is beautifully fheltered by
trees; and as, witii the lioufe, it will
make a tolerable plate, I have inclofed ir.

Youis, &c. Philograph It £.

Mr. Urban, QH. 9.

VE rne leave to hint at the utility
of a wfck-arrange.j ieries of the
iits of parliament relative to the feveral
public funds, with luch extcadls tliere-
irom as may enable any pet (on, inclined
Gent. Mag. '794*

to make purchafes therein, to form an
adequate idea of the molt adi nntageous
method of laying out his money, ac¬
cording to his htuation, as to age, fin-
gle or married Hale, &c. This has
never been done, though one Hiould
hav^ e.xptifled to have found it in that
uTeful liule book, intituled, “ Every
Man his own Broker,” where it would
have been a 'Valuable i iblVitute for the
nnne-celTary wit about bulls and hear«.
Sartly many of your correlpondents
opportunity and ability lu perform
this ctreniial piece of fervice, S. E.

Mr. Ur E AN , Hi^bbriJgeHonfe OSb. 10.
IP', upon a purchafer’s paying 4 1. 14:.
^ 6d. !or the HiOoiy of Soinerfet, he
Ihould be inclined to calculate how
much matter he has for his money, it
will be found to be compofed of about
four millions or letters, reckoning 1534
pages of 40 lines bv 4S letters each up¬
on an average. Now, as vou have for
many yeais pad fupplied your readers
with very txce lent m itter after the rate
of half- a-crowiv for one rniUion of let¬
ters, w£ can get gc;o per cent, by conti¬
nuing to deal with vou. ft 13 t'ue, we
have forne good plates in that work ; but
far lefs vi^luable than 274 of yours,
which you have been accudomed to give
lis at the lame price. J, was, however,
in liopes of being inftrufted and enter¬
tained by perufing this Hiftory, and
Toon Icanned over the nundred of Bem-
Itone, with winch I was mod acquaint¬
ed ; buq to rny great fu'prize, found
fo many errors in it, that P flitter my-
felf the fubCcribcrs to that vork will
thank you for printing mv corrections.

Vol. I. p. lyj, “ This liundred
{Bemdone} takes its name from a large
done iu the parifh of Allcrtun, at which,
the courts were fo' merly held.”

We have no p>-oof to fuppert this
opinitrn. I perteLdly remea.bcr fti'ty
years, but have never before read, or
heard old people wflen £ vv :s voung
Ipeak, of any luch done, or any luch.
C'lurt. The reader i Eft i-.i the dark
witli regard to whom the fee of this
hundred belonged ; but ir was formerly
the properly of [dairy Brvdges, of Keyn-
fliam, tlq. w!io died 172^ and who
was a lineal defeendant in the fifth de-
giee 0: Sir Thomas Btydges, a younger
biother of ihc lirft Lord C’tiandos, an-
ceftor of the late Duke of Chandos, who
inherited the chief pair of Harry
Biyiigts’s property. However, his na¬
tural ion J iines, who died X7.41, he-

cams

the antlent Seat of the Knigiftly Famlhj

977

oa. 6.

IlluJlratUm of the Hlflory of Sorr.erfetfhire. [Nov

978

came feifed of rbe fee of this hundred,
from whom it defocnded (if I recolle6f
right, for T write from memory) to his
chiUhen as tenants in c mmon. It is
37 vears firsce I was -at this hundred
court (t' en and for rime immemorial
held at Highbridge inn) appointed higli-
conHable of the hundred, then and now
written Bemphon, and not Bemiione.
This court hatii been long lince d'fufed,
and the peac' -officers are now appointed
at the county feffions.

lb. “ In old writings mention is made
of the conjoined hundreds of Bemdone,
and Wedmore, held under the fame
lords,”

We are not told in what old writings.
The fa6f is, Wedmore pafifo contains
18 vihages, one of which, viz. Panbo-
rougli, lies within, and is part of, the
butKli'^d of Glafton, it hides. The
othei 17 villages make par: of the hun¬
dred of Bemfione, and was never a le-
parate or didindf hundred from it.

It) “ This hundred (Bemilcne) con¬
tains fix par'Pies.”

Btfides a itioiety of the parifli of
Bt.dgworth, it contains the following
feven panflies, viz, AHerton, Bidde-
flv'nri, Bresn, Bu. nham, ' Mark, Wear,
and Wedmore. ,

P 17Q. Burnham is ‘‘ ten miles Well
from Axbridge, containing lOO houfes,
and near- ^So inh ibitants ”

The direct (iruation of Burnham from
Axbridge is Sou:h-we(t, and only fix
miles and a half dikant frotn it, exclu-
five of two miles, the breadth of the pa-
Jill). There are but 89 houfes in it, 19
of which a.e cottages. The inhabitants
are only 450, of whom 230 are males,
and 22o'emales. During the lall 50
years, fevtn houfes, being decayed, have
been pulled down, and fix new houfis
creeled where none Hood before.

Ib. About fifty of the houfes Hand
irregularly near the church.”

There are only 23 houfes fituate near
the church, and tbsic conHituie the vil¬
lage of WeH Burnham.”

lb. “ Watchfield, or Watchwell, in
Burnham-moor-tithing, about two miles
KaH fiom the village, containing 12
Ijoufes.”

It is three miles diilant from the vil¬
lage, and hath only live farm-houfes
and five cottagef, two of which, with
ir.oH of the land, is not in Burnham-
mnor-tithing, but Huilh. 1 never be¬
fore heard tne village pronounced either
Watchfield, or Watchwcli, but lome-
tnr.fcs Watchful, although fpeit in old

deferiptions Wathven, or Warth of
Ven, as the adjoining mead is called
Ven mead.”

Ib. “ Bifon bridge over the river
Brew.”

From Pi!rovv-cut to the river Parret,
a diftance of eight miles, this river is
culled the R:enr, from its being the an-
tient boundary of Brent Marlh. The
bridge is only fome pieces of timber
laid acrofs two Hone piers p but, if it
was deemed of fu fficent importance to
be noticed in this work, it fiiouid have
been deHrlbed as lying in the parilh of
Plunrfpili, its fituation being at the dif-
tance of half a mile Aoni any part of
the boundary of Burnham.

P. I So. PI uiih juxta Ilighbridge, ia
which are fix houles.’’

Not fo. There is no village thus
called. lIu'Hi is not the name of a vil¬
lage, but of a manor and tithing in the
panO) of Burnham, in whicli are the
villages of Highbridgt, Pills- mouth, and
part of W'athtrn, contaming togeiher
twenty houfes. And, altfiough this
manor is whollv left unnoticed by our
Hilfonan, it is notwuhfianding defciibtd
in D mefday Book as fo lows :

Raimer (a prieft) holds of Walter de
Dowai (a great baron, who had a grant of
forty manors and parilhes in this neighbour¬
hood) Hiwis. ChineH held in the time of
King Edward It was gelt for one virgate
and one c.-.rucate of Arable, wiihone fervant,
one cottager, and three borderers, value ten
Ihillings.”

lb. “ The coaft is a fine Tandy
beach, which, when the tide is at ebb,
is near half a mile in breadth.”

What a blunder is here ! The faft
is, tliat, inHead of half a mile, the tide
ebbs dry to the ddlance of ten miles into
the BiiHol chdiinel, leaving-an enormous
flat of land, many thoufand acres of
wblcli mir?ht be inclofed and cultivated..

lb., T.'ic river “is navigable up to
'Ilighbridge for veffels of eighty tons
burthen

We had lately a fli'p upwards of
two hupditd tons burthen that came
with;n a few vards of the bridye, and
loaded timber for his MajcHy’s dock
at Plymouth.

Ib, In Barnliam is “3 fine moor, in
w'bich great numbCiS of cactie aie
grazed.”

We have no moor in Burnham or any'
of the neighbouring parilhes, according
to the idea we have of a moor, wliich is
that of an uninclofcd, marlhy, fenny,
Of uncultivated cradl of walle land, either

appuiteuant

1794*] llluflraUom of the 'Hijlory ^ Somerfetfhire. 979

appurtenant to fome manor, or belong¬
ing to funclry tenants in common.

lb. The manor of Burnham “ is now
the property of Sir Charles Bampfylde,
baronet.”

The property Sir Charles liad in
Burnham was only 400 acres, which
was lome years fince fcdd to tliiee far-
luei s of the pai ifli as tenants in common.
And, although there is no pound, or
ever any court’leet or couit baron, for
want of copyhold tenants or exercife of
manorial privileges, yet the royalty of
one part of Burnham hath tyer fince my
) eniembrance been underilood as belong¬
ing to the Bampfylde family.

P. iSi. “ The Dean and Chapter of
Wells have likewife a manor here.

I believe our hitloiian thought fo ;
but the Dean and Chapter know very
well, from their own records, that we
had no church at Burnham for more
than 200 years after the Conqueld ^ that
the prefent fabrick, being bn. (bed in
1316, wa”!, with the prclcntation and
,190 acres of glebe, given to them ; and
tuar, in 1336, they ordained a vicarage,
g- anting olf forty acies and the great
cubes to a leffee for lives, and the
•remaining 150 acres tofundry iefftes, not
rc:trvtng fo much as a bngle ac-e for
rhe ufe.of tlie vicar to keep liis horfe.

Ib. “ A third (manor) belongs to
Zicli-ary Bayly, efq. ofWidcombe, near
Brch.” _ • ■

This is the manor of Huifl; already
dtreribed, and the only manor in Butn-
ham, which, from great antiquity, hath
regularly kept up its court-leet : and
for time imrnemorial there doth not ap-
pp.ar to have been a fmgle omilhon.
Tiadirion holds out a chapel as having
formeily belonged to this manor, and to
have iloc'd in a ciofe called Chapel
11, a vs. As it was g! anted in the Nurrnan
(uivey to a priefi;, it feems to favour
the idea. Your prefent correlpondent
IS the owner of this nwnor.

lb, “ The priory of Burnham is fre¬
quently mentioned in old records ”

This is not true as applied tvj Burn¬
ham in Somerfetfhii e Perhaps the au¬
thor wai led into this error from tlie
prioty in the paiifli and archdeaconry
of the fame name in Buckinghamfh'ire,
Valued at its d ifolution in c 2', 2s. 4,i.| ;
or to the fraternity of Carnielites in me
parilli and deanery of Burnham, in Nor¬
folk, valued at il. 10s, l5cl.-|. See
Dugdale.

lu. “ One of the old feats has the fol¬
lowing infcriptica : Fray for ihe jojil of

Thomas Peter, ^ho ereSied ihefe feven
feats. To ^hofe foul may God be pro ‘
pit tons

Thomas Peter was lord of the manor
of Husfla; and, were he now living,
would (ind fault with the rich farmers
of Burnham f( r having dellroyed one-
fourth part of ajl the old feats in rhe
church, and, where they flood, erefled
twelve pews about fix feet fquare as
P’ivate 'property, without any faculty
from the bifliop, confent of the vic,-;r,
or even fo much as ah a61 of vefiry.
From ail which pews the poor are to¬
tally excluded, and devotion hindered ;
the proprietors, now mixing male and.
female, being obliged to fit face to face,
and wave the accuftomsd duty of kneef-
ing at prayers. This fpiritual innova-,
tion is the more grievous to be borne as
the church hath but one nave ; ths
large chancel, two fmall aile.s, and bel¬
fry, having been lately wainfcoied from
it to keep it warm.

liighbridge, confidered as a dam that
not only drains, but prevents one hun¬
dred theufand acres of rich land frota
being overflowed by the fea, is here
deemed of great importance to the pub-
li(k.; which the Hiflorian hath left un¬
noticed, together with the hamiets of
VValrow, which has four houfes ; Ifle-
port, four; Middle Burnham, three;
Lovclane, three ; Pillfmouth,. three ;
and Aiflon, five heufes; whicli i-afi is a
tithing and manor of itfelf, difiinft
from the manors of Burnham and Huifh,
the nominal royalty of which, together
with a farm of 300k per annum ^ beiunes
to 'Robert Everard Baich, efq.

The farmers in Burnham for rhe moll
phrt live on their own freeholds, and,
in the courle of the laft twenty years,
are grown opulent by their improve¬
ments in agriculture; infomuciv that;
4000 acres, the amount of the parTtR,
IS worth upwards of 8000I. per annum^
akhemgh valued at the Revolution, io5
years lince, but in 1170!. When the
reader is informed by an old agncu.tu-
rill, born and bred in this lame p.nfh,
that our bell land is now rented at yl.
per acre and upwards, and that thefe
4000 acres ate worth one-fourth pare
of a midion fitrling, it will enti, el y 'do
away the ideas cf our author conveyed
by die le.ms, bleak cold winds — Imie
vvciod — low wet countiy — open moors—
-ftognaut waters — dam;) fogs — diizzling
rams — uiivvliotelomc atr — and others of
l;ke inipwitj fee pages 175 and jSo,
vol. 1, However, ic mull oe confeiied,

that

980 Buji of Henry VIIL — Curious Infcrlpiion at Cadre, [Not,

that the inhabitants of this flat country
are much enriched from flmilaH' ideas
conveyed in a poem written by the Rev«
Mr. Diaper, curate of the neighbouring
parifli of Eaft Brent, and, 1 believe,
publifl-jed in one of your early volumes j
bur, if not, in Dr. Bowden’s Poems.

Should anv of vour Sbmerfetftire cor-

refpondents think with rr.e, that the
jjtiblick have a right to expedi a better
hiftory of the county at a lefs expence,,
and will undertake to become the editor
of fuch a work, he may call upon me
for about fifty parifhes, which 1 for¬
merly rook from acfual furvev by ad-
meafurement. Ric'hakd Locke.

Mr. Urban, 08, 3.

TNCLOSLD is a faithful copy of a

-*• bull of King Henry Vlli. when
young, carved in Hone, in alto relievo,
on the North front of the South*eaft
wing of Prinknafh church, in Gloucef-
tetfliire; (fee, pi. ll. fig. i).

'hfi. 2. is a fragme.nt engraved on an
sntient tomb, a flat flone, near the altar
in Gariibrook church, in the Ifle of
Wight. S. L.

Mr. Urban, 08. 9-^.

X^ASSING lately through the viiiace
1 of Call re, m Norrhamptonfltire, the
a-ntiqaity of t‘f e tovver of the church,
Which IS in the Norman ftyle ofarchitec-
ture, induced one to walk into the
ehuich-yard. As, however, time would
only permit riie to make a few obfer-
•vations ; 1 cannot be fo particular as I
wnlh, in deferibing the fcveral pieces of
antiquicy, vvhichai e t here to. be found .
I was much liruck with a carved bfi'e-
fntnl of a crefs and a bas-relief citmi-
figure over the porch, which appeals to
have been removed from fome other
part, as it is evidently cf cider work-
manfliip than the porch. There is a
curious door, on which a legend is em-
boiTed, Ricardus Beby Rector
Rcclesiae Cast re Fecit Fjeri;

it is clearly coeval with tiie buijding,
which, from th? fciTpture embolied on
a flone within a circular molding over
the chancel door on the foutli fide (jee
pale Ihfig. sf, mull be neaiiy 700
ycais old. T his injcrtption 'x^ noticed ;n
Whalley’s North.'mptoi) flure, vol. li.
p. 501, but not dicypliered orconeflly
copied ; it is to be obferved that the
characlers XV KL Mai DtDiCATIO
HVJ6 ECLfr- A D MC are upon the

face of the tablet, and XXIII aie
jenbea on the face, which has been ap¬

parently left in the original flone to-be
embolTcd when the building gvas com¬
pleted, and was afterwards annexed
by fomc inexperienced hand.

The following is a lift of the ages of
64 perfons, collefiled from the grave-
flones in Buckminfler church-yard, in-

county

of Le cefl

er.

79-

M -

/ a

-3

D D

28.

2 £

3441

; tot:

d ye

nrs.

From ioto20, innlufive, 7; from 20 to
30, 10; from 30 to 40^ 3 r from 40 to 50,
5; from 50., to 60, 8; from 60 to yr, ii;
from 70 to 8c, 14 ; from 80 to 90, 4 ; abovo
90, 2. — ^^A-verage oi 64 perfon^,- nearly 54

There are other gr.ave-ftones in the
ehurch-yard, but the infmptions are
obliterated, and chi'dren under one vear
©Id a i e nn c i n c ! u-c! e d . V/ . W ,

Mr. I' 8 BAN, 5.

SEND you the impreffion ot a gold
fibula (fig. 4) lately found about a
quarter of a mile Weft from the old Ro¬
man llation Petriana, now commonly
called Old Penrith, about five miles
from the prefen t town of that name, ia
Cumbeiland, where very confiderable
rains of a Roman fort fli •. remain. The
fibula is in very high prefer vation, and
the engraving perfs6l, except in one
place, where »he figure of the animal is
wanting. There are Come faint lines,
which may be fu-ppofed to reprefent a
peacock; but, from the gold being ra¬
ther thinner in that pait than in any
other (which is more perceptible to the
touch than to the eye), it is probable
that it has been originally intended to
bear the lame figure as the other' five
aiiimals upon the fame fide, and that it
has either been left imperfefl from the
firfl, or defa.cf'd by fome aecdental cir-
curnflance. The metal, huwevtr, k
mufl be obferved, appears near-y as
iraooth .Old perfed tlulre as in any other
part, except us fubfiance being tlunner,
and the reprefentaiion incomplete. Ths
fibula weighs 14 dwts, 12 grains, is
about 3- 1 6,:hs of an inch thicK. The
tongue refis agalnfl a Itna'.l indented
place in the inner pa:t ('f the ciielc, is
rounded at the point, and m i-s to either
lide. The animals on one fide 1 fup-

C^e/it.J\f(U/.JVoi '!'i^g4.Fl. II. jj. cj 8o .

%a(q) aie^ 1

F((/. 8. p. pS?

i794‘] Seals. — Ferfes hy Robert D.vf/ ^ Normandy. 981

pofe fo be griffins : there are various
conjeftures what the others have been
intended for ; bur, as none of them ap¬
pear to me ratisfa£iiory, i (hall be happy
to know the opinions of any of your in¬
genious correfpondents upon that fub-
ja£t. Yours, &c.

Mr. TTrban, Shajlon, Ocl. 22.

I H AVE mclofed 3 good impreffion of
an antient and valuable feal (fig. 5),
which is of red cornelian fet in gold.
It is in the polTeihon of the Rev. Mr.
Cooper, vicar of Yetrninfter, near Sher¬
borne, Dorfet. It appears by the in-
fcription to have been engraved by r>i-
ofco'ides, who was an engraver, and
phyfician to Mere, the Roman emperor.
An accurate engraving of it, with an
explanation of the fij^ures, &:c. will
oblige manv of your readers, and parti¬
cularly, Yours, &c. Rob. Shirley.

Mr. Urban, Fieii-flreei, 08. 6.
XTIYH this vou will receive an
▼ imprenion of an antiejue brafs
feal (fig. 6) j the hgure of which 1 have
likewiie indoled. The legend round
it is, 1 think, Sigillum Joh’isFabbei
but whe-e found, or to what place it be¬
longs, 1 am a tfranger. It is abbut half
an inch liigh, the leal part round, but
the Hem an hexagon; at the top a
roundilh knob, and near the upper part
of the ftem a imall hole made through,
apparently for a ftnng or wire.

Yours, tkc. H. Lowndes.

Mr. U R E A N , C,lamorga„,

0:1. zo.

HAVE for manv years l>een colleft-
i.ig uiattrials for a Hijlory of thf an-
cierj Bnii/i Bards and Druids ; this
work IS notv To far advanced that I hops
1 fliall be able to put it to the prclf in
about three months, j B.atrer myleif th it
I lhall be able alfo to give in it, from
authentic V/eiJk MSS, many anecdotes
tiiat will be interefting to the Britifh
Hiftornm, to the Antiquarv, the JMo-
ra!ift,and the Bird. From a MS. of Mr.
Thomas Ti urnan, of Pant Lliwydti
(Oyer’s Valley), near Cowbridge, Gia-
inorgan, containing, in the Weifh Lan-
guage, “ An Account of the Lords
MarchC's of Glamoigan from Robert
P tz hlamon down to Jafper, Duke of
Be elf ord,” and written about the year
1500, 1 ropi • • • • mllowing ;

Pan oedd Rh ibert Tyw-yfog Norddrr-antl
)niiii;cu.ir J. gii-dleilCaerdyf, gan Ro-
c-.. .\mon, medi a a w naoth ar y iattb

Gymraeg ; ac o weled y Beirdd Cymreig
yno ar y Gwyliau efe a’u ceris, ac aaeth
>n Fardd; a llyma englynion a gant efe.
Dar a dyfwys ar y clawdd,

Gwedi, gwaedlFrau gwedi ffrawdd ;

Gwael v/rth win ymtrin ymtravvdd.

“ Dar a dyfw'ys ar y gla*',

Gwedi gwaedffrau gwyr a las ;

Gwae ! wr wi th y bo ai cas.

“ Dar a dyfwys ar y tonn,

Gwedi gwaedffrau a briw bronn j j

Gwae ! a gar gwydd amiryfon.

Dar a dyfwys ym meillioii,

A chan a’i bnw ni bi gronn ;

Gwue ! wr vvrtli ei gafaion.

“ Dar a dyfwys ar dir pen
Gailt, ger ymdonn .Yor Hafrert
Gwae ! wr na bai digon hen.

‘‘ Dar a dyfwys yngwynnau,

A thvvrf a thrin a ihraiigau ;

Gw'ae ! a wyl na bo Angau.

Rbobert Tywyjog FJorddmanthai CantP

In Engliffi thus :

“ When Robert, Duke of Normandy, w as
held a prifoner in Cardiff caft’e by Robert
Fitz Hamon, he acquired a knowledge of
the Wellli language; and, feeing tSae
Weilh Bards there on the high feftivals,
he became a Bard ; and was the author of
the following Ida :zus ;

‘‘ Oak that haff grown up on the mound.
Since the blood-ffreamingjiincetlieffaughterj
Woe ! to the war of words at the wine.

Oak that halt grown up in the grafs,
Since the blood-ffreaming of ihofe tloat wei*«
Haiti ;

Woe ! to Man w hen there are that hate him.

Oak that hall growm up on the green.
Since the dreaming of blood and the rending
of hreaffs ftetuion.

Woe ! to him that loves the prefence of Con-

“ Oak that haft grown up amid the trefoil
grafs, [attained to rotundity ;

And, becaufe of thofe that tore tlice, haft not
Woe ! to him that is lu tlie power oi Ins
enemies.

Oak tiiat haft grown upon the grounds
Of the woody promontory fronting the con¬
tending waves of tiic Severn Jen :
W’oel to him that is not old euougti'^.

Oak that haft grown up in the Itorms,
Amid dins, battles, and death;

Woe 1 to him that beludds what is not Death.
’* “ The Jluthor Rohirt Duke of Normandy . ’

I conceive tliat the fentiments of this
little piece are myllerioullv allufive to
the dilirelsful incidents of the unform-

That is, eld enough to die.

Date

^02 InfcyifiiiQfis cit IVLsccIcsfield. — -Oats 7iot to he Jown 7n Autumu^ [NoVd

nare and greatly injured duke’s ftormy
life.

The Severn pa, or Briftol channel,
and the woody pininontory of Penarrh,
are full in view ’(of Cardiff caille, at the
difiance, in a direft line, of no more
than two miles. There are on this pro¬
montory the vediges of an old camp
(Roman, I believe), on one of the binks
or mounds of which, thefe veiTes fup-
pofe the apoftrophized oak to be growing.

I wifh fonte gentlemen m Wales,
converfant with our old MSS, would
inform the pu'dick, through ilte chan¬
nel of vour Magazme, whether they
know' of any other pifcts or fragments
of Welfh poetry by Robert, Duke of
Normandy.

The foregoinc: verfes fuppofe that the
Duke was %pi blind, and that the oak,
the Severn, and the promontory, were
letn by him. Tliis may be confi-
dered as an additional evidence to what
has been adduced by many judicious
writers (amon'^gli them, if 1 rememb' r
well, the learned and ingenious BTnop
of Dromore, in his “ Reliques of An¬
cient Englifh Poetry”), that the eyes of
the duke were not put out, though the
tradition alferts that they
1 hope, for the honour of human nature,
that this tradition afferts a talfeliood.
My Weill) MS. account fays nothing
of ihe<luke’s eyes having been put out.
(See Camden in Glam, and Cardiff ).

If ^his anecdote Ihould be worth your
notice, I will occabonally lend a few
more, not lefs curious, to be preferved
-in your long-living Mag^izine,

Yours, &c. Edward Williams.

Mr. Urban, * 03.

The inclofed inferiptions (plate //.

Jig. 7, 8), mentioned by Camden,
in hi^ additions to Chefiiire, are accu¬
rately reduced from a fac-fimile of the
original engravings on brals in the cha¬
pel or oratory belonging to Earl Rivers,
adjoining, on the South fide, to the pa¬
rochial chapel of Macclesfield.

The fmaller plate contains the copy
of a pardon :

“ I'he pardon for faying of v Pater-nof-
ters, and v Aves, and a Cred*, is xxvi
thoufand yeres and xxvi dayes of pardon ”

The other inlcription runs thus:

‘‘ Orate pro animabus Rogeri Legh et
Flizabeih’ uxoris fuse, qui quidem Rogenis

* This word, though oiniiUAi n Cam¬
den’s account, is perfedf.y legible on the
plate.

obiit iiij° die Novembris, anno Domini
M VC VI. [i. e. 1506]. Elizibeih vero obiit v“
die Odfobris, anno Jdomini mcccclxxxix.
quorum anim.ibus propitietur Oeus.”

The annexed (ImI (Jig. 9) is reckoned
curious for the fingularity of i^s device.
The free grammar-fehool at Macc es-
field was founded by King Edward
[E R] the Sixth, by letters parent, da-
fed April 21, 1553- The name of the
original founder, or principal donor, is
Sir John Percy vale.

Yours, &c. Tho. Molineux,

Mr. Urban,

03.

DO not know that ai^y particular
hardlhips are felt (leep. 608) from
the operation of the ftatute of 28 Plen,
Vin. , for, I believe things in the way
here mentioned are moltiy, if not al¬
ways, aujufied as the a£l of the i uh of
•Georj>e 11. directs, viz. according vo
.the time of incumbency, without any
neceifi.y'of cnnlulcing the fuppofed grie¬
vances in the a£t your correfpondent
mentions. Indeed, where tithes are
taken in kind, which is but feldorn the
cale, generally fpeaking, an incumbenc
may obtain bis benefice a litt'e after
harvefi, and part with it a little before
harveft, in which cafe his family or ex¬
ecutors will be partially a fufferer; but
i cannot fee how this can well be a-
mended ; this part, being entirely even¬
tual, mull of courfe be fubmitted to.
My predeceli'or let his glebe and tithe
to a tenant; when I fettled with the fe-
quellrators, which was in January, his
executors received a proportional part
up to the time of the death; and i do
not know that, by any law or adl what¬
ever, I could have refuied to allow luch
fettiement.

1 fear Agricola’s plan, p. 78 1, of
fowing oats in autumn cannot be adopt¬
ed with any degree of benefit by “ far¬
mers in the North,” as, in all probabi¬
lity, the feed will perifii by the frofi,
which in general is very intenfein thole
parts. Oats are more tender m this re-
fpedl than wheat ; which latter is moft
commonly fown in the autumn ; and to
run the rifk of the lols of a crop in the
hope of a mild winter, which is very
untrequent, will not anfwer the end of
a North-country farm. It may do for
fpeculative gentiemen-farmers, as it will
latisfy their curiolity without damaging
their pocket- much. I ADeLiNG"^.

^ We ihall be much obliged by the Iketch
this gentleman promiles us. Edit.

Mr.

^794*] Ordinations cf Scotch Ep'ifcopalians in England Invalid, 983

Mr. Urban, Odi. 24.

N reply to your Clerical Querill (p.
787), allow me to introd'<ce a few
ohfervations. When Bifliop L. ordain¬
ed him a prieft, in order that he might
officiate in a congregation of Epifcopa-
lians in Scotland, and in conlequence
of a nomination from the trianagers of
their chapel, he certainly ordained him
without a legal title \ for, nothing can
he a legal title but wliat the Idws of
England conftitute to be fo. A legal
title is the prel’cntation to Tome vacant ,
benefice or curacy within the diocefe or
jurirdicfion of the bifficp to whom ap-
plicaMon is made for holy orders ; or, it
is the being an aftual Fe'low', or Con¬
ti u6V. of forae college in either of our
E glifli un iverhties ; or, the being an
independent INlafler of Arts, of five
ve«rs handing, rcbdcnt in one of them.
Whaievtr Bifiiof) L then thought of
the matter, I e d-iubtid's admitted the
CFjerifI to priellhood upon an ilieg'il,
uiiecclefian 'C -1, atid invalid title, and
Items, indeed, as the judiicious and
well-pr’.ncipUd Bifiiop Uorfley exprtfies
himk-lf. not tu Itave kno'.vn “ what he
was doing ,” tlo- b Omos of England
having no more jurildiftlon in, or ec>
clcfiaflicai ,coun; x (;n with, Scot'and,
than the b;fli .>ps *he Uu.ted Stares of
Amti .ca. Fur the credit of our epifco-
pal bench, there is eveiy reafon to hope
that no Englifli bidiop will again ordain
a perfon upon fo irregular and uncano-
n'.cal a title, not only becauf'e it might
render him liable to a lubfequcnt ptcu-
r.iary penalty, but alio, and principally,
becaulc it would be impropetly interfe¬
ring in a country where he can have no
ecclefiaftical jiirifdi£tion, and wheie
there is a col e^e of b (Imps, who,
though not now eflablilhcd, )et
have received, in an eccltfiiliical point
of view, as regular and canon’c.al a
conftcraiion to their high and lacred of¬
fice as tlie Atchblfhop of Canteibury
himfeif.

I do not apprehend that, by any ex¬
iting law, the- Querift can demand a
continuance of laiary frotn his congre¬
gation, whatever lemedy he may have
againft thole per Tons, if they be yet
alive, who a£lually figned his nomina¬
tion, “ offering a fpcvihc fum as a la¬
iary and, if no remedy be to be had
againft them, which I am inc'ined to
think will be the cale, he h-^s, it is reiik-
ionable to fuppole, the fune claim,
whatever that be, upon the executors of
the deceafed biftiop as he would have

had had he been ordained without fuch

nomination.

The Qj-ierift then goes on to ftate a
conffcquence that is to lefult from a re-
fufal on the part of our bifliops to ordain
for Scotland. He obferves that, in fucli
cafe, “ the Englifii Liturgy muft in a
few years be toiallv anniliilared in Scot¬
land j” 'and that “the Legiilature, by
their different a£i» upon the fubje^f,
muft ha'^e been only impofing upon the
members of that communion in encou¬
raging them to build and endow cha¬
pels.” I ftiould be glad to know' what
a£ls the BritiOr Leg fiature have paffed
to encourage the building and endowing
of chapels m Scotland for Englifli-or-
dained clergymen. I confefs, 1 know of
r.o^jr. One might be led too to luppofe,
from the language of the Querift, that
the Englifh Liturgy in Scotland was
ufed only bv the Englilh-ordained
clergy ; whereas- the fa£l is direft'y
othervv’ife. There is not one of the '
Scorch prelates, nor one of their fubpr-
dinate cler-gy, who does .not regularly
and coiiftantlv ufe tlie Englilh L.turgy,
and p ofefs -airo a ftn6l adherence to her
Ciceds. The onlv variaiion througti
the whole of their liturgical fervices is
in the Communion-ofHce. The Scotch
bifhops have framed an office that va¬
ries in a few nor eftentiai particulats
from that now in ule in the Ciiurch of
England, and comes neater to the office
ufed here in the reign of King Edwaid
the Sixth, and to tnat framed for Scot¬
land by our Archbiihnp Laud; and
there are excellen. lira.rgical writers and
ritualilts wiio would maintain, that the
Scotch office conforms itielf nioieclofe-
ly to thole of the primi'ivc Church than
our own docs. To is Communion office
the Scutcii billiops prefer but they do
not rejlrici ttieir clergy from uftng that
of the Church of England, The Scotch
prelates would not refule in Engtnnd to
join in rise Engliffi communion office ;
and the wiiter or this has adtually ad-
rniniftered ihe Holy Sacramenc in his
own parilh clturch to the truly venera¬
ble and excellent Scotch Primus Epijeo-
poritm-, to which he adds, that, it he
weie in Scotland, he could entertain no
Lrufde againll receiving, or even admi-
niftering, the holy elements according
to the Scotch ritual.

The Querift allures you, Mr. Urban,
that *■ tne Englifh Epilcopa ians will
never confent to S^ubrace the unlcrtptu-
ral ufages ot the Scotch Epilcopalians.”
Whttt aie ihufe unicrip'ura! ufages.? [

know

9^4 TV’arton’’s Fourth Volume of Hlftory of Enollfli Poetry? [Nov.

know of none in their Church ; and I
believe there is none. Polbbly fornc'
of them may mix a little water with the
wine in the Holy Sacrarnent; but, if
they do. it is more than their Commu¬
nion office dire^s to be done ; and,
though it would be a difficult matter to
prove this ufage unfcriptural, yet it
would be none to prove it very pri¬
mitive.

Epifcopalians in Scotland, who re-
fufe to be -connefted with the Scotch
biffiops, ar-e indeed, as the Qiierilt ob-
I'erves, in a fituation very hngular,
perfe6lly unkjue in ece'ehaftical hifto-
fy for, they are members of a body,
which necelTarlly implies the exiftence
of a head, and yet they neither have
nor can have a bead. What then in
their cafe is to be done ? Ttte only con-
fiilent plan\which they can fuliow is, to
contemplate the genuine principles of
ecclefiaftical polity, deducible from the
Word of God, and, its befl comment in
fuch matters, the known praftice of the
primitive Church j to reflerSt upon the
evil confecuences attending the fni of
fchiim ; and to re/pe6i:, and cordially
unite with, the orthodox and venerable
jemnant of the old Epifcopal Church
of Scotland, whofe prelates and clergy,
it may fafeiy be faid, are as faithful to
their God and Saviour,” and as loyal
to King George, as any perfons within
his Majefty’s dominions.

A London Rector.

Mr. Urban, Ot^. 22.

■'\?’’OUR Dublin rorrefpondfcnt, p.

X 805, is dciirous to attract the at¬
tention of Dr. Warton towards a novel
and curious dejideraium in literature. 1
believe there are few lovers of the belles
iettrtj who would not gladly welcome
any produ6lion from the pen of that
erudite and elegant (cholar^ nor rniglit
we ealtly be able to point out a perlon
better qualified to execute the talk here
propofed. But, before futh a work
could be ferioofly engaged in, has not
the pubiick an antecedent claim on that
gentleman to ccmplcte the hiflory of
our national poetry, in deference to its
growing expe^iations, in dilcharge of a
p.-fthurtious truft, and in teflimcny of a
due regard to the reputation of his late
excellent brother ? Thirteen years have
nearly elapfed fince the third volume
made its appearance; but it has been
alvvavs unde; Hood that M r . Warton had
done much low-uds preparing a jourih ;
and it is wett known (alter his dtiniieiii

1790) that all his MSS. and printed
books became the property of his learn¬
ed relation. Mav we nor then be al¬
lowed rerpetff fully to er>quiie to what
unpropitious caufe we are to impute this
wearifome delay ? And mav I not flat¬
ter myfelf that Dr. W. wii! contiefeend
to fatisfy the .enquiry, as it proceeds
iblely from an anxious wifla to fee that
admirable and interefling hiftory con-
dubled to its completion with the fame
luminous diferimination and compre*
henfive refearch that it has hitherto been
lo ably carried on.

The mofl; obvious, andj at the fame
time, moft remediable defe6f, in the vo¬
lumes already publifeed, appears to be
a want of patticular reference to the
multifarious matter they contain ; which,
the general Contents of each Seifion
very imperfedlly iupplies. I would,
therefore, humbly recommend to its fu¬
ture editor, at the ciofe of vol. IV. that
a copious Index of proper names, &c.
fhould be given to that and the former
volumes, which may ferve to point out
the numerous memoranda of authors on
their works, biographical and critical,
as well in the notes as tixt. K. S.

Mr. Urban, Gray’s-Jnn^ OdI. 1 S.

T T has occLiired to me that, if the lo-
vers of Antiquity anti Topography
would, in their fummer excurfions, de¬
vote a little vacant time to ihe deferip-
lion of the pariffies they vific, in the
courfe of a few years much laboiu*
would be faved to the County Hifioiian,
and nofmaii portKui cd" benefit be deri¬
ved by the publiek at large. Impreffed
with this idea, i fend you-ihe inclofed*
which 1 collebUd upon the fpot during
a vifit to a friend for a few days.

Yours, &c. . J. Caley.

The parifh of Yately, in the county
of Hants, and bundled of Ciundall, is
exTenfive, confitiing of three tithings,
‘ivx Hawley, Cove, and the inner
tithmg. There is only one manor,
which is called the manor of Hall Place,
over which the manor of Ciundal 1*
paramount. It belongs to the dean and
chapter of Wincheller; but, under that
body, has for feme time pall been held
by the family of Wyndham ; the lafl of
whom was Hillicr Wadhain Wyndham,
cfq, who died five years ago. He was
a batchelor, and of a fin^uiar turn of
mind, being extremely leferved 5 and
from the year 1780 (the time of the
riots), when he happened to be in Lon¬
don, until he diti, was never known to

[■794*] ^topographical Defcrlptlon of Yately, Hants.

yf) out in his carriage. His inteieft in
[his eftate devolved at his deceai'e to the
Hon. James Everard Arundel, who
nianitd his only fifler.

The manor houfe, fituated near the
church, is an antient edifice, apparently
as old as the reign of Elizabeth or James
the Firft. It is now let as a farm to
Mr. Richard Goodchiid. There were
in this houfe, at the time of Mr.Wynd-
ham’s deceafe, many pi61ures, mod of
them family ones, and alfo a confidera-
ble library of books and MSS, great
part of which tvere probably colledled
by Mr. W’s father, who, befides his
other attainments, was a good mecha-
jitick, and left proofs of his fkill in that
way by a curious dial in the garden,
which, with a large houfe-clock, ftill
preferved, are faid to harve been of his
own making.

The family of Diggle are in poffellion
of the next heft eftate in the parifh, and
have a handfome manfion, called CaU
cott houfe, now, together with their
whole eftate in this parilh, to be fold.
A good houfe here is inhabited by Geo.
Parker, efq. ; it belongs to Mr. Terry.

A farm- houfe in this tithing is faid
to have been in former times the refi-
dence of Lord Montegle j but of this
there is no internal evidence. It is a
fmatl old building, handing upon a hill,
with a good profpeft.

In Hawley tithing, at a place called
Mioley VVarrep, is a laige old-fafhion-
ed houfe, which, according to tradition,
was the refulence of that daring perfon
Blood, who attempted to fteal the crown
in the reign of Charles the Second.

The greateft part of the parifh is un-
inclofed, the foil chiefly a black gra*
veily fand, abounding with fprings. All
the eftates ate copyhold excepting a few
acres belonging to Mr. Diggle.

The church confifts of a nave, South
aile, wooden tower and fpire, as alfo a
chancel and porch ; but there is nothing
remarkable in the outfide of the build¬
ing. At the entrance of the church¬
yard is an odd kind of wooden gate
with a pulley and rope j the gate has
upon it the date 1625.

There are in the church thefe monu¬
ments :

Chancel. — On the floor is abrafs, with
the figuie of a woman with a ruff and
curious head dreis. Over her head :

Arms effaced.

Edw ARDo Orm8 SB Y, ptimo . . , , .
peperit filios 4, et filias

l^ENT. Mag. November ^ 1794*

985

Ermine, three roundels impaling....

‘‘Anorf.^ Smythe, fecundo M . . .
peperit hlios 3, Sc filias 3.”

Underneath is this infeription :

Hie fepulta jacet Elizabetha, quoiv
da Roberti Morfietti, armigeri, tilia, que
D’no migravit 10 cal. Septembris, anno fa-
lutis humanae mccccc Lxxviij°.”

A mural monument of plain black
and white marble witli an urn over it. ^

On a bend cotifed three fufils Ermine,'
impaling a feffe between three crefeents.
Memorise facrum.

Herelyeththebody of Sir Rich aRb Ryves,
knight, fberiff and alderman of London,
who was born in the county of Dorfetr, de-
feended of an ancient and gentile family of
that name in the faid county. He married
Joyce, the daughter of Flenry Lee, of Lon¬
don, merchant ; the piety of which relidt
lady hath eredfed this monument to the me¬
mory of her dear deceafed hufband, intend¬
ing, when fhe fhall lay dowm her earthly
tabernacle, to make her bed in the fame
grave, there to reft with him in hope of a
joyful refurredlion. He departed this life
in the 60 yeare of his age, Aug. 23, in the
year of the incarnation of our Saviour Chrift;
Jefus, 1671.”

Oil a flat ftone on the floor:

“ Here lyeth the body of John Helyar,
efq. fecund Ion of William Helyar, efq. of
Coker, in the county of Somerfet, by Ra-r
chei, c0-heirefs of Sir Hugh VVyndham, of
Fillerdon, in tlie county of Dorfet, kn'ght.,
He had two wives ; the firft, Elizabeth, IoIq
heirefs of Philibert Cogan, of Chard, in the
county of Somerfet, efq. ; his fecond wife
was Chriftian, daughter and heirefs of John
Ryves, of Kenfington, in the county of
Middlefex, efq. by Chriftian, daughter of
William Helyar, of Coker, efq. Elizabeth,
his hrft wife, died at Cliard, and was bu¬
ried, leaving iffue by him one child, Eliza¬
beth, wife of Thomas Wyndham, efq,
Cliriftian, his fecond wife, died without if¬
fue, and lies buried in this chancel. He diM
Dec. 26, 1721. Chriftian died March i3,
1719.’'

riie arms over this ftone are a crofs
fleury between four muMtts, Helyar^
with an elcocheon of pretence, three
leaves, Cogan, and impaling Ryves as
before.

Oil the floor is another ftone ;

“ Here lyelh the body of Thomas VVvnd-
efq. of Hawkchrircii, in the county of
Dorfet. He married Elizabeth Helyar,
daughter and foie lieirefs of John Helyar,
eiq. of this parilh. He left behind him two
children, one fon and one daughter^ who hi
lima loft a truly valuable *;id indulgent fa-

ther

9^6 Remark on a Pajfage In Mr, Gibbon. — Mrs. Sympfon. [Nov,

tfcer as well as a moft fincere and real
iiiend. He died Ume 31, 1763, aged 66.”

Arms : Wyndham with an el’cocheon
of pretence, Ryves as before.

Another is infcribed ;

Here lyeth the body of H el yar Wad-
ham WyndhavvI, efq. fon and heir of
Thomas and Elizabeth W. He died Feb.
13, 1789, aged 64.”

There is al(o ai mural monument to
'Walter Ph illips, late of this paiilh,
gent, who died 1715, set. 80.

Arms : Or, on a chevron Sable, three
birds heads erafed Argent. Crefcent
for difference impaling, Arg. two bars,
for Goodwin.

In the body of the church are thefe
bralfes on the floor :

1. A man and his wife.

‘‘ Pray for the foules of Will'm Ryggs,
snd Tomasyn, hys wyf; the' whiche
Will’m deceffede the xxix clsy of Augulb,
ye yer of or Lord mvcxiii, on whofe foule
J'hu have m'ci.”

At the bottom 4 funs and. 7 daughters.

2. A man habited in a robe.

Praye for thefoule of Richard Galr,
w'hich dyed the yer of o’r Lord MvCxiir*
,On whofe foule J’hu have m’cy.”

3. Man and woman; the head-drefs
of the latter with long lappets, and fhe
has a girdle hanging down.

Praye for the foules of William
Lawerd, and Agnes, his wyfe, the which
■William d*?ceffeJ the xvi day of Auguft, the
yere of our Lord God mv'^&xxii. On
whofe foules J’hu have mercy. Amen.”
Underneath — mother and 9 children.

4. Another brafs, infcription torn
off; an aged man in a clofe garment,
with a ruff.

In the church are various mural mo¬
numents and hatchments of the family
«f Diggle, all of them modern. The
arms are. Gules, a chevion berween
three daggers blades Argent, ff.frs Or.
Creft, a boar’s head eraled proper.

There is likewife a hatchment, Quar¬
terly, i and 4 Argent, 2 and 3 Gules,
a fietOr; over all a fefs Azure, for
Norris \ a gentleman of which nsime in¬
herits a good houle in Hawley tithing,
now inhabited by Mrs.'Digby, widow
of the Dean of Durham.

The chu.'^ch, which is only a curacy,
has five bells, thus infcribed :

I [No date]. Sandta Katarina, ora
pro nnbis.

2. 1577. Love the Lord God .

3 1613. William Yare made me.

4. 1617. RE, Reprove me nor, Lord,
in thy w rat be. .

5. jSiy. R£. Our hope is in the Lord,

The imptopriator of the great tithes
is John Limbery, efq. J. C.

Mr. Urban, Nov 6.

"^C^OU will, 1 apprehend, oblige many
A. of your readers by giving them the
following paffage from the fourth vo¬
lume of Mr. Gibbon’s “Hiftoryofthe
Decline and Fall of the Roman Em¬
pire,” p. 568 :

“ A fpecimen of the art and malice of the
people is preferved in the Greek Anthology
(1. II. c. 15. p. 188, ed. Wechelii), although
the "ivas unknown to the Editor Bro-

daus. The namelefs Epigrammatift raifes a
tolerable pun by confounding the Epifcopal
falutation of Peace be to all ! with the genuine
or corrupted name of the Bifhop’s concubine.
EtPnvY\ ETTiO-KOToj siTTEv E7r£^9wv*

n<y$ ^vydloiLwcia-iv fj-ovo^ evJov
But I have another objeft in fending
the above; and that is, to let your
readers fee, from Brodaus' note on the
epigram, how little they can rely on
Mr. Gibbon’s affertions. eittiv

(ut Judaei) pax tibi, pax vobis ; srat
aiilem hitic nomine Ep^fcopi ancilla aut
uxor etfn'jyi. (Antholog. ed. Bafil. 1549#
p. 180 )

Ever while you live, Mr. Urban,
fufpeft the authority of a man who
publifhes fix volumes in quarto. “ If
he had compofed 10,000 volumes, as
many errors would be a charitable al¬
lowance,^’ as Mr. Gibbon fays (vol,
IV. p. 583) of Theodore of Mop-
fueftia. R. Duff.

Mr. Urban, Nots 6.

N your vol. LXIII. p. 301, F. S.
mentions a bequeft of Mrs. Mary
Sympfon, of Canierburv, to Merton.
College, Oxford. In this is a ftrangc
miflake. John Sympfon, hufband of
this Mary, is mentioned as dying in
174S ; and his mother, Elizabeth, a*
dying 1786, aged 26. Now this makes
the Ion to die 12 years before bis mo¬
ther was bopn. This John was great
grandfon of John S. by Catharine,
daughter of Griffin Vaughan, reiSlor of
Afhced, in Surrey (by Judith, lifter of
Robert King, reclor of Tilefton, in
Ciielhire), brother of Richaicl V. of
Carnarvon (hire, bifiiop of London, and
great great grandfon of Nicholas S. by
Mary Roke. Can your correfpondenc
F. S. inform me of any particulars of
this family (faid to be from Yorklhire)
earlier than the beforementioned Ni¬
cholas, or of what family his wife Mary
Roke was ?

Can

1794«] Oxonians who were TranJJaton of the Bible.

Can any of your readers, verftd in
Italian literature, inform me whether
the poems of Lydio Catto, of Ravenna,
have been publiflied? ^'hey feem
chiefly to be addrcfled to a favouiite
lidy, under the name of Lydia, and to
]LtonardLauretanus, governor of Padua.

Matthew KiiArp.

Mr. Urban, OSi. 15.

IN p. 814, 2E. V. fays, “ Though Dr.

John Aglionby is f^aid to have had a
conflderabie hand in the tranflaiion of
the Bible, 1604, his name does nor oc¬
cur in et.her of the Oxford dalles fpe-
cified in Lewis’s Hiftory.” On look¬
ing, however, into the Oxford li flo-
rian’s Antiquities, Aglionby’s name
S^ppears as one of the tranllators. In p.
282 of the fecond volume of A. Wood’s
Htftory and Antiquities of the Univer-
fify of Oxford, inEnglilh, now printing
there by Mr. Gutch, is the following
account, relating to the perfons appoint¬
ed from Oxford for that national work ;
which may be acceptable to your read¬
ers, it being fliort and uripub.ilhed, this
lall volume of the Hiftory being only
ready for the fubfcribers, as the index
is yet wanting.

Antjquarius Oxon.

C Dom. 1 604.

■ 2 2 Jacobi.

It maybe remembered, that the beft mat¬
ter produced by Hampton Court Conference
■was the refokuion of King James for a new
tranflation of the Bible ; which intent was
now ettedually followed, and the tranllators,
being 47 in number, and divided in fix com¬
panies, did the work fooner than was ima¬
gined. Two companies were from Weft-
rainller, two from Oxford, and as many froar
Cambridge. The names of Ihofe of this uni-
verfity were,

I" John Harding of Magdalen.

John Raynolds, prefident of ChriH
Church.

redlor^

Exeter

Lincoln.

Tho. Holland f,

Richard Kilby it.

Miles Smyth, tome time of Brazen-
[_ Nofe§.

Richard Brett, Bachelor of Divinity,
of Lincoln.

Rich. Fairclough,fometimeofNew.

* Harclyng, D. I>. fellow of Magda¬

len College, Regius profeffor of Hebrew,
and af'erwards prefident of his college.]
f \Thctnas Holland was alfo Regius pro-
fclfor of divinity .]

+ [^Rickard Kilby w'as afterward Regius
profellbr of Hebrew.]

§ [Mila Smith was afterward biihop of
.GlouceRer. Our autko’V in his Ath. Oxon,

All whicli were to tranllate the four
greater Prophets, with the Lamentations,
and the tw’dve leifer.

George Abbot, dean of Wincheller,
and mafter of Univerfity Colhge,
£afterv\'ard aichbifliop of Canter¬
bury].

Giles 1 liompfon, dean of Windsor,
fome time [fellow] of All Souls Col¬
lege, [and afterward bifhop of Glou-
cefter.]

John Harman, warden of Winchef-
ler, fome time [fellow] of New
College, [and Regius profellbr of
Gredc.]

John Aglionby, principal of Ed.mund
Hall.

John Perin, Greek reader, fellow of
St. John’s College, [and canon of
Chrift Churcli in 1704.]

Leonard Hutten, c.inoa of Chrift
Church.

Which fix laft, with others, as it is re¬
ported (of which w'cre Dr. Thomas Ravir,'
dean of Chrift Church, and chiefly Sir Henry
Savile, warden of Merton College, ) w'ere to
tranllate the four Gofpels, Adis of the Apof*
ties, and Apocalypfe ; and all, for their hot¬
ter information, had the copies of fuch Bibles
that could be found in the public, or thofe
libraries belonging to colleges. Which great
work being finiflied,foon after, divers grave
Divines in the univerfity, not employed in
tranflating, were afligneJ by the Vice-chan¬
cellor (upon a conference had wdth the heads
of honfes) to be overfeers of the tranflacionsj
as well of Hebrew as of Greek. Tlie faid
tranflators had recotirfe, once a week, to Df.
Raynolds his lodgings, in Corpus Chrifti
College ; and there, it Is faid, perfedled the
W’oi k, notwithftanding the faid Dodlor, w'ho
had the chief hand in it, was all the whil*
forely afllidled with the gout.

Mr. Urban, OSi. iS.

I AM happy to have it in my power tt>
announce to you, and your Englifh^
readers, the adoption in this countrv of
what mull he confidered, in the prefenc

vol. I. c. 416, fays, After the tallc of tranf-
Lition was finiflied by the whole number, it
was railed by a dozen feledled from them,
and at length referred to the final exarriiiia-
tion of Bilfon bifliop of Winron ; and this
M. Smith, who, with the reft of the twelve,
are £1} led, in tlie Hiftory of the Synwd of
Dart, “ vere eximii et ab initio in toto hoc
opere verfatifiimi,” as having concluded that
worthy labour. All being ended, this ex¬
cellent perfon, M. Smith, w'as commanded'
to write a preface, which being by him done,'
it was made public, and is the lame that is
now extant in our Church Bible, the origi¬
nal whereof is, if I am nut miftaken, ia the
Oxonian Vatican.”]

critical

The Insotne of finall Livings Is improved in Scotland. [KcV»

critical fituation of our aflairs, a mofl;
wife and prudent meafure in Govern¬
ment ; I mean the fchenie of a general
augmentation of clergymen’s faiarits in
Scotland. I have been credibly inform¬
ed, that a confiderable number of livings
have lately received an increafe of lli-
pend ; and that it is the determination of
the Barons of Exchequer, under whofe
dire£lion this bufinefsis cordu6\ed, that
every clergyman in Scotland, of the Efta-
blifhed Church, {hall have a clear annual
falarv of lool. or guineas, independent
of his houfe, garden, and glebe. As
this meafure has taken place contrary,
as far as I can learn, to a regulation for¬
merly made, and, till now, uniformly
peffevered in, refpefting this matter,
which was, that livings of (uch a deter¬
minate value, that had received an aug¬
mentation, fliould not, within a certain
definite number of yeais, be again aug¬
mented j 1 cannot but think that the
Legiflature have fallen upon this fcheme
to Ingia iate themfeives with the Scotch
Clergy, and make them more zealous in
the difeharge of their duty. When I re-
moreover, that a confiderable num¬
ber of King’s Chaplains in Scotland have
been lately added to the lid, I am the
more confirmed in this opinion; and,
confidering the leveling principles of
the Efiabhlhed Church of Scotland, I
tannot refufe my hearty approbation of
this wife precaution @f our Governors.

Mr. Urban, I beg to call the atten¬
tion of vou and your readeis to the fitu-
ation of the poor Clergy in England,
Vicars as well as Curates, whofe livings,
many of them at Icaft, Icaicely amount
to haif the lum wliich has been thought
inlufheient for the maintenance of a
Scotch clergyman. Why, Mr. Urban,
fuch' a degrading dlftinflion ? Does the
prefent fituaiion of the two countries,
with regard to peace and good order, af¬
ford any rcafon to authorize fuch a gla¬
ring partiality ? Oj, does it appear by
the behaviour of the people committed
to tliek charge, that the Clergy of the
Chuicb of England have beeri more re-
mifs in their duty than their brethren of
tbe Scotch Church on this fide the
Tweed ? Reflefit only for a moment what
mud iwi the feel’ngs of the poor Curates
on this occafimi, tliole on the Borders
tfpeciany, all the way fiom Berwick to
Solway Firth, who ar£|>la{;td juft oppo-
bte to t-heir inethreu in Scotland, and
have uail'y cppoi tunities ot con veiling
fru-;ther, and c .rtlpaimg fituations : that
•ol il.e'ime is comloriab'h? and eafy, while

the other is poor and miferable in the
extreme, and often paid witii grudging :
the claims of the one are liftened to and
redrelTed, while the petitions of the other
have been hitherto rejefted and defpifed.
But 1 mean not to exaggerate matters,
and fnould be forty indeed to fay any
thing inflammatory.

Mr. Urban, I would recommend this
as a very proper time for the poor Cler¬
gy in England to folicit the interference
of Parliament in their behalf. A plain
ftatement of their fituation, with a mo-
deft petition for relief in any way Go¬
vernment may think proper to grant it,
cannot fail, I think, at prefent of meet¬
ing with fuccefs. The gentlemen who
met feme years ago at Prefton, in Lan-
cafliire, upon this very bufinefs, and
who were difeouraged merely upon the
refufal of Bp. Watfon to intereft himfel-f
in their favour, are, in my opinion, for
reafons 1 need not here mention, the
propereft perfons to make another at¬
tempt. A few could concluft the bufi¬
nefs; and fublcription -papers, explana¬
tory of the fcheme, could be eofily diffe-
minated tiirough the country for the fig-
natures of the patties concerned. By
this means the expence and inconveni¬
ence of a long journey would be avoided.
I pretend to give nothing more than a
hint, Mr. Urban; and I fhall add no
more, but that I fhall rejoice greatly to
bear that fuch a juft, humane, and po¬
litic p’an is likely to he Ipeedilv carried
into execution. Ca ledoniensi s.

Mr. Urban, O.,?. ay.

HOPE this will arrive in time for
inferrion in your next; this is the
ieafon for planting fuch vegetables; and,
polfibly, the receipt may be thought
worth the trial. William Crop.

Agreeing perfectly with Bourtonienfis
(p. So6), that it would be a nioft ufeful
difeovery to find out a method of de-
ftroying tbe garden-grub, give me leave
to offer a leceipt, which, though perhaps
it may not be wholly effe£tual, will, I
doubt not, tend much to the reduiftioa
of that pernicious infe6t. Previous to
my planting-out my lettuces for the
Autumn and Spring ufe, I laid a cover¬
ing of flacked iime-rubbifli, tolerably
thick, about two inches wiihin the fur-
face of the beds, and have the pleafurc
to fee my plants healthy and thriving,
fcarceiy any being hurt by the grub.
In other beds, where I laid but a imall
quantity, I find feveral eaten oft'; fo
iliac 1 doubt not, where the- lime is laid

1794*] GdrJ^n Gruh^Mr. Melmotb, and his PuhdcQUovs.

half an inch thick, the infe£l above-
iT.eatiooed will not be found. I am in¬
duced to beJicve they are bred in the
dung which is carried into the garden,
a«, on (earthing round a rocket plant,
th^ leaves of which lay upen the ground,
as if cut ofT by feiffors, 1 found, clofe to
t-he ftem, about an inch deep, a very
large grub; and, a little lower, in a
lump of dung, there were, on breaking
it, thoufands of fmail ones. 1 think it
not unlikely, were a quantity of flacked
iime mixed well with the drefTing pre¬
vious to its being brought into the gar¬
den, that it might have a good effeft.
As it is now the fea(on of the year for
l^lanting out lettuces and other vegeta¬
bles, for the enfuing Spring ufe, I
would ad vile fuel) of your correfpon-
dents as have not found out a better
receipt, to give the lirr.e a trial ; which
Will, I doubt not, be found to anfvver
very well : and [ho(e that have, by ex -
perience, dilcovered a better method of
tleflroying the grub, will trblige the
publick much by communicating it, and
none more than W.C.

Mr. Urban, 0:1. 7.9.

AS I am not lefs an admifei cl 'he
woiks of Mr. Melntotii ilian every
reader of tafle rnufl be; I wifii to fatisfv

' j

die inquiries of your correlpondcnt
who, p. 824, exprefl'cs a wiflt to be ;n-
formed ot (ome particulars of the life
and Writings of that accompiilhed feho-
lar. Mr. Melmoth is ftili living at
'Bath, in fuM poUelbon of his facu cies,
at the advanced age of 84; and, as a
proof of it, has very lately favoured the
juerary world with a pamphltt, wntten
with h s ultial dailic elegance, being a
vindicat;(!jn (and a nrioft lucceisful one),
of his opinion iefpe61ing the conduit
-of Pliny towards the Chriftiani, in an-
Iwer to an attack made -upon it by the
f earned Mr Bryant, it would be in¬
delicate, perhaps, to detail particulars
of the life of any private gentleman (lill
in being; for, though- an author may
l>e confidcied as a public chrtidtTlcr, the
prublick have nothing to do but with lus
works. Suffice it, therefore, to remaik,
JO general, that (le is not leis diHin-
guifht'd for integriiy of life than for
j-olite manners and elegant tahe. i
will add the fimple fa<^, that he is the
eldtO; (on of that great (au vtr and good
man, William Melmoth, Ei’q. bttfch.er
of Lincoln’s Irn, who died iti 1743,
leaving that valuable ltg.acy to poltc-
jhy, Tbs great Importance cf a Uc-

ligious Life a tra^ which has gqn®
through 27 editions, mod of them re¬
printed under the infpe^fion of Mr.-
Melmoth, and of which (according to
the lefiimcny of the Editor of the B o-
graphical Anecdotes of your refpe^labite
prcdeceflbr and friend Mr. Bowyer)
above joo,ooo copies have been fold
fince the author’s deceafe. The woik-s
of Mr. Melmoth are in every body’s
hands, and are (o well known that it
wou'd be fcarcely necefl'ary to give a.
lid of them, were it not that, by the af-
I'umption of his name, (bme very tridin^
performances have enjoyed an epheme¬
ral importance which did not belong to
them or to their author, who impu¬
dently enough took up a nearly fimilar
name, with ihc innocent view-, perhaps.,
of raifmg the price, rather than the re¬
putation, of his works.

The fo lowing catalogue of Mr. Mel-
moth’s writings, is, I believe, exa/d :

Si r T hom as F i tz ofboi n t’s Le-itei s , 8 v©..

Pliny’s Letters, t vols. Bi’o.

Cicero’s Epiltolsad Famiiiares., 3 .tvoJs*

8 VO,

Cicero on Fiicnddsip and Old Age.,
with ample noie-s, 2 vols. 8vn.

Except the pamphlet above-metuioa-
ed, and a few fugitive poenis.,and papeps
(c-itreied amivng the Mi fcellanics of the
dav, Mr. M. has not, as far as 1 know„
been concerned in asay other pubJicattcaQ.

And now, Mr. Urban , one word moue
upon an at tide in your Obituary
September, p. 862; a very intereflin^g
part of your woik, inalnmch as it may
be deemrtl iuhonca!, and is, 00 thast
account, more peculiar’y fubjeif to chse
ligid rules of truth. Ycu have, jnatU
vcicently 1 make no doubt, inftr'ed m
your account of the deati) of htobcl-
pierre tli.ei'e words: ‘‘At Pans, age.4l
35, urdcr the guillotine, ’^eith near 7*3
of his pririy, members oj the Cmeaenthnp^
&c. I he fadt Pi, the only members of
tfie Convcniion who (jfiertd with Iv.o-
befpierre weie C'Uithou and St. J
the accompl'ces in his cruelty and am-
bition. The rriv-cribcr-s of the luuHicii-
pality of Paris wsre indeed acculed
his abettors, Imt were all of rhern, i
think, except tutcor tl.ree, .icquitied by
the Revolurionai y i'ribun.il. it fe(.ar.ii
important to U-t this riiwictr right*', ivt-
caufe, if, as tiierc is re,don to (upperie^
and as every good man muff wifh, .a.
noore reafonriblc and moderate (yEcto*
has taken place of the fanguinary mea-
fure-s u'hirti nt-ivpidfd 'he fO’tnci's f:lf

"Is Xl is a u etto y cuj irscivU ; tee P* 5 y— 1 ■rf .

F I c-tt

990

Penjions granted by Charles IL in 1673.

France under the influence of that
monfter Robefpierre, any mifreprefen-
tation that tends to keep alive, unne-
celTirily, that fpirit of rancour and re¬
venge which has been To fatally excited
between both nations, may indifpofi
our minds^ fiill more to what, as Eng-
fifliraen, we mUft regard as the greateil
hlefling, the retarn of peace, and, as
Chnflums, a principal duty, the love of
our enemies, Veridicus.

•Mr.'-IJRB AN, No’V.l,

Perhaps the following paper, in-
dorfed, “ Penfions granted by the
King, 1673/’ which T found among
fome contemporary" MSS, may be ac¬
ceptable to your readers. Eugenio.

RJoneyes frankly given away, fince tlie Be¬
ginning cf May, to Chriftmas 1673, as it
■was taken out of the Signet Office.

A Warrant for the Earle of
Arlington

A Warrant for" the Duke of
Bucks

Given to the Earle of Berk-
Ihire

To the Earle of St. Albans
To the Lord Buckhurlt
To the Privy Purfe
To the Lord Grandifon
To the Earle of Brifloll
To the Earle of Arlingtorr
To the Duke of Lauderdale
To ihe Lady Falmouth
T o (he Karle of Oxford
T o the Marquis ot Worceffer
Gi aivted to the Dutchefle of
CL-aveland and her Ghil-
dteo, out of the WiTie Li¬
cence Office ii,3ocl per
Annum — to the Dutchelfe
ofCieavelandeLleft Daugh¬
ter ; in cafe it could not be
ready paid out of the Ex¬
chequer, then to be charged
out of the remaining Part
ot the Wood of the Forrefl
of Deane

To the Lord Clifford and his
Heires Male Fee Farme
Kent payable out of tlie
Kerch at Exeter 145I. per

£.

loooo o a
2030 D o

3000 o
a5oo o
44,00 o
29000 o
500 o

2120 O

5333 o

1000
I 1289
2000
1200

o
o
o
o
o
o
a
o o
o o

20340 o o

2GOCO a o

'Annum

2610 0 0

To tiie Earle of AngTefey a

I’enhori dureing Life 30C0I.

per Annum by the Trea-

fury Office

21*000 6 0

To Sir Jo. Wnorden

1090 0 0

To Thoiqas Lott

6iOO 0 0

To Sir Rob. Rye

900 0 0

To Mr. Hubert

Qoco 0 0

To Sir Rob. Ilolraes

6<iO 9 4

To Sic ^ohn Diuivorqbe

Cf 0

Default of Sir George Cart¬
wright

A Penfion to the Lady Fal¬
mouth IOC cl. per Annum
A Penfion for Sir Jo. Holmes
50CI. per Annum
A Penfion to the Earle of Ar¬
lington 20ol. per Annum
A Penfion to the Duke of
Monmouth 6000I. per An¬
num

A Penfion to the Lord Obryen
lool. per Annum
A Feafion to Henry Savile
500I per Annum
A Donative to the Earle of
Sr. Albans, in trufl for Sir
Rich. Salbotfonn
A Peiifion to James Hamilton
More to the Earle of Oxon
and his Lady 200L per An¬
num dureing their Lives,
payable out of the Firft
Fruits

[Nor.

16336 O o.
7000 o o
2500 o o
1400 O Q

4:, COO G O

700 O O
3500 o o

14000

2450

20,000 O O

The totall Summe is

79D255 9 4

Nov.

Mr. Urban,

IOW long a period feems to have
elapfed before mankind conceived
the idea of tranfmitting to pofterity an
accurate account of the time of tranfac-
tions which they thought proper to re¬
cord by the ere6tion of public memo¬
rials ! This appears in nothing more
manifeft than in the modes of fepul-
ture and monumental inlcnption adopt¬
ed by various nations. Before the in¬
vention, or in the infancy, of the art of
writing, the yve, or tumulus

which

* It is curious to obferve this fimilarity
between the Heroic and Gotliicages: — and
this, wbetJier we confider it as a proof of
that common origin of the Greeks and
Goths which Junius, Merick Cafaubon, and
otKers, have made fo very probable ; or as
ah inftance of that fimilarity of ufages latq
which nationq in the like ftages of fociety,
naturally fall. We learn, from M. Cheva¬
lier’s iniereffing work on the Troad, that
tlie tumuli of Achilles and Ajax ffill re¬
main ; V hicli. Dr. Chandler fays, is the cafe
with that of Alyattes, father of Ci cefus ;

»j lays Herodotus, jutyal'u^v, t»

Cf cryifUn;, 7>)j. Clio. 93* Among

our Teutonic anceftors, “ fepulchrum cef-
pes ei-ig'it,’" favs Tacitus, de M. G. 27 : and
that tliey are met witli in Thrace, and the
country of the Noguain i'artars (of a com-,
mou flock with the Go hs), appears from
Baron de Tote. Bell (Travels, vol. 1 p.
2q6) finds them all over the great plains of
Xartjjry,; wUsate the auceXlors of the Goths

and

*794’] Progrcjfive Imprcvcmcnt

which pointed out the grave of a chief¬
tain, was neceffarily uninfcribed ; nor,
indeed, had his friends entertained the
wifli of informing their defcendants
fwhen he died, were they in pofleliion
cf any great era, from which to date
their chronological periods ; which ac¬
curate method of afeertaining the time
of events has not even yet pervaded the
mafs of the people; who even now,
when quefiioned as to the time of any
fa6i:, never make ufe of the year of the
Lord, but fay, it happened fo many
years ago. In the polifhed and philo-
fophical ages of Greece and Rome, one
might have expelled the invention of
fome memorable era, by reference to
which, the date of tranfrdlions would
be fettled: yet we find them, even in
their moft folemn inferiptions, content¬
ed with the aukvvard expedient of in¬
troducing the name of the Aichon, or
Conful, during whofe magiflracy the
event happened which they wiflied to
record : and this mode of computation
was, in no inftance, applied to epitaphs;
in which fpecies of irlcriptionthe VIXIT
ANN. XX. DIEE. X. StC. was the uunoft
effort of chronological accuracy. For
modern times was referved the honour
of inventing that minute punffuality of
date which is fo comfortab’e to the true
antiquary ; and our own country may
i.kiftrate the gradual introduction of
this convenient invention, both in in-
flruments of public or private compaft,
and in fepulchral inferiptions. In the
Jortner we may obfeive the invention
working its way, from deeds without
! date, through the narrow fijifts of a
“ Mtlone tunc confiahulario Her?ford^
or a “ Hits tejiibus, iViiCo Camel Gf
I ^ich. di Cbyld tunc bailtnjis Salopto’”
till it becomes fomewhat developed in
the “ Anno resent regis Henrici fail regis
^ ^ubannis v^cejimo” or “ regis Edxvardi
! terlii fojl conqueJiumP’ and finally fixed
1 in its minute exaCinefs of “ the 3<^ day
1 of Sept, tn the year 1794, arid ibe
I year cf the re'gn of our jO'veteign lordf
I &c. In the /<2//rr, the like gradual pro-
: gtefiion may be traced from the rude
I barrow, or feigned pillar, to the crols,

I and Pelafgi feena to have migrated ; and
' Virgil gives it as a note of great antiquity,

° _ _ fait ingens, monte fub alto,

Re-isDercenniteirenoexaggere bufiura.

' ' "" iEn. II.

! So that Ifidore is fully juftified in treating it
i as a general cnilom. “Apud majores po-
! tentes^'aut fub montibus, aut in montibus, fe-
i ptliuntur.’’ Apud Maiilet, Foiliiciu Ant. I.

i a-i-

of Sepulchral Infcrtpiiort, 99^

plain or figured, till it fl.'-nggles for no¬
tice in the “ Hie intumulatur Johannes
quondam dominus de Trikinghamf' and
the “ Sit e Water Ber gf ici, De fa ahne
Dens tit merci f and becomes uhimattly
fettled in ;an “ He departed ibis life be-
tnveen the hours of 11 and 12, in th$
night of Tuefday ibe i^ib 6J Augvjiy in
the year of our Lord” &c.

Thefe reflections ware occafioned by
the fight of a fepulchral done engraved
in your laft Magazine. Pailing through.
Shrevvfoury, in the courfe of a late tour
into Wales, I w'as attraCfed by the an¬
tique appearance of the little church of
St. Giles (which, like very many others,
dedicated to the fame faint, in different
parts of Great Britain, is, I know not
why, fituated at the extremity of the
town,) to enter it. Among many other
croffes, of very rude workman Oi ip, and
utterly uninfcribed, with which tlie
floor was fi rewed, that which I allude
to particularly engaged my attention;
its dos'd^ane fliape, which your draughtf-
man has omitted, feemed to point our a
c nfiderable antiquity ; and its fix (not
fe^jeUy which your plate reprefents) ini¬
tial letters, covering only a fmall por¬
tion of tlie margin, led my imagination
to fix upon it as one of the earlielf ef¬
forts at epitaph ; the conneciing link (to
fpeak With the naturalifts) between the
uninfcribed crofs and the infeription in
woids at length filling the whole bor¬
der cf the ftone. The elegance of irs
floueieci crofs may feem to denote a'
later period j and the fingularity of it«
otnaraents, the book, the chalice, ard
the fword may appear to indicate
that union of ecclefiaftica 1 and lempi^irai
authority which was enjoyed by the
abbot of the great mitred abbey, to
which St. Giles’s was the panff-church ;
but as the initials (which are diftinblly
T.M o.R. E. U.) do not correlpofid
to any name in Browne Wiliis’s lilt, f
know not that any argument can he
deduced hence againfl ihe im.iginaiv
antiquity which I have afilgned to it. I
hope, however, that what 1 have faid
may excite fome of ycur learned cone-
fpondents to confider the (lone, and
that they will favour your readers with
their relearches upon the fubjtd.

Yours, &c. Nu GATOR.

^ A fword is the known emblem of .Tia-
glftracy, or what the jurills term the
gl.idii.” So Mantuan, addrelling himfelt to
one of the popes :

E?:je potens gemino, cujus vefligia adorant

Ca^hai-; 5c aurato veffiti murice reges.

Kxpla-

99- French Telegraphe explained, ■^Agricultural Notices* [Nov.

Explanation of i hs Machine

place J on the Mountain of Bellville,
menr Pari';, for the Purpofe of conunii-
nkating IntiUigence.

A A is a beam or mrA of wood,
placed upright upon a rifiug ground,
%<#hich is about 15 or 16 feet high.
BF? is a beam or balance, moving up'-n
the centre of the top AA. Tliis ba-
lance-besm may be placed vertically or
Siorizontally, or in an inclined pobcion,
fey means of firong cords, which are
fixed to the wheel D, on the edge of
■which is a double groove, to receive the
two cords. This balance is about 11 or
sz Feet long, and 9 inches broad, having
cft each end a piece of wood C, which
Ivkewile turn upon angles by means of
four other cords that pafs through the
axle of the main balance, otherwife the
fealance would derange the cords ; each
cd the pieces C are about three feet
long, and may either he placed to tlu.
tight or left, firaight or Iquare with the
fealance-bcam. By means of thefe three
the C'unbination of movement is very
estenfive, remarkably fimple, and ealy
so pcFforrTi. Below is n fmail wooden
g'ouge, vn which one perfon is employed
«f> obferve the movements of the ma¬
chine 5 in the mountain nearefl to this,
snother perfon is to repeat thele move¬
ments, and a third to write them cFown.
The time tiken to one movement is 20
Seconds, of which, moving takes 4 fe-
coads., the other 16 the machine is da-
^kmary. The ftations of this machine
sre about 3 or 4 leagues diftance j and
shere is an obltrvatory near the Com¬
mittee of Public Safety, to follow the
motions cf rl'C lali, which is at Bel-
■^rHe. Tire hgns are rornetiuics made
in words, and foirietimes in letters j
when in words, a fmail flag is hoifted,
and, as the alphabet may be changed at
pK.alure, it is only the correlponding
perfon who knows the meaning of the
fegns. In genera', news are given every
day, about 11 or 12 o’clock 5 but the
people ill the wooden gouge obferve
frmu time to tune, -and, as foon as a
cerraia hgual is g'ven and anfweied,
they begin, from one'ciul to the other,
feo move the machine. The machine is
p.ainEed a dvirk brown ealour. L.

Qarrifon at St. Maryky ong of tke
Setiy IfieSy July 22, 1794-

T'v'T r,-URBAN,

IN the proper feafon of lab year a
^ piece of maiihy ground (on patt of
vrhidi ihe tide frequently oveiflowe'd^
b

and on which heavy rains continually
lodged,) was broken up, and (own with
b'ack oats, being lii b cab into narrow
ridges to drain, expe6iing, as was tlte
cafe, the water for the moll part to rc-
niain in the furrows; but, as Tome parts
of the ground during the feafon couli-
nuet! moifler than other, the crop, which
was but indifferent, ripened irr^gulaily,
or became what, in i'oine countries, is
called edge-grown. Little attention was
paid to the nrodufl, and the wind blew
out part of what firfl ripened, which
fprang up again early in the Autumn,
and, more by accident than defign, was
not fed down in the Winter, which
proving very mild, as is frequently the
chFc at thefe iflands, they grew moll
luxuriant; and the winds that weie ex-
pefied to deflroy them in February and
March had fcarceiy any vifible effefl.
The confequence was, a general crop^
and the produce from a fnigle grain
was fiom 28 to 40 balks, fume of them
girting an inch and a half, and the
leaves that, width, the head of each of
a great length, and branched on in a
very extraordinary manner, containing
from 100 to 2.00, and I'orne 300 grains
on a bogie balk. Oa the day they were
cut with the hook (for mown they
could not be, feeing the r weight, with
the wind, had carried the lowermoft
two feet, out of bx, their real length,
to the ground,) 1 drew up two roots
drat flood next 10 each other, that con¬
tained the number of balks as exaclly
above fpec'fied, and, alter clearing the
dirt and fibres auay, found them to
weigh jub four pounds. I am fony to
clofe this account with obferving., th3.t
Mr. Phillips, the piopiietor, very pie-
maturely cut them, and the gram, of
couife, mud be flight. 'I'hi.s was occa-
boned by the birds, particu'aily the
bunting ([ believe ca led the tic-lark
elfewhere), bred here in great numbeis,
bxmg upon ihem, and, hiving no other
food at the time, could not be diiven
away.

N, B. Having obferved, in more pa¬
pers than one, a plan laid down, and
(hid to be much approved of in Ireland,
of planting potatoe-fiioots only in rail¬
ing a crop; in oppob'ion to fuch prac¬
tice, as far as it apphes to thefe ifles, I
fliall bme hereaher, if you vvi.;l afford
me a place in your Mifcellany, the me¬
thod of cultivation, with the product,
liere; and, when 1 fay that fome have
been carried away more than a montfi
fincC; aad that two cargoes of very large

ones

1794-} ^ i'tfferint Species ef Garden Gruh.— Literary Queries. 993

ones arc now (hipping here, and to the
amount of more than 2000 Winchefter
bufliels, at the very low price pf one
(hilling the bulhel, taken atyolb. weight,
the publick rauft con'clude the cultiva¬
tion of that ufeful root is carried to the
bigTieft degree of perfe£^ion, perhaps
Superior to any pra6lifed in tbi'S or a
•nejghbouring kingdom.

Ab. Leggatt,

Surgeon to his Majeft)’s garri{bfl.

Mr. U-RE '28,

H‘EN I recomTnended turfs for
traps to catch the grubs, whofe
depredations your Querift comvplained

I apprehended them to be of a very
different fpecies from what he deferibes,
a-nd which i have fince found to have
invaded my territories in great numbers,
particularly amongft my carrots. His
defeription is juft-;, but to it, 1 think,
may be added two eyes. But the grub
that I had in view is of another kind,
and, I believe, appears generally earlier
iei the year, -committing its ravages up¬
on the young cabbage-plants, preas, Sscc^
which it gnaws off clofe to the ground,
and then leaves, as if it did it only for
mifehief’s fake^ Afterwards it may
polfibly be turned to (ome fly, probably
the horfe-fly, which it relembles in co¬
lour, and anfwers in fl<:e. ft is of a
dirty brown, without legs, about an
inch long, but has a power of extend¬
ing itfelf like worms and flugs j by
wliich means its motion is effefted. It
preys in the night when it gets above¬
ground ; for which reafon, when it in¬
vades the fields in deflruftive numbers,
it is no uncommon thing for the far¬
mers to roil their fields in the night¬
time in order to deftroy them. This
fort having no feet, and confequently
not fo capable of making its way into
the earth, may prabably be gUd t© take
the opportunity of a turf to (ecure irfeif
againft tbe iieat of the day ; and in that
way 1 am of op-nion it may eafily be ta¬
ken. But the other grub is fo well lur-
ntihed with feet that it moves apace,
and, without doubt, is able to bury it-
(elf to a fufficient depth in the ground
without difficulty, and theiefoie may
well defpile the ihelter of a turf; as I
have lately found by experience, having
caught only one in my traps. There is
a little friend of mine that is very fond
of them, Mr. Robin Redbreafl, who
attends me in the garden, and expefls
to be treated with a good meal of them j

GtNT. Mag. Navembtrf 1794.

in return for which he entertains me
with a fong. {See p. ^88.] R. B.

Mr. Urban, OS2. 29.

QUR Somerfet correfpondent will,
perhaps, oblige others of your An¬
tiquarian friends as welt as myl'elf, if he
can take the trouble to communicate,
in addition to his very curious drawings
of Lullington church, p. 893, an ich-
nography of that bu-ilding. From his
view, which I have no doubt is corre£V,
k appears to differ widely in its form
from the generality of antient churches,
particularly in the fitaation of the tower,
which ftands between what 1 take to
be the chancel and the body of 4lie
church, the latter running parallel to it
at right angles. It might aifo be deft-
rable for the Saxon and Gothic walls,
as far as they can be diftinguilhed, to
be pointed out by a fnaall variation in
the fhadows. I am induced to take this
mode of foliciting a farther illuftration
of the building in queftion, a» it feems,
from his defeription, to be a very confi-
rable remain of our primitive architec¬
ture. Yours, &c. F.

Mr. Urban. 0^.31.

KNOW not whether any of your
learned readers have noticed a diffi¬
culty with which 1 was lately ftruck
(though it had efcaped me before) on
reading a -pallage in the firfl book of
Herodotus, It is that in which he re¬
lates the convtrlatioD that palTed be¬
tween Solon and Ctcefus; the former of
whom, to juftify his refufdl to allow
any to be pronounced happy befoie
their death, alleges the changes which
daily occur in the courfe of human life.
To place this trutfe in the flrongeft point
of view, he (iippofes a man to live 70
years j which, allowing 360 days to
every year, will quote in the whole
25,200. To thefe he adds 1050, inter¬
calating every other year a month of 30
days; in order (as he fays) to balance
the account of the feafons » fo that, ac¬
cording to him, the days in 70 years
amount 1026,250; anti, confequently,
every year upon an average confifts of
375 days. Now, this fo greatly exceeds
the juft period of the Sun’s annual revo¬
lution, that no one, though ever fo ig¬
norant of aftronomy, could help being
lenfible of it ; as tr>e leafons in a ftiort
time would perceptibly (hift their places,
and in little more than 36 years would
work their way round to the point from

whic#

^94 Ohfervatlons on Mr* Robinfon’s Cafe of Hydrophobia, ("Nov.

\vhich they fet out. I am puzzled,
therefore. I confefs, wi'h this {Intement
of Solon’s, and Ihouid be thankful to
any of your con efpondents who could
help me lo account for it. J. M.

Farther Obfernjattans on Mr Robin¬
son’s remarkable Caje of Hydio-
p*' ^b'a.

H EN I firft read the relation of
‘‘ a remarkable cafe of Hydrc-
phobiad bv Mr. Roliinfon, in your Ma¬
gazine of julv iaft, wherein he cenfured
the pT;.>6fice of a brother furgeon fur
ufing the knife, cauflic, and mercury,
inftead of whar he terms “ the mof effec¬
tual remedy of i'ea-batbingf adding, that
“ he Jhould have flattered himfelf oMith a
wore favourable ffue had his plan been
adop^edfl It conveyed to me fo fevere a
fiigma on the medical chara6fer of this
fuigeon, who, 1 have fince learned, is
Mr. Haynes, that I thought it incum¬
bent on me, as one of the iateft editors
of a treatife on the bite of rabid anitnals,
to defend the condudl of a pra£iitioner,
whofe treatment of the patient diewed
him to be a gentleman of real medical
Icience and found judgement.

This defence wa'* inlerted in your Ma¬
gazine for Augulf ; and 1 entertained a
hope that Mr. Robinfon would have of¬
fered forne acknowledgement, and thus
ended the concert. On the contrary, in
vour Magazine for Odlober, all apology
is evaded, and recrimination adopted,
ot)rerving, that he thought it his duty to
fate the principal fadis hence, 1 fup-
pole, meaning to inrtnuate, that his de-
fign was not to lerten the reputation of
Mr. Haynes, but merely to promote
public good ; not to invade private cha-
ladler. To be fure, this is a curious, if
not a novel, mode of promoting good,
thus to attempt the hiftory of a cafe
which he either did not know, or has
llrangely nriutilated. As the patient had
been for nine preceding months under
the care of h's townfman and brother
furgeon, Mr. Haynes, who really knew
the whole hiftory, to him application
ought to have been made. If Mr, Ro¬
binfon again means to favour the publick
with “ principal fadisf for the honour
of medical fciencc it would be advifable
firft to learn the hiftory of the cafe com¬
pletely, otherwife, inftead of medical
fadiSf we fhall have medical romances j
one of which he feems to have furnilhed,
at the publick will find, when the whole
hiftory, which I am preparing with Mr.
IJaytKs’s aftillance, is ttandidjy related.

It will then be feen that, although the
fymptonis of hydiophohia in this cafe
w’ere no way remarkable, but ordinary \
the event, however, conftdering the ju¬
dicious treatment of Mr. Haynes, and
which will be approved by every medical
man of feience in the kingdom, appeared
to me extraordinary, though Mr. Ro¬
binfon recriminates upon me for think¬
ing an event extraordinary when the hy¬
drophobic fymotoms were not in the kart
remarkable. My ideas may be inconfift-
ent; but this does by no means exculpate
him from the infinuations againft Mr.
Haynes, which firft excited my defence
of his prafifice.

Mr. Robinfon again recriminates upon
me for cenfuting the pra6fice of bleed¬
ing. 1 had no view of hurting this gen-
tleittan’s charafter. I voluntarily defend¬
ed an unknown hut injured gentleman,
who had been chatged with mal-treat-
tnent of a patient by nveakening him
with mercury 5 and yet this accuTcr de¬
clares that he afterward hied this patient:
It was hence unavoidable, in the defence
of the accukd, to obfeirw, that Mr,
Robinfon would not be juftified in his
alTertion, that the 'patient dud fom
njjeaknefsf originating from mercury,
when he himfelf made ufe of a real
weakening plan, that of bleeding ox fca-
rifying. If there was cenfure in what I
laid, it was courted by Mr. Robinfon’s
own infinuation. Had I then known
the true hiftory of this cafe, I Ihould
have been probably more fevere and
pointed ; for, I now find that, fo far
from ineicury having ^weakened this pa¬
tient, he had not taken any for at Icaft;
eight months prior to the hydrophobia.
How will Mr. Robinfon e'^xplain this
principal fadl confftent with what he
thought his duty to the publick, and not
his oefign to flab private reputation ?

I lie only matter now to remark on
Mr. Robinfon’s 1 eci iminations As, a
charge, that I did not adduce one'fa61 in
favour of mercury. It was not necef-
lary ; bur, if Mr. Robinfon will make a
iriendly explanation for his conduct to¬
wards a brother furgeon, and really
willies for information refpeifting the
exhibition of mercury in cafes of the
bites of rabid animals, I will comply
with his' requeft. I would, however,
recommend liim previoufly to read Dr.
Meafc on the Hydrophobia, with the au»
thorities he adduces j Jelfe Foot’s Obfer-
vatievns ; Dr. Siinmonds’s Commcntaiies
and Medical Fa^s ; Sauvage fur la
Ragcj and; above all; the large 4to

voluijiis

1794*] Hy dr ophollty.. — 'Cafe of the Regimental Surgeons. 99 c

[volume of Memo’rcs de la Socle e Royale
de Medicine; and he then will have no
I occafion to coniult Med cns Ihondinenhs,
or any other phyfician, whether mercury
i' has been ufed with fuccef.for not.

. To conclude, Mr. Urban, having; gnc
i poflcni.m of the genuine hiftory of this
. ca(e of hydrophobia, 1 purpofc, in a fu¬
ture Magazine, to comnuinicaie what
means ought to be puifued to prevent
tbe rabies after the bite of a rabid ani-
! inal, as well as the treatment of hydro¬
phobia, whenever fuch a melancholy in-
llance fliall occur; and, unfortunately,
it has of late often occurred. And, as
your work is generallv read, and as ge¬
nerally efteemed, I flatter myfelf thefe
cliredlions may be copied into other pe¬
riodical publications, and ftuck upon the
door of every church in the kingdom;
for, to extend what little knowledge we
pod'efs on thefe fubje»fls, that more may
be acquired, is the wifh of

Medicus Londinensis.

Mr. Urban, O/^. 29.

BEG room in your extenfive Publi¬
cation tor lome remarks, which pro¬
ceed from an hearty zeal for his Majef-
tv’s fervice, and from motives of bene¬
volence to an ufeful clafs of men at¬
tached to it, regimental furgeons.

Common report fays, that thefe gen¬
tlemen are to confider themfelves in fu¬
ture as at their ne plus ultra-, that they
are no longer to look up to fuperior ap¬
pointments ; that the vacancies on the
medical ItafF (therefore the appropriate
rewards of their long fervices) are to be
filled up, to their entire exclufion, by a
fuccelfion of young I^ondon furgeons.

If this be really the cafe, it is a ma-
jnifell proof that the ad vilers of the mea-
lure have never leen aftual fervice ;
and, being utterly ignorant of the na¬
ture of it, their advice fliould be over¬
ruled as detrimental to the army ; for,
I will affirm to their teeth, and every
experienced officer knows it, “ that
greater abilities, experience, a£livity,
and prefence of mind, are required in a
regimental furgeon in battle (who muft
have every refomce within lumfelf)
than are abfolutely necelldry in a fiaff-
fargeon in a general holpital, furround-
ed by alnftants, and every cmivenicnce
for the eafy discharge of his duty in
fafety and tranquillity. And yet, Mr.
Urban, ftiange to tell 1 the very reverfe
cf this opinion is the 'giound on which
the new (yltem is laid to reft; and its
abettors think to be bcl.eved.

. Serjeant- furgeon R^nby, however,
who acquired his experience f om a6lual
fervice in the field, thought verv diffe¬
rently on the rubje6t, which no man
better underfloor!, whatever gentlemen,
W'hofe campaigns have not extended be¬
yond the found of the Horfe-guards
clock, may think.

This great furgeon relied entirely on.
the ficili and exertion of the regimental
furgeons in bittle, for preventing the
necelfity of crowding the general ho-
fpital with greater numbers than it
ought to contain, caufing contagions
far more deflru6live than the enemy’s
fire. He required of them, in all
wounds of the principal joints, to am¬
putate immediately upon the fpot. It
was by the:r effeitual precautions and
timely affifiance, in and after an en¬
gagement, that the Serjeant - furgeoa
expefted (to ufe his own emphatical ex-
preflions) ‘Ghat poor creatures under
the extreme mifery of large lacerated
wounds, bleeding arteries, and fradlu-
red limbs, ffiould efcape the abrupt
preposterous removal, which brings oa
tbe mod fatal fymptoms, fuch as there
would not be the leaft appearance, or
eve^n apprehenfion of, when propeily
and immediate'y affilled in the field of
battle. Let (fays Mr. Ranby) when
the army Ls forming for engagement,
the furgeons, widi their relpeftive
mates, of the three or four regiments
next to each other, collect themfelves
in a body (the firme to be oblervtd
throughout the whole line), and take
their ftation in the rear. Here let the
wounded be put under their immediate
care and management the higheft
profeflional trull belonging to furgery 1
Whiift the regimental furgeons are
thus engaged in the field of battle, fome
of your readers will be defiroas to know
where the new (Idff. furgeons are to be
found, whof'e luperior alertrrefs and ac¬
tivity is to fuperfede their labours, to
the great improvement of the king’s
fervice, and the relief of the wounded
officers and foldiers in thefe emergen¬
cies. They are to be found at the ge¬
neral hofpital, perhaps (lometimcs)
withui the diftance of 20 or 30 miles,
but as often double or treble that dif¬
tance from the feene of a61ion. All tbe
important, all tlie difficult parts of fur-
gery aie anticipated by the immediate
attention of the furgeons of the line ;
who, if they are equal to this important
charge, become, by long pra^lice in tf,
the proper eft peifons 10 ^cceed to the

vacant

99^ Surgeons,— Mr. D’lfraeli’s Panning Word to [Nor

vacant appointments on the flafF, the
due rewaid of fei vices foregone, and to
Simulate others to imitate their patient
examples.

A regimental furgeon can no more
add a (hilling to his income than he can
add a cubit to his feature ; he remains
often 20 years on the lame (lender pay
avhich he firft let out upon j and fees,
during this long probation, every one
around him piogrelhvely advancing in
rank and pay. He lulFers mortificdtions
which, with manly Ipirir, he banifli^s
the reflexion of from his own bofom,
keeping ftedfaftly in view the obje6l of
his honeft purfuit, an appointment to
the flafF. If depriving him of this does
not amount to an abfolute violation of
an cxifting ftipulation, it may be regard¬
ed at leaft as a kind of breach of an im¬
plied contract, the euftom the army
having hitherto given hrm a prel'criptive
right to it. The colonels of regiments,
and field-officers commanding corps, are
deeply interefted in their being fupplied
with proper furgeons ; thefe gentlemen
well know, that no furgeon (who
knows what he is about) will flay ia a
regiment an hour longer than he can
help, if no diferimination b to be obfer-
ved between the farvkesof half a year
and half a century ; and the Rritifh
eflablilhment affords no other than the
flalF appointments hitherto in general
appropriated to that end,

I will at prefen-t only addy that, if
there were no inyuflice in the fuppofed
new plan, the impolicy of it is fufficient
to fcL it afide on mature deliberation.
But why fhould the regimental furgeons
be fingled out as the only officers in the
corps bearing the King’s commiffion to
whom erov®— —

Yours, &c. Eksehitus.

Mr. Urban, 15.

O R the letter fubferibed by Wil¬
liam Graham, addrelTed to me, this
farting word miift be fufficient. Called
upon, t flared my realons for giving tfie
anecdote. What has been urged in re¬
ply contains no argument or fa£l. If
Dr. Morton** note be allowed to have
any meaning at all, it conveys a re¬
flexion on Mrs. Macaulay in a manner
t JO clear to admit of a doubt; and my
probity cannot be reafonably lulpe£led,
flnee 1 have only pubJilhed an Anee-
*doie, which, whatever foundation it
'has, 1, in commott with many others,
‘have heard repeated.

The gcjitlemaa wflo me this in¬

formation (who is well known, and re-
fpedled as he is known) will, I flatter
myfelf, be enabled to thrown clearer'
light on what flilJ wears an air of rayf-
tery. There are many things which
we believe to be true, and which it is
not always poliible immediately \o
prove \ an*d fuch is, perhaps, this anec¬
dotic of our Hnflorian.

1 reply not to the low abufe of this
Reverend Gentleman j which might
have been lefs virulent, as- i" have at
i'eaft lerved as a pillar to hang trophies
CO the memory of his unhappy Lady.

It is probable the difmiffion of Mrs».
Macaulay, which alfo accompanied my
information, is not known to t^very of¬
ficer in the Mufeum. It mull have hap¬
pened about thirty years ago; many of
the officers were not then in place, and
I was not born.

f conciude hy repeating what I have
Lid in my former letter, that 5 (hall
ever be ready to attend to any dcciiive
faft, and will then be the firft to erale
whar r have been the firft to wiice.

Yours, &c. r. D’Israels,

Mr. Urban, ^ept. j®.

REQUEST the favour of a place in-
your entertaining and ufeful Mifcel-
lany for the following account of very
curious and remarkable phsnomenon,r
the unexpe61ed appearance of a piece of
water at the diftancs of two miles from
Settle in Graven, as it may not be fa¬
miliar to, or unworthy the obfervatioa
of, a few among your numerous and
ingenious readers.

The method 1 ftialf purfue, in ordei?
to deferibe it in the moft intelligible and;
fatisfaflory manner, is, ifl. by relating
the circumUances attending its rife,,
continuance, and fituation; 2idly, by
fubjoining a delineation of it with the
admeafurement.

ift. This water wa» firft difeorered
about three years ago ^ and, as far as I
can recoiled!, did not hicreafe gradually,
but was of its prefent magnitude foon
after, if not immediately upon, us firft
appearance. There was not, according
to the information I have received, any
remarkable fall of rain at the time, nor
any other vifib e caulc which could ac¬
count for fuch a phenomenon; but,
even if ram couid be luppofed to be the
fitft caufe of its appearance, fince it has
continued with little alteration for the
(pace oi three yearsTf and during the yi-
vere drought of the prefent jummerf we
maj fairly eoneiude that the fupply of'

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water will be regular and permanent.
The quantity produced in the courfe of
twenty-four hours muft be very confi-
derable, as it furnifiies water for fixiy
targe cattle t exclufive of what muft ne-
ceffarily be carried off by evaporation.

It is fituated on the fummit of a high
mountain, furrounded on all Tides with
limeftone rock. The ground near it is
remarkably dry, nor was rhere ever be¬
fore that time known to be any water in
the place. The above circumftances
are in direft oppofttion to thofe which
ufually attend fimilar phaenomena, as
low and fwampv ground, with others,
generally are fufticient to afford a plain
and eafy folation. There are no fprings
in. the lands adjoining, except one at
the diftance of half a mile, and that
much below the level of this now under

near Settle, In Craven*, '

confideration

idly. The axis major A B of the fi¬
gure, which is nearly an ellipfe^ is 30fr
yards r-8th j the cxts minor C D is 23
yards j.8th. Confequently the area is
nearly 18 perches, 2 yards, 5 feet, ^
inches

The depth at point W is
Ditto - X

Ditto - Y

Ditto - 2

The periphery of the figure sj 1 J

This admeafurement was made after
a drought of t^o months^ when the water
muft be fuppofed Icfs than at any other
leaTon of the year.

If any of your ingenious correfpond-
ents can give an account of a fimilar
phaenomenon, they will much oblige ^
oonftant reader. ,

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302

JiS.

A Speculation on the Origin and char ac^
terijiical Manners of the PiCTS and
Scots, m>ritten in Oiloher, 1778,
(Concluded from 884 ^

HE frequent intercourle of the
Scots with the Romans, the Bri-
:ons, the Vv’’er(ern iftandtrs, the Irifti,
ind the merchants from different coun-
ries who traded to the Irifii harbours,
vould, as iron pohlheth iron, rub off
omething of their barbarous l uft ; as a
nore enlarged experience would im-
rror^e them in the art of war. Their
icnquefls in Ireland would, however,
iroduce but very fmall effe6ls. it is
griculture alone, an art unworthy the

military men of that age, that can fix
attendance upon any particular Tpot of
earth. It was as well they did not ap¬
ply to tillage while they lived near ene¬
mies who, in one day, would eafily cle-
ftroy the fruits of a year’s induftry j
they had every thing to Teek by the
I'wurd and to defend by the (word ;
they would be fkipping backwards and
fo rwaids to Ireland and Scotland, as
necefiity, pleafure, or amufement, di-
redied them. Thus lieland as well as
Scotland was the feene of Fingai’s bat¬
tles, where he had the Belgae and Danes
to contend with, as well as with the lat¬
ter in his own country j as in one cf the

* There are feveral fprings at the foot of tlie mountain, among wluch is that remaj.k.-.bl j
ne the ebbing and flowing well, none of which is in the leaft afleCled by lLc appeal aiice
T :ht prefent water.

siujv. ni

Dr» Mac'queen'cwV-^^ Origin of the Pi<?ts end Scots, [Nov.

antient fongs, compofed upon an Irifli
expedition, he is called the Hero of the
Hill of Albion, Flah betn Alhh'tn, Yet,
however, it appears that at length they
made a fettlemcnr in that Britifh ifland ;
for, though Ammianus Marcellinus
found them in Britain about the year
360, and Porphyry fdmevvhat earlier,
GroHus met with them in Ireland about
the beginning of the firth century,
where they raiftd themfelves into fuch
eminence as to give their own name to
the ifland. St. Lawrence, Archbifliop
of Canterburv, who coaid not be mifta-
ken, calls it Scotia, in a letter addrefled
to its own bifliops about the year 605.
llidoie and Adamnanus, in the fame
century, bear teflimony aifo to this fa£f,
though, at the fame rime, it is cettain
that they kept poffefiuon of their domi-
nions in Scotland. People who made
war their profeflion, as being the fource
of their livelihood, and reckoned it that
of their glory, could not be long at reft.
Their beft harveft lay towards the
South ; their neighbours the Pi6fs join¬
ed them in their attacks on Valentia
and South Britain, as the Irifn would
do from their country. On the fyftem
I here lay down, thefe paflagesof Clau-
dian may be eafily underftood ;

'Totam cum Scotus Hybex-nen
Movlt & infefto fpumavk Remige Thetis.

And,

Scotornm ciimuloa fievit giaceaies Hyberne.

though they often fuffered the torture of
fevere criticifm. Thus the Albin Scots,
fupported by their friends in the Weft-
ern ifles, by the Irifli Scots, and by
continual experience in arms on a more
enlarged feene of a61ion, would at
length become an overmatch for the
Saltern Piffsj who, if they did not
prey upon one another, and fell the
Grampian deer, had no other employ¬
ment but when they occanonally palTed
in their ifarr/m/;j towards the Southern
provinces.

Commen-fenfe would have convin¬
ced me that the Scots painted as well
as their neighbours, without appealing
to the reftimony of Ifidore ; yet, in their
progrefs towards civiliv,ation, they muft
have been gradually dropping the bar¬
barous pratlice; as, from the booty ta¬
ken in their frequent excurfioo's to South
Britain, and the commerce they would
have kept up with the merchants in the
harbours of Ireland, they would pro¬
vide themfelves with Ibme cloaths,
which would put them under a neceffity
ol giving up the c^ftora of painting ; but,

to preferve the diftin£five marks of their
fubordinate tribes, they would tranfpofe
them to their fhields. Seneca, I think,
fays that they painted their fhields ; and
I find the fhield of a hero thus defert-
bed in an old Gaulic poem, which efca-
ped Mr. Maepherfon’s fearch.: “ he
fitted his red-tanned bolfy Ihield to his
left arm, on which was drawn the pic¬
ture of a lion, a leopard, a giiffin, and
the biting ferpent.” Their chariots of
war were alfb painted that they might
be known in the field. At laft the co¬
lours, with the animal drawn upon it
which diftinguiflied the tribe, was in¬
troduced as a farther improvement in
the art of war, which they muft have
learned from the Romans; as we may
conclude, from Homer’s filenre, that
they ufed none in the heroic times
that he defenbes, though the Greeks
and Tiojins lived in a much more ad¬
vanced period of fociety than the con-
tem^rary Pi6fs and Scots. Jn one of
Fingal’s battles I find three or four pair
of colours produced at once, “dazzling
the eye from .ifar with the luftre of IriOi
gold." Armorial bearings may very
jufily be fuppofed to owe their origin to
this praftice ; and it is not unlikely
that, when patronv-micks gave place to
fuinames, which 1 know happened in
this country fome centuries later than
the time I have now before me, ihofe
who have taken up the name of Lion,
Wolf, Fox, Hawk, Dog, or of any
other animal, made choice of that
which diftinguifhed their tribe from the
beginning. In that quarter of the coun¬
try where patronymicks are ftili ufed,
none derive their furnames from wild
ravenous beafts, the favourite enfigns
of a wild rapacious people, except the
Mac M»hons, who are defeended of
the great Mac Mahon of Monaghan, a
furname importing the fon of the boar,
whofe reprelentation on his breaft, back,
fliield, or cfdours, did him once no
Imall honour among his rapacious
neighbours as a badge of wild undaunt¬
ed prowefs. I know that fome of the
animals mentioned above are not inha-
b tants of c«!d climates; but fevcral
Britons travelled 10 Rome, where they
Were produced in public fliews; and!
numerous ftrangeis frequented the bar-*
hours of the Bntifh ifles, who would:
readily exagg^'rate the wildncfs of tbefe
beafts, whether real or imaginary, when 1
tickling the fancies of wild undifcern-i
mg people; and, if the griffin on thei
Bntifh ih'eld aboyementioned be to tfiei

wrong?

794*] Macqueen on ihe Origin of the Pi£ts {xnd Scots.

' 999.

vrong fide of any perfon’s belief, Jet
:iim coniider that it is alfo an Englifli
furname.

It is a farther confirmation that the
Pifts and Scots painted before they had
iny connexion with civilized nations;
;hat there are very ftrong appearances
hat moft, if not all the inhabitants of
Europe, painted themfelves, for the
lame caufes, in early times. How cou'd
:he cuftom have become fo univerfal in
Britain if the firft adventurers had not
brought it along with them from Gau',
though it ceafed then beyond the reach
of any hiflory come down to us; for,
the religion, language, and cuftoms of
both coujitries were much the fame,
with thefe odds, that the Phocian colony,
increafed with a band of induflrious
Phtsnicians, fettled in Gaul as eaily as
the tune of old Tarquin, made gradual
mipiefhons on the manners of the in¬
habitants. Add to this, the frequent
failles which the Gauls made to Italy
from the earliell period of the Ronaan
flate, and the confiderable colony which
liad been planted at Narbonne, and
there will be the lefs furpiize that Caelar
makes no mention of their painting ;
the military fpirit, which rendered them
once fupcrior to the Germans, having
in his time degenerated through that ia-
fc6lious neighboui hood. Yet flili there
remain traces of the Gaulic painting in
ttie Roman writers; for, Propertius, in
a faryrical addief^s to an old lady who
painted (lib. II. 17, 23, &c.), cal s the
fcffumed colour either Britifh or Belgic:

Nuncetiaminpitflos demens imitare Biatannos
Sudes Si externo tiinflas nitore caput,

C^t Natnra dedit fic omnes redla figura,
Turpis Romano Belgicus ore color.

And the fame author’s PiSioque Bri-
tanni Curru is called the Belgica Rffeda
by Virgil, as being the /ame ; which
Servius calls a Gaulifli invention.

The plant glafiume^ which the Gauls
fold, after a tedious piocefs in the pre-
pararton, at high profit, for dying blue,
was, according to Pliny, that which
was ufed in the Britifh colouring ; and
to this day we call a dull melancholy
blue glas. It would therefore feem,
that the Britons learned tire preparation
and ufe of this plant before they left
Gaul, and continued the barbarous ap¬
plication to their pricked bodies, until
they yielded to the example of betier-
polifhed ftrangers.

The Tyrians, Carthaginians, and
Romans, ietiled. fo early iu Spain as to

introduce the cuftoms of civil life before
hiftory could bring down any account
of the original favages ; yet Juftin fays,
that, in the fabulous days of that coun¬
try, Habis, afPer being expofed when a
child to a variety of hazards, by which
his grandfather the king meant to have
him deflroyed, at length, being taken
home as a curioftcy from the mountains,
where he ran wild along with the deer,
was known to be the king’s grand-child
by the marks that were burnt into his
body when very young.

Not only the long ftiields of the Ger¬
mans, but the Alii among them from
the bottom of that wide country, were
painted, the reft having improved a
little by the commerce with the Ro¬
mans, particularly on amber and furs :
but, that this barbarous cuflom was
more general, may be inferred from the
appearance of the Cimbri conquered by
Marius, who bore the figures of wild
beafts on their helmets with mouths
gaping wide.

1 could with no great difficulty carry
on this deduifion over the face of Eu¬
rope, and fhew that there were origi¬
nally countries diftantfrom civilized fet-
tiements, from the late Tungufians of
Alufcovy to the Illyrians, Thracians,
as alio to the Daces in the more North¬
ern regions of Afia Minor. 1 could
a-fo lay, that the inhabitants of the
Philippine Iftands, when firll difeovered
by the Spaniards, pvere for the molt
part naked, and had their bodies art-
fu ly pricked with diverfe colours. I
could add that the d fferent cafts in the
Eaft Indies, io retentive of their anuent
cuftoms, have Hill their diftinilive
marks; that the Siamefe, who wear
cloaths, dye their legs blue, higher or
lower, according to tiieir dignity ; that
Omiah, the late adventurer from Oia-
heite, was, according to the mode of
his country, marked in the hands, and
that he had other maiks on his body,
though they lay hidden under his
cloaths; and that the fame m ght very
probably be obErvable in the undifeo-
vered iftands of the vaft Southern Ocean ;
but there would be too much famencls
in this difquifition, and afford little en¬
tertainment to any who would give him-
Iclf the trouble to read it.

I will only obferve, that the Romans
painted on their enfigns five beaffs, tlie
niinotaur, the horfe, the wolf, the boar,
and the eagle. iViarius abolilhed the
fiift fnur, and retained the eagle. Ac¬
cording to my lyltem, thele animals

were

xt)00

were the diftinftive badges of fiv^ of
the military heroes who became compa¬
nions and allies in the infancy of the
State, and joined the teftimonials of
their prowefs together. I cannot doubt
that this mark of honour was bellowed
t)y fentence of the affembly of the tribe;
and at Ungth, like other matters of
property, became hereditary; and that
none t^ould take it up at his own hand ;
for, the flBA fcuta lahici were honour¬
able, when the parma irrglorins alJ^a
was a reproach to the wearer. It is ob-
fervable, that the bulk of the foldiers
among Marius’s Cimbri wore white
fiiields., for recek'tng, no doubt, the
Symbols of future exploits. No^iv, in
exlenfi<ve States^ theft marks of courage
and conduct are procured by other means.
JMoneyt intenf, and arts, are become
mighty engines to raife the plebeian and
coward from the duft, and rank them
among the nobles of the land !

When thefe diftinftive family-marks
were laid afide, genealogy was long
carefully fiudied, and preferred uncor¬
rupted; while, for want of law, or the
power to bring it into execution, the
il^ngth of the clan or tribe was the
fupport and fafeguard of tevery indivi-
dual; in fo far, that k was eftahlifiied
by an a£l of legal authority in our own
country, that, when a naan committed
a trelpafs agaiftd any of another clan,
it was lawful for the offended tribe to
take tap whomk)ever they could lay
hands on, and keep him in durance un¬
til fatisfc^lion was made both to the
man and to the tribe. Yetthis connexion,
which was once lawful and facred, be¬
fore avarice and luxury, the enemies of
all virtue, were introduced, began to
lofe its ufe, and to be reduced within
narrow bounds by the flattery and falfe-
hood of the genealogifts. Thus the
genealogical table fell into difrepute
even among thofe who were meant to
be coaxed by it : Cardinal Mazarine
laughed at the French parafite who un¬
dauntedly traced his pedigree to T. Ge-
ganius Macciious, conful in the firftage
of the commonwealth. Arms, genealo¬
gies, and it! Its of honour f <when in the
dtfpojal of mean hands, and are befioiued
Hvithout dtfcernment on perjons ‘void of
merit, become contemptible and negledied ;
though, tn a certain period of the progrtfs
of the human mind from barbarity, na¬
tions as nvell as individuals are fond of
thefe trapping t and ornaments ; until far¬
ther dijcernment, and the promijcuous ufe
op them, leave thsm to the flare of the

— remarkable Fa^, fNov»

•vain and of the thougbtlefs. The Scots
were once fond of an Egyptian defcent,
which is now given up ; and our Piftifk
ancellors were fonder of their honour¬
able fears than our beft men of their ar¬
morial bearings, though they allow
themfelves to be carried down by the
tide of faftiion.

N. B. I have faid fome where above,
that the Caledonians did not deal in fifli.
None till very lately meddled with the
trouts, which fwam plentifully in the
facred lake of Dieg clofe >hy me; and
one folitary filh took up 'hk refidence in
a beautiful fpring at Uig, on the borders
©f Kilmuk, which, when women or
children tock. up in their pails, they
would throw in again.

Mr . Urban, Cambridge, hfo'v. i *

PERMIT me to ftate to you a very
remarkable faft, which was men¬
tioned by Dr. Symonds, of this univer-
lity, in his lectures, lafl year, and which,
he faid, had never been noticed by any
of our travellers. It is as follows :

In the mountains near Barano there
are fevtn villages inhabited by the de-
feendants of the Cimbri who invaded
Italy in the time of Marius; there are
alfo twelve more about ten miles from
Verona inhabited by the fame people.
They dill fpeak the Cimbriaii language;
and, when the King of Denmark vidt-
ed Verona about fixty years fince, they
came down to fee him in great numbers,
and converfed with him in the Danifk
language, fo fimilar was it to their own.
The Do6tor fpent fome days among
them, and found them in every refpei^
a different people from the Italians.

I iliall be much obliged to any cor-
refpondent who can anfvver me the fol¬
lowing queries :

Some of our fiJver coin is marked
on the reverie with rofes and fleurs-de-
lis, fome with rofes only. This laft 15
underftood to be Englilh lilver. For
what reafon are the fleurs-de-lis impo-
fed on the other?

Is Mr. Marfh employed in tranflating
the fecood part of Michaclis’s Introduc¬
tion ? or does he flop at the firft part ?

I cannot help exprelling my wonder
that, at this day, when public fpirited
bookfellers undertake fo many works
for the encouragement of literature,
that no one has ever fent forth a Greek-
Englifh Lexicon. I cannot think that
any more effeftual flep could be taken
for the promotion of Grecian literature
than this, Magdaleniensis,

Mr.

Ortgifi of the Pifts and Scots.

lOOi

^794*1 Macaulay. — Dr. Jolinfon. — Schuitu — llch^fler.

^7 r . Urban, f^O'V. 8 .

N the controverfy between D’llraeli
'and Graham one pouit is Aill at ilhae.
Dpes the fccond paragraph of the extrafl
r6rti'the MS in the Mufeum imply,
the circuniAance recorded in the

.Uric ills.. t I CV 1 » I I Vv* - - - - vyii % H »-• ...w ^

Nd'emorandurn happened before or affer troduflo-ry Preface ihould necellarily
:h^ circur.r Aance itcouied in the firft pa- make its appearance in the exaft form
ragraph ? The two notes are certainly ?.nd manner we read it p. S8i ? I am no
capable of a double conilrudlion ; and furiorrs fuppo'ter of tyranny; but I

the very fame fort of hdtiment—
fcapha — fchifo — efquif — fchuyt — fch in-
pen— Ikifif, and probably /9//> ufelf.

Will you permit an old fiieAd ro afk
you, whether it was made a cnndifoii
on the part of A banicm that his In¬

in' impartial man might afk, with wliat
I'iew, or on whar account, cither of
tlvem was origir.ailv loade ? Here then
we muA recur to the quo '‘ntmo of th.e

I • j j

ttiink the ntomentous caufe which now
engages the world may, without any
viol- 1 on of candour, be traced to ano¬
ther fource than that which yllbanicus

mvtes. Can it be inferred, that the MS. Jg pltafed, in a Oyle of luch_farc hP ic

wa't- fent down ajter the dilcovery of the
tearing out ? I am no friend to Mr.
J)’lfrac}i, \et I do not intiine to aiinait
Dr. M’s cunAru£iion at this interval of
time ; hut this I pronounce, that W. G.
can fcold as well as any virago whatever.
You IS, &c. H. H.

ac? irnony, to affign.

Mr, Urban', 9.

TR. BOSWELL’S catalogue of
D". ]oi>ntbn’s contributions to
voui Mng"7ine in 1747 is inconnp’ete.
[See his Life of Jrdmitm, Rvo edition,
vol. J. pp. 157, 158? '59]-
oiiiitted the “'mafredy” abridgement of
foreign hiO.ory for the tiionth of Novem¬
ber m that year, wiiiien undeniably by
the pen of ilie Sage.

I have lead with much pleafurs the
f.rd part of Dr. Macqueen’s Elfay on
the Origin of the Puffs and Scots; which,
conlideiing the circunnltances under
whi-h It was written, is a mod extract

M r. U R R A N , ALu. I r .

I HAVE been lacking my m^insever
llnce 1 read the explanation of the io-
feription on the mr.ee b. longing to the
corporation of ilchelftr, givim in the
newly-publiflied Fliilory of Semerfet-
fliire, Ilf. 299. Tile infeription agiees
with that given by D>'. Stuktley, and
corrtdfcd from the original in the new
edition of CLmden’s Britannia, i. 6S,
pi. IV. fi '. I.

T)€ TEE

TEia OLte:

i. e. / 'jefus nvus cj God
N ^t'voitkji andirtg the gt/f nvas ill received.

The language of the infetiption is faid
to be old French-, hut, wium criticallv
examined, I cannot find the firft word, /,
at ail, nor the fifth, God, in the word
Dru, ■which is not pretended to be re.ad.

whi h It was written, is a moit exuaoi- i 1 t- l. • t .1 •

wnwu It as -p . . rr.r^Io^-u 35 On old French epitaphs or other in-

diiiarv nerformarce. lo the ety mology . . r r

omary pc. lui uid. ,nns. DF.u. or DIU. How caa

jii »p. 884 i can-not accede. Dr. M.
conjthdures, that the Scots were fo call¬
ed “from the vagabond life they led,”
the word Sch'uiti (unde den vatum cre¬
dit Seois ) fignifying wanderers ; and he
attempts to give ff.*bdity to hts remark
by obfervingrthat, in the Weftern ifles,
they call the veflels which go f. orn loch
to loch in quell of herrings the black
febutts.

Now, ?vlr. Urban, it appears on the
contiaiy, to tite complete latisfaiff son or
iny mind', that the word fchuits was bo:-
rbwed by the ILbridians fiom the
Dutch, tiieir nvals, and indeed mahtrs,
in the pilcati>ry arr. Among tiiem the
word Jehuyi fignihes a boat, ot l.nail
veflel ; t' ick-h huyt is the common ap¬
pellation for the paflage- boat, or coche^
d'ecu, uftd in their canals; land toe
word may be traced, with iutje varia-
li >n, in fcveral languages, exprtfhng

Gent. M a g . TVo vsniheir 1 7 9 4-

ferip ions, DEU, or niu. How caa
eru be fubllituted for efiois-, and, -if it
can, why not render it Jefus was of
God, without the affix I ? Is ramet ne
aumoin? Dun may be don, et maybe
efxoit, or eio:t, and ?nie is a word of di¬
minution or Aigl t.

It is laid frier Bacon was horn in the
frierv at Ivdchelier, 1214. Is not this
a millake for the town

ih 539. V he title of arc, 95 is a Dic^
tio>:ary.

1 wifh vour correspondent S. K. p.
904, cob 2, would correct the erior
of Pyningtoo f,

I have fc'.n other inftances of bells
being infer ed in i’uch a wooden frame ?.s

^ Tiie anientia verba of our RigliC ITo-

nonraMe Conefpun.ieiit were not l.kcly 0
pals' unnoticed ; but vve did not thm'K our-
felves authorized ro chang ; them. K d n .
f See il conedled; p- 1007. Euir,^

' odcfibed

10C2 Battle Ahh^j^-^Cd’jfe of Cl^rkcJ Corpulence Cor}tl^G^)^l'Ud, [Not",

defcribed at Ead: Bcrgbolt, p. 908,
though I cannot recollect the preche
places at the moment; and underftoocl it
was afcrilKd to fome deEfs: in the fte'-ple,
or in the ability of the parifo to pat them
there.

P. 917, col. 1, 1. 43, r. chair/.

P. 919. E. G. miff[uotes p- 711 r>)r
71Z. The coiTeflion ot South for Norhi
aile is right. Some of the other verbal
corrciSiions are moft probably prefs er¬
rors ; not that all the errors of the wri¬
ter are to be htid on the printer.

P. 92c, 1. 27, 831 is a f.rife reference.
The building at Battle, which re¬
ceived fo rnuch damage iry the ft -iim in
September lah, was the abbey gate, of
which the (mlv view is that in the iecond
hiunriherof Mr. Pv'Ioorfch Monadic Re¬
mains, that in No. 1 r of ihe fame wmk
being a very 'ndihinR one. Vv’hen the
firR c.f thffe views was taken, half

the roof !\ad fallen in, and one of the
towrrs inclined from tlie perpendicular,
and was foon expefiled to fall fo'ward if
rcyantd. D. H.

Mr. Urban, 16.

T AIM much lefs difpofed to doubtthe
originality than the propriety of your
C! e r ico- in ed re 1 cor re fpon d e n ih opi n ions
(p 596), on the caufes of clerical coi pn-
lence; and I hope he will indulge me to
fh4>end my ailent totheir accuracy untti I
iiave examined the folidity of the argu¬
ments that aie adduced in their fuppmr.

I repeat my afl'ent to the originaliiy,
which the gentleman feems To cit firous
to eftablifir; and, indeed, 1 congratu¬
late rnviclf thereon, lince it induces me
to believe th t I h^ve to combat error
only, unconnedled with its too frequent
companion, prejudice.

An aflcition of Dr. Arbuthnot is, I
peiceive, made the bahs of the gentle¬
man’s realonings ; but, unhappily for
the fuper0ru6fure, that bafis is unequal
to its weight. “ The iunys,” fays'ibe
Doflor, “are the chief initruments of
iauguiheaiioti ; and the animal who has
that organ faulty can never be duly
Jiourifl^cd.”

The phvfiologlfls of the prefent day
would, pf-rhans, fpt<ik with lefs conh-
Qence on a fubjeCt tliat is involved in
unufual ohfcuricy, and from which con-
je£iure only has lifted ep tlie >eil.

it it be adm tted that., to fubvert nu¬
trition, a dibafed hate of the lungs has
even an u it irnaie tender, cy, it mull be
adsniited in common wich a ddeafed
flare of any other important organ, vvhen
7

it wou'd not be elfedfed by any fpec'Bc
aflion of the organ, but by the fympa-
thy which fubiifts betwixt it and tlie fto-
macb, by the fundlions of the Utter be¬
coming deranged, and by the lofs of
appetite which neceiTiiily enfues.

Phybe ans, however, generally ac-
quiefee in believing the lungs to be
alhflant to fanguificatior ; but from
the hitter part of the Dodder’s pro-
pofition expeiience withdraws its fane-
tion ; yet, if experience did not deny
its truth, could it, with any deference
to the rules of argument, be inferred,
that, in a found Rate of tl.c lungs, the
body fhall become corpulent, hecaufe,
in an unfound Rate, it cannot be duly
nouriflied ^ Corpulency is as certainly a
difeafed Rate of the body as confu.mp'
tion is of the lungs, and in due time as
fata!.

T-'he Romacb then is obvioufly the
feat whence nutrition is derived to the
lyftem. The moft inattentive obferver
cannot efcape fo palpable and felf-evi-
dent a truth, fmee the experience of
every man mu!l convince his rodfon,
that animals are fat only in a ration to
the quantity of food and reff that are al¬
lowed them; and, fuiely, obefity m
mankind is, and rnuft be, as nec ffaiy
a confeq'rence of repletion and indolence,
as any one efieff in the whole (yfiem of
Nature is the production of a caule.

An incteafe of body is an increafe of
fubllance ; but can a fubllantial addition
of animal matter be depofutd from at-
molphei ic ail ?

If to klicle arguments more co'^ent

0 ■ VO

ones can be neccifary, it becomes ne-
cellary to take a ciuloFy view of the
procels wliicli Nature uies for the nu¬
trition of the body. I nr the lungs no
procels f(rr nuintion can be demonflra-
teci, nor any relembldnce to a procels.
When hunger in vades, are the lungs tite
leat of pain t Does thirft affedf, aie the
Engs parched ? On the other hand, let
the feat of thole painful lenlations, let
the conveyance from the mouth to the
flomach be inlpe£fed, and, I believe,
there will not lemain a vacancy in tlie
mind of the obferver for the very flia-
dow of a doubt to ex'-ft in refpedling the
lout ce of nunrition.

That it is a pioperty of mufclcs in
general, I (ay in general, iiecaufe there
are many whole vigour is exhauRed by
frequency of exeiiion, to acquire by a
temperate increafe of labour an increafe
of vigour; that tiie arms of a black-
fin ich Of a waterman, the legs of a dan¬
cing-

J 794*] fuppofed Caufe of Clerical Corpulence controverted, ivOOj

cing-mafter, or the (houlders of a por¬
ter, are, ceetens paribus^ the ftrongeft
mufcles they have, 1 do not controvert;
but from thefe arguments, witich relate
to naulclcs onlv, can anv inierence be
deduced that the lungs will be b'enefited
by fuch exertion ? or is the gentleman’s
expertnels in anatomy unequal to the
knowledge, or his memory to the re¬
collection, that the lungs aie not muf-
cular ? If this argument be granted, and
denial is a vain fubrerfuge when the
clear finger of demonftration renders
the truth obviods, the gentleman mud:
acknowledge, that no analogy fubfills
which can jullify a conclufion, that two
organs, diamec: icaliy oppofite in all their
properties, can be profited by the lame
caule.

The advice which the gentkinan has
the confidence to fuggefl; to rriedical
men is cettrinlv unqualified, as coming
from one who has neither devoted liim-
lelf to the (ludy of phyfiology or medi¬
cine, and who is, moreover, fo totally
unacquainted with the difeale, and the
feat of It, as to recommend exeicife for
tlte removal of the one, and for the
prefervation of the other. Inllances are
by no means infrequent wh'ch prove,
that conlumption ot the lungs has been
induced when ablent, and antedated ui
its event when prefent ; even by their
penoiitcai u_ie in tiie pulpit cf the Church
of England, a place whence violence of
exertion was never known to proceed,
wb.ere a want of moderation in delivei,y
W'lS never the fubje^l of complaint.

rvlidd eton, the biograplier of Cicero,
and the Dulls of that great man, de¬
le, ibe him as tall of llature, with a long
r.eck, and general thinnefs of body.
From this Itruflure it may be conclu¬
ded that his lungs wereweaklvj but,
inftcad c»r finding them Eronger from
oratory, they declined fir rapidly as to
render his iieaith alarming; bu'-, by
defifting from his ufaal application, be
perletfllv efcaped from the danger that
had impended.

It would be prepoflerous to expect
that all men flrould deiive fimilar elfetSls
from limiiar caules, fince experience has
Ihewn, that in (bare there is an inlupe
rable p.-openlity to leanncfs, in others a
propenfity not Ufs infuperable to the
c mtrary iUte. Thefe are the laws of
Tature; and in obeying thefe mortality
is psfTive, be.aufe they are beyond its
controul ; yet mllances of this kind are
comparitucl y rare, and, indeed, depend
pi lome tneafure on a difcaled ftate of

thofe velTels that feparate the chyle, be¬
ing eltiier fo large as to admit it in too
large a quantity, or fo (mall ih.^t the
chyle, when feparated, cannot be forced
into their mmuihs. But in thefe confii-
tutions where neither of thtle flates
prevail, where the bu k of the body is
regulated by the quality of the food and
the quanbry of the exercife, that deci-
fion, whicli alhgns repletion and indo¬
lence as the fouices of corpulence, can¬
not but be corre.fl. Let us, however,
for a moment indulge the fiippoiuion,
Ist us grant that the lungs a'e the
Iburces of floridnefs and corpulence,
when periodically exerted, in order that
we may prefent the gentleman a few_;.2-
cula Socrat/ca, from which the mind
that fuggehs the anfwers may derive
conviblion .

WliV'do not v.:)ciferous animals ex-
ceed thofe in fainefs which they exceed
in voice ?

Why are thildren born fat, whofe
lungs, far from ever having been exert¬
ed in talking, were never inflated wiih
air ?

Doss the infant who cries much thrive
as the infant who fcarcely ufes his lungs
for any other pnrpole than breathing?

Is he whole lungs falute the morning
with whiflles, and bids adieu to the
evening wiili fongs, whofe hunger is
latiated with the moil nutritious diet,
yet whofe occupation extorts the I wear
Irom his bro'w in the weary purluit of
his labour, fubdued by corpulence ?

Dots ilie animal who Ipends half the
genial year m fiauibcr, and whole lungs
flumber with it, die impoverifned ?

But, Mr. Urban, wherefore do I
proceed ? I feel a kind of prefentiment
that what has already been laid will re¬
main unanfwered. To urge more,
therefore, will bt to intrude on your in-
du'gence; wherefore, recommending to
Clerico- Medicus to confider in future
before he enteis on an undertaking quid
fvaieant humeri, aut quid f^rre recujenty
1 lemaiti hu and your very humble Itr*
vatu, Terrte FiLiUS, jua.

Mr. Urban, Nov. 5.

^ S Mr. Wakefield’s addrels of Eft
± JL monrh vvas probab’y called forth
by my flri.^uies in the preceding Ma¬
gazine, I Ibid trouble you vvitit a few
oblejvacions upon his letter, and then
take leave of him and the fubjebl for
ever. Mr. VvEkeheld “ willies to re¬
mind his ''pponent;. that, with little he-
he prefixes his name »o any

oompofuioa

1004 yfi^viie to Wakefield /rtf a’z ^various Currefpondents. [Nov,

compofition of his own.” This infor¬
mation, Mr. Urban, was perre6i!y un-
rieccfi'ary, as every one is fenhble tliat
Jvlr W. vjfes very little hefitation oo
luch occahons, and many liiicerely join
in a wiih that he nfed more; however,
gui qua ’Dull dicil, qua hon <vult audiit.

Why a;onviTious (Iriftures are unde-
ferving of a repiy 1 am at a lofv to dif-
cover The argument is the fame whe-
llier publiflicd with or without a name,
whether advanced by an archbiflrop or
a curate. The advantage too, if any,
lies on the fide of Mr. W, as his ob-
lersations are firengrhened by the credit
of his name, while anonymous firiclures
can only be fupported by their ints'.nlrc
merit. Mr. W’s next ailbjtion is the
boldeft and moft unfounded which was
ever advanced, even by hirnitlr. Can
then no man of underfianding, can no
lover of truth, be an advocate for cur
prefent fvllem in Church and State ? 1 o
repeat the names of thofe who have been,
and are, its able at'd difinterefied advo¬
cates, would be an ufelefs and ofienta-
tious parade of learning. That there
are feme irnpQrfeilions in t!\e prelent
fvfiern no lover of truth can lienv : the
rctmedies, however, of a quack, roe
generally w'oife than the dileale. As
long as there (haU be ejecled Chun li¬
me n a n tl d i fa ppra i n t e d No n - c o n ( o [• rn i fi s ;
w hile there lhall continue to be poor and
unprincipled Demai:,ogues, who can
only vile during the convulfions of a
kingdom , folong foal! there be fnatlers
both a gain ft Church and State; and, as
from iucli opponents little credit can be
gamed. I riirtll continue to fubhciibe rnv-
leif V'ouis, &C. PhiLELEU’I'HERUS.

ulr. UT.BAN, EeJ:nburgh, N-V 7.

i me again to rxeup) a co-
1. kitnn of vour excellent 1 feel Ian v,
a d to exprefs mv alioniihment at .Mr.
VVa kefield’s ery extrarud i na - y ieticr n
vour Lift, p'. S87. My name is too cim
feute to add vve ght to my remarks,, and
thettrore i wiL.hii J d u ; nc r ere n.y ta¬
lents luch as so command the hom.agi of
a man, whole abiii'ies and Irarnitig 1
am ready to allow aie of the firft rate.
Obfeute, htvwever, as 1 am, 1 have
ever been a fincere lover of tiuih ; and
I can afluie Mr. W. 'hat I am no d.g-
iiitary of the Eliahnjhfnent^ no Cufiom-
koufe dependant, no eeiz/rr-f; cor hanr,
no placeman, nor perjioaer •, and, in
fhort, that I am conntdled neither im-
mtiJ!.itely nor indtreClly, neither by
poiiciiioa nor expectation, with the po-

I’tical and ccclefiafiical emolument of
our prefent moft excellent and bappv
Confi iturioii iu Chuich and State.’*
Though, however, { have as little con¬
nexion with either as vour very learned
and in,:criinus correlpoudent, I feel
myfelf difpofed to admire them both,
not w th a blind attachment to all their
feveral particulars, but with a general
refpecl for their leading principles. And
I believe there are many abler and bet¬
ter .men than 1 am, and not a few, po'-
haps, in every reruecf equal to Mr, W,
boiii ill ofTo fc and out of it, both Church¬
men and of the Laity, who do the Came,
and of whom it cannot with juftice be
faid, that they are un 'er the miiji palpa¬
ble a-nd acknowledged p: ejudice. Indeed
1 am rifton died how any man of a Hire-
ral mind, in tins cniightgiied ageelpe-
daily, could have avowed lo extrao. di¬
nary an opinion, as tliat he thought it
impolfible lor any man to defend our
prejeni fyjlem in Church and S ale, wnh-
oui being either prejudiced in his judge¬
ment, or iniertf.ed in his lituation, In»i
deed, in my op nion, if any tiung can
be a lure fign of ex.reme prejudice, tlie
avowing ol Inch an opitiiun as an efta-
bljhe i maxim is that fign.

Of the letfitude of Mr. W’s condudf
I have not the f'rnalleft doubt; for hia
leainiiig, abilities, and gen. us, I iiavc
the higbeft lel'peA; nor, though I dif-
like his principles both in religion and
politicks, do i feel myfelf dilpuftd to
queftioo fhe rehftuude of h.s views in
euiier. But, though i believe him to
be a difin.ertfied and an ho-ieft. man, [
tiiii k we h-ive eouai lealon to think
jua-’-y of his opponents equally honvft
anti tquftly d dinrerefteti ; nor can i lee
any rsalMn ftjr iiis thinking
at prefeht in a ftate -of gene.} at lujama-
tro>i and degeneracy, mcieiy hecaule tiie
opuiiors of a large maj.oriiv of them are
dilFeieni fiom his own, 'i'he minds of
vaiious men are lb apt to be wrought
upon by d .ftererit circuinftances, and
tl.cir judgements lb liable to be Iwayed
b. particular allocution.'., that nothing
can be rnoie natural (.. ven if it were no
Ciiriftiari duty) titan mutual jorbear^
an:e. Nor can theie be a more palpable
in fiance c)l arrogance and jelr-luihciency
than tor a m.in to avo'.v it as 'bis opi¬
nion that he (ot the patty or left to
wiiich lie is aitached) has at length
Kiund cut the iiuth, and tlial all who
dilfer from barn, or who arc attached to
another party or lyfteiri, which he
thinks in the vviong, or are under

the

7Q4-] Advue to Mr, Wakefield from various Correfpondcnis, 1005

icinfluence of prf'j.uci iceor intereft; when
mowgil thcfc perh«|is^ n:iy, certairlv,
lere are iren of acknowledged abili-
ts, and whofe integrity cannot i'eri-
ufly be queliioncd. J do not th nk
te worfe of Mr. W. for being deternii-
ed in his opinions, provided he th nks
lem juft ; but furely he will allow that
very other man, and every other body
f men, have an equal right to (upport
heir opinions though they may differ
lom thole of Mr. W ; many of whole
ocions are certainly very novel and
ery extraordinary.

Your correlpondent was certainly iuf-
ified in repelling the attacks of anony-
noui libellers of himfeif and his wri-.
ir.»s ; butfurelv it was in a moment of
trange forgcifulnels that he let us
;now, that he was lb attached to that
c f, and ihofe wntisigs, as to Tuppole it
mpofhble for an advocate of our pre-
ent (yllem in Church and State; in
)cher words, for an opponent of his
opinions to be a nnccre lover of truth.

It is poffible many of them have treated
aim hardily ; bat it was unworthy of
sn avowed lover of truth and free cn-
r|uiry to retort with equal acrirnun v.
^'or him 1 can fee sio ex^ufe, becaufe
ills opinions are new and exttaordinary ;
for them there is this excuie, that their
opinions are more generaliy entertained,
and that they have the'fanclion of our
anceOors. General belief, and the fanc-
tion of antiquity, indeed, conhdered in
tiiemfel ves, arc no teft of truth; but
they will generally and naturally excuie
a greater warnuh in defending opinions
thus (upported, becaufe they add the
lanciion of authorry to the foice of in-
ciividu.!l convifuicu. Let us, therefore,
always tlunk weli of others, however
much tney may ciitLr from us in
(>pinu)n, urbefs thole opinions be evi¬
dently hui ilul either to ourlclves or to

the community ; and let us endeavour
to extend the influence of that chanty
nvhich ihinketh no e-uil. Convinted as
we ought to be of the redtnude of our
own piinciplts and coriduol, and deter¬
mined to (upport them with liberality
and candour, let us grant to others the
liheity wecti'l.enge to ouilelves; and
let us be ready kO make every ailo.v-
ance t'tn tor what we may take to be
the fnjudices of our neighbours. Such
a conuuSl, were it general, would liuve
a great tendency to acconirovKlate a 1
differences of o})inion ; at lead it would
caule tliern to be lels huttlul and Itls
felt. Whillt we puifue an oppofite

condu£V, we injure focicty, and do not
prcmote-ihe caule of truth; for, a man
who is violent in defence of his opi¬
nions, iiowever jufl they may be, evi¬
dently (hews either that he is under the
influence of prejudice, or that he has
fome other end in view than the pro¬
motion of truth, or the fubverfion of
error.

On thefe anonymous remarks, Mr.
L'l'ban, if is pohible your con elpondenc
Will look wMth difdaih, and he is at li¬
berty to do fo. They were not, how¬
ever, 1 can allure him, written for the
fake of controverfv, for which 1 atn
every way unfit j and I may add, that
a libr-ral mind fhould not dildatn a piece
of good ad vice, though it conies through
the humble medium of

tinAOS TH2 SO<&IAS.

Mr. Urban, AdUngfleet, Nou. 5.

1 N p. SS7 you did us the favour to
i- exhibit to our aftoniflied eyes Mr.
Gilbert Wakefield piping-hot out of tlie
thcoloRical fchooi at Hackney^ with a
ferap of Greek at the end or his letter
like the glowing tail of a comet. He
appears 10 us at this end pf the king¬
dom as if he was endowed with fome of
the properties of that phaenomenon, be-
ijiR ordained, fo we think (of Provi¬
dence primarily), a tenor to our Chuich
and State, and again the efiicient caule
of the annihilation of both. 'But flid,
Pidr. Urban, we firmly hope his eccen¬
tric evolutions and revolutions will be
performed, during his exiftence, in‘Vu-
Clio. 1 may, perhaps, ne allovved to
retort a iutle on Mr. W, and fay, as I
Jhicereiy belic'-e, that “ no lover of
truth can pollib y be an advocate for
tlie (yfiem of Sociniaiiifm for, it
amount.s to no more than this, that you
may as well believe la Dr. Piicllicy,
the excellent reviver of thole (irenge
opinions, as in Chrilt, the (on ot God ;
wh'ch is not Chnilianiry, but P^ganilm,
and miy be julLv compared to tiie reli¬
gion in Cliind eftdbiifljed by Confucus,
or any oilier philofopluc demagi.'gue.
No one, wiio ever wifhed well to the
Chriflian religion, would have publifh-
ed ceita.n of the Papeo> in the 'i'heolo-
g cul M’.lceliany, or aiferted the nuine-
icus hii hficuiions coniaiiied in many of
the DoHoi’s Vboiks, and in lonie of
Mr. Wdkenda’s. No one, who has
comnioa dilcernment, can be ignoi ant
ot the plan of co opeiattuii elLbhlhed
between the brothers, Jofepii and Ti¬
mothy Piicfiiev, bbih alike inclined m

icc6 Mackenzie's Sketch of the War with Tippoo Sultaun. [Nov.

a political view, but \^x\kappiIy diffen-
tient in their relig'ous {toiuTients. I
havt been cieditably aihoed, M'". Ur¬
ban, that Mr. Timothy P. has publicly
preached his bio. her Jofeph to the Po^-
tofnhjs putf over ar.d over aga!n> for his

here'tcj^l optnions !

i am not anonymous, Mr. W.ike-
field , but your humble fe-vant,

j. Thompson.

Mr, Ur I? AN, , No‘v. lo.

IF your warm correfpondent, p. 887,
can deny that he laid, or exprels
contrition for having laid it, “ that if be
were the French, and thev had made good
a landing in (heat Britain, he would
put man, woman, and cliihl, to the
tword,’" or words to that ehe61 (lor
which his belt friends forfooh him, and
fltd), tell him from an anonymous corrt-
I'pondent, who comes wiihm none of the
dthriiiions he lays down, tint you apd
your CO! reiponOents will alcnhe to a
tiifordtrea irnaginat’on, rather t'nan to a
coi'upted heart, the many iiard fayings
he has written and nttertd. P. P. F.

Mr. Urban, Honj. 12.

OTHITnO can Vie more dear to an
1 Enghlhman than.- the prefervacion
of the naiicnal charab^er unluiiied, or
the vindication of its henour vvheu im¬
peached. This feems to have been well
perform'* d in “A Sketch of the \4'ar
with Tippoo Suitaun ; or, a Detail of
iniirary Oneiations from th.c Comm-nce-
inent of Hohihiies at the Lures or. Tia-
'•'anccre in Decenalrer, 1789, till tire
Pe^ce concladed beiore Scr ne-ipatarn,
F' krua'V, 1792. .IP/ Rod. Mackenzie,
Lieutenant in the Fifty -1- cond Regi¬
men;.’'’ PiUirto <;t Calcutta, in 2 vols.
^to, i 793» and imp' rted by Sewell.

It is not,” L'.s hr, ^ vvb.etherthe na¬
tives of Hindoflan enjciy more co rrfort under
the Br i’.ith govenn'neut tl'ian l! ey did beloie
th -ir counirv iiad neen vifiied t)y ftrjng,e!S
of the Muirulm.'^n perfnahou, that can heie
determine. The, ; oint .it dlue is, whether
tiieii fuiierings have hern increided or dmn-
n;fhed by the intro hiCtion of Clinnians into
India? and, wiiedter the principles and
pradVice of a A'lal.o.’wdan or Cur.ltian c,o-
venment, on a cai’cid comp-. native view,
are belt calculated to render tiie aborigines
h’.pp-' }

“ !f a gi'catcr p'^ogreh in frientific komw-
IcJge and civi'ization ; if perfedV telerat-am
ii; r.lioior, !',o t ever diiCrent from leafon
and Nature ; if a ctrtam'y that rh.eir huri'eos
have not been iticrcale.! l;y their p-efent ru-

Iwio ; Uiid, tl the Coilll .elation that It IS HOC

Hindoos, but the follow/ers of Mahomed, that
have fullered by the ronquefVs of tlie Chril-
tians, can allilV in fixing a jufV criterion for
decifion, there can be little room to hefilate.

“ Britifli declaimers againll tlieir coun¬
trymen in India will find it difficult to pro¬
duce one inftance of cruelty in the EalV that
dtics not owe its invention either to the ab-
01 iginiis themltlves, or to tlieir V aliornedan
conqu/rors. 7'bey will had it difficult to
prove, that a Hinton has been at all privy to
iltefe barbarities, or that he biiS introduced
otliers in tlieir Head.

• At the puniffiments that Hindoos in Aid
on their deiinciuerits, the mold hardened
Chl'iriian would ffiudder; and, at tiie inhur
man villanies that they cmnni t under tlie
cloak of religion, his very iiair would Hand
on end.

A defpot tliat fews up inferiors in raw
hides, on the foppolicion of offence, is n 't
k'lown among Chriflians, It is not to Bri¬
tain tir-t India is im'ebt-d for the inven¬
tion of jtinc'ning wi'h do en bamboos the
extremities of the iniman frame 5 neither
was th.e pradice of burying a ddinqiivnt to
rh® chin, in an erecl polture, and cf tanta^
lizing wiih his cravings, by expofmg food
and water at a ffiort ditVance, iraporie? into
India by BriAtns ; Hill more detellable to
that people muic appear the abominable and
crut-1 wi etch that deprives bis father of ex¬
igence as fooa as he outlives the power of
felf-ma;nr.enanre, although liie ad, from iis
frequency, attrads not the leaf! I'ympt/.rn of
compaffion among tfie “ hannle{s Hindoos.”

“ From wh-itfoever delufion tlsefe unjuffc
dedarnahons prevail, it is a notorious fa<5V,
lliat one uniform attention to the didates of
humanity has inv.iriably marked the footfleps
of Britons, and the p ogrefs of their arms,
from a hiive to a Cornwallis; and thofe
wlio have ferved in iVations of refponfibility
are not to he told, that the fatigues of their
appointments are confiderahly increafsd by
the vigilance necelTary to pu event the native^
fiom cruelly abiiAng each other.

After a rchdence of many years in In¬
dia, Mr. Holweli fays, that the Gentoos, in
general, are as dr generate, cr..':y, !upeill;-r
tiom, lit'gir.us, and wicked a people, as any
race of be-pgs in the known woikl, if net
eminently more fo.

Vv'ith this abufe, however, the author
is not i;-.t'' heci ; for, in p. 206, he lays,

Abftinence, fobriety, induHry, refped
for iupviioiT, attention to the ceremonials of
religion, vv hv.a weighed in a jutt balance
agaiiilV tlieit, lyng, iweanng, dieating,
ulin'y, perjury, ext irtion, ddregard of en-
gagemenu^, a total unacqnaintance with gra^
titudv-, in ffiert, every fpecies.of low and
v.le cunning, the beam affidVed by a moll
uncommon difproponion of prelfure e'e-
eiines wi'.liout the poffibility of return to its
level. Se.ucii for monopolisj in times of

{ainii>e:

] Exir^Bs from Mackenzie’s

imiTie brought on by invafion raid rapine,

)u will find them among ft the ‘ harmlefs
hudoos,’ that you cherilh and proteil. hn-
uire after conihinations deftrucllve of every
tcial tie, vou will find them amonglt Che
yarnins of the firft order, wlmri you che-
fla and prote^ Seek, fur mevt re.ady to
ake advantage of every occafiunal derange¬
ment in ftate concerns, you will find them
1 every da's amongil tb.e Mind;*'is, fr.jni
;te rajah to the rnyt, at the time you moll
herlfh and protedl [them]. In ftmrt,
reedy, and unjoft in tlieir dealings, one
iniform prii'cinle of avarice, occalmnally
endered ftill more dangerous by ambition
nd refentment, pervades die whole Hindoo
■ace 5 and the moft fieinons crimes, even
lerjury itfel] is yainilhab’e ncitlicr ! y eccle-
iaftical or fecular law, provided the tr nf-
jrellion benefits the perjured or his prieft.'’

Otlier authors have given a Gm lar
HmaraMer of the people, who, in many
periods of their hifiory, have betn pro¬
verbial for inon.cency of manners, and
for uncommon lionefty in their conduct
towards travellers and flrangers; parti¬
cularly l\ir. Scrafton, in ]ii>> Letters on
India, though his obfervations are con¬
troverted by Mr. R. T. Sullivan, wlio
refided a coofuiei able time ia Imiia. Mr.
M’s account of the Bramins at
fiiaut can only be equalled by the Inqui-
fition in Euiope.

Amongft ihe many grievous extortions
of the bramins, o'^e that ttiey praftife hei's
is erjually irreco 'icilable to true religiun, and
repugnant to humanity. After the pilg'im
has, with the moft inflexible refulution and
perfeverance, undergone eveiy necefliiry pro¬
bation, his body is feized and caft; into a
dungeon until he delivers up all the money
of which he is poifeffed. If poverty has
fallen to his lot, and tl.at nought is left to
beftow, he is doomed to confinement, until
death, liaftened by want of fufteuuice, puts
a period to his exiftence.

“ The prifo 1 made ufe of by thefe dread¬
ful inquifuoi-s, for they have totally pervert¬
ed the inrtltutions of Brama, is furrounded
by a walled fpace, or court, of confiderable
extent. Here, in fcattered fragments, the
remains of innumerable vidlims leive to
heighten the mifery of confinement, by con-
ffantly reminding tlie unhappy devo'ees of
the fate that mult uUimately terminate tlieir
fuiferings. Juft as tlie detachment palfed
the gate of this inclofure, three bodies that
. thefe minifters of horror conveyed to feme
diftance, together with the difmal lamenta¬
tions -of the furviving piiloners, attraifted
the notice of tlie Hindoo fepoys ; and, not-

* Mr. M. here refers in a note to the fen-
tence palled t>a Ayidaunum Fuupiul'., and
ethers..

ZkHch. — "Ths Pd. ef Family* lOO’]

vvi'hftanding the utmoft attention to difei-
plinc, it bad ne.-uly been productive of fa««
t;il cc)nrequences. The e gern -fs difeovered
by the troops to liber.cte tlie un'miipy fuf-
ferer-', together with the humane interceffion
cf Colonel Cockerell, procured the enlarge¬
ment of a confiderable numbt^r. Jt was
through a mi (lake of the gniiLs that the de-
t iciiment u itnelfed thefe feenes. Some other
a'‘'ls of oppreliioii, daily praibled here, arc
of a nature by far too Ihocking to lay before
a Chriftian reader.”

Mr. U R 3 .A. N , Nov. I 3 i

HERE being; feveral rriflakes in
S. R’s account of the Pagers of
SomerfeHli ii e, p. qo.t, I beg your in-
fertion of the following coiueifionss
They proceecJ folely frotn a peiruafioa
of the nec?(Iity of giving accuracy to
what is already before the publick, and
not from any idea of fuch “ family no-
t'ces” being calculated to affoid the
Imadeft degee either of inlburuionor
amufement; o.herwiie the prelent-cotn -
niunic.ation migltt have been very much,
enlarged. As far as it gees, its au¬
thenticity may be depended upon, as it
comes from 0>^e intimateh

conveSied vi'hb the Famih.
Ths late Pvcv. Thomas Paget was, in
ths earlier part of his life, iiiafter of a
very flouriihing private grammar- fehoH
at Pointhigton, in Somerietfhire, of
which parilh he was alfo redfor by the
prefentation of his elder brother, patron
for that tarn only. In 1743, he was
appomted mailer of the gram.har- fcliool
founded by Edward VI. at Sherhoine,
Dorfet; refigned th.it employ meiu in
1751. Pie was alfo iucceliivdy reilor
of St. INIewm :n’s, Cornwall, by the
gift of Robcit Hoblyn, efq. of Nanf-
'whyden ; and re£tor of Clifton and vi¬
car of Bradford- Abbas, by that of -

Harvey, efq ; but the writer of the pre-
fent article never heard of his being at
all, certainly lie was not “ '■voarm'y, pa¬
tronized l^y S r Gerard Napier. ’

John, his lecor.d fon, was 'vicar of
Doulting, near Shepion Mallet : left a
widow and three daughters; of whom
the e'defl, by a former wife, is married
tia the Rev. Wiiltarn Phelips, next bro¬
ther of the late M. P. for SomciTetlhire,
and has feveral children. The widow
and youngeft daughter are fince dead.

Richard formriy praclifed phyfick,
having taken the degree of M. A. Jqne
never proceeded to the
do6Iorate, and has quitted the profef-
fion upwards of twenty yeass. Pie ^was
lately “ lefident a: Chiltompton,” but

removed

I003 Unlaf the Livr/fton.--—The TJyirophob'la. [No\r,

removed M’ir-'e rime fmce fo Craa-

more, nio-r Shepron Mrillet. His
cOftd 'lo'.v ^ clerTvoiHn, n ft ill of

collepc, havins; been, defied
in July lall probationer ivl ovv of that
foci'?ty.

■Widinm did not die t I! je<irs
iris father, <viz. in Augu'ft, E7?'5’
li’s daughter is married tri she Rev,
John Pep'oe Mofley, feccnd fon of Sir
John Fa ker M. of Rollefton, in the
county of S^niford, bart.

Eiiz-beih is ru.ariied to 'Thomos Hor-
jicr, e!<.!. r hoHiHS ^ if ill ^ 'Lv s is
the name of her fon.

Dr. B'fhop ?.f hot r.o^v (>hough he
once redo;- of V/ I'M t ley. He

tiuutfcd iliat living cm being pl'erenieci
to Melb in I 78;^.

1^'Tr. Urban, QSl zi>

T N your Magazine, vrd. LX. the year
A in which Lon>.hari ’ w?is publj filed
By Tvl-. Pennant, rheie are feverai criti-
ca) ternaiks upon that amurjng voiuroe;
but I am inc'intd to beoeve that the
author has advanced a very erroneous
j'u"o;eft on, nrt noticed by eirht r your
Pvt viewer or bv Lon d men hs. It i;.. at
piage 294; in wfutli, as L'Iro P. iufoims
usj Uniaf, thm Dane in the year 993,
faiied up the river (Thames) as ivgh as
Steins witi'fout isver uption.” 1 It-e "mt-
thurity cited ts Saxon Chrem. p. i^^8,
which alight be an error of the prtds
for p. 1275 hut it is evident tha-' Syane
f h e r e at e* n 1 1 o n e d m u tl 1 1 -a e b e e s 1 i U u a ted
on the coad of EaO. Kent; foi , the paf-
f.ige relei'ied to mav be tlrus tr cfloed :

An. DCCCCXCIII. In ths year Un-
laf, the Dwie, 'With ninety ■ tiiree fliips,
came to Siane (rlie Saxon word (or
lione), an.d laid waHe its confines. They
went thence to Sandvvieh, and tiicnce to
ir>f\vich, which they enrirHy laid.vvafie,
and thence to Malden.” Lanibard, in
iLrarnbui&tion of Kent, p 2C5, (ays,
lhat Stone, in the' ifle of Oxncy, muft
be ht'ie meant; but he obfeuves like-
vvife, “1 do not foiget that theie is
another towneof ties {'•one name, lyong
on the contrary fhoie of this (hire, not
lar from Ftvtrfham; to the wh ch, if
any man (iiall be diCpoled to carrie this
[, (iorie, 1 will not contend ; ontly I
Sell him, tlmt the cnnfidej ation of the
flttight cour(e of their j^H^rnev moo-
vtd me to Ly it inure.” The edi¬
tor of the Saxon Chronicle, in expiana-
tion of the names of pLces, under the
attic e Scarre, is chargeable with the
iatne ntiiliakc iniputetd to Alt. Pcnuanij

by not difiinguiifjing, in h is references,
between the atrack of the Danes on
Stone, Sandwich, Ac. and their expe¬
dition in too8, or, according to Simeon
Duneim. in tcio. Of this expeditioa
it IS rebated by Milton, who cites S ni.
Dandm. and F.'or. “ Spring begun,
ieavinir their fiiips they pafTedi through
Chiitem wood into OxfordHiire, burnt
the city, and thence returning with di¬
vided forces wafted on both lides the
Thames; but, hearing that an arnny
from London W'-as marcht out againfl
tltem, they on the N mcSi fide, paliing
tlie rwer at Stanes, joined wit!) ihem'on
the South into one body, and, enriclit
w th great f'poiis, Citne liick through
Surret? to their fn which .all the
Lent time they reipo’, red while, ac-
corduig to S rn. Dunelrn. they abode in
Kent ( dism conhjhrini in Cuntia )

Anlaf and Sw-ayci- certainly failed up
to London with 93 drips, on the Nati¬
vity of the Virgin Alii v, 111-994, threat¬
ening and endeavouring to Pur.n the
ci'y ; but the « k-:ce was .L) fti enuoufly
de'ended th.at they were oblig^ui tr) re-
tecat the iiext day. Was ir, howfevety
pi-afticable for the Danes, witli fuch a
ficet O' fh'ps, to hdv-e reached St.ains?
Even now, nr, M r. Pen nant ex crefies it,
“ juftabo’. e Kingflon irridge the Tirames
letls the lad fe-cbls fefF.>rts of a tid-',”
p. 424- And i.s there not fuflicient
ground ro prefu-rne that, in the tenth
ct'f’iury, the tide was not to r-ipid in the
viemitv of London, and did not How fo-
higfi up the river as at prefent ?

Yours, Ac. W. A D.

W. A D. is much obliged by E’s (p.
727) attention to tire enquiry alter the
filth fon of Sir GViirgf Slmgfbie (p. 615).
C(0>'ge was, hovstver, written by mif-
take tor Gtifurd, cotreeis'ed on compe¬
tent evidcnceto have been rfie CunftMa
niuTce of the comptroller of the navy.
And 1 obferve that, at p. 824, your
tor: efpondent remarks, that Guiljordy
not Gilbert, was the Ghriftian name of
tire cldcfi Ton.

M U R B .y N , Nov. 13.

ERAX A BENEVOLUS was well
V await thdt what he advanced, js,

7 So, on the hydrophobia and canine
madnefs, vvas urraily oppofite to the hif-
torical writers on that fubj.eft, and the
prelent generally- received-opinions about
u. For that reafon, and in order to re¬
move thofe prejudices, and relieve ma¬
ny diftreffed minds, he thought it a difty
to mankind to bring forward what he

has

i794-] Mr._Walthew?-~4fr/rK*ara/ Svggifllon. 1009

has done; having neither leifure or in¬
clination for coniroverfy, and vvirtiing to
communicate comfort. But, in order to
confiim and lupport what he has al¬
ready fuggefted, he recommends to fuch
S as may be fully fatisfied, or have re-
1 maining doubts, to fliew the Ihort pafa-
j graph he has written upon that fubje£l to
I the phybcians of the firft character in
j their diftri^f, and to the phyficians of
j the public County Hofpitals in their vi-
cinity, for the refult of their obfervati-
ons and experience ; being careful to
dilcrimmate what has come under their
own immediate view, and correct know¬
ledge from ail accounts and relations
from others. There is great reafon to
believe that the dreadful cafes, fo fre¬
quently related in the public papers,
originate from perfons interefted in pa¬
tent medicines for this complaint ; it is
I a natural policy, and muft have allovv-
I ance made for it, V. & B.

I _ .

Mr. Urban,

Chapter Coffee Houfe^ Nov. iz,

/NTEGER eji mentis Damafippi credit
tor? I do not defne you to print this
I faucy queftion ; but only to invite your
} correfpondent (p, 887) to drink a bottle
I of la LOte with me (vou can tell him
i where! live); when I hope to convince
i him, that Vin de ta cote is not the pro-
) duce of France, but grows in the P ys
i de Vaud, about twenty miles from Ge-
I neva. in your correfpondent’s other
I correftions of Mr. Gray, I believe him
I to be perfectly right.

j Authort, before they write, Ihould read,*

I Yes, fays Mr. Urban,

S ^Tis very true, but you proceed.

If! do, it IS only tofubferibe myfelf,

Impransus.

Sir, Hatton-Gardetif Nov. 13,

S your Magazine is read by a great
number of the Clergy, and other
gentlemen verfed in Antiquity, by gi¬
ving the following an early place, yo^
will much oblige. Yours, &c.

James Hodson.

From the books belonging to Clare-
Hall, Cambridge, it appears, that Ed¬
mund Walthew, of Kenfington, in M;d-
I diefex, was admitted to Clare- Hall,
I July 4, 1668: he was M. A. when he
’ was ele6ted Fellow Jan. 1 5, 1677. His
Fellowlhip becatHe vacant fome time,
I not more than 45 nor lefs than 30 days,
I before Sept. 24, 1692 ; and his name was
I taken off the Collcgd board in the week
Gent. Mag. November ^ 1794.

ending Nov. 1692. It is wiflied to af-
certain, where Mr. Walthew went to
refide upon leaving Clare-Ha 1. The
College had Hot, at that time, any livings
in its pationage that could v cate a Fel-
iowlhip, and it is certain his Fellowfhip
was not vacated by death. I (hall, there¬
fore, be particulcirly obliged to any per-
fon who can give me the wilhed-for in¬
telligence, which may be moft enfily ob¬
tained by Clergymen referring back to
their Regifters about 1692 or 1693. J. H.

Mr. Urban, Nov. 15.

Perhaps fome of your readers may
inform me, whether pulverized oy^.
ter-fhells have ever been tried as a top
dreliing for wheat in April and May, as
ground oil-cakes and bones, afiies and
pigeons* dung, are verv fuccefifully
ufed, and for which ground talk oc
aUbafter has been recommended, but
found not to anfvver the purpofe. Al¬
though the ufe mufl: be merely local ia
the vicinity of town, or near the beds
where the dead Ihells are thrown upon,
the fhore, I am perfuaded of its utility
within the influence, however limited.
Yours, &c. Hint.

Mr. Urban, Chefferffeld, Nov. 16. >

R. Smith, in the 48th number of
the Englifli Botany, p. in

treating of Potamogeton pujillumy writes
as 101109'$ s

The able authors of the Botanical Ar¬
rangement b^ve in this inftance not tranf-
lated the fpecihe charadler of Linnseus with
their ufual accuracy.”

This criticifm, I am forry to fay, is
but too juft, and I muft beg the reader
of that vvork, in place of “ oppofite, al¬
ternately diftin£l,” to alter the paflage to
oppofite and alternate ^ dijiinh. The
blunder however is not mine; the tranf-
lation of the fpegific charafters, previous
to about p. 197, not having been re-
vifed by me, though I occafionally com¬
municated what I confidered as improve¬
ments of fome of them, Yours, &c,
Jonathan Stokes.

Mr. Urban, Nov. 17.

HE following moft curious MS. is
copied from the original in the
library of Bcnet or Coi pus Chrifti col¬
lege, Cambridge. A tranJlaUon of it
was publifhed in the loth volume of the
AnnualRegifter; and is likewife flightly
mentioned in Dart’s Hiftory of Canter¬
bury. H. Ellis.

Teftimonius*

10 10 The BodyofWQnxy IV.

Ten-imonivim Henrici quarti corpus fuit in
Tharaefin projt;6lum et non tuitiulatum
CantuarisE. (MSS. C.C.C.G- M. 14, 197.)
“ Pofl mortem ej afdem Regis accidit quod-
i3am mirabile ad praediiili Domini R.ichardi
Archipraefulis gloriara declarandani et aeter-
nae memoriae commendandam. Nam infra
friginta dies port mortem reg\s Henrici quafti
venit quidem vir de familia cjufdem ad do-
mum Samfiae Trin'tatisde Houndeflowe, vif-
cendi caufa; et cum in prandio fermonizarent
circumRantes de prohitate morum ipfius re-
gis,rcfpondet praediddus vircuidam armigero
vocato Thomse de Ma)!deJlone, in eadem men-
fq tunc fedenti, fi fun it vi'r bonus novit Deusy
fed hoc {c\onjeri/lime quod cum a VVeftmon’
corpus ejus verfus Cantuariam in parva navi-
aula portaretur ibidem fepeliendum; ego fui
unus dc tfibus perfonis qui projecerunt cor-

PROCEEDINGS IN

H. OF COMMONS.

April 30.

HE Houfe refolved itfelf into a
Committee, Mr. Hobart in the
chair, on the Pruffian fubfidy.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer ob-
ferved, that his Majefty’s meffage re¬
ferred to two very important points ;
the firft to the treaty lately concluded
with Prulfia ; and the feepnd recom¬
mended to the Houfe the conlideration
of the means for enabling his Majetly
to fulfil the ftjpulations thereof, which
he had entered into for the more vigo¬
rous prpfecution of the prefent juft and
jieceffary war. With refpefl to the firft,
whatever might be the interefts of his
Pruffian Majefty in the iffiue cf the pre¬
fent conteft ; and whatever might be
his zeal for the caufe in which he had
engaged ; yet his fituation and circum-
ffances were fuch as to render it per-
fe£\ly impoffible for him to afford that
affiftance on fuch an extenfive fcale as
was neceffary for the cffeflual profecu-
tion of the war. To obviate this cir-
cumftance, and to enable that prince to
employ an adequate number of his ex¬
cellent troops, was the objedl of the
treaty then before the Committee, which
he thought was, in every point of view,
wifely entered into by his Mijefty. He
then took a comprehenfive view of the
ilipulation* of the treaty; namely, that
his Pruffian Majefty was to funiilh
30,000 troops in addition to his contin¬
gent, and to the number ftipulated for
hy a former treaty j the additional ex-
pence to Great Britain on this account
would be 1,350,000!. He then pro¬
ceeded to fhevv, that the terms by which

thrown Into Thames. [Nov.

pus ejus in mare inter Berkinghamet Gravef-
end j et add dit cum juramento, tanta tem-
peftas ventorum et fluiRuum irriiit fuper nos,
quo multi noblles fequenfes nos in naviculis
oflo in numei odifpc'fi funt, utvix mortis pe-
riculum evaferunt; nos vero quieramus cum
corpora in defperatione viiac noftrae pofiti
cum affenfu pro] cimusillud in mare, etfadla
eft tranquillitas magna : ciRara vero in qui
jacebat panno deaurato coopertam cum
maxirao honore Cantuariam deportavimus,
et fepelerimus earn. Dicant ergo monaclii
Cantuarise quod fepulchrum regis Henrici
ciuarti eR apud nos, non corpus ficut dixit
Petrus de S’to David.

Dens omnipotens eR teRis et judex quod
ego Clemens MaydeRone vidi virum ilium,
et audivi ipfum jurantem patri meo Thomas
MaydeRone omnia pi oedidfa fore vera.”

PARLIAMENT, 1794.

the affiftance of this great body of forces
was obtained were fuffic ently advanta-,
geous, in point pf expence, when com¬
pared with the ufual and neceffary
charges of railing Biitilh or foreign
troops. He concluded with moving to
the following effea.- “That the fum of
two millions and a half be granted to
his Majefty, to enable him to fulfil the
ftipulanon of the treaty lately conclu¬
ded with Pfuffia, entered into for the
more vigorous profecution of the war;
and alfo to provide for fuch exigencies
as might arile in the fervice of the year
1794,“

Mr. Eox, in a fpeech of confiderable
length, oppofed the relblution. He
could by no means agree that the fljpu-
lations were formed on principles of
ceconomy ; but the pecuniary part of
the queftion was, in bis mind, the leafl;
important part of it. He objedled prin¬
cipally to the very dangerous example
fet in the prefent inRance; as every
one of our allies might, on account of
pretended or real inability, apply to this
country for pecuniary affiftance. He
confidered the Court of Prulfia, after
the repealed proofs of duplicity it had
offered, as an improper ally, and not to
be depended on in any point of view.
He concluded with moving, as aa
amendment, that the fum of 1,150,000!*
be granted.

Mr. Wyndham contended that the
treaty, either in a political or pecuniary
point of view, was of lignal advantage
to the interefts of this country.

The queftion being called for, thp
Houfe divided ; for Mr, Fox’s amend¬
ment 33, againR it 34.

H. Og

Tdrllamsntary 'Proceedings of Lords and C.mmcts in 1794- lOi i

K. OF LORDS.

May I .

Prayers- being reud, their LordfTiips
heard counfel on a Scotch appeal.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
Speaker came down ; but, there not be¬
ing a fufhcient number to form a Houfe,
they adjourned.

H. OF LORDS.

May 2.

On the order of the day being read,
for taking into conlideracion the bill re¬
lative to the African (lave trade.

Lord Abingdon dated a variety of ob-
jeftions to the abolition, as fo great a
property as 70,000!. was abfolutely in¬
volved in that trade.

Lord GrenvtUe moved, that the bill
might be read a fecond tirhe on that ,
day three months j which, after a few
words from the Bifhop of Kocbejierf
Duke of Clarence, &c. was putj when,
on a divifion, there appeared,

Contents 45, Non-contents 4.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
; report of the Committee of Supply on
the fubfidy granted to the King of Pruf-
fia was brought up ; when Mr. Shiri-
I dan, in very pointed language, cenfu-
1 red the whole meafure, as expenhve,

I and not likely to be attended with any
i beneficial confequences to this country;
be animadverted with great feverity up-,
on the King of Prutlia, whom he accu-
; fed of duplicity and ambiguity.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer ad-
I mitted that it would have been better if
' the King of Prulfia had continued to aft
as a principal; but, as his finances
I would not enable him to do that, it was
evidently the intereft of this country to
I procure his afiiftance; and the terms,

I upon which that afliftance had been ob-
I tamed, were as rcafonable as could be
i expefted.

The Houfe divided; for a fecond
reading of the report 82, againft it 32,

H. OP LORDS.

May 5.

The order of the day being moved,
that the Emigrant corps bill Ihould be
: read the third time,

E. of Aibemarle objefted to the bill in
j principle, and conceived that it was a
meafure extremely unconftitutional,

I from which no good could be derived,

1 and muft tend ultimately to prolong the
I var. He was of opinion that, by en¬

gaging the unfortunate French Emi¬
grants in the lervice, it would excite
ferocioulnefs j and, as they wou d ine¬
vitably be ficrificed by their country¬
men, if t<.^ke^, it would lead to retalia¬
tion and cruelty. The eyes of the
country began to be opened ; the people
looked for peace ; and, he trufied, be- ■
fore it was too late,, that the voice of
the nation would compel his Majefty’s
Minifters to procure peace. For thele
reafons, his Lordfhip declared that he
would vote againft the bill being com-
mitred.

Lord Ua’vjkeJbury was furprlzed that
any objeftion could be offered to the
bill, as it was ftriftly conftitutional in
its principle, and humane in its inten¬
tion. He did not apprehend that the
enlifting of thofe men could produce
any thing like ferocioufnels, as they
never bore allegiance to the prefent
French Government; nor did he con¬
ceive how the enlifting of thofe men
could prolong the war. They would
be anxious to recover the property
wrefted from them ; and the war mulft
ceafe as foon as the objeft of this coun¬
try was accompliflied.

Earl of Thanet contended that the bill
was an unconftitutional one, and ex¬
tremely dangerous. He did txpeft that
his Majefty’s Minifters would have had
the proper and refpeftful decency due
to the Houfe, to have ftated the prinoi-
pfes of the bill, and adduced thofe ar¬
guments which urged them to adopt it;
but not one word was faid fiom thofe
who were the advilers of the meafure.
He lliouid, therefore, vole againft it.

Earl of Lauderdale made a vehement
fpeech againft the Minifter, for not com¬
plying with the requelt that vvas made
of him to explain the expediency, the
necelfity, and the jufiice, of the mea¬
fure which he had offered to the confi-
deration of Parliatnent. He called it a
fanguinary bill, calculated to make
Frenchmen cut Frenclmien’s throats,
not at all conliftent with the ideas of
national jultice, and therelore fhould
have his negative.

Lord Auckland was of opinion that the
enlifting of Enngrants was a wile'm'ea-
furc; for, we had the belt lecurity and
pledge tor their conduct ; they entered
voluntarily into the fervicc of their king
and country^

The Duke of Bedford objefted to th«e
prelent bill, becaule ne though u ratbeic
a dangerous meafure, wheiner it wa&
meant as a chauiable provifion tor the

Emigiants^,

1012 Pariiamefitaf'y Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1/94*

Emigrants, or as an auxiliary force to
this couniry.

The M 11 quis of Lanfdonun reprobated
the conduct of Prulfia — extolled the
idea of peace— »faid, he had feen two
rvars, both unpopular — infifted we could
not conquer France — and gave his ne¬
gative to the bill.

Several other Lords fpoke for and
againft the third reading of the bill;
tvhen the qiiieftion was put, and there
were for the motion 54* it 7.

It! the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
5. 1’hornton prefented the contractors
bill ; which was read the firft time.

New writs were ordered for Derby-
fiire, and for Tregony in Cornwall.

H. OF LORDS.

May 6.

Earl Stanhope oppofed the third read¬
ing of the Emigrant corps bill, and was
proceeding to date his objections to it
in very violent language, when he was
interrupted by

Lord Sidney, who faid, that he was
about to do what he had never yet done
in either* Houfe of Parliament, _ but
which the prefent occafion fully jufti-
fied. The fpeech of the Noble Earl
■was not, he was convinced, intended
for their Lordfhips, bat for the friends-
of that Noble Lord, with whom he had
crowded the bar. How unfit fych lan¬
guage was to go forth, all their Lord¬
fhips mull be convinced. He therefore
moved, that the Houfe be cleared.

Lord Grenville with warmth expreffed
his indignation at the language that had
Iseen ufed; and would not fufFer ftran-
gers to quit the Houfe with a notion,
that the doCfrines of the Noble Lord
would not meet with the marked oppo-
fition, nay reprobation, of the whole
Houfe,

Earl Stanhope was about to proceed ;
when the bar was cleared, and ftrangers
were not re-admitted dufing the debate.

Tn the Commons, the fame day, the
bill for granting the fum of 2,500,000!.
to his Majefty, to enable him to fulfil
his engagements with the King of Pruf-
ha, was read the firft time.

May 7.

The Dover harbour bill was prefent¬
ed, and read the firft time.

The Houfe in a Committee; the
ftanding orders refpeCling navigation
bills were reported, and agreed to,
with amendments and aiieraiious; and
4

were declared ftanding orders, and or¬
dered to be printed and difperfed,

H. OF LORDS.

May 8.

Their Lordfiiips, after their return
from Weftminfter-hall, fent a melTage
to the Commons, that they would pro¬
ceed farther in the trial of Warren
Haftings, efq. on Monday.

In the Commons, the fame day, a
melTage was received from the Lords,
that they had agreed to a bill for relief
of infolvent debtors, to which they de-
fired the concurrence of that Houfe j it
was accordingly read the firft time.

H. OF LORDS.

May 9.

Counfel were heard in the cafe of
Gibfon and Hunter, refpeCling bills of
exchange.

When the arguments were finilhed.
Lord Tdburlonx) propofed a queftion to be
referred to the Judges 5 upon which
they are to give their opinion this day
fe’nnight.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr,
Dundas abletved, that fomc time ago a
plan had been in contemplation to erect
penitentiary houfes in different parts of
the kingdom ; which had been aban-
, doned on account of the great expence
attending it ; but that obftacle did not
now exift, becaufe he was able to ft^,
that the money earned in thefe houfes
would be fufficien:; to defray the ex-
pences. luftead of fending perfons on¬
board the hulks, he ftiould propofe to
fend them to a penitentiary houfe j and,
with refpeft to the hulks, that they
llrould ferve as receptacles to perfons
under fentence of tranfportation pre¬
vious to their failing, but that they
fh ould not be employed in hard labour
while on-board. Upon thefe grounds
he moved for leave to bring in a bill,
for eredling a penitentiary houfe, or
houfes, in the parifli of Batterfea.

Leave was granted.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, upon
a motion to go into a Committee upoa
the woolcombers bill, obferved, that
the objedl of this bill was to prevent the
ufe of certain machines in the woollen
manufatlure, which would tend to de-
creafe manual labour; the principle of
this bill was to prevent the exercife of
ingenuity, and he fhould therefore op-
pofe it*

A fliort

Parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons In 1 794* 1015

A fhort converfation then enfued ;
iftrr which the Houfe divided \ for the
Jill 24, again ft it 67.

H. OF LORDS,

May 14.

A meffage from his Majefty was
brought down by Mr. Dundas, which
is as follows :

<< George R.

His Majefty, having received informa¬
tion, that the fediiious practices, which have
been (or feme time carried on by certain So¬
cieties in London, in correfpondence with
Societies in different parts of ithe country,
have lately been purfued with increafed ac¬
tivity and boldnefs, and Wave been avowedly
tlire6led to the objedt of affembling a pre¬
tended General Convention of the people,
in' contempt and defiance of the autliority of
Parliament, and on principles fubverfive of
the ex’iftmg Laws and Conftitution, and cli-
redtly tending to the introdudfion of that
fyftem of anarchy and confufion which has
fatally prevailed in France, has given direc¬
tions for feizing the books and papers of the
faid Societies in London, which have been
feized accordingly : and, thofe books and
papers appearing to contain matter of the
greateft importance to the public in'ereft,
his Majefty has given orders for laying them
before the Houfe of Commons ; and his Ma-
iefty recommends it to the Houfe to confider
the fame, and to take fuch meafures there¬
upon as may appear to be neceffary for ef-
fedlually guarding againft the farther profe-
cution of tliefe dangerous defigns, and fo pre-
ferving to his Majefty’s fubjeddis the enjoy¬
ment of the blefiings derived to them by tlie
Conftitution happily eitablifiied in thefe
kingdoms. G. R,.”

Mr, Dundas then faid, that, as the
papers in queftion were extremely vo¬
luminous, and as it was ftill uncertain
whether it would be right to print the
whole of them, though he did not think
that it would be poliible to bring the
matter forward ; yet, as that might be
the care,<» he Ihould move, that the mef-
fage fhould be taken into confiderarion
lo-raorrow; which was agreed to.

H. OF L O R D
May 13.

The Biftiop of Rochefier moved, that
the Sunday bill be committed on Thurl-
day next, and that the Lords be fum-
moned upon it. Ordered.

Tn the Commons, the fame day, Mr,
Dundas brought up a large packet, feal-
ed up, confiftipg of papers feinted from

feditious Societies, as flatec! in his Ma¬
jefty’s gracious meffage of yellerday to
the Houfe.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer mo¬
ved, that, in ®rder to the Houle takifig
it into confideration, his Majefty’s mef¬
fage fhould be read.

The Speaker having accordingly read
the meffage, an addrels of thanks to his
Majefty paffed nem. con.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer then
moved, that the Committee be a Com¬
mittee of Secrecy.

Mr. Fox expefted to have heard at
leaft fome precedent cited on this fub-
jeft. As to the reafon of the mealure,
if he underftood the few words which
had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentle¬
man, it confifted in a fear of expofing;
names which might be poftibly implica¬
ted, The force of this, however, he
did not perceive, as the nicffage did not
point at any profecution, but as a
legiflative provifton. For the inquift-
torial functions of the Houfe no one
had a higher refpeft, or was more firm¬
ly perfuaded of their ufe; but he did
not think them at all involved in this
fubjeft. He law, therefore, no necef-
fity for fecrecy. All legiflative pro¬
ceedings, on the contrary, were public
and open.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer dated
the cafe of Layer in 174a as d!re£tly ia
point. He then moved, that the num¬
ber of the Committee be twenty-one.

INIr. Fox did not object to that num¬
ber; but wilhed to enquire more mi¬
nutely how the papers came into the
poireftion of his Majefty’s Miniflers.
The meffage, as to this fubjedf, he
thoug^ht rather obfeure 5 itdid not ftate,
by virtue of a warrant ifi'ued on charge
or fufpicionof treafon or felony; yet he
wifhed to know on what other pretence
it could be called legal: no leditious
practice fhort of thole offences was, in
his opinion; liable in law to a feizureof
papers, or apprehenfion of perfon. Such
was tlie recorded opinion of that Houle ;
and which, though not definitive au¬
thority, was entitled to high refpeft.
In Wilkes’s cafe, in 1766, the illega¬
lity of general warrants was a queftion
fludioufly kept diftin6l from the illega¬
lity of a feizure of papers on a charge of
feditious libels. Unlefs, therefore, a
diftindlion was made out between that
offence and feditious pra6lices fliort of
treafon or felony, this determination
governed the prefent cafe. Without
farther explanation, he Ihould, there¬
fore.

10 r4 Parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in T794.

fore, feel himfelf bound to oppofe this
morion.

Mr. Dundas faid, that the report of
the Secret Committee would afford the
Right Hon. Gentleman the additional
information he wiflied for, and would
enable the Houfe to judge for itfelf. As
to the obfcuntv and doubt complained
of, they were eafily removable. ^he
arrefi and feizuns njoere all made tinder
nvurrantj changing treajmabie p^aSices,

The motion was pur, and carried.

It was next moved, that the Secret
Committee of twenty-one be appointed
by ballot j which was agreed to.

The Speaker fubmitted to the Houfe,
that, agreeably to ufual pra6t ce, under
the prefent circumftances, the papers
fhouid be put into the cuftody of the
clerk, till the Committee was appointed.

Thit was accordingly doBe.

H. OF LORDS.

May 14.

Proceeded farther in the trial of
W^arren Haftings, e('q.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
©rder for proceeding to ballot for k
Committee of Secrecy to infpeft the
books and papers laid before the Houfe,
fcaled up by command of his Majefty,
and to report their opinion of the C*me,
being moved, the Houfe piofceeded to
ballot for a Committee in the ufual way,
when the following gentlemen were
defied ;

Mr. Pitr,

Mr. Ekindas,

Mr. W. Ellis,

Mr. Wyndbam,
Attorney-general,
Solicitor- general,
The Lord Advocate
of Scotland,

Mr. T. Grenville,
Mr. Steele,

Mailer of the Rolls,

Mr. Jenkinfon,

Sir H. Houghton,
Lord Offory.

Mr. Powys,

Lord Mornington,
Lord Mulgravc,
Mr. H. Browne,
Mr. Anllruther,
Col, Stanley,

Mr. C. Townfhend
Mr. Burke.

Thefe gentlemen were appointed a
Committee, or any five of them, to ad:
as above.

The Committee were ordered to meet
fo*morrowj and empowered by the
H oufe to fend for perfons, papers, and
records i to adjourn from place to place,
and from time to time, noiwithfianding
any adjournment of the Hoieife.

H. OF LORDS.

May 15.

The Sunday bill palled without any

oppofition. The other bills on the ta*
bie were forwarded through their re«
fpeftive ftages.

In the Commons, the fame day, Ad¬
miral Sir Richard King took his feat for
Rocliefter.

Howard's divorce bill was read the
third time, and palfed.

H. • F LORDS.

May 16.

In a Committee of Privileges, Coun^
fel were heard on a claim of Tho. Sta¬
pleton, efq. of Coulfon, in the county
of York, to the barony of Beaumont.

Counfel were heard on a writ of er¬
ror, Henry Littledale, efq. noerfus the
Earl of Lonfdale.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer prefented
the hrfi report of the Secret Committee"
relatiye to the books and papers of the
London Correfponding Society and that
for Conftitutional Information ; which
was read by the clerk at the table. It
was of confiderable length ; the follow¬
ing is a brief outline :

It iiaied that, in this early period of
their inveftigation, the Committee deem
it neceffary to acquaint the Houfe, that
the* have already found that the pro¬
ceedings of the Societies in queftion have
been, and are likely ftill to be more fo,
produftive of fuch efFe£ls as require the
moft vigilant attention, and the imme¬
diate interpofition, of the Legiflature,
It then proceeded to detail the hiftory
of the two Societies, particularly the
London Correfponding Society, from
their firft formation to the prelent pe¬
riod, their plan of general communica¬
tion with various other focicties in Great
Britain and Ireland, and the various
communications which have taken place
between them and the Convention and
Jacobin Society in France. It laid par¬
ticular ftrefs on the later proceedings of
both Societies, particularly the refolu-
tions pub ifhed at a meeting of the de¬
legates of each, and the invitation gi¬
ven by the Correfponding Society to
d.ffercnt county afibciations to appoint
delegates for the purpofe of arranging a
plan for a General Convention of the
people, to be held at fome centrical fi-
luation, to be fpecified when all the an-
fwers Ihall be colkfied. It dwelt with
much force on feveral inflammatory re-
folutiofts of the late Society, wherein

they

^avUaTnsyitQTy Pfocuditigs of LtOfds and Commotis tn iyQ4»

jl!iey avow a deHgn to watch over the
3condu£V of the Leeifiv^tute in the pre-
ifent feffion of parliament, and, >n cafe
^that certain meafures therein Ipecified,
as the fufpenlion of the Habeas Corpus

> A£f, the introdu6iion of foreign troops
jnto the kingdom, See. were authorised
’by Parliament, they declare their de-
I termination to appeal to the people at
(large for redrefs; and, laftly, that the

> Committee had ftrong reafons to be-
I lieve, that large ftands of arms had been
' c«'lIe6Ved by thefe Socierie^s, in order to

d^ftnbute them among the tower orders
’ of the people, &c. &c. Particulars to
j the above efFe^ were given in a general
j but very ftrong manner in the report;

: and it wa's intimated, that the Commit-
; tee would, at fubfequent periods, detail
i l^articularly to the Houfe what fhould
appear necelfary to them.

The Chancellor of ihe Exchequer then,
^at fome length, but with peculiar ani-

Itnation and effeft, expatiated on the
very important topicks ftated in the re¬
port ; he obferved that, even from the
curfory ftatement of what had already
appeared to the Committee, it was ma-
nifeft that the Societies in quellion had a
fettled determination, and were on the
very eve of executing their purpnfes, of
calling together a Convention of the
lower orders of the people, and attempt¬
ing to aflfume ail the p®wers and func¬
tions of the Legiftalure and Govern¬
ment of the kingdom, and thereby to
introduce that fyftem of bloodihed, ty¬
ranny, plunder, and robbery, which
the Jacobin influence had entailed on
the devoted inhabitants of France. It,
therefore, became the duty of Parlia¬
ment to interpofe in an effe61ual man¬
ner. What he would propofe, and
which he very much regretted that the
exigence of the moment forced him to
propofe, was a temporary fufpenfion of
what certainly was one of tie deareft
rights of the fubje61:, and the principal
blclfings of our happy Conftitunon ; but
which, in order to preferve the whole
fabrick from deftrudlion, ought for a
time to be chearfully refigned. He
meant to propofe^j^ that a temporary
power fhould be conveyed to Govern¬
ment, to detain fufpeifted perlons in
cuftody ; a power which, in the prefeat
crifis, was unfortunately neceffary. He
then moved, “for leave for a bill to
empower his Majefty to fecure and de¬
tain foch perfons as his Majefty fufpefts
are confpiring againfl his perfon apd
\ government,*’

Mr. FoXi at fome leiagth, oppofedthc
motion ; and obferved that, with re-
fpe£l of the report juft made, lie was
never more furprized; an, inftead of
what he had been led to expeft by what
had palled relative to the bufinefs in the
Houle, there came out a recital of what
was long lince known to -every indivi¬
dual in the kingdom through the me¬
dium of the public prints, and had been
very frequently adverted to in th; t
Houfe, The right of alTenabling in any
number was one of the deareft rights of
the fubje£f, and which had been often
exercifed by alTemblies of which mem¬
bers of that Houfe formed a part; pe¬
titions were received from fuch bodie«,
whereby Parliament acknowledged fuch
right. With refpeft to the defign*
charged on thofe Societies, he could not
think that they harboured any fuch-
But, were they mad enough to do fo,
he thought that committals to Bedlatn
inftead of to ftate-prifons would be the
proper punifhment. He was well con¬
vinced that, in the prefect temper of
the great body of the people, which wa*
never more affeftionaie or loyal to their
King and Confticution,, were one hun¬
dred of fuch peop.e to pretend to exer-
cife legiflative funflions, they would not
be obeyed by another hundred in the
whole kingdom ; fuch an attempt would,
therefore, hold up its authors only to
ridicule and chalUfement. But, even
were there any apprehenfions of fuch an
evil, he would much rather rilk it than,
incur the real and pernicious evil now
propofed by the Right Hon. Gentleman,
which was, in elFe6f, a complete fur-
render of the Conftituiion, and of the
perfonal liberty of the fubjefl, to the
mercy of the Minifter. He muft, there«.
fore, refill fuch a meafure to the uimoft
of his power.

MelTrs. Robin/on and Martin laid each
a few words againft the bill.

Mr. Lambtan faid, there was no proof
that the perfons who meant to meet had
arms ; it was only ftated that there was
reafon to believe fo.

Mr. Harrtfon thought the meafure fo
dangerous, that Parliament ought to be
kept fitting the whole lummer if the bill
was to be adopted ; and Minifters fhould
be bound to give in the names ol per¬
fons taken up if it pafl'ed. If perfons
affembled with arms in their hands,
there were laws fufScient to punifh that
oven a6t without the prefent mealure,
Mr. Bur don exprefled his peife^t ap*
probation of the bill.

Mr.

iDi6 Paritammiary Proceedings of Lords and Commons In 1794*

Mr. Grey faid, that no ftep to To im-
ixirtant a meafure as that now brought
forward ou^ht to be taken upon truft.
lie would not enter at length into the
chfcufiion of it at prefent, A cal! of
the Houfe thought extremely necef-
iary, and was never more furprized than
loftnd Miniftcrs not of the fame opinion.

Mr. Wiglet fupported the motion.

Mr, Jekyll (aid, that the fubOance of
the report which he had heard read had
been laft year i.n every news paper, and
be never, he faid, was more aftoniflied

than to‘hear it mad? the ground of fo
folartning an application as that of de¬
ft royirg the heft part of the ConRitu-
ri'on ; particularly when a great part of
the ccnciufil' related of thefe Societies
I:^ad been formerly purfued by an ho¬
nourable gentleman oppoRte him. The
ordinary means were open to Govern¬
ment of punifhing feditious perfons, in-
Read of having recourfe to extraordi¬
nary means.

The queRion was now loudly called

fur j when

Mr. Sheridan declared he could not
give a blent vote on an occaRon of fo
unprincipled a meafure as the prefent
being brought forward. It was to tell
the French, that danger and rebellion
v/ere prevalent in this country, and that
fhe ConRitulion was to be delivered up
to the King. It was neither illegal nor
criminal to fit in meetings j and he had
a right to believe that the power given,
by the prefent bill would be abiifed.
Wherever there was guilt, there let
the broad axe fall. The perfons who
bad a^led traitorouRy or feditiouRy
might be puniRied by the laws already
exiRing. The bill, he conceived, fhouid
be extended only to thofe who met in
Societies, and not to the country at large,
by w'hich the King was to be made an
abfoluie defpot.

Mr. Burke faid, the greateft inRitu-
tions in the world, the moft flounfiring
kingdoms, and the moft fplendid wealth,
have been deiiroyed by low ©bfeure
peidbns,; and therefore the danger to
be apprehended on the prefent oceafion
was great, becaufe likely to come from
men of that de^criptiun j and there were
perfons of rank and fortune who would
be foon found to head them. He did
not 'believe that any member of the
Houfe of L Olds or Commons would do
ib. Many perfons had confplred, and
the con/piracy had juft ripened, and
been gone on with on theFrench model.
It lind been laid, that liberty of fpeech

would be deftroyed by the bill ; juft as
much as it had been on former fufpen-
Rons of the Habeas Corpus a6f. That
fufpenfton he now conceived abfolutely
neceffary, in order to preferve the lives,
liberties, and properties, of the people
oj this country.

Mr. Sheridan rpfe to explain.

The Attorney ‘general fupported the
motion.

The Houfe then divided on the
Chancellor of the Exchequer’s motion j
when there appeared,

For the motion 20 r, againft it 39.

Mr. Grey then moved, that there be at
call of the Houfe upon this important
fubjedt; when another debate enfued |
and on a di»iRon there appeared.

For the motion 38, againft it 191.

Mr. Fox again called for the moft fe^
rious attention of the country gentle¬
men. Before they agreed to hurry this
important bill through the Houfe, they
ought well to confider the account
which they would render of their con-
du61: to their conftituents.

Mr. Burke and the Attorney-general
urged the dangers arifing from delay,
in a cafe where every thing was in rea-
dinefs to carry into effeff a plan of ge¬
neral infurreftion. To preferve our li¬
berty, it was neceflary to make a tem¬
porary refignation of it.

The bill was then brought in, and
read the firft time. Upon a motion for
its being read a fecond time immedi¬
ately, the Houfe divided, after fome
debate; for the fecond reading 186,
againft it 29.

A motion was then made for the
Speaker to leave the chair in order to
go into a Committee. The Houfe divi¬
ded ; 'for the motion 168,“ againft it 22.

Mr. Courtenay moved, that the Houfe
do new adjourn.

For the motion 24, againft it 145.

There was another divifion upon a
tlaufe in the Committee, in which the
numbers were 154 againft 25.

Major Maitland moved, that the
Houfe do adjourn till three o’clock.

The Speaker informed the honourable
member, that the general motion of
adjournment Riould firft be put.

Major Maitland then moved, that
the Houfe do now adjourn. This was
'negatived, on a divifion, by a large ma¬
jority.

The bill was then gone through in
the Committee, the report received,
and the third reading fixed for to¬
morrow. ^Fo be continued.)

J78, ’The

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1 7 94-]

178. The Life of John Hunter.

By Jehe Foot, Surgeon. ~

HJS is the moft ex trad'd in ary piece
of biography we h^ve ever perufed.
ifFhe writer fhall expio.in his own mo¬
tives: “ I muh he content with teiiing
|;hat I write more to inform than to
ipraife, more for example tlian glorv ;
hhat J intend to rea!on from conle-
^uences rather than to flrike the mind
with Ipitnthd arrracfojns of admiration
for the character 1 am about to cifplav.
jNor dots it fohow, becaufe I undertake
to write the profefhonal life of John
IH unter, I am indulging myftlf upon a
jfubjeif mod. (uiting to my will, or com-
ing with the bent of my mod favour¬
ed inclination. I can obtain by this i^o
■reputation 1 had not earned before. I
5can dilplay no power opportunity had
mot given me ; the fubjciSf admits of no
iihetorical declamation which my ambi-
Ition or imaginati n ever tliirded after.
'I might be, in truth, only conddered to
be purfuing what I began, only com¬
pleting what I undertook in his life¬
time, fiom an intention of doing judice
to my own undertaking, when Tome,
who W’ere older than me, declined it,
and the younger dared not attempt it.
And I will not prefume but alTer: the
privilege of exercifing the rcfult of a
profeffional education, and abiding the
ted of folid judgement in an inquiry af¬
ter truth. To allay the tender appre-
henfions of thofe who plaintively ex-
prefl'ed their fears and anxieties for me,
and who perfuaded me to decline the
work; to enlighten the blind admiration
of thofe who, never having read a fingle
line of what he has written, believed
him to have been the fird burgeon of his
time; and to inform the implicit but
zealous pupil, who, relying upon the
truth and integrity of his raader, with¬
out confuking his own underdanding,
was perfuad«>d that the lated difeoveries
and newed opinions of John Hunter
could not be found already regiflered in
foi mer authors ; this profcfTional life, if
I midake not, will be found to be not
badly calculated” (p. 7).

John H. was younger brother of the
late Dr. William Hunter, and born in the
county of Lanerk about 1728, and cer¬
tainly was a wheelwright, or carpenter,
till the event (<f liis brother beconh.ng a
public lefluicr in anatomy charged the
fcheme of his future occupations. His
fir ft proftliional performance was pub-
lifhed in William Munrer’s Medical
Gent. Mag. Nj^vtmbtr, 1794.

1017

Commentaries, as if it had been written
by John Hunter in 1756 (whether ic
had appeared in anv other way before, I
cannot tell), and judified fome difputcs
about anatomical difeoveries between
the two Hunters and, three Monroes of
Edinburgh, which extended to three
different difeoveries, and involved in
them, beddes, the iiludrious Dr. Haller,
of Gottingen, and the latepercival Pott.
The amount of this feems to have been
merely who had the bed claim to prio¬
rity of difeovery, or publication of it in
print or on plates. Such was the injec¬
tion of the reftis, the ufe of the lymphatic
veins, in which lail Akenfide was made
a party. Here Mr. F. takes occafion to
pay the following tribute to the memory
of Henry Watfon, who died Sept. 30,
1794, ^ after John Hunter;

“ He was burgeon to the Middlefex
hofpital at its fird commencement, but
refigned that for the Wellminder infir- •
mary, at which he continued to the day
of his death. Some time ago, being
tendered infirm by a paralytic ftroke, his
end was haflened by the alarm of a fire
in Rathbone-place, in the vicinity of his
boufe. He died very far advanced in
years. He had formerly read leiflures on
anatomy in the Borough, and pofTcfled a
very extendve w^ell-chofen colle61ion of
anatomical preparations. He was F.R S.
and publidied many papers in the Philo-
Ibphical Tranfafiiions, and in the Lon¬
don Medical Journals. He had been a
very good operator, and a furgeon of
found judgement, very eafy of accels,
and moded in his communications. He
was one of the examiners at Surgeons’--
hall. When in his duty he never con-
trafied the frowning brow to confound
the diffidence of youth, but, bv the pla¬
cidity of his' demeanour, (olicited a dif-
play of the knowledge they poircffed.
He had a confiderable tafte for mufick,
and filled up his leifure-hours with the
fdace of harmony” (pp. 22, 23.). —
“ The ccliple which overfliadowecl the
anatomical honours of the Englilh na¬
tion from the public lofs of Hewfon was,
a ffiorc time after, dillipated bv the fuc-
cefilon of Sheldon, tlte pieicnc proftlTor
of anatomy to the Royal Academy” (p.
37)-,

Tlie next difpute was on the difeovery
of the bsrnia congenita, which the Hu.n-
ters charged Fercival Pott with dealing
from Dc Haller, and originally fromi
them. There never w'lil be an iti-
ftance produced where any thing was

obtaineid

Review of New Puhlkatknu

10 18 Review of New Puhikatlons* [Nov.

©Vttained from tbe Hunter? that referred
to the improvement of fcience, which
they chofc to conceal, and where, from
their luxury in imparting infornDaiion,
an.y advantage of them couJd have been
pofliblv taken. The reafon for thtlr
thus guarding all tiieir proceedings can¬
not efcape him who is furnifhed, like
me, with a clue diredlly leading to their
hearts, who has acquired that fnajier-
fiecs over their motives as direftly to
account for all their undertakings by
iiifcerning the intentions which induced
them to fee about them” (p. 48). It is
“ an infallible axiom, that no one is ever
fo Orenuous fm' the reputation of genius
as he who has it not; and that no one is
ever fo carelefs of that gift of Nature as
he who has it, Genius fits eal'y upon
irim who intrinfically poIfelFes it : he
neither feels importance nor dignity from
Ids own conception of its value, becaule
he cannet fay it be’ongs to him in any
other than a relative lenfe. He mult
derive his title to it from the approbation
of thofe who alone can ef imate the fruits
of his inventinn. ]f ever there wtws an
inftance where two men have fo often
been difappoinved, by miftaking tlieni-
ielves, as theH-. nters, I know not where
to had it. All their diligence, their art,
anti ti.eir contefts, only prove that tb.ey
ib, ugvfiL'd indeed for it, hut could never
n a reputation bearing the fmallelt
vcfemblauce to men of genius” (p. 51).
“ Tile three ciilputes above mentioned
were carried on in the Critical Review;
and the {' fiem of that unciei taking was
in greet meafare broken in upon to be
made ( ui)fet vient to the purpoles of the
Hunters, who had obtained tiiat alcend-
aacy over the editor as to command his
fervices in the promotion of any caufe
tliat their views or ambition fuggefed.
All tlie attacks and all the replies of the
Hunters were reviled, corredltd, and
pubhfeed, under the immediate ete, in¬
fluence, and direction, of Smollct” (pp.
(>o, 6i). la all his own publications
}ohn Hunter only furnifhed the images,
and the writing patt was alwavs per¬
formed by anorlier; he prcp.ired the
fkeleton, and aaoth r covtr.ti it with
coinpofiiion; he found the materials, and
another made them up into drtlfes for
t'le j.mhijck ; lie was incapable of put¬
ting lix lines tc gether grammatically in¬
to Eiigiiflj ; ami at ids leHurej he was
often fouiid fo far incapable of making
out rhv fenfe of his GWa notes as to pais
Dici the fuhjedi they were meant to ex-
It vv-.s owing 10 want of educa*

tion that his notions of things were fo
very imperfedf, and his conceptions fo
very contraftecl ; inftances arifmg from
this original defe6t are to be found
throughout his images; and, if they had
been confined to them alone, they might
have palled without obfervation ; but
they operated ftrongly on bis conduct
towards otVicrs; and not only the profef-
fion, but thofe who follow it, have expe-
lienced, in a very unpleafant degree, his
vulgarity from a want of the polilh of
educadon” (p. 60). — Mr. F, by this
epifodical digrefbon- m.eans only to af-
fert, that John Hunter never was the
author of any produHion which has ap¬
pealed under his name (p. 62). He
makes another epifode with an abftradt
of Henry’s life of De Haller (p, 65 —
70), who was born in 1708; made pro-
felTor of anatomy, botany, and furgery,
at Gottingen, by George II. ; was made
a baron of the Empire, and eledfed a
member of the fovereign council of
Berne, wlrere he died 1777.

Part 11. treats cf John Hunter’s en¬
trance into the army, with confequent
trunfaclions to 1770. From the a.counC
which William gives of his brother, in
his Commentaries, John had, during hts
ciiiTedlions for him, experienced fome fe-
verc indifpofirions, which retarded his
progrels in anatomical engagements ;
and this might have been one caufe why
he renounced the le6fure- room, or at
leaff relaxed fcmevvhat of that fevere ap-
plication which was demanded from him,
wh/O was hereafter to become what his
brotb.er then was, an anatomical reader
of fome eminence. Perhaps the caufe of
ill health, together wicli his want of
education, and without knowledge of
the technical terms of the art, or ability
to deliver, either orally or by w'riting,
thofe neceffary formula found in pre-
feriptions, deterred him at that time
from purfuing anatomy with any intent
of becoming hereafter a regular teacher.
There muff have been fome fuch reafon
for his abruptly declining this purfuit for
the army ; as he, who was wanted to if-
fiff his brother before, and when the
fame of his lectures was annually in-
creafing, muff equally be defireable
when that fame had ciouded the theatre;
vicreo’Vf^r than all this, in the ahfence of
John Hunger, another fupplied his place,
which pioves, at ieaff, that he was not
then fuited to the undertaking. This
was the commencement ot iiis being a
furgeou; agd, in May, 1756, he became
the houfe-furgeon to St. George’s liofpi-*

J794‘] Review of New

tal ; in which fituation he continued only
for about five months, refi^ning the of¬
fice in Septemijcr following;. 'He fuc-
ceeded to Hopkins, and was fucceeded
by Gunning, the prefent worthy I'ur-
geon-genernl to the army. Upon the
ltri6fert enquiry, 1 have reafon to be
perfuaded this was all the furgical edu¬
cation John Hunter ever received ; and,
to my own knowledge I can fpeak it,
that the petiod of five months duration
at the holpital, in the office of houfe-
furgeon, is the fnorteft which can be
found in tlie unerring journals of hofpi-
tals, the ufual time being generally
twelve months” (pp, 74, 75). He con-
flantly afTerted tlrat he never read; which
Mr. F. iuppofes a piece of affedation in
hmi, and that he did read. In order to
lay a foundation for becoming a prd6ii-
cal lurgeon, he ootaincd an appointment
on the flafF in the army; and, in 1761,
was with the army that took Belleiile,
and, the next year, in Portugal. In that
kingdom he created a faction, and a
fubfequent difguft, which brought on an
explanation from Mr. Tomkins, who
drew' his fword on him, which was
fheathed without the quarrel being re¬
conciled. On his return t'i England, at
the dole of the war, he took a houfe in
Golden Square, and here commences his
firft career of a Lmndon iurgeon. He
opened a room for dilTedions, and de-
monhra''ed fuhjecls to his pupils ; and
he, or fome one elfe for him, put into a
condition thofe papers on tlic irjeftion
of the teftis, the ablorption by veins, the
P.ate of the teflis in the feetus, and the
hern'a congenita, which were not pub-
liiLed till 1764. In February, 1767, he
was clrolen F.R..S. ; and, 1768, futgeon
to Sr. George’s hofpital, in the room of
iCataker; in 1770, removed to Jermyn-
fireet. The piaciice of lurgeiy at this
time, or for long after, afferded no
opening 'for him ; Hawkins, Bromfisld,
Sharpe, and Pott, etnbraced ahnofi tire
whole of family-pradlice ; whilft Adair
I and Tomkins carried from him the chief
of the practice derived from connexions
formed in the armv. Mis (ble dependence
tyas on his anatomical machinery, and
from that he drew the greatdl advantag®
it could poffibly admit. He hau the arc
of giving a coiile<[uence to every thing
that he did, by the dextrous ufe he marie
of his anarornica’ machinery. He aimed
to be admired rather tlrrm ufefu!, mar¬
vellous than true, difficult than imper-
fc£V. Of this I fpeak from a thorough
fonvuSlion that; if John Hunter had cx-

Puhluations, jqj^

perienced a better education, he never
would have gone the length which Ije
did, nor fucceeded fo highly” (p. S3). — •
“ His profelbonal delight was rl.e fludy
of the animal oeconomy ; hue Iiis ambi¬
tion carried him beyond the uftful pro-
fecution of that ff.ience, fo flattering to
the laudable difpofition of rhofe who
purluc it purely for information. He
was never difeovered in attemocing to
explore the occurrences moft necelTary
to be accounted for, as the pride of his
heart was only to fcle6f an obTcure fub-
jedf, wliich involved in it lo much mat¬
ter of wonder as to raife the public at¬
tention, or to make that his own whicii
another had juft taken up before him.
He cared rot about the truth, nor the
ufe which might be made of any invefti-
gation in nature, if he could give his
fubjeft the air of novelty ; lie cared nei¬
ther from whom he took his information
upon it; both his repute for under¬
taking, and his hope for fuccefs, de¬
pended upon his palFing the idea for his
own. Objecls out of fight, and beyond
the reach of common ob^ervi.rs, oiJeiSts
in tlieir nature fingu^ar, infignificant,
and ufelels, were chiefly among his moll
favoured felefdions. From the year 1772
to the year of his dea'h, he pubiifhed a
paper of fuch a defcripcion. Everv re¬
volving feafon came forward w'ith afiefli
fupply of his bounty. He alFumed the
high office of Nature’s ftore-keeper. He
ramified, dilated, and expanded his hid¬
den Irciets to the prying eye of cnmnion
curiofity, or rather to ilie uninformed
admiration of vulgar credulity. 1 am
not to confine this fentiment to any par-
t'cular rank which men hold in locierv,
and which is tlie mere creature of fix¬
ture, not to meafure it by a fcale of
perfonal or hereditary property, but to
extend the condition of the mind, as re-
fiedleil by arflions, and then it will be
feen, to a demonllration, that the cr:du-
Inus vulgar may be equally tenants in
fquares and in alle}s. He had the won¬
derful art of hanging heavy weights to
{lender wires; and by this he co.ntrived
to have his papers prtftnred to rbe Royal
Society, and to obtain a reading of rhem.
But, left the Philofophical T 1 anfatfiions,
which are difficult to be got at, ffioubl
not ferve to promulgate whar he had
written, he has collated the papeis, and
publiflied them, with other m,.t.er. un¬
der the titiC of Otcono-?vy^ (pp.

85, 86). ^ ^

Mr. F. gives a lift c: his writings in
the Philolophtcji! TraauffioriS; » 'Ani¬
mal

1020 Review oj' New Ruhlicaitons, [Not.

jT^al Oeconomy,” and his “Natural Hif-
tory of the Teeth, i778,”4to; “Trea-
tife on the Venereal Difeafe, 1786, ”4to;

Oirfervations on the Inflammation of
the Internal Coats of Veins,” in a vo¬
lume of Tranl'a6\ions for Improvement
of Medical and Chemical Knowledge,
3793. The flx Kirchman le6lures on
mul’cular liiotion, i 776 — 1782, not in the
Philofophical Tranl'adfions, but printed
and partially circulated among the fel¬
lows. On tbele Mr. F. proceeds, in
Part III. to make his obfervations. The
digeftion of the llomach after death has
-been proved, from the ohfeiyations of all
men, except John Hunter, to be a mif
entity. As John Hunter followed Reau -
.mur, Redi, Steno, and Lorenzini, in dif-
ie6ling the torpedo, but <with('ut naming
ihiir names, “ 1 do not doubt, neverihe-
.lef , by his anatomical knowledge, he
might h.ave left the fuhjedl improved.
The receptacles of air-cells in birds were
difeovered by Profellor Camper, 1171,
who corredled John Hunter on the fub-
jedl. On the Grllaroo trout he lias only
copied Watfon, and only given a perfeft
anatomical cUfeription of the Gymnotus,
with three admirable plates. The 44
experiments on the power of animals
and vegetables to produce heat will ne¬
ver be read but from curiofity, and will
be dire6lly rejedlecl from their trifling
inflgnificance. His double bellowSj for
recovering drowned perfons, are pro¬
nounced uffcltfs. P"he Hiflpryof Human
Teeth was written to introduce Spence
the dentifl into praflice, which it t-id in
its fullefl extent.” Mr. F. deterSls Kme
errors in this work, and a want of ac¬
knowledgement to other authors who
bad treated the fuhjedt before. He
thinks the conclufions dravvn from his
dilleetion of the frte-martin very lame.
The fmall-ptx tommunicated to a fe¬
tus, as it on\y feemed to John Hunter,
lias been ptoved by repeated f .£ls.

“Accc'untof an extraorciinarv Pheafant
^Phil.Tranf. LXX. 527)- Pitcairn iiaving
received, as a prelent or game, a hen phea-
fant, wliole feathers were variegated in
an extraordinary manner, irem a baro¬
net, exhibited it as a curiofity to Banks
arrd Solanderj and John Hunter, hap¬
pening to be prefent, was dufired to exa¬
mine the bite!, and u proved 10 be' a hen.
Laciy ^ — had alio a favourite pied pea¬
hen, which had pyroduced chickens eight
levtral times ! ! ! H<;ve I not been luf-
ficiently foil upon tins Jubjedlf” We
cannot think the crititk has done juflice
Jo ins Iabje6t, John Huntei’s oblei va-

tions are on the change of feathers in
pheafants and pea-fowls, which happen
oftener among the hens than the cocks,
and even alleged the fex, or the powers
of generaiion; and the obfervations
founded on the idea, if juft, refpe^f the
fexual fyftem. He proceeds to charge
J hn Hunter with want of originality in
tiis difeoveries refpeSting the hearing of
fifties, and to cenfurs his account of a
new mollufca from Nevis, and the two
forry plates out of proportion.

Mr. Hunter’s treatife on the venereal
difeafe has already engaged Mr. Fort’s
attention," and undergone his criticifm,
in three publications, 1786 and 17S7,
comprizing in the who'e 465 oflavo
pages, which accounts for his faying
little of it here. Mr. F. draws from
the double ovaria in animals a different
conclufivin from Hunter — ihat they are
more for the purpofe of fecuring than
increafing procreation ; and he obje6ts to
the obfervations tending to (hew that the
wolf, jackall, and dog, are all of the
fame fpecies, that the copulation was not
fpontanecus : and he cenfures the ac¬
count of whales, as borrowed without
acknowledgement from other authors,
and yet imperfeft and obfeure. At the
conclufion, on his obfervations on bees,
he thus remarks ; “ It is with pleafure I
can fay, that thefe difeoveries by Schirach
and Dtbraw have made their way all
over the Continent. John Hunter was
never feen to <i.K'orfe advantage than
through this paper. It confifts of forty
pages in quarto, and, being upon a fub-
jedi more txpefed to criticifm than moft
of his others, iiis errors and crooked in¬
tentions are feen more glaringly by the
world at large. He appears, through¬
out the whole of the paper, to he flat,
wavering, and equivocal — conftantly
floundeiirg 1 ke one who has found
himfelf bevond his depth — like a fijk
out cf his element, or rather a man nbc
in his” (p. 218).

We ftiall not dwell on the criticifmsi
on papers in his book on animal cecono- ■
my, which Mr. F. thus concludes:!
“ Wiiat Baudius fays of Ersfmus leems I
applicable to John Hunter — iVlagij ha- '
buit qued Jugeret quam quod jeqiiereiur^W
(p 23S) ; but pals on to Part IV. the!:
feries of tranfadlions from 1770 lo the:
final ciofc, with an account of the pro- -
grtls and airangemert of hismuftum..
John Hunter had, in 1770, the honour!
of furgeon-extiaorclinsrv to his Majefty:
conferred on him ; and, next year, mar-'
lied Mils Home, daughter of a furgeon,,

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to whom he was (hre£\ed by her perfonal
attra6lions and mental endowments, and
who has exhibited fpecimens of poetry,
in fonnets, which, for beautiful fancy
and p'eafing harmony, are excellent in
iheir flyle ; and, from the blandilbments
of her natural difpofition, he found the
cares and afperities of his life Toothed to
the end — as long as his heart continued
to beat. By lur he had a fon, in the
Temple, and a daughter. He now took
a cottage at Earl’s Court, about a mile
beyond Brompton, in the midfl of fields.
At the back of th's houfe were fowls,
and animals of the ftrangell feleflion in
nature, and in front figures of lions paf-
fant and rampant. From 1770 to 1780
his profeffional profits did not keep pace
with his expences, and thefe ten years
were particularly preparatory for obtain¬
ing information and acquiring fame,
profecuting his printed produ61ions, and
increahng his mufeum, .In Autumn,
*773? advertifed a couife of le^lures,
in furgery, phyfiology, and comparative
anatomy, on high terms, and the intro-
du61ory leflure not open. A very un-
pleafant mifundertlanding took place,
feme time before the dole of the year
1780, between the two brothers, from
William taking to HiS mufeum a dif-
£afec-i part of a foldier, which his bro¬
ther had invited him to a fight of. They
contended about tbeir prior right to the
fTru61ure of the placenta, which William
liad publiflicd in his C>.'mmentaries,
1764, and John, afterwards, in Ids Ani¬
mal Oeconomy. To this claim made
by John, William replied, and Jnhn re¬
joined ; the Royal Society received their
papers, but proceeded no fartlier into
the merits of the quefiion between th.em.
Wiliiam dying about three years after,
left his property away from John, and
placed the (uperintendance over Ids mu-
uum in/o other hands. In 1781 jolm
Hunter was retained as a witnds at
Capt. Donellan’s trial ; and Mr. Foot
contents himfclf with giving the fum-
marv of his evidence by the judge, who
called it his doubt againlt the pofnive
opinir>n of Drs. A.{]r, Parfons, Rattray,
and Wilmer. But, concludes Mr. F,
“ I Will have done 0/ the lubjtft” (p.
274). In 1783 be took a houfe, on a
much larger fcale, in Leicefter Square,
and fitted it up in a very expenfive man¬
ner, and eftablifhed an expan five room
for his mufeum, another for a public
medical levee on every Sunday evening,
another for a Lveeum for medical dilpu-
lation, another for his ccurfe of leclures,

another for difTe^lion, another for a
printing warehoufe and a prefs, another
for vending his medical works. In
I -7 84 he failed of fuccefs in two cafes of
bites by a mad dog; and Mr. F. afierts,
that be did not do the befi that could
have been done by the art of furgery.
The death of Pott opened to him new
refources. To the memory of this able
furgeon Mr. F. pays the following tri¬
bute : “The lofs of a public and able
man is ever to be deplored, becaufe the
world can never fpare him without feel¬
ing a convulfive llicck, whenever it be
deprived of abilities fuch as belonged to
Percival Pott, and fuch as were carried
by him into honourable pra£lice. But
yet there was a conlolation which Tooth¬
ed the rtilc61ion at the moment that it
contemplated his fudden departure — that
he had not died before he had been
granted many and profperous days ; be¬
fore he had ftamped the true principles
of furgerv on the minds of the praSiti-
oners of the prefent age ; nor before he
had, by the works which he had pub-
lifljed, conveyed their ineflimable va’ue
to pofterity. It is curious to remark,
that fuch a man enj wed no lucrative
r.or honourable profelTiona1 office which
was in the power of the Court to be-
flow ; that, as he fought no honours,
thev were not beftowed on him; that, as
he folicittd not that which alone is ho-
nou'able by its fpontaneoufly following
merit, fo did he paE through a life with
unhlufiring negledt from every aciminif-
tration to its 74th ytar without it (p.
260).

After all the complim^rts paid by
Mr. F. to John Hunter’s mul'eum, he
has one capital chje61ion to one material
inlet enct, which not only John Hunter
has fliongly dwelt upon, but tiie vulgar
at large have drawn frotn it, that it co«-
fiiiuted him a fuigeon of greater abili¬
ties than if he had not coIlecVled it, and
than other furgtons who had not luch a
mufeum (p. 263). Thole who contri¬
buted moll to its foimation were his
brothers-in-law, Bell and Andre ; the
fecond. Iris draug’htlman, and lately go.ue
to India; the third, his amanuenfis, is
highly fpoken of by Mr F. taid is now
domefiic librarian to a N jlilen.an wliofe
higheft charadferifiick it is to venerate
virtue and prote6l m.erit (p. 267). Mr.
F. recommends, that, as io many artichs
in the mufeum aie perifhable, they fhouhi
be prelerved by engraving. — “ It will
be found that the advancement ol jc lm
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wVuGb lie was at length feen to foar was
©wing to the decline of ihofe who flood
in his way. He did not I'uperfede, but
fucceedcd to them. The death of Pott,
the elofe of the ye^r 1788, placed
Jdm on a footing equal, if not fuperior,
in point of praflical calls, to any living
competitor. I think 1 may affirm, that
Jiis confukations were more in faffiion
than any other furgeon, and that his
range of pra6lice was more extenfive;
that we beard more of the name of John
Hunter than of any other futgeon” (p.
374 ) Long before the death of Robert
j^dair, he obtained promife in revtnfion
of as many of his lucrative appointments
as he poffibly could, and fucceeded to
shefe and many mere on his death, 1789,
and the offices of furgcon-general to tl^e
army, and infpeftor ; but the influence
®f Keate kept him from Chelfea Hofpi-
tai, and this was ever after feen by him
with an eye of difeontent (p. 275).
Difappointment in a difput? with the
furgeon of St. George’s Hofpital, to
which he had belonged 18 years, put an
inftant end to his life; “ where the mcifl
trifling addrefs might have eafiiy turned
aflde the heat of altercation, his powers
were feen in the very a61: to give way —
he fainted, and inftantly expired,” Oc-
Eober 16, 1793, in the 64th year of his
age. He v’as imried in the public vault
htlonging to St. Martin’s. “ 1 think it
Slot improbable but that the whole of
John Hunter’s irritable condutf, and
particularly within the laft four years,
might be attributed to the natuie of that
difeafe which had b*;en progrcfirvely in-
crsaflrtg, and which, at lengdi, vvas
found thus abruptly to have been the
caufc of his death, fde had long com¬
plained of a palpitation about the region
-of his heart, and infpedlion has flnee
■confirmed that it was fufpendecl — the
vefTels were gone into a kind of ol-
fification. Some years fince he was in--
duced to go to Bath, and try the eiTedt
cf the water there ; whence he returned
fomewhat refrefhed indeed by purer air,
but without the caufe of complaint be¬
ing removed.

John Hunter was incluflrious but
■flow, and letter-writing was nor in the
fcale of his education or ability. He uri.s
biafl'ed too powertuily to iiis pupils to be
publicly jufl ; as he would know no,
merit from the report of any one whom
l.e was unacquainted with, or had not
cducsied its polftilor. He funk the dig¬
nity and tarniflied the honour of ihe of¬
fice by the leltflions he madej and tfie

eflabliffiment he formed, in the lioff)ita!s
on the Continent. He affedled to be too
proud to explain v/!iere he did not mean
toferve; and the affedfation arefe front.
Ids incapacity, from his want of the
power of placidly giving a decent refu-
fal. He arrogated a right of creatin''
phyficians out of apothecaries, and defied
the interference and the pow'er of the
College. He eftranged himfelf from all
inttreourfe with the Corporation of Sur¬
geons; he was never inclined to receive
their recommendations of merit; and,
though cholen one of the Court ©f Af-
fiflants, 17S9, never hut once attended
in his place. He hated his equa’s in his
profefhon ; and who can efleem him
who hates them ? I f f But, though the
Court pofTcfTed tire power, it did not
enforce it, or, for his contempt, he
might have been reduced to anfwer the
law invefled by their charter. He,, who
would not attend his duty at the hall,
nor affociate in the annual feflival of
harmony eflabliffied by the compamy,
could advertife his name as patron and
chairman at the feaft of the members of
his little fenate, the Lyceum. He was
not found to be even decent when it in¬
ter fered vv5th his pride; and in confuRa-
lions, where he was the lali called in, he
did not like the firfl ; he was certain to
get him diicliarged on the (econd or
third vific, by lasing, that there needed
roc the attendance of two. This, I am
toid, was a favourite piece of piaffical
revenge with him” (p. 276). — '‘His
perfon was about the middle flature ; he
was rather robufl, but not corpulent;
his Ihoulders were broad and high, ^ and
his neck remarkably fhort : by the exer¬
tions which Ik; conflantly made, afuft
the manner of- fometking like a eougir,
he feemed as if he lolicited to fet the cir¬
culation of the blood a-going. His fea¬
tures were hard, cheeks high, eyes fmall
and light, eye-lafhes yellow, and the
bony arch protruded. His mouth vvas
fomewhat undeihung. He wore his hair
culled behind. His diefs vvas plain, and
none of the neateft. He was frequently
feen to fmtle in converlation, but it was
generally provoked from a ridiculous or
a lahrical motive” (p. 285). — “In many
of the criticifms, perhaps," 1 may be told,
tiiat I have been over nice; but my au¬
thority is flrong. ‘What,’ fays John-
fon, ‘ is borrowed, is not to be enjoyed
as our own; and it is the buflnefs of cii-
tical juftice to give every b rd his proper
featlier.’ I.et fidlton ceale with lite, and
let us be Lnous over the gtave” (p. 287).

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Such is the Life of John Hunter,
Written by a man vvhofc works, adver-
tifed at the end of the prefent, announce
him to have been his cowipetitor in
I'tience.

179. Archacologia, Vol. XL ■
THAT the Society of Antiquaries of
I.ondon do not negle6t their duty, we
have a convincing proof, by the appear¬
ance cif an ELEVENTH volume of their
trania£lion-s, after an interval of only /'tto
vears (fee our veviev^ of vol. X. in voL
LXII. p. 730). It opens with

I. Ohfervations on Pliny’s account
;.of the temple of Diana at Ephefus ; by
j^fhomas Falconer, Efq. of CheAer. —
S This gentleman, to whom we are in-
pclebred for preparing a new edition of
: Strabo’s G-ography, has left the prefent
j memoir as a Ipecimen of his claAical
(knowledge, and an occafion of regret,

' th^.t, after having walked in the ways of

I fair Science all his life, he Aiould have
fallen at laA a votary to Pater Lyaeus, in
I his 5fth year, Sept. 4, 1792. He has
( h/ere vindicated and explained Pony’s
: deferiptions of the celebrated temple at
Epiiefus.

I il. Extra£ls From the houfelvold-
) book of Thom its Cary, of BaAlngthorpe,
led. Lincoln, in 15451 by Edmund Tur-
II nor, Efq.

! III. Mr. Gough on tV analogy be-
(tween certain antient monuments.

iV. Ohfervations on Kidcottv houfe,
‘I in Kent ; t)y Mr. Boys. Tiie able An-
jtKpaary of Sandwich Teems to have failed
An ins etymo ogy of this monument,

I wiiich has already exerciled fomany pens,
i V. Some Account of a fymbol of an-
Eitient invcllirure in Scotland ; by Mr.

I Riddell. This is a Itnall Alver I’vvord,
prefer ved in the family of Lany, Vw’ith
wliich Cul-n, king of Scotland in the
joth century, invefltd Gillcfpie Moir
with an ellate.

VI. A Greek infetiption, under a fi¬
gure of a Retiar.ws, found at Iflmgton,

I and fixed up in the wa I of a houie in
London, Imt not now to he found, from
a drawing among Dr. Lort's papers;
communicated by Mr. Gough.

Vil. Notices of the manor of Caven-
difli, in Suffolk, an?! of the Cavendlfh
family whi’e polfelLd of that manor;
hv Thomas Ruggles, Eiip ; centrovert-
ing the ori^dnal commonly alTigned to
tlie C.ivcndifh fami’y, who were not fet¬
tled at Cavendiih before 1359, and tire
eltatewasai'cn-ttedfroni the elder branches
15.69.

i02g

VIII. Account of fome Roman an*
tlquities lately difeovered in Cumber¬
land ; by tire Rev. D. CarliAe. Thefe
are, inferibed altars, Aatues, &c. at
tlejleeds, an eighth infeription to Bela-
tucader^ one to Difcipulmat perhaps for
Dijciplina\ one formerly pubii./hed ia
our vol. XI. p. 650, XII. 30; again by
Mr. Biand. in his HiAory of NewcaAle;
again in the new edition of Camden’.^
Britannia^ HI. 202, pi. XIII. fig. 12.

IX. Mr. Denne communicates lome
curious ohfervations on the burning o£
St. Paul’s Aeeple, 1561, from a fcarce
account of it printed by Seres, 1563.

From article X. we learn that the an-
tient fibula is Aili played on in Lom-
bardv.

XL is a fupplement to Mr. Rafii-
leigh’s account of antic|uities found in
Cornwall, vol. IX. p. 187.

XII. An illuminated letter of j£/;<z-
tiotiy or admifiion into a religious otcler„
tliat of the Gtey friers in EngiancL
communicated by Mr. Ord : with a feaf
appendant, reprefendng the murder of
Becket.

Xlil. Extiaft from the wardrobe ac¬
count of Prince Plenry, eldeA Ton of
James 1.; communicated by Mr. Bray e
feiving to Ai-vv the various particulars
of drd's at the beginnin g of the I at
century.

XIV. is another commn-nicaiion, by
the fame curious gentleman : copy of a
furvev of what remained in the armourj
of the T(-vver of I.ondon, 1660.

XV. Mr. Riddeirt, defer! ption of tw®
brafs veAels, like fkillets (one with aa
inferipnon on the handle), found near
Dumfiits., and fuppofed Roman.

XVI. Notices of fonts in Scotland, as
a fupplement to the account of thofe ia
England, in the former volume. By Mu
Riddel.

XVIL Evidences of a Lavatory ap¬
pertaining to the Benedidline priory at
Canterbury cathedi al ; and obfervations
on fonts; liy Mr. Denne r controverting
Mr. GoAling’s opinion, tliat the
on the North fide of the laid cathodrai
was a baptiAety. In this and the fubfe-
quent memoirs by him, Mr. D. chfeo-
vers great reading and penetration, apd
enters into a full difeuAion of hi.«.
fubje6I.

XVllI. is a very curious and interefl-
ing memoir on Britidi naval arehiico-«
ture, by Ralph Willet, Efq,

XIX, Rates of Vv'ages of fervanrs, la¬
bourers, and ariificciii^- at Oakham, co.

Kuiland,

Revkw of New ’PulTicaiionu

Review of New Publications,

[Nov,

Rutland, i6 lo ; communicated by Mr.
Barker, of Lyndon: with the like for
War wick fill I e, 36 Charles 11. by the
printer, Mr. Nichols.

XX. A briefe difcourfe concerning
the improvement of Dover haven, ad-
dreded to Queen Elizabeth, about 1582,
by that moff excellent mathematician of
bis time and IkilfuII engineer, Thomas
Digges, Eh^. fon and heir of Leonard
Digges, Efq. of Wotton, Kent j from
the MS. collations of the late Mr.
Thorpe bequeathed to the Society.

XXI. Account of Bick nacre priory,
Effex j by John Henniker Major, E((|.
with a view of the building.

XXII. A curious memoir on the ori¬
gin of printing, by Mr, Wilier, againft
the date affigned it in England, by a re¬
cord at Lambeth, as fuccedively applied
by Meerman, Bowyer, and Nichols.

XXlIL Obfervations on epifcopal
chairs and (lone leats, as alfo on pifcinas
and otlier appendages to altars, ftill le-
maining in chancels; with a defcription
of Chaik church, in the diocefe of Ro-
chetler : in a letter from Mr. Charles
CuTike to Mr. Dcnne. The writer of
this very curious and informing memoir
has a place in the Ordnance-office at
Chatham, and has favoured us, more
than once, with his correfpondence, un¬
tier the name of Ifidas^ator RoffenHs,
Mr, Dcnne, in the following article,
reviews Mr. C’s opinion of the original
ule of thele done fears, and takes a
brief lurvcy of a part of Canterbury ca¬
thedra', as defcribed by Eadmer and
Gervafe.

XXV. Mr. Douce difcuffes tbe Eu¬
ropean names of Chefs men,

XXVI. Mr. Mdner clefcribes an an-
tier.t wooden-handltd cup, with a cover,
formerly belonging to the abbey at
Glafi'enbury.

An appendix of mifcellaneous articles,
!fs ufua!, concludes the volume, which
Contains 21 plates. *

1.80. Polyaenus’s Stratagems of iVare, tr an J-
lafed Jrem the uriginal Greek. By R,
Sheplierd, F. R. S.

‘^Holland wdth his tranflations did fo fill us,
He vvouLi not let Suetonius be Tranquil us.”

WE mean no application or thcfe
Ifnes to tire prefent tranflator, nor any
lc'fle£lion on him for taking fo much
pains v.'iih Polya; ms, All that is meant
is, CO point out the prefent palliun lor
rrann;^tion9 of the Clafli:k-. It ffews,
at leaft, that there are fume cLiiical
fehokrs left among us, ana ii- wuii be
6.

well for this country if, wliile they ren¬
der the authors of antiquity into their
mother-tongue, they do not fuperfede
the originah. The Stratagems of Po-
lyaenus are introduced by a handfome
dedication to Marquis Cornwallis, who
is known to be as good a fcholar as he
is an amiable man, and has given hls'
approbation to the undertaking. The
chtyice of a patron is not lei's happy than
the compliment fuggehed by the vvoik,

“ The original was honoured with the
patronage of two Roman emperors, who
were meditating an expedition into Per-
fia : in the protc6lion of your Lordfhip,
the tranflition boafis a name not lefs il-
luflrious, in having terminated, with the
mofl brilliant fuccefs, an Indian expedi¬
tion againft the ableft foe that ever dif-
puted the Biitifli empire in the Eaft,
And, in the prefix of a name fo refpe6f-
able, the form of addrefs is rendered
Ihort and eafy. The author has not to
arnpIPy a chara6ter with which the world
is already fo well acquainted. In this
inftance, to ufe the ftvle of dedication
would only be to anticipate the hifto-
rian’s pen For, whether as the foldier
covered with laurel, the fiatefman facri-
ficing the pride of conqueft to his coun¬
try’s good, the individual exercifing un-
controuled power with unexampled hu¬
manity, or thf man folicited by every
temptation of accumulating wealth, yet,,
in charadler truly Horatian,

Ingentes ociilo irretorto
Spetlans acer'oos.

In whatever point of' view the pai’e of
Hiflory, while it records your Lordlhip’s-
adminiftration in India, fhall perfonally^
rvgard yourfelf, it muff be panegyrick.
To that faithful page I therefore refer
your Lordffip’s atchievements.” This
is the handfoniefl and the trueft praife !
An. advertifement prefixed informs us,
that the tranflation was made 30 years
ago, vvlten the tranflator’s inclination di-
rc61:ed his views to a military life, which
profeffion he fince laid afide. By focne
means, which lie can fcahcely explain, it
found its way to the pcrufal of Marquis
Corinv.d is, who lecommcncled the pub¬
lication (jf it as a woik, if the tranflator
miy be permitted to ufe his Lordfhip’s
own woids, “that would prove an accept¬
able prefent to the Briiifli officers.” — -
Mr. S’b tcflcolions on the condu6t of
Fiance, and on the war in which they
have involved lo large a part of Europe,
are peitiuent, (pirited, and Chtiiilian, re¬
curring to Providence for the refforation
of peace. “ Suppofing there fljould be a

Supreme

1794]

Supreme Being that fuperintends human
actions, that rules this world with un-
controuled power, and governs every
moral movement in it with adorable
jufiice, I muft not diflemble how far a
reflexion, which one of the following
ftratagems hath haggrltcd, earries me.
and, refpe61ing that heroic people, it
hath alarmed me for their fuccefs abroad,
or even their fafety at home. It is the
laconic harangue of Agefilaus to his
little army, on his adverfary having at¬
tacked him in dire6l breach of oath.
‘Tifaphernes,’ faid the brave Spartan, * I
thank Heaven for his perjury, by which
he has made the gods his enemies and
our allies. Let us, therefore, my lads,
march out with becoming confidence, in
conjun6lion with fo great auxiliaries.*
And my author proceeds to tell me,
that, fpirited by this Ihort harangue, the
general led them forth, and obtained a
complete vi6tory. On this little portion
of antient hiftory I leave our Gallic
neighbours to make their comment.”

Polysenus was a Macedonian, and,
having quitted the fword for the gown,
was honoured, by the emperors Antoni¬
nus and Verus, with a civil employ of
truft and dignity. His work, written in
advanced age, is greatly mutilated '^ and
corrupted, and is rather a collection or
compilation of examples than a regular,
connected, or well-written detail, but in
a clafTical and elegant ftyle. Mr. S. has
given rather the author’s meaning than
a literal verfion of his words, and de¬
viated from the famenefs, uniformity,
and form of his narration, without flou-
rilhing in defcription, or adding circum-
ftances to the general narration. ** In¬
dependent of the military knowledge and
political maxims with which the work
is replete, it is, in other refpeCls, both
amuiing and inflruClive. Little inci¬
dents noticed in public characters will
contribute to illuflrate or explain hifto-
rical fails. And it affords matter of
agreeable reflection, as war is unavoida¬
ble, to compare the civilized manner in
which it is now conduCtcd with that in
which it was carried on in antient tirhes,
v.'hen oaths were ufed only to deceive,
and favage power knew not the nice re-
Praints of virtue.” But we cannot tran-
fcribe the whole of the excellent adver-

* Of 900 ftratav^ems, in eight Itooks, of
which the work waS to have confuted, we
have only 344. Front inns followed his ex¬
ample, but, in the opinion of Ilaac Cafau-
bon, fell very flaort of Polyasnus.

Gent. Mag. Na-vemkr, 1794.

1025

tifement, which the author modeflly de¬
clines confidering as a commentary on
his original ; nor has he encumbered bis
tranflation with notes (only 54 in 366
pages).

j8li Rep^ifentatiotis vf MonufnentSf jiained
yFindowSy Braffesy and other Antiquities, in
different Churehes ifi the Environs oj Lon¬
don, hitherto not engraved,

NUMBER 1. (each number to con¬
tain four plates) contains four monu¬
ments in Fulham church. This work
is [of] the fize of Mr. Lyfons’s “ Envi¬
rons of London,” of which it is meant to
form a proper appendage. If Mr. Sirnco,
or his artijft mean to lift themfelves into
fame by failing by the fide of Mr. L, as
Mr.Smith feeks to do by keeping pace with
Mr. Pennant, we would ea.rneltly re¬
commend to them to amend their doings.
A print of the ftained wdndow in Bat-
terfea church, and a coloured portrait of
Margaret Beauchamp, grandmother to
Henry VII, which is a compartment in
the large window, are fold feparately,
each at the fame price as the numbers, 5s*

182. "The Age of Infidelity 't in Anfiver
Tliomas Paine’s Age of Reafon. By «
Layman.

A LAYMAN, or one who afTumes
that charadler, writes with more temper
than the firftanfvverer^ of Thohias Paine,
who began as a minifler in the Efla’olifh-
ed Chuich, went over to the rational
DifTenters, renounced public woifhip,
furrendered up the outworks of Chrifli-
anitv, which had been planted in the
Gofpel, and defended the torirefs by
firing red-hot balls of abufe on the af-
failant. “ I,” fays the Layman, “ in¬
tend no perfonal abttfe of Mr. Paine.
Ill language is no weapon of the Chrif-
tian’s warfare. Nor do I intend a mere
attack on his pamphlet. My ol)je61: is
rather to provide an antidote againlt the
growing infidelity of the age. I have
found nothing new either in Mr. Paine’s
arguments or ohjecAions againli Cfrifti-
anitv and the Bible. Tire (aiue iliings
have been often faid, with as much wiE
and more plaufibility. 1 am the advo¬
cate of Chriftianity onlfy that ryflcm of
divine and pra61ical truth taught by Je-
fus Chrift and his Apoftles, and faith¬
fully recorded in the writings of the
New Ttilament. I mean not to give up
the infpiration of the facred writings of
the Old and New Teflament. 1 do no?

* See p. 64

Review of New Publications,

intend

1026 Review of New FuhUcatlons, [Ifor.

intend to compliment the enemies of
Kevelation with a lurrenderof the pecu¬
liar doBrlnes and myjieries of Chriftians.

I know that I'ome are willing to give up,
perhaps, the bcft part of Chriftianity to
fecure the reft; but I believe the whole
tenable. Nor do I concei’'^ ^ .. ’

any exertions to profelytes to

l'adiarao,,l..ed f,„, it Chrif-

tianitv be to the ftandarcl of

ai Religion and mere Morality, it
ilialters not by which denomination it is
Called. Thefe things premiftd, what I
have farther to ofter to the reader’s at¬
tention will divide Itfelf into two parts,
a fketch of the evidences of Chrlftianity,
and a review of Mr. Paine’s objtfhons
to it” (p. 12—15). Thefe are handled
in a fenhble and eafy manner; and the
writer thus fums up his arguments ;
p From the clofe of the parr.phiec be¬
fore us, we may learn the fum total of
all the difcoveries of modern philofo-
phers in religion — that, by reducing all
religion to one ftmple article, the belief
of a God, it cuts off every improvement
in divine knowledge from the da\s of
jTio’ann, throws us back into the darkeft
ages of heathenifm, leve's us, in this
refpe£l, with the nioft illiterate barba¬
rians; and all the comfort it leaves a
good man, as to futurity, is, that “ the
Power that gave us exigence is ABLE
to continue it.” To luch Wiittrs 1
would take up Job’s parable, and fay,
Miferable comforters aie ye, and phy-
ftcians of no value !”

*83. ^ PiBure of t'he'ljfc of Wight, dslineated
upon the Spot in the Tear 1793. By H, P. W.

THE merit of Henry Pcnruddnck
Wyndha-m, Efep as a delineator of the
feenes he has traveiled over, has been
proved in his Tour through Montnouth-
finrt and U'ahs, 1781, 40. He has,
indeed, illuftrated that with engravings
after Mr. Grimm’s drawings ; but in
this tour the want of thefe muft be fup-
plied by the views now publifhing in
numiiers by Mr. Tomkins. Mr. vV.
dedicates his piClure to the Marquis of
Clanricarde, in whole company he drew
it. He marks out th.ree days’" route to
the curious obferver; and we muft ac¬
knowledge him to be an agreeable and
entertaining guide. See feme obfeiya-
tions Oil a paliage in tins work, p. 779.

the world to the birth of Chrift, and is
to be continued, next year, to the pre-
fent time, and to be accompanied with a
pamphlet containing notes for the eluci¬
dation of the whole. The is a

French prieft, and we fmcerely wifli him

iftccefs.

185. Seafonahle PeffeSlrhm on Religious

in a Difccurfe delivered April 13, 1794, in-
the Chapel in Frog Lane,, Bath. By David'
Jardine.

MR. J, the fermon on whofe ordina¬
tion we noticed vol. LX. 828, attempts to
juftify himfeif and congiegation from nor
having obferved the laft public faft. He
labours hard to prove that religious fall¬
ing has originated in unworthy notions
of God, was molt cautioufly introduced
into the Mofaic ritual, and is exprefsly
condemned by the fpiric and declarations-
of Chriftianity. We .ftrall not enter into
a controverfy with him on the general
ground of public utility in the appoint¬
ment of public days of humiliation for
national ftn, or miploring national blef-
fings j hut leave him and his flock to
follow their own opinions, while they
do not obtrude them upon others. Mr.
J. does this in The unpurchafed Love of
God in the Redemption of the ^orld
Jefus Chrif, a great ArgU ’nent for Chrif
ttan Benevolence, illuflraled in Three
Difeourfes. To vohich are added, Re¬
marks on the Difeourfes of the late Caleb
Evan^i F>. D. intituled, “ Chrif Cruci-
and a Leiier to the Rev. Dav>d
Boeue, of Gofport, or: his Sermon intituled
“ The great Importance of having right
Sentiments- in Religion.'^

186. ^ revealed Bncurl'edye of fome Tbin^s>
that nvill fpeedily be fulfilled in the World',
eomrnunicated to a Number ofi Chrif ians^
brought together at Avigiion by the Foiioer
ofi the Spirit ofi God from all Nations. No-iu-
publifed, b-)! his Divine Command, for the
Good ofi all Men. By [ohn Wrigilt, his-
’ Servant, and one of the Brethren.

TFIJS carpenter of Leeds gives us
notice that Baron Swedenbourg was but
the forerunner of Richard Brothers, a.
grea-er and more il!umin.Tt.d prophet
than himfeif, who has appointed the fa'd
John W^righc to pui>H<h tlie revelation
communicated to the fociety of Avignon,.

Tableau Ch; onolozirjue de BJfifoii'g (Jni-
vcrfelle, Bfc, Par M. Murre.

TH ! S ciit onologicai taole (ft univer-
(?■] .;.;f!orv Is divided into ren epoch, 3, and
iaciu'.ot the period froiu chs ejeation of

lS-7. N fiiendly Ndibefs to the Poor. By et
Magifrate of the County of Derby.

THE defign of this truly friend! V ad-
drcL is, to inculcate in tlie poor induf-
try, cecuiioiny, cleariiineL, and a-u atcen-

tiaa

1794-1 Riview of Mew Puhlicathm^ 1 02 7

tioTi to health ; and we cannot too ear-
ceftly wifli its purpofe may be anfu’erecl.
The Derby fliire mugiftrate ftates i'evsral
imporcant ohje£\ions to the employment
of children and youth of both fexes in
large tnanufaflories, in which he is not
fingular.

i88.. ^ Trent ife an Carriages; comprehending
Coaches^ Chariots^ Phaetons, Curricles j }Jbif-
ieysy ^c. ; together with thdr pumper Har-
■Jtcfs: in which the p-rices of ever\ Article
■ are accurately fated. By William Felton-j
Coach-maier^

"VVE believe the author has the merit
of being the firlf who has attempted 'to
lay before the puhlick a work of this
nature, in the fiih volume, juft now
publiflied, which is divided into chap¬
ters and fediionr, with references to
each, all the feparate parts of a carriage
are exhil)ited to view, in 22 engravings,
tvrth explanations of each, and direiftions
for their conflrutRion; with ftatements
of their feveral prices, in tables adapted
for that purpofe.

The author, in his intrcduifory ob-
fervations, gives a general view of the
plan of his wo^k, and points out the
advantages to be derived from it by
every gentleman who keeps or hires -a
carriage; and in vrhich he dilavows any
intention of injuiing the fair trader ; but
contends that the work will be beneficial
not only to the proprietors of carriages,
in order to prevent impofition, but to
the coach-makers alio; who, by having
the fair prices afcenained and open to
public view, will be relieved from the
fufpicion, winch is often entertained, of
Linpofing upon their emp’oyers.

It would appear, however, from tire
ndvertifement and letter prefixed to ihis
volume, that a very pointed difappro'oa-
;ion of the publication had evidenced it-
falf among a number of the coach-ma¬
kers. Candour obliges uc, however, t«
'av, that the author’s propofal, in the
letter alluded to, will have its own
it/eight in his juftification with an im¬
partial publick.

In the fecond volume, which, we are
given to undeifiand, will be publifhsd In
1 few weeks, the author, in putfuance
jf the p'an he has announced, propofes
;o give a complete dtfeription of all the
jifferent kinds of carnages now in ufe,
A'ith proper references to tables for af-
rertaining their different prices, exhitrit-
ng them in their various finifhed ftates,
n various elegant engravings. AHo,
jvoper inft' u6tioi.s for preferving tlie
jtmuty and ftrength of carriages, and the

expence: with ureful obfervations for
thofe gentlemen who prefer hiring a
carriage to keeping one of their own.

Hudibras, Poem, in Three Cantos, By
Samuel Butler. In Three Volumes, 4/a.

THE editor of this Iplendid b lok,
though his name is not to it*, is the
Hifiorian of Worcefttifhire, the Rev,
Treadway Nafti, D. D. who refides in
the fame county and parilh where Butler
v;as born. The third volume confifts
entirely of notes by Butler himfelf, and
Dr. Grey, a formerly valuable editor;
and to thefe are added thofe cf a Wer-
cefterlhire clergyman f, communicated
by fome of the poet’s defeendants, and
many by the prefent editor. The work
is embelliflied with head and tail-pieces
to each canto, fome plates from original
defigns, particularly one from a piffura
by Dobfon, called Oliver Cromwell’s
guard-room ; portraits of the author and
editor, and two vignettes of their re-
fpedtive -habitations.

I go, Report made hy St. [nft to the Committee
■of Public Safety at Paris, in the Month of
May, 1794? on the SubjeSl of Kxpences in¬
curred with the Neutral Powers. Tranjlated
from the French.

THE modern fyftem of French poli¬
ticks omits no meafure to effe£iuate her
purpofe of aggrandizing herfelf under
the ftimfy colour of making other nations
free. Wf learn, from th’s prime minif-
ter of Rofierlpierre, who ftiarcd his fate,
how the; expenditure of lives was fc-
conded bv the expenditure of money,
acquired bv plunder, and how far the
latter Inas lucceeded ; and we doubt noC
the trujidh of the report.

19 r. A Charge given at the Primary Viftathn
of the Archdeaconry of Salop, in the Diocefe
of Hereford, in the Tear 1793. By Jofeph
Plymley, M. A. Archdeacon.

rHIS charge is almoft entirely di-
reifted toward two points, the repairing
of churches, and the refidence of the
clergy on their levera! cures. The Arch¬
deacon appears to have taken laudable
pain^ to info m himfelf not only of the
ftate of the tiiorefe of Hereford, but of
the church of England in general, ia

He ciifcovers himfelf in the notes, vol.
HI. p. 302, giving a brief ac*ount of lus
anceftois.

f Qu. Mr. Grefisy, retftor of Streniham,
from 1706 to 1773, when lie died, agedi-jo;
fo that he was bora feven yeevrs before tae
poet died?

th;Ie

1028

ihefe refpefls. He fiatcs the re£lories
of the two provinces or Canterbury and
York to be about 5098; the vicarages
3687; the churches neither re6i;®rial nor
vicaiial, about 2970: and he reckons
1200 parochial churcltes, to which no
parfonage-houfcs nor glebe«lands ufually
belong, and of which the incomes are fo
Imall that no houfe could be thereby
maintained. Mr. Plymley is of opinion,
tiiat, if the whole land of each deanry
paid tithes according to the compofitions
now in force, it would not amount to
more than a tenth part of the rent; and
of thisfum above one half would be due
to lay-impropriators.

192. hijlorical Dejcription oj Dunkirk,
from its Origin in 646 to the Tear 1785. By
H. E. Diet.

THIS very fatisfaftory account has
been tranflated from a memoire drawn
up in 1785 1:^ H. E. Diot, for the ufe
of M. de Calonne, at the fale of whofe
library the French manufeript was pur-
chafed. It dtferibes the progreffive im¬
portance of the town of Dunkirk, from
Ks firft eftablifliment, the various fieges
and revolutions which it has fuftainecl,
and the naval conkquence of its priva*
teers and fmugglers. Before the prefent
war, it was fuppofed to contain 25,000
inhabitants. Four plans are annexed, to
illuHrate the fjege of Dunkirk in i6t;8
by I .ockhait, its fubrequent fortification
by Vauban, its Fate in 1785, and its in-
veftraent by the Bntifh army in 1793.-^
The appendix contains a curious extract
from the memoirs of Roger de Rabutin,
honourable to the fpirit and condu6f: of
the republican troops of England.

There is a good and full account of
this place, in French, by Peter Faulcon-
pier, grand hereditaiy bailif of the town
and territory, and prelident of the cham-
])er of commerce, in two volumes fqlio,
with plates, Bruges, 1735 5 which
year the account is brought down.

393. authentic Account of the late 'Expedi¬
tion to Bulam, on the Coaji of Africa; avith
a Defcriptlon of the prefent Settlement of
Sierra Leone, and the adjacent Country, By
J. Montefiore.

THIS fettlement was formed in 1791,
and the writer took his palTage thither,
in the Calvpfo, 1792 ; and, May 26 that
rear, took pofl'eHibn of Bulam, and
hotfted the Britifii flag : but, as they had
aitgledled to purchafe, or treat for the
purchafe of, the territory from the occa¬
sional owners^ they were attacked, June

[Nov,

3, by a large body of Africans, and ob¬
liged to quit it, with the lofs of five men
killed, feveral wounded, and five women
and three children made prifoners. They
recreated to Bilbao, a Portuguefe fettle¬
ment, where the wounded died, and moft
of the others fell a facrifice to the un-
healthinefs of the climate ; the reft re¬
tired to Sierra Leone. Thus, according
to this writer (whofe ftatements, how¬
ever, have been fince controverted), ended
this ill -concerted, injudicious enterprize,

194. A geographical and hiforical Account if
the Ifland of Bulama, luith Obfervations on
its Climate^ Ptoduhiiom, fe’e, ; and an Ac¬
count of the Formation and Progrefs of the
Bulam Affociation^ and of the Colony itfelf.
To vahich are added, A Varietv of authentic
Documents, and a deferiptive Map of the
JJland and adjoining Continent. By Andrew
Johanfen.

THIS account is collefted from the
letters of Mr. Beaver, a lieutenant of the
royal navy, who refided nearly two years
as chief of Bulama, and from the rela¬
tion of many of the colonifts fince their
return to Europe, and other information
received from flave-ftiips, &c. during
their flay at Sierra Leone, and from the
records and difpatches of the Society,
formed 1791, under the management of
Paul Le Mefurier, Efq. M. P. James
Kirkpatrick, Efq. George Hartwell,
Efq. Moles Ximenes, Efq. Sir John
Riggs Miller, Bart, and David Scott,
Efq, M. P. Nine thoufand pounds were
fublcrihcd ; a proper afibrtment of mer-
chandile was colle£led for bartering with
the natives ; tw^o veftels, of 300 tons
each, and a floop of between 30 and 40
tons, were purchafed, to convey the 275
fettlers, yeomen and artificers, with the
ftores, arms, and ammunition. They
failed from Spithead, 1792, but fepara-
ted in the bay of Bifcay, and the Ca-
lypfo met with the mifadventure before
ftated, but recovered the captives un¬
hurt, and purchaled the ifland of Bu-
lama for 473 bars, each bar, at an aver¬
age, worth 3s. 4(1. and the ifland of Ar¬
eas, and adjacent continent of Ghinala,
for 300 more, or 35I. j and 49 men, 13
women, and 25 children, were left ac
Bulama, with a fhip and floop, the other
Ihip returning, vvith between 80 and 90
of the fettlers. The original fubferip-
tion being expended, it was propofed to
raife io,oool. on different terms, and
apply to Parliament for a charter, like
that of S:erra Leone, except the article
of exclufive trade. They are then tq
prolecutw their difeoyeries in the neigh-

houihood

Review of New Ruhlleations*

*794-]

bourhoocl the Rio Grande, and trade
with the natives on the coaft and conti¬
nent of Africa. We wifh them fuccefs,
without the fmallefl: defire to interfere
in their purfuits in a country which,
though deemed part of the antient Hef-
perides, is deluged half the year, from
June to Oftober, by almoft incelTaot
rains, more violent in the middle of the
feafon ; and the remainder parched by
drought, except the night dew; the me¬
dium hear, between July, 1792, and
April, 1793, never above 96®, and
but once 100° between the morning and
evening of February, 1793: the dilFer-
ence between the heat of noon and that
of the morn and even is from 20 to 30
degrees. The dew requires fires to be
lighted in the houfes, and warmer
: cloathing to be put on. During the
rainy leafon it is expedient to keep
houfe, and wipe the bodv, and change
the clothes that have been wetted, and
not to dig the earth for a month after
the return of dry weather j and every
ftraager is feafoned by a fever. The bay
I oppofite Great Bulama will hold the
whole navy of Great Britain ; the fettle-
I ment is in general well fupplied with
' water; the ifland is beautifully wooded;

the foil rich and deep, and, in the mid-
j die, high land. Cot on, indigo, rice, and
! coffee, grow fpontaneoufly on the coall;

I the fug r-cane is indigenous to many
j parts of Africa, and might be cultivated
t here by freemen to greater aJvantage
I than in the exhaufted Well India illands :

1 the fea abounds with fifh, and the conti-
1 nenc with lions and tigers, the illand
' with wolves, buffaloes, elephants, and
[ deer, and the woods with cloves, Gui-
I nea fowls, and various beautiful birds.

Though “the na-.ives of this part of
I Africa, like all favages, are entirely un-
I der the dominion of their paffions,” p.

I 15, no attack need be feared, provided the
! colonies obferve a juft and peaceable con-
I du6l, as Mr. Beaver experienced, being
left with 4 whites, and from 20 to 40
black cultivators. Diredlions are next
given to be obferved in the choice and
i condu6l of fetders. We have fubjoined

1029

Mr. Beaver’s account of the ftate of the
colony, July 24, 1793, with remarks on
that given by our good friend Medicus Lo«^
dinenfis\x\ p. 3 — 5 of our prefent volume
Extraft of a Letter from Philip Beaver,
Efq. to the Truftees of the Bnlam Affoci-
ation, dated Hefperilufis, in Bulam, 24tU
of July, T793.

Gentlemen,

Since my laft difpatches by Capt. Moore,
of the Nancy, dated tlie 15th of March, we
have been principally employed in taking up
the roots of thofe trees which we had cuC
dow'n. This we find a very tedious and la¬
borious work. I have made forae and am
making more inclofures ; but my principal
employment is in taking up the remaining
flumps within them.

You will fee by the plan, N° i. that I
have built two houfes, each 34 feet by 21
(fee the map). The one marked (i) is efi-
vided into three apartments, and occupied by
my gromettas ; the other receives the fick.
I have built a hen, goat, and calf lioufe.

With hens and goats I am plentifully
flocked ; and in a few days I lliall have cat¬
tle in abundance.

“ The fpace (A) is intended for a fiirm-
yard, or place in which I mean to build a
houfe for the convenience of my bullocks.

“ (B) points out the garden in which one
of my guns is planted ; and thofe paths,
which to you m;* *!y appear whimfical, are fe>
made, that I may not only keep my fervants
in proper order, but, at the fame time, be
able to cover both houfes, and flank the left
fide of the block-houfe, if ever we fhould be
attacked ; which, I can afture you, gentle¬
men, is at this nsoment one of the moft im¬
probable things in the world ; 511% on the
contrary, would have been very probable,
had 1 not taken the precaution to be ready
to receive an enemy in all dire6lions.

“ All our garden-feeds that came up laft:
year thrived very well; but, from our cat¬
tle breaking the hedge, and by our building
afterwards over a great part of the garden,
every thing in it was deftroyed,

“ This feafon our European feeds, wliicli
are not only, at lead, three, and probably
four years old, but mouldy, could not be ex-
pedled to produce. I have tried th.em all;
none of them have fucceeded ; fome few [
procured from a merchant at Billao, and
they do very well.

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* Our truly benevolent correfpondent mull have been impofed on as to tlie fails he men-
I lions concerning the ifland of Bulam. The fiaip Kankey failed from that ifland to the Well
I Indies in November, 1792. We have, in this pamphlet, a letter from Mr. Beaver, of fo
' late a date as July 24, 1793, eight months after the failing of the llankey, with, as Mcdiaa
\ Londinenfis aflerts, “the milerable remnant” from that “feat o\ difeafe andyi;w/V/g,” giving an
1 authentic and quite a contrary defeription of the event of the Bulam expedition. Nor is
1 our correfpondent more happy with regard to the fever, which, he fays, was imported into
I tlie Weft Indies by the Hankey, from Bulam, and afterwards into Philadelphia ; for, Dr.
I Eufti has cleared up all doubts concerning this fever, and finds no ground to believe tliat it
i was imported ; but arofs from the natural effedls of the climate, or from the effluvia of pu-
i tufted coffee, at that time lying on the quays in that city..

** Orange.s',

^'Oranges, Ffimows, papaws, malagnette,
'gwavaj, groH'Mci-BMts, yams, caffada, Guinea
'Cern, and cntton, each of which 1 have in
wy garden, thrive So admiration. I have
another garden, of near one fourth of an
acrej entirely pointed with caffada.

i ovvards the latter end of the dry fea-
:idET5 mort of the runs of water near us dried
«iip, fome fooner, others later j but the fpring
from whkh we have always taken our wa¬
ter fmae w'^e have lived on fhore, tliough it
•W':» never dry^ yielded not more W'ater, at
its ioweff ebl>, than would fupply 50 men.

Abonr two miles diflance theie has, in
>the drieff times, been a rim of water fuffi-
'cient for at lealf 2000. This alfo is a con-
veoirnt place for ^watering fiiips. As we
fiad! foffi’ciency of water near us, I have ne¬
ver taken the trouble to fearch for more j
?Sjt3!t, though i have never looked for other
fpriugs, i am almoff fure that there mult be
many near ; to rvhich opinion I am induced
by the foHowing circutriftance ? For the laft
tihrse ironths of the dry feafon, elephants
were continoaHy fvvironriing acrofs the river,
from the Biafaras to this fhore ; but I never
yet faw one return from this ifiand to the
aoppofite lamb I can only account for this
%y fiiippoling, tlrat on this fide there muft be
yvkmy o| water, and on the other fide little
'Or none. C-ne of thefe fleets of elephants,
conififliiig of ihiiTeen, 1 .attacked, and killed
two of them, Tiie pz^obofcis is -excellent
‘fbotL

The ratn-s-, which now have been fet in
■between feveni and eight days, have been
•much more violent this than the laft fealen,
and have damaged fome of our flores. 1
Irave therefore been obliged, in order to pre¬
serve tire reft, to cover our wooden roofs
with thatch, which abfolute neceffity alone
touiSd have induced me to do, from a fear of
a fpark from- the cook-room, or from a
■candle, that mayr accidentally do us much
mtfehief. I fhali take it otf again at the
commencement of the dry feafon. Wooden
Toofs, yon mav depend upon it, will never
■keep irel rains in this place.

Being convinced, genflemen, that I can
ftoid this pl.-zce againft any force which the
.natives can bring againft it, I have long
ffince relinquiftied the idea of furrounding
the block-hon/e with a fort; and, at it lie
fame time, 1 conceive it to be more condu-
-icive loihe public good to employ the gro-
•mettas in clearing the land, than in digging
:a ditch or erecting a parapet.

‘^‘By the lift of the colonifts you will fee,
;gentlemen, that I have now twenty-tliree
^fomettas, five w'omen, and one bey, which
is indeed .as m.any as I wifh to have with my
prefent European ilrength ; but, w^cie there
many fettlers here, I would augment that
number to looj and I alfure yon, that I
can at all times, if neceflary, infure twice
that number of black labourers.

We have 27 hogfheads of bread left, 46

[Nov,

barrels of pork, and 33 tierces of beef; the
bread is very bad, and the beef and poik are
getting fo., which has induced me to receive
the 10 barrels of pork which the Sierra
Leone Company haii the goodnefs to order
the captain of their veffel, the Felicity, to
deliver me ; but w hich, from the qnan'ity I
polfdTed, i had at fiift an intention of
refufing.

“The goods with which I have hitherto
paid my gromettas their wages are now ai-
moft expended.

“ 1 have in ft ore about 3001b. of ivory„
•which I mean to exchange for ch.th with
the captain of the firft trading veffel that
may arrive here.

“ Thus, gentlemen, I have complied with
that part of your letter which requefled a
particular account of our fituation.

“The anfwering that part which requires
a -lift of our w'ants, 1 have only to fay, that
we have none ; and, if I do not fee the face
of another European for ten years, and my
men live, I will hold the place for that pe-
Tiod. The ifland indeed wants nothing but
fettler-s ; let them come out, and fuccefs is
■certain.

“ Had I one tenth part of the fupport of
the Sierra Leone colony, I would, long be¬
fore this, have added to our prefent territo¬
ries land fufticient to maintain 500,000 peo¬
ple, and at a very little expence : but t
have neither goods nor men. The former
would have been of no ufe w'ithout the lat¬
ter. I have therefore been lied down to &
few acres of land ; and my madlivity has
been the effedl of neceffity and not of in¬
clination.

“ Notvvithftanding it was my intention to
have returned to Europe on the profpeft (j£
a war*, not only that I might be within
the reach of promotion, but becaufe tlxere is
fome^hing difgraceful in being out of adlual
fervice at fuch a time, yet, gentlemen, as
the colony has not been ftrengthened, I wiS
not quit it. 1 will never leave thofe men
who put themfelves under my diredlion. I
w ill never abandon the intereft of this co¬
lony ; and J will never confider my own
intereft if it tends to lelfen the probability of
its fuccefs 5 on which probability dej ends
:the happinefs of millious.

“ Therefore, gentlemen, while the exer¬
tions of an individual .are of confequeace^
here I will remain ; when thofe exertions
will not be miffed, I will return ; at the
fame time, I hope you will exert yourfelves
as much as poffible to render my comirg
home of no confequence, by appointing
■fome perfcii to whom I may give up the
icharge of the colony.

“ fire Biafares often requeft noe to build
•a houfe at or near Ghinala ; and I have alfo
been requeft ed to lettle at Bulola. In fliort,

* “ Mr. Beaver is now fir ft lieutenant; on¬
board llie Stalely, of 64 jguns.”

Rivlcw tf New FuhllcaUons

theij?

1194.] R eviezv of Net

there* ■^re fo many places where I could
build prote6l them, and infure fuc-

cefs to the cultiv'’'-ors, timt, if the good peo¬
ple ©f England kne\^ hut one half of the
advantages to be derived fi’urri colonizing
this part of Africa, on an exteyifive Jcaf you
'might command half the money in tiie
kingdom.

“ The fhort flay of the Felicity in this
harbour prevents roe writing more at large ;

I flaall, therefore, conclude by repeating to
you, that vvs want nothing that we are in
good fpirits ; and that we are determined to
hold the ifland until you can fend out otlier
fettlers.”

A Sermon j preached in the Tarijh Chur da
of Saint Martin in the Fields, on Wednef-
day, May 14, i794> Vifitation of the

Right Reverend Father in God Beilby Lord
Bijhop of London. By Georgc-Henry
Glade, M.A. ReBor of Flan well.

FROM a rnaflerly portrait, by St.
Paul, in his Epidle to Titus, chap. ii.
ver. 7, 8, this elegant Preacher enlarges
©n the importance of the clerical office;
which he introduces with an apology to
Jnis auditory :

“ Without endeavouring to difguife or
palliate, without attempting to explain a-
way gofpel truths, out of a falfe and mif-
tiiken delicacy, 1 fliall endeavour to fubmit
to this reverend and honoured audience my
ideas of the obligations laid upon u', on our
engagement in the fervice of Religion
aware, that, in the fulkft fenfe of the Apof-
tle’s words, I fpeak to them that know the
law — confcious, that I am addrelTing thofe
W'ho, in rank, in years, in wifdom, are far
my fuperiors; and (with fomewhat a better
apology for my prefumption), feeling as he
o^^ght to have felt, who difcourfed on mili¬
tary fubje<51s in the prefence of Hannibak”

After hritfty, but with much proprie¬
ty, delineating the /fe of a preacher,
Mr. Glalfe proceeds, at more length, to
deferibe what his doLlrine fliould be ;
and adds,

‘-‘On tliis fubiefl we may fu rely he par¬
doned for dwelling with moi e tnan com¬
mon earneftnefs, fince we have lived to fee
the day, when a confiderable patt of the
once Chriftian world has renounced all de¬
pendence on a Saviour, and, virtually, on a
God. Reafon has there its temples, its
priefls, and its, facrifices — bloi dy facriftces,

and ferocious pr lefts 1” . “ When our

l.eaits ficken over recitals of malTacre ?nd
murder— w:hen we fl.udder at the narratives
of their ingenious cniehy, and their expedi¬
tious fyflems of deftrudlion — we cannot but
renjerje famous exclamation of (dd, and
cry out, uith juft fentimeuts of indignation,
“Behold, ho.v Liele inhdels Aanvit one
another I’’

I PuM nations.

Hence occafion is taken t» apfily the
fubjeft of the difcourle :

That there are, even in this country,
bufy, reftlefs, malicious adverfaries j tliat
they have long been fecretly meditating our
deftru6^ion, and that, of late years, iheyr
have attempted ic in a more avowed and
decifive manner, is a truth, Which we mult
be blind indeed not to acknoWledg^e. The
fpirit, which- at all times lurketh in tte chil¬
dren of difobedience, and vvliich hath c'Vcr
moulded them to his purpf>fe fince the firft-
born Cain Ihed the blhod of an innooemt
martyr, hath, in thefe latter days, walked’
abroad with a degme of frimapliant eleva¬
tion. Fatally faccefsful elfei^ere, his euaif-
faries attempted to give sfiSSit £0 their ftra-
tagems here. They wdio have turned ths.
world upfide down cams hrllier alfo.*’ Onr
ecclefiaftical and civil eftahidliment w'as the
objedh of their avowed hoftility. Gould they
but have accomplilhed tiie overthivjw of ei¬
ther part of our fyftem, they doubted not
that the downfai of its aftbeiat® would fpee-
dily follow. Therefore did they encourage
themfelves in mifehief — therefore did they
proclaim inveterate war agdnft Loyalty and
Religion, and fet up their banners for to¬
kens. Fain would they have planted tlieir
lodi>.vfjj.u T)k — their abominatioai

that maketh defolate— amidlt the ruins of
thi ones and altars: that tree,, whofe fruit is-
ni to profanation, and the end thereof ever-
lafting death ; that tree, near which (like
the fabled poifon flirub of tlie Eaftern
world) all' vegetation languifbes and dies j
which crea’.es a defert around its noxious
trunk, and rejoices in horror and devafta-
tion. And, were the ftately pines, the glory
of Lebanon, and all the trees of the foieft,
to be abandoned for thisF Were they to fall,,
proftrate and overthrown, before it?. Above
the reft, was this sacred oak.,, which, for
fo long, a period, had braved the violence of
winils and ftorms, was this to be rooted up,
though the hills are covered with the ftiadow
of it, and the boughs thai'eof are like the
goodly cedars ?

“ Such was the mifehief we had to appre¬
hend, though they, who beft knew the ex¬
tent of it, affedt to fpeak moft contemptn-
oufly of our apprehenlions. Even now
would the meditated evil take place, did not
Divine Providence watch over us for our
good, and, by awakening us to a fenfe of
our danger, difappoint the purpofe of our
adverfaries."

Xhe proper means of refifiance by the
minifters of Chrift is next pointed out ;
and a pnflure drawn of *• a preacher of
the Golpel who conftders himftif as one
lent, not to feed, but to devour the
flock.” VVe hope fuch charadlers are

* MauUew xxiv. 15.

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rare; and turn with infinitely more fa-
tisfa£lion to the well-grounded hope,

That an almoft infinite majority of the
Clergy are faithful and diligent fervants of
their bleffed Matter — that zeal, learning,
piety, and tliofe graces which heft become
the Chrittian charadler, do flouritti and
abound among them — that they exhibit a
pattern of good works in their lives — that
they are uncorrupt, grave, fincere, and or¬
thodox/in their dodtrines. By thefe, under
the patronage of a Sovereign whom the
Church of England glories in acknowledging
as its head, dad with the co-operation of
many illuftrious charadlers among the Laity,
the tori'ent of infidelity, vice, and licentiouf-
nefs, which would have deluged our coun¬
try, has hitherto been not unfuccefsfull/
ftemmed — the poifoned darts of the enemy
have fallen harmlefs and ineffedlual to the
ground — the ttorm has been averted which
loured around us, and which fell, in all its

fury, upon others! . We have feen tlie

rage of the oppreffor let loofe upon man-
kindi — we have feen the judgement begin¬
ning at the houfe of God. At the com¬
mencement of thofe events which now afto-
nitti the world, it was the privilege of one
luminous mind to trace the infant monfter
to its horrible maturity. During tlie pro-
grefs, and in the confummation, of thofe
events, we have ail obtained convidtion. If
here the arm of the deftroying angel has
been arretted — if here the temple, the altar,
and the minifters of God, are refeued from
profanation, let us not be lulled into morbid
and lethargic repofe — ttill lefs let us aferibe
to merit what is due only to mercy. Alas !
were the faithful paftors, who have fallen
under the daggers of affafiination, finners
above all the fervants of Chrift ? Far other-
wife. As gold in the furnace have they been
tried, and received as a burnt-offering. How¬
ever we may differ from them on fome im¬
portant dodlriiial points, we mutt be loft to
a fenfe of all that is great and glorious, if
we do not applaud their heroic conftancy,
their unconquerable zeal, and that hope, full
of immortality, which furmounted the fear
of diffolution. Faithful confeifors, intrepid
martyrs, they rejoiced in following Che fteps
of their Redeemer — and their Church, foli-
tary, and a widow, is more venerable, more
lovely amidft its tears, than in all the pride
and pageantry of bridal magaificeuce !”

196. A Letter addrejfed to the Hon and Rev.
Bromley Cadogan, on the Suhjedi of his
'Two Ser77iens, -preached at St, Giles’s, Read-
ing, St. Luke’s, Chelfea, and puhlijhed
in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Reading,
CS^c. intituled, “ Lihe7ty and Equality.”
WHEN we leviewcd thele fermons
(vol. I.,Xni. p. ^47), we little imagined
any one would think them woith ferious
aniraadverfion, or that fuch animadyer-

fion would have any effefil on the-
preacher.

197. Englifh Anthology, 3 Vols.

Dodjley we know, and Pearch we
know ; but vrho art thou, that, thus
garbling the major poets of Great Bri¬
tain by wholefale, from Chaucer to the
prefent clay, pretendeft to give to fuch a
co]le6lion the name applied to the pret-
tieft coliedlion of forgs and fonnets pub-
lilhed by a neighbouring nation, and
better imitated in the SeleSi CollePiion t/f
Englijh Songs, publilhed in 1783 — if we
rightly ween — by the fame editor ?

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

We wilh it in general to be underttood
that we cannot pofiibly notice every letter
that we receive ; but that thofe which are
paffed over fub fikntio are confidered as
INTENDED f©r infer tion whenever oppor¬
tunity offers ; and that there is very little
danger of a letter having raifearried by the
poft. Many, how’ever, which are wholly
ufelefs, are regularly returned to the Poll-
office ; and others dettroyed ; of fuch we
cannot give any account. Nor, in general,
can we anfwer for the return of any
letter, and particularly poetry, of beyond
three months date.

We have received Amicus’ letter, and
are forry we cannot fee the fubjedt of it ia
the fame alarming or raifehievous light as he
does. The fame objedlion, perhaps, lies to
every other ter77ii77ation of life. We lliall,
however, endeavour to be as guarded as
poffible in our expi efiions when fuch events
occur.

BioGRAPHicus requefls, from any of
our Correfpondents, the Epitaph, at Walcot
church, Bath, on Rev. George Burton, 1791.

E. Doubtful afks, whether, as a duty,
it is incumbent on a married man, depen¬
dant on his own induftry and care for the
fnpport of himfelf and family, to maintain
a fitter lefs diligent and mere improvident
than himfelf?

H. W. of Bath is informed that the idea
of reprinting is given up.

An Adult, literally ungram-
MARED, is referred to Mr. Robertson’s
excellent Effay on Fundluation which
any Bookfeller can eafily obtain for him.

We know not the Publifher of the Poem
N B. enquires after. <

E. E. has precluded our priotirg his Son¬
net, by fending it firft to a news-paper.

The lengthi of M. M. on Duelling pre¬
vents our infei ting it.

Pro Lege, Rege, & Populo, in our
next; with Mr. Sh aw’s fartlier Rejiort of
Pn'grefs ; S. P. ; Cal edoniensis ; An
Enemy to all Ambiguity; “ Tlioughts
on Copper Money;” Antiqjcariolus ;
&G, &c.

SeU^ Poetry^ Antlent and Modern, for tv ^ 1794* IO33

Ode to my beloved Daughter,

(^IVritten on bet Birth-Day, OSf. iS, 1794’)
BY Mrs. Robinson.

*TIS not an April-day,

Nor rosiy Summer’s burwing h®nx,

Nor Ev’ning’s finking ray,

That gilds rich Autumn’s yellow bow’r,
Alone, that fades away !

Life, is a variegated, tedious fpan,

A fad and toilfome road ; the weary iv’ler,
Man !

’Tis not the bafe alone
That wander through a defart drear,
Where Sorrow’s plaintive tone
Calls Echo from her cell to hear
The foul-fubduing moan ;

In haunts, where Virtue lives retir’d, we fee
The agonizing wounds of hopelefs Milery !

’Tis not in titles vain,

Or yet in coftly trappings rare.

Or Courts tvhere Monarchs reign,
Or Sceptre, Crown, or regal Chair,

To quell the throb of pain ;

The balmy hour of reft alone, we find.
Springs from that facred fource, Integrity of
Mind !

Pow’r cannot give us health.

Or lengthen out our breathing day !

Nor all the ftores of wealth
The fling of confcience chafe aw'ay !
Time feals each charm by fteakh,
And fpite of all, that wdfdom can devife,

Still to the vale of Death our dreary pathway
lies 1

Mark how the Seafons go !

Spk INC, paffes by, in livelieit green.
Then Summer’s trappings glow,
Then Autumn’s tawny veft is feen ;
Then Wi n t ek’s lock of fnow 1
With true Philofophy^, each change explore,
Read Nature’s page divme i and meek
the Pedant’s loi e.

Life’s race prepar’d to run,

We wake to Youth’s exulting glee;

Alas, how fooa ’tis done 1
We fall, like blolfoms from the tree,
Yet ripe, by R e asom’s fun ;
iThe cherifli’d fruit in Winter’s gloorri
fhall be

An earneft bright and fah — of Immortality !

Sweet comfort of my days,

While ytt in Youth’s ecftatic prime;

Illum’d by Virtue’s rays,

Thy hand lhall fnatch from palling
Time

A wreath, that ne’ejr decays !

That when cold age lhall fhnnk from world¬
ly cares, (filver haii s !

A Crown of confeious Peace may deck thy

We are but bufy Ants :

VVe toil thro’ Summer’s vivid glow
To hoard for Winter’s wants’;

Gent. Mag. November

Ourbrighteft profpedls fraught with woe.
And thorny all our haunts !

Then let it be the Child of Wis dom’s plan.
To make hishttle hour as chearfulas he can I

The Being we adore
Bids all the face of Nature fmile!

The wifeft can no more
Than view it, and revere th« while!

1 hen let us not explore
Things hidden in the myfteries of Fate ;
Man fhould rely on Heav’n, nor murmur at
his ftate !

Thou art more dear to me.

Than fight, or fenfe, or vital air !

Foreverv dav I fee,

Prefentsthee with the morn, more fair !
Rich pearl, in Life’s rude Sea I
Oh ! may thy mental graces ftill impart
The balm that foothes to reft a Mother’s
trembling heart !

Still may revolving years'

Expand the virtues of thy mind I
And may Affliction’s tears
Thy peaceful pillow never find ;

Nor fruitlefs hopes — nor fears.

May no keen pangs thy halcyon bow’r in¬
vade, {Jh all Jade /

But ev’ry thought be blifs, till thy lajl imu r

MARY ROBINSON.

Lines ro the Rev. 1. Whit ehouse,
^Author oj Odei Moral and Dejerjtive,)

BY MRS. ROBINSON.

N this dread era, when the Mufes’ train
Shi ink from the honors of th’ embattled
plain ;

WU'-n all that Grecian elegance could boaft
’Mid ft the loud thunders of the feene is loft;
As one vaft flame, with force electric hurl’d,
Grafps the rous’d legions of th’' enlighten’d
world ;

The Fat'd, neg!e£led, droops upon his lyre,
And allthetlirills of poesy expire;

Save wheie the melting melody of verfe
Steals, in flew murmurs, round tlie'Soldier’s
^b'erle, (clay,

While, o’er the rugged fod thatfhields Ins
Soft PITY chants the confecrated lay 1
For, ah ! no more can fancy s livelier art
Liglit the dim eye, dr animate the heart ;

Can all the ton^s that Harmony e’er knew
The figh fupprsfs,— the gufhing tenr fubdue ;

Nocharm the ow'ns the bleeding hreaftto bind.
The breaft, — chat palp;tates~for hu.man-

KIND.

Thus did ReflcvSlion o er each vr'ounded fenfe
Pour the ftrong tides oi Realon’s eloriueuce';
As ’raidft the tcene of deiolating woe.

She mark’d, aghaft ! tlie purple ton cuts flow ;
Man ag.'ijift Man oppos’d i-with furious rage
To blur with kindred gore Life’s little Itage j
, While high above the thickening legions Ituod
Dark-brow’d RKVENgi; 1 bath’d m a na¬
tion’s blood !

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*T was then perfuafiv* F R fends h ip 's* foolh-
iirg power

Bade Fancy greet thee.in thy claffic bower!
There, from the thorny maze of ills retii’’d,

I found the Mnfe, and all the Mufe admir’d ;
Fair wreaths of ahiaranth, abonndlefs ilore !
Truth’s golden page, and Wifdom’sti eafur’d
lore !

Pefcription’s pencil dipp’d in rainbow dyes ;
And Genius, firft-horn offspring of the ^ies!
The, H AR p infpir’d ! the ever-varying fong,
Corre6l, though wild ! and elegant, though
ff rong ! (dreft,

There Albion’s muse, in Grecian beauty
At once could awe, and vivify the bread,

In mingling cadence tune the yielding wire.
To footh, indruCl, to fo fieri, or infpire !

Fil'd, the IN THUS r AST’s * energy (he provM
As o’erthe chords her glowing fingers mov’d!
The witching wildned thro* each fibre dole,
And feiz’d on all the faculties of Soul !

Then fierce AMBIT low ^ fmote the ihim-
' dering dring,

In drains, that bade the aznre concave ring !
Thedeaf’ningcrafh awoke the nations round,
And Millions trembled at the mighty found !

,K«xt, o’er the wondVmg throng impetuous
WAR, 3 car!

The LORD of SLAUGHTER, roll’d h)S brazcn
A' darning brand the red-eyed Monder held,
And. wav’d it high in air, and madly yell’d I
Wldle woRROR bath’d in agonizing dew,
Before his rattling wheels didra6>ed dew !
Down his gaunt bread fad dream’d the
fcalding tear, fear!

And now he groan’d aloud ! nowdirunk with
His humid front was crown’d with bridling
hair, ^ f|>air !

His glance was frenzy ! and his voice— de-

The» follow’d BEAUTY 5 ; in whofe beam¬
ing eye

Sat fainted x r u t h coeval with thefky !
Her fimg difpens’d extatic pleafure round.
The foft lyre throbbing to the dulcet found !
Then elfin-tribes in mazy groups advanc’d,
Flaunted theirgaudy trim, and nimbly danc’d ;
'/ua’d their ftirill voices to the tinkling dring,
Or lit, with glow-worm’s eyes, the graffy
ring ; (kept,

With wanton glee their moonlight gambols
And dealt the witching fpoH, — where mor¬
tals dept I

Such is the power of fancy ! fuch the (kill
That forms her varying flradorvs to the will 1
To crown her altar.', which old Time has
chofe

Where filver cam, in filent grandeur, flows;

* Mr. Whitehoufe’s beautiful Odes were
conveyed to Mrs. Robkifon through the
hands of h friend*

f The figures i z 3 4 5 6 refer to the
■fubje^ of -the Odes,

And many a turret, many n lofty fpire,
Marks wherePindaric o.r ay attun’d hislyre!
Still fhall enamour’d genius haunt thefhrine.
The MUSES triumph I and their fmiles be
thine!

Yet, think not, Bard infpir’d ! that, o’er the
rvreath, (breathe !

Thy hand has form’d, no/poifon’d blad fhall
Tho’ blofToms fair, in mingling colours vie,
Bright, but not ti:anfieut,as the rainbow’s dye !
Envy will penetrate thy halcyon bow’r,

And crufli, with hurried dep, each rifing
fiovv’r;

Or tadelefsRage, with voice infuriate, wild.
Bid Malicetriumphwherethe Mufesfmil’d.

For oft, where high the Tree of Genius
fprings, (wings ;

The pale Fiend hovers, >with her mildew
Shades the rich foliagefrorothefod’ringray,
And marks each leaf for premature decay j
Dims the warm glow that decorates the. fruit,
And d r ikes her fight’n ing- glan ces t o the root ;
Strips the rent fragments of each latent bloom.
Nor leaves one branch, to deck the poet’s
tomb !

Such is the fate of genius! yet Tvhen Art,
So fweet as tiiine, can elevate the heart ;
Though Envy’s eye, or Hate’s remorfclefs
rage,

May drive to dim the philofophic page j
Thougli war’s hot breath may blad the
wreath of Fame,

Immortal time fhall confecrate thy name.

Detur Optimo.

F'IRM Friend of Virtue, Freedom, and
the State,

Pillar of ornament, and fair fnpport

To that time -honour’d Houfe from
whence thou’rt fprang ;

Thou know’d how erfl with arched credelatc,
And trophy’d wreaths the gazer’s eye that
court, [world rang,

And iculptur’d deeds whereof the wide
Rofe the proud druedure to that virtuous
man, [tracfled fpan.

Who wept for ‘‘ one day in life’s con-

And how, in later times and bafer days.

In this our realm, when Vice o’erflow*i
the land, [yoke ;

And penfion’d Cliarles endur’d a foreign, .
When Heaven, no more contending with our
ways,

Sent the dedroyer arm’d at either hand.

And fire, and ped ilence,his errand fpoke.
There where the direful conflagration ceas’d
A grateful Pile f arofc to lieaven’s high wrath n
appeas’d.

* The Arch of Titus, the remains of :
which dill form a confiderable objeCl among ;
tlie ruins of Rome.

The monumental pillar in Lockjon.

S® I

Set^ Poetry^ Antient and Modern ^ f of November, 1794* 1035

So in thefe days, when all but Hope is loft,
When worfethan fire and peftilence invade,
And her own children forge the parent’s
chain ;

A Fane fhall rife, with emblems fit eniboft,
Tohim whofirfteorrupuon’sdeiugeftay’d,
And pafs’d in Freedom's caufc “ no 4ay
“ in vain

To Thee % illnftrious W - 11, ev’n to thee,

Shall rile- — to I'liee — and thofe who dare like
tiiee be free.

The grov’lingcrowd maybrawl and din below,
And Tyranny, procumbent, writhe and
heave,

And Envy rankle at tlie printlefs bafe;

But nor the din nor brawl can reach its brow,
Nor Tyranny her writhing folds relieve,
Nor Envy ’s tooth the fauUlefs lhaft deface ;

While its tall front, vuifcan’d of vulgar ryes,

Of vulgar tonguesunmov’d, “ holds commerce
“ tvith the ikies.”

Mr Urban,

This elegant Sonnet, printed in black,
letter, with ornament’s of moon, ftars,
may excite the curiofity of yoor readers
to find out w'ho the lady, and perhaps who
tlie author, were.

IN LAUDEiM ILLUSTRISSIIM.^

E T I) y L c t s S 1 M ~fJ O M 1 K

RACHEL SHAW,

BUT. CI ORIS CYNTHIA AUT BIAVA
CCF. LI ET TERR.£ OHNAMENTUM.

AI.L Nature blooms when yon appeal',

The fields their richeft liv’i ies wear ;

Oak, elms, and pines, bleft with, your view,
Shoot out fraih greens and bud anew.

The varying ieafonsyou fupply.

And when you’re gone tlrey fade and die.

Sweet Philomel, in moui nfnl ftrains,

To you appeals, to you complains.

The tovv’ring lark, on rifing wing,

Warbles to you, yourpraifa does fing,

He cuts the yielding air, and flies
To heaven, to type your future joys.

The purple violet, the damaik rofe,

Each to delight your fenfes bk>wsj
The lilies ope, as you .appear,

And all the beauties of the year
Piffufe their odours at your feet.

Who give to every flower its fwcet.

For flow’rs and women are near allied,

B..)th Nature’s glory and her pride;

Of ev’ry^ fragrant fweet polTeft,

They bloom hut for the fair-one’s bread;
And, by the f welling borne,

Each other mutually adorn.

When Time your beauty fhall deface,

And only with its ruins grace,

Thofe ruins ftx;iU he brighter far
Than hefper or the mtn ning ftar,

Tho’ tJiro’ the beauties of the land you run,
They like the gloomy ftai's appear in prcfencc
of the Sun.

♦ Sec a late pviblication of Political^ Papers,

TWO SONNETS, u v evles irwin, ssq^.

I. TO CAMOENS’ OROTTO AT MACAO, ON
THE COAST OP- CHINA, MaV, Ig, 1793*

HlGH-favor’d grot ! that on the jutting
verge

Of old Cartliay, in fhades fequefterid
plac’d, (grac’d.

Saw, with the poet’.'; form, thy pavement
Stiulioas, his lyre to epic Ireights to urge.

This thy fame — not that the wreath, which

.age ^ (hands;

Weaves for thy region,’'^, with mytterious
Nor yet th’ achievements of the daring
bands -f-,

Whofe glory blaz’d, unrivaPd, on thisftagci

Veil’d is her pride 1 their fuu is feC in fhame !
But oft the pilgrim to this cell fhall ftray,
Still find the Poet living in his lay,

While tafte and genius glow at Cajhoens’
nanae :

Still, with thy vot’ry, ftrew the fill witti
flowers, (their powers I

Th^r lot far happier own, but ahl lefs bleft

II. TO MRS. CHARLQTT E SMI TH,

ON HER VARIOUS WORKS.
WRITTEN AT CANTON, NoV. 7, 179:^4

CREATIVE mind! wlio, from Inven¬
tion’s ftore, (clay ;

Di aw’ft forth thy tre.afures to the dazzled
As PhcBbus’ powV invades the realms of Ore,
And gems and metals own his vivid ray ;
The vagrant Mufe, who, whilom, touch’d
her lyre

Oh Tygris’ b.Tnks, or Petrea’s fteril way.
Gave Afric’s headlatid to the founding wire,
And late to fportive meafures woke Car-
thay, (ftray

Demands, while tempted in thy track to
Untravel’d, whence of vary’dlife thy lore?

Thy novel pi^lures, and thy moral fire ?
Whence fages grow enlighten’d, as they pore ?
Demands — and, anxious for one lafting lay^
To Nature and to SMITH appropriate
praife would pay !

SONNET.

OFT on tlie white eliff have i penfive
flray’d,

To woo corapofure to my aching breaft :
Oft the calm bofom of the main furvey’d,
Haply to foothe the cank’ring care to reft,
Which m' cks my inward peace : alas! in vain;

1 find uo rerpif*, no efcape from paiu,

But (till tny onwaid journey a.s I go

Thro’ diff’rent dirae.s,to feek the ftrauger
peace,

The long-loft vifitant again to know.

To chaceth’ intt uding fpedtre, and rele.ifc
My captive heart from love ; lo, mem’iy gives
Each once-l;0v’d charm again, eaefi feature
lives,

And the fond tv.ayward thought compells to
The filent tear of unavailing woe.

Cr.ER 1CT5 V

* China, -f- The Portuguefe.

SON met

10^6 Seie^ Poetry, Antiert and Modern^ yfor'^ovtuihzx, i^q4-

SONNET.— To YOUNG lapv, on her
charitable Vijits to Poverty in ybffi£iion‘

HOW kind, when Youth and Beauty
condefcend

Tofeek the ch ear abodes of Pain and Woe!
To tell the wretched, yet they have a Friend,
And teach the fainting heart with hope to
glow I

When Pity’s heart-drops tremble in thine ey es,
As ,foft thou pour’ft Compaffion’s lenient
balm,

And warm to Keav’n thy heart’s petitions rife,
1 foothe their fuff rings to a holy calm.

Ah! who, that would not mingle tears with
thine/ (warms!

Sweet Nymph, whofe bread heroic virtue
Angels dill aid thee in the work divine, ^
And happy thou beneath their guardian
arms.

Approv’d, with thee thy pious deeds fhall
rife, beyond the Ikies.

And bloom through endlefs years in realms

Then llaall the Mufe her choicefl wreaths
prepare, (lays

To grace your lovely brows ; — herlweeteft
Shall flow, in honour of the worthy Fair,
Whofe mild Benevolence demandsher prai'fe.

But Tweeter drains for thee (hall daily flow,
And lays more grateful than the Mofe can
give, — (ihew^,

The wudow s bleffings all your paths fhall
And orphans’ pr.tifes maketliee iioblylive.

If e’er ambition heav’d thy fnowy bread,

To breathe the with— “ you might dif-
tinguifb’d Ihine!”

Remember this, to blefs is to be bled
And CHARITY lhall make you all divine.

This fhall infure you charms beyond the
tomb,

Immortal honours, and a fadelefs bloom.
Adder bury, Nov. I. T. WooLSToN.

SONNET TO SILENCE.

is tlie hour 1 when o’er you
beetling height [buk

The Wed clouds, faffron-tindfur’d, failing,
Spent day with eve. Then, where lorn e
rufby brink —

Curving, the channel’s guide, ray deps in-
I mark thy hnfh advance, with dubious light,
Whild on the breeze affonantmurrnursdnk.
And fi'om my view refradlive lun-beams
Ihrink ; — ■

A nd hills ami vales, lod in thy realms of Night.
A.h 1 were it mine, fweet Banilhmeut 1 from
tho^'e

By Pleafureled, thro’ Folly’s pageant fphere,
Whole tumult din, oft, tedious, diikesmiue
ear; —

Ever, befo! t with thee, to feek repofe !

But Fate foidrlds: — 1 turn, nor longer find
.Solace, to foothe my penfive habitude of
mind ! J-

€onduit-Jheet^

Lines on the Death of a yotiNi^
Gentleman, who caught a Fever
at Gosport in the Discharge ok

HIS MEDICAL DuTY. ,

JJi.s faltm aceuinulcm donis, et fungar inani
Manere.

While thofe bold vidllms, who for
Britain’s weal

Brav’d the rais’d gun, or met the pointed deel,
To foreign graves in martial po^np ake born.
Their friends lament them, and a nation
mourn ;

Amid the public grief, with fliarper ills,
thy f^tC tUy achiug bofoiTl flllS,
Thy fate, which, though not on th’ embattled
plain,

Fame blazon’d forth among the heroes flain,
Thofe, w'ho were wont thy timely aid to
reap, [weep ;

What that aid haden’d will not blnfh to
Nor fhall, what was in its fair fervice fpeut.
An honed hfe thy country not lament.

No, rauch-lov’d youth, far diff ’rent, dif-
f ’rent far

From the dire deeds and fatal feats of war
Was thy employ — with wiUingnature bound.
It made thee heal, not give, the bloody wound,
With tender hand the dang’rous mifchief
taught (wrouglit,

To tend and cure, which fiercer hands had
Aid fick’ning natuie by the rules of art.

And afrefnlife through all the frame impart.
Taught thee the heibs to mix, the balm to
pour, (fore,

Pierce the blue vein, or probe the ulcerous
To join the frablure, or with dextrous fkill
By amputation dop the fpreading ill.
Tiiereare, who bed can tell, whofe lives re-
dor’d (fword ;

Proclaim thy power o’er the murd’i'ous
There are, who now inhale the breezy air,
That blefs thy hand, and thank thy tender
care,

Soldiers and Tailors, that receiv’d the blow
Dealt by the rage, which fires our Gallic foe,
The wife, through thee who now a hufband
greets, (meets.

The fon, through thee who now a father
Yet what avails it, to have thus difplay'd
The bled ededs of fcieatific aid }

That aid,- wliich refcued hundreds from the
grave, (fave.

When needed mod, thyfelf, ah ! could not
Y et not thy Icience, not thy

li ind,

Which fcaiter'd wonderso’er a weeping land,.
Not Ikill, which eas’d the fick, the maim’d,
the kme, (thy fame.

Which ferv’d thy country, and which rais'd
Now claims my fiumble verfe-?-the troubled
Mufe

To grander virtues p.ays her plaintive dues,
To gentle manners, and a well-fraught mintf,
A cheerful nature, and a will refign’d,

A heart, in which domedic glories fhone,
The tender brother, and the grateful fon,

Whofe

Sile^ Poetry^ Jntlent and Modern^ for November, 1794*' 1037

Whofe seii’reus love through all relations ran,
And without bounds embrac’d collc6live man.

If fuch the worth, which in thy early age
Adorn’d the Chrillian, and proclaim’d the
fage, (gloorh'

}Tow bard the fate 1 that with releiulefs
VV uber’d it*; fweet, and cropt its rifing bloom,
Which fnatch’d thee hidden, eie the rapid
mail

Could to thy home thy alter’d health detail!
No anxious friend to watcli thy dying throes,
Shut thy cold eyes, or hiff'ning limbs com-
pofe,

To pay the laft refpefl, and o’er tliy bier
In facred forrow pour the pious tear !

Farewell then, gentle Ihade ! fori mufl
fpare

The throbbing pangs a mother, hher, fhare.
Spare them the argoilh of a longer Ibrain,
They live to know, to weep thy lofs in vain !
Farew-ell ! and if from thy bright feat above
Thou mark’ll the adlions which atteft our
love,

Accept this humble gift of rulhlefs grief, .

A gift, that yields my heart a ihort relief;
Accept propitious this imperfe^l lay,

The laft fad tribute, which a friend can pay,

A Relative.

Mr. Ur B A n, i 8.

'HE following lines were written by
the late ingenious Mr. Shenllone, tho’
net inferred in his Works.

Yeurs, &c. A IT.

Inscription for a Medicinal Foun¬
tain AT THE LeaSOWES.

THOU facred Nymph ! wbofe pious care
Fours from thine urn this min’ral rill,

W hofe healing draughts, like cryflal fair, ,
In pleafing murmurs here diflill,

Who guid’ft the fiream, and joy’fl to dwell
Where murmurs foft with ufe agree ;

May Phoebus haunt tliis hallow’d well,

And all his fillers learn of thee ! W. S.

PARODIES OF SHAKESPEARE.

No. XVI.

N journeys notlf ng fo befits a man
As gentle pace upon a double- horfe,

“ While fair and conjugal difcoui fe as (ugar
“ Makes the hard way fweet and delectable.”
But, w hen the huntfman’s hornblow s in our
ears,

Tlien imitate the aiflion of the racer ;
Stitfen thefi news, fumrr on up the courage,
Defend the brains wiih a hard-favor’d cap,
Jn fcarlet’s bright array throw off from
cover ;

Eetthe new boot fit tightly on the calf,

1-ike the fmooth wax: then dafh thho’ thick
and thin

O’er feai fill leaps; nor reck con fcNanded falls,
Now fwill’d with floods, now drench’d with
foaking rains,

Set faR the teeth, and flretch tlie noftrils
wide,

Hold hard the breath, and ftick In both the
fpurs [nobles>

Up to the rowel head ! — On, on, you
Whofe blood’s deriv’d from fathers of fcull-
proof !

Fathers, that like fo many frantic Nimrods,
Have in thefe parts from morn ’till ev®
knock’d up

Horfe after horfe, for lack of argument!
Dilhonor not your pedigree ; atteft [you,
That Ihofe, whom you call’d fathers, tutor’d
So tutor you your fons, grooms, whippers^in.
And teach them how 'to leap! And, you
good yeomen, [foxes,

While freedom’s in the land, preferve tiie
Tho’ we cut up the paftures: fo we’llfwear
That you are worthy of your rack-rent
farms: ’

For there is n^jn^e of you fo mean and bafe,
To mind the damage that we do your corn.

I fee yon ftand like jockeys in your ftirrups.
Straining upon the Rate; thegame’s in view^,
P'ollow our fpirit, and upon the cliafe
Cry — Talieho i England ! and Fox-hunting !

Hen. V. iii. i.

THE grey-cy’d eve brings on the fmiling
night, (lam pis of light;

Chequering the ftreets and fquares with
And modern Fafhion ne’er from table reels,
But drives to crowded routs Ins chariot
wheels.

Now eie ti e fun advance his glaring eye,
The day i’ intrude, and night’s dear joy s to fpy',
I mull fill up what hours my luck awards
Withrattling dice, and precious fpoited cards.
The night, that plodding bufuiefs doth en¬
tomb.

Calls up enchanting revels in its room ;

And at the call gamblers of divers kind
For plunder meet, iw defp’rate league com¬
bin’d ; [cheat,

None but know feme, moft, every trick, to
In all the frauds of villuiy complete.

O mickle is the powerful chance that lies
In Ace,King, Queen, and their threequalities ;
No game fo low, that on the cards is plty’d,
But on the cards the greateft bets are laid j
Nor aught fo high, but ftrain’d from its fair
ufe.

Revolts from paflime, leading on ahufe ;
Shuffling can turn up Fani if well apnlied,
And Pam by flufh is fometimes dignified.
Within the ftately rooms of yon firft floor
Hazard hatli refidence, and Paro power.
Winning at this ; with duc..ts fills the iiurfci,
Ill luck 'at that, relounds at ev’ry curf-*.

Two fwch oppofed foes in mortals meet,

As well as cards, — fair dealing — and deceit — •
And wherethe wauTeiuloth inggeft the pi ul,
FuUtfooa wi'.hpiftol, death does up that man.
• Romeo, ii, 2

MASTER SHALLOW.

ODE.

1038 Poetry^ Antlent and Modern, for November, 1794.

ode, carmen OL. goldsmith,

On tbi glorious VrcTOftY of the British Latine redcitum.

E li E E T , under the Command ^ E ar L How K

cn the FIRST ^June, 1794.

By ROBERT STRONG, Jun.

KEJOICE, rejoice ! — the battle’s done :

Bntannia crowns her favourite Son.
Nornorethe Gallic enfign flies,

Deep humbled are our enemies,

Our liardy tars return on flioi e,

Triumphant, as in days of yore.

Chorus.

With chearful hearts let Britons fing,

Loner live Britannia ; asd God fave tlie King!

Their Blatter’d fleet fleers home again j
IVetQ ftill the rulers of the main.

The gallant I^we felt pity glow,

And fav'd a helplefs, finking foe i
For mercy fways a -Briton's arm.

And weaknefs— fhields a foe from harm.
Chorus.

gure, therl, each grateful heart mtifl fing.
Long live Britannia ; and God fave the Kmg !

III.

Im 1 where the Royal Charlotte fails,

V/hile Fortune Kreathes propitious gales ;
Huzza ! huzza! the lliores rebound ;

Fair Britain’s cliffs repeat the found I
A widow’d land, o’er yonder main,

May iriourn her captives, and her fiain.
Chorus.

*Tis ours, — with grateful hearts, to flng.
Long live Britannia ; and God fave the King !

IV.

Our youthful warriors glad return.

And Anarchy hath caufe to mourn,

TrxiQ Liberty, with modeft fmile,

Looks on the tenants of her ifle :

And Britain's virgins — tb.o’ they weep
For fweethearts numbering in the deep — •
Chongs.

With extacy reviv’d, fhall fing,

Long live Britanin-, and God five the King I

But, ah, ye Britons, flill fincere,

Shed, kindly fhed a brother’s tear !

Peace to the lhade-, of every crew,

That fell, hke gallant Mountague.

Frotedl each orphan girl and boy.

And hid each widow w'eep lor joy.

CJoorus.

Then Gratitude fhall roufe tofing,

Long live Britannia ;

Leith, 06f. 12, 1794.

f Continued from p. 942.7

ET generc illoftris pater, et dkiflimiis
agri

Nofler eraf, Claris ihfiperiifque potens
Nec tamen huic, praster miferam quam
“ cernis, el is am,

Ulla feneilutis fpcs, columenve fuitt

Tempore quo primum jucunda^Rloleverat
aetas,

Certatim innumeri me petiere proci —

** Scilicet et formam laudarc,.animumqucpa-
rati,

Et fentire novas, vel fimulare, faces.

Aflidue juvenes foliti contendere donis*—
Cuiquefuaedotes,quodque placeret, erat

“ mi nobilitas — gemniarum Imic copia, et

auri—

E UR YALO

pudor.

** Ingenua euryalo mens, tacitusque

Veftitu flmplex, at fimplice vefte decoru?,
Nec pollens opibus, nec ditione, fuit—

‘‘ Hbic fincerus amor, veia et conftantia,
*• dotes —

“ O’quantijU'etii munera, elisa, tibi !

Vere novo puri labimtur ab jethere rores,
“ Pura in odorato palmite gemma nitet.
Euryali at caflo fplenclebat pe<flore virtus
“ Purior, et prifeo tempore digna>fidcs.

Pratis mane novo micat, ecce ! argenteus
humor g (nitet—

- Mox periit^ — in tenero palmite gemma "
“ At periturus honos, perituraque gratia
utrique — ■

Haud fecus inconftans inftahilisque fui.

Fmportuna diu juvenem inentita tenebam,
“ Angens fraude mala, feemineisque dolis,
Dhraque menm tetigit pedlus conftantia
“ amantis,

“ Materiem faeu-o pr»buit ipfa joco.

O animi levitas ! o dira fuperbia ! fugit
Infortunato vi6lus amore p«</r —

Et procul in fy Ivis, atquc in defei ta locomm
Triflitia languens et moribundus abit.

H. G. B.

(To be concluded in our next. )

({

and God fave the King !

MEKSx^ INSCRIPTtIM,

(^Imitated from the Latin.)

Harmless mirth, and harmlefs wit.
Still arc welcome to my board,
Wlien w'ith chearful ft iends 1 fit,

Greaterl than any lord.

But whoe’er with impious tongue
Shall an abfeut friend defame.

He fliall reap tli’ intended w'rong,

Going empty as he came.

Memorandum Lines containing the Namd
of Human Bones.

(CCIPITIS, Frontis, Parietalia, Tem-
porum Malae,

Ethmoides, Unguis, Sphaer.oides, Palati, Nafi,
Maleolus, Incus, Stapefque, Orbiculai e,
Dentes molare<!, ominos, infiforefque,
Hyoidus, Vomer, Maxillaria, Mandibulum
que, aumque,

'Vertebrae, Sacrum, Coccygirque,Coftae,Ster-
Scapula,Clavicula, Humerique; Radius, Ulna,
Carpi, Metatavfi, Digitorum, Sefamoides,
Innonimatum, Femoris, Fibula, Tibiaquc
patella,

Tarfi, Metataifi, Digitorum, Sefamoida^

A. Z.
PRO*

[ 1039 1

PROCEEDINGS or the NATIONAL CONVENTION op PRANCE ; p. 9 4^1*

Feh. \ TTER the report of the Committee decrees as follows : — ift. The liils »f names.
15, of Alienation, the Convention dc- which, according to the law of twenty-fix

creed, that the buildings and dependencies Frimaire, was to be made of all perlons
of the ci-devant Convent of Val-dcT Grace whofe property has been or fhall ba con-
fhall be converted into a Military Hoipital, fifeated to the profit of the Republic, fhall
to ferve as a refuge to the children of the be fent and proclaimed in the fame manner
country, and to lodge thofe indigent females as the general lift of emigrants, a>nd fhall,
who may have occafion to lie-in; thofe befides, be pafted up in the chief ^)wns oif
mothers wh© lhall have been delivered, and each diftriift only; in confequence, there
recovered perfetftly, fhall be at liberty to re- fhall only be tenthoufand impreftionsof each
main as .wet-nurfts, and fhall be fupported. lift. 2. In the decade follow ing the pub-
The buildings belonging to the d devant lication of the prefent law', there fhall be
Foundling H(/f]ntal, were decreed to be fold made out-particular lifts of the EngVifh, the
for the benefit of the Republic. Spanifh, and all the fubjeifts of the other

March i. A member prefented the projcdl foreign powers at war with France, who
of a decree for the deftrudlion of wolves^ have any property in France, whether con-
foxes, and badge which contributed much, filling of moveables or immoveables, or of

by their ravages, to the fcarcity of provifions.

La Croix interrupted the Speaker: “ VVe
have,’^ faid he, “ to combat the leopard of
England, the eagle of Auftria, and the mon¬
key of Savoy ; why then fhouUl we trouble
onrfelves about foxes and wolves ? I pro-

credit. Thefe lifts fhall be made out by the
refpedlive Municipalities, within whofe pi e-
cinils they polfefs any property or credit.
3. Thefe lifts fiiall, witliin the following
decade, be fent by the national agents of the
Communes to the adminiftralion of the dif-

yofe that this be referred to the Committee triCl, who ftiall verify them, and fhall add, if
®f Agriculture. there he occafion, a general flate, which
Fayan. — 1 am inclined to think, that the the National Agent fhall addrefs, within the
membfir, w ho made the motion, fpoke in a third decade, to the adminifti.ationof depart-
figurative fenfe j and that, by the foxes, the
wolves, and the badgers, he meant to point
out the vai ious deferiptions of ariftocrats that
we have to guard againft. la truth, we may
■^nd, among the ariftocrats, wolves, foxes,
and badgers. The w’olves arc thofe enemies
of tiie people, nhofe mouths are ever open regifters, all new information they may hav©

ment, and to the adminillration of domains,
4. Moreover, the National Agents of the
diftriCis lhall be bound to fend every month
to the adminillration of their departments,
and to the adminiftrator of the national do¬
mains, and the national adminillration of

to devour : the foxe^ arc thofe cunning fliar-
pers, w ho flip into the markets, to get hold
©f the poultiy, and to prevent eaciv poor
fans cullottes from having a fowl for his put,
and who are pradlifed in all the fox’s at lifi-

procured concerning the property and t!ie
credit of each of the individuals comprifed in
the 2^ article. 5. The adminiftrator of the
National Domains lhall comprife thefe lifts
and thefe in{ormation.-< in the tables mention-

ces ; and, laftly, the badgcis are thole n oi|B ed in the firfl art’cle of the prefent law, and

timid ariftocrats, who fear difeovery, ami
dread day-light, and therefore only venture
out of their hiding-places, during the night.
He concluded, by giving his opinion, that
thefe noxious animals fhould be incelfantly
purfueel, and hunted down; and that no
ijuaiter Ihould be given to the enemies of ilie
Republic, till they v\ere all exterminated,
and then abundance would fpeedily revive.

The Sedlion of the Corn-market defiled
in tne Hall; they prefented fix Rtjmblican
lioifemen, armed and equipped, together
w ith a gre.it number of vtlfeb, full of falt-
petie. The Alfembly applauded the civifm
of this Section, invited tliem to the fut.ng
ai d decreed honourable mention of their
clT'eiings.

Decree concerning the Creditors of tlie
Englifti, of tlie Spaniards, and of Perloiis
condemned or banilhed.

Merlin de Duuai brought up the follow¬
ing plan of decree, w hich tlie Convention
adopted. The National Convention, ahef
having l.eatd li e report of their Commiuecs
ill L< giflatii'r , ol Don am-, andAUenai.cn,

in the flates whole format on is ordered by
the tenth article of the law of the 26lh Fri-
roair. 6. The creditors of the Emigrants
fliall henceforward, have only one declara¬
tion and one dej ofit of titles to mske. 'I'luy
fhall make them at the Secretaries office of
the diftriifl where their debtors laft refuled,
indicated by the general lift, made in con¬
formity to the 2d article of the law' of the
2 7ih of Eiumaire. 7. The creditors of ba-
nifhed pel fons, of iniprifoned pnefts, of
Enclifhmen, of Spaniards, and the fubjei^ls
of other Powers, at war witli th& Republic,
or of perfons outlawed, and w'hofe property
IS confifcated, are fubiedl to the fame decla¬
rations and depoftt of titles as the creditors
of Emigran s. 8. Thefe declarations and
depofits fhall be made by the creditors of
Emigrants, and others d<icribed in the pre¬
ceding article, within four months, reckon¬
ing from the day of the publication, made la
the chief town of the diftridl. Where this
term is paft, tiieir debts will be forfeited,
9. Tlie depofitarie.s, public and private, th«
debtors, the farmers, or the holders of pro-

perty,

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perty, belonging to Emigrants and others,
comprifed in the lifts or general tables men¬
tioned in the prefent law, ihall, within the
fame period, make the declarations preferi-
bed by the laws of Nov. 25, 1792, July 25,
1793, and 27 F’riniairej and this under the
penaltiesth.ere pronounced. 10. 1 he difpoft-
tions of the laws of Sept. 2, Nov. 25, 1792,
Jan. 13, 1793, the 26th Primaire, and others
which may be contrary to thofe of the pre¬
fent law, are annulled.

March 4. Barrere, in the name of the
Committee of Public Safety, faid, it greatly
imported ihe interefts of the Republic to
eftablifh a fit Board tofuperintend tlietranf-
porting of military llores. He therefore pro-
pofed : “ That there ftioOld be formed a
Committee of Three to iuperintend the for¬
warding of military ftores. This Commif-
fion ftiall he charged to examine all the
cloathing and ftores deftined for the army
and navy, and to fee that they are in no
want of arms. It fliall have the power of
putting all horfes, mules, and carriages, in a
ftate of requifition,' if the public fervice re¬
quire it. This Commilfion fhall be under
the fuperintendance of the Committee of
Public Safety: the National Treafury ftiall
hold 30 millions at its difpofal. Each mem¬
ber fhall be allowed 12,000 iivres a-year."
All former Committees of Superintendance
are henceforth abolifhed,

March 1^. A numerous Deputation from
the Se6fionof Marat entered the Hall, w;th
drums beating, bringing with them large
Jumps of fal petre on platters. Being come
to the bar, Monmoro faid, that it was an
offering from the Seefion to the n 'tion. Af¬
ter exprelfing ardent wifhes for the welfare
of tlie Republic, and the overthrow of ty¬
rants, he obferved, that the Sedlion of Ma¬
rat polTeffcd a faltpetre kind of moraliiy, the
fource of which was inexhauflible, and whofe
exprelfions had very frequently ferved the
caufe of Liberty and Ecpiality. Tins remark
was very loudly applauded.

March II. Barrere, in the name of the
Committee of Pubhe Safety, read a report
concerning the eftablii'hment of a Commif-
fion for Public Works. After having deve¬
loped the abufes of the ancient government,
and demonftrated the neceffity of fixing a
central point, which fhould direft all the
operation^, propofed the following plan,
which was decreed. — i. There fliail be form¬
ed a Co nmilhon tor Public Works, conipy-
fisd of three Members, which flnall be nanietl
by !he Convention, upon the prefentation of
the C-mmittee of Public Safety. 2. This
Commilfion Ibali have the fa| erinteiidence
of the civil and military works, tiiol’e of the
mai ine, the hriiiges, highivays, and caufe-
wayi^ the drying of m.irlhes, the fortifica¬
tions, &:c. the manufacloi ies of arms and
the working of mines only excepted; and
the eonftruction of velTels fliall continue to
be under the care of the Minifter of Marine.

The Members of the Commiffion are re-
fponfible Minifters ; they fliall have twelves
thoutand liyres of appointment; they <fliall
infpedi the pnrehafes, and exercife the right
of requifition and of detention upon all tlic
articles necelTary to their adminiftration j
they fhall have the power of putting under a
ftate of requifition the engineers and miners,
at the time they are not employed in the
armies. Six hundred thoufanU livres are
put under their difpofal, independent of the
funds formerly decreed.

March 14. Saint-juft made, in the name
of the Committee of Public Welfare, a re¬
port upon the Foreign Confpiracy, the event
of which would be the corruption and the
lofs of Paris. He came, he faid, to denounce
to the Convention a plan fubverfive of their
Government and Liberty: — “ It is time for
the people to return to Morality, and Arifto-
cracy to Terror. Foreigners do every thing
to corrupt us. Since the decree depriving
fufpedted perfons of their property, the ftroke
is felr, and their adlivity is redoubled to di¬
vide and corrupt us. Let us make war thea
upon every kind of wickednefs, and immo¬
late without pity, upon the tomb of the
Tyrant, all who regret his Tyranny. Fo¬
reigners wifti to fubftitute a Monarchical for
a Republican Government. We have only
the People for our Friends, if they triumph j
and Deatlq if they do not. They wifti to
famifli us — they intercept our fupplies ; the
Ariftocrats rifk every thing to overturn the
exifting Government. If we make war, it
has been faid in one of the fittings of the
Englilb Parliament, France will acquire new
energy : if we make Peace, we lhall have a
Civil War. — Let us make war, fay they, but
retard the Campaign, and employ the inter¬
val to corrupt the French. It is in confe-
quence of this plot that the rich in Paris de¬
vour the fubfi Pence of the people, and that
th.ey make meals at the rate of 300 livres a
head. — They wifh to acenftom us to bafe
manners, and to train us to luxury; and,
laftly, to bring us to demand a Chief, and to
proclaim him. Italians, Neapolitans, who
fay they have been perfecuted in their own
Country, abotind in Paris, and put on the
mafk of Patriotifm. A Law was propofed
agaiiift foreigners, and carried. — Next day,
an exception v.'as propiofed in favour of Ar-
lifts ; and, next day, all foreigners were Ar-
tiftq even Phyficians then. felves. All thefe
Counter-llevolutionifts' call themfelves Pa-
irio:s — Maratifts.- — We have had a falfe Ma-
•rat at Nancy, at Strafljourg; and all thought
to have ki; tiled a Civil War. We h.td but
one M.mat — all his fucceffors are liypdcrites,
who difgrace his uitmi ry.’'

Saint- Juft entered into allthe details known
to the Coinmiitee of Fuidic WTlfare upon
the projt (fts of their enemies. He faiA that
Colonel Mack h.id given erders upon the
frontiers that tontinuai menaces ftundd be
made ; but they had never been carried into

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effe<5l, merely to give time to the interior
agents of corruption to a<fl, and to facilitate
anarchy, aiwl at laft force the people, dif-
gufted, to demand a Regency, the Members
of which are now f.ibricating at BrnfTels three
milliards of affignats^ to be exchanged, when
the Counter Revolution takes \>l>ce, againlt
the Republican oj/jgnats. Saint Juft decla¬
red, that there had been lately arrefted, in
Paris, Emigrants and Foreigner?, who were
the agents of this plot.

The Convention, after liaving heard the
report of the Committee ef Public Welfare,
made the following decree : — “ The Revo¬
lutionary Tribunal fhall continue to inform
itfelf of the authors and accomplices of plots
fet on foot againft the French peojUe and
their liberty j it (ball caufe fufpetfted per-
fons to be arrefted and judged. Thc'fe fhall
be declared traitors to their country, and
punilhed as fuch, who fhall be convidled of
having favoured the plan of corrupting the
Citizens, or of fubverting the public fpirit,
or of having caufed any alarms concerning
the provifioning of Paris, or of having given
an atylum to the Emigrants, or who fhall
have attempted to open the prifons, or who
fhall have introduced arms into Paris for the
purpofe of affalhnating the people and dc-
flroying liberty, or who (liall have attempt¬
ed to alter the form of the Republican go¬
vernment. The Convention being invefted
by the French people with the National
Authority, whoever fhall ufurp its power,
whoever fhall derogate, either direcftly or
indiredlly, from its dignity, is an enemy to
the people, and fhall be punifhed as fuch.
Refiftance of the Revolutionary and Repub¬
lican Government, of which the Convention
is the centre, is an attempt againft Public
Liberty ; whoever lhall endeavour to bring
it into contempt, to deftroy or to impede it,
fhall be punifhed with death. The Com¬
mittee of Public Welfare will difmifs every
Public Fundlionary who fhall negledl to exe¬
cute the decrees of the Convention or the re-
folutions of the Committee, or who flrall
have ncgledled his duty, and fhall caufe him
to be replaced by’ feme other perfon. The
Conftituted Authoiitles cannot delegate their
powers > they cannot fend any Commiffion-
ci s either within or out of the Republic
without the exprets permiflion of the Com¬
mittee of PulEc Welfare ; Inch pow’ers as
they may have given are annulled ; they
who, after the promulgation of this decree,
fhall continue to exercife fuch powets, fhall
he punifhed with 2.0 years imprifonment in
irons. The Commilfaries of provifions, of
arms, and powder, fhall continue provifion-
aUy their functions. Six Popular Commif-
fions (hall be named, to judge without delay
the enemies of the Revolution detained in
nrifon. 'I he Committees of Public Welfare
and General Safety lhall concert the m^uns

G t N T . Mac. November ,, r 7 9.4.

of forming and organifrng them, Thofe
w'ho are fufnedled of a confpiracy againft the
Republic, who fhall withdraw themfelves
from Juftice, fhall be outlawed. The Com-
mittes of Infpeftion, who flaall leave atlarp
thofe accufed of lnci\'ifm within their Dif-
tridls, fhall be difmifled and replaced. Every
Citizen muft difeover Confpirafors and Out¬
laws, when he kmus where they are:
whoever fliall conceal them, fltail be re¬
garded as their accomplices. Thofe who
have been arrefted for confpiracy againft the
Republic, fhall have no communication w ith
any perfon, either verbally or in writing.
The Guards are to anfwer with their lives
for any inhaclion of this law.

(^To be continued.^.

Foreign Intelligence.

Letter from the King of Prulfta to hts Polifll
Majefty.

Sir, my Brother, Camp j at Wolay Aug. 2.

The pofition occupied by the armies which
furround Warfaw, and the efficacious means
which are begun to be employed to reduce
it, and which augment and advance in pro¬
portion as an ufelefs refiftance is prolonged,
ought to have convinced your Majefty that
the fate of that city is no longer dubious. 1
haften to place that of the inhabitants in the
hands of yonr Majefty : a fpeedy fui render,
and the exaift difcipline 1 fliall caufe my
troops who are deftined to enter Warfaw
to obferve, will fecure the life and p: operty
of all the peaceable inhabitants. A refufal
to the firlt and final fummons, which _my
Lieutenant Geiierai de Schwerin has juft
addreffed to the Commandant ofWaifaw,
will inevitably produce all the terrible and
extreme means to which an open city, which
provokes by its obftinacy the horrors of a
fiege and the vengeance of two armies, is
expofed. If, under the circumftances in
which your Majefty is placed, your Majefty
may be permitted 10 inform the inhabitants
of Warfaw of this alternative, and if yon
are permitted freely to deliver it, 1 can an¬
ticipate with an extreme pleafure that your
M^ajefty will become ibeir delivci er. Should
the con rary happen, I fhall regret the more
the inutility of this ftep, becaufe 1 fhould no
longer be able to rejieat it, however great
may be the intereft I take in the preieiva-
tion of )cur Majefty, and cf all thofe whom
the ties of blood and loyalty have called a-
round your perfon. In any cafe, I iruft tliat
your Majefty will accept the exprelfion of
the high efteem with which 1 am, Sir, my
Brother, The good Brother of your Majefty,

Fr. WlLHEL.M.’*

Leph &/Stanlflaus Auguftus. }V ujaw, Aug. 3.

« 1 he Polilh army commanded by Gene-
raliffimo Kofeiulko, feparating Warfaw from
your Majefty ’s camp, the pofitiou of Warfaw

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is not that of a city which can decide on its
furrender. Under thefe circumftances no¬
thing can juftify the extremities of which
your Majefty’s letter apprifes me j for, this
city is neither in the ftate to accept, nor in
that to refufe, the fummons which has been
tranfmitted by Lieutenant General de Schwe-
1 in to the Commandant of Warfaw. My
own exillence interefts me no more than
that of the inhabitants of this capital 5 but
llnce Providence has vouchfafed to elevate
me to the rank which allows me to mani-
feft to your Majefly tlie fentiments of fi a-
ternity, I invoke them to move your Ma-
jefty to abandon the cruel and revengeful
ideas which are contrary to the example
Kings owe to nations, and (I am alcogethtr
perluaded of it) are altogether oppofite to
jour perfonal character.

Stanislaus Augustus.'’

JVarfaw. The King of Pruffia had a very
fevere adtion with the Poles, in attemi'iting to
get poheffion ot the w’ood and batt' ries of
Povvafki, and was repulfed. The attack was
made by the PrulTians in great force againft
the divifioo of Prince Jofeph Poniatowfki,
commanded that day by General Dabrowlki ;
and, after an adtion of 14 hours, in which
the inhabitants of Warfaw Ihared the danger
and glory with the regulars, the enemy were
repulfed, with the lofs of feveral batteries,
and a great number of men. The retreat
of the I'ruirian army w'as fo precipitate that
they had not time to carry off their equi¬
pages or to bury tlaeir dead.

^Injwer returned by the King of Poland to a

Letter from the Ru-fllan General Fsrzen.

“ Sir, However painful we find the defeat
of a pait of the Pclifh army on the loth of
October, ef|)ecialiy on account of the lofs of
a man valuable in all ref pedis, and vvhofe
merit it has hiren to have laid the foundation
to the tlrR fruits of the inde.pende-ice of his
Country ; yer it caniioi ihake the firmi'.efs
of clu-fe, w ho have folemiily vowed either
to die, or to Gonciuer for Liberty. You
need not vvondter, Sir, if the method which
you [>roi'.ofe id us, to liberate the Ruffian
prii'oi .ers and hoftages, who ferve as pledges
for the Foks feized by the Ruffians, does
not meet witti our concurrence. If you
would endeavour to exchange your prifoners
lor our own, I 'would then voluntarily gra¬
tify your wiOie':. S'anvslaus, Rex.”

Stockhrdm, Sept jiZ. Tile final determi¬
nation of the prucefs in the ccnfp.r. cy
«f d'Armfeldt has taken place, and the
fentance has b' en rendered more fevere
againfl d'Armfehi' and Aminofr; brtj with
reipeiltothe reft of ihe panics, t'le con-
ciuAou of tf!e<Snprenic Tribunal, dated fuly
30, h is bee‘i couhrmed. Armfeldt, Ehren-
llroem, Anhnoff, and Lidy Rudenfkneld,
have received fentence of death ; with this
addition to the doom of Armfeldt, that his
mams be hxed on the pillory, and to Ami-

noff, that his right hand be cut off. The
fentence has not yet been publiffied ; it is
therefore uncertain when its execution will
take place. It is even reported, that the
jjenerous Duke Regent had interfedcd for
the criminals. The King wdl fpeedily be
introduced in the Couucil.

*Sept. 23. This day the fentence has been
confirmed upon the traitors of this country.
This fentence was pronounced yefterday in
the Council at Drottningliolm, and the mili¬
tary ordered out late in the evening. This
morning, about 10, the late Secretary of
State, and Heraldof the Order of the Seraph,
M. Von Ehrenflroem, was brought from
the place in which he was confined to the
market-place, where the ex<CUtions gene¬
rally take place. He was eicorted by a
flrong detachment ; and, on his arrival at the
market-place, put on the pillory, with an
iron collar round his neck, for the fpace of
an hour. He was afterwards conduifted to
the prifon Smedgard, where he is to pre^re
for death, which is to be his lot on the ift
of Oclober, when his right hand and arm
are to be cut off. On the fame market-place
the fentence of Baron Armfeldt w^as alfo
read. He was declared to be difhonoured
and an outlaw, and the executioner affixed
the following infcription on the pillory •

“ Guftavus Maurice, a Traitor to his Coun¬
try, and an Outlaw throughout the Swedifh
Empire, and the Territories thereto belong¬
ing.”

An hour later. Lady Rudenlkoeld, for-
met ly a Lady of Honour to the Princels Ab-
befs, W'as brought to a fcaffold erected on.
the fquareof Ritterlxolm, where the execu¬
tioner alfo put her in the pillory for one
hour ; but ffie did not fland in ic all that
time, owing to the violent fainting fits
whxli befel her. She was then fent to the
work-houfe for criminal femrdes, in w hich
ffie is to remain confined for life. At an
earlier hour, this morning, Col. Ammf'ff
was fent nmler a proper effort, to the for-
ti efs of Cat Iftein, not far from Gothenburgh,
in whicli he is to remain immured for life,
Mintur the valet, and Forfter the butler,
have been fent to the fortrefs of M.almoe for
an unlimited time. Lady Rudenlkoeld and
Col. Aminoff have obtained the King's
pardon for their lives. Ehrenftroem, with
his long red beard, which he was not per¬
mitted to ffiave during his confinement of
nine months, rrade a very fingular appear¬
ance. As foon as he reached the pillory, he
looked up to read the infcription explanatory
of the fentence of Armfeldt. The populace
manifefted great indignation at this impudent
behaviour ot the prifoner.

J.etters from Leghorn mention a dreadful
ftorrn of ram, thunder, and lig’itning, which
firuck one of the mafts of the S.uinra Nea¬
politan man of war, and killed 4 men,
wounded 5 others, befides confiderably da-
Kiaging the veffel.

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1794’] Intelligence from the Weft

w EST India N ews.

Montego Bay j y'uly ii. In confequence of
a circular letter from his Honour the Cuftos,
in the name of the Magiftrates and other
refpedlable inhabitants of this parifh, direct¬
ed to the Medical Gentlemen of this town
and neighbourhood, requefting them to meet,
in order to take into confideration the na¬
ture of the prefent prevailing fever, which
has lately been fo fatal to feamcn and new¬
comers ; they met accordingly. After full
difeuilion, and comparing their experience,
the following were unanimoufly their fen-
timents with regard to the charaCteriltic
fymptoms of this difeafe, the moll fuccefsful
mode of treatment, and bed means of pre¬
vention.

The chief charaCleriflic of this difeafe is a
fuddenand violent determination of blood to
the head, manifelted by painful fulnefs and
burning heat in the eyes, fiufheJ counte¬
nance, intenfe headach, particularly in the
forehead, and other affeClions of the nervous
fyllem. The pulfe is in general full, foft,
and frequent, but unufual throbbing about
the neck and temples is obferved ; irritabi¬
lity of the flomach, bilious vomiting, pro-
flration of ftrength dejeClionof fpiriis, with
the other fymptoms of the common i emit¬
ting fever of this ifland, conllantly attend this
difeafe ; and, indeed, this f ver only feems
to differ fiom that, in all its fymptoms being
much more violent and fevtre. In regard
to the treatment, repeated experience has
convinced us, that the chief fafety of the
patient confifts in early bleeding ; the quan¬
tity, as in other cafes, to be regulated by the
violence of the fymptoms, Itrength, &c. of
the patient. After bleeding, the early and
free evacuation of the Ifomach and bowels
is of the greateft importance, and this h .s,
in general, required the moll aClivc medi¬
cines. Bathing the feet and legs in warm
water, early bliftering of the head, back,
and extremities, mull be had recourfe to in
fuccefiion as the fymptoms may feem to re¬
quire. When the head is fhaved, advan¬
tage may be deprived from bathing it for
fome time with cold vinegar, previous to the
appl’cation of a blifter. The fubfequent
treatment differs in nothing from that of the
bilious remittent fo v\eU known in this
country. In regard to prevention, experi¬
ence has fnewn that the human body, when
in the higheft health and vigour, is lead
fufceplible of tlifcafc ; hence ahftemious
living, unnecelfaty evacuation, and excels
of every kind, as tending to diminiilr that
vigour, are mauifedly improper ; we would
therefore recommend the liberal butdifcieet
ufe of wiue, and generous tliet, &c. free
ventdatioii and fumig uion of tlie chambers
c f the fick, frecpient changing of tlie bed
and bcxly linen, and removing all evacua¬
tions immediately. The ufe of vinegar,
Camphor, ^-tc. are all of great importance.
As negroes and people of colour have not as

Indies, and from America, 104;^

yet appeared to be fufceptible of this olTeafe,
we would recommend that all o^hces about
the perfons of the fick and at the interment
of the dead (which ought to be ordered as
early as pofTible) fhonld be performed by
them. Thofe who attend the fick fhonld
frequently fmell to and rince their moutlis
with vinegar, with which the chamber may
be fprinkled from time to time. The opi¬
nion of one of the mod experienced practi¬
cal writers which this age has produced will
very properly conclude what we have far¬
ther to fay on the fubjecd. Dodlor Lind,
after having mentioned various methods of
purifying the air of (hips whe,e fevers had
prevailed, concludes in the following terms:
** If means fo abfolutely necelTary as clean-
linefs and pure air do often fail in removing
or annihilating their fecret fonree, it now
gives me the greated fatisfadion to affirm,
that 1 feldom or ever knew a proper applica¬
tion of fire and fmoke to be unfuccefsful in
producing the happy confequence of effec¬
tually purifying all tainted pi ices, materials,
and fubdances.”

AmSEican News.

Nexu To'k, Sept zg. Pkoclam ation,
publifhed by authority, by the Prefident of
the United States of America.

Whereas, from a hope that the Combina¬
tions againd the Conditivion and Laws of
the United S:ates, in certain of the VVeilern
Counties of Penufylvania, would yield to
time and refleclion, I thought it fufficient, in
the fird indance, rather to take raealures
for calling forth the Militia than imme¬
diately to embody them ; but the moment is
now come, w'hen the overtures of forgive-
nefs, with no other condition than a fub-
miffion to law, have been only partially
accepted — wlieo every form of conciliation,
not inconfident with the being of Govern¬
ment, has been adopted without effedl —
W'hen the well-difpofed in thofe Counties
are unable by their influence and example
to reclaim the wicked from tlie r fury, and
are compelled to alfociate in their own de¬
fence — when the prollered lenity has been
perverfely mifinterpreted into an apprehen-
fion tliat the Citizens will march witli re-
ludtince — when tlie opportunity of t'xami-
ning the ferious confequences of a treaion-
able Oppofition has been employed in pio-
p 'g it ng princ pies of anarchy > endeavouring
through emifl'aries to alienate the Friends <>f
Order from its fupport, and inviting Enemies
to perpetrate flmilar aits of infm reddion — ■
when It is manifed that violence would be
continned to be exercifed upon every at¬
tempt to enforce the law — when, therefore,
Government is fet at defiance, the conted
being whether a fmall portion of the United
States fliall didtate to the whole Union, and
at the expence of thofe who defire peace,
indulge a defperate ambition : Now there¬
fore I, Giorge Walhington, Prefident of the

United

^44 tiiUreftmg Intelligence from Sierra Leone, [Nov.

United States, in nbedienee to that high and
jrrefiftible duty, configned to me by the
Co'iftitution, to take care that the Laws be
faithfully executed deplorirtg that the
American name fhould be fullied by the out¬
rages of Citizens on their own Government ;
commiferating Inch as remain ohlfinate from
delufion ; but refolved, in perfe6l reliance
on that gracious Providence which fo fignally
difplays its goodnefs towards th's ctiuntiy,
to reduce the refradtory to a due fu'nordina-
tion to the Law y do hereby declare and
make known, that, with a fatisfadlion that
can be equalled oiily by the merits of the
Militia fummoned into fervicefrom the States
of New Jerfey, Pennfylvania, fvdaryland,
and Virginia, I iiave received intelligence of
their patriotic alacrity, in obeying the call of
the prefent, though painful, yet cornrnanding
necelhty ; that a force, which according to
every reafonable expectation is adequate to
the exigency, is already in motion to the
feene of difatfedlion ; that thofe who have
confided, or Ihall conhde, '.n the protection
of Government, fhall meet full fuccour un¬
der the ilandard, and from the arms, of the
United States j that thofe, who have offended
agaiiiilthe Laws, and havefinceentitledthem-
felves to indemnity, will he treated writh' the
moil liberal good faith, if they fhall not have
forfeited their claim by any labfequent con¬
duct, and that inllruClions a?e given accord¬
ingly. And 1 do moreover exhort all in¬
dividuals, officers, and bodies of men, to
confer qdate w'ith abhorrence the meafures
leading direClIy or indireCtiy to thofe crimes
which produce this refort to military coer¬
cion ; to check, in their refpeClive fpheres,
the efforts of mifguided or defigning men to
fubilitr.te their mifreprefentation in the
plate of truth, and their difeontents in the
p'l. ce of ff Coie Government ; and to call to
mind, that, as the People of the United Slates
have be n permitted underthe Divine favour
in perfect freedom, after fol'emn deliberation,
and in aii enlightened age, to eleCl their own
Government, fo will their gratitude for this
ineilinaable bleffing be belt diftinguifheC by
firm exertions to maintain tlie Conftitunou
and the Laws. And, lalll), I again warn
all perfons whonifosver and wherefoever,
not to abet, aid, or comfort, the infui gents
aforefaid, as they whil anfw’er the contrary
at their peril ; and I do alfo' require all Offi¬
cers and otlier Citizens, according to their
feveral duties, as far as may be in their pow¬
er, to bring under the cognizance of tlie Law
all offenders in the premifes. In tellimony
whereof, I have caufed the Seal of the Uni¬
ted Stares of America to be affixed to thefe
Prefents, and figned the fame with my liand.
Done at the City ot Phila(!elphia the Z5th
day of September, 1794 ; of the Inciependence
of tho United States of Amer.ca, the 19th.

'■ GEO. WASHINGTON.

By the Prefident, Edm. Rakdoli-h.

According to advices received in a private
letter from Montrealy a difcovery has. been
recently made, which may prove of the
higheft importance to the commercial world.
Mr. McKenzie, a partner in the houfe of
Probifher, M^Favilli and Co. of Montreal,
has lately returned to Michilimakinac, after
an abfence of near three years ; during which
he has been fo fortunate as to penetrate acrofs
the Continent to the Pacific Ocean, and reach
a place between King George’s Ifland and
Nootka Sound. This gentleman, whofe
perfevering and enterprifing mind well fuited
him f(»r fuch an undertaking, in his travels
through the North-Well: country I'ome time
ago, toeRablifla a more extehfivc intercourfe
With the Indians, and to traffick for furs,
arrived at the banks of a river which took a
Welleru diredcion, and which he obferved
to rife upwards of two feet by the influence
of the tide. In profecutiug a fecond expedi¬
tion from MichilifUakina-, after undergoing
the unavoidable hardffiips atteiidant on fuch
a journey, which was carried on in canoes
along various rivers and lakes, and often
through forefts where men wdre obliged to
Carry the canoes, he at length attained the
litmoft bounds of the Weftern Continent.
This circumflance will, in the courfe of time,
be of the greatefl confequence to this coun-
tr/, as it opens a diredt coffimiinication with
China, and may doubtlefs yet lead to farther
difeoveries. The diflance from Michili-
makinac to the Weflern Coaft is fuppofed to
be 1 500 miles, of which the Company had
before eflablilhed huts as far as 1000 miles.

Sierra Leone,

D'fpatches were received at the Sierra
Leoiie Houfe from that fettlemerit, dated
tile i3'h of June, the 2d of July, and the
c;th of Augurt, by the Company s fhips the
0.:eaa.and the Amy, which h.we both ar¬
rived at Plymouth with African produce. It
appears that the colony were advancing, and
the .itf.rrs oftlie Company improving In every
refpact,'when a temporary interruption was
given to the peace and order of the fettle-
inent by the turbulence of fevei-al difiiffecled
Nova Scotia fettlers, who endeavoured to
refeue fome refra-flory perfons of their own
body, that liad been arrefled for a breach of
the peace. Both the individual whofe refeue
was demanded, and the ringleaders in the
fucceeding tumult, have been either taken
up and fent to England, of obliged to quit
the Xoiony. The rains had been fevere ;
no death, however, had happened among
the whites for many month‘s, though feveral
were indifpofed. An expedition of about
Four Hundred and Fifty miles circuit had
been made' to the interior country b two
of the Company’s fervants, one of whom,
accompanied hy anotler Company’s fer-
vant, encouraged by' the fuccefs of this
adventure, was preparing' to fee out on a

journey,

*794-] Intelligence from Ireland, and the Country Towns, 1045

journey to Tombu6loo, in tlie hope of being
able to penetrate through the Continent of
Africa. The laft difpatches are dated about
three weeks fubfequent to the tumult which
has been mentioned, when the peace of the
colony feemed to have been fully reftored.
All the company’s (hips which were cx-
peiSlcd to have reached Sierra Leone had ar¬
rived.

Irei-and.

Ccri, OB. Mr., Uafpe, the celebra¬
ted Mineralogiff, has been lately in this
city, after having explored the mines in the
vicinity of Killarney. His rcfeaichcs have
been crowned with the greatell fuccefs y
among many others, he has difeovered the
richeft cobalt mine in Europe, a ton of the
ore of which is computed, at a moderate
calculation, to be worth 250I. fterling ; and
what renders this ore more precious is, that
it is in great demand in China, wheie the
India Company export annually to the
amount of i8o,goo1. w'ortli, which they
principally draw from Saxony at a very
heavy expence.

Cajile, Nov. 5. Yeflerday being
the Annivei'fary hf the birth of the late
King William the Tlurd, of glorious me¬
mory, in the morning the flag was difplayed
on Bedford Tower; at noon there was a
fpler.did appearance of the nobility and other
perfons of diftinftion at the CafHe, to com¬
pliment his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant ;
after which his Excellency, attended by the
nobility and gentry, and eicorted by a Icpia-
dion of horfe, "went in procefhon round the
ftatue of King William. On his Excellen¬
cy’s return to the Caflie, the great guns at
the Salute Battery in His Majelty’s park the
Phoenix were hred three rounds, and an-
fwered by volleysfrom the regiments in gar-
rifon, which were drawn up in College
Green. At night there were bonfires, illu¬
minations, and other demonftrations of joy.

Sbinronet Kings County. There is now
living in this paiifli one Thomas Delhauty,
aged 104. He is in perfedf health, can read
a newf paper without fpe6lacles, and walked
a mile in lefs than twenty minutes in July
lafl. He is tlie Ether of 20 children, and
had five fons in the army during the^ late
American w’ar, two of whom were killed,
and one (Serjeant Delhauty, of the 19th re¬
giment of hgh; dragoon'^, now flatioaed at
Ilininfler) wounded

Country News.

OB, 16. Thurfday was performed, in the
field before n^almer Cafile^ the cerenoi-ny
of delivering tl;e StAiidards to The C.inque
Port Light Drugoons, comncaiided by Col.
Jcnkinfoii. The regiment marcheu tiiat
morning from the neighbourhod of Ewe),
aboirt 3 miles from Dover, on tiie London
rood, where they are encamped, and ar-
r.ivei at vV aimer Caiib between 11 and 12..

Tlie 3 troops being drawn up fo as to form
3 fules of a fquave, Mr. Secretary Dundas
(who OB this occafion fupplied the place of
tlie Lord Warden), attended by Mr. Egerion
Hammond, Chaplain to the regiment, ap¬
peared in the area thus formed by the regi¬
ment, with the three ftand.'.rds in his hands^
the Colonel advancing near him. T he ofli-
cers who were to bear the (bandards, fup-
ported by a fmall detachment of the regi¬
ment, formed behind the Colonel, near the
centre of the area. The difpol tion being
thus made, the Cliaplain proceeded to con-
fecrate the ftandards in tlie E llowing
woids: “ To the Almighty God I dedicate,,
and (as far as ray power extends) I confe-
crate thefe colouis, relying on the courags
and good condudt of >ou, your ofiicers, and
men at all times to defend the fame, to the
utmoft extremity, in the fervice and fupport
of the Chriflian Religion, your King, tmd
your Country ; to wliicli God Almighty give
his grace and protedlion !’’

After this, Mr. Dundas addrefled Iiimfelf
to the Colonel in this very impreliivefpeech :

“ The colours being now confecrated, i
trull none of us here prefent confider this
ceiemony as mere idle lliow. 1 confider
thefe colours, which, in the abfence of the
Lord Warden, 1 am deputed to deliver to
you, as the badge of a folemn engagemenE
between your Sovereign and you. TJie
vvildom of our Conflitution has placed tire
(word in the hands of the King, for the
protedl’on of our Law", our Liberties, and
our Religion ; and for the prefervation of
Monarcliy, as the great uniting cement by
which thofe valuable rights are confolidated
together. U'lien, therefore. His Majefty
places that fword in your hands, lie con¬
fides in your Loyalty to Iiimfelf in your
obedience to the Laws, in your love of our
Liberties, and in your zeal for the mainte¬
nance of our Religion. At no perunl of
our Hiflory was it ever fo elfentiaHy necef-
fary, that the foldier’s mind (hould he im-
prefi'ed with tlie importance of. thofe prin¬
ciples, and the duties refulting from them.
— In former times we have fought on
fome occafions for Empire, at other limes
fin' Commerce, fotnetirnes for Domed ic
Security ; b if on all thefe occafions we liave
liad to contend agunft known and limited
danger. — In the aggieffion now made upon
us ai Lome and abroad, we are compelled
to take up arms againft an enemy, who
aims a. the fubverfion, not only of the order
of Society on Eartli, but at the deflruflion
of every bond by winch God .and Man are
united together ; and, in the profecutlon of
t'lol'e unhal’owed purpofes, th«y are re-
ftrained by no ties, human or divine. Such
is the caufe in when you aie engaged-
Such is ihe en-^ray againft wh.ich you are
arme*' ; and i d ’diver thefe ftandards into
your hands, in tu 1 confidence, • Uiat, with
your iivvS only, you will abaadoii them.”

Mr,

104^ interejiing Intelligence

Mr, Dundas then delivered the Standards
into the hands of the Colonel, who deli¬
vered them to the ofScers that were to bear
them. The Colonel then addreffed the re¬
giment in a ftiort fpeech, in which he com¬
plimented them on the Rreat progrefs they
tiad ah eady made towards attaining the va¬
rious accoinplifhments of military difcipliae;
and he affcired himfelf, from the fpirit
which they had hitherto difcovered, that
it would be their pride and their ambition
to difcharge to t!^e utmoft the ferious and
important obligation cor.tradled by them in
the ceremonial of tliat day. This w'as fol¬
lowed by a flourhh of trumpets, and the
performance of fome evolutions, in winch
the Regiment amply jaftified the Eulogium
pronounced on them by the Colonel. Tiie
Otlicers were invited to Mr. Dnndas’s houfe,'
where they partook of fome refrerhnaents.
The Regiment marched back to Ewel Camp.

03:. 29. An nncommoLi accident hap¬
pened at the Coach and Horfes pubiic-iioufe
in Chatham. The' roafter, Wm. Kellick,
was drying about three pounds of gun pow-

from the Country Towns, [Nov.

der, who offered a bet, that a flame would
not fire powder ; accordingly a fmall quan¬
tity was laid apart for the trial ; a pair of
tongues, which had been in the fire, was
ignorantly applied to the fmall pai t, which
went off and communicated to the whole,
by which Mr. Kellick and two other men
are fo much burn'', that their lives are de-
fpaired of. The windows and partitions of
the lower part of the houfe were blown into
the ftreet, the explofion was paft concep¬
tion, and at the moment caufed general
confternation in the neighbourhood.

UuH, Nov. 25. Thelieivy gale on the 12th
of this month has proved deldrudtive to the
remains of that beautiful pile, the Abbey
Church at Whitby ; at feven in the morning
tha greateft part of the Weft end gave way,
and fell to the ground. This beautiful fpeci-
men of Gothic architefture is confequently
jinw no more; the greit window, which
has long been the admiration of every per-
fon of tafte, for the unrivalled elegance and
juftnefs of its proportions, now lies upon tbs
ground in Ihattered fragments.

' intelligence of IMPORTANCE
C3. i?. Letter from Sir E. Pells w, Capt of

Ills Majtfy’s Ship tU Arethufa, to Mr.

Stephens, 'dated off the Starts the z.\th injl.

Sir, I beg you will be pleafej to inform
their Lordftnps^ that i failed, with the follow¬
ing fhips under my command, viz, Arethufa,
Aitois, Diamond, and Galatea, agreeable to
their orders, on Sunday morning the 19th,
from Cawfand Bay ; and the wind having
given me the opport ini’.y, on the follow'hig
evening I fliapeJ a courle for Uflianc, with
the hope of falling in with any fhips which
might leave the Port of Breft on the com¬
mencement of the Eaftevly wind; the fuccefs
of this intention affords me ilie pleafuieof
begging you to acquaint my Lords Cummif-
fi meis^ that, at day-break in the morning
of the 2 1 ft Ufhant bear.ng Eaft about eight
or ten leagues, we had the good f a tune to
fdl in w'lth the French National Frigite La
Rcvalutloonnie, to which the wlrde of
the fquadro.i gave chace. The advantage of
being to vvindvv ard pe: m tted our cutting her
off from tlie land 5 and Lite fuperior fa hr.g
of tl'.e Artt)is r.ffordtd to Captain Naalc th.;
happy opporruniiy of d.iRinguubiag himlclf
by a well-condnited adUon of for y minutes,
when La RevoAUtionn iire P.i uck hei c lours
to HisMajefty’s ihip Aitois, whicli Ibc was-
induced t > do by the ne ir anpioach of the
red of the fqu idron ; and, i)erceiving ihe Dia-
mond in the act of taking a pofition under
her Itcri'i to ralve licr, the fh’. p’s company 1 e-
fufed to- defend her auy longer. She hid
fcarcely furrendcred when the Breaki^rs of
the Saints were difcovered a liead, akhougli
very hazy weather. The didreffed and
crippled Ita'e of the enemy idlnvvs me the
♦ppo.tuui'^y of faying} that licr refiftancts

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

could have been of no avail, had the Artol^
been alone ; and if an officer of nearly the
fame ftanding may be permitted, without
pr-sfumption, to offer his fentiments on the
condudt of another, I fhould not confine
myfeif in my expreflions of approbation on
the behaviour of Capta'.n Nagle ; and I have
much pleafure in adding, that be fpeaks in
the higheft terms of the gallantry and good
condudt of his officers and fhip’s conpany,
lamenting, as vve all do, the lofs of a very
gallant and worthy officer in Lieutenant
Craigy of the Marines, who, with two men
kd'ed, and five wounded, are the fufferers
on this occafiun. La Revolucionnaire is a re¬
markable fine new frigate, moft completely
fitted, and of large dimenflons, being 159
feet long, and 41 feet 7 inches wide,^ built
at Havre de Grace, and never before at fea.
She f illed eight days fince, on her way to
Breft, and was commanded by CitizenThe-
venard, mounting 44 guns, (.28 eighteen
pounders, 12 nine ditto, and 4 forty-two
ditto,) 28 on her main deck, and 16 on her
quarter deck and fore-caftle, a ad manned
with 370 men, 8 of vvhom were kille 1, and
five wounded ; among the Utter her Cap¬
tain, fligliliy. Lieut. Pellew, who will have
the iioncur to deliver this letter to their
Lordlhips, will be able to give any farther
information require! ; and wall infoim their
Lordlhips of my intention of going to Fa -
mouth to land the pnfoners, who have tb.e
fmall-pox among them. 1 have the hono ar
Lobe, &c. Eo P^.LLtw^

IJorfe Guards^ Nov. 8. By difpatches tiiis
morning received from tne Duke oi York,
dated Aiaheim, Gti. 2S; and JSov. 1. and 4,

1794*1 Inter efiing Intelligence from the 1047

it appears, that the Enemy, on the 2 7ih ult.
maile an attack on the Britifti Out-pofts in
front of Nimegiien, which were driven in ;
a new pofition was in confequence taken up
oppofite to the left of the town, againft which
a heavy fire has fince been kept up by the
Fiench, who, the fame evening, attacked
the Out- polls of Fort St. Andre, which fell
back to the fort. Lieut. Gen. Abercrombie
and Lieut. Col. Sir W. Clarke were flightly
wounded in their Ikirmifli; and Capt. Pidton,
of the 1 2th Regiment, was alfo wounded
in a (ally from Nimeguen on the morning of
the 28th. Nov. I. the Enemy brokeground,
but it does not appear that they have fince
made any confiderable progrefs in the fiege.
The fame difpatches mentioned, that Venlo
furrendered on the aSrh. The garrifon is
allowed to march out with the honours of
w'ar, and ten pieces of cannon ; and is not
reftrained from ferving again. Coblentz
has been in the polfeirion of the French fince
the 2 1 ll ult-

By a Difpatch from Major Gen. William-
fon, dated jamaica, Sept. i,it appears, that
the ptrfons to whom the defence of the poll
at Petite Riviere, in the Iflaiid of St Do¬
mingo, had been entrufted by General La
Vaux, Commander in Chief of the troops of
the Convention in that Ifland, made an
offer to Lieut. Col. Biifbane, commanding
his Majefly's forces at St. Marc, to place
l!;e poflof tiie Petite Riviere, with the parifh
of that name, and the adjacent | lain ot Ar-
tinob te, under his Majefly’s aiuliuri'y. This
offer was accept, d by Lieut C >1. Brifbarie,
and a capitulaiii n to this effedl was figned.
Ang. 19, 1794. The terms of this capitula¬
tion, and the means by which it was ef-
feiluated, were concerted with M. D. Villa-
nouva, commanding the forces of his Catho¬
lic Majelly in that part of the Ifland, who
appears, on this occafion, and ir the execu¬
tion of feme military operations which had
previoully taken place, to have co-operated
in the moll cordial and friendly manutr with
his Majefly’s forces.

Nov. 8. Thomas Skinner, Efq. Lord
Mayor P.ledl, u as fworn at Guildhall; when
the Cliair and other Enfigns of Mayoralty
were furrendered to him in the accnflomed
manner.

Nw. 10. The new Lord M.ayor, accom¬
panied by tlie la’e Lord Mayor, the Ah tr-
nien, Reto'derand SberifFs, in their fcarlet
cowns, w'ent in their ci'aches to the water-
hcle, the Sword and Mace being carried be-
foie them, and the Ciry Oflicers attending i
and thence proceeded in the City Barge, at¬
tended by the feveral Ci-nipanies in their re-
fp.e6live barges, adorned with llreamers and
pendants, to VVellmmller ; and having
w alked round the Hall, and folemnly fain¬
ted all tile Courts, they went to tb.e Exche¬
quer Bar, and the new Lord Mayor did there
take the Oaths appointed ; and, having re¬

corded Warrants of Attorney in tire proper
Courts, returned by water to Black Friers,
and thence in coaches, with the ufual folexn-
nity, tb Guildhall ; where a magnificent
entertainment was provided ; at which were
prefent feveral of the Foreign Miniflers, tfic
great Officers of State, divers of the Nobi¬
lity, Lords of His Majefly's moft Honour¬
able Privy Council, the Judges, and many
otlier perfons of quality and diflimflion.

Itorfc Guards, November n;. Letter from
the Duke of York, to Mr. Dundas.

Sir, Head ^^arrers at udrnheim^ Nov. 7-

On Tueftlay afternoon, as the Enemy hesd
begun to conflru6l their batteries, Counc
Walmoden made a fortie, with a party of tlae
8th, 27th, 28th, 55th, 63d, and 78th Rcgi-
mems of Britifh Infanfry, under the com¬
mand of Major General de Burgh, .and two
battalions of Dutch, fupported by the 7tfi
and i6tli Britifh Light Dragoons., the Hano-
veri.aii llorfe Guards, one fquadron of tlie
2d Regiment of H.moverian Horfe, onffi
fquadron of tlie r,tii Regiment of Hanoverian
Dragdions, one fqnadr..)!! of tlie: loth HatXi-
vevian Light Di aeoons, and the Legion dfe
Damas, in the Dutch fervice. This forri®
had every fuccefs which could be expei^ieifl
from it. The tt oops advanced to the Enemy'-s
trendies untler a very fevere fire, and jump¬
ed into Iiem without returning a flu-t. Tte
lofs of the Enemy was aimofl entirely by the
hayi'oec, amounted to above 500 n^ii ;
thit of ttie Britilh and flanoverians will \m
feen by the encioftd return. I am perfua-
ded that the gallantry of tlie troops upon tliis
occafion will merit his Majefly’s aporolxa-
tjon. Count Walmoden (peaks in the highef^
terms of the cotiduiit ot Major General rie
Burgh, whofe w ornv!, I am happy to find,
is very fliglit. I’his lortie had the efl'ed of
diecking tlie Enemy’s oi'tr<;tions till yefler-
day niormnr, xvhen tl.ey opened two batte¬
ries upon the bridge and one upon the town.
The effefl of tlie former, wliicli very e.ifiikr
funk erne of the boats, deteimiied me lo
withdraw every th ng from ti e troops pofi-
ed in the towm, beyond wliat is barely ne-
cefTary for its defence ; .and Lieutenant Pt.p-
ham of the Navy, having repaired the da¬
mage di-ne to the bridge, all the Art'Uery <'f
the Referve, with the Hntilh, Ha:iovtri..u.
and lleffiari battalions, mar. lied out hast
night, without any inconvenience, leaving
pickets, utuler the command of Major Gene-
ral de Burgh, to the auoount of 2500 men,-
which, witli the Dutcli Fore s, has been
judged fulhcient to maintain, the place till
the certaav v < f rbe Aullrian movements can
bedetetmneJ. I am, FREDERICK.

Nov. 19. Tliis day a Treaty of Amity,
Commerce, .and Navigafron, between his
Majefly and tlie United Spates of America,
was figned by the Right Ifr nourablc Lord
Gretivii'e, his .MajeilyL Principal Secretary

104^ Gazeiie News. — Diary of the Royal Excurjion. ' [Nov.

of State for Foreign Affairs, being duly au¬
thorized for that purpofe on his Majefty’s
part, and the Honourable John Jay, Envoy
Extraordinary from the United States of
A merica, having a like authority on the part
of the faid States.

Nov. 22. By Letter from the Duke of
York, to Mr. Dundas, it appears that the
evacuation of Nimeguen took place on Fri¬
day night. His Majefty’s troops retired
without any lofs ; which would alfo have
b' cn the cafe with the Dutch, but for an un¬
fortunate chance fhot, which carried away
Che top of the maft of the flying bridge to
wdiich the hawftr was made faft ; confe-.
c'piently the bridge fwang round, and they
were taken prifoners, to the amount of about
four hundred. The bridge of boats was en •
tirely burnt, and the flying bridge, of which
they got polfeffion by the aoove accident, has
been flnce dieftroyed by our fire.

This day his Majefty having appointed
James Lord Malmefbury, one of the Lords
of the Privy Council, and Kt.of the moft ho¬
nourable order of the Bath, to negotiate,
conclude, and fign a Treaty of Marriage be¬
tween the Prince of Wales and the Piincefs
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, daughter to the
Duke of Brunlwick and Lunenburgh, his
i,ordft>ip will immediately proceed to Brunf-
wick to exeaite the laid commiffiom^ _

Diary of the Royal Excursion.

Nug.. 15. At an early liour this morn ng,
filler a flight refreihment of tea, coffee, &c.
Elie King, Queen, Prince Erneft, and the
fix Princelfes, left Windfor in two poft-
coaches,. with the moft loyal effufions of
gii)od' wifhes from the inhabitants for their
tde return ; and in the afternoon, at about
half pa ft 4, were received at Weymouth by
a. party of Gen. Goldfworthy s horfe, and the
Weymouth volunteers. A royal falute was
fiaed from the guns on the Look-out, the
batteries at Portland, and by the Southampton
fiigace, commanded by the Hon. Capt.
Eorbes, and feveral floops of war at anchor
in the bay. A melancholy accident hap¬
pened to, two men in firing the cannon on
the Efplanade; owing to their not fpunging
Che gun properly, ll>e cartridge took fire, by
which one of the men had hiS liand blown
©ft, and tire other loft one of his eye.s, and
was other wife much liurC. The cloaths of
the latter were fet on fire, and were with
snach difti iulty to, n off time enough to fave
turn from being burnt to death.

j6. His Majefty, accompanied by Prince
Erneft, anch attended by Gen. Goldl worthy',
and the Hoia. Mr. Greviile, took an airing
on the D nchefter road. Her M jelly and
the Pi ineelies, attended by Ladies Gouitoun,
Waldegrave, and Charlotte Bruce, walked
on the Efplanade. Her Majefty honoured

Wild, of Lullwmrth caftle, and his fa¬
mily, with a great fhare of her converlation.

17. At 7 A.M. the King, accompanied by
Gea.Goldfwunhy and C.l. Greviile, walked

to-the Look-out, and at 9 returned to break-^
faft. Capt. Forbes had an interview with
his Majefty ; who vVlth Prince Erneft, and
five Princeffes, attended by Ladies Walde-
grave, Bruce, Gen. Goldfworthy, the Hon.
Mr. Grevil'e, and Major Price, went to
Melcombe church, where a fermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr. Grove.s. In the
evening his Majefty, accompanied by Prince
Erneft, attended by Gen. Goldfworthy, the
Hon. Mr. Greviile, aid Major Price,,
walked ; but the damp confined the Queen
and Princelfes. At 8 the Royal Family
went to the room.', and ftayed till half palt
ten.

18. At 7 his M-ajefty bathed in his old
machine; walked the Elplanade till 9 ; and
at 10, accompanied by Prince Erneft and
Princefs Sophia, took au airing on the
Wareham read. The Queen and the five
Princeffes, attended by Ladies Courtoun,
Howard, Waliegrave, and Mr. Price,
walked up to the Look-out. All paid a
morning vifit to Lady Poulett, and re.urned
to the Lodge to dinner. In the evening their
Majefties, Prince Erneft, and the fix Prin¬
ceffes walked the Efplanade, attended by
Ladies Courtoun, Waldegrave, C. Bruce,
and E. Howard, General Goldl worthy, Hon.
Mr. Greviile, and Maj.)r Price.

19. His Majeftv walked the Efplanade.
Princefs Augufta bathed for the firft time in
her old machine. At to his Majefty, Prince
Erneft, and Princefs Sophia, took au airing
on horfeback, attended by Lord Walfing-
bam and his ufual attendants; on the Dor-
chefter road. Tlie Qneen and five Princelfes
took an airing in their carriages, attended
by Ladies Courtoun, Waldegrave, and F.
Fioward, to Upway. They all retut ned to
the Duke’s Lodge to dinner.

21. His Majefty, attended by Gen. Goldf-
woi thy, walked the EfplanaJetiU bieakfaft.
Prince Erneft and Princefs Augufta bathed.
At 10 his Majefty, Prince Erneft, and Prin¬
cefs Sophia, with their ufual attendants, took
an airing on the Dorchefter road. The
Qiieeji and five Princelfes paid a ^rning
vifit to the Marchionefs of Buckingham.
Afterwards her Majefty and the Princefs
Royal, attended by Ladies Howard and Wal¬
degrave, took an airing on the Sands in the
Sociable. All returned to the Lodge to din¬
ner. In the evening the Royal Family went
to view the Camp, attended by Ladies Cour-
toun, Howard, Waldegrave, and Charlotte
Bruce, Lord Walfingham, Gen. Goldfwor¬
thy, t!ie Hon. Mr. Greviile, and Major
Price ; and faw the men go through their
cxercife. His Majefty paid the Marquis o£-
Buckingham many compliments on the difr
ferent ni-anaeuvres. On their Majefties
leaving the Camp, the regiment fired a,
royal falute of 21 guns, and the men gave
three huzzas.

22. His Majefty bathed. Princeffes Eli¬
zabeth and bathed fpr lb®

time.

1794*] Diary of the Royal Etccurjion lo Weymouth.

time. At 9 the fjgnal was hoifted for the
Royal Family going on-board. At 10 the
barges came to the Pier, when their Majef-
cies were taken on-board the Southampton
frigate with their ufual attendants. Prince
Erneft rode out, attended by Lord Walfing-
ham. The Princefs Royal w.alked the Ef-
planade, attended by Lady Waldegrave. At
half paft two their MajeRies came in. In
the evening his Majefly, accompanied by
Prince Ernell and the fix hrincellcs, with
llieir ufual attendants, walked the Efplanade.

23. Prince Ernell and Princefs Augufta
bathed. His Majefty walked the Efpianade.
At 9 the fignal was made for the Royal Fa¬
mily’s going on-board the Soutliampton, to
view the fleet. On Capt. Forbes weighing
anchor, th.e Admiral's guns fired a royal fa-
lute. Prince Ehneft, attended by Lord
Walfingham, took an airing on the Dor-
chefter road 5 and the Princefs Royal, at¬
tended by Lady Waldegrave, to Preflon.
At 4 o’clock, when the Royal Family left
the Southampton to come on Ihore, Admiral
Macbride’s fhips, with all the frigates and
floops in the bay, fired a royal falute. The
Prince of Wales arrived at half paft 3. His
Royal Highnefs, accompanied by Prince
Erneft, met his M tjefty on the Efpianade
on his return on fhore. At 7 t’le Royal
Family, wicii their ufual atrendant^, went
.to the Theatre, which was full and brilliant.

24. His Majefty, Prince Erneft, and
Princeffes Mary and Elizabeth, bathed. Ac
II their .Majefties, the Prince of Wales,
Prince Erneft, and the fix PrincelTes, at¬
tended by Ladies Courtoun, How.ard, Wal-
<legrave, C. Bruce, Gen. Goldfwortliy, the
Hou. Mr. Greville, and Major Price, went
to Melcombe church, where a fermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr. Pain. After fer-
vice, his Majefty, accompanied by the two
Princes, walked ttie Efpianade. The Queen
and the Princclfes took an airing in the
Sociable on the funds. In the evening his
Majefty walked th - Efpianade, accompanied
by the Prince of V^ales, w'rh their ufual
attendants. At g the Royal Family Hient
to the rooms, where they flayed till ten
25. Tilts morning the Princefs Augufta
bathed. After brcakiafl: har Majefty and
Princeffes, s' tended by Ladies Coiutoun,
Eloward, Waldegrave, and C. Hr.ice, went
in their carriages to Portland ; his Majefty
and Pi inces on horfchack. Tliey were re¬
ceived by the ^.'Overnor, Mr. Stewart, with
a band of mufi..k, and colours flying, amidft
the acclanialioiis of the whole IllanU. The
guns of tlie Caftle fired a royal fab.Tte. The
Royal Family went to view the Church :
they dined at the Portland Arm", and after -
v.ard walked to the Caftle; after which
they w'ent on-board the barges belonging to
tlie Southamiitoii, and returne<l to Wey¬
mouth about fix o’clock. The Prince cf
Wales, with a party of liis friends, dined on¬
board with Adm. Macbride and liis ofticers,

Gknt. Mag. Novcmlicr. tygy.

1049

26. His Majefty and Prince Erneft bathed.
The Prince of Wales went to Kempftiotj
whence he proceeded to London. Prince
Erneft, Earl Chefterfield, and Lord Wal¬
fingham, attended liis Highnefs as far as Dor-
cheller. S ion after 8 the King, attended
by Gen. Goldfwortliy, infpe^led, and was
much pleafed with, the new barracks
ereifted for the ftrft regiment of dragoons ;
and at half paft 9 returned to break faft.
Their Majefties went on-board tlie South¬
ampton, attended by Ladies Potilet, Wal-
Jegrave, an-d C. Bruce, The Princei's
Ro}al took ail airing on the fands, accom¬
panied by Prince Erneft on horfebnek.
Aftm dinner his Majefty, attended by Gen.
Goldfwortliy, the Hon. Mr. Greville, and
Major Price, walked, the Efpianade. His
Majefty went to the Pier, to view the
Tientoii, a fine vellel, bound from Bofloii
to France, taken by the Refolution priva¬
teer of this place. Her Majefty had a card
parry in the evening.

27 The Princefs Augufta bathed. The
weather proving rough, his Maje ly, with
his ufual attendants, took a walk round
Melcombe. The Royal Family went to the
Theatre, with their ufual attenda its, to fee
The Chapter of Accidents and The Romp.

28. His Majefty, Prince Erneft, and
PrincelTes Mary and Elizabeth, bathed. At
ten his Majefty and Pi inccfs Sophia, attended
by Lord W’alfingham, Gen. Gukifwmrthy,
and Mr. Greville, toolc an airing to Prefton.
Her Majefty and three PrincelTes paid a
morning vifit to Lady Poulet ; and afterward
took an airing 0.1 the fands, with then at-
tetidi^ics, in two Sociables.

30. His Majefty and Princeffes Elizabeth
and Mary bathed. At 10 his Majeftv, at¬
tended by Lord Walfingham, Gen. Goldl-
worthy, and Mr. Greville, went to view
the ftock and grounds of farmer Bridges
of Elvei'toa. Her Majefty aui Princeffes,
with their ufual attendants, took an airing
on the' fands in tlie Sociable. In the evening
the Royal Family went to the Theatre.

31. Prince Erneft and Prince's Auguftzw
bathed. At ii their Maji-llie.'^, Fnncc Er-
nell, and five Princeffes, went to Melcombe
church, whrre a fermon was pr'caithtd t)y
the Rev. Mr. Williams. After fervne ids
M<ijeffy w alked. the Efplan.de. Her Ma-
jeftv and the PrincelTes tm.k an airinti' in tlie
Sociable. At 8 in the evening the Ri>yal
Farnily went to the rooms.

6V/<t. 1. His M ijefty and tlie Princeffei
Augufta and Elizabetli bathed. At 9 tlie
figral was hoifled for the Roy. l Family go¬
ing on-hoird the Soir himpton. At 10 their
Majefties and the Fruiceff’ey .a' tended by
Loi’vl and j..ady Ihiulet, I, idles Hov/.u'd auvl
C. Bruce, I. ord W'.dfingh.ini, Gcii. Goldi-
wonhy, an.l the lion. !VIr Greville, v;eiic
on-board the barges from tlie f!o..ting m -
chine lying at tue pier. When they g-..c on¬
board, C.ipt. Forbes weigh-. i auciwr, ami

put

1050 Ro)ial Excurfion ts Weymouth. — Domeftic Ocmrrence^. [Nov.

put out to fea, in cxpeftation of difcerning
Ldrd Howe’s fleet. The Princefs Royal,
attend ed by Lady Waldegrave, took a walk
to the Look-out.. Prince Erneft took an
airing on liorfeback to the camp. In the
evening the Queen had a card party. The
'.veather proving bad, prevented any of the
Royal Family walking out.

2. T!ie Princefs Sophia bathed. His Ma-
jefty, accompanied by Prince Erneft and
Princefs Sophia, attended by Lords VValfing-
ham and Poulet, General Goldfworthy, and
tlie Hon. Mr. Greville, took an airing on the
Porchefter road. All returned to the Lodge
■to dinner. His Majefty, five Pnncefles, and
Prince Erneft, walked the Efplanade. Her
Majefty, accompanied hy Princefs Elizabeth,
and attended by l.adies Courtoun and Walde¬
grave, took an airing on the Sands, in the
Sociable.

3. His Majefty bathed in the new floating
machine. Princelfes Elizabeth and Mary alfo
bathed. At 9 the fignal was hoifted for the
Royal Family going on board the Southamp¬
ton. At ten the barges came to the pier.
On their going on b*' -J,the Winchelfea frigate
fired a royal ialu.e, and joined them out on
their mea ning's cruize. Prince Ernefl took
■eii airing to the camp. The Princefs Royal,
attended by Ladies Courtoun and Waldegrave,
took an airing to Portland Illand. In the
evening the Royal Family honoured the
theatre with their prefence. It was the
firft night of Quick’s engagement, wlia per¬
formed Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to
Conquer”, and the Dccflor in ‘‘ Animal
Magnetifm.”

(To he concluded neM tnen'h.)

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Saturday. OB. I?.

Thi'^ evening a dreadful fire broke cut iu
a ftack of warehonfes near joiners-hal-l.
Upper Thames-flreet, containing cotton,
coffee, indigo, and other goods, which burnt
with grra': lury, and lefifled ever y eff>)t t of
the firemen and engines; but, as with the
affiftance of a number of others they fne-
ceeded in their exertions to fave Mr. Bell’s
fugar-hou.le, in which an immenfe quantity
of fugais v\ere under proceF, and which,
being dift ant only a few feet, caught fire
J'ever.d times, its farther progrefs was hap¬
pily flopped, after deftroying only tlie
warehuufes where it began, and their va¬
luable contents.

7’ue.fday^ Nov. 4.

A loyal addrefs from tlie Eaft India
Company was tins day piefented Ur his Ma-
jefty : wlueh fliall be given in our next.
hVtdricfday ^ Nov. 1^.

Tire iirterefting tij,..! of Mr. Hardy was
tlf.s day terminated. When the Lord Pie-
. fident fiad c ncluded ru; excellent charge, the
jury were' alked wlietlrei' they wiffied for a
ihght iciTefliraent bef.ve they prccsedcd to

their own chamber to deliberate, as they
could have none after they were inclofed.
This offer they refpeftfully declined. The
Jury retired at half paft 12. The Judges
remained on the Bench till three, when
they retired with the Lord Mayor and She¬
riffs to partake of fome refrefhment. In
lefs than half an hour after, the Jury re¬
turned into Court, having been inclofed
nearly three hours. When they were em-
panneled with the ufual forms, and the
Judges had taken their places on the Bench,
the Clerk of the Arraigns afked — “ If they
were agreed in their verdibl i'” — Foreman
of the fury, Yes.” — How fay ye — is
Thomas Hardy guilty of tlie High Treafon
charged m the indidlment, or not guilty?”
— Foreman of the Jury, ‘‘ Not Guilty.”

Mr. Hardy bowed modeftly tothe Jury, and,
with a voice fcarcely audible, faid — “ Fel¬
low Countrymen, I thank you.” The
Lord Prefident exjmeffed his fenfe, and that
of the Bench, refpefting the attention and
patience of the Jury in difcharging the labo¬
rious talk allotted to them, for which they
were entitled to the utmoft commendation.
The Prifoner was then difeharged ; and
the Court adjourned till Monday the i6th.

Friday, Noik 7.

A dreadful accident happened in the nar¬
row part of St. John’s-ftreet : a loaded
waggon was overturned, which falling on
two children paffing by, crulhed them both
to death on the foot pavement.

Monday, Nov. 1 7.

The Judges under the Special Commiflion
met this morning at 8 ; when, after a Jury
had been with fome difficulty obtained, the
trial of the Rev. John Horne Tooke com¬
menced ; and continued till 9 in the evening,
when the Coivt adjourned till the next morn¬
ing ; and the Jury, attended by proper offi*
cers, were lodged in Surgeons Hall. Mr.
Tooke a ffi tied his counfel, by pleading ids
own caufe with much animation.

Saturday, Nov. 22.

The Lord Prefulent having concluded his
charge ; the Jury, after withdrawing a very
few minutes, pronounced their verdict
Not Guilty. Mr. Tooke was accordingly
difeharged ; and ilre Court adjourned to
Monday, Dec. i.

Tuefday, Nov. 25.

The Lords Commiffioners, in the nfual
form, tins day mtc, to prorogue tlie Parha-
nient to the 30th of Dccemlvr.

This evening, about 8, a new-built houfe,
not quite finiihed, belonging to Mr. God-
fall, coach-maker, in Long-Acre, fell to
the ground. The workmen having previ-
oufly left off w'ork for the night, no lives
were left; and the wmoden fence, placed m
tlie front of the buiidii'g, pievented anymif-
fortune happening to the people who chanced
to be paffing at the moment.

Vui,

1794*1 JJditloni and Corre^lons, - Births. ■ 1051

Vol. LXIII. p. 96:;. The following in-
'cription, written by ttie Bifhop of Laiulalf,
lias lately been placed in the church of Ken¬
dal, Weftmorelaiad :

In memory of
Sir [oHN Wilson, Knt.
one of his Majefty’s Juftices of the
Court of Common Pleas.

Born at the Howe in Applethwaite,

6th of Augufl, 1741.

Died at Kendal, iSth of October, 1793.

He did net ow’e his promotion
to the weight of

gieat connexions, whicli he never courted ;
nor to the influence of,
political parties, which he never joined ;
but to his profeflional merit,
and the unfolicited patronage of the
Lord Chancellor Thurlow,
who, in recommending to his Majefty
fo profound a lawyer,
and fo good a man,
realized the hopes and expedbations of
the whole Bar,

gratified the general w'ifhes of the Country,
and did honour to

his own difcernment and integrity."

Vol. LX IV. P.S71. The Rev. A. Fill! was
not 88 years of age, nor did he die fuddenly.
He was full 58 years redlor of Sywell, and
the oldefl incumbent in th.e diocefe of Peter¬
borough. His eyefight failing him, lie was
not able to difcharge the duties of his pariftr
for thefe lafl twenty years : but, being bleffed
w'ith ferenity of mind, a remarkable reten¬
tive memory, and an excellent conflitution,
he attained to the advanced age of 86 ; and,
having lived in Chriftian chaiity, he died,
after a few hours illnefs, with the lereiie
compofure of Chriftian hope. He gamed
the affeftion of his parifhioners, and the uni-
verfal efleem of his neighbours : his relatives
and acquaintance experience an heavy lofs in
fo valuable and truly worthy a character.

P. 962, coi. I. The late Rev. W. Cleive-
land was born [une 27, 1731 5 educated at
Magdalen-hall, Oxford ; wdiere he proceed¬
ed B. A. 1754; M- A. 1757, He married,
in 1767, Mary, daughter of James Jones, efq.
of Stadhampton, in Oxfordftiire, an amiable
lady, whom he had the misfortune to lofe in
1777, fix days after tlie birth iT a daughter,
an only child, who lived but two days. He
was a moft exemplary parilh prieft ; a man
of univerfal benevolence; and blended with
the ftridlell purity of manners u chearhd
convivi. lity, which rendeied his comp.'.ny
and converfalion peculiarly delireable.

P. 964. Tiie late Admiral Finch was fo
ma>ie in the laft promotion. In the Anie-
r.'can war he capiui ed a French ludiainan,
aii'l, after the peace, purchafed the manlion
and eftatc of Albury of his brother, the pre-
fent Earl of Aylesford, whefe anceftor I'ur-
chaied it in the laft century. Previous to
that, it had been one of ti.e retirements of
the Earl of Arundel, who took great delight
5

in it. The grandfather and great-grandfa¬
ther of this gentleman lived there very much,
and in great hofpitality; his father, wdio
had the Packington eftate in Warwickfhire
in his father’s life-time, and had been ufed to
refide there, did not quit it on coming into
pofleflion of Albury, and it was delerted till
this gentleman made the purchafe. He re¬
paired and much improved the houfe, and
madefome very judicious alterations in the
-grounds, adding feveral plantations. The
park is fmall, but conflfts of beautiful
ground, through which runs a trout-ftream,
and, being a fandy foil, is always dry and
pleafant. There are feme very noble oaks
and beeches in the park, and fome oaks
great antiquity, but of no other value than
from their being an ornament, which, in
this place, they are in a higli degree. He
employed himfelf in farming his grounds till
about two years before nis death, trying va¬
rious experiments ; a matter of great fer-
vice to the country. A mere farmer cannot
rifk the expence of trial ; but, if a gentle¬
man fucceeds, they will follow his example.
He married Mifs Brouncher, a lady of con-
flderahle fortune from the Weft Indies, by
whom he had five children : i. a fon, who
died an infant; 2. William ; 3. Mary ; 4.
Heneage; 5. a daughter, born about the
time of his death. He had been very ill for
fome time, but was better, and at laft died
fuddenly, in an apopledfic fit. At the laft;
general eledlion for Surrey, he, Lord Wm.
Ruflell, and Sir Jofeph Mawbey, were can-
diJ.ites ; and the two firft eledled.

P. 966. Mr. Waring was minifterof Ber-
wick-ftreet chapel, and joint ledlurer of Bi-
fhopfgate and Chrift church, Middlefex. His
deatii took place at Berwick near Shrewf-
bury, in his 78ch year, and was brought ou
by a fudden and fevere attack of the dropfy,
attended witli paralyfls. His charicies were
fecret and diffufive, as his piety was public
and e.'iemplary.

Births.

Ohl. T Langford' houfe, tlie Lady of
26. Francis Chaplin, elq a daughter.

Lately, the Wife of Mr. William Mercer,
her fifth fon.

The Lady of Capt. Dacre, a daughter.

Lady CliefJen, eldeft daughter of tlie Duke
of Marlborough, a daughter.

At their feat at Draycot-houfe, Wilts, Lady
Catliai ine Long, wife of Sir James Tylney
L. hart, a fon and heir.

At xMontrofe, in Scnt’ainl, Mrs. Perry (late
Mils Clarke, v/liole Gretna-green trip occa-
fioned the celebrated trial at Biiftol), two
daughters.

At Plymouth, the Lady of Capt. Perrott
Noe', of the Worcefter militia, a fon and heir.

AVr.'. 3. At Edinburgh, Lady Helen Hall,
a daughter.

8. At Ampton, co, Sudolk, the Lady of
Sir il. Gougi) Calihorp, a daughter.

19. At

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1 9. At his houfe in Albemarle-flreet, the
Lady of Paul Benfield, efq. a fon.

At Newbyih-houfe, in Edinburgh, Mrs.
Baird, of Ncwbyth, a fon.

We are defired to contradiil the mar¬
riage of Mr. Fuller with Mifs Cromvvell, as
ft ated in our laft month’s Mifcellany, as only
a joke put upon one of the parties.

Marriages.

^ept. A T Trelawny, in Jamaica, Peter
, . . Francklyn, efq. cnlle6for of the

cuftoms for Kingfton, to Mrs. Eliz. Harding,
of Wefton Favel eftate, in that parifli.

6. In Bermuda, Lieut. Thomas Winflow,
of the 47th regiment, to Mifs Mary Forbes.

27. At the F.nglifh minifter’s chapel at
"Venice, Louis Compte de Darfon, late am-
"FafTador from the Court of France, to Mifs
Seymour, daughter of Henry S. efq. of
Penfanger, Heits.

0&. 2. Mr. Derry, cabinet-maker, to Mifs
Kirk, both of Newark.

At Afhlcy-puerorum, co. Lincoln, Rev.
Ambrofe Goode, to Mifs Rachel Elmhirft.

G. Bolton, efq. of ManchefterTlreet,
Manchefter-fquare, to Mifs Bannatyne, of
"Upper Charloite-ftrcet.

Mr. Buffham, grazier, to Mifs Walter,
both of Spalding, co. Lincoln.

George-Thomas Smith, efq, of the 2d re¬
giment of life-guards, to Mrs. Morgan, wi¬
dow of Jn. M. efq. of Tredegar, Cornwall.

Thomas Leir, efq. of Dytciieat, co. So-
meifet, to Mifs Jekyll, daughter of the late
Rev. Dr. J. dean of St. David’s.

At Difs, CO. Norfolk, Rev. J. Colman,
^dlor of Knapton, and vicar of AuUloii, to
Alifs M. Catchpole.

Thomas Irwine, efq. of Gracechurch-ftr.
to Mifs Eliz. Wilfon, of BlackrvalL

Mr, Miller, grazter, to Mifs S. Pockling-
ton, both of Sibfey, co. Lincoln.

4. Rev. Mr. Sherfon, redtor of Fetcham,
ro. Surrey, to Mifs Donnithorne, daughterof
Nicholas D. efq. .of St. Agnes, in Cornwall,
JJeut. Nicholas Tomlinfon, of tlie royal
navy, to Mifs Eliz. Ward, daughterof Ralph
W . efq. of Great Portin' d-fireet,

Wm. Cooke, efq. of Lincoln’s-inn, to Mifs
Leigh, of Took’s-ccuit, Chanccry-lane.

At Edinburgh, Mr. Filmer, of the 75th
regiment, to Mils Emilia Skene, daughterof
33i. S. pbyfician.

6. john Portal, efq to Mifs Corrie, daugh.
t#r of the late John C. efq. of Hoddeldon.

At Ealing, James Tod, efq. of Ke w, to
Mifs Chriflian panes, eldeft daughter of Al¬
bert 1- efq. of Little Ealing.

7 At Kicefte!’, co. Oxford, Richard Digh-
tcn,efq. of the Wildernefs, near Micheldean,
cb. Gloucefter, to Mils King, of Bicefter.

S. Tho. Ivingfcote, efq. of Gatton-park,
CO. S'lrrey, to Mil's Harriet Peyton, youngeft
dauglrer of tlie late Sir Henry P. bart. of
p agbacli-hail, en. Norfolk.

’iylr. p^nisi Fuller, of Fu'h;irn, to MIL

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France, daughter of the Rev, Mr. F. of New
Buckenham, Norfolk.

13. At Weft Ham, Mr. Edward Parfons,
RulPia merchant, of BiUiter-lane, to Mifs
Morgan, of Weft Ham.

At Npttinghanq, Rev. Pendock Neale, of
Tollerton, to Mifs S, Wright, fifter of John
W. efq, banker, of Nottingham.

At Dublin, by fpecial licence, James Crof-
ton, efq. only fon of Sir Maltby C. ba.rt. to
Mifs Lyfter, eldeTt daugh. of Rev, John L.

At Salifbury cathedral, Dr. Robinfon, of
Honiton, to Mifs Hancock, daughter of Dr,
H. of the Clofe, Salifbury.

At Bath, Mr. Michael Schum, of that city,
to Mifs Harris, daughter of Mr. James H.
of Keynlliam.

At Leicefter, Mr. T. Canner, of Melton
Mowbray, to Mifs Anne Dale, of Hoby.

14. Rev. Thomas Fielde, of Chrift Church,
Oxford, to Mifs Berney, daughter of the late
Sip Hanfon ft. bart. of Kirby ,

Mr. James Mangnall, partner with Welfh
and Rutherford, of Alderfgate-ftreer, to Mifs
Woolley, dau. of Tho. W. efq. of Hatton-ftr.

Mr. T. Lefter, of Heckington, to Mifs
Dudley Bullyman, of Ewerby.

Mr. T. J. Rawfon, of Nottingham, to
Mifs Sarah Hayne, voungeft daughter of the
late Richard H. efq. of Afhborne, co. Derby.

At Canterbury, Mr. Jofhua Wilkinfon,
furgeon, of London, to Mifs Sarah Paterfon,
youngeft dau. of Mr. Wm. P. of Burgate-ftr.

15. Mr. Wilham Stringer, of Newark, to
Mifs Harvey, of Balderton.

Lawrence Shaw, efq. of Upper Gower-
ftreet, Bedford-fquare, to Mifs Skipp, eldeft
daughter of George S. efq. of the Grange,
near Mewmbam, co. Gloucefter.

16. At Broad Stairs, in the Ifle of Thanet,
Jas. Moor, el'q. of Charlcot-park, co. War¬
wick, to Mifs Bent, of Great Portland- ftreet.

At North Mimms, Herts, Frederick Booth,
efq to Mifs Bowman, of Muffetts.

Ac Chatham, Mr. Jofiah Greenwood, hop-
fadlor, of Southwark, to Mifs Kitty Graham,
fecond daughter of the late Wraxham G. efq,
of Jamaica.

At Cannonfide, Roderick Mackenzie, efq.
of Ghck, to Mifs Margaret Mackenzie, dau.
of the late Sir Alex. M. hart, of Gaitloch.

18. Mr. "William Layton, of W'oodhoufe,
near Ely, to Mifs Maiy Tomfon, one of the
governeffes of the ladies boardu g-fchool at
Newmarket,

19. At Wardley, co Rutland, Mr. Thor
mas Baines, faimer, to Mifs S. Ward, of
Belton, niece to George Godfrey, ehj.

20. At Buxton, co. Derbv, Mr. Balfano,
of the new fugar-houfe at Hull, to Mifs Bur¬
ton, of Buxton.

At Clifton, near Briftol, Sir Hedworth
Williarn’‘on, bart to Mifs Marla Hamilton.

At Leiceller, Mr. Whitmore, one of the
members of the Loyal J.eicefter Corps of
Volunteer Infantry, to Mifs Woudcockj ?f
Nuneatoi); co. Waiwitk.

Births and Marriages of remarld/le Ferfons

1794*] Marriages of eminent

Mr. Robert Spears, merchant, inGlafgow,
to Mifs Elizabeth Porteoiis, daughter of the
Rev. Dr. P. one of the minifters of that city.

By fpecial licence, at Lord Sydney’s houfe
in Grofvenor-fquare, Lord Dynevor, to the
Hon. Harriet Townftiend, third daughter of
Lord Vifcount Sydney.

21. Rev. Herbert [enkins,of Banbury, co.
O.Kford, to Mifs North, of Oveithorpe, co.
Northampton.

At Edinburgh, Dr. Thoonas Cochrane,
phyfician, of Argyle-fquare, to M.fs Mary
Hamilton, youngelf daughter of the late Dr.
Robert H. of Aiidrie, phyfician, and pro-
feffor of anatomy in Glafgow univerfity.

Rev. Samuel Martin, of Notcingliam, to
Mifs Celia Beresford, of Aflaborne.

Mr. J. B. Eames, one of the members of
the Loyal Leicelfer Corps of Volunteer In¬
fantry, to Mifs Kirk, of Mount Sorrel.

23. Mr. Jrifh, furgeon, of Greeinvich, to
Mrs. Winter, widow of Mr. Samuel VV. of
Roiherhithe.

Mr. George Woodfall, of Paternofter-row,
to Mifs Brown, of Buckingham- (ireet.

25. At Warmley, co. Herts, Mr. Thomas
Evitt, of Haydon-fquare, to Mifs Elizabeth
Welftead, fecnnd daughter of George W.
efq of the cuftom- houfe.

Mr.Wm. Pafk, of Navenby, to Mifs Anne
Barns, of Welhngote, co. Lincoln,

Rev. George Pennington, of Staine', co.
Middlefex, to Mifs Mary Sa lle-, (eond
daughter of tlie late Edward S. efq. of Gar-
fington, CO. Oxford.

27. By fpecial licence, at Palace, in Ire¬
land, Chriffopher Dillwn Belle, e{q. of
Mount Bellew, to the Hon. Mifs Nugent,
only daugl ter of Lord Riverfton.

28. At Northampton, die Rev- Richard
Wilhams, M. A. late of Chnlfs codege,
Cambridge, to Mifs Atkinfon, daughter of
die hue Caj>t. A. of thut town.

qo. Mr. H. O. Herbert, of Lhnon-ftreet,
Shoreditch, didiller, to Mifs Sulannah Har¬
vey, of Beacon> field, Buck?.

Col. Robinfon, to Mils Catharine Skinner,
dauglitci o*^ Gen. S. of Fridol.

31. AtOxfuid,Rev. Mr. Vlorgan, redforof
Buiron-Dallet, co. Warwick, to Mifs An?e-
lia Browne, eldeft daughter of ilie late Mr.
Geo. B. of dre Weilmintter fi’e-olfice.

Mr. Jacob Williainlo.r, Ifudcnt of medi¬
cine, to Mifs Al'.fon Livingit()n, fecond dau,
of Mr. Alex. L. gi goer, Edi'-.bui i;h.

ex. Tydd bt. Mary’r, co. Lincoln, Mr. Geo.
Wardeh, of WilbeHi, to Mifs btone, daugh¬
ter of the late Edw. S. efq of Diinton.

Mr. to Mifs El z. Woolley, both,

of Godiam .

Late'w at Kilkennyn, in S< nth W: ks,
Leu is Ecfias Gvviiu'e, of C)bb)dcl CaHity
cafllc, ehi. to M:fs Bai if ihr Jones, of Ty-
g'in, CO. Cardigan.

At l.itr'e U iiieul-am, Beik^ Wilbam Pal

prier^ e’.q. to Mils Eh.zabctii C.uter, daugli. of

Rev, ii.u.) L . lecVr oi that pVa^o.

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or remarkable Per Jons. ^^^3

At Quebec, Jdeut.-cnl.Romcr, of the 6ot!i
regiment, to Mifs Mary- Anne Cuthbert,

daughter of - - C. ef-j. feigueur of B Ji tlie-

fer, in tha’’ pro\ ince.

At Norton, co. Stafford, Mr. W.m. Ram-
ford, hat-ma-uifailurcr, of Newcaflls under
Line, to Mifs Drevvry, of l^inculM.

At Farnben’ough, in Ken'', Mr. [ohn Da-
vifon, of Fleet iheet, to Mifs S. Skeggs,
youngefl daugliter of die l ife Tlio. S. efq. of
NorfleaJ, in the fame county.

At Chipiienham, Wilts, Mr Wm, Bennett,
of Newgate-liicat, attorney, to Mifs Heath,
of Cliippenham.

Arlhur-Hcury Daly, ehp of Mount Plea-
fant, CO. Galway, Ireland, grandfon to the
late Earl of Clanricarde, to Mifs Jane Gore,
grand-daughter of the late Earl of Arran.

In Ireland, by fpeciai licence, John Ma-
cartney^ efq. M. P. for the borough of Foie,
to Mils Catharine HulTey Burgh, 2d daugh.
of the Ltte Pv.t. Hon, Lord Chief Baron B.

Mr. Wm. BuibfSge, hofier, of Leicelber,
to Mifs Barilon, of Grantham.

Mr. Coverley, of Callle Bytham, co. Lin¬
coln, to Mifs Vdooliey, of Witham-o’-th’-hill.

At Old Dalbv, CO. Leicetfer, Mr. Orfon,
graz-er, to Mifs Marriott, of Welby, near
Grantham.

James Brown Tliompfon, efq. of Caius-
college, Cambridge, to Mifs Leuhes, daugh-
tei of the late Rev. Edw. L. redlor ®f Rede¬
ham, Szc. in Norfolk.

.Mr. Potts, watcii feal-engraver, of Tod-
dingt'in, go. Bedford, to Mils Gregoiy, you.
daugh'er of the late John G. tfq. of Ever-
lliolt, in tire faid county.

Mr.,Jol'hua Clarke, to Mifs Afhm^re,
daugir of Mr. John A. both of Slrarnford.

Mr. Lightfoot, of Manton, Rutland, to
Mifs Hinchley, of Great EaRon, co. Leic.

John Str.rtton, efq. of Gays, co. Herts, to
Mifs Charlotte Lucadou, daughter of John
D. L. efq. of Lombard-ftreet, banker.

A’zz>. I. By Ipecial licenca, at Brairifliil!,
lire feat of the Rev. Sir Richard Cope, b.u t.
Sii Montagu Burgoyne,bart to MifsBurton.

Capt. Leonard Shafto OrJe, of the qth re¬
giment of dragoon-guards, eidefi fon of John
O. efq. of Weetwood, co. Northumberland,
to Mifs Penelope Ogilvie, eldeft; daughter of
John O. ef(}. of Argyle-ft reet.

Mr. Dariey, to Mifs Sadler, both of the
Li-icoln comp .ny of comedians.

Mr. John Maw, of Taviftock ftreet, to
Mils Brown, of Derby.

At Bath, Cap\ Wm. Wade, of the 3d re¬
giment of dragoens, to M:fs Smith, daugliter
of tlic late Sir |r.hn S. hart, of Ncw'land-
pai'k, re -r Whikeficld.

2. Thomas Jenkins, efep co'.leclor of the
cuftom.s of the port of Gloucefter, to Mifs
Rea, of that city.

Thomas Jones, efq. of Little Gaddefden,
Heit', to Mifs iftitteiiberg, of Kenfington.

3. At B.'idgworth, tl'.e Rev. Robert Law¬
rence, of Siiurdiugton, to Mifs Walbank,

daughter

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daughter of Samuel W. efq. of Chatford, co»
Gloiicefter. '

4. Wm. Brown, efq. captain in the royal
navy, to Mifs Travers, eUiell; daughter of
(ohn T. efq of Crutched- friers.

At Hackney, Rob. Seymour, efq. of Kingf-
land-p!ace, to Mrs- Robinfon,ofShacklewell.

Mr. T, Humphryes, of Freeman’s-court,
Cornhiil, to Mifs Topham, of Pentonville.

5. John Dodd, efq. of Red Heath-houfe,
Rickmanfworth, Herts, to M;fs Goulds, only
daughter and heirefs of the late Marval G.
efq. of Beaumont-hall, in the fame county.

AtDymock, Mr. Richard Perkins, of Oak-
hill, to Mifs Moggridge, daughter of JohnM.
efq. of Boyce-place, co- Gloncefler.

At York. VVm. Bradley Crofs, efq. to Mifs
Barnett, daughter of the late Hon. William B.
of [amaica.

6. At Forres, Sir Ajxhibald Dunbar, of
l^orthfieldjbart. to Mifs H. P. Gumming, 2d
daughter of Col. C. of Altyre.

At Sleaford, Mr. James Powell, to Mifs
Sufannah Miller.

At Coleorton, co. Lcicefler, Rev. John
Piddocke, of Afhby de la Zouch, to Mifs
Harris, only daughter of Rev. Mr. H. vicar
of Coleorton.

7. At BriRol, Rev. Robert Gray, vicar of
Farringdon, Berks, to Mifs Camnlin, dau.
of Mr. John C. of Trinity-rtreet, Briftol,

8. lames Wyld, efq. of Speen, Berks, to
Mifs HaverfieUl, of Kew, Surrey.

9. At Eaft Ham, Effex, George-Samuel
Collyer, efq. army agent, to Mifs Mary Clin¬
ton, daughter of Andrew C. efq.

10. Rev. John Hellins, of Trinity-college,
Cambridge, ‘and vicar of Potter’s Pury, C'\
Northampton, to Mifs Anne Brock, of
NorthTawton, Devon,

William Languoithy, efq. of hygein-y-
wern, North Wales, to Mils Hadley, of Bath.

At Berkeley, near Frome, Melirs, Jofeph
and james Webiey, brothers, the former to
Mils M. the latter to Mifs E. Gnnlbone, fillers.

11. At Leith, lofhna Jepfoti Oddy, mer¬
chant in London, to Mifs Margaret Scougail,
daughter of Mr. John S. merchant in Leith.

13. At York, John Tweedy, efq. banker,
to Mrs. Green, both of that city.

At Dumbarton, Mr. John Arnaud, of the
Strand, London, to Mifs Janet M’Aulay, fe-
cond daughter of Mr. John M’A. tovvn-cierk
of Dumbarton.

At the Quakers meeting-houfe at Totten¬
ham, John Head, of Ipfwich, to Mifs Caro¬
line Bell, daugh. of Dan. B. of Stamford-hill.

[ohn Smith, efq. of Repton, co. Derby,
to 'Mifs Gie.ives, of Eurton-upon- J rent.

14. Mr. Pryce, of the General Poft-office,
to Mifs Eliz. Mercer, of Highgate.

At Bottesford, co. Leicefter, Mr. Dowing,
of Denton, to Mifs Vintfon.

At Nottingham, Mi‘. Feurce, to Mifs
Anne Shaw, of Linley.

T 3. William Marfli, efq. of Knightfb> idge,
to Mifs Graham, of Epfom, daughter of the

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late John G. efq, member of the council in
Bengal, and niece to George G. efq. of Kiq-
rofs, M. P.

At Winchefler, John Clerk, efq. to Mifs
Anne Mildmay, daughter of the late Carew
M.efq. of Shawford-houfe, Twyford, Hants.

By fpecial licence, at Norbiton-hall, Sur¬
rey, Edward L. Loveden, efq. M. P. for
Abingdon, to Mifs Lintall, only daughter of
Thomas L. efq.

17. Mr. [of. Kirkman, brewer, oflligh-
flreet, St. Giles, to Mifs Mary Middleton,
of St. james, Weftminfler.

By fpecial licence, in Uertford-ftr. Charles
Grey, efq. M. P.for the county of Northum¬
berland, to Mifs Ponfonby, only daughter oC
the Right Hon. W. B. P.

[c'hn Nafli, efq. of Salters hall, to Mifs
Sarah Smith, daughter of Edward S. efq. of
Princefs Rifborough, Bucks,

23. Mr. Benj. Sheppard, of America-flr.
Southwark, to Mifs Marg. Johnfon, Park-llr.

Deaths. '

March A T Bengal, Robert Graham, efq»
31. formerly a banker in Jermyn-

ftreet, late chairman of the General Bank
of India, and a partner in the houfe of Gra¬
hams, Moubray, and Skirrow, merchants
and agents in Calcutta.

yune 20. At Port-au-Prince, Lieut. Wil¬
liam Warner, of the royal navy.

3©, AtWifbech, aged iS years and a halF^
Mr. Charles-Edward Stewart, the eldeft of
eleven children of the Rev. Mr. S. of Long
Melford, in Suffolk. He was a young man
of excellent qualifications, and promifing
abilities; and his early death is much re-
gietred,

Augnfi ... At Jamaica, William Belford,
efq. aid-du-camp to his honour the com¬
mander in chief, and fenior lieutenant of the
2c th regiment of light dragoons.

At Kingtlon in Jamaica, Sir James Hay,
hart, lately from England.

i6. Of the yellow fever, at St. Pierre, in
Maninique, Capt. James Leigh Harvey,
commanding the grenadiers of the 33d regi¬
ment w'ith Sir Charles Grey’s army.

19. At Banks, St. Anne’s, in the ifland
of [amaica, Donald Macdonald, efq. bro¬
ther of the late Col. Alexander M. of Ken-
lochmoidart.

29. At her houfe in Portman-fquare,
Mrs. Mellifh, relidl of William M.efq. of
Elytb, wlu) died in 1791.

Sept. ... At Port Royal, Jamaica, Capt.
Ro^ti'ts, of his Majefly’s fhip Succcls ; and
Capt. Hills, of the Hermione.

I. At Cramond-houfe, co. Edinburgh,
in his 34th year, Adam Inglis, efq. lalt
furviving fon of Sir John Inglis, of Cra-
mond, barr. He was educated at the High-
fchool and Univerfity of Edinburgh 5 was
called to the bar in 1782; and in 1794
pointed a lieutenant of the Midlothian fen-
cibie cavalry. He died of a violent fever, of

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ten days continuance, unmarried, honoured
and lamented by all his friends and relations.

5. Aged about 74, Mr. Robert Carrol, a
Roman Catholic pi ieft. He had flopped at
the end of Red Lion court, Fleet-llreet, to
ilaelter himfelf from the rain, and was fol¬
lowed by three men, oi>e of wliom gave
him a violent pufh, which turned liira quite
round; he tlien gave him a blow which
drove him acrofs the pavement into the
kennel, and, falling on the edge of the curb,
lie received a wound on the right fule of the
head, which occafioned his death. Mr. C.
lay for fome time unobferved by the neigh¬
bours; but was afterward feen near the
place where he fell, in company of three
young men, one of whom was obferved to
iiave hold of him by the arm, upon whom
Mr. C. did not appear to lean as if he flood
in much need of fuch fupport. They all
paffed down Fleet-flreet together, and were
no more feen by the fpetflators near Red
Lion court. Where a coach was taken for
him is not yet known, but he was carried to
St. Bartholomew’s hofpital in one, with his
Lead much bruifed, and fpeechlefs ; and
continued fpeechlefs till one o’clock in the
morning of the 6th, when he died. The men
who brought him difeharged the coach, and
gave the nurfe a fmall prefent, then tc¥)k
leave, and have not fince been heard of. A
letter in Mr. Carrol’s' pocket led to a difco-
very of his place of abode, wbicli w'as at
>1° 33, King-flreet, Holborn. He bad been
•robbed of his watch, and, it is fuppofed, of
what money he had in his breeches- pockets,
as none was found therein ; but in a fide-
coat-pocket the nurfe found a purfe con¬
taining 1 1 guin«a', and a fingle guinea
W’rapped in brown paper. — Mr. C. \\ as a
rran of inepn achabie cliara6ter and fome
property, having left a will, in which he
bequeaths about cool, to two nieces refiding
in Ireland, with fome other legac-es.

18. At Merchiflon-hall, co. Stirling, the
Hon. Mrs. Hope, relict of the Hon. Chailes
Hope Weir, of Craigie-hall, fecond daugli-
ler of George Dunbar, of Lencliold, co. Lin¬
lithgow. She became third w'ife of Mr.
Hope in 1766, and by him bad four chil¬
dren, who fi.rvive to lament the lofs of a
moll excellent parent ; George, a captain in
tlie royal oa\y, Helen-Cliarlotte, Margaivt,
and f.iizaberh.

20. At MoKhonfe, co. F.-linhurgh, in his
8:11 year, V/dliam Davidlun,of Muirhonfe,
tfq. foi'meily one of tiie mod confuierahle
nierchrmts at Rotterdam, in Holland. He
was eldeft fon of die Rev. Thomas David-
fon, niinilTer of VVhitekirk, and of Dundee,
who died in r 760, aged 84; and married a
niece of Camdla Countefs of Tankerville, a
iluighter of Lionel Allan, fecund fon of
T horn as Allan, of AU.-m’s Fiatts, co. Dur¬
ham ; by whom he liail only one child, Se-
fauiiali- jane Da\ idfou, \v ho dieil ot i’aris, in
j'-l-’, aged ’o., and has a monument creileJ

to her memory in VVeflminfler-abbey. Mr*
Davidfon’s only filler was married, firfl, to
Thomas Eliot, of Chapel-hill, co. Peebles,
by whom fbe liad only one child. Sir John
Eliot, bait. M. D. who died in 1786 ; and,
fecondly, to the Rev. Thomas Randall, mi-
nifler of Inchture and Stirling; by whom
file W'as mother of the Rev. Dr. Thomas
Randall, one of the minifters of Edinburgh,
to whom Mr. Davidfon has left the greateft
part of his very ample fortune, with direc¬
tions to take tlie name and arms of
Davidfon.

O&.4. At Broad Stairs, Kent, aged 68, Mrs.
Catharine Mehifh, t'aughtcr of the late john
Gore, efq and widow and relidl of Jofeph
M.efq. of Bufli-hill, co. Middlefex, who died
Dec. -7, 1790, and ufler of Mrs. M. who
died in Angiifl, relidl of Wm. M. ofq. of
Ely th, two brothers having married twofiflerr.-

5. At Bath, the Hon. Mrs. Barbara Gray,
fifler to Lord G.

In his 7 2d year, Mr. Walter Butler, of
St. Mary Axe, the oldelT inliab.tant of the
ward of Lime-flreet.

7. At Uppingham, after along illnefs, in
her 30th year, Mrs. Duncan, wife of Mr,
D. furgeon and apothecary, of th it plice.

Mr. John Boyer, of Croyland, a man of
very refpedlable chara6ler.

8. At bis lodgings in St. [ames’s-ftreet,
Edinburgh, of an apoplexy, John Beaumont,
efq- from Ayrlliire.

At Eoughton Blean, Mrs. a\yres, widow
of George A. efq. chief clerk of the loyal
laboratoiy at Woolwich.

At Avely, in Effex, Mifs Harriet-Con-
flantia Orlebar, third daughter of Richard
O. efq. of Hinwick-houfe, co Bedford.

If. At hl« houfe at Hackney, Mr. Rath*-
dall, many years linen-draper in the Minories.

At Clieibunt, Herts, after a long and pain¬
ful illnefs, the Lady of Samuel Steele, efq.

At Marnham, co. Notiingliam, Mr. W.
Girton, printer.

12. At Brumjiton-grove, Mrs. Hamm, wife
of John Francis H. efq. of Little Chclfea.

At Burgh, neai' WairReet, co. Lincoln, in
an advanced age, Mr, john Chapman, many
years an emuient praclitioner in fiu'geiy,
&c. and refpellable in his chnra<5lcr.

T 3. At his houfe on Redclffe par.uie, Mix
Wilmot, an eminent brewer, (tf Brulci,

At Foulmire, on. Cambridge, aler a very
O-.ort illners, the Rev. .Samuel ingle, reflor
cf Little S'lelford.

In a fljocaing Rate of Iwdi ojdioioia, io a
harn at Lichford, near Pe’wnith, in Sullex,
john Elli'. He liid gone, with fevcial
others, a few weeks fince, to fee a cow
which had been bitten by a fuj'/pofovl m.nl
dor, and was, in oonfeej uence, confiu.d in a
flable belonging to Mr. TJuiUcns, of l^odf-
worth. On the approach (A the men, the
cow rna-’e a \iolei-t ]'uru at Ellis, iuic was
prevented from iniuring him with ixr
iiorns by a rail or gate whxli fep;.ratf di 'h-j

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I O 56 Obituary of remar hahle Ferfons ; with Biographical Jnecdotes» [ Ncv'.

liable from the fpot on which the men
.flood ; but a quantity of faliva or flaver
from the cow’s mouth was obferved on El¬
lis’s face, which he wiped olh, and appeared
to think no more about it. A few days af¬
terward the poor man was obferved to be
unufu.ally dull and melancholy ; and, on en¬
quiry being m.tde i efpecling his health, he
laid he was very ill ; the officers of the pa-
3'iffi therefore determined to remove Idm
from the barn in whicli he had taken lip his
abode to the place of his legal fettlement.
They accordingly proceeded, the next morn¬
ing, Co the barn, for the purpofe abovemen-
• . tinned, when the difteaapered man darted
by them in a very extraordinary manner,
and ran acrofs feveral fields with a degree
•of velocity which much afloniffieJ them,
-iaking freijtienl leaps, in his progrefs, of
feven or eight feet into the air. He at
length, however, got into a deep pit, wliich
gave his purfuers an opportunity of coming
up with him, and enabled them to fecure
him with cotds, and bring liira back to the
• barn whence Vie had efcaped, wliere he
.continued in a fad flate of diflradlion for
two days, and then expired.

14. Samuel Miller, gent, of Nottingham.

At Heckington, co. Lincoln, advanced in
years, Mr. R. Warrington, fen.

At Axwell, near Lewcafile, Sir Thomas
Cbiverma, hart. LL. D. formeilv many years
LI. P. for the county of Durham. He fuc-
xeeded ids father, Sir James, 1748. His lady
died .^\ugufl 16, 1792.

At Vienna, E'ield-marffial Browne, who
lately commanueu the Autlriau army on the
Rhine.

1 5. At Friefton, co. Lincoln, Mr. Mar-
ffiall, many years an eminent miller at Hurii-
mills, co. Rutland.

in an advanced age. Rev, Jffhn Perfeil,
•many years redlor of Sopworth, Wilts,

Wentworth Rat fons, efq. of Eleu-grove,
in tlie King’s county, Ireland, fon of the late
5ir EawretiCe P. bait, and brother to Lord
Oxiuautown.

17. At Caxton, co. Cam.hridge, the Rev.
Thomas Bai nai cl, vicar of that place,

At lier feat at Hourton-on tiie- Water, co.
Glouceiler, Dame El.z. Harington, relidt of
Sir James 11. bart. grandfather of the prefent
Sir jolin. She was daughter of Hen. Wight,
eic]. of Blakefiy-hal!, co. Northampton.

18. Ac Richmond, Mr. Thomas Gumbrell,
carpenter and uplvolilerer there.

19. At Whetffione, Mrs. Waiing, mother
c/ Mr. Huclfon, of New Bond-ftreet.

.At lier houfe at Chelfea, Mrs. Elizabeth
Lr.v'.rc'ke, relidl of Richard L. efq. formerly
Oi Fitnclits, CO. Surrey.

i\t Cp.atiiam, aftsr a lo.^g illncfs, Mrs.
Tav-nfori, wife of Mr. Charles T. lia'.ioner
.aiu hcciitfcller there.

. Pnghtliclmftone, james Hodge, efq.

' , in Cornwall, one of the coutrac-

‘ r applying !iis Majefiy’s troops en-
t.noaghout Ills kingdom.

20. Mifs Hall, of Upper Eafl Sheen, daugh<»
ter of Mr. H. of Tottenham-court-road.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bedcott, of Charles- flrect,
Berkeley-fquare, wax-cliandler.

In an apoplectic fit, James Adam, efq. of
Aihemarle-flreet, archite6l. Before the re¬
form of tlie Board of Works, by Mr. Burke’s
bill, Mr. Adam held the office of archite6l to
his Majefty. The Adelphi buildings and
Portland place are monuments of his talle
and abilities in his profeffion. Befides his
excellent treatife on agriculture, publiffied
fome years ago, Mr. Adam was preparing
for the prefs an hiftory of architetfiure,
wliich all lovers of the art have reafon to
lament he did not live to finifh. Several
numbers of tlie works of the two brothers
have been occafionally publiffiid.

Suddenly, while on a vifit at Mr. James
Finch’s, at Sible Hedingham, tlie Rev.
B ixter Cole, univerfally efteemed for piety
and learning.

Aged 81, Mr, John Boult, the oldeft
caffiier of the Bank of England.

/^t Derby, in an advanced age, Mrs. Rol-
lefton, relied of the Rev. John R. late re6lor
of Aflon, CO. Derby, and only furviving fif-
ter of Sir Robert Burdett,bart- of Foremark,
in the fame county.

At Cheflerfield, in his 82d year, the Rev.
ffaac 'A'ilkinfon. The private manner in
which he paffed many of the laft years of
his I fe rendered his virtues lefs known to
the world than they would otherwife have
been. PofTeffid of (Irong natural abilitie'^,
which he improved with care, his learn¬
ing was confiderable ; and particularly th.at
hr.inch of it to vchich his profeffion as a mi-
nifler principally diredled his attention. He
was well verfed in the Scriptures, wliich lie
read and ftudied with a critical precifion ;
and w as equally rvell prepared in all otiier
refpeils for the work of the Chrillian mi-
nillry, had not his ufefulnafs in that way
been impeded by the weaknefs of his co i-
llitation, wliich foon obliged him to wsth-
drawf into priv.ate life. Here lie was fu*
horn being an unufeful member of fociety ;
by his converfation as well as example con¬
tributing at once to the pleafure and im¬
provement of thofe about him. His charities
were more numerous than were generally
known, tie was an affedlionate relative,
and ever concerned to flud.ythe tiue interell
and happinefs of all about him. The ex¬
tent of liis henevnlencc was alfo appirent
in t’le liberality of his fentiments, which led
him to entertain the mofl. f.ivourable opinion
of ihufe who differed f' om him on the ta-
rious fubjecls of religion ; fo that, though
hb judgement d.irecled him to clafs among
the Diffenter!', he ever cherifned the moft
hearty good-will towards all whom he
tb.ought to be fincere in their profeffion,
whe her of the Efiablifhment or of any
other denomination of Dilfenters. His piety
kept pttce with Ujs chanty j and remarkabls

was

* 7 94- ] Obituary of r markable Ferfons ; with Biographical Anecdotes. 105 7

tvas the eveniTcfs of his temper. The infir-
rmities of a wcakl/ Iiabit of hoJy he hore
with firniiief', rerigiiation, and kind atten¬
tion to all ab(>ut iiim, tiU, having hdd out
long beyond the exi')e6lacions of his fiieiids,
he began to fink under the heavy load.

At Tunbridge, in his fixty-fecond year,
Mr. Edward Hewitt, of Wood-ftreet, Cheap-
fule. He had long been fubjecl to a drop-
fical ‘Complaint, for which he had taken
medicines with very good effedl* But on
the morning of his death, when, to all ap¬
pearance, he was moie free than uluai from
any fymptoms of his complainr, water fud-
denly burft in his cheft, and carried him
off in a few hours. He was of a rcfpe(51able
family in Cumberland, and related to the
late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, James
Hewitt, vifcnunt Lifford. He was placed
veiy early in trade, and gave immediate
proofs of the diligence, ability, and integri¬
ty, which didinguiflied him in the different
liages of it 5 and were acknowledged by all
bis connexions in very extenfive commer¬
cial concerns. He died polieffed, through
his indullry and abilities, of a handfome
fortune ; though his kmdneis as a creditor
fubjedfed him to fome very heavy Ioffes;
and his liberality to the applications of tlioie
in want manifeffed itfelf in confiderable be-
nefadfions. His underftanding was uncom¬
monly vigorous, though, through his early in-
trodudlion into trade, notafliffed by education.
He faw the advantages of literature ; but he
WouLinot admit that the mofl ftnilbed literary
puifuits could eflablifla a fuperiority in every
branch of knowledge ; and heufed to fpeak
with great pleafaniry of a kind of pedantry
lie had obferved in fome of his friends of
our uaiverfities, who, becaufe they were
literary men, confideied themfelves as bet¬
ter judges tlian Mr. Hewitt of llie various
principles and modes of trade and com¬
merce. No man was moie ferious and
carKeff: in all his religious t'uties, accord¬
ing to the principles of ilie Church of Eng¬
land, to w'hich he .w'as ftrmly attaclied.
But he would often mention that his en¬
gagements in bufinefs bad once fo occupied
his tliougl'its as to reiidci' liim little attentive
to re'igion till a ferious illnefs prefented it to
his mind.

z\. At Meggerland, Archibald Hope, efq.
Golledfor of eXviife.

Aged 73, Wm. Fowler, gent, of Dei by.

In College-ffrdc't, Weltminffer, after a
long and fevere illneff, Mrs. Harman, wife
of Mr. Henry H.

At Vienna, of a dropfy in the lungs, the
Pfincefs de Colloredo, confort to Llie Vice-
chancellor of tlie Empire.

22. At Sr. Edmund’s Bury, aged 65, John
Spink, efq. who fully polieffed the amiable
clraraftcr of a truly benevolent and good
man. It may be unneccllaiy to fay any
fching of his family, as-advantages of iluit kind
Gent. Mag. Nvi’mle'j 1794.

conflitute no moral good nefs. He w'asbronghc
up udder the aufp ces of fohn ScDti hmer,
efq. formerly an eminent b.aiikerat Huiy, evho
refisined his bnfinefs in hi*- favour in 1775-
In 1776 Mr. Spink was .ippouU' d itceiver-
general for tlie Eaflsni divilion of the county
of Suffolk. In 1781, and again in T789, he
was eleifled to the office of chief magilf rate of
the borough of Bury. The obligi'yg manner in
which he was always ready to alliil parfon.s
of every clafs of life ought not to be palled
unnoticed as the lead; of his acts of fnend-
ffiip; w'hat kind offices he did, and tvas al¬
ways ready to do, the town at large can
fpeak to. To the education (»f children he
paid part'cu’ar attention, being one of the
moft liberal contributors to llie chariiy-
fchools of Bury. About tliree years ago lie
endowetl an eftate of upwards of 30! per
annum for the benefit of the Sunday-lchouls
in that towm for ever. Fie has left by his
will feveral charitable donations; to the
Difpenfary, to feveral friendly focieties, and
the Society for promoting Chriftian Know¬
ledge ; and fome generous legacies to his
friends, and amply provided for all his I'ela-
tions. FI is remains were interred, on tlie
28th inffant, near thofe of his wdfe, in a
burying-pl ce which he had eredted four
years fince in the centre of the church-yaid,
formerly the chapel of the charnel to the
monafteiy church.

23. Of a gouty complaint, the Rev. Mr,
Brook, minifter of Friarn Barnet, co. Mid-
dlefex, to which he was prefented by the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, on the death
of Mr. Graham. He was then tokl, by
their fteward, that they were to find Itim a
hou'e, and that great dilapidations were due
from his predecelFor, who, inffead of leav¬
ing his large fortune to his relations, lek ic
all to an old maid-fervant, except rcol. to a
filter living in tlie Weff, whom he had not
feen for 20 years. The fteward added, that
he had been admitted to it by copy of court,
as appeare.l by the n ils. The fucceeding
fteward determined that tlie Imife was loft,
and an additional part of the church-yard
illegally confecrated ; in confequence of
which, tire body and tomb of a city caipen-
ter, depofited in ir, were left, and the
ground paled off', and conveited into a cab¬
bage garden. Friarn Barnet is flared, iu
B.icon’s ‘Mnber Regis,” p. 581, from the
miniitei’s accounts of the polTeilicns of tie
hofpital of St. John of Jerufalem, 31 IFeniy
VIH. in the Augment..<tu)n-office, to have
been a chapel to the priory of Sr. [ohn of
Jerufalem, the farmtrs and affigns of whofe
manor were bound to find, at their own cx-
pence, a fit chaplain, to ferve the church
and adininiflcr the facraments and fi-icra-
mentals to the parifhioncrs durante termim.
On the fame terms it paffed to liie I eaa
anal Chapter of St. Paul’ , wlio now hoi I it.
It pays no firlt fruits or tenths, and uni/

procurations

105^ GhliuaryofreTna^kahlePeyfoHS^ with WiogYaphiccil Anecdoteu j^Kov,

procurations to the Dean and Chapter, It
is, however, rated at 40!, to the land-tax,
and 240L to the poor, and the chaplain is
obliged to find himfelf a hou^'e or lodging.
Mr. B, was a native of Yorkfhire, had been
curate to Dr. Chriftopher Wilfon, at Hal-
fled, and to Dr. Hume, the late bilhop of
Salifbury, at Barnes, and was chaplain to
the Prince of Wales .

At Yarm, co. York, in his 87th year,
the Rev. John Hopkinfon, 60 years curate
of that place.

Of a paralytic ftroke, at Chawton, in
Hampfliire (one of his feats), Thomas
Kniglit, Efq. of Godmerfiiam Park, in the
county of Kent. He was the only fon
(though there have been feveral daughters)
of a moft refpeftabie fitther of both his
names, who died Feb. 26, 17S1, aged 80
years, and of whom a very juft characler
may be feen in our Obituary of that month.
His mother, who refidcd in Eggarton houfe,
in Godmerfham parifli, and who died 1765,
•was Jane, the elded olaughter and coheir of
William Monk, Efq. of Buckingham in
Shoreham, in the county of Suffex. Her
fifter Barbara died unmarried, 1789. Mr.
Knight, was born in London, March 16,
1735-6; his father, with his family, being
then in town as one of the reprefentativcs
in Parliament for the city of Canterbury.
He had his fchool education under Mr.
Woodefon, at Kingfton upon Thames, and
at a proper age became a gentleman-com¬
moner of Magdalen College, Oxford, where,
when the Pomfret Statues were prefented
to the Univerfity, 1755, ^ fpeech

in the Theatre, which was received with
much applaufe. In the year 1759, July 5,
Mr. K. was created M. A. and foon after¬
wards, made the tour of Europe, attended
by the late Rev. Thomas Crofts. Upon his
return from abroad he was chofen into Par¬
liament for the borough of New Romney,
at tlie General Eledlion, 1761, and, of
courfe, had the honour to afiift in bearing
rhe canopy at the coronation of his ]n'efent
Majefty, as one of the Barons of tne C nque-
Ports. On the inftallation of the Chancel¬
lor of the univerfity of Oxford (George-
Henry,Earlof Lichfield), Mr.K. was created
LL. D. July 7, 1763. (N. B. that in the

catalogue of the Oxford Graduates, where
both his degrees are fpecified, he is errn-
neoufty faid to have been of Trinity Col¬
lege.) At the end of the Parliament of
1761 (diffolved 1768) he did not again offer
himfelf a candidate ; but at the General
Ele<ftion, 1774, was chofen for the county
againft a very pow'erful oppofition. In
T779, May 8, he married Mifs Catharine
Knatchbull, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Wad-
ham Knatchbull, then deceafed, prebendary
and chancellor of Durham, &c. by whom
he has left no iffue. At the clofe of the
Parliament, 1780, Mr. Knight withdrew
from public bufinefs, and in the foUowins
4

year, by the death of his father, acceded to
a large patrimonial fortune. The accumu¬
lation of the late Mr. Kniglit’s eftates car¬
ries with it fomething fingular ; for his fa¬
ther (as our Obituary of Feb. 1781, has
ftated) changed his name twice. The pa¬
ternal name was Broduax, a family which
had refided at Godmerlham for feveral
generations, one of whom. Sir Willia-m B.
of Godmcrfliam, was knighted by Charles
II. 1664. (Partition Books Coll. Arm.)
This name the hate Mr. Knight's father
relinquiflied for that of Afay, 1727, when
he came into poffeffion of a confiderable
eftate in Sulfex and London, of which laft
May’s buildings in Sr. Martin's lane form
fome part. This fecond name he again ex¬
changed for that of KnigBt, 1738, on a ftill
greater accqnifition of landed property at
Chawton, in Hampftaire. After the tleceafe
of his father, Mr. Knight fat down at his
paternal feat in Kenf^, which his father
rebuilt, 1732, and which he himfelf much
improved, became an ufeful country gen¬
tleman by promoting every meafure of
public utility, and within thefe few
months fubferibed no lefs a fum than 300I.
towards levying a body of men for the
internal defence of the country. His car¬
riage and aiidrefs were thofe of the man of
fallrion, .and his temper ferene, accompanied
with a friendly difnofition, equally candid
and fincere. His umlerftanding was found
and well cultivated, and his converfation
abounded with a facetious pleafantry ; which
rendered his company univerfally acceptable,
and his death as univerfally regretted.

24. At York-place, Pentonville, aged 47,
after a long and tedious illnefs, Mrs. Scott.
This lady was one of thofe l emarkal^ in-
llancfes of what a very furprifing quantity of
water the human frame can furnifh in a
Ihort fpace of time. In May, 1789, fhe
fuffered the operation of tapping for the
dropfy, and, previous to her death, flie en¬
dured the fame operation 25 times, with
the greateft fortitude, without being confined
to her bed longer than 48 hours by any one
operation. The quantity of water taken a-
way was pretty accurately averaged to be
758 quarts in the fpace of five years,

25. Mrs. Freer, wife of Mr. W. F. of
Blaby, co. Leicefter.

Mr. Chriftopher White, farmer, of Rock¬
ingham. He had fpent the preceding even¬
ing evening with fcxne friends in apparer^
good health.

At Bull’s-crofs, Enfield, aged 87, Mrs.
Kent, relidl of Mr. K. carpenter.

Suddenly, whilft getting into bed, William
Pywcll, efq. of Barnwell caftle, near Oun-
dle, co. Northampton.

Mr. Edward Griffin, many years chief
clerk in the Sun fire-office at Charing-crofs.

* Engraved in Hafted’s Hiftory of
Kent/’ III. 138.

Hia

1^794-] Obituary of remarkable Perfons\ with Biographical AnecdoUt. lo^g

i His decaying faculties had obliged him to de-
i dine the fnt;gae of bnfinefs feveral years be¬
fore his deceafe. But his faithful fervices
were rer5'tenibe''ecl and rewarded by the li-
: herality of his employers 5 and his unoffend¬
ing m'vnners regretted by thofe wlio had the
pleafure to ferve tinder him.

The fhince-bidtop of Hildefheim.

' 26. Mrs. Beach, of Great VVigBon, co.
Leicefter, relict of the late Mr. B. furgeon.

27. At Livefey, n<“3r Bbckburn, co. Lan-
caher, aged roo, Mr- Wm. Clayton; who
worked at the laft h'lrveftj wound twift,
and retained tolerably ripe fenfes till a little
before lirs deat'i, The laft fummer this ve¬
nerable old man had a vifit from a perfon
of the fame age, who then lived about ten
miles diftant, and who faid he had walked
the whole way through a curiofity he had
to fee him.

At the parfonage-houfe at Eltham, Kent,
Martha, Lady-dowager Shaw, fecond wife
and widow of Sir John S. bart. who died
1779, and mother of the prefent Sir John
S. hart, who married, 17S2, Theodora,
daughter of the late Lord Monfon, by
whom he has living four fons and two
daughters; alfo, of the Rev. Jon Kenward
Shaw, vicar of Eltham ; and of John Bar-
nadifton Shaw, dec. She was daughter and
heir of John Kenward, of Yalding, in Kent,
cfq. and married to Sir [ohn S. 1752*
his former lady, Mifs Elizabeth Hedges, of
Alderton, Wilts, he had a fon who died in
Iris minority.

28. At Grantham, Mr. Sharp, fen.

At Bicefter, co. Oxford, Mr. Thomas Pot¬
ter, of the King’s Arms inn there.

In his 21ft year, Mr. Thomas Spray, Viy-
vicar of Lichfield cathedral.

29. At Pallinfburn-houfe, John Afkew,
efq. in the commidion of the peace and de-
pntv lieutenant of the counties of Durham
and Northumberland, and for the town and
county of Berwick upon Tweed. He ferved
the office of high fheriff of Northumberland
in 1776; and has left a difconfolate widow
and nine children to lament his death.

30. At his feat at Lurgan, in Ireluid, the
Right Hon. William Brownlow, father-iir-
law to the prefent Lord Darnley. He re-
prefented his native comity in the Irifh par¬
liament for near 40 years.

Mr. Wm. Howard, furgeoii, of Gray’s-
inn* place, Holborn.

-^i. Aged *ic, Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes, of
Park-lane, Liverpool.

At Invernefs, Wm. Mackintofh, efq. late
provoft of that place.

Lately, on his way to tire ifland of Ma¬
deira, for the recovery of his health, in the
29th year of his age, Bafil- William Lord
Daer, eldeft fon of the Earl of Selkirk, and
lafe a member of the Edinburgh Convention.

In the Weft Indies, of a fever, Mr. Coo¬
per, furgeon in the army, and fon of Mr.
Wm. C. furgeon and apothecary, of Chat¬
ham, in Kent.

At Port Royal, Jamaica, of the yellow
fever, Lieut. John Nott, eldeft fon of Capt.
N. killed in his Majefty’b fhip Centaur, glo-
rioufly fighting for his couritry.

Mrs. kalplr, of Mewtown-Barry, in Ire¬
land. It is exaftiy ninet^j^n years fiuce two
men, of the names of Carrol and Daugan,
were executed for cutting off her ears, at
tl'.e croffes of Kilmeafhall. The circutn-
fiances which occafioned the inhuman treat¬
ment Ihe experienced were of a moft trivial
nature. She had a neighbour, a weak and
revengeful man, of the name of l?cmpfey,
wlio monopolized the molt agreeable part
of the chapel , wljere he eredted a feat for
his family. T his was difappioved by Mrs.
Ralph and her hufband, and fhe had th-e
feat proftrated. The White-boys a,t that
period were fpreading from the county of
Kilkenny to the lower part of the county of
Carlow, and Dsmpfey attached himfelf to
them, for the purpofe of revenge. A party
of thefe deluded cre.atures, on the appointed
night, repaired to Ralph’s; he was from
home, and they vented their brutal rage on
his defencelefs wife, wl)om they dragged
from her bed into the road, and inhumanly-
cut off her ears. One of her children, a fine
young girl, died in coufequence of the terror
ftie was thrown into by the fereams of her
mother. This barbarous outrage excited the
deteftation of all the neighbouring gentle¬
men. Several perfons were apprehended
and committed to Wexford goal; and, a-
mong others, Carrol and Dangan, who, on
the teftimony of Mrs. Ralph, were capi¬
tally convidled and executed in Odober,
1775. Dangan acknowledged at his death
that he was one of the party who had been
at Mrs. Ralph’s, though he did not affift in
the outrage } but he declared that Carrol
was perfeiftly innocent. Carrol perfifted in
his innocence to the laft moment. It was
thought he would have obtained a pardon,
on account of his general good charadler,
through the influence of Adam Colclough,
efq. A confiderable time after his death, a
notorious White-boy, Arthur Murpliy, was
condemned to deatli in that country, and he
affured the gentlemen of the county, as he
was about being launched into eternity, that
lie had a principal concern in cutting off
Mrs. Ralph’s ears ; but that Carrol, who
had fuftered, was as innocent as the child
unborn.

At Portarlington, in the kingdom of Ire¬
land, Mrs, Cavendilli, fifter of tlie late Right
Hon. Sir Henry C. bart. of Doveridge, ia
Derby ffiire.

At the fame place, David Clarke, efq. an
eminent attorney, and recorder of that cor¬
poration.

At Grantham, co. Lincoln, in her 42d
year, Mrs. Diana Dorothy Dodfwortli, wife
cf Dr. D. phyfician there, and youngeft fif-
tcr of Major-general Stevens, lieutenant-go¬
vernor of Berwick upon Tweed.

lo6o Obituary of nmarhahk PerJons\ with Biographical A necdot£S» [Nov.

Miffi Ingram, only daughter of Mr. George
I. of Boffon, CO. Lincoln.

At Ci/ilingtref^, near Northampton, aged
94, Mr. VVm. Ahb'-.'v, (hoe-maker; who,
notwiihftanding his advanced age, enjoyed a
good (Lite of health till within a few weeks
of his death.

At Painfw'ick, co. Gloncefler, Mr. WrOi
Knight, an eminent clothier.

At Phipley, CO. Surrey, aged 78, Mr.
WiUtam Yalden, many years clerk, of Rip¬
ley chapel.

At Ins fe.at at Hatton-court7 Somerfet, in
an advanced age, Charles C. Brent, cfq.

At North Luffenham, co. Rutland, aged
94, Mary Bingh,am, w'idown

At Hacehv, co. Lincoln, aged 4©, much
regretted, Mr. Rob. Seat (on, grazier.

At Weft Camel, aged 84, Henry Parfons,
efq, who rcquefted, by his will, that his re¬
mains might he interred in a maufoleum
within his cedar plantatioti upon Camel-
hill, over which it is ii, tended to eredl a
pyramid.

H. Richardfon, an induPrious farmer, of
Luddington, near Oundle. He was killed by
his own vaaggon being overturned upon
him ; and has left a w'ife and three children.

In the prime of life, Mrs. Y eatherhy,
wife of Mr. W. attorney, of Newmarket,

At Wragby, co. Lincoln, aged 2^, of a
deep confumption, Mils Anne Holland,
daughter of Mr. Thom.-.s H.

At Shaftefbury, aged 33, Mifs Mary Ro¬
gers. She went to bed with only a ft ght
cold, wdiich terminated in a fever, and in
the coui'fe of two days (lie died, leaving au
aged motiier to lament hei' lofs-

At Liverpi o], of a fever caught by attend¬
ing the fick poor, llie Rev. Mr. Spencer, a
RonnifiT clergyman, of Lombard-ftreet cha-
jiel in that town.

In a very advanced age, the Rev. William
Green, M. A- ledtor of Hardingham, co.
Norfolk, and formerly fellow of Clare-hall,
Cambridge; v/here he proceeded B. A,
1737, ^1.A. 1 lie living of Hardirig-

h.am is in ilie gftt of the mafter and fellows
of Clcrf;e-hal), and woriii near 400!. per an¬
num. Mr. C. vvas tranllatcr, from the He¬
brew, of the V/ho'e B. ok of Pfalm'^, with
critical notes, and a comm.entaf y ; and a'.lb
of the poetical parts of the Old Teftament.

Rev, Francis Taynton, v:car of W.eft Far¬
ley, CO. K^nt.

In Bedlam, where he had been confined
49 years, 11 months, and i day, t' 0 Rev.
Mr. Bailey.

Robert Idunt, gert. of Hammerfmiti].

AtClielfea, Mrs. Sarah Cltalmer, former¬
ly cf Liverpool.

Ac Pimheq, Mrs. De la Fite, relief of the
Rev. Mr. Be la F. late chaplain to the
i’rinc.q of Grange. At I’ne death of lier huf-
band, in 1782, fhe came to England, and
w as engaged in the education of the Princels
Rlizabetti. •.

Mrs. Edwards, wife of Mr. William E. ac”*
countanr-gcneralof the Bank of England.

At her houfe in Hart ftreet, jBloomfbury,
in her 9cth year, Mrs. Davis.

In Lamb’s Conduit-ftreet, Mrs. Cracroft,
wife of Mr C. of the accountant-generaPs
ollice, and daughter of tlie late Rev. Venn
Eyre, ledturer of Lyi.n, and archdeacon cf
C ml die.

No'v. ... At Kenfington gravel- pits, - -

Craig, efq. a planter at Tobago ; ou the
taking of u hicl), by the French, in 1781, he
cuigiit the foundation of a lingering illnefs,
by lying three days on the wet ground; and
was afterwarils carried prift/nerto France, or
went there in confequence of the anfwer of
that Court to the ruerchanis’ petitions (f«e
vol. LilL p. 53s). It is remaikahle that
liis lady crolfed the Atlantic eight times.

Nov. i. After a long and painful illnefs,
home with uncommon fortitude, Mifs Anne
Simpfon, of Croom’s-hill, Greenwich.

Inmrred, with the ufual military honours,
on the jmrade facing the fmall armory in the
Tower, which is the bunal-ground of thiat
forti efs, Mr. Maurice Delany, matter gunner
of the artillery, which place he h.ad held
near 43 years, and was 78 ^ears old.

In th.e King’s Bench prifon, after a con¬
finement of many years, the Hon. Mr.Cur-
zen, fop. of Lord Scarfdale,

2. Much lamer.te-d, Mrs. Mefturas, wife,
of Mr. M. of Hoxton-fquare.

At Stirling caftle, Major Alex. Joafs.

At Drumiheugh, near Edinburgh, Eliza¬
beth Dowager-bat onefs Colville, of Cuirofs.

At Worcefter, FJennis Kelly, efq. of Caf-
tle-K'lly, in Ireland.

At Lee, in Kent, Mr. John BattieCall,
eldeft foil of Sir John C. ban. of Wlnteford,
in Cornwall.

At Eye, in Suffolk, Mrs. Cunningham,
wife of Cliaries C. efej. c.-'otain in the navy.

At Epf('m, the Rev I'laacis P!urr;er, of
Twickenham. He w'as a pioof that a fall
fiom a horfe fhpuld not fe tieated as a light
matter About a year ago he met with
titat accident ; he was lately on a vihr,
comtdained of a firknefs at his ffomach,
his br.':ia vv,is difturhed, and he ilied in a
vey Uiort time. His head was opened,
and ionie coagulated blood found on the
bratn. [Perhaps feme medical coriefpon-
dent will give h.is opinion, wlieTier it is
net probable that bleeding, imniediately af¬
ter tiic fall, migjit have prevented this mis¬
fortune .?]

AtBrornpton, Mifs Percy, in the contem¬
plation of Nature, thong! 1 not of Law, ilie
ujidoihoted daughter of the late Duke of
No! tJnmiherland, and of courfe half filter to
the prefent Duke and the Fail of BeverLy.
She died in confequence of grief for her fif-
ter, whole death is recorded in our vo!.
LXI. j). 1068. 1 hefe fifiei.*^, lovely in their
perfons, and dignified in their manners, re¬
ceived an education, under the fullelt ph:ate

laudUuu .

I '•94*] Obituary of remarhable Pcrfons‘, with Biographical AnccdiJiis^ io6l

fanftisn of their fond and mod noble father,
fuitable to their high birMi and foitune, in
the convci t of Pantliemont at Paris. Af-
terwai d, in the bofom of reth'ement, in the
e'xercife of elegant accon^pldhraents, but ftill
more in the pradice of the moil rational pi¬
ety, and the mod angelic benevolenc;", they
palled rhsi’’ happiell houi> : n -r was their
bounty I'cattered with a thoughtiefs hand ;
for, they added to every blcliing tliey be¬
llowed by a due ilifcrimioriiinn of its objeil,
.and bv pii''fuin;T modeil Poverty to its m '.fl
wretched recelfes. Thisfevneof happinefs
(for to them tlie gay and dliPipating world,
tm a Dcy delicate ..ccovmt, had never any
charms) was fir.t blalled by the death of the
elder Mifs Percy in I"Q.i ; and her filler
entinred for thefe laft three years the flowly-
confannii g r.wagC' of th.it moft pauirul of all
poifom — grief — with alnioll unexampled re-
fignation.

3. Mil's Hnilfon, mihrefs of the alTeniViiy-
rooms at Stamford, (O 1/mcoln.

At his hemfe in ft.-o’ Inm, the Rev. Thomas
Cripp'i, redlor o^ Cheadlcy, in Clreflii'c.

4. At Cambr.dg'G, Rdmu ui Hoit, M.A.
fellov.’ ‘if King’s college, to vdiich fociety
he was elcdled from r'u'n, in 1769.

, On his reriirn to th. Duke oi York’s ar-
m>, Major general Robert Johnllon, of the
3d regiment ( f fnot-guards.

A.t v'deymouih, of a decline, wliich had
for feveral mon hs Loii-fuied her to her bed,
Mifs l.eicefier.

At ht'rnerbv, co. Leicefler, in his 37th
year, Oiiando Brown, eiq. formerly of
Biaunilon, co Ku 1 nd.

A*: Wood Hoc T, after a Oiort illnefs, aged
80, Mrs King, vvif<3 of the Rev. the Dean
of Raph.ee

3. At his honfe in Galiow’ay, in No'th
Entail), ‘vlexander Spalding Gordon, efq.
Iherifl ot me rom.fy.

Mrs. he ' n, wife of Mr. John F. mercer,
Ludgatr r’l'.

At In- 'oni'e in Grea*’Titchfield-llreet, af¬
ter a ie v' d lys illneiq ttie Rev, John Dry.

At her lodgings ni (^oeen-fquai e, Bath,
aged za, tliv amiable and accomnlifhed Mils
Dohfoi), daughte’" of the late Wni. D. efq. of

Twickenham, and niece to - D elq, of

New Kiug-ltreet, B.atn This young lady
WMS in the moil pe'Te6l health within t'oefe
three weekq an<l v%as -’ery foon to have
beeii ma.rried to a mucii-refptcled young
cie'-gyman, wdio, vifiting her duruig her
very Ihort illnefs, fatally caught the fe er
with wliich Ihe was feized, and d'Ct on
Sunday the ed, on 'vhi.h day Mifs D. was
thought to be in a fair way of recovery , but
almol immediately relapfing (wi'.hout being
iu the leal acquainted wulh the tale of her
lover), One furvived him only three days, and
d.ed polfelfeJ of a fortune of 2 0,oocl

At Sandlord, co. Oxford, Mrs. Meriel
D’ .'Anvers, daughter of the late Sir J. D. of
Cul'.voith, in Noiihamptotilhire, bart. and

filer of the late Sir Michael D. hart. Her
generous donation to the vicarage of Cul-
worth, in reloring to it the great tithes as
foon as fhe came into the polfelion of her
family elate, .md her liberal endowment of
a cliarity-fchocl in the pa'ilh of Culw'oith,
w'ill be laling monuments of her pious and
cliaritable d’fnofition ; not to mention her
private charities, which were very great.
Her landed dale at Culworth and Eydon,
wh'ch is very confuleraMe, is left by her
will to the Mifs Ricks, of Sunning, Berks,
grand-daughters of her late uncle, Daniel
D’Anvers, elq.

6. At her houfe at He worth, in her 77 th

year, M.iry VVortley Montague Stew’art,
Countefs of Bute, and, in lier own right,
B.uouefs Mountlewart, only daughter of
the kre Edw'ard Wortley Miintague, efq.
and filer of the late traveller, Edward
Wortley Montague, efq. Slie furvived her
lord (by whom fhe had five fops and fix
daughters) not three years, and her eldeft
fon not ten months ; and by her death the
Plon. James VVortley .Montague obtains pof-
fefFion of his grandfather’s fortune, 2c,c®cl.
per annum. ,

At Derby, aged 74, John Armytage, M.D.
of London.

Henry Tompkins, efq lieutenant-colonel
of the Bucks mihtia, and one of the benchers
of the hon. Society of the Middle Temple.

At Fyfield, Hants, after a Ihort illnefs,
Francis Delap Hallidiy, efq. only brotlier of
the late Major H of^ the Leafowes, who died
a few months fince.

7. Aged I Maler John Davys, eldefl
fon of John D efq. of Loughborough.

At ins houfe in Rufha row, Mr. Jofeph
Andrews, commiffion warehoufe-man and
auHioneer.

Mifs Rebecca White, eldel daughter of
Ml . Pe’er W. of Broxbourn, Herts

At Dunbeath calle, Robert Sinclair, efq,
af Frifwick.

8. Aged 71, the Rev. Thomas Adams,
M. A. vicar of Hlackanton, Devon, of
•w'hich pariiih his father and himfdf had
been vicars (with the interval of one inter¬
mediate prefentation) upwards of a century.
His father w.is prefented in 16S8, and died
in 1732, and, what is lill more fiugular,
Mr. Adams was only the fevenlh in fuc-
ceflion, from the year 1530, in udiich
fpace, more than two centunes and an half,
tliis pariih has had tlie good fortune to fee
only feven changes. It has now lol; a va¬
luable palor, and a truly good man.

9. At Shermanbury-place, Suifex, John
Chelian, efq. many years an aiSling mag.l*
trate for that county.

In an advanced age, Mr. G. A. Gib.b-, for¬
merly an e.minent fiirgeon, of Exeter, and
fatlier of Couufellor G. recorder of Brilo!,
the gentleman wbo fo eminently diftingnilh-
ed himfelf with Mr. Erlkine in the late tiTils
of Mr. Tho. Hardy and Mr. Horae Tooke.

io62 Obituary of remarkable Perfomi with Biographical Anecdotes, [Nov.

At Dod^waart, on the banks of the Waal,
after a fliort illnefs, Quarter- mafter John
Tuffie, of the 44th regiment of foot, who
had ferved 53 years in that corps, and had
been in every campaign fince the raifing of
it. Hi'S funeral was attended by the whole
regiment, in tehimony of their veneration
for fo refpedlable a charaf/ter. .

in his 90th year, Mr. John Grier, of
Bitcklerfbury.

10. At Watford-plare, Herts, Mrs. Paxton,
the ladv of Archibald P. efq. and daughter of
W m. Gill, elq. alderman of London.

Difcovered drowned near the firrt wharf
at the Soutli wad, Dublin, Crofbie Morgell,
efq. M. P. for ilie borough of Tralee. His
hat and umbrella w'ere purpofely placed to¬
gether on the wharf in fuch a manner as to
preferve them from the incurrent tide. The
boely was entirely hfelefs when brought a-
fhore ; of coane every attempt to revive it
•was in vain. He was father in-law to the
late Sir B. Denny, who loll his life a few
elays before in a duel.

ir, - Ho'Jfoll, efq. fon of the late Mr.

H. banker, in the Strand, who died on the
yth nit. (fee p. 966).

After a very fhort illnefs, in Berwick-flr.
Soho, in his 2 HI year, Mr. Richard Morton,
jnn. of Worcefler.

At Briftol Hoiwells, W. Cheffon, efq. of
Brighthelmllone.

At his lioufe in Bloomfbury-fqiiare, of an
apopledlic diforder, contra6led by chde ap¬
plication to bufinefs, Elborough Woodcock,
efq. of Lincoln’s -inn, regliler of the affida¬
vits in the Court of Chancery, and fecretary
of bankrupts. He m'riied Catharine, dau.

of - Palmer, efq. by w’hom he has left

three fons and a daughter.

1 2. At Enfield, in her 25th year, afte ha¬
ving been a fortnight delivered of a daugh¬
ter, her firft child, Mrs. Hammond, wife of
Mr. Tho. H. apothecary there, and daugh¬
ter of Mr. Complin, formerly an eminent
apothecary in Prefoot-Rreet, Goodman’s-
fields ; and, on the iHh, lier remains were
depofited in the family-vault in St. An¬
drew's church at Hertford .

At Stanwick, co. Northampton, Mrs.
Proby, wife of the Rev. Charles P. re6lor of
that place, and eldeft daughter of George
Cherry, efq. one of the comraiffioners for
Yi6lu2ling the royal navy.

Capt. Thomas Boylon, commander of the
Dover poll-office packet Co rier, lately
flationedbetween Harwich and Helvoetlluys.

13. At his brewhnufe, the Horfe ffioe,
in Banbridge-ftieet, St. Giles’s, in which he
had lately fucceeded his father, by pitching
into an immenfe cooler, in a fit of giddinefs,
to which he was fubjedt, John Stephenfon,
efq. who married the eldell daughter of John
Fdackburn, efq. of Bufli-hill and Finfbury-
fquare, mercliant; by w'hom he has left five
children. He was accidentally difcovered
by the floating of his hat on the furfacs of
the liqu'. r.

In Soho, Major-geheral Allan Campbell,
fome years lince returned from the Weft
Indies, w'here he had a confiderable com¬
mand, He had ferved his king and country
above 50 year.?.

At Edith- V/efton, co. Rutland, of the
fcarlet fever, which carried him off in a few
hours after he w'as attached, aged 6 years,
Mailer Walden Orrne, fon of V^. O. efq. of
the lame place.

Mi's. Selby, wife of Mr. S. holier, of
Nottingham.

14. In an advanced age, at his fon’s houfe
at Walworth, the ingenious Mr. Mudge,
late watch-maker in Fleet-ftreet.

In Bloomfbury fquare, the Lady of Sir
Geoige Chad, hart.

Aged 75, Mrs. Tompfon, relidl of Aider-
man Geo'geT. of Northampton.

At Kirk-S.andall, near Doncaffer, Mrs.
Keys, wife of Mr. W. H. linen-draper, of
Gainlborough.

Mrs. Mary Piercy, of North Kilwoith,
co. Leicefter. In a fit of defpondency fhe
threw herfelf into a well adjoining her
dwelling-houfe, and was drowned.

In her 86th year, Mrs. Rookfby, widow
of Stermar R. efq. of Welton, near Hull.

15. Mr. Jofeph Hodfon, of Cheapfide,
linen draper.

Lady Fielding, relitft of Sir John F. knt.

16. Aged 70, Mr. Thomas Cox, of Win-
chefter-flreet, more than 50 years a refpeR-
ahle inhabit.ant of the parilh of Alliiallows,
London-walJ.

Mrs. Ward, of the Gdlowtree-gate, Let-
cefter, mother of Mr. W. furgeoii.

Mr. Cartwright, many years bellman of
the night in Leicefter. He was interred on
the 19th, attended, in folemn proceffion, by
the members of two lo-Jges of Freerrtafons.
A mafonic prayer was read by the Rev. Mr.
Rogers, and had an imprelhvjs effedl upon
the auditors.

17. Mr. James Bogget, mafter-carpenter
of the Nottingham navigation.

At his prebendal houfe in the college
at Ely, at the advanced age of eighty -lix,
the Rev. James Bentham, M. A. F. A.S.
prebendary in that Cathedral, and re6lor of
Bow-Brickhill, in the county of Bucking¬
ham ; well known in the learned world as
the author of ‘‘ The Hillory and Antiqui¬
ties of the Conventual and Cathedral C uirch
of Ely and univerfally refpected in the
fociety of that place, where he conftanrly
refided, for his piety and humility, for the
gentlenefs and amiable fimplicity of his
manners, and his unwearied endeavours to
promote the intereft and welfare of his na¬
tive city and ifle, through the whole courfe
of his life. For a fuller account of this vene¬
rable and worthy chara6ler we muft refer
our readers to our publication for the en-
fuing month.

Mr. Thomas Denham, jun. late of Fof-
ter-lane.

18. Mr.

I’7q4»] Obituary, — Theatrical RsglJIer. — Bill of Mortality,

18. Mr. Ifaac Robinfon, one of the com¬
mon council of the corporation of Doncaf-
ter, and fon of Alderman R. of that town.

Lady Frederick, wife of Sir John F. bait.
M. P. for the county of Surrey.

At the Star inn, Oxford, aged 7-^, Mrs.
Kugent, fifter to the late Earl N. of tlie king¬
dom of Ireland, and aunt to the prelcnt Mar-
chionefs of Buckingham.

19. At Yarmouth, Mr. John Sayers, mer¬
chant, and one of tlie common council for
that borough.

In Rcd-Crofs-Rreet, Cripplegate, Tho¬
mas Strong, efq. F. A. S.

At Stoke-Goldington, Bucks, the Rev.
Robert Dowbiggin, D. D. fub-dean of Lin¬
coln, vicar of Wapenham, co. Northamp¬
ton, and mafter of St. John’s hofpital, in
Northampton, all in the gift of the Kilhop
of Lincoln; and vicar of Stoke-Goldington,
in that of George Wrighte, efq. He was of
St. John’s college, Cambridge; B. A 1760,
M. A 1763 ; and married a niece of the
late Dr. John Green, bifhop of Lincoln.

Rev. George Powell, of Brixton-place,
Lambeth.

21. At the Hot wells, Briftol, Mifs Selina
Rriftow, youngeft daugiiter of the late Ro¬
bert B. efq. of MicfeUlover, in Hampfliire.

At his hnufe in Bermondfey New Road,

aged 93, Mr. Larmont, formerly a pilot for
the channel at Dover, and who followed
that occupation till within a few years of
his death.

In his 28th year, in confequenceof drink¬
ing cold ale immediately after Ids return from
hunting, Charles Robinfon, efq. of Saw-
briJge park.

At her houfe in Park-lane, Mrs. Morant,
relicl of the late John M. efq. of Burken-
hurfl-houfe, Hants.

Mr. Jofeph Nichols, ofCailton, near Ot-
ley, CO, York, Whilfi; giving his bull a feed
of corn in a pafture near tliat place, the ani¬
mal fuddenly ruflied upon him, and gored
him in fo terrible a manner as to occafion his
immediate death. He had returned from
Otiey fair only the fame afternoon ; and has
left a wife and fix children to lament his un¬
timely lofs.

23. Mrs. Sarah Withy, wdfe of Mr. Ro¬
bert W. jun. folicitor, of Craven-flreer,
Strand. She has left five young children.

24. At Burh-hill, Edmonton, of the Rone,
Col. George Buck, formerly in the fervice of
the Nabob of the Carmitic. He married the
only daughter of Mr. Harpur, flationer, in
the Poultry.

25. In Great Ruflfell-ftreet, Bloomfbury*
aged 84, Mrs. Snell, relidl of the Rev. Mr. S*

THEATRICAL
Oct. New Drury-Lane.

3 1 . The Mountaineers — No Song No Supper.

I. Emilia Gallotti — The hVed ding- day.

3. The Siege of Belgrade — Ditto.

4. Emilia Galotti — Ditto.

5. The Rivals — Ditto.

6. The Jew — Lodoifka,

7. Love for Love — The Wedding-day.

8. The Gamefter — Ditto.

10. The Mountaineers — Lodoifka.

11. Macbeth — The Wedding-day.

12. School for Scandtil — My Grandmother.

13. The Jew — Lodoiflca.

14. Twelfth Night— The Wedding-day.

15. The Roman Father — The Devil to Pay.

17. The Pirates — I he Wedding-day.

18. Othello — Ditto.

19. The School for Scandal — No Soiag No

Supper.

20. The Jew — Lodoifka.

21. Love for Love — The Prize.

22. The Roman Father — The Wedding-day.

24. The Mountaineers-— Lodoifka.

25. The Pirates — The Wedding-day.

26. The Rivals — Ditto.

27. The Jew — Ltxloifka.

aS. Love for Love — My Grcuidmother.

29. The Mourning Bride — Nobody.

Odl. Covent-Garden.

3 1. The Rage— Rofina.

N(jV. I. The Provok’d Hufband — i^rrived
at Portfmouth.

3. The Rage — Ofcar and Malvina.

4. The World in a Village — Arrived at

5. The Rage — Ditto. [Fortfmoutb.

6. .Macbeth — Ditto.

7. The Rage — Midas. [mouth.

8. The Fair Penitent — Arrived at Poitf-

10. Cymheline — Midas.

11. The Rage — The Highland Reel.

12. Much Ado alxiut Nothing — Arrived at

1 3. 'i he Rage — ITieFarmer. [Poitfmouiii,

14. Ditto — Netley Abbey.

15. Ditto — Marian.

17. The Fair Penitent — Uerruh'! and Omphah.

18. Fontainville Forefl — Ditto.

1 9. The Comedy of Errors — Ditto.

20. The Bufy Body — DiiU).

21. Wild Oats---Ditto.

22. The Confeious Lovers— Ditto.

24. T he Rage — Ditto.

25. Ditto — Ditto.

26. Ditto — Ditto.

27. Ditto — Ditto,

28. Ditto — Ditto.

29. The Confeious Lovers — Ditto.

BILL of MORTALITY,

Chriftened.
Males 736 ?
Females 6753

Buried.
Males 6
Females 6

1 268

Whereof have died under two years old 354

^P«ck Lo»f ti. 7a,

Nov. 4, to Nov. 25, 1794.

from

12 and 5
5 and 10
10 and 20
20 and 30
30 and 40
40 and 50

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Bath 2, Briftol 4
Birmingham z
Blackburn
Bucks — Bury
Cambridge 2
Canterbury z
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Cheller, Coventry

DECEMBER,

CONTAIN

1794,

N G

CumS-pr and
Do icafter z
D rhy, Exeter
Glouc' fter
Hereford, Hull
ipfwich

Ireland
Leeds 2
Leicester z
Lewes
Liverpool ^
Maidftone
Manehefier z
Newcaftle 3
Northampton
Norwich z
Nottingham
OxroR D
Reading
Sallfbury
Scotland
Shetheld 2
Sherborne %
Shrewlbury 2
Stamford %
Winchelfer
Whitehaven
orcedei
York 3

TheMeteorological Diaries for Nov.andDec. 106^

CJironiclesof the Seafons for Autumn 1794 1067
Shakfpeare’s Crab-Tree— and his Portrait; ic68
Derhana audHorner?— Portraiiof W. Black? 1069
Dreadful Sufferings of the Clergy in France 1070
The Telegraph- — Notices tftCorrefpondents 1072
Death of Dean Langton-— Buxton Baths fhnt 1077
Fountaynes Abbey— ]orevall—Watts’sPfalms 1 074
Difquifition on the Origin of Office of Sheriff 1 07 5
Information relative to the Digby Pedigree 10-77
Mr. Shaw’s farther Progrefs in Stafrordflaire 1078
Critical Remarks on an extraoi'dinai y Prayer 1081
Thoughts on Copper Money of GreatBritain loSa
Farther Inffances of Negledlof Cemeteries 1083
Addrefs to the junior Memhers.of Cambi iilge t 084
Epitaphs from Welton, Back' on, Shrew fliui y i oS 3
Ufages adopted in the Scotch Commuaioa 1086
Gray’s Elegy ^ — Reliquesof Ancient Poetry 1089
Untimely I)eath of the Great and /.earned 1092

Political W' liters? — New Nofes i'Ot luivel 1093 «iiii’i<ii..nn.i.iiitiiigcin_ciitnm^onoonLr.i2et'es 1141
Curious Infcription from Chriftchurcli, Hanu Diary of the Royal ExcuiTion to Weymoqth 1 142
Colletffions for County of Nortliumherl. ind io94;Hifl'oricalCIuoau;Ie — DomefticOccurrence' 1 144
Indidlment of Roads — Polw'hele’s Devonffa- 1095 Marriages, Deaths, I’referments, &c. 11^8 — 1159
Origin of Italian ! rc.nflation of the Liturgy 1097 Theacr.Regifter — Monthly Billof Mortality 1159
fehn Dean,, a deferving Sailor, rewarded ic 8 Daily Variations in the Prices ofthe Stocks 1160

Embell ibed with a View of Dovedalf, reprefenting the Cataffroplie of Dean Langton ;
with Chingford and Stork Roc. ford Churches ; Cofton Chapel j
and an elegant M .-n u m t..'. t a l Crass from Tileswell.

.Late Primate Robinfon — Fairs near London rogS
.Eftab. Church in Scotland — Elb.Wo >dcock T09q
Remarks on Eftablilfiments and Dillenters 1100
Charyhdis? — An Infcription from Tidefwell jioi
The Lift of Oxford Tranflators of the B:hle 1 102
Garb in Heraldry ? — Mifcellan.Obfervations 1103

UtterfrQmDr.Harrington'oSirjolephBanks 1 104

Churches of Chingford and Stoke Rochford 1106
CofionChapel — Somerfetfhire and Devonfhne ib.
Hydrophohia? — PrognofticationfromCorn.s? > 107
Mr. Owen Davies — Ejfitaph on Dean Young ib.
A Charadler of the late Mr. Tlmmas Strong ib.
EiKjuiry afterM r. Plunkett, Curer ol Cancers 1 1 c 8
The Expenditure of France for Three Years ib.
Proceedings of tlie laft Seffion of Parliament ib.
R EVIEV/ OF New pu B LlC ATIONS III 3_i
Index Indicatorju s — Queries a.ufwered 1128
S E 1. E c r P o E T R Y , A lit i eni a n d M (vi . 1 1 2 9 — I f 3 4,
Proceedingsof NationaiConventiopinP'rance
Important Intelligence FromLondonGizeres

By S r L yi M U

U R B A Cycn

Primed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero’s Head, Red-Lion Palfage, Fleet-ftreec;
where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addrelfed, Pos t-p aid. 1794.

io66 Meteorological Diaries for November and December, 1794*

state of Weather in November, 1794.

Wind. 1

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S W moderate

i \0

53 ji

S calm

51 .

SW calm

S calm

SE calm

28 ,96

SW calm

29,24

S calm

S SE calm

SE calm

,SE brifk'

3 7

W calm

NW moderate

S calm

30 > 8

W moderate

29 >93

W moderate

SE calm

SE gentle

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6E brifk

aijSE ca^m

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29 ’53

SE calm

W brifk

SW gentle

SE brifk

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SW calm

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ds gathered from

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overcaft, fhowers
black cloutlp, a fhower
blue Pkv, rain P.fvf*
overcaft, flanwers

ibliie (ky, flight fiiowers in the night

dark /Icy, rain P.M.

dark fky, fhowers

blue fley, fun and pleafant

dark fky, frequent fhowers

overca/l, fhowers

dark fky

clear, fun and pleafant

dark fky, rain at night

moifl day

<faik fky, fair

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dark fkv, cold raw black day

dark fky, a little fun

white clouds, rain and fnow at night

'rain, clears up P.M.

black cloud'^, fhowers

rain, black day, rain at mght

'dark fky, rain at night

dark fky, rain at night

black clouds, rain at night

, black clouds, flrowers

Irain nioff part of the day

dark Iky, fhowers throughkhe night

blue fky, fun and pleafant

mmon ground.— 3. Thermometer 68 nut of doors at
three o’clock P.M. — 9. Frofl:,' — 13. Frofl — 19. lee.— 20, People bufy upon their wheal
lands; no lefs than three* teams upon one fmall field fowing wheat, although the air is fo
piercing that it is hardly fuflerahVe by either man or beaft out cf doors But the alteration
caufed in the land by the tliree lafl fair day";, and by a brifk circulation of air evaporating
the moiflure, that the change has been great, and the exertion to embrace the opportunity
of cultivatii>g the lands, which for feme time paft were not fit to be conse upon, are equally
great. With fuch difficulty is raifed the flalF of life, which we enjoy at our eafe, w’lthout
thinking of the toil with which it was procuicd.— 27. Thunder and lightning. — 29. Ditto.

Fail of rain this monthe, 3 inches Q-totlis. Evapoiafinn, i inch and ,a half.

i\l£ i EOROLOufc AL Faelk toi December, 1794.

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Weather
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rain

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fair

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rain

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cloudy

,98

cloudy

56,

>91

fair

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foggy

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fair

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cloudy

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Weather
in Dec. 1794.

Dec,

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fair

,26

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3'^

foggy

! 6

,46

fair

>45

fair

>25

fair

>05

fair

'20

>03

fair

,00

fair

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cloudy

>75

cloudy

,S6

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,68

fnow

,56

fnow

D* 282, ne^r Npr-fqlk- Street, Stran4»

DECEMBER

BEING THE SIXTH NUMBER OF VOL LXIV. PART IE

TiieChkonjcle3ofthe Seasons.
Autumn, i7r4.

EFORE 1 enter on an
vty ^ account of the iau Au-

5^ R ^ tumn, I n»ua obieive,
^ ii that

“ Three Winters’ coM

three Su.nmers’ nr dc }
Three beauteous Springs to yeliuw Autumn
turn’d,

In procels of the Seafons, have I feen ;
Three April perfumes m three hot Junes
Sinc-"fird* *” [burn’<i,

- I be^in remitting to the Gentleman’s
Magazine copies of the rullic records 1
hoard up quarterly in my hermitage j
and now 1 am commencing another fe«
r]e» of them for the ente tainment of
fuch of Mr. Urban’s teaders as do me
the honour of approving them. Thofe

• who do not like them are not obliged, to
read them.

Much alieration was perceivable in

* the afpe6f of the woodlands very early
in the Autumn ; but, as the leaves fell,
a variety of beautiful berries became
more appatent; every foreil-tree was

. adorned with fruit after its k.nd in
abundance except the enaiymui and
alh i apples and pears were in forne
places plentiful, but decayed rapidly,

: even fatlerthan theydtd in the Autumn
of iaft year, thougli both the preceding
Summers were dry. By ihe loth of
October the foliage was thinned confi-
derably ; by the 20th of that month
fome common afnes, the cockipur-
thorns, and the dwnrf hazels, were
bare; and, by the 30‘ih, the white¬
thorns and mountain-alhes ; by tlie loth
of November the horfe chefnuts, black
poplars, and fome lickly eims, were in
the lame ftate ; and, by the 30th, the
fycamores, and reft of the elms. The
niifletoes were fet with pearls, and the
cornel-trees with coral.

* Shakfpeare’s Sonnets, p. 57.

After corTi.ienng the groves, it is na-
turahto tnirik of (he nefidents and viG-

• rants of the e roves. A gieater number
of the larae tomitits (parus tnujot ) t
never beheld; ^nd fcretch owl alia
were very numerous ; fo iikewile w'eie
the redwings and other forts of thrulhes.
This lattei cUfs congregated in tbs
middle of November; and on the 24!:hL
of that month a hawfinch apo a .d.
Snipes came in light the end of OEiu-
u> r, and the migratory aquatic tr’be ar¬
rived about the i8th of November, T
law a brood of fwil )ws on ber 9,
and did not .-e any aftei.

The beginning of the A tumn was
very wntdy, the middle very • wet,
and the end very trpfty. A Vioicne
thu ider-ftorm occurred on Sept. 24,
an overwhelming flood on Dec. i, and
an uncommon fog on D-.c. 15.. The firft
ice was fiirnied in tut n ight fobewoig
Sept. 27 ; and ice coiuin ,ied all day firm,
in the lunihiue tor the fiilt time on Dec,
18; and at ihe lame pen.m the earth,
and all expoled objects on it, were hi-
teiied with hoar ; but no linow fell ia
any part of the Autumn.

A Southern Faunist.
St. T^homas’s-daj.

Mr. Urban Dec. 20.

SHAKSPE ARE’S bench, and the
half-pint mug out of which he uled
to take very copious draughts pf a!e at
a public boule either in Stratford-upon-
Avon, or the neighbourhood of that
town, are well-known to all our Eng-
lifli Antiquaries, from their navmg btea
Jong in tlje pollclTion of the late iVIr,
James Weft, by whole delcendants £
h.ave no doubt they are careful, y pre-
I’erved, and will be long tranfinitted as
heir-loom$ in the family * but with
Shaklpeaie's crab-tree the Antiqua¬
rian Society prouably aic not io wtij.
acquainted.

, There has been longatradition inWar-
wickliiyre, that our gitat dramatic Bard

was

io68 Shakrpeare’s Crah-Tree — Engraved Portraits of ShMpe2,rc. [Dec,

was a very boon companion ; and the
f^me of two illuftrious bands of good
fellows, who were dtftinguifhed by the
denominations of the To»fERS and the
SiPPERS, is nc)t vet extinct in that
country. The Topers, who were the
flouted fellows of the two, challenged
all England, it is laid, to conteft with
them in deep potations of the good old
EngHfh beverage? a challenge which
Sbakfpeare and a party of his young
friends at Stratford readily accepted :
but, goine: on a Whitfunday to meet
them at Bidford, a village about feven
miles diftant, they were much mortified
to find that the TopERS had that very
day (ovving to fome mirundcrftanding
of the place and time appointed) gone
to a neighbouring fair on a fimilar
fcheme with that which brought Sbak¬
fpeare and his friends to Bidford. Be-
’ ing thus difappointed, they were obli¬
ged to take up with the Si F PER s, whom
they found at that village, but whom
they held in great contempt. On trial,
however, the Stratfordians proved fo
unequal to the combat, that they were
obliged to yield; and, while they had
yet the ufe of their legs, they fet out to¬
wards homt. Unfortunately, our great
Poet’s head, and that of one of his
friends, not being fo fttong as that of
their companions^ they found themfelves
unable to proceed; and, laying them-
felves down, they took up tljeir refl for
the night under the fhelter of a large
wide- fpreading crab-tree. When they
awoke in the morning, his friend pro-
pofed that they fhould return to the
place of combat; bur, being probably
weary of his company, he refufed.
Farewell, therefore, he exclaimed,
Piping Pebxvorth, dancing 'VTarfton,
Haunted Hilbro’, hungry Grafton,
Dodging Exhall, Popilli Wicksford,
Beggarly Biome, and drunken Bidford I

* Ti e rhymes are certainly not fo exa£);
as he would have made in his cloletj
but, as field- meafuresy they may do well
enough ; and the epithets are firongly
ch^ralleriftic of his manner, being pe¬
culiarly and happily adapted to the le¬
ver il vifiages whence the roifcellaneous
group of Sippers had reforted to Bidford.

This celebrated tree, Mr. Urban, is
ftill Handing, and is known far and
near by the fiame of ShakspearE’s
CRAB- TREE; and the foregoing anec¬
dote was well authenticated by a ci'er-
eyman, a native of Warvvickfiiire, who
d cd at Stratford, at a great age, above
thuiy ago.

In Mr. Malone’s curious Hiftory of
the Englilh Stage, I obferve the time of
the death of Charles Hart, the celebra¬
ted tragedian, is a defiderntum in thea¬
trical hiftory. In examining fome wills
in the Prerogative office fome time ago,
I found that he made his will July lo,
1683, and that it was proved on the yth
of the following September; fo he muft
have died in the interval between thofe
two periods, probably in Auguft. He
refided at Stanmore, in the county of
Middlefex, where he died and Was bu¬
ried. He left by his wdl to his friend
Edward Kynafton, the aftor, one full
lhare of the foil and teneiy.ent thereon,
called Drury-lane playhoufe (the whole
being divided into thirty- fix (hares), for
the remainder of a term of forty.one
years. From a particular bequeft in his
will, it is clear that he was not related
to the Harts, of Stratford, as has been
fuppofed.

As I underftand that Mr. Malone is
employed in writing a new Life of
Sbakfpeare, I beg leave, Mr. Urban,
to repofit rhefe anecdotes in your Lite¬
rary Bank for that gentleman’s ufe.

Yours, &c. M. E.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 24.

S the recent difeovery of a genuine
iikenefs* of our great dramatic
writer has excited a wi(h in feveral gen¬
tlemen to polfefs (for the fake of com-
patifon) all the pretended as well as au¬
thorized reprefentations of him, the fol¬
lowing lift, for their ufe, foiicits a place
in your valuable Magazine ;

I. Engravings from the true original
portrait of Sbakfpeare, painted on wood
in the year 1597:

M. Di oefhout, before the firft foli
W. Marlhall, before the Poems S
T. Trotter (two plates) - ^794

II. Engravings from the Chandofan
canvas :

M. Vandergucht, before Rowe’s edition 1709
G, Vertue (fet of Poets) - 1719

Ditto, before jacob’s Lives, See. 1719

G. Duchange, before Theobald’s edition 1733

H. Graveloi, before Hanmer’s edition 1 744

J. Houbraken (illuftrious Heads) 1747

G. Vertue, before Johnfon’s edition +^7^5
y. Miller, at the end of Gapel’s Intro-

dudfion - - iy6$

^ Publiftied Dec. i, 1794, by W. Ri-
chardl'on, Caftle-ftreet, Leicefter-lquare.

f For wfiat work this head "was origi¬
nally defigned, ami the time at which it was
engraved by Venue '^v ho died in 1756),
cannot be afeeriaine 1.

J. Hall,

Gent. Man. DecG Fl.l. peu/e^ 706^ .

1 794.] Dr. Derham and /l^r. Horner ?

|. Hall, before Reed’s edition 1785

r. Cook, before Bell’s edition 2788

3. Knight, before Malone’s edition 1790
>. Harding (Shakfpeare il'.uftrated, Sec.) 1 790

III. Engravings from other fpurious
portraits •

G. Vertue, from Lord Oxford's pic¬
ture: prefixed to Pope’s edition, 4tc> 1725
Simon, mez. from a pi(iiure by Zouft

no date

R. Earlom, mez. from fennens’s pic¬
ture : prefixed to his edition of King
Lear - - I77‘^

All other heads of Shakfpeare are
copies, with trivial v liations from fotne
of the foiegoing plates. J. B.

Mr. Urban, Dpc. 3.

N fome MS notes of Symonds, laken
in 1645 MSS. 9 1 1,), IS tiiis

entry ;

Stathern, two miles from Bel voyr-ca file,
where Dr. Deiharn lived, that received one
Horner to be a fchool'uaftcr to four youths
in bis houfe. This Horner maintained many
atheiftical opinions, dyed fuddenly, and his
grave is ftill to be feen in that church-yard,
bare and furrk, withovit any grafs ever that
grew there fince.”

The Dr. Derham, it is believed, was
Roger Derham, D.D. of Peter Houfe,
Cambridge; of whom any memoirs, or
dates, would be acceptable. But who
was Horner? and what his hiftory ?

One queftioo more, Mr. Granger
(III. 407) mentions a half-lheet portrait
of Wtiham Bluck, efq. engraved by R.
White, from a painting by Kneller j
without faying who, or what, Mr.
Biuck was, except that he is placed un¬
der the clafs cf “ Sons of Peers without
Titles, Baronets, Knights, Gentlemen,
&c.” temp. Charles II. Of this plate I
have a good copy now before me in 8vo,
engraved by F. H. Van Hove j which ex¬
cites my euriofity to know fomething of
the original, who appears to have been
a very old rrwn, with an ’open benevo¬
lent countenance, drelfed in a flow¬
ing perrivvig, long cravat, and flowered
night-gown. Biographic-U5.

Mr. Urban, Dec. zi.

O PHIInG being more g'-atetui to
an author than to hnd his Works
nientioncd with refpedl by a writer of
reputation in a foreign country, I beg
the favour of you to iniert the following
paragraph from a. pamphlet lately pub-
liflied at Philadelphia, intituled, “ Obr
fervations on the Emigration of Dr. Jo¬
seph Prieflley,” ike. There arC many

— Bluck ? — Dr. Prieflley. 1069

other ftnking pa^^^ges which will doubt-
lefs be noted in the Reviewing Depart¬
ment of the Gentleman’s Magazine ;
but this is fo peculiarly interefling to
our modern Chemical Philo! 'phers, and
muft be fo very grateful to an author
whofe Works you h^ve ofien mention¬
ed with candour and approbation, that
I flatter rnyfelf you will give it addi¬
tional weight by laying it before the
publick in your excellent Mifcellanv.

Philo Cambriensis,
«

‘‘ With refpe<5l to the Doifor’s metaphy-
fical reyeiies, or, in other words, his fyf-
tem of infidelity, I fliall leave to himfelf the
talk of expofing tiiac to the deteftation of
Americans, as i^ has long been to, that of the
Englilh. Of his fcientific productions, I
propofe, in a little time, to give the publicR
a Ihort review : meanwhile, I refer the
curious Reader to the publications of the
Royal Society of 1791 and 2792, anti to Dr,
Bewlay’s Treatife on Air. He will t.here
fee his fyflem of Chemifiryand Natural Phi-
lofopliy deteCled, expofed, and defeated 5
and the “ celebrated Piiilofopher” himfelf
accufed and conviCfed of pligiarifm. He
wiil there find the key to the following fen-
tence : “ the fatrmage to be met with in
monarchical governments is ever capricious,
and as often employed to bear down merit as
to promote it, having for its object, not fei-
ence, nor any thing ufeful to mankind, but
the mere reputation of the jiatron, %uho is
Jelclom a7iy judge of fcience.” This is the lan-
gu. ge of every loured negleCtcd author,
from a forry ballad-monger to a DoCtor with
half-a-dozen initials at the end of his name.”

53> 54*

Mr. Urban, Wmebeftr, Dec. 4,

AVING occafjon to write to you
on the following fubjeiSl:, I cannot
help looking back to your Number for
laft June, in which I have the honour
of being noticed through more than ten
columns by writers, upon whofe oppo-
fition to me I know how to (et a due
value.

The controverfy between rnyfelf and
Dr. Geddes is now afleep: it is not my
atm to awaken it, nor is this nec ffary
for my purpofe. The publick, which
is in policflion of our rtfpeftive letters,
has had the means of deciding how far
1 have made out my charge of incon-
fillency, in point of religion, againft the
DoClor, and how far he has proved the
heavy accufations which lie h<is broU;>bt
againft me and the chuich to which I
adhere. Indeed the former, which is
the original queftion, he feems now to
have given up, fince it is at lait con-

felfed,

1070 J. M’s final Arkfwer to Dr, Geddes and other Antagonlfts, [De(

fefiecl, that the whole defence of h'.s
oithodoxy, as a Roman C.^thoiick, has
been cor!du6fed ui)<'n Proteftant grounds,
pp. i;2o, 521., W.ch ’equal franknefs
rrty adverlaiy conHrrr.s an opinion wiaith
T advanced, p, 323, of his being m the
lifeirfiy feertrs ui a certain Baronet,
whofe name h'? brings before the pub-
lick. Having, in the futegoing concef-
iron, obtsined a l that 1 contend for, I
can undid Lirbedly ’_urfue niy former
method, in paffiiig by a!i extri».rcou3
' xnirreprefentat 10ns and calutnriies. Even
that laft horrid charge, “ that it is
plain, from rnv ieiters, that i wiili to
honour Dr. G. with the crown of mar¬
tyrdom, and that 1 am only to be (atis-
hed wifit blood,” does not diicompole
me whilft i know that tise Utters Eere
referred 10 be before the publick.

Mv oiher aniagonili is afraid of being
confounded wuh him whom I have juif
cjuitttd. There was no danger, how¬
ever, of my miflaking an old acquaint-
ance for Dr G, notwithhanding the re-
feniblance of this par nobtle frairum is
fo great, that their ideas ate ail'ociattd
together in the minds of all thofc who
know them bed; and them names are
' Itaidiy ever mentioned apart. Tliis
writer is angry with me for having
t>iven, as ije maintains, too favourable
a.chara£fer of the late Alban Butler,
roncetn’ng whom information was call¬
ed for by your Oxford correCpondert s
and he would have us believe, that the
prank of fomed'choolboys, in once nail¬
ing up the pulpit againft that profound
ichoiar, vvhom the cloud of i!]uffiious
witntlies, enumerated by your corre-
^ fpondenr, p. 199, pronounced to be

unequalled in gtaerai literature,”
was father a proof of his dullnefs than
of their irrebgion. That Alban Butler
ihoulcl have had many fecret enemies
will not appear furprizing when it is le-
membtfiecl that he was honoured wuh
the pofl of vicar-general*, in thetr rc-
fpeibve diocefes, by ail the prelates of
Prance and Flanders in the nigbbour-
hood of St. Orutr’s, where he refided ;
and that, in confequence of the lame, it
became his duty uj rellraih the flights
of cer ain modern philofophei s, who
hazarded the introdudtion of materiaiifm
into the ecclefiafiical leminaries of thofc
part.^

it is plain, however, that it is not fo
much nj v defence of Alban Butler as »t
is my oppofition to a certain theological
lyltcin which lias appeared before die
publick, that raifes the bile of an old

acquaintance. Hence, alluding to cei
tain late tranfadlions and publication
he peeviflily demands, “ who has maf
me the knight-errant of Epifcopacy ?
May not a fintilar queflion, Mr. Urbai
he demanded in turn of each of yot
ingenious correfpondtnts, and indeed f
every author living, wuh refpeft to th
fubje6l which he chances to handle
Surely I have as good a right to defen
Epifcopacy at an old acquaintance has t
attack it. If I have defended it amif;
it is evident that he has wanted neithfc
the opportunity nor tlie inclination t
inform the pubiick of the fame,

I now come, Mr. Urban, to th
principal fubje^t of my letier. It i
aftonifning how rutle of what is goin
forward in that neighbouring nation, t
which the eves of all Europe ^re nov
turned, is known on this fide of thi
Channel. Indeed, die frontiers of i
» are fo ftn611y guarded by its jealous ty
rants, that it is hardly poliible to kee]
up any communication with it. Henc
the opinions of moli perfons here, 01
the real ftaie and difpofiticn of a ma
jority of the people in cjuellion, are ver'
confufed and erroneous. It is, for ex
ample, generally luppofed that Chrifti'
anity ns eniirelv eradicated out of Franci
in consequence of the bloody perfect
cion which has fo long been carried 01
againlt it ; and that not a miniflet o
religion is now to be found, at leak en^
gaged in his fun£lions, in that vaf
country. Thofe perfons who entertair
the idea will be furprized to hear, thai
a great majority of the French nauor
dill inviolably adhere to the faith oJ
their anceftors ; that the prefenc peife-
cution has only ferved to confirm theii
belief, and to purify their lives; dial
there are many zealous miliioners in
every part of France, who, in defiance
of the guillotine, which is ever reeking
with the blood of fome of their num¬
ber, continue to exercife their heroieal
rniniftry; and, what is moft extraordi¬
nary, that innumerable converfions to
the caule of Chriftianity are conftanliy
rpade arnongft thofe vvho were the de¬
clared foes of it when it was prote£lcd
by a 1 the power of the State. Many
proofs of what I here affert have come
within my knowledge. Amongll thefe,
I think it will not be unacceptable to
your readers if I lay before them cer-;
tain extracts, in EnglifB, from three
French letters wiH^tten at Maifeilles, ac-l
cording to the dates here put dowuj
They weie written by a zealous

hone*

'*794*] Piety and Sufferings

llioner in that diocefe to the vicar-gene-
|ral of the |ame, who was tiieu a refugee
;in Switzerland; and the conveyance (;f
ilhe lad of the three to its delfinatiou,
though at no very great clittance, cod
fifty Louis in fipecie. I can anl'wer for
their authenticity. The neceifitv, how¬
ever, of concealing names and other
circumilances will be readilv admitted.
Your.^, &c. J. M - R.

Extra& from the Jirli of the aforefaid Letters ^
dated March 4, 1794.

Our affairs go on very il). Ail good
people are here nnirdeied, fometimes to the
number of 17 at a tune. Religioii is abo-
lilhetl, the churches are deflroyeh, and the
figure of Chrid crucified is dragged through
tite lireets, and p' lted by the ve>y children.
My heart will not permit me to tell you the
reft. I come now to fjieak. of mylelf. I
have made an offering of my li'e to God,
and have taken the Hv iy Sacraments by way
of 'Viaticum, or preparation for rny exib.
Thus armed, I go about from ho ife to
houfe, and, raifing the crucifix, which I
nfually wear at my bread, I exclaim, ‘ My
brethren, take your ptrt : will you or will
you nor adhere to Tefus ■v.lirift ?’ The ant'vvcr
is generally in the affirmative. ‘ Well then,’

1 rejoin, ‘ prepare yourfdvesro martyrdom :

J am come to aliift you in t'ds. prej-iaixtion.'

“ Cioatiied like a Iheplierd of the country,
with my affiftant, the la'e intruding pried

of - , who, lihe Sf. ffeter, endeavours to

atone for his tali with contia it floods of
tears, 1 aliembie tl.e Catholicks, to the
number of 300 at a t:mc, in the caverns of

• - there, vrhildthe trickling dropsfr-ma

the mold cie’iiig bedew our lie ids, I i'.er-
frmm the feveral lefvices of rh.e Church, and
admintder tlie S icrame.uts to the whole
comp.tny : after which, anproHchir g to me
by tvvo and two at a time, they fv. ear that
they will coiifefs tl!& name of Clu id upon
t’le 1( affold, and in his ciufewill Ihed the
lad drop of their blood. This band being
difmid^d, another, tciually numerous, fuc-
ceeds, when the fa ne fei v'ces and ceremo¬
nies t ke place. In conclufion, all tlie faith-
.ful tiiank me and em’-race me, as thofe of
Lpheftis did St. Paul vvii'-.n he left tliem for
the l.id time, it is imjKidihie to conceive
how’ affedlmg tins feene is without being
witnefs to it. I inve fcarceiy any rime f.'V
eating; and, as to fl^e’', I have now been
48 hours a divangerto ii, haoh' g been 'aken
up ail this time m tiie labours of my mindtry.
I never could have conceived tiiat thefe la¬
bours, atnidd tlie imj>en.ling (t.ang rs of
death, wei e fo full of comfort If i lee you
agdn, I lhall have many edifying details to
give you.”

Extrad fqm the fecond Letter, dated March 7.

“ Idol, -try is here pnbhcly elfabiidied. Se-
V^ial worthlefs miaillefs have sbiured their

of the Clergy in France. 1071

religion and their priedhood, and have even
deided the exidence of a God. Ricaud, th«
intruding vicar-*gcnera!, lias been guillo¬
tined ; but he revoked the civic oatii before
he fuffered, Francion has died for the faith,
as have alreidy above zoo woittiy lay per-
fons. Myallidant in h-is whole deportment
presents the mod di iking mo Jel of a true
penitent He faffs every diy u;on bread
and water, and fourteiimes palies almod the
whole of the zee hours upon h:s kn'=>et». i his
is tlie very centre of faiffi aad Cbriftiau lie-
roifm. ^ refciit my duty to tlie bilh.ps of

- , and beg their tiieffing in order t(»

drengtiien me- To-nlgiit 1 go to kifs the
guillotine, perfuadrd rliat it will loon be mr
fate : but God enables me to exnlt at the
profped. ’

ExtTiid from the third Letter, dated March tt.

“ The face of this city is wondorfully
changed. livery one now fpeaks of *God,
and prayer and penance take place of world¬
ly amufbments and the purfuitof cvealcfi. I
have hardly anv time for fleep, having been
thefe four or five days employed, v/it bout
interruption, in tiie fundbions- of my minif-
try. And wdio, think you, liave been tlvc
fu'yefts ('■£ it t Our falliionable pretenders
pliil-ffopliy and fu]‘erior underftanding ; men
wfio heretofore ridiculed every praelice of
religion, and who are now taken up in fei-
ve itly repeating David's Pfalms of penance.

I am bca'ewed wuth the t'virs of thofe w*m»
once tre.ited ill religion as f„llv, and w'bo
now are poffelfed of the humble faitti of n.
psefant. 1 o v.n my h-^art warms for rhels
exuaordina; y peuireiits : I am enchant-xi
with their piety ; and, luff ead of repmaches,

1 commonly' addrefs tliem in fome iuch
tern’s as the foliowhug, My dear friends and
brethren, '5cc.

“ I ibmetimes waik fix le '.gues in one
niglit amongtf rocks and de donties. But,
i'.ow amply have i beer: ienaiu for my toiisl
1 have had the ha.ppirers to hi ing back to
the fiith a whole viiiage at a time; and,
wf'.en I hive cr.fcovere.i, in their caverns
and lurhing pi ic-es, the poor vidt’ms w’lom
tlie violence of tlie times have liunted from
their Itomes, how have 1 frequently been
eclffed at the miracb-sof Divine Grace winch
1 ha\e difeovered lu them I Tlic tears at this
moment Lll from uhy eyes at the rec,dlec-
tion of the feenes Whidi I iiave been w-itnefs
U). I liive found youtig men, who lately
were in a fcaridalous d( gree luxurious fi n-
fual, v\'or!<liv, and incretlu'ous, now vvitii a
catechiim in their hands, fe irning tiie firft
dements of - heir leligion, fulfering the njoft;
r.gorous aufterities, and fpending toe grea'-eft
part of ilie dayhn prnyer, with their arms
raffed up, or Itretched with tVieir btuiies .ip-
on tlie ground. 1 leave you to jiuige of t'leir
interior difpofitions by the foii-aw ng fenti^
ments, which, amonglt others of tl'e fame
nature, 1 have tVecpuently heard tliem i e-
pcai : ‘ My God,’ Tome ciy out, ‘ it is in

ihy

10721 Phty and bufferings (ff the French Clergy, — Phe PeUgraph. [Dec,

thy mercy thou haft humbled us but for our
prefent misfortunes we Ihou'd have ever re¬
mained ftrangers to the confolations u’hich
thou haft referved for ihoie who are faithful
to thee.* Anothdr exclaims, ‘ Now that I
am fo happy, O God ! as to have recovered
thy favour, let the bloodthirfty infidels come
and feize me when they will } I am ready
to mount the fcaftold, to proclaim the for-
givenefs of my enemies, and to fhed my
blood for him who has fhed his fv;r me.* A
thiid fighs out, ‘ Cal' us, O Lord! to thy-
felf, in order that we may never more of-
faud thee. But, if thou art pleafed to pre-
ferve our lives, whenever we can find a
church that is flill facred to thy worfliip. we
will enter into it, and cling to thy altars,
never to depart thence, with our own con-
fent, whilft life remains.’ Our rel-gious
women are equally heroical in their beha¬
viour; the moft diftinguifhed auiongft thefe

lare your nsece and the abbefs of - - ; they

are as firm jis a rock amidft want, bonds,
and the impending terrors of the axe. I ad-
jtiinifter the Sacraments to them in different
bands by night ; after which they embrace
each other, renew their religious vows, and
fwear to atteft their faith with the laft drop
of their blood. I leave you now to judge
whether 1 have not fufficient inducements
to make a facnfice of my repofe, although,
to keep roylelf awake, 1 am oftentimes for¬
ced to throw fnuff into my eyes, and to
praiftife other ftratagems of the like nature.
Hoc infipenter dico : but you are my fuperior,
and It is my duty to give you a full account
of all that concerns my prefent miaiftry.

** i now comprehend the force of that
paffage of the Prophet, ^am jpecioji pedes
tviinzclisaanthm pacem, evangeliza?uium bona !
3^0 pleafure upon earth can be compared
with that of preaching the name of Chrift
in the midft of perfecution. Perhaps an
hour hence I may be in the hands of my in-
fatiate enemies; but, to purchafe my fecu-
rity, or all the crowns in the univerfe, I
would not forego the comfort of one quarter
of an hour of my pi efeot employments. .So
great is my confolation, that my only fear is
that I may receive my reward on this fide
of the grave. Pray to God that this misfor¬
tune may not befall me.

“ Such is my prefent occupation, and fuch
are the wonders that God works in our un¬
happy country. Commend me to the pray¬
ers of the bilhops of - ; 1 hope to i-e-

ceive then bleiiing, &:c. From the merciful
heart of an ialulted and blafphemed Re¬
deemer I lalute you, who have the honour
to remain, 6cc.”

Mr. Urban, O^. 10.

ROM the account of the Telegraphy
in p. 815, it appears the invention
is not abfolutely new Your eorre-
fpondent informs qs, the idea of

communication, by means of vifible fig-
nal.i, was firft ftruck our by William
Amontons. To this let me add, that,
if any of vour readers will take the trou¬
ble to look into that entertaining work,
intituled, “ Rational Recreations’* (by
Dr. Hooper), they will find, under the
article of “ vifuai correfpondence,” a
model of a machine, if I am not mifta-
ken, very fimilar to that fa d to be in¬
vented by citiXiti Chappe. As Dr.
Hooper’s buok is Gonfeffedly, for the
moft part, a compilation, I will not
take upon me to fay that the machine
there deferibed is not the fame as that
of Amontons, though I fbould rather
fuppofe it to be an improvement upon
his rude idea. In the abovemenuoned
wo. k may be feen a machine for auri¬
cular correfpondence, which, as fignats
addieffed to the eyes are by means of
thick fog fometimes rendered ineffi¬
cient, may be confidered as capable of
fupplying the defe6t of the Telegraph.

Many of your readers have, I make
no doubt, feen different modes of con-
ftrudliog i nftruments for diftant corre-
fpondence, whether auricular or vilua!.
Indeed, it appears ro me that it never
could be a difficult thing for an ingeni¬
ous man, con verfant with the fciences,
fotoconftiu£l a machine as to convey
intelligence with the fwiftnefs of light
or found to another at a diftance. The
only reafon, I apprehend, why fuch
kind of machines have not been ufed in
fieges, &c. was a perfuafion of their
circumfcribed utility when applied to
the ever-varying ciicumftances and exi¬
gencies of war.

A CONSTANT Reader.

INUFX INDICATORIUS.

C, L’s plan of an improved Tele¬
graph is preparing for our Supple.meut.

A Cons 'I ANT Reader would be obliged
for au explanation of the following figures
an;ong the various readings in Wetftem’s
N.Teftanient,on Markxvi. 8: >'af]-l-333'333
£|)3'7'£ii tijH — H.'T. X. V ei fio Sy ra poft in Margine.

We fliould like to imlulge A soli i arv
Student ; but. his queries aie ioeafily au-
fweied by the firft Boukfeller that he calls
iqion, that to print them would be ridiculous.

AcADtMicus Infklix muft know tliaC
his'Criclque is liable to the fame except’on.

Mr. Wakefield wdl prohably be difap-
pointed at not feeing his fecond letter in this
month’s Magazine; but, as we never decide
haftily, and alw.ays v\’ith candour, we refer
the farther confideration of it to our Sup¬
plement; till when we muft alfo beg the
indulgence of feveral valuable cori'efpondents.

•Mr.

1^94'] of Dean Langley.—

Mr. Urban, Notts, ON. i8,

N p. 807, the ingenious Mr, Ma'co!m
has favoured vour readers with a
(Icetch of a romantic fcene in Dovedale ;
and, in his defcription of that curious^
valley, fays, his propenficy to climb
the tremendous Tides of the hills was
totally damped hearing the horrid
cataflrophe of tlie Dean and Laoy.”
This melancholy accident happened
about 25 years ago, and has been vari-
oufly reflated. In thefe accounts tbe
poor Dean has been accufed of laflinefs,
and the Lstdy of imprudence, in at¬
tempting to afcend on horfeback a fteep
precipice near Reynard’s h^ll ; bur I
have been 'credibly informed that the
fa6l is as .follows : Dean Langton and
Mifs La R jche were of a party that
went from Longford to fee Dovedale,
where a cold collation 'was provided in
a cave called Reynard’s hall. In quit¬
ting the dale, the Dean perfuaded Mifs
La Roche to let him take her before
him on horfeback up a hill where a
road led to Tiffington ; but unfortu¬
nately the Dean, mi'daking the road,
folio, ved a Iheep-track that went
to the right on the fide of the hill,'
which, before tin-y had advanced far,
became too flecp to proceed, and, in
attemptirig to turn about, the horfe fell
backward down the hill. The Dean
was taken up at the ^bottom mod vi.o-
lently bruldd, and carried to Afhbourn,
where lie died in two or three days.
Mifs La Roche was more fortunate ; her
fall was bioken by fome thorns catch¬
ing hold of her hair, but flie was much
bruifed. Dean Langton was of an an-
tient family ui Lincolnfhire, and much
relpefled for his many amiable 'quali¬
ties 5 he was chapiain to William, the
third Duke of Devon fine, when he
was lord lieutenant of Ireland, who
promoted hi.n to the deanry of Clogher.

Mifs La Roche, 1 am told, was mar¬
ried not ion^ after that difaflrous event,
but I have never heard the gentleman’s
namcj however, it is to ’be' hoped fhe
now enjoys that comfort and happinefs
which foe is fo juftly entitled to pofTels.'

The incloffcd fketch of Dovedale was
taken near the road that goes toTi.Ting-
ten ; where a is the deep track which
m.fled the . Dean, b as Thoipe- cloud,
which, from its conical fhape, makes a
very confpicuous figure from this fpot,
and tesms to indicate its volcanic origin.
I hive in my pofTeilion a piece of lava
picked up on the fide of this h ill, which,
Gent. Mag. Dceember,

Baths at Buxton /hut up. 1073

exa6fiy refembles that brought from
Mount Vefuvius ; and there are, in
many ^ther parts of the Peak, evident
proofs of there having been fubterrane-
ous fires. ii, R.

Mr. Urban, Nov. 3.

O the amufing account you have
given of Buxton and its neigh¬
bourhood, the following letter to the
Lord Cromwell, in the reign of Henry
yill, may be an amufing appendage.
It is taken from the Britifli Mufeum,
Cotton MSS, Cleopatra E. IV. p. 238 ;

‘y Right honourable my inefpe'cial good
Lord, according to my boundeii duty add the
tenor of your Lordfhip’s letters lately to me
diredied, I have feat unto your good Lord-
fiiip by his bearer, my brother Francis Baf-
fett, the images of St. Ann cf Buxton, and
St. Andrew of Burton upon Trent,, which
images I did take from the places where
they did fland, and brought them to my
ow'u hoiife, within 48 hours after the 011-
templatioii of your faid Ldrdfliip's letters, in
as fober manner as ray. little and rude wits
would ferve me. And for that there llaould
no more idolatry and fuperftition be there
ufed, I did not only deface the tabernacles
and places wdiere they did Band, but alfo did
take away crutche.s, fhirts, and (fleets, with
wax oifered, being things that did alnre and
intice the ignorant people to the faid offer¬
ings : alfo giving the keepers of both places
admonition and charge that no more offer¬
ings fliould be made m thofe places till the
King's pieafure and your Lordfhip’s be fur¬
ther knowai in that behalf. My Lord, I
have alfo locked up and fealed the baths and
wells at Buxton, that none fhall enter to
wafh them till your Lordfliip’s pieafure be
further known. Whereof I befeech your
good Lordfhip that 1 may be afeertained
again at your pieafure, and Ifliall not fail to
execute your Lordfhip’s commandment to
the uttermoil of my little witt and power.
And, my Lord, as touching the opinion of
the people, and the fond truft that they did
put in thofe im.ages, and the vanity of the
things; this bedrer, my brother, can tell
your Lordfhip better at large than I can
write; for he was with me at the doing of
all and in all places, as knoweth good [efus,
whom ever have your good Lordfliip in his
bleifed keeping. Written at Langley, with
the rude and fimple hand of youralfured and
faithful orator, and as one ever at your com¬
mandment, next unto the King, to the utter-
moll of my little power.

> “William Bassett, knight.”

f *"■*

Mr. Urban, Dec. 2.

BSERViNG your readinefs to re¬
cord in your valuable Repoficory

whatever

1074 Fountaynes Jorcvall Mhe;^. — Watts’s P/alms. [Dee.

whatever is curious, I have fent you
two letters, written, about 1537, by R.
Layton and Ant. Darcye, vifitors of re¬
ligious houfes, to the Lord Cromwell;
copied from the originals among Mr.
Dodfworth’s MS Collections in the
Bodleian library, H. E.

I. “ Pleafe your Worfhip to underftand,^
that the Abbot of Fountaynes hath fo greatly
dilapidate his houfe, wafted the woods, no-

torioufly keeping fix w - '-s ; and, fix days

before our coming, he committed tlieft and
facrilege, confefting the fame ; for, at mid¬
night, he caufed his chapelyn to ftcle the
keys of ihe fexton, and took out a jewel, a
crofs of gold with ftones. One Warren, a
goldfmith of the Chepe, was with him in
bis charabre at the houre, and there they
Uioie out a great emyrode with a 1 ubye. The
I'ayde Warren made the Abbot believe tire
rubye was a garnet, and fo for that he payd
nothing ; for the emyrode he paid but twen¬
ty^ pounds. He fold him alfo plate without
weight or ounces. v

From Richmond (in com. Ebor. the 20
lan’yb Your poor and faithful fervant,

“ R. Layton.’"

If. ^ It may pleafe your Maftcftiip to be
advertized, that here, in Yorkthire, we find
great corruption among perfons religioule,
even like as we did in the S. tarn in capite
quam in mcmhri$y and wurfe, if wurfe may be,
m all kinds of knaverie, as * ^ ^ *

(hiatus indecemjy with fuch kind of oifences
lamentable to heare.

“ The lead fi’om Jorevall abbeye amounts
to 399 fodders; the faireft church there that
may be feen. ' Ant. Darcye.”

Mr. Urban, OSi. i.

Y query relative to Dr. Watts
certainly was founded Upon the
Itippofition that the DoClor intended to
tranllate party at leaft, of every pfalrn,
ns he retains the number one hundred
and fifty ; and my reafon for thinking
that the fixty-fourth pfalrn was errone-
oufly omitted, is now completely done
away by the fatisfaClory and polite ex¬
planation which your correfpondent A.
K-has given in your publication of this
day, p. 794. 1 well reeolleft having

mentioned the difficulty to him in pri¬
vate company, and adding, that I meant
to convey it to the Gentleman’s Maga¬
zine, the heft channel for fuch in¬
formation as I wanted.

But I was forry, and indeed fur-
prized, to read in another part of this
Magazine, p. 805, a remark upon the
labours of Dr. Kippis and his friends,
who are preparing a Colledtion of
Pfalms and HyoiAs U PbEnting

Congregations, The author of that
letter, while he “ difavows the folly
and fhame of anfvvering a matter before
he hears it,” immediately conne£la -
with the unpubliflred performance of
Dr. K. &c. a mutilated copy of Dr.
Watts’s Divine Songs and Catechifm,

If this is not prejudging what Dr. K.
and his friends are preparing, it is, to
fay the leaft, throwing out an inlinua-
tion which cannot be juftified, unlefs
E. could have proved that Dr. Kippis,
or fome of his prefent coadjutors, had
altered thofe Divine Songs and that
Catechifm. I think as E. does, of the
merit of Dr. Watts’s Pfalms ; and
fliould be forry to fee them . altered to '
fait any particular tenets. Let thofe,
who wifh for new Pfalms adapted to
new doftrines, compofe them. Tole- .
ruble poets are not fcarce ; and, the far¬
ther they deviate from the text, the
more play they will have for their ^
genius.

The alterations njentioned by E. as
having been made on Watts’s Cate¬
chifm and Songs are, in my opinion,
unpardonable. I count it an abfolute
a6i of diilionefty, and a grofa want of
feeling, to take any man’s words, and
render them fubfervient to a quite dif¬
ferent purpofe from that which he in¬
tended they fliould anfwer. Thus far
your correfpondent E. and I are
agreed.

But, when he refers to the colleftion
preparing by Dr. Kippis and his friends,
as proper, in their efteem, for Difteniing •
Congregations, why fhould he mark the
w-ofds in theiy ejieetn'' fo emphatical¬
ly ? When men lit down to fuch a la¬
bour, whofe ejieem are they to prefer?

E. may be aft'ured that their coiledlion
will be ufed by no congregation who do
not<^fmthefe gentlemen proper judges,
and the colleftion a proper colle6tion.
The neceftity and utility of fuch a col-
lefilion they will probably explain in a
preface; but, until the work appears,
E. and' I may conjs61;ure in vain as to
its merit.

P. S. I had penned thefe few lines on ;
the date mentioned, and fuppofed I had
fent them ; but fome interruption pre¬
vented it, and I hare your indulgence
fo beg for retaining the original date.

Qjj. Where is a life and lift of the
works of Dr. Gregory Sharpe to be
feen ? A fhort notice appears in the
Biographical Diftionary, but not fatif-
for oiv purpofe, C.

MrA I

*794*1 Dlfqul/ition on the Origin of the Office cf Sheriffs *07^;

Mr. Urban, Nov. 10.

HE office of Sheriff being the only
public one of confequence which
is executed without fome equivalent
advantage annexed to it ; and being,
moreover, attended with great expence,
very confiderable rsik, and, confequent-
ly, with a black train of anxiety and
cares ; I have a wiffi to difcover on what
principles it was thought right to inlli-
tote it. In its prtfent ftate it puzzles
the mind to reconcile it to humane and
equitable ones. Vv'^hen a perfon of fmall
fortune is forced into tliis cffice, does it
not juftly and naturally occur to 'him,
that he is put into a very difagreeable
fnu|tion, obliged to lay out a conlider-
able fum of money, which perhaps he
cannot afford to expend; to run the liik
of paying the debts of all who may el-
cape Irom his bailiffs, or whom a mob
may liberate from confinement; and to
be a fort of prifoner himfelf in 'his
county, which he cannot quit without
expoling himfelf to the danger of great
inconveniences? Does not the idea of
fome unaccountable hardlhip, inconfifl-
ent with his notions of being part of a
community remarkable for the huma¬
nity, equity, and reafonab'enefs, of its
inftitulions, accompany fuch reflexions ?
As the commentators on our laws have
been very happy in fliewing that many
cuftoms, which now appear flrange, and
nearly abfurd, were originally founded
on good reafons; I cannot help flatter¬
ing myfelf that they could have diflipa-
ted all the clouds which feem to hang
over this, if they had employed their
thoughts on it. How happy lhall I be
if fome vague ideas, which, with great
deference, I fubmit to the publick,
fhould prove fo fortunate as to call forth
the abilities cf fome one of the very
able writers with whom our country is
very amply furniffied ! Perhaps, fir, the
mere corfideration of the rank, power,
and fortune, of the Comes^ the original
Sheriff, will furnilh a fufficient clue for
guiding us through this labyrinth. — •
The moft eminent and fupreme dig¬
nity,” fays Dalton, “ from the Conqueft
until Edward HI. was the Earl or
Counlee, being antiently of the blood-
. royal. As thele Comites had very ex-
tenfive polieffions throughout the coun¬
ties, and tenants enough to form an ar¬
my, and bailiffs or ftewards in every
part of it; and as the towns in which
the pnfons were ficuate were furrounded
wiih walls, and garrifoned by the troops
®f the Comes \ the office of Iheriff was

to him an honourable employment, or a
dignity with no proportionate inconve- »
nience attending it. Plis own domd-
ticks were amply fufficient for furniffi-
ing the great law-officers with protec-,
tion and fuitable parade. His vafl and
fplendid caflle afforded every accom¬
modation. Was a writ to be executed,
no difficulty or danger of efcape could
occur; his bailiff's knew, and could not
fail to perform, their duty. From a
fortified town hoW could a prifoner ef¬
cape, unlefs liberated by an armed force
equal to the tafle of taking it by florm,
or by a regular fiege ? Could this be
apprehended from any force but that of
an enemy in open war? What incon¬
venience could be apprehended from
his abfence, when hi-s deputy and his
bailiffs commanded for him a force fuf¬
ficient to prevent every one that could
happen, unlefs, as in the former cafe,
from an' army in open war? Whea
Roger of Moatgoroery was made Earl
of Shrewfbury, by William I. the coun¬
tv itl'elf was fubjeX to his command.
Mr, Selden, ed. 2, folio, 1631, p. 673,
adds, “ Warino calvo corpore parvo fed
animo magno Aimeriam nepotem fuam
& prselidatum Scrobefburiie dedii;, per
quern Gaallos aliofque fibi adverfantes
fortiter oppreffit, et provinciam totam
fibi commiffarn pacificavit;” and takes
it for granted that this Earl Roger had
the flieriffewicke of Shropfliire, and
under him, as under- fheriff, that Wa-
rinus, to whole charge as well the mili¬
tary defence as civil government of the
county, or ffier^ffewick, was commit¬
ted; underflanding, in the above paf-
fage from Ordericus, proviniia for the
county, and cemitatus for his earldom,
or his honorary poffeffion. The whole
feXion is curious. The foregoing ob-
fervations, I flatter myfeif, tend to prove
that, in appointing the Comes Sheriff,
there was nothing improper, hard, in¬
equitable; that, on the contrary, the
office feemed fo appropriated to him,
that the extenfive power of raifing the
pojfe comitatus — the provtnciacotnmil[a~^
would interfere with and weaken his
authority. — May we venture to apply
the fame obfervations to the ^tcecomes
in the early times ? Dalton obferyes,
that “the Sheriff is called in Latin i^ice-
comes, as being the deputy of the Earl
or Comes, to whom tlie cuflody of the
fliiie is faid to have been committed at
the firff divifion of this kingdom into
counties; that the Earls, in procefs of
time, by jreafon of their high employ¬
ments

1076 Difqmfuhn on the Origin of the Office of Sheriff. [Dec»

ments and attendance on the King’s
perfon, not being able to rranrH6t the
bufinefs of the county, were delivered
of that burthen, relerving to themieives
the honour, but »he labour was laid on.
the Sheriff.” Whilft matters remained
in ihii hate, the Sheriff “appearing” to
be rea.iv the Ea>I’s deputv, and, like
Warinus, a perfon of high rank, the
fame oblcrvations refpe^hing the pro¬
priety and juftice of his filling the ofh.ce
feem ' to apply to him' — his tortpne,
power, influence, fupported by ihofe of
the Ear!, preventtug every idea of bur¬
then or rifle. Whether ihe office con¬
tinued in this flate to 28 Edward I, I
do not prefume to conjedlure. At that
period (fee Stat. 2S Edward I. ch. 8) it
was ordained, that “ the people fliouM
have eltdtion of their flieriif in every
Hsire where the Ihrievaky .is not of fee,
if they lift.” The reaf'on of this tlsc-
tion is affigned in the fame fiat, c. 10 :
“ that the Commons might chufe luch
as would not be a burthen to them.”
Qiiery, what kind of burthens had they
to guard againfl ? Does any idea occur
here of their being liable to any part cf
the Sheriff’s expence ? Mr. linpey ob-
ferves here, “ This eledlion was, in all
probability, not vefled in the Commons,
but required the Royal approbation :
for, in the Gothic Conftitution, the
Judges of the County-courts were elc61-
ed by the People, but confirmed by the
King : the People, Imcice terriioriif
chofe ivjelve e!e£lQrs, who nominated
three perfons, ex quibus Rex iinum con-
f.rmabatr^ The fame gentleman refers
to Selden, Tit. Hon. 610, to prove that
“ Sheriffs were onginally chofen by the
people in their Folkmote, or County-
courr.” ' The edition which I have be¬
fore me is not, perhaps, the fame which
he refers to. In my edit, fecond, I find
“ The next of thofe (meaning, I appre¬
hend, titles) in Kmg Alhdflan’s laws
are Holds and Highgereves; both of
which are but officiary dignities— -the
Holds, Captains or Commanders in the
Wars — the Highgereves, High Sheriffs
of Shires, or fuch lerritories as were
ccminirted to their charge by the King.
Tliefe Highgereves had, to the King’s
ufe, the cuflodv of luch counties or ter¬
ritories 8s had not any Ealdormen or
Earls placed in them •, or, if they had,
were ftil) fo, fubjedl to ihe King’s imme¬
diate juriididiion ; that he had High
Sheriffs there as well as Ealdormen,
tailed in Latin Simmi Rrapofiii, fue
Comites — Kice Domini. The paiiide
4

fice^ in the two later, denoted nor, '«/-
•ways, a fuhoi dination to any Comes, or
other Dominus, than the King ; no
otherwiie than at this day ir does in
Kicecomes: and fo it was originally;
i. s. '^fuppiere Vicem Comttis, oi Donnnig’
in tiie conniy which had no Comes or
Ealdorman.” N, B. iff, This obfer-
vatiori of Mr. Sdclen feems to weaken
Mr. D.dron’s affertion, and niyvargu-
incnt froni it ; and, idly, tfie paffa-ge
feems to contradiH the dobtrine for the
proof of winch Mr. Innpey lefers to it j
the dediion of the Sheriff by the peo¬
ple continued from 28 Edward I. to 9
E^dward 11. fiat. 2 ; wli'ch ena61s, that
“the Sheriff fhould be from thenceforth
aliigned by the Chancellor, T eafurer,
Barons of the Exchequer, and by the
Jufiices; and, in the abfence cf the
Chancellor, by the Treafurer, Barons,
and Juftices.” The reafon why this
change of eleStors was made is thus af-
figned by Mr. Ijnpey : “ With os in
England thefe popular elebfions grow¬
ing tumultuous were put a flop to by 9
Edward U. flat. 2. To me another
reafon feems fuggeffed by the preamble
of this flitute itfelf: Forafniuch as

our Lord King Edward, fon to King
Edward, at his Parliament holden at
Lincoln in qiiindena Hilarii, in the gih
year of his reign-, by the infor.mation
of his Pi elates, Earls, Barons, an4
other great men of his realm, being
fuinmoned to the fame Parliamenr, and
alio by the grievous complaints of the
people, did perceive great damage to
be done to him, and great oppreffions

and . to his people,

by reafon unfufficient Sheriffs and Hun-
diedors have been before this time, and
yet be in the realm.” It is temarkabie,
that, ch. 13 Edward I. flat. 28, a pro-
vifion is made for preventing the evils
mentioned in this pieamble; to which,
perhaps, the ele6\ion of the Sheriffs by
the people, granted ch, 8, might be fuf-
peffed to give rife, “ And, forafmuch
as the King hath granted the eleiliou
of Sheriff to the Commons of the Shu e,
the King wills that they lhall chule fuch
Sheriff.-, that ffiall not charge them,
and that they ffiall not put any officer
in autliority for rewards and bribes ;
and fuch as ffiall not lodge too oft in
one place, nor with poor perfons, or
men of religion.” Whether Mr. irn«
pey’s reafon, or that which the flatute
luggefled to rne, is the true one, is Lft
to the curious reader. When I under¬
took this iubjedl, my aim was, to en-

iyg4*T IfifoTmcitioy^ veiativs to thi illuiiuucitcdjdi^y Pcdtgfee,

Cjuire how the inPvitution of the office
of Sheriff could be juftified. I now find
Tuyrt-lf infenfibly engaged in an iiifto-
rical view of that office, and in sn at¬
tempt to elucidate its various altera¬
tions : and, if [ nteet with indulgence
from you, may be tempted to wander
on as far as a dim and uncertain I'gut
(peihaps an tiftils fatuus) will lead me.
In the flat. 9 Edward II. amongft other
remedies ^01 the evils in the preamble,^

It IS provided that none ffiall oe Sheiift
cx<“fipt he hive fufficit^nt land with n
the (aine Ihire where he ihall be Sheriff
to an Twer the Kmg and hi^ people.
The lame words are repeated 4 Ed¬
ward III. ch. 9, and 5 Edward HI.
ch. 4. Oh for a ray from lome lumi¬
nary m the fj-)hbe of legal anciquiives to
irradiate this dark defcription ! It the
r>fks a Sheriff runs are taken into con-
fideratioo, his fmtune oughc to be very
large to enable him to anlwer the K ng
and his people : a little dexterity of in¬
terpretation might bring a very fmall
one within the defcription. If 1 wifhed
to compel a perfon poffeffed of no mere
than iool. per annum to ferve the of¬
fice, might I not fay, “ Savely the Law
could niver have in contemplation a
chance of a Sheriff’s being anfwerable
to the King and his people for more
than 3000!. r” With all due relpeft to
the fages who Hated the qualification in
ihefe terms, one cannot help wilhing
they had given us fomething more pre-
cife, move clearly defined ; or that lorne
of their fucceffors had removed all am¬
biguity by exaft, unequivocal terms. A
fair opportunity prefented itfelf when,
13, 14 Charles II. an a6l was paffed
for removing feme burthens which lay
heavy on the office. But thus ambi¬
guous, to the prefent hour, remains the
qualification. Yours, &c.

Pro Lege, Rege, etPopulo.

Mr. Urban, fh'ntjhire, No^j. 22.
N addition to what Mr. Pennant has
faid relating to the Digby pedigree.
See. (p. 914), permit me to fend you,
for the farther fatisfailion of M. Green,
the following quotation from the Bio-
graphia Britannica, in reference, pani-
cuiarly, to the famous manulcnpt be¬
longing to that family, ^hich I hanje
feen more than once-, and am myfelf an
humble delcendant from that eminent
philofopher. Sir Kenelm Digby, and in
exactly the lame degree as W. Wil¬
liams, Efq. of Penbedw, in Dcnbigh-
^ire, the getuleman mentioned by Mr,

Pennant, in his Journey from Chef-
ter.”

VVd llionld have been able to have ren-
dei'cd this article much more perfetff, if
could have had the afhffance of that nobft
manufeript which Sir Keuehn caufed to bp
colledted at the expence of a thouf and pounds,
as w^ell out of private memorials as from
public hhfories and records in the Tower
and elfe where, relating to the D’ghy family-
in all its branches ; but, not knowing whers
thi^ was to he. found, tv2 have drawn toge¬
ther. with no fn-all pains, what lay fcattered
about him in a variety of authors, and have
digefted the feveral faefs they mentioned ia
the hefl: order we could.”

The father of Mr. W. of Penbedw,
married Charlotte, daughter to Char-
lotta-Theophila, daughter to John Dig¬
by, of Gothurft, Efq. Ton and heir of
Sir Kenelm. Thus fays the author or
compiler of “ Stemmata ChicheleanaP*
now before me.

Perhaps, Mr. Urban, .it may feem.
impertinent, or at ieafi: vain, in me to
add, that from Margaretta-Maria Dig¬
by, filter to Chariotta-Theophila above-
named, your correfpondent traces his.
defeent, in the third degree.

Your frequent corrclpondent, R. W.

Mr. Urban, Uartfjorn, Nov. 5.

N pp. 603, 711, you favoured me
with inferring an account of my pro-
grefs in the Hrliory of Stafford Ihire.
Plaving lately obtained accefs to other
raofl. valuable archives, and difeovered
fome curious MSS. long left to the
publick, and for many years to the
owners, I truft another letter will be
acceptable, to render your Repofitory a
more perfeft chronicle of what has hi¬
therto been collefted for that county.

In the latter end of September 1 fet
out on ^ hafty tour through the North-
Weft parts. Palfing through the antienc
village of Tutbury, we gazed with a
mixture of delight and forrow on thofe
venerable towers, which, when in their
glory, were but a cruel prifon to th«
unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots ;
but, fince fliattered by tlis iron hand of
Cromwell, and the mouldering touch
of Time, now afford lome excellent
piffures to iiluftrate the hiflory of this
moft noble and extenfive honour, of
which I have an admirable ftirvey in
the time of Queen Elizabeth, See. The
antient mvirkit-town of Uccoxeter was
the extent of the firft day’s journey.
This line old fpire-church afforded nac
a good fubjefl for a drawing, and the
inlide lome curious monuments of the

Minors,

ioyS Shaw’s Report of farther Progrefs in StaiForclfhire. [Dec.

Minors, an antient family in thisparifh,
and of the Kynnerfleys of Loxley, very
antient ; the prefcnt poffelfor of which
fine old place has fince kindly offered
me ‘the tile of his archives, and a view
of the houfe and park, &c. At Uttox-
eter I was favoured with feme very cu¬
rious MSS of the parilh. relating to the
civil wars. Hence to Cheadle ten miles.
On the right-hand of the road, about
three miles difiant, in a reclufe and
pleafant valley, fiand the beautiful re¬
mains of Croxden abbey, now the pro¬
perty of the Earl of Macclesfield. This.
Boble fabrick, erefted by Bertram c|e
Verdon, lord of Alton call'e, about
1176, has had no engraving fince Buck’s
time, being in a fituation little fre¬
quented by travellers; but I hope in
(due time to perpetuate it, and the above
fine old caftle, cru-elly battered in the
civil wars. Its fituation is very roman¬
tic, on a bold rock clofe to the river
Churnet. About three miles farther
North is Wootton lodge, the beautiful
feat of the Unwins, formerly the
Wheellers, built by that admirable ar¬
chitect Inigo Jones. Near this place,
in July iaft, fell a moll violent torrent
of rain, and fuddenly raifed a fmall
brook under Weever hills to the ama¬
zing height of 15 feet, which excavated
the earth in feveral places in a wonder¬
ful manner, carrying every thing before
it, and, amongfi, the reft, a confiderable
briclg:e nevvly ereCted. Proceeding to
Cheadle, paffed through Checkley, a
large village, with a fine Gothic church
of large dimenfions and excellent work-
manfoip, particularly the windows,
which, together with the three remark¬
able Danifh monuments in the church¬
yard, afforded me an admirable draw¬
ing. Amongll other accounts of this
extenfive panfh, I have one written by
the late learned reftor. Dr. Langley,
author of a tranflation of part of Ho¬
mer. Next pafied through the hamlets'
of Over and Nether Zean j 'at the latter
(of which, in the old manor-houfe of
Francis Afhby, efq. Meffrs. Phillips
and Co. carry on an extenfive manufac¬
tory of tape, brought hither from Hol¬
land about 40 years ago. They have
aifo eredled fome new works at Chea¬
dle, and employ about 500 hands. By
the eafy preffure of a fingle beam, a va¬
riety of (mall fliuttlep are put in motion,
and aimoft any number of pieces wove
in one frame. The neatnefs and fim-
plicity of this machinery feems to rival
that of the cotton mills,’ and is infinite¬

ly lefs prejudicial to the health. The
road to Cheadle here turns off to the
right, that to Newcaftle and the pot¬
tery proceeds forward through the river
Tean ; beyond which, about two miles,
is the antient viflage of Draycot in the
Moors ; from which church I copied a
fine colle£fion of monuments, &c. of
the Draycot family, formerly lords of
that manor, &c.

Of the pleafant market- town of Chea¬
dle, I fiiall only obferve, that the great
family of Baffet (whofe illuftrious ac¬
tions and name will be very cpnfpicuous
in feveral parts of the county), were
formerly lords thereof, and had a park
upon the adjacent hills three miles in
circumference. This manor and eftate
were lately fold by Sir Jofeph Banks to
John Holliday, efq. who has ereiSted
himlelf an excellent houfe at Dilhorn,
two miles farther Weft, in a rich and
pleafant valjey, and made other great
improvements. To this ingenious gen¬
tleman I am indebted for much alfift-
ance; and, during my fliort ftay here,
the antient parifii-church, remarkable
for an oflagonal tov/er, afforded me a
curious drawing.

The vicinity of Cheadle offered me
feveral other advantageous vifits j and I
had only to lament that the latenefs of
the feafon, and preflure of time, occa*
fioned me to poftpone infpe^Iing the
much-admired feats of Thomas Gilbert,
efq. at Cotton (where he has juft finifli-
ed a new chapel), land of John Sneyd,
efq. at Belmont, &c.

From Cheadle we proceeded bv Stl-
lar-head (and had a grand view of the
moorlands near Leek, &c.) to Buck-
nail, Handley green, and Etruria. Here
the inimitable works of Mr. Wedgwood
(to whom 1 have before expreffed my
obligation, p. 71 1) produced me a fin-
gular drawing; and his magnificent
houfe and grounds arrefted my attention
and fpecuiation. The hills and valleys
sre here by Nature beautifully formed,
but owe much to the improvements of
Art. We fee here a colony nevvly rai¬
fed in a defert, where clay- built man.
fubfifts on clay. The forms into which
this material are turned are innumera¬
ble both for ufe and ornaments nay,
even the vafes of antient Etruria are
outdone in this pottery. And we now
behold -this exquifite compofition not:
only ornamenting the ciclings and chim- •
ney-pieces of Mr. Wedgwood’s own 1
houfe, but many others ih the county, ,
&c. At the head of this fine vale the 1

grand I

iy94-] Shaw’s Report of farther Frogreffln StafFordilnre. 1079

grand trunk canal, by the ingenuity
aod perfeveiance of the immortal Brind¬
ley, is carried a mile and three-quarters
under a vaft rocky hiil, Hare caftle.
Lower down this valley Hands the ve¬
nerable tower-church of Stoke upon,
Trent, the mother church to moll of
this populous vicinity, viz. Handley,
Lurflem, Newcaftle, &c. This laft is
a large and well-built borough and
market-town, remarkable for the traces
of a caftle fituated in the middle of a
great pool (though the water is now al-
moft gone) on the Weft fide of the
town. This caftle feems to have been
created temp. Hen. III. after the decay
of the rimre antient one at Chefterton,
about two miles farther North, and con-
fequently gave name to this town. But,
as I do not mean to enter into its hiftory
at prefent, I fhall only add, that the
tower of the church appears very old,
both from its mou'dering ftone and large
circular arch at the Weft end j but the
church was re-built in 1720. On the
oppoftte hill Hands the handfome old
feat of the Sneyds, of Keel, as exhibited
in Plot’s plates, and will in due time
make a confiderable feature in the
County Hiftory.

To proceed to the more important
defigns of this letter, I next viftted
Trentham; and muft here beg leave to
exprefs ri)y great obligations to the moft
noble the Marquis of Staffordfhire for
very liberal accefs to his valuable ar¬
chives, where, beftdes an abundant va¬
riety of old records, illuftrative of the
great property of the Levefons of this
place, Wolverhampton, &c. I was fa¬
voured with lome MSS. of that learned.
Philofopher and Antiquary the Rev.G.
Plaxton, whofe other writings may be
feen in the Philofophical Tranfaftions,
In the church 1 compared and copied
many infcriptions and arms, and was
highly indulged with infpe6ling this
magnificent domain, fo peculiarly rich
in wood and water. The park, from
the fummit of which the fcenery is very
extenfive, rich, and beautiful, contains
above 400 acres; and the great lake,
through which runs the river Trent, is
upwards of 80. In the middle of the
wood, that fo gracefully fringes the
Weft banks of this water, winds a deep
fecluded valley, whole fweetly- wild ro¬
mantic forms and beauteous natural
ornaments have juftly obtained it the
name of ^empe. Over the river, in the
oppofite piealure-grounds, is newly
erededan iron bridge of a lingle elliptic

arch, 90 feet in fpan. The tnoft curious
plate of this houfe from Plot I am pof-
feifed of, and it has undergone two
complete alterations flnce. The prefent
appearance is engraved in Watts’s Views,
but not faithfully j and I arn honoured
with a moft flattering contribution of
this noble place. In this charming park
the StafFordfhite cavalry were daily ex-
ercifing under the eye of their colonel,
the Right Hon. Earl Gower Suther¬
land, in a ftyle that refledls much cre¬
dit both on themfelves and the caufe
they have fo zealoufly efpoufed. And
I have flnce perufed an excellent pam¬
phlet on the fubje£l by the ingenious
pen of F. P. Eliot, efq. majot in the
above corps.

About three miles North-weft hence
is Butterton, the feat of Thomas Swin-
n.erton, efq. who favoured ms with his
Chariulary, &c. ; and 1 was glad to
have this opportunity of preferring a
likenefs of the old family manflon,
which is foon to be demolifhed, and re¬
built. Hence I was agreeably led three
m.les farther to infpeil the antient ar¬
chives of the Mainvvarings of Whit¬
more, of which 1 found Dr. Wilkes
had amply availed itfelf. From Trent-
ham five miles to Stone. On the left is
Barlafton, the feat of Thomas Mills,
efq. ; which, together with the church,
&c. form a pleafing landfchape, and are
pretty fully recorded in my Colleftions.
Oppofite to this, where the river emerges
from Tientharn pool, and fupplies a
mill, is newly finilhed a handfome ftone
bridge at the expence of the county,
and which has unfortunately twice
fallen-in during its eredlion. Paliin^
next through Tittenfor, an antient vil¬
lage, remarkable for fome fine fprings,
we fee at the extremity of tfie he.ath the
large veftiges of the camp or feat of
Woifer, king of Mercia, antiently call¬
ed Wolfercejier^ now Berry Bank, the
property of Thomas Swinneiton, efq.
And, about a mile Weft, is the antient
houfe of the Swinneitons, of Swinner-
ton, now the inheritance and refidence
of Baftl Fitzherbert, efq, whole family
and eftates will be largely inferted in
my Hiftory.

Next pafs through Darlafton, leaving
Meaford, on the oppofite banks of the
river, on our left, the old (eat of Wm.
Jervis, efq. brother to the prefent fa¬
mous admiral. In the oppofite mea¬
dows Hands the neat modern manlio.'i
of another branch of this family, Joh.n,
Jervis, efq, who, not long flnce, pulled

doAU

loFo Shaw’s Report of farther Rrogref in Staffordfhlre. [Dec

down the old white houfe, which, to¬
gether with the eftate, was purchaTed
fioin th6 Colliers, but originally belong¬
ed to Burton abbey.

Hence acrol's Stone-field, between the
canal and Trent, to Stone, a pleafant
market'-town, which owes its irnpro-re-
maents to that extenfive n:-< vigatlon. Tbe
church, which was re-built in 1758, is
an elegant ftone fabritk, of the modern
Gothick. in the church-yard are fe¬
deral curious monuments of the Cromp¬
tons, &c. that fiood in the old church,
and there are fome fmall remains of the
abbey adjoining to the parfbnage, of
which I have a moft curious account in
my 13th volume of “ Stafford MSS.’^
A newly- cre6ied workhoufe, at the
South-weft angle of this town, both for
iti fixe and convenience merits public
notice.

Hence to Sandon, four miles Eaft-
ward on the great road. Mr. Pennant,
in his Journey from Chefter, has deferi-
bed rliis as weil as other principal fea¬
tures in this delightful part of the coun¬
ty. My prefent' vifit was only to com¬
pare copies of the divers monuments,
arms, &c, in the fine old church, of
the eeisbrated Erdefwick and his ancef-
tors, which are jftill remaining in the
higheft prefervation. Since Mr, Pen¬
nant wrote, great improvements have
been made around the noble houfe by
the prefent owner, Lord Harrowby,
whofe take in ornamental grounds is
iTioft excellent.

Croffing the Trent to Stafford, we
leave Hopton heath on Our left, memo¬
rable for a battle between the Earl of
Northampton and the Oliverian party,
in which the former loft his life. A
very ctrcumftanttal account of this en¬
gagement, with many other unpabhflied
fafts relative to thole troubiefome times,
1 was favoured w'ith by Dr. Wiight, of
Stafford, in a volume of Letters, writ¬
ten by the diffirent parties during the
.civil ware.

The New Gaol at Stafford is^a mag¬
nificent fea;ure as weil as of great pub¬
lic utility and credit to the county. But
niy attention, during a fhort ftay here,
was chiefly to the ftately old

church of St. Mary, formerly collegi¬
ate, in collating my Collcbfions of us
monuments, and in drawing a perfpec-
tive of that venerable fabiick, which
highly delerves perpetuating by the belt
Ikilt of an engraver I and 1 have reafon
to hope for a contribution of it from the
Corporation. The tower which ftands

in the centre is now offagonal, but w'as
originally Ajuare, with a fpire, the
foundation of which is (till vifible. In
the year 1593, this fteeple, with many
others in tlie county, was blown down
by' a violent tempeft, and re-bUilt the
following year in its prefent form, ex¬
cept the top parr, which was again le-
newed fince 1742, when, on the 29th
of June, the weathercock and that part
of the fteeple were demoliftied by light¬
ning. In the principal ftreer, near the
Swan, remains one of the Lrgeft and
moft remarkable half-timbered houfes
perhaps in the kingdom.

The town-hall, as engraved in Plot,
is fo decayed, that an acl of parliasiient
was lately obtained to re-build it in a
more commodious and handfome man¬
ner : in the mean time, the affixes, &c.
are obliged to be held in the above
church. Befides the valuable docu¬
ments illuftrative of this antient county-
town, in my 13 volumes of old deeds,
&c. coDefied by the g>'eat owners of
this caftle, the MSS. of Dr. Wilkes are
very coniiderable ; and 1 am much in¬
debted to the Rev. — . Shaw, mafter
of the grammar-fehooi here, for his ex¬
cellent alfiftance.

Hence my final vifit was to Ingeftry,
to infpecf the iong-loft MSS. collected,
by the Antiquary Wafter Chetvvynd,
for which 1 am greatly obliged to the
uncles and guardians of the prefent
Lord Taibor. Dr. Plot, in his Chapter
of Antiquities, apologixes for not med¬
dling with the pedigrees or defeents ei¬
ther of families or lands in this county,
knowing a much abler pen then em¬
ployed about it, <viz. the above learned
gentleman. Into his hands feij the
original MSS. of Erdefwick, and he
had the additional Colleftions of Mr.
Ferrers, of Baddefley, befides very large
.ones of his own j but all thefe, upon the
repairing of ingeftry hall, though care¬
fully put up lu a box by the Rev. J.
Milnes, rettor there, were unhappily
loft, but fince found at Rudge, as Dr.
W. informs me. And I have the fa-
tisfaSfion to add, from the moft liberal
ufe of them, that thefe Chetvvynd MSS.
in two large volumes, as noticed in the
Britiili Topography, vol. 11. p. 229,
were at length difeovered again in the
library at ingeftry. One of thefe vo¬
lumes, beautifully written on vellum,
contains cdpies of all the deeds, feals,
and other evidences of the Chetwynd
family, with drawing.'; of divers monu-
meiiis, arms, Sic, Th§ other, a coiti-
' prehenfive

1 7 94. ] HiJIory of StafFord/hire. — extraordinary "Prayer, 1 08 1

prehenfive and authentic hiftory of moft
of the pari(hes in Pirehill hundred, &c.
down to the time of the ingenious wri¬
ter, about 1680.

Having thus arrived at the principal
objeft of my letter, I fliall conclude
this meagre diary, as it would be in
vain here to attempt an adequate de-
fcription of this fine old feat, and the
other fuperb places in this delightful
vale of Trent, and juftly-termed garden
of Stafford 111 ire.

Permit me, however, to add my
grateful acknowledgements for many
otl«rr favours received fince the above *
excurfion ; particularly to the Right
Hon, Lord Bagot, for the liberal in-/-
Ipeclion of his antient and beautiful
pedigree, curious records, valuable
portraits, See. illuftrative of his noble
old feat at Blithfield, an excellent view
of which he was likewife pleafed to
contribute to my Hiftory. Similar obli¬
gations I am under to the Right Hon.
Lord Curzon for a beautiful plate of his
charming feat at Hagley. The mofi:
noble the Marquis and Marchionefs of
Donegal have likewife honoured the
work with an eleeant view of their
magnificent houfe at Fifherwick. To
William Tennant, efq. I am alfo in¬
debted for a very rich engraving of his
delightful feat at Little Afion ; likewife
to Richard Dyott, efq. for his pi6tu-
refque place, Freeford; and to W. P,
Inge-, efq. for his refpe£table old man-
fion at Thorpe with modern additions
and improvements. Finally, to Sir R.
Lawley, bart. for accefs to his records
relating to the priory of Canwell ; and
to you, Mr. Urban, for this and many
favours. S. Shaw, jun.

Mr. Urban, Nov. ix.

Objia principiis.

AVING lately purchafed a dif-
courfe addrclTed to a corps of yeo¬
manry cavalry, by their chaplain, upon
the prelentation of the fiandards, I found
the prayer that was made upon this oc-
cafion fo perfeftly unique, that, perhaps,
you will deem it a literary curiolicy,* and
will infert it in your widely-circulated
Mifcellany. It is as follows :

“And now, O Almighty God, I w'ill
once more prefume, upon this folemn occa-
fion, to offer up my humble petition, that
you will vouchfi.fe to grant, that tlie happi-
nefs which this country now enjoys, may
long continue; and that will aid with
irrefiftible power the honeft endeavours of
G £ N T . Mag. Diocinhcr^ 1 7 9 >>•

thofe who may, at any time, fight under
thefe banners, for the good, the fafety, and
the prote6lion, of their Church, their King,
and their Country,”

It is almoft unneceffary to obferve,
that the four words which are here
printed in Italicks are entirely different
from the ulual language of Devotion-
Whence could this gentleman borrow
this novel form of prayer ? I am fure,
not from that excellent model which our
Lord gave his difciples. For, what
Ihoald we think of that prayer, if it ran
in the following form.^ Father,

which art in heaven, hallowed be your
name : your' kingdom come : ymr will
be done,”&c. Would it not lofe much o£
its beauty by being thus offered up in the
name of only one falitary being ? Nay,
would it not be almoft difgufting, were
it thus to adopt, in a folemn add refs to
the great God, the language which com-*
plailance, rather than propriety, induces
us to ufe to our fellow-creatures ?

It is equally certain, that the admira¬
ble Liturgy of our Church, which this
gentleman, as a clergyman, muft fre¬
quently read to his pariftiioners, in like
manner iqaches us to conne6l ourfelves
with our brethren, and to offer up our
fuppiications in our united names, as
well as to pay the greateft attention to
folemnity and reverence of exprelfion ia
all our addrefles to the Supreme Being.

I confefs my (elf, Mr. Urban, fo well
fatisfied with the language of the two
excellent models I have mentioned, thac
I could not behold this flagrant depar--
ture from them without fome degree of
indignation. A. M.

A FEW Thoughts on the Copper.

MofiEY OF Great Britain.

^id non mortalia pe5iora cogisp
Auri facra fames I Vi rg .

HE coinage of money is, I believe,
conficlered as a ftarc-prei ogative in
almoft every country where there is an
eftabliflied form of government ; and,
though it might deprive a few individual*
of a very lucrative kind of traflick, it
would, neveithclefs, be fortunate for the
community at large, if this prerogative:
were as fully aflerted in thefe dominions,
refpe^iing the copper, as it is in regard
to the gold and fiiver money ; for, then
the national honour would always be re-
fponfible for every fort of money ilTued
from the mint, and foigery miglu be
more effediually prevented or punidied.
Small money being particularly ufeful

for

lo^Z Thoughts on the Copper

for neeelTary change, farthings, half¬
pennies, and three-farthing pieces, were
formerly coined of hlver, till the general
diminution of the filver money rendering
ihofe fra61ional pieces, of a very inconve¬
nient and aUo very fcarce, foms

cities and more than 3C00 tradefnaen
and others coined tokens ; upon return¬
ing which to the ifTuer, l>e gave current
coin or value for them as defired -k ; fo
that, in fa£l:, they were fo many promif-
fory notes, as good as the beft money in
the narrow circles where they pafTed,
and where the iffuer was eaiily identi¬
fied. At that time thofe tokens were
only ufed as lieceffary change t, and the
Talue of I cl. in fuch farthings was
deemed fufheient for a whole town§.
However, though at length the general
iticreafe of thofe pieces began to be felt
as a great public evil, it does not appear
that the trade of making them had ever
lifen to the lueight whieVi the fabrication
of copper money has now attained. But,

Money of Great Britain. [Dec»

whilfl the laws are too lax to refiraiii
the prefent licentious increafe of private
MINTS, the great profit they afford
coininually hold forth an almoft irrefifii-
ble temptation, "iet, not contented by
a gain of more than thirty per centum,
which the heaviefi:' halfpennies yield,
other fabricators have fwelled their pro¬
fits to more than one hundred per cen¬
tum {j. So' that' almofl every new piece
of copper, which has been ifTued under
the name of a haffpenny, has been pro-
grelTively more worthlefs in every point
of view : and, though the ingenuity
the artifi: may have conciliated an indul¬
gence to fome, others have made their
appearance without any kind of merit to
palliate their obtrudon upon the publick.
The want of prohibitory laws relpefiting
the copper money bears very heavily up-
oiT'mechanicks and labourers,, who are
the rnoft numerous if not the greateft,
fufferers. It feems difficult, however,
ro prevent counterfeits by any means,

^ Edwni'd VI. Was tlie Lift prince under whom' farthings could poflibly be coined of
filver, the metal being fo increafed in its value ;■ and, though it is k.now’n from records tuat
he did coin farthings, not one of them is to be found. The fmallnefs indeed even of t^ie
filver half-penny, though continued down to the CominonweaJth, was of extreme inconve¬
nience ; for, a dozen -of tiiem might be in a m.an’s pocket and yet not be difeovered without
a gxiod miEgnifying glais." See Pinkerton’s Effay on Medals.

•f It was a common pradiice alfo then to counterfeit even, the flate-tokens, and many
were profecuted for it in the Star- chamber. Snelling’s View of the Copper Coinage.

+ Copper pledges, when iffued by authority, were only to be paid in rums under tw^enty
fhillings ; and then no perfon was obliged to take at one payment mote than a groai. in Inch
places Ibid. EVe- pence three farthings may, however,, be necelfary fer the frabhonal
parts of the filver fix- pence; and no greater fum in copper ou^ht any perfon to obtrude

3'220

360*5

5^5^

5349

5453

577^

1 1
17

95.

Profit

Centum.

Ujjon another at one payment.

§ << Whereas Mofes Durell, mayor' of this town and county (of Poole), have, by the
Gonfent of us whofe names are hereunder figned, difburfed the fum of ten pounds in copper
farthings with the fiampe of the towne arms in them, xvith the infeription (for the m^yor
of the town and county of Poole), and bath received in farthings, at four farthings to the
penny, the fum of nineteen pounds and four thillings, to be difperfed, and to pafs in ex,-
thange between man and man as current money, unlili it ihall be prohibited by his Ma^
Jefiy's order.” Appendix to Snelling’s View of the Copi>er Coinage.

II' The following calculation is made from half-pennies in my polieffion :

Number of half- Pt'ofir .&c.
pennies per- Cwt. -per Cwt.

The Cwt of good copper being w^orth 4I. 13s. 4d.
ffiould yield, without allowing any thing for tiie
charges of coinage, _ _ - 224,0

Mr. Bolton’s beautiful pattern half- penny, which
is certainly preferable, in all refpedls,. to any which
has appeared', is not to he ciaffed with any but fueVi as
deferve praife, and weighs more than any other, 'vi-z,,
a'48 grains, or equal per Cwt. to

Tiie beft Anglefey half-penny weighs zzaj, or
Mint half-pennies - - ”■

Fi dding’s heft Manchsfter half-pennies
And, if the fize be farther reduce<l to the fizs of a
very common counterfeit oh J. VVilkinfon’s half-
penny^ 147 grains - ■ - _

There is another piece current with a bee-hive
and the cypher R. G, weighing 13V9 grains

There are even wdife pieces than the lail enumerated.

6 1

157

13 6

cJjcept-

r;^Q4-] Farther Injtances of Negle^ of Public Cemeteries.^

E-xcept by making the copper money in-
tiirhcally worth what it is denominated
(aliowing the lowed poThble fum tor the
cxpencts of coinage), or by dies of fu-
perlaiive vvorkmanfhip. The firft would
tl.e moft prevent deception, becaul'e it
requires no great attention to dilunguidi
the different inclinations of a beam in
v;eigliing money, though many a vir-
tuolo may be im poled upon by mere
imitations of coins. Many have objeft-
ed to the inconvenient bulk of copper
inonev of due weight. To obviate this,
irdght not a convenient fort of money be
formed, both as to hze .and value, by
rr.ferting a due proportion of pure hlver
within a circular frame of good copper ?
This w’ould be a medium between the
want of fmall lilver money and the in¬
cumbrance of much copper. However,
if the legal copper of the kingdom were
applied only according to the original
intention, .merely for neceffary change,
and not for paying half the wages of
many artilans and others, there is little
realbn to doubt but it would be found
amp’y fufTicient.

Manckejier, April, 1794.

Mr. Urban, Nov. Z.

ENTIRELY agree with your cor-
reipondent (p. 892) on the negleft of
public cemeteries. This is, in my opi¬
nion, one of the mod degrading features
of the preient feljljb age. In the town
wherein I refide, three of our churciies
have, through age or accident, been re¬
built, or refuted, dace 1 came to it; yet,
I’l neither of thele paridtes has a pcrlbn
been found of fpiric or feeling enough
to dep forward in vindication of the
lights of the dead. Thofe monuments
which the piety of heirs has ere6fed to
the memory of their ancedors would de¬
form, it feems, the well duccoed circum¬
ference of a neat temple in the true An-

glico- (or rather Scotico-) Grecian tade;
and thofe inferiptions, marble, brafs, or
done, which often decide the fate of pro¬
perty, and w’hich are fo neceffary to a
dudy at innocent, are buried “ fa¬
thom-deep” by the ignorance or fupine-
nefs of a Vandalic “ committee,’’ unlefs
the prefefit reprefentative of an antient
family thinks fit to be at the expence of
prelerving them. Nay, in one cafe,
where they have taken refuge in the re¬
mains of the old church, they are to be
unkenneled from this lad asylum; be-
caufe, forfcQth, the removal of this ruin
will improve the “ look” of the place.
But what more can be expebled from an
age immerfed in fenfuality and egotifra
(to ufe a word from a vocabulary which,
I deted), from an ‘‘adulterous and ffn-
ful generation,” the general coir option
of vvhofe manners feems aptly to fore¬
run the “ day when the Son of Man.
fhall be revealed ?”•— an age, in which
(to wave fuperior confiderations) ev^ry
monument of antiquity is carefully de¬
faced ; and an illiterate attorney permit¬
ted to dedroy every record of an iiluf-
trious race (except what are neceffary
for the fappert of its edate on an ejeil-
ment) under the denomination of “ ufe.--
lefs papers.^'

Ti\e anfients paid much greater re-
fpeff to the remains of the dead. This
amiable feature proceeded, perhaps, from
their fuperditious opinions concerning
the wandering dare of unburied (pirits
on the banks of Styx. But, when fu-
perdition produces effeifls lo pleafing,
one can hardly be angry with it. la
the prefent decay of Grecian literature,
I know not w'hether it is worth while to
irelpafs on your Greek types with the
following appofite epigram on a road
made through a burying-ground ; an
enormity which W'e have lately feen re¬
newed, in all its horrors, in our town

Dr. Cogan, in his entertaining Journey of the Rhine, vol. I. letter XXIV. fpeaking of
fome human ikulls expofed to view in a church at Cologne, adds, “ Every continued exhibi¬
tion of human difgrace, or of human mifery, after the fird effebh is over, has a tendency to
render the heart obduiate, and more infenfible to fubfequent impreffions of,a fimilar nature.-
I mud, however, .cnnfefr, that appearances of decency and order, in the placing of thefe
mementos mori, if they mud be expofed, is far preferable to the indignity with which the
wrecks of mortality are treated in many places, and particularly 'in Proteftant countries, t
could mention to you many towns and villages where i might colledf, in the f.ce of the fun,
a quantity of human bones, lufhcient to form a number of complete fkeletons, from, detached
paits of different perfons. At Bremin, particularly, the inciehcacy of expodng human bones
is excelfive. I remember, in paffing through a churcli-yard, I uranteiitionally bioke three
rths, and kicked an os facrum feveral paces before rne. 1 could not help expreffing to a gen¬
tleman of the regency, who happened to be with me, my cordial with that it might be .h»
rump of a burgomader I had the honour to treat with that indignity. He anfweied me
fpoiling : ‘ Their offa facra are perffcliy fecure, as tliey are fnugly lodged in family vaults.”
Thus it is plebeians alone who are treated with as little ceremony after death as when alive'.”
In Britain, however, we are mure equal.: “ Hii^h aud low, rich and poor,” are alltieatcd
vvdCidlie fame indignity, wlieic

1084 Jddrefyto the junior Members Cambridge Unlverjity. [Dec.

where the venerable remains of the dead,
heaifed in-earch*' for, perhaps, a thou'^
fand years, have “ burft their cerements,’*
and been exppfed to every infult and in¬
dignity which the unprotected can expe¬
rience.

Qu.xque carent ventis h folibns oflfa - -

^Nefas videre,) diffipabit infolens.

ASHNIAA

Ha»5 fK,sv rsJ^tnlai VTTsHneiioiXtifjiixEWV ofBVVf

apfXQvtr, r a *ve^, iViKeyMi^Evn'

Kut a-K&!X5}K.£$ V1TEK ao^H avfoi^oyloii
Vll/.STBpVl?- Tl wXtOV yriV £Ti£VVV/.CE9a ;

91 yap TJjv (iiru) 'craoo; ar^otTfov

avG^uivotf xaT* sptrjc vHcriTOfA,eyot ustpx^V^-
ftXXa syfxibiv^ AV^wveoj, 'Ep^c-io. re
Kcci 'Nvaloi, ra,vrrtc, edlog tr ar^c^Ttra.

P. S. Before I conclude, I would
U’illinglv exprefs my indignation at Mr.

• V/akefield’s letter (p. 887), did I not
know that fuch is exaSlly the efFc6t
w/l'dth he wifiies ro produce, and were I
not confident that my femiipents on this
ful'jefif are only the echo of every ciif-
pafiionate man of every party, be his
opinions, religious or civil, what they
may. As it is, I will cMifine rnyfelf to
pbfervc, tba? I perfeotly agree W'i.h your
excellent Reviewer in* his very happy
quotations (p. 931)- indeed

- tribus Anticyris cnput infanabile.

If I miOakejaot, you aie honoured with
his abhorrence in his adpiiruhle L’fe,”
that medley of the black At virub nee and
rnofi ludicrous iclf-adulation. It we mull
have enemies, may they ali he as idii.’era!,
as big ted, and as narrow- mir d'-d !
pil melipra pik, eiroreosquu hoilibus illmu.

An tiquariolus.

Mr. Urban, Sept. i.

OUR inferhon of the following
sddrefs to the junior members of
the univerfuy of Carnbridge would
greatly oblige, Yours,

An Enbniy to all Ambiguity.

Yh th€ h'irned the Graduates and Un^
dergraauaies of the Vniierfity c/'Cam-
biidge.

Omne ignotum pro magrifeo habendum.’*
Gentlemen,

Taking it for granted none of you
are unwilling to impart to others, /w;?;?-
mfe fcijcitantibus the knowledge you
youifeives pofl'cfs, I feel myfelf em¬
boldened candidly to hate my embarraff-
menis, and to folicit plenary informa-
ticn.

Bufinefs lately required my attend?

ance at Cambridge for a few days. The
afternoon before my return thence, I
accepted the invitation of a quondam
Yorkfhire fchoolfellowq and agreed t©
dine with him, in college, at his rooms.

Accordingly I went, and found a
r4Uinerous party alTernbled, on purpofe,
1 flatter myfelf, to welcome the friend
of their entertainer. Perceiving them
to be young men of the Univerlity, 1
expelled we Ihould all largely enjoy
“ the feaft of reafon, and the flow of
foul;” and felt an unufual gaiety and
fatisfa6lion on the occafion. Now, gen¬
tlemen, the converfation which occur¬
red during the evening is the caufe of
my prefent addrefs ; and I jfhall efteem
myfelf ferioufly indebted to the polite-
jiefs of any perfon who will condefeend
to explain the origin as well as meaning
of the fubjoined terms and phrafes.

I fliall beg leave firft tod. troduce the
company to your notice, concealing
their names from obvious motives of de¬
corum. One was a Harry Soph \ ano-
ili -ra feUow-comrn-ner and Jenior foph,
Jtnd occafionally jocuiaily called an
empty bottle s whiift, e contra, .a bottle
decanted was, from time to tu.iu , deno¬
minated a fellow- comm oner. ' V/e had
alfo ti junior foph and penfioner \ ut, ne«
vertheleis, talked mu 'h of Iv.s. in 'epend-
aneg, ot his having refuied , xhibittom^
and [what gave me no good opinion of
his learningj ded'.e ' h- oad rm pre-
tenfions to "-liher fchoiaribip or fedow^
f)>p. A jolly fat feiiow, hv Nkiture
formed t-r lard the lean earth as he
walked along,” was a non ens forl'ooth 1
and had not yet been matneuiated. An-
orlier w^s a Ji^tr and quejionif

Several had taken rhei* degrees, and
were either plucked, ft. ior optimcs, ju^
nior opitmes, fenior anglers, o. junior
ni^ranpiC 's i fov which honours, itfeeras,
they h d ah kept their adis. Some of
thefe had the:r names piiiitcd ou wnat
- they flyied a tripos, wfoch ihey fhewed
me. It w'as a long piece of whited-
browii paper, like that on which our
comrnoneit ballads are printed. Oa one
fi'le were the names of the young gen-
ilemet), on the other W'ere two Latin
cornpoh-ions in hexurnster verfe. This
tripos was pubhiheJ the Jixib of March,
1794. *^1’*® motto for the flrfl produc¬

tion was taken from Homer, and was
this :

Ooxoj ys - — — -

Ap-tportpov, ^aocriXivq r ayctOp; KgxTt^oi

I794‘] the junior Members ^Cambridge Unlverfity, loBc

That for the fecond was from So¬
phocles, as follows :

a xtvSra*. Oedip. Tyran. V. 37.

The verfes are very good, and the fen-
timen's tiuly liberal.

The general difcourfe being of a very
defnltjiy nature, 1 can only give you
thofe detached paffages which ftruck
my notice as moie peculiarly uncom¬
mon. I (liall continue to mark the
parts alluded to in Italicks.

Soon af'er the cloth was removed, one
gentleman exclaimed : “ D — n thofe

Retros ! My Jip brought one in this
morning ; faith ! and told me I was fo~
eujfed. I refolved in this dilemma to
Jmite my tutor ; bur, as I lately came
ever him for a good round fum, I was
forced to run the rig vpsn him. Luckily
I crammed btm fo well, ♦^hat at lafl: ho~
neji Jolli'x tipped me the cole" Another
gentleman entertained us with faying,
that he had juft been con^mned in the
combination (qu. commination) room-,
and was very near rujiication., merely
for ktcktr>g up a rou after a beakering
party. boho, Jack !” brifkiy rejoin¬
ed another, “ almoft prefented with a
travelling fello-tv/hip P very nigh being
Jent to grafs, he; ?”

1 foon difcovered that they bad nick¬
names fur the inhabitants colle£iively
of their feveral colleges. Thus, Ibme
were JejuitSy others Chrifitans ; fome
*Johnian hogSy others Triniy bulldogs j
I'ome Clare-ball greyhoundSy others a-
gain, Sidney on.vls', et fic dcinceps.

I remarked alio, that they frequently
ufed the words to cuty ^nd to Jporty in
lenles to me totally unintelligible. A
man had been cut in chapel, cut at after¬
noon lebtures, cut in his tufui’s rooms,
cut at a concert, cut at a bah, &c. Soon,
however, i was told of men, vice verfd,
who cut a fig tre, cut chapel, cut gates,
cut ledfures, cut hall, examinations,
cut p..rtiLular connexions ; nay, mote,
I Was infoimed of iome who cut their
tutors ! 1 own, I was fliocked at the lat¬
ter account, and began to imagine my-
lelf in the midft of fo many monfters.
Judge then, Sir, how my horror in-
crealed, when i heard a lively young
man alfert that, in confequence of an
intimation from the tutor relative to his
irregulj(rities, his own father came from
the country 10 johe him ; “ but, faith !”
added he, carelelfty, “ 1 no fooner learn-
€d he was at the Black Bull [an inn in

Hlgh-ftreet fo calledj^ than I determined
to cut the old codger completely.” But
this was not the worft. One moft fero¬
cious fpirit folemnly declared, that he
was refolved to cut every man of Mag¬
dalen college j concluding, with an.
oath, that they were a parcel of rippijh
quiz.zes III

With regard to the w'ord to fport^
they /ported )f.nc>\v\Tigy and they /ported
ignorant J they /ported 2in aegrotat y and
they /ported a new coat ! They /ported
*an exeaty they /ported a dormiat, they
JpQTted their outer y a lion, a lion e/s, a
cat, and a levant I

When I left the company (which I
found an opportunity of doing while
the chapel-bell rang), I confefs I felt
myfelf difappointed and diffatisfied with,
their very ambiguous language ; and
the more f<^, lince it was that of perfons
whofetime is fuppofed to be particularly
devoted to the Mufes and the Graces.

I purpofeiy omit the expreffion for
drinking tea, well knowing that Mr.
Urban would juftly refufe to infert it in
a Gentleman's Magazine, In hopes of
receiving a fatisfaftory folution of my
queries, 1 remain, for the prefent. Gen¬
tlemen, a Friend to Alma Mater, but
An Enemy to all Ambiguity.

Mr. Urban, Nov. 7.

HE following Epitaph in Welton
church, Northamptonfhire, has been
evidently placed there fitice one, to the
fame perfon, in Bridges, I. 98, was tran-
feribed :

<‘M. S.

Richardi Nichols, A. M,

Clerici.

Qui in Deum pins.

In feipfura reAiis,

In fuos comis,

In omnes benevolus,

Integerrimam fervavit confeientiam,

Quo non alter fincerus magis, aut cordatus ;

Temporibus incertis non dubius,
Gnlielmo Sceptrum Anglise fufeipienti,

Pie et non perduellionis ad inftar
Jui amentum rejecit.

Quod fuoruni et ipfius damno,

Cur4, et emolumentis Ecclefise reliiflis,
Animose teftatus eft,

Sed quod not licuit conlcionibus,

Apprirae praeftitic exempio,

Fadtls no., minus valens.

^Natus die quarto Odtobiis An® 1662 J
denalus 29 Decemhns 1717.
iEtatis 55.

HANNAHNlCHOLSejufdemRlCHARDIUXOr^
infra jacct :

Mulier marito tali digna :

Sed

s.oS6 Epitaph on Mrs. Blancli and from St. Alkmond’s. [Dec.

* Ged quails erat, dies fuprerrsus indicabit. . I went and defired to fee the plates, and
Obiit die i8 Odlobris carefully copied the inTcriptions *. I am

Anno 5 1729. forry, Mr. Urban, we have fuch Goths

, -^iEiatisbS. and Vandals at this time, who would not

I fend you, alfi, an Epitapli at Back-
ton, in Herelordfliire, to the memory of
Mrs. E’la’nch Parry, one of the
Maids of Honour to Queen Elizabeth.

Parry hys daughter Blaenche of Newe-
couite borne,

That trayned was in pryncys courts vvyCh
gorgious white ;

'Wheare fleetynge honour founds wythblafte
of home, [h/ghts,

Eache of accounte too place of worlds de-
Am lodgyd heere wythein this ftonye tombe :

The whyche in 'Vaine they doo fo greatly
For fo moche as hyt ys but the ende of all:

Tliys worlde rowte of ftate what fo they be.
The whyclie unto the relle hereafter Ifiall,
Afferable thus eache wyght in hys degree;
I'lyvde allweys as handmaede to a Queene,
In chamber cbieff my tyme did overpaffe.,
Vncareful of ray welthe drere w’as i feen ;

Whylflelabodfcthe ronnyngcof ray glaffe,
2sot doubcyn^e wante whilfte that niy myi-

fcruple to deJlroy.any memento for the
paltry fum of four or five fhillings.
Such people mufl; certainly he void of
huiuanity, or honour, and, I believe £
may fafely add, of honefty.

I. On a brafs plate, one foot and three
quarters by fix inches and a half:

■ipejie Ivttl) oseoi'ge tl)z

fhef oiuTlj gere of tlje iRa^siieof Eiugs
<£Lifoaco tlje .fFii'fc; aiiB alfo 3]al)ne i)i^
mu of tlje Baiisljter^ of Ei-

tljaiTt Eafoit, it.nigfjt, liifjicl) Diea tlje
Ufc ca^ of 3]une, in tlie fenentli gcre of
tlieHagsne ahohenameD tuorrl;::
3iTnce eclnarnt iFirlf; on

foljom tl3e EorB, for €l)x\^ fakr,

ijaije marc^.

Second plate :

0?'or^raiS'Pontethury$, ohjt
Stnno Domini 1589, iul.

Third plate :

trdfe' liv-d,

In womens ft ate whofe cradell fawe Irockte ;
Mer iervanteitben as when fhss htr crowne
attchiev’d,

.And fo reraaend tyll Death my doore had
knockt :

Preferryngs fly 11 the caufys of eache wyghte,
AS farr as I doorfbe move her graces care,
For to reward decerts by courfe of rygt'.te ;
As needs vryifle of farvys doonne each
wheare,

So that my time I thus did paffe awaye,

A raaide in courteand never no mans wife;
Svvome of 'Queene Elllhelh ;bedd cliamber
allwaye,

Wythe maideti Queene a raeade did ende
•my lyfe.

Mr. Urban, J^pril g.

KJ ILL you be fo kind as to gwe
^ thefe unprovided-for infcriptions
a plate in the Gentleman’s Magazine, as
I am foTi-y poflerity {Itoulci be entuely
deprived of them ? They came into my
hands in the following manner: the ve¬
nerable church of Sc. Alkmond, in
Shrev. fijury, being to be taken .tiovvn
and rebuilt, I went to tranferihe fome
old monumental inferip: tons, for fear
they fhould be deftroyed by the wof k-
tncG ; but, CO my I'urprize, there wete
fvvera! inlci ijiiions on brals plates gone.
This led me to make enqifiry, and I wt's
V'torn^'d they were fold, by order of tlic
^’hUi.CiiW.ar vf^ns, to a biazsci : on vvniCit

Georgiys Higgoks, GENER OS vs, al-

UERMANv’, &: QVINCJ^VIES EALIVVS HVIVS

VI L LX Sale OP ex hag vita e-mi-

GRAVIT, VICESIMO TERTIO DIE OCT”-
BRIS AN° d’NI MILDESIMO QJVUNGENTE-
SIMO NONAGESIMO PRIMO, XTATIS SVX
£EP T-VAGfiSIMO SECv’dO.

' Fourth plate :

EIere lieth the body ot Thomas
Barker, OF Adbuightlee, Esq,
WHO had to wife Margaret

THE DAVGKTER OF Ed WARD

Owen, of Adbright l ee, Esq.

-BY WHOM HE HAD ISSVE 3 CHIL¬
DREN, Amy, Sarah, and John.

He DEPARTED THIS LIFE MaY IO,

Anno Domini 1652.

JuSTORUM ANIMX IN MA-
N 0 DEI SUNT.

Mr. Urban, //o'V. .

WHEN 1 fent you the query, p.

787, [ had no defign of provo¬
king the refentment of the Scotch Epif-
copalians ; and, had your two corre-
fpondents, who have made theijr re-¬
marks upon it in your laft number,
confined themfelves/ to mere matters of
opinion, 1 Ihouid not now, much a-
gainJI my wid, have had- to afic, your

That is, all I could find ; but there
were more taken from the church, which I
fear are iod.

J- About four miles from £hrevvfbury.

i-eays

1794*1 (fUfages adopted in

I.-'ave to make a (hort reply to them :
but a denial of fa£ls of nublic notoriety,
efpecially when an obloquy is attempted
to be call againtl a refpeclable body of
men, fitould not be allowed to pais
without reprehenfion. I do allure your
readers, that the following allertions of
a perfon, who fubfcribes himfelf “ An
Kngliih Clergyman,” p. 886 of your
Magazine, “ that the ufages of

Scotch Epifcopalians are exaflly the*
lame with thoft of the Church of Eng¬
land and “ that the Eagliili Book of
Common Prayer-is now univerfally ufed
in the Scotch Eoifcopalian chapels/’ are
not ftricVly true. He mud have been
fVrangely mihnformed. And 1 am fur-
prized that a man of his fiation in life
could allow himfelf to be fo far duped
by the party as to make fo confident
and unqualified an afifertion in fuch an
unguarded and public manner, when
the flighteft examination mufi have in¬
formed him that it was entirely un¬
founded. If he be really a Clergyman
of the Englilh Church, it would be im¬
pertinent in me to point out to him the
nature of the ufages adopted in the
Scotch Communion fervice ; and, if he
thinks that they are authorized by Scrip¬
ture) I have nothing more to fay to him,
but to advife him, if he does not mean
to infult his own confcience, and virtu¬
ally difapprove of his former fubfcrip-
tion, to ftrip off his Englifli furplice,
and enlift himfeif under the banners of
the Scotch Bifliops with all poihble ex¬
pedition, The Church of England, in
thefe days of laxity of principles and
manners, will not be much profited by
fuch defenders of her do£lrines. It is
unpleafant, . Mr. Urban, and unenter¬
taining to your readers, for one clergy¬
man to be under the necellity of con-
tradifting another; but, bear with me
this once, and I promife never to trou¬
ble you aga n. He is equally miftaken
with regard to the numbers of the
Scotch communion ; they do not amount
to 90 or 100, oeo, or any fuch thing.
And I mud, moreover, alTure this con-
JlJieni minifter of the Ergdjb Church,
before I conclude, that the o-vcnen of
the few Englilh chapels in Scotland”
l.ave not at prefent the leafl intention of
“ turning thole houfes to other purpofa.^*
Another corrcfpondent of yours, who
dates hii jetter t:onr Edinburgh, and
calls himfelf “ An Epifcopal Layinati,”
and, moreover, an Englilliman, and,
as luch, a warm admirer of the Chuirh
cf England 5 and modcftiy hints, tha:

the Scotcli Communion Service. loZf

he knows as much of that Church SfJ
any clerk among us all, informs you?
readers, “ that, were it not for the?

C ergy themfelves (meaning the Eng-
lilli Clergy in Scotland), and the arts
they have ufed, the lay people would
have had no obje6iion to unite.” To'
this gentleman I would juft whifpsr ia
the ear, in nearly his own words, that
it is very unbecoming in him, an Eng-
lilliman, an admirer of the Church of
England too, to come into Scotland*
adhere to the mnft zealous corrupters of
her excellent Liturgy, and then fet
himfelf up as a calumniator of his quon¬
dam brethren. But this is the natural
condu51; of fanatical profdytes^of every
denomination. On the contrary, Mr»
Uiban-, 1 do folemnly afi'ure your read¬
ers, the arts that the non-juring party
have ufed, fince the paffing of the later
bill in their favour, have uniformly
tended much more towards, getting
ejected from our c-hapels, and them-
lelves placed in our room, than any
union with us; which is impoffible to
take place as long as any of the ufage?i .
are retained in their woifhip, and they
refufe to comply with the terms of Go¬
vernment in qualifying according to ia-w.
Eor, your Engiifli readers ought to-
know that, notwithflanding their pro-
leftacions pending the pa(iji.ng of th^
bill, very few of them have hitherto
complied ; and for iheir non~comp!ianca
herein,, and their adherence to the houfo
of Stuart, 1 give them due credit, be-
caufe they have a6led, 1 doubt ncty
confeientioufly ; and it is certainly
much more honourable ta them, accor¬
ding to the obfervation of the old wo¬
man at Aberdeen when Biihop Skinner
returned from London with the condi¬
tions of the bill, to be Nonjurors than
Perjurors. The bill, to be lure, in this
article, has been cruel to them ; and,
had they managed matters well, the
obnoxious pjrt might eafily have been
omitted. All I firall fay is, that, if a
clergyman of that communion can fo far
degrade bis chara6ler, and before a ma-
giilrate take the abjuration oath, he
muft be qualified lor any wickednels,.
Such a conduct in a lavman would be
univerfally contemned. You , yourfeif,
Mr. Urban, are already in poileliion of-
authentic documents of the arts they
have ufed to get themfelves introduced
into feme of our chapciS, having obler-
ved i.-rtely on one of youi blue coders
publication by you on ihisvcry iubjeft;
ill which you may obferve how indufiri-

ous

I088 Situation of Clergy in Scotland

ous fome of their bifhops have been in
their attempts to make protelytes of the
inore opulent members of ou” commu¬
nion. But they have hitherto, except
in a very few inftances, been difap-
pointed. They have fucceeded moll:,
to be fure, by reprefenting to the coiin-
rnon people the invalidity of our orders
in Scotland, and by confidently, and
without any proper authority, alfcrting,
that the Engiilh bilhops themfelves are
of their opinion, and, in confequer.ee,
are determined not to ordain any more
young men to the Scotch chapels in fu¬
ture. It is on ihefe grounds chiefly that
they prepoflefs our hearers againft us j
but their real intention is, by any means
to infinuate themfelves into favour, fo
as in time to get pofleffion of our pul¬
pits ; for, you mull know, Mr. Urban,
that our falaries are rather better than
theirs, and our congregations much
more refpeflable, Another word, and
I have done, I need hardly infinuate
to “An Epifcopal Layman,” for the
fa£l is univerfally known in Edinburgh,
that there are chapels in Scotland where
any fervice will be read as long as ac-
cefij can be had to the pockets of ^ the
hearers. An English Clergyman
IN Scotland.

Mr. Urban, No’v. zq.

^’^HE cafe dated by a correfpond-
ent, p. 787, is abundantly curious.
He makes a claim upon the executors
of the late vvoithy Bilhop of London
for a maintenance, on the ground of his
Lord (hip having ordained him contrary
to the C anons ; though it is clear, from
his own ftatement, that this bseach of
the Canons was his own propofal, and
made at his own rilkj for, his Lordlbip
dildaimed authority over congregations
in Scotland, and left it to your corre-
fpondent’s diferetfon to determine whe¬
ther he would accept of a fettlement,
over which neither the Bifhop of Lon¬
don, or any other Engbfh pielate, had
any influence. A bifliop has no autho¬
rity out of his own diccele, and there¬
fore can be rtfponfible only for what is
done within his jurifiiidion. Hence,
as a clergyman, when he leaves any di-
ocefe, ceafes to belong to the bifliop of
that diocefe; fo, when he depa'rts from
the jurifdidtion of sny church, lie no
longer belongs to that church; and,
when he has thus broken the canonical
tie between himfelf and hiS diocefan,
he has no more claim upon him than if
he had never belonged to him. Your

ordained ly Engltfh Bljhops, [Dec*.

correfpondent, therefore, can have no
better claim, now than if he had been
regularly inducted to a benefice within
the dioceie of London, and liad volun¬
tarily thrown it up, and gone elfewhere ;
for, rhe Querifl now no more of the
Church of England than of the Church
of Iceland or of America.

The Church of England, following
the exiTiple of eveiy other branch of
the. Cafho’ic Church, made her Canons
for the fecurity of primitive Chtiflianity.
The' were made, certainly, as much to
dijeef the funBians of the Clergy as to
guaid their temporalities. Can your
correfpondent, therefore, with a good
grace plead the authority of the Canons
for the purpofe of getting a maintenance,
when he has lived for many years in.
the notorious breach of them in matters
of infinitely more importance ? It is un-
pleafant to fay a harfh thing, but the
truth niufl be told. Is he a tnajier of
IJrael, and knonjos not ihefe things /* “ A
prieft,” fays Bifliop Potter, “ who comes
into a foreign country, where other law¬
ful minifters are fettled, though he flill
retains his facerdotal character, yet has
no authority to take him the ordi¬
nary exercife of his office there.” There
are, and have ever been, lawful minif-
ters in Scotland ; that is, bifhops law¬
fully confecrated according to the Ca¬
nons of the Catholic Church, who nei¬
ther teach heretical doftrine, nor pre-
fetibe finful terms of communion. Is
your correfpondent ignorant that, by
the faireft interpretation of the ninth
Canon of the Church of England, he is
in a ftate of ecclefiallical outlawry, being
ipfo fuBo excommunicated by what he
has done in Scotland? The Canon fays,
“ Whofoever fhall hereafter feparate
themfelves from the communion of faints,
as it is approved by the Apofiies rules
in the Church of England, and combine
themfelves together in a new brother¬
hood, accounting the Chriflians who are
conformable to the do£lrine, govern¬
ment, rites, and ceremonies, of the
Church of England, to be profane, and
unmeet for them to join with in Ctirif-
tian profelTion ; let them be excommu¬
nicated ipfo faBo, and not reftored but
by the archbii'hop, after their repent¬
ance and public revocation of fuch their
wicked errors.” Now, Mr. Urban,
your correfpondent and his fr;ends have
formed fuch a brotherhood in oppofiuon.
to the Epifcopal Church in Scotland,
whofe principles, it is well known, are
entirely conformahie to the doftrine,

government,

1794’] Churches of England and Scotland. — Gray’s Elegy. 1089

government, &c. of the Church of Eng-
jland. It is no lefs notorious, that the
(Scotch Clergy pay at lead as much re-
jfpe6t to the Book, of Common Prayer
ias your correfpondent arid his brethren
ido; and are much more likely to pre«
jferve it from annihilation, fhould the
iEnglifli BiiaopN, mindful of the duty
and rtfpeft which the antient Canons
prefcribed from one Church to anotlier,
refufe to oi dain more clergy for congre¬
gations in Scotland.

The only apparent difference between
the Church of England and that in
Scotland is in the Communion Office.
1 am well acquainted with that office,
and do maintain that there is nothing in
it but what is purely primitjve, and en-
tirelv agreeable to the doiSiirine that has
uniformly obtained in the Church of
England (ince the Reformation. Nay,
in this enlightened age, when Popifh
d-i6lnnes are hooted out of fight, the
Church' in America (the far greater
part of whole Clergy were ordained in
England) has embraced what your cor-
lelpondent would conlider as the excep¬
tionable points in the Scotch Office. As
he has not ftated vvhat he calls unfcrip-
tural ufagei, nor alfigned the realbns
why he and his brethren make them the
grounds of their reparation from the
Scotch Communion, 1 recommend ic to
him to make the antient Eii;urgies a
little more his ftudy before he ventures
to try fuch quellions at your tribunal.
Your coi refpondent complains, that
the meml)ers of the Scorch (Englifh)
chapels intimate to their pallors that
they are, juft like other fervanls, to be
difmilied when they think proper.”
Tins, to be fure, is a new thing in the
Chnftian church i but it is the natural
fruit of the feed which thefe paftors
have {'own. For many years they have
ffiewn a marked contempt for ecclefiaf-
tical fubordination ; they have ftrained
every nerve to deltroy u throughout
Scotland, and now their devices begin
to fall upon their own beads. If a
Clergy man, forgetting the fpintual bond
that has ev-er connected a pallor and his
flock, hires himfelf for two or three
years at a time for a maintenance, and
from time to time renews his bargain,
how differs he from a (etvant ? 1 appeal
to your correfpondent, Whethtr it is
rot his own pract ce to hire himfelf in
this manner to his congregation ? and
whether a neighbouring congregation,
from whole corrupted ftreatns he is now
Gent. Mag. December^ 1794.

drinking bitter waters, have heard no
fewer than three different paftors within
the laft four or five years ! And all from
the fame caufe, having no Bifhop to put
them to Jbame, they do njohat is r'ght in
their onvn eyes. S. P.

Mr. U R.B AN , Abergavenny^ OEl. 1 6,

IN Gray’s celebrated elegv is the fol¬
lowing ftan^a, the laft line of which,
I confels, I do not accurately under-
ftand, and fhali be obliged to any one of
your correfpondents who will, with your
permiflion, favour me with their fenci-
ments thereon. I have fubjoined the
ftanza to which !• have above alluded,
togsther with two elegant tranftations
thereof ; the one by the late Mr. Lloyd j.
the other appeared in your vol. LIII. p.
166. Y'ours, &c. T, C.

Gray.

The boa ft of Heraldry, the pomp of Power,
And all that Beauty, all that Worth, e’er gave.
Await alike the inevitable hour;

^he paths of Glory lead but to the grave.
Lloyd.

Ex generisjaflatus honos, dominatioR^giim,
Quicquid, opes, tpiicquid, forma, dedere
boni, [nodfem,

Supremam limul, hanc expedlanc omnia
Scilicet ad letum duett honoris iter,

AOrOI EniTAcblOI.

Ipfa quid, Ambitio, qqid, celfa Superbia,
pollex ?

Quid, Regum gazae, gloria, fama, decus ?

Si nihil, impendens fatum difterre, valebit,
Cumy demum [eevde janua, mortis hiat.

Remarks on Reliques of An¬
cient Poetry; jromp.Qitc.
PAGE 92.

‘‘ A coder y a caller heref — -fayd the king.”
Selden had feen another ballad on this
fubjedl. Speaking of the cuftom of cre¬
ating efquiies by the gift of a collar of
SS, he adds : “ Nor is that old pamthht
of The Tanner of Tamworrh and King
Edward the Fourth fo* contemptible, but
that we may thence note alfo an obft rva-
ble palfage, vvherein the ufe of making
efquires by giving collars is expreffed.

‘‘ A coller, a culler,” our king ’gan cry ;

Quoth the tanner, ‘ it will breed forrow.
For after a coller cometh a halter;

1 trow I ftiall be bang’d to-morrow.*

Be not afraid, tanner !” faid our king •

“ 1 tell ttiec, fo mought I (hec^?,

Lo here i make thee the beft eiquire,

Xliat is in v e North countiy.”

Tit. Hon, part II. chap. V. § 47. Add.

Anftis, Obf. on the Garter, II. 450.

^ Perhaps “ y-teil fo mought I thee ’*

10^0

Remaiks on: R:e ReUqv.es' of An cunt Poetry,

[Dec.

In the ballad now before us, our tan¬
ner is made a krugbt-, on winch Dr.
Percy favs, that “a collar was, he be¬
lieves, antientiy uf^-cl in tl»t certmor.v of
conferring' knighthood.” That this,
however, was the caie, does no wheie
appear, fays .iVir, Anil’s (uc lupia, p.
no— i2i); but thty were frequently
prefeniyd by kings to ilwir tat-ou-

tifC'. '

The learrjed Dr.Taylcr (Elements cf

our orders cf kn'ghthood originate in
tiie cobars which our Cleinian ancetlcrs
w'ere io lend of t'-teiving as prelents.
“ Gaudent prsecipue hnicimarum gen¬
tium donis; f-lecti equi, nragea

arma, phalerse, TO (VJ £3r[ue.” "Taci¬
tus de M, G. c. 15. .'■o in tlie curious

dialogue l^etween the Rorran iiiper.diary
F avius and bis brother Arminius, t!,e

lirave Cherulcan : “Flavius auc’a fii-

perdia, TuPQUEM, tt c ronani, aUr.

Civil Law, p. 357) mentions his i avlng que nhlraiia ooiia, memoi at.’' Ann If,

a .plerititul colkttion of inO.ances, where¬
in modern .cuiloiT.s, though lomewhat
a’.ienat( d Irom their original defign and

inhitutic!!,' retain, -however, io muc

ch of

their old feamre 'cr compicxjcn as to

claim an iiiidfputable 1 elation to iome
Roman or Grecian foieiiinity. I here
ts an entertaining litt-k work on tnis
fubjtcl. bv De Blieujt, intituled, “ On-
gines de quel lues Couturrr s,'’ &c. Caen,
izmo, 16^2: but Taylor’s reading was
fo infinitely more extenbve, that it is to
be-'iamented that the wot id has loiT-’’^ the
refuhof his erquiiies on this head. The
pi dent iiiftj.irice, among many others,
which I have by me, would probably
have figartd in his col-It6tion ; for, it.

9. .'I'hat this ctiiloni was not pecul’ar to
thsGciuians, l.owever, appears Ircm lire
Gaul flain by Mari us TORQqjATUS^
and from Htrooian, whr) mentions (in
Seven.') that the B.itons were jion round
their necks. It was aifo an ornamc.nt < f
tlie Faithians (Giiibrfn, vol. V. p. fto)
between wliom and the ' Germans m.tny

9 I

indif putable feature, s of rtletirhiafiCt

rn gbt be adduced ; though, perhaps,
ibis ii but a C’.rcu mil ante torntnon to a i ;
nations in a. certain flage of fucisnv j
bnee the Zinges, or Negrr.-es in ihe Eait |
Inoies, wear chain; round their neck;:..
Harris, Collehf. of Vo\aLcs, vol I r.

540 See m.ore on this (ut ject iti Wa;-

mariifdilv a'.mears, that the co lars of

Lads Hiilory of Enghfh Poetry, voh I.
difT. L p. 4. nor. k. p. 38. 60.

I fay loji, f^ecaule, tlrcugit it appears, from the very entertaining “ Life oi Kowycr.'*
that the Dodlor’s acherjaria wc-rs left behind hini'i yet it is to be feared that they fell into the 1
fame h.ihds who made fo.nnfneiidly and unworthy an ufe of his manurcripr pioLgcanena :
to Demoftbenes. It is ell known tliat Alkevv, wh > is unueiitooci to tutve been lire ni'!-
vedal devifee of .Tavlor's MSS. (and wdiofe perfidy is maanfeil from Mr. Porfoirs notes on ■
Toup’s Saidas, vol. IV- p. 495), font ll efe prolegomena to Reilke, who (to gratify that ira-
tied of rhe Englifh which deforms tire whole of his Gr-eck oimtors) prints them in that crude i
Rate, and tlien abufes 4 aylor for their being in Inch a flate. . It was not thus that Heyiie I
treated Schrader, ; the pati'age does hin> fo much honour, and prefents fo impoitant a leflon 1
to all men of letters in tiieir condudt to therr decea;'‘ed brethren, tlia]; i man ferine it at
length flora lire ju-eface to h s iaft edition c f Virgil. After having fiated chat he got Schra*
dei ’s manuferij't notes on Virgil at an audlion, and dcpofiteJ them in the univerfii) -liourry,
he pioceeds: “ Opt ram adhibendain elfe vidi valde melefiarn ac difiicilem, extricaiidis
i mumen , quas in cbaitam conjecerat ; modo memoriae caulfa, modo ut v.tria tentarct . , . ,
lit kligerem id, qnoti vir dodVlflimus prohatuius fuilfet, et in lucein prodiUirus. Injuriin enim
efjet in Manes viri omnia ejus meditata vulgate ex jehedis poHumis Deliet. .4ppofui ’g tur

i la, ni quibus inpC' ii acumen, et poeticse tkganure f nit m deoi etn nd' i e mini videreiq 'ne
quid, ejMod deb. dual e poflet, arbitris iiarum rciiun invidtrem j nec mcaijum tot viri d ch c<,?:a-
tus ingenit lecidetr patererG

'ifj.s condudit ot h eiike is the more faulty as he had himfelf a deep fenfe cf the tendernefs
with winch the meraoiy iif literary rnen iitonhi he treated. Siie-k ng, in Ins life cf hinulclf
(which, in peevillinefb aa-d filf-coiiceit, often reminds one of another piece of egotiitical
bio.gi api y by an eminent critick of our own, now' living, and whom lie alfo referables in
.learning, m ddigence, and in a viituous fliuggle witli adverfity,) i f his own Animadver-
fipre5 ad Autores Giaecos,” which he commends very highly, he thus energetically con¬
cludes : “ Should they o< me out in my life-time, it will pay nse foi all my trouble, if tliey
fhoi-iid not, an evei -waking God will ti.k-e care thr.t no impious h ;nc! feizes on my work,
■and makes it bis own. Poiiif'iy thei'e n ay arife fi me honourable God-fe:ring man, who
may hereafter publiih tlrem, uniHlulteraitd, to msy pofi humous Cme, and for the good of
liffratuie. Such is n y wifh, fuch ."Ve my piayeis to God ; and he will I'.ear thofe pra.yers.”

Weie l)r. 1 .q lot’s cuiious common-plact -books, al ove-mentioned, fold at Dr- Aiktw s
auciriii G if tliey were, what became of them i P< ritapb the Dodlor's Friend, whole con-
tribUr ir, under the fignature of T. F. to the Rife of Bowyer, have fo ofiea amufed aau
iciiliud.ed me, may know more abyut tUena,

P.53.

jg^.] Remarks on the ReUques of A cieni Poetry.

1091

P. ^3. My moder ])elieriyd a nodyr
niiiuige of vv:’x ro our lady of WaU
) Feno’h PaFon Letters, HI. 22.

F. 127. Sir Henry Savjie. in the dedi-
arion to hL tranflui,on of Tacitus, men-
ions Qjecn El zadeth’s own adaurable
^ompoiniorir.

P. 12b. The forv of “ 7'he heir of
dvnr.e,” who, after having; I'pent all his
uldlanre, finds an untxpe.cfVed treafure
n an old lioufe, is veiv liinilar to that cf
be 7'r'numnnis of Plautus, wheve Char-
p.ides hides ti.c treafure in nis houfe, and
ais I’on Lyfitcles finds it.

P. 1^9.

His f ither had a keen fiew’qrde,

" And John o’ tlie Scales was called he.”

The family o* Delia Sraia, or Scahger,
WrtS lonp regnant in Veiona ; anti we
had a L^nd Scales in England. See alfo
L’Elcalcrs or ''■calc'., in Gough’:- Cam¬
den, voi. i. p. 341. 'But they liewaid of
our oallad teceited hi - appellation from
hi>. piatt'ce of 'ZA.'iighiri'^' money j for,
cheie were antienily two n^odes of pay¬
ment, by laU. or by weighty ad nume-
ruin, ad f:aiam\ which- are Jearntdly
trearcci of by Mr. Clarke (Connex. of
C|Oins c.tp. ill. p. 140 — 14^)- ,

P. 1 35. “ Le liuiri ContefTeur” of

Fontahic Teems to be founded on this
baba'.' O' Q^een Eleanor’s contcfiion.

P 162.

— — oil his aged temples grew
The blolToui.es of the grave.” ,

Mr. Guchiie’s beautitul fragment”
feemt to betray itfelf by its rdernblance
to Sophocles :

PIA. - - To> AaVov, pno-o

Tiv’ (XK^-r.v r.Cr^^

iyct>y.

inK.. fXifxc" p/voa^4;y C'^Tt AETK.ANOIT
Kctfa. O^dip.'i yran. 761.

P. iki. Ml . Guthrie’s account of L''id
Suney’s engagement with Su Andrew
Bar.on is copied li'erally front Lord
Heriteit’b Hifiory of Henry 'Viii.'p. 16.
192.

And w i'.h his fugred woordes to muve.”
John Ravnolds ulcs tim phiafe '‘'•Jugerfd
Ipeithts’ m the preface to li;- “Gjo’s
Ibevcnge agavnli Murder.” Tlius alio- in
W'libers’ Stedtall Sbepheid

Sugred words can ne’er deceive me,

(1 ho’ thou prove a tltoufand cliaimsy’h

Vcl. 111. p. 264,

So in a macaronic diflich ap. Vigncul-
Marvile, tom li. p 170 :

“ — — — parvos femando libellos,

Eucrc\tis i^i-nlunit|ue ievem amoreando pa-
lolis.”

The pr?.£lice was in hand of the
princes of the empire to enchaunt the
people' with ftiggered proffers of atone¬
ment ” Bodley ap Camdbn’s E’izabeth,
edit. Hearue, p. 942. — Dr', Percy feems
to luppofe that fugar was fiifl imported
to us from the Wefl Indies ; and L.,ord
Lyttelton has fallen into tlie fame error
in his dralogue between Ap’.cius and
Darteoeufj but Lucan mentions it a-
mong the natives of PlindoOan :

“ Quiqne bibunt tenera dulcet ab arundim
fuccos,” HI. 237.

And that it was known to the Arabians
appears fiom Gibbor, voi. V. p. 447.
Piers Plowman, in a (pivited ptrfomhea-
tion of Envy, makes him fav,

“ May no Jugsr^ ne no fwete thing, fwage
the fw thing.”' Pair. V. fign. F. iii.

P. 193-

Until! you heare my whijlle blov>'’e.”
On ^vhifiUs ibed bv naval rommand'crr,
fee Star.' 24 Henry VHI. c.' 13 ; Anfii ,
O der of the Garter, voi. 11. p. 121.

P. 2 10,

My fatlier and grandfather flaine.’*
Both the grandfathers of K ng James I.
died vi()l'..ijt deaths. James V. (of Scot-*
land) fell at Flodden-fieid.

P. 229. The tune of “ The Winning
of Gales” is'the fame with that of ‘^Thc
Miller of Mansfield.”

P. 233. The ” Spanifh Lady’s Love”
fcriins to be built upon a hint of Lewis
Vertomannus ; who, in his “ Navjga-
tiones,” lib. H. cap. 5, fays, that the
fultan of Sana^s wife offered to go with
him, and leave ail to be his page.

P. 254. “Sir Thomas More’s Plidory
of Ps.iciiard 111. read “ Edward V.’’

Ib:cl. it has been er roneouPiV fuppofed
that Shoreditcli received its name from
th's unhappy miftrefs of iCing E'iward
IV, ; bui this cannot he the calc, if it is
alluded to in “ Tiie VilioDS of Piers
Ploughman,” pall. XIIl. fign T. iii, is
tliey are printed in that molt faulty edi¬
tion of 1561:

“ .bo the fortry of Southwarke, or of
JJ.mt didih dame Eve.” — f. Shore-ditch,

John cic Shoroiche ana Elene in. wife are
Hiet.tioned m the Year-b ok. I'Edward
IN. Toi 5, a : and this John is probably
the Tame with Sir John de Sordich, an
e nin-nt. lawver, Irom whom Mr. Pen-
nnit H- ndon, p 261, e-<. 8vo.) con¬
ceives this ilrcct was denom nated : hue
it IS more likely that he was called ’de
Siiote-ditfh (i e. cloaca fojja) from this
b-ing the place of his lelidcncc.

f. 268,

T092

Death of great and learned Men.'^Polhical Writers?

[Dec.

P. 268.

Inftead of faireft colours,

Set forth with curious art,

Her image ftiall be painted ,

On my diftrcfied heart.”

“ This alludes to the p?dnted effigies of
a’abaHer, ahticntly ere6\ed upon tombs
and monuments,” Euripides alludes to
this cuftom in feme beautiful lines,
though he feems to have given the re¬
finements of his own age to a luder pe¬
riod. It is the unmanly Admetus who
addreffes his magnanimous wife:

So^il '^’sx-lovwv, ^sjxa-; 70 aro'J

finoio-QiVy £V ^exl^otcr^v eKlaGyiaelui^
'W^^criTiaiijiiatt xcct iSiPkTrlvo'aa/v
omua. Kci-'\(t:v crov, (^t\y;y sv
ywetiKay KCt'tTne

AiceiliS; A. 11. S. i«

Mr. Urban, Coixibity Nov. 10.
N Piers’s edifion of tw’o tragedies of
Euripides, Mfcdea, and the P'huerrician
"Women, he has prefixe'd the life of Eu¬
ripides i in which, after (peaking of the
untimely death of feveral great men,
both antient;jnd modern, he lays, *‘D,u-
riora haec elfe fatemur, praecipue apod
illos quibas (era fecuiorum aiTurget pcf-
teriras;” which is to th'is effcdl : twefe
things, we confeis, are-hard, eTpecially
to Lliofe whom, probably, a lor;^ 1 tries
of ages muft follow e.fter they iiave leit
this world. Now this appears to me to
be an improper rtfledHon for any one
who has enjoyed the advantage of Re¬
velation ; eipccially as Tally, who had
the lighr of Nature only to (tired't him,
has deferi bed Cato, in Ins treatde of 0;d
A.gv, fo far from lameming the approach
ct death, that he rather wiffies for ir.

I tliall b( g leave to-fabjoin the paifage
of Tally, as tranfiated by Mr. Addilbu,
Spe61 N*’ 537.

What, befuies this, is the caufe that the
wife ft men die with the greateft equanimiiy,
the ignorant wrth the greateft concern?
Toes it not feem that thofe minds vvliich
have tire rnoft extenfive views forefee they
aj e removing to a happier condition, which
thofe ot a in^rrovver fight do not pe cei\ e ?
U ™y pa> t, am tranfporled with the hope
01 leeing your ancestors, whom 1 have ho¬
noured and loved ; and am earneflly defirous
of meeting, not only thofe excellent perfons
vvhom I have known, but thofe too of vviaom
I have iieaid and read, and of wliom 1 my-
felf have written ; nor Vvould I be detained
from lo picafing a journey. O happy day,
'When I (bail e cape horn this crowd, this
heap of polluMon, and be admitted to that
jdivine aliembly of exalted fpirits 1 when I
7'

go, not only to thofe great perfons f
have named, but to my Cato, my fon, than
whom a better man w'as never bom, and
wliofe funeral rites I myfelf performed,
whereas he ought rather to have attended
mine. Yet has not his foul deferted me,
but, feeming to call back a look on me, is
gone before to thofe habilations to which it
was fenfible 1 flioukl follow him. 'And,
tliough I might appear to have borne my
lofs with courage, I was not uhaffedfed with
it ; but I comforted myfelf with the alfm ance
that it would not bq long btrfore we fhould
meet again, and be divorced no more.”

P. S. Peihaps .(bine may think that
•Mr. Piers means, in that patiage, which
I have excepted againh, that it is long
belore great and learned men have jufiice
done to their merits ; hut he feems to me
rot to be fpeaking of fame, but of the.
miferies allotted to mankind.

Yours, &c. J. M«

Mr. Urban, Nov. 13.

T SHOULD be thankful to be inform^
X ed who were the authors of “ The
Scourge,” a periodical j-ublication of
1717; and The independent Whig,”
printed in 1722. They are each of thein
violent party pamphlets, and as oppo-
fite in their tendency as pofiible. The
firft delivers dpbltines in religion and
politicks hrai'ar to thole of Dr. Sache-
vtrell, and the other has a great refern-
bfance to the politick writings of Daniel
De Foe.

On perufing Calamv’s Lives of the
INTiniffeis ejebltd for Non con for mil y in
1682, 1 find that ferae of them were
fathers to perfons who wcf e afterwai ds
minifters of the' Churdi of En^/fand,
and very zealous for ir j ainong''t'he refij,
Sdchevere.l, Miib'uur, and Cuik'it;-
and I have been informed th<it Dr. War¬
ner, a divine of our Ciiurch (vvho,
about 26 vears fince, wrote the Hiftory
of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in
Ireland), was Ton of a DilTenting mi-
niller at W^abaih I alfo urderkwnd,
that Dr. Tthoilbn and Dr. Seeker, two
eminent prelates of our Church, were
educated among she D ffenters. Thefe
(to uie a borrowed cxpieffitin} turned
fjom the left to the right ; whei'eas L. L,
Mr Lindley, Mr. Wakefield, and others
of their damp, have turned from the
right to the left.

Dr. Walker’s Book on “ The Suf¬
ferings of the Clergy” is a proper
companion in a library to Caiamy’s
Lives j as Heyiin’s Arius Redi-
vivus” iliould be to Neal’s “ Hiftory of
the Puritans,” Eiom thefe laft authors,

Chriftiaus

5 794-1 -Curious /;zy^77/)/i5w/rflwiChnRcburch,Hants. iC9g

Chriftians of different denominations
fiiould learn to ihun the intolerance of
their rtrpe£ljve predeceffors, and en¬
deavour to praffife the contrary virtues
of mutual forbearance and Chiiftian
charity to thofe of tlieir brethren who
cannot, in religious matters, think like
themfclvcs. E. E.

Mr- Urban, 27,

O U Iv correfpondent B. L, -who
i tranfmitted the curious chirurgical
operation performed in India, is, 1 be¬
lieve, millaken in I'uppohng it unknown
in Europe. Firft, I refer to ihoie re¬
markable lines in Butler’s Hudibras,

I So learned Taliacotius from

The brawny part of porter’s bunn
Cut fupplemental nofes,” ^c.
Taliacotius, in the notes, is faid to
have been furgeon to the Grand Duke
of Tulcany, and to have v\titten a trea-
pfe De Curtis Membris. Secondly, I
have a book now by me, intituled,
Chiriir^ofiifn ComeSy printed in the year
1687; part IV. of which is dedicated
Entirely to the fub'Cift, ‘l/iis. “ Of lup-
plying the Nofe, Ears, and Lips, when
deficient,” and wiiich the au'hor cails
the “ 'srapfisfisliHr/, additriXf or fupplying
part.” It contains 60 pages divided
into XX chapters, and exhibits a very
minute and circumfiantial" detail of the
whole opaeraiion. The author concludes
the fubjtol with chap. XXL “The
Hillory of a Nofe artificiaUy engrafted j”
which, as it is (hurt and curious, I beg
leave to tranlcribe :

“ Ann. 159c. When the Duke of Savoy
made w ar upon Geneva, a virgin fell into
the haiuls of tlie foldiers, whofe chaftity
when they had aitemi ted in vain,' they be¬
ing enraged cut her nofeoff. About two
years after, Ihe went to Laufanna, where
Mr. John Griffonim, a molf ingenious and
fuccelsful ciururgeon, then lived. He un¬
dertook to cure her, and reftored her nofe
fo artificiary> ^hat, to the admiration of all,
it appeai'ed rather natural tlian artificial. 1
myfelf have feen her .feveral times, and file
continues unmarried at LauLnna this pre¬
lent year 1613. ft is true, in the cold of
winter the tip of her nofe looks livid ; hut it
is nounlhed as o her parts of the bckly, and
endued with fenle. Gi iifonius had lome
liints of tlie method from an Italian, as he
travel'ed through Laufanna, who had con-
veifeu with the famous Taliacautius, though
he had never feen the operation performed,
nor Taliacautius his VVorks, before he had
cured the maid. But he cured th^||naid in
the fame manner as’T.aliacautius defcribes
it.” Hiid. Obf. Chir. 3iCeut. '

A, perhaps, whimfical conceit has
tins moment occurred, whether the La-r
tin name Taliacautius is npc taken f.om
the Italian iagUare and cautOy or cauia-
mrniey i. e. to cut with cautton or jucl^e-
rettnty and fo applied as an agnomen, or
wfiat we call nickname, to this celebra¬
ted fufgeon ; a pra6lice much in u!e ail
over Italy to tins day.

1 coincide entirely with Damafippus’s
remarks from a perfonai knowledge of
the places and circurnftancts. How
long are we to be pefiered with preten-
deis to ^irtu F for, at piefenr, to evef^
writer of his Rambles,

Some Demon whifpers, Viflo, have a tafle.

Sir Ifaac Newton, if I mifiake not,
has fomewhere infinuated, that we fee
ivith but one eye at one and the fame
inftant; which is the reafon, perhaps,
that we do not fee every obje.^ double;
but 1 would a»k one or both of the ver¬
tiginous philolbphers, who have lately
fo nvuch oppolcd each other in your
Magazine on the fubjeiT of vifion, how
the intoxicated man lees double ? and,
when he has tumbled on the'fioor, and
fcrambles left he Ihould fail lower, ’what
cou d have occafioned thofe mo-vtrg
fpeSira to a body always at feft i And
yet we have feen at Sadler’s Weils, and
luch places, a tumbUr fpin like a top
for a quarter oi an hour together, a.t
the fame time bel^ncing naked Iworcs
and drinking-glalies over his head, and
not be aiFedled in tlie leak. T.

Mr. Urban, No-v. it.

IN the courle of laft fummer i was at
Chriftchurch, in Hampfiiire. I wilh
1 had been initiated into the graphic art,
that 1 might have furmfiied you with a
drawing of that noble ftrudiure, the
church there. The antiquity of the
building, its bold fituation, and the ve¬
nerable appearance it bears, mull ftrike
the eyeol the moll incurious. Scrolling,
as IS my cuftom, along the church-
yaid, which is very I'pacious, the fol¬
lowing curious infcripcion upon one of
the tombftones engaged my attention :

We were not flayne, but rays’d }

Rays’d not to lite,

But to be buried twice
By men of Itrife.

What reil couU tli' living have
When dead hah none
Agree amongft you.

Here w'e ten are one.

Hen. Rogers, died April 17, 1641.’'’*

li h earneilly requelled, if any of

your

1094 Colealom for the County of Northu.nberland. [Dec.

\our n u iTi'TOLis readers ar,d correfpond-
ents can throw any liyju upon this ful)-
that they vrould favour the world
With an explanation.

I could gain no information on the
fpot. To what csn it allude - Not to
the .civil "-'ar, for it was not as yet burll
forth. The momhs of April and May,
1641, were (Kcupied hy tlje diTpures
between Elina Charles and the Koule of
Commons reipefting the JLfiti cf Straf¬
ford.

1 cannot but imagine but that the
whom alludes to religious diderences,
and to fome denial (-'t wh-rt is cslled
Chrifiian burial, or repof'c, to home ia~
?i'>ily (f(^' tes! are fpoken of although
only one name appears at the botsoivi,
Irleo. Rogers), and that it had been the
,|ub5eft'of much dirfiillion, and various
c’'eterniinanon. But I wait lor better
«rtormatu^n.

Tlte hone oVi which the above is in-
fcvibcd !S erccf, and of the ufual fiie.
The gfXrund bHmre it ss perfedllv fiat,
fetid bears no mark of any tumulus 1
attribute this to the length of time.

Yours, &c. , A. GO.

"***** " "T"

Mr. UltBAN, T.fif. 2..,

1^;,^ /I" ENT i ON having been made in a
* -iV'.i former Number concerning lome
CoUeiMions for the toun v of Nmihurn-
allow me to prelent the follow¬
ing to the author thereof through the
jnedium pf your valuable M'fcellany,
which 1 extradfed from a curious me-
inorandum book (lately fai'.en into my
itands), in the hatid - wr iting of the Revt.
John Jeinmar, a Dilfenting rniiVilier,
who lived at the time. If the genrle-
tri-an, who is the auihc r of thofe Collec¬
tion-, finould lie-clel; ous of feeing the
origin..!, you, Mr, Urban, can gi'-e hini
a direct ion. H. E,

Generali obfcrvatioiis .touching the efcate

of Norlhuu.bcrlar.d ; ihe firl't whereof re-

fleils u;oa the Iltcuf.ois being the rncit

tiangerou's v\. cedes tlial grow in that gai deii,

“ ileeurints. at e efpecially obUrvable in
theire pow er, whicli is budded lue in tliefe
particulars :

“ I. Theire number by convidliou pcc,
bv eftimation 2006.

‘‘ 2. 'I heirc w’evahli, wdiich is generally
remarkable in i. theire lands; 2. fiock ;
3. money, which ircre.ifeth by a new k nde
of g nfury in an extraordinary failaicn.

^ “ 3. Tiieire offices under his Ma’tie,
fleward hips, ba} ly ’-v ick^', colieilorlbips,
rec;iverfbii>'.

' “ 4. The cem’andes of the eftales of great

pTons j t- the La<ly S1irewn;uih’e's ; '2. t!-'e
Lord Wiiliann Howard's; the Lord of
Wald'on’s ; 4. Sir Henry Witliringmu's.

“ 5. The itrong caftles a'ul tow'ers which
th.ey hold ; Withrington, Bothell ca^l?,
Hirfe, Morpeth calTie, Wott'Ui cafile, Cap-
herton, Cartiagton, Swinborne caflle, Har-
bottle caiTe, CldrUva!! cafile, Haggerftone.

6. The juflic.es ( f peace wiiofe v.'ives
are Recurants-; Sir Jn’m Clavering, Sir
Thomas Riddill, Sir tVil'iam Selhie, Mr.
Cnthbcrt Her.ie, new nricked flicriff.

‘' 7. '? he number of families of t'le ba/l
rank whicli .are either wh -lly 01* rnudvfmac-
tered with recufarcy ; W'lthi’.ngtons, Fen-
wdeks, Radchff , Grayes, Swinbornes, C.,)l-
lingwoods, Thorntons, Carnabies, La vfons,
Se'hies, Thlrhcalls, Ering'ons, Hylanders.

‘‘ 8. Clnmch Papifis, w'hich fiiey ufe as
fiallcingdiorks, and truil whb their eflates
and office' ^ to the delufion of .his .Ma’cie, and
his la'wes.'

9. The connivancy Iftlierto nfedvthere,
and not execution of the lawes made againlf
recnfancy. ^

lo The awe fhey boll the country in,
gained from, i. tlieire money, by which
thfy i igage m any unto them; 2. the c.
roand feme of them have ufer the Flykinders
and thieve'^, which are conceived to ffeale
many tim- s at theire appoyntmen^, foe as
none are free from theire inciirfions which
have not theme couiVea-jnce ; 7. tlieire great
' alTemihhes at all publiqne meetings, vvhere
Rill tlicy make the g e.itefi: partie, and are
able to fway and cm ry pu' lique eljffi<'ns;
4. theire adra irion to Er e upon juries,
whereby they often are thought to carry (by
their power and cunning) verdibls as they
pleafe.

I 1, Theire united diligence, goeing ft !l
one ’-vay, and doeinp; what Eemes mull to
tend to their advantage.

!2. 'i'tee continuall- agency- of jefuiticall
prieftes, plo'ting, d. refling, and keeping
theire pallions iw a porpe’uah motion.

‘‘ 13, Theire boii'enefs and prefumption in
daring, i. to contemne and breake . all la-vs
made againft tiierri ; 2. t ) affi-gnt both juE
tice and juftices in o; e.n court j 3. to difpute
againft and to difgrac^ t!ie true reiiginn pro-
feile.l in this king..l()m ; 4. iheire words, ex-
preiftiig' theire atfedlions to the enemies of
ids M.dtie, and ra.ahce towards Ids M.i’cie,
and majice towards his IvTdtie, and malice
towards his Ma’cie and ins good fub'ts.
'J liefe pair.iges not punilhed hI mucii to Che
opinion of theire p.jwer ( .mongft the cow=
mon. people efpecially), as we finde tf.ereby
dayly exp’nce.

14, From two wants; of, i. goo4
fchooles ; 2. a painfull and able muiiiler.”

Mr. Urban, Dec. 5.

E- comforts of a ]good road you
J. have oRen fek in thole little lum,-

mer

1794-] Indl8ment of Heads.— ?o]whdc'% DcvonfhifC.

Hier excurfions whiah a mine], ■ occupied
PS yours is, occaMonally lecjuire-', aixl,
.as 1 orce experit- need, liighly enjoys.
But may not a good thujg be c-irried too
1.0'; and on ihis, as ou many other oc-
cafions of life, ficmmum jus mav prove
futnrna irijuriu i' in ('ht;rc, is it quite
l<Mt in lejT'mte lequellered panihts, and
in trails far didant fiom publ c and poft
rOads, where a coach or a poftchade
IS a rare objtil ; is it quite fair lo expe-.'d
and iniift on roads equal in breadth and
fmoothneis to thofe whici) br.ancl) in
; every d'rebiion from, the croudtd and
wealthy metiopolis of Gieat Biita’.n ?

I am led to thefe reflex ons by having
been uiefent at a trial on the iubjedt of
an ind bled road, the repairing of which,
tboupji aimed impalfdble, bad been le-
liiied by a neighbouring paritn, under
the guidance of certain ^.e!! meaning
but w I ong-headed members of the -►et'ry ;
a clafs of men, wh.o generally rn.ake up
in Jlead^ Jirmnefs .for what ihey* vtant in
cle-.rnels and dexterity. Tinerc-ciid tiot
appear in the cafe i recite the Jlado^v uf
a JuSj or ( ite legal a«'uun,ent, in favour
of the paidh, who rriuft of courie fub-
init to file d.;ciliun of the court, a Viry
(Conhderabie pecuniary iofs, and a long
lawyer’s bdl.

In this date of things I think it no
■more th.an rny duty, as a neighbour to
both patuts, to a£t as a mediator, and
to apped to tli-e vibderious party, who
will lurtly hnd it their intered to be
content vvitii a tolerable load, rather
than r.gorou/ly inpft on fuch a road as
the law will give them, at the pi ice of
hatred, animohty, and iii-b!ood ;'vvhtch,
in little minds, operate ilrongt'v, and
hav,e been known, on (uch ccc lions,
to p.oduce mifch efs which cannot be
edimated at p,ojads, iiiiilin^^s, and
pence.

1 vvii! not touch on certain obvious
fubjccfs for rtcrjnun t on, wiiikn too
readily occyr to irrptaied men, and often
low the leeds of diicoid for future ge-
iieiations. I recommend ijberaiitv and*

. . j

coomels to both parties ; and, as the
gentlemen wlio gained their cauie cxim-
nienced with genclcnefs, I rely on their
concluding tlie bufinds with hrutnels
tempered with moderation.

Vours, &c. Lkms et Acer.

Ivir. Urban, Dee. 6.

ET me lay to Mr. Doud fbl, p,
lOj 2, pray doubt no lunger ; if your
lilltr rtiay ba^ne been “ irnprc videiu” Hie
is jour pfur^ and undoubtedly bus a

claim to vovir alfidance ; no innprudencc>
('ll her tide can cxcufe you from acting
by her the part of a brother. Veritas.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 8.

"^/’OUR hid correfpondent wiio at’*
-»• racks me in p. 878 for whatd ven-
. tuied to- lav in p. 8oz of Mr. Pc-lwheie’s
Uilloiy of Devon, i ;ke that gentltunan's
dwaifidi volume of Hiftoricai Views
'preceding his gigantic chi onologicd fo~<
lio, gives me only' a few lines, whilR
his vucceiror OrfasTies takes up more
than a column. The former lets me uSl'
lightly, only beftowing on me the titlt;
of carping’., uhilft the latter,- in g;eaE
wraih indeed, lays me on witii maUce —
env\ — puerile — infaniine-^li-^
let ary injePi — and wh-t net. Mercy cn
n e, Air. Urban, who would have
thought tha?, if luch a puny infei^
ihoui'J even be able to bite jo as to ha
Ith, hje could have r^ifed fuch a dorm!

But you, Sir, get a r-p cf the knuc-
k'es ior al owing me a corner in vour
Alilcelian Xlu?, i am tiulv
lor>y for ; becaufe, if you were to wit-
nels the avidity with wliich I open youc
Magazine, wet from the prtfs, after,
having hc<d a fcribbling ht on me ; ihs
length of my face if Q_. X. does nor ap¬
pear, or my exultation if I lee the fig-
nature ; you will judge what rny feelings
iTiuli be, if, in confequence of this caf-
tigaiion, you fbpuld exclude me. I
hafiily turned to p. S02, to fee if I h d
ufed any exprelhons unbecoming a gen¬
tleman, which would jufiify the rebuke
given to you ; and whether the ftyie of
lunpuage uled by Orfames was formed
fio.m mine, i could not find any it-
lenibiancc; but 1 agree witti Od'ames,
that there are certain f.y'es of larguage
which difgrace a fcholbr, and which,
for the hon^ ur of literature, ihouid not
be made ufe of.

But, with yourt leave, now for the
ciwaif and the giant. A very few wfjrds
will do for thv h.li. lie refeis me to .1
Dro/fetius of the woik; which has not
beta dfelivertd to me as a fuufciiber,
and which ,I have never ften j and he
refers me to Mr. PB Preface-, of which.
1 hjd already complained ibat I could
nr=t Lindeiftand it (and of which lati-e
Preface 1 could fay much more — jf I
dared).

As to Orfames, he is right in think¬
ing me no friend to Air. P ; u is my rnis-
foKune that 1 cannot clattn that tulc,
having never feen iiim. From hischa^
radter, i have r.o doubt oi iiis acquaint¬
ance

Foiwhele^s T)tvon^K\rQ.-^The'Lbn^roiiy of the Antunis. [Dec«r

ance being a truly valuable acquilition ;
but it by no means follows that, if 1 am
not his friendi i am his etiemy. One
who publifnes a book challenges the
opinion of the World. 1 thought your
Magaiiine, in which fo many literary
topicks (and particularly Antiquarian
ones) are difcullVd, was not an impro¬
per place to fe'sprefs tny opinion, if you
jjiould fee proper to admit it. See what
Springs from the gratification of one’s
Vri'flres I ' '

If Orfarnes rfealiy thinks I did not
comprehend the meaning^ of nenv csm-
piandmfnts being juhilitnted in (he room
ef rvtten old ones, i may, perhaps, with¬
out gre^^t offence^ rank hmn with myfelf
as no. conjurer', and, as he has only
treated my obfeivation on perjbrming
two- thirds of ike fernoice in one churchy
and the other third in another, in his own
Jiyle of language, without explaining
how it is to be dvone, 1 rnuft again con-
fels myfeif no conjurer, and own that I
do not comprehend how it is managed*
Indeed, Mr. Urban, this does iiot leem
to be exprefied with the accuracy to be
cxpe6ted in a Icholar, anr! that (cholar
a clergyman, efpecially as it relates to
his own profetiion. Nor does it appear
lefs odd to me, that one of that prufef-
fion flioutd fpeak of con’vntiig a chapel
a ‘ve^y elegant dranxung-roofTt, as at
■yow'iitrb^m, p. lyo, or into a library,
as at Nutweil, p, 2 to, as (in improms-
ment. But, lofily ; 1 niull hop here, or
1 flrall make bad woife,

1 have never ietn Dr. D’s Loves of
thePiants; but, if they were very iex-
unant, pofhbly one of the fhoots, which
he did not originally mean fliouid take
the lead when he began to train them,
might outitrip another which he de-
figned to bring forward. One fliould
hardly expeff I'uch a vigorous dart in a
tree v.mofe root is many centuiies old.
To be leriou--, Mr. Utban. Tlitnjgh
I mud regret that a gentleman of Mr.
P’s abilities fhould treat with contempt
fuch precedents of a County Hiftury as
have been given by a Dugdale, a'
Chauncy, or a Hutchins; though I fee
many things omitted, and many things
inferted which fnould have been left
out; and though he has txprelFed him-
felf 1q cavalierly, as he has done in his
Preface, of the opinion of bis Subferi-
bers ; yet i will allow that the lovers of
Topography are indebted to him for
what he has don^. I mud, however,
repeat my hope, that he means to give
an Index of per funs and places.

Mr. UrvBAN, Mil'Ll. 29.

S y6ur Magazine is how become
the edablifheti vehicle of every
beral art and feience as well asi of curi¬
ous ihformation, pernnit rhe to make a
remark or tw6' on the longevity of the
antients. With this view I have lately
examined the vears of the reigns ofdhe
fewera! kings of Affyria, froj^i the illtif-
trinus Ninus down to the laft king Sar-
danapalus. The Affyrian or Babylo¬
nian empire (the mod antient on re¬
cord) laded about 1250 years j and,
during this lung period, I am adonidied
to find that the drorteft reign was 1^
years ; and that, upon an average, the
monarchs reigned 40 years. For in-
dance; Ninus, w'ho made Nineveh his
royal leddence^ reigned 52 years ; and ^
in ail probability, from concomitant
circumdances, he mud have been above
40, or near £;o years old, when he took
the crown. On his deceafe the crown
defeended to his queen, the famous Se-
miramis’-’^ who built the walls of Ba¬
bylon, and fire reigned 42 years after
her hulband’s death : hiitory is dlenC
refpedling the time of her marriage, or
her age at the time; but, if Ike was of
a fuitable age with her hufband, die
mud have lived more than a century.
She was fucceeded by her fon Nineas ;
and on the death of his father he is faid
to have been a youth, not arrived at
manhood, polfibly about 18 years old;
and, as bis mother reigned 42 year.*;, he
mud have been at lead three-fcore when
he afeended the throne, and he pollrded
it 3S years. The fame method of rea-
fonmg might hold good with regard to
the fucceeding kings; for, if the fathers
lived long, the fons mud have been ad¬
vanced in life when they were advanced
to the diadem. But no light is thrown
upon this dark rubjc6l by the hidorians
until the lad king Sardanapalus, known
to a proverb for his effeminacy ; and he'
was depofed, and died a violent death
in the 20th year of his reign. The
above account is authenticated by Juf-
tm, who compiled his hidory out ot the
voluminous pages of Tiogas Pompeius,
a very antient Roman writer. The
fa.Tie account is likewife confirmed by
Eufebius and others. Now, if the com-

^ This celebrated Amazon, the ftrlf fe¬
male that ever reigned, is by hidorians
ranked among the kings ; for', in the begin-
niUg of her domination, die belied lier fex,
and allnmed the drefs and deportment of a
man.

mon-

794*1 Origin of the Italian Tranjlation of the Liturgy.

^on people of AfTyria, Chaldasa, and
►abylonia, were as long lived as their
ulers, men in general muft have lived

whole century; a period nearly as
ong as the life, in facred Scriptures,
tt'ibuted to the patriarchs. But, as the
\irvrian monarchs reiided occafionally
,c Nineveh or at Babylon, let us exa-
nine a little the fituation of theie two
;reat and aniient cities, and how far
he climate conttibu’'€d to the health
ind longevity of the inhabitants. But,
hat I may not take up too much room,
o the detriment of other mote ingenious
ton efpondenis, I beg leave to defer
:his cor (ideration to my next letter.

Yours, &c. T - R.

Mr. Urb AK, to.

F the following Preface to an Italian
edition of the Englifh Liturgy had
Fallen in the way before, it would almoft
have anfwered every part of the queftion
why the fame Litutgy has appeared in
Spanifli, Greek, &:c. The eel. tor of
this Italian edition in 1733 was Alex¬
ander Gordon, M. A who dedica¬
ted the wo’-k to Dr. Chandler, then
Bifliop of Durham. The anecdote con-
taint d in Mr. Gordon’s Italian Picface
will probably atone for my troubling
you w/ith an Englifh tranflation ; and,
with refpefl: to the ut lity of a Common
Prayer for facilitating the learning of a
language, it is plain to me that nothing
can be more ui'eful, efpecially fox get¬
ting acquainted with the expletives and
particles of the fame : by the latter I
mean the pronouns, adveibs, prcpofi-
tions, and conjundlions. W. H. R.

Mr. Edward Brown, the editor of the
Englifh Liturgy (in the Itnli.an language) iii
16B5, from which this new imprefliou is
taken, writes, that be ng then chaplain to-
liis Excellency Sir R. Finch, the ambalTador
of Charles II. at ConlLintinople, he found
himfelf obliged to learn tlie Italian, not on'y
to enable liim to convei fe with the Chril-
tians refiding there, but alfo to inflruCl a
poor congregation of French rreteffants,
enjoying liie liberty of exercifing their re¬
ligion in the EnglllFi amballaJor’s houfe.
In order to bring the cbfeipline and doddiine
of the Church of England the more into
ellettn, he thougiit it convenient to trani-
late lu much ot the fa id J.iturgy iulo Ilahan
as would ferv'e for llie celebration of the
tliree inoft folem.n fePivals in the year, and
which he accordingly made ule of for the
common benefit of the Grangers, as well as
his friends the merchant', as long as he red¬
ded at Cnnllantinopie. About five years
GeN'I'. Mag. December, 1794.

1097

after his return tlience to London, lie
thouglit of tranflating the whole of the Li¬
turgy, finding his patron was pleafed with
the w’oi k ; and for tliis end he communica¬
ted his deiign to a g'=-ntlen'an of the name of
John Eaptille Capello, at ih it time a fkilful
mart er of the Italian language, who foon put'
his IiLid to the tranflation of the body of the
Liturgy, leaving it to Iiim, Mr. Edw'ard
Brown, to fupply the Kalendar, the table of
the proper Leffons, the EpiRLs, the Go-
fpels, and the Pfalms, which he had to take
from Diodati, fome few paifages excepted,
which did not exaclly correfpond wdth the
Englhh or the original. The work being
thus completed, the editor’s fuperiors impo-
fed the cliarge upon him to fee that nothing
fliould go out in public that w'as not conve¬
nient to, and did not faithfully accord with,
the folemnity of fo important a fubjedf. The
minute revifal and adjuflraent of the work in
tlie corredlion of the printed flieets, and of
every thing that appeared to him to be con¬
trary to the fenfe of the Church, was there¬
fore his office. He alfo fupplied many de-
fedfs that arofe at firft from the iandver-
tency of his coadjutor.

“ Mr. Brown farther'informs us that, at
the inftance of Father Paul Sarpi, the Fng-
iifh Liturgy had been iranfl.irecl into Italian
many years before by the PvCV. Mr. Bedell,
then chaplain to the very learned Sir Henry
Wooton ; but, as this work had never ap¬
peared in public, Mr Brown had the greater
defire to publifh his own tranRation.

Things being thus deferibed, and in the
exadt words of the editor, for the farther fa-
tisfadlion of my ie.aders, 1 mull inform them
of tlie more immediate occafions of printing
the prefeiit work. In the firfl place, the
abovemenhoned edition of 1685 (w'hidi, if
I am not deceived, is the only one extant)
was become fo fcarce, that people wnfhing to
have a copy of it in their libraries coilld not
procure it but with much difficulty. Se¬
condly, many people defircd to have a more
corredl edition than the former; becanfe, in -
that there w ere divers errors in the fenfe of
the words as well as in its orthography. ;
TJieie are alfo many prayers in it which,
through the alteration of circumftatices, aie,
not in life at prefent; and, befuies tlie Ka¬
lendar, many other particulars belonging to
the feftivals and ceremonies are now'^ adopt¬
ed which were not then extant. And, laPly,
the Italian being highly efteemed by the Eng-
liili nobility, and other perfous of great me¬
rit and intelligence, many, it was prefumed,
might defire to be poffilfed of the Liturgy in
tint fwcet language, hecaufe tliaf, in cdnfe-
quen.ee of a frequent , perulal of it, they
might confulerably improve in their acquaint¬
ance with the fame. And liefides, if ever
tlie public prayers in that language ihoulu be
ufed ill London, the Italians there refident
would be able to enjoy its fpiritual benefits.

For

ioqB John Dean. — Primate Robinfon. — Fairs near London* [Dec.

For my part (fays the Rev. Mr. Gor¬
don), as editor of this new edition, I have
exerted my befl; abilities to purify it from the
errors that occurred in the former in its or¬
thography as well as in other refpe61s mere
important. I have adjufted the Prayers and
the Kalendar to the prefent ufe ; and I hope
that my undertaking may give univerfal fa-
tisfadtion.’^

Mr. Urban, Dec. 9.

N reply to the queftion of your cor-
refpondent D. H. p* 9*9> concern¬
ing “John Dean 5"’ perhaps it may bring
to .his recolleftion fome farther circum-
llances upon the fubjedf, when I in¬
form him that, many years ago, J was
taken by my father, when a boy, into
fome office in the India- houfe, I know
not what, and there I faw hanging a
large portrait of a bailor, whole name 1
uncierfiood to be John Dean ; and I was
told— perhaps there was a long inferip-
tion at the bottom of the pidlure reciting
— -that it w'as painted, by order of the
Company, in honour of the failor, who
had dillinguifhed hi'mfelf either by la¬
ving to the Company a lliip, or part of
its cargo, which the captain and crew
had endeavoured to dellroy, or cheat
the Company of, fomewhe'-e on the
coaft of Madagafearj or, rather, by
Tingling out of a room-fuil of the Com¬
pany’s Tailors, into which he was turn¬
ed, one or two of his former Ihipmates,
^who bad been concerned in fome foch
tranfaftion, and by his evidence bring¬
ing them to juftice. Your correfpondent
will permit me to obferve, that it does
not at all appear by the article he cites in
vol. XIII. what the annuity was given
to’the man for: and I have fo imper-
feft a remembrance of the fiory at this
diftance of time, that I mud refer him
to the India- houfe for better informa¬
tion.

P. 965, a. If the narrative in Arch-
dall’s Continuation of Lodge’s Peerage
may'be depended on, the late Lord Pri¬
mate’s Engiifli baronetage and Irilli
peerage delcend to Matthew Robinfon
Morris, of Weft Layton, in Yorkfliire,
and Mount Morris, in Kent, efq. ;
and, in default of his ilTue male, to his
jiephew, Morris Robinfon, efq. M. P.
for Boroughbridge, elder brother of
Matthew Montagu, efq. M.P. forXre-
gony.

P. 973. Permit “ another of Mr.
Mainwanng’s Conftituents” to bear his
teftimony to the very great propriety and
jultice of the oblervatioRS <?f iiis prse-

curfor, and to call them back from En¬
field races to Edmonton fair: (and will
not the fober and refpedlable inhabi¬
tants of the various neighbourhoods of
Smit'nfield, Peckham, and Bow, join
wibingly in the fame obfervations ?}
Let any man of common decency and
morality, any friend of peace and pub¬
lic order, not to fay of Religion and
Chriftianity, contemplate

The beaftly rabble that come down

From all the garrets in the town,.

the profanenefs, debauchery, drunken-
nefs, quarrels, noife, riot, picking of
pockets, breaking of fences, bilking cf
turnpikes, with all the train of et-Ciste-
ras, that thofe who live in the refpec-
tive vicinities of thefe feenes of licenfed
plunder, and the roads leading to them,,
can favour him with a fight of upon
every annual return of them ; and then
fay, whether fuch pra£lices ought to be
encouraged by the legiflaturein aChrif-
tian country, lor the fake of the increafe
of revenue they may be the means of
bringing in to the Excife from the pub-
lic-houles, of the profits of the fairs that
accrue to the loids or ladies of a few
manors near the metropolis, or of the-
amufement that arifes from them to all
th'e idle boys and girls of every delcrip-
tion, as well as too many “ children of
larger growth,” who have no better
way of employing themfelves in this
world, than by contemplating ^fucll
feenes ? But, alas I ^luid faciunt leges.
(or any thing eife), ubi Jola pecunvci
regnat? Let any thinking man, who
wilhes well to his country, refleft what
influence Proclamations for the I'uppref-
lion of vice, immorality, and profane¬
nefs. are likely to have, when he con-
liders that public lotteries, with all the
evils refulting from thena, are eflablifh-
ed by the Legiflature every year.

P. 9S8. As a friend to all uleful in¬
formation, and ardent in the purfuit of
knowledge, I hope lam not unthankful
for the beftovvment of it from what
quarter foever it may come ; but, when¬
ever it is imparted, I always wifli to fee
it accompanied with truth and candour.
I am led to thefe obfervations from a
reflexion of your candid and liberal
correfpondent Caledonienfis, who in-'
forms the publick, through the mediumi
of the Gentleman’s Maga'zine, that “ thei
Eftablifhed Church of Scotland” pof-’
feflss “levelling principles.” This i$l
a charge to me quite new. My ancef->
tors were members of that Church, II

vva»l

794.] EJiahllJhed Church in Scotland.— Elborough Woodcock, 1099

was educated in the ftrifteft principles
of that Church, -and I can truly vouch
that I know of no “ levelling princi¬
ples” that were a part of my education.

1 was always taught not 6nly “ to fear
God, but to honour the king ; not only
to be ready to every good work, but to
be fubjeft to principalities and powers,
to obey magiftrates.” I always conh-
dered the Church as a regular and or¬
derly Church, that had its General Af-
lemblies, its Prolocutor, Clerks, and
Ruling Elders. I freely own, that I
have often thought that the addrelles
from that Church to the Throne brea¬
thed more of the fpirit of Chriftian pi¬
ety than any others that I faw in the
London Gazettes. It is an article in
their Confelfion of Faith, that “ it is
the duty of people to pray for magif-
trates, to honour their perfons, to pay
them tribute and other dues, to obey
their lawful commands, and to be fub-
3e£f to their authority, for coafcience
fake.” And, in the expofition of, the
hfch Commandment given in their Ca-
techilm, “ the honour which inferiors
owe to their fuperiors is” aflerted to be
all due reverence in heart, word, and
behaviour, prayer and thankfgiving for
them, imitation of their virtues and
graces, willing obedience to their law¬
ful commands and counfels, due lub-
miffion to their correclions, lidelity to,
defence and maintenance of, their per-
lonj and authority, according to their
feveral ranks, and the nature of their
places, bearing with their infii mities,
and covering them in love, that fo they
may be an honour to them and to their
government.” If Caledonienfis, or any
of your readers, can difcover in thefe
things any traces of “ levelling princi¬
ples,” or of that liberty and equality,
which Teems to be imported in no Imall
quantities from an unhappy neighbour-
ing kingdom that Providence has given
up to ruin, I mull bow with humble
fubmilfion before their new light and
great penetration, and acknowledge my
total want not only of the fecond fight
of my country, but of fufScient dilcern-
ment to dilcover the fmallell veftiges of
them. As to the compariTon that Cale-
donienfis draws between the fta es of
the Clergy of the two kingdoms, he
will permit t?te to Tay, ihatnocompa-
rifon will hold between the Scots’Cicrgy
and the EngliHi Curates i the former are
refident minifters, who are not allowed
pluralities, and do the duty of their pa-
nlhes i the Utter are a let of men, many

of whom are indeed much to be pitied ;
bur, as all their intereft in the re(pe6tive
parifhes depends neither upon the State,
nor the parifh, nor any public or pri¬
vate patron, but merely upon the parilh
priefts, to them, and them only, not to
Government,” nor any other quarter,
have they to look for “an augmentation
of their falaries,”

P. 1000, b. In anfwer to the enquiry
of your correfpondent Magda! e;v^«fis
(ought it not to be written ?) refpefting
the filver coinage, permit me to inform
him, that what he caljs fleurs-de-lis are
defigned to reprefent plumes of feathers,
the common and well-known cognizance
of ihe Prince of Wales ; and, if he will
turn to the tables of the coins, publifhed
originally by Mr. Folkes, and fince by
the Society of Antiquaries, he vvil! find
that the rofes, as he obferves, intimate
that the flUer is Engllfli ; the roles and
plumes of feathers alternately fpeak it
Englifli and Welfli together; and the
feathers alone declare it Weifh.

P. 1026, a. In the critique on Mr.
Wvndham’s Pifture of the Ifle of
Wight, for Marquis read MarchioneTs
of Clanrickarde, his fellow-traveller
and patronefs.

P. 1061. For farther particulars of the
family of D’Anvers, which will add
one more refpeftable trait to the cha-
ra6ler of the lady here mentioned, con-
fult your vol. LXII. p. 793.

P. 1061, b. The late Countefs Dow¬
ager of Bute loll her granc^bn in Janu¬
ary iaft ; her fan (the Earl) is flill li¬
ving ; but fhe lived to lee two great
grandfons, the children of her laid
grandlbn; one born fince his death.

P. 1062, a. Mr. Elborough Wood¬
cock was, as his father had been before
him, one of the firft folicitors in Lon¬
don : he is laid to have loft his life in
confequence of the eftebls of a blow he
received frorh Tome ftreet-robbers in
Lincoln’s-inn-fields a few years ago.
He married /innef fecond daughter, and
at length coheirefs, of Henry Pa mer, of
Wanhp, CO. Leicefter, efq. His father
died Aug. 22, 1790, and his elder bro¬
ther June 6,1792. . E.

Mr. Urban, Edinburgh, Dec. 8.
AVING been con verfant with per¬
fons of very ditferent perfuafions,
having been educated in I'cminaries
where very difterent principles were en¬
tertained, and having found amongft all
the various fedls and parties with which
1 have been acquainted perfons of great

leaiiiing.

iioo Some gmeral Retnarlis on EJlahllfi merits and Duf'enters, [Dec*

learning, integrity, and liberality, I
very early in life contra^led a fovereign
contempt for that narrownefs of princi¬
ple, and want of forbearance, which
unhappily charafterizes too many among
the contending parties in the woild.
The illiberaHty to which I allude is
equally difjirraceful in *an Epifcopaban
and in a Prcfovtetian, in a Tory and in
a Whig: thoutjh» unfortunately, it is
too often met with among ihem ail. For
the Epifcopalian in England, where
that fydern is eilabl jflied, and for the
Prefbytenan in Scotland, whois equally
i'anbtioned by law, 1 can fee lome fiia-
dow of excufe, if any thing can pofnbly
excuTe w'hat Chriftianity forbids; but,
for the illiberality of DilTenters in either
country I cannot even fee the jhado^ of
an excufe. Yet I am convinced (for I
have converied with both) that an at¬

tentive and impartial obferver will find
imore illiberality, Icfs candour, and lefs
forbearance, among the generality of
D.fTtnters in both countries thair among
the members of the Ellabliniment. For,
at the very time that they are crying out
for liberty of confcience to themfelves,
they deny it to their opponents ; and,
whilft they blame the Eftabliiliments for
their perfecuting fpirir, they themfelves
ihew their difpofition to perfecute, if
they had the power to do it.

Strongly imprelfed with the import¬
ance of liberality and candour in the
conduft of controverfy (after giving a
piece of information about Ophir and
’Tarfisifi), which, I thought, might not
to be difagreeab'.e to your readers), I
ventured to make a few general remarks
on your co’refpondsnt L. L, vvhich ap¬
peared in your Magazine for J une ; and,
Eiuck with M a Wakefield’s letter in
the Number for October, I was induced
to fay fomething more on the fame fui)-
3e6t ; vvhich you have been good enough
to admit in your lad. The ill berabty
of L. L, when fpeaking of the efla-
bliOiment of his country both in Church
and State, appears, if language has any
meaning, very plainly from what he has
often w! irteo in your valuable Repofi-
tory ; and, fince the penning of my firft
Jetter, he has been going on, as occa-
fion offered, in the fame flrain of un¬
worthy inve£tive; fee pp. 320,417, 6SS,
and p. 974. In this iait letter, with a
degree of fagacity quite his own, fic
takes me for an Epifcopalian Heretick
envving the poffelfions of the Church of
England j and, upon this fuppofition,
he gives us a fpecinfen of his wit, as

far-fetched, and as aukwardly introdu¬
ced, as many of his attacks on the reli¬
gion of his country. He forgets, how¬
ever, that my renraiks are of a general
nature: and that, far fiom defending
any one party, they are calculated (or,
at lead:, 1 meant them to be fo) to re¬
commend impartiality to all ; and, fol¬
lowing what he calls the clus, he repeats
bis attacks on the poor Eptfcopaiians,
convinced in his own mind that 1 am
one of the number. Does he then think,
that none but Epifcopalians will ftand
up in defence of common honefty ? Or,
judging of other people’s hearts by his
own, does he conceive all men to be fo
wedded to their own opinions as to be
unwilling to do common jufiice to thofe
who differ from them ? in tiiis part of
the country, men of liberal minds at
leaft think very differently ; and, in the
parifir-churches of this city, we fre¬
quently hear the Church of England
prayed for as the grand bulnx-ark of the
Frctef.ant faith.

L. L’s attacks are not always very
open or diredl , but, inflead of thinking
that circumfiance any alleviation, 1 can-
not help thinking it an infiance of great¬
er malignity. For, Mr. Urban (to ufe
the words of a very intelligent corre-
fpondent of yours), “ an oblique hint is
worfe than, a diredl charge, as it fliews
a degice convardice vvhich we fhould
net have expedled in a reformer;” fee
p. 782. L. L. after, as he fuppofes,
anTwering my letter, proceeds to attack
Mr. G eig, whom he confiders as the
author of it; but upon what ground,
except from the ftigle circumfiance of
your having reviewed a fermon of his
in the fame Number, 1 cannot eafiiy
conceive. la confidering him as the
author of my letter, however, without
meaning ir, as 1 fuppofe, he does me
great honour; fer, during the little
time that 1 have been here, and that
time is very flmrt, I have heard from
the mofl relpeclabie quarters, and from
men of the mod unexceptionable cha-
ra6fer and learning, that Mr. Gleig’s
abilities, learning, and manners, are
luch as would do honour to any church
or fociety in Europe ; I need fcarcely
add, that {j. L’s unprovoked attack on
him, difgraces cn!y himfelf.

I lhaU now leave candid corre-
fpondent to rave at Epifcopalians and
the Hierarchy, at Kmgs and Emperors,
as much as he pleaies, without any far¬
ther moieffation from me ; and if, Mr.
Urban, 1 ihall ever trouble you ag.’jin,

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iyg4’] Cbarybois ? — ^ remarkcth'e hifcnpusn from Tlclefwell. iioi

I truft it fliall be on fubjefls apart from
controverfy. Before I conclude, bo'-v-
ever, allow me to obfetve to Cakdcni*
enbs, p. 988, of whole Icrcer cn the
whole 1 highly approve, that the
hlijbed Church oj Scoiland, confideriiig
the {mall number of her Cleigy, is one
of the molt refpe^tablc in Europe; and
thai, taking her Clergy in a body, in-
(tead of being U^vdiers^ ihey are as loyal
fubjefts as any fet of men in his Majef-
ty’s dominions.

OIAOS TH2 SONIAS.

haps to be found in “ Erafmi Adagia,’*
or made about that time. I). H.

Air. U r, E A N , Man chejler, June 1^.

FEW days fince, the church of
1\. TidtCweil, near Buxton, in Der¬
by ftiire, attracted mv particular atten¬
tion; and 1 was induced to examine the
infide as far as my time would permit,
and to make the inclofed flcetch of a
large tomb of black lirneftone in the
chancer (7?^ plate IL). Tt is to be ob-
fervcd, that the verfe upon the tomb has
hii’nc verbum inftead cf hoc n;erbum.

Near the abovementioned tomb is
another large flab of toadflone, refting

• t * c 1 ' \ r'

Mr. Urban, Dec. iv.

Disdaining the thought of ma- - - , . ^

king your Magazine the vehicle of upon a rai'ing of wood, incloflng a
anonymous abufe, you will perhaps at- ftone fculpture, much decayed, repre-
low me, through the medium of your fenting a corpfe whofe head is fupported
valuable Publication, to refer your cor- by cherubs, one on each fide ; but of
refpondeiu L. L (whom 1 fufpeft to be ^bis rny time would not allow me to
a very profound fcho'ar in one of our make a drawing. The flab has a border
univerfities) tothat fublime compofitron of brafs, from which the former, being
of St. Paul, the 1 3th chapter of the ift like ir, and of a much later date, wp
Epiflle to the Corinthians j where “all perhaps copied. From each corner of
gifts,” whether fuperaatural or acqui- the border a label extends inwards. Oa
red, are declared to be “nothing worth that near the right-hand is engraved,

without ch anty.” fum et SDmegii, prlmtijs! £t

When L. L. has duly conhdered the iiQUisfirrillfi ;
qualities of this heavenly virtue, as they

are beautifully exprelTed by the infpired
Apoftle; I would afic him, wtiat portion
of it he could polTibly poffels at the time
he wrote that letter in your lafl Num¬
ber, p. 974 ? K.*

Mr. Urban, Ngv. 6.

AFORMEE conefpondent having
cleared up the doubt about the
line before iuppofed to belong 10 Phae*
drus,

Perdere quos vult Jupiter prius dem-entat,

I trouble you tor information where one
may tind the line,

Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charyhdm.

Ainfworth, v. Charybdis^ explains it,
a dangerous whirlpooi, &c. whence the
pioveib Incidit, &c. Hence I conclude
the line is a proverbial expreflion of la¬
ter date than Virgil or Ovid, and pcr-

The following words are engraved ®n ihe border in double lines i

Un&cr tljiit ftaiiE tnetli .giampfun' .IRetenll toljitli toasi boniE in .€>tone
in tljc fcaCt of .Saint Joicliael tire arcti^’r’SU ana rtjtte Vnaji cl)nftenc& bn
tire firjiot of tire Came Irou.si ano .iampfon €iitton efq. ana .iBatgiett
tire aauDljtec of 5?iriliy .Staplej in tlje peat of cut loro

ana I'o bbea ana enaurea unact tije iqbice of
Jlirirall 'jlora iuaicn ana ©ntre C-tfjafaetij irip" luifp tire fpate of .rB33!3

which infeription is likewife on a large
oval brafs plate in the middle. Oa the
left-hand is,

junrit itemo feparct.

On that near the right foot is,

fu?Mt ialhu«! erit.

And, at the oppoflte corner,

9i^ui iiCque in flnem Cal-

ini5 nit.

Near each corner is inlaid a fhield of
brals; and, in a hfth, they are quar¬
tered ibns : I and 4, a griffin rampant;

2, a bend between 6 el'callop {hells;

3. a held without a charge. On a Iquare
plate, at the top, is this inicriplion :

oUm fculptti^a^ areag’ fn-
rati futit hr.ju^ monurnenti memori®

niUlitu qrio? pop
tea repatata' fuut impenfl^ 31oljau’ijS
ac tjuCBrm familiee.

1102 Infcription ^^TicIefwell. — Oxford Tranjlators of the Bible. [Dec.

anD mo.’e am after b?;- tijt aCCent af gjol^n JBcberilT W f^^ber tie
tamta in 2Belfor dje iting^ maifar to giabell dje baiigt^er of ttie
loo^pfull Iltnigtt M* fSoger ^.ccti tfjt ba^j of paicbi aiiD afte^

ttiat \)t came to tlje fcrOice of tbie noble XorO Sotin Montague €arl of
^alifbii.n dje tobicti orbereb tbe fatb .fjampfcn to be a eapitaine of bb
tDorlijipfuH piacci? in f aance anb after t^e beatb of t^e faib €axlt
tie came to tijt ferbice of Siobn ^uc of 2Bebf02b anb foe being in
fcrbice be ina.^ 'at great battagie,^^ m jrrance Uiitfim tbe fpace of ttoo
pea2e^i anb at .^t. %ntt tbe faib ^iic gabe bini tfie orbe2 of ft’tboob aftea
rtat tbe faib ^uc mabe Ijun It ^cnftabie anb bg ])\^ commanbment be
licpt tbe €onftable Court of tbij.^ %anb till tbe beatb of t’be faib ^ixc
anb afte: djat be abobe unber tbe fc^bice of ^taff02b 02cbbiCbop
of Cante2bnrg anb foe eiibineiiig in g2cat ‘loor'pp. beparteb dom all
bDorlbbj feabice unto tbe me2cg of our ^torb 3iefu Cbrilt tbe tobicb ^^'eb
bij." foul from ])i^ bobg in tbe feaft of ^t. tBarut in tbe t^eare of our
^lorb ,fl^CCCCll.^391 ma foe bu* toorb mag be probeb that grace
paileb cunning 3men. ^eboutlg of gour cbaritie faitb a j^ater J^oGe^
baitb an Sbe for all pioiii^ fouip anb efpeciallg for tbe foul tobofe bone,^
refietb unber tbl^^ ftone.

Yoms,&c. H.

Mr. Urban, Dsc. 4^

N your lift of Oxonlsws, who were
tranllstors of the Bible, Dr. Rev*
sioiHs is ftated to have been president of
Chrift*church. The miftake rtdtihes it*
felf by a reference to your fecond co¬
lumn, p, 987, where he is rightly de-
i'cnbed as prefident of Corpus Chiifti
Col'ege. The abridgement comnRoniy
made ufe of to denote the latter femi-
narv of learning [C. C. C ] probably
milled your correlpondent in the firll
inftance. Few of your readers need be
informed, that Ch-rift-church is not un¬
der the direftion of a “ prefident,”

In the lame Catalogue, yohn Perin,
Greek reader, fellow of Sta John’s col¬
lege, is delcribed as tranllating the Bible
in 1^04, and canon of Chrift-church in
1704 Here muft be forne ftrange chro¬
nological error, which ought to be let
right.

’Thomas Holland is defcribed as Re£Ior
of Exeter, and Regius profeli'or of di¬
vinity. Q^i. At what period this lad
office became regularly adociated with
a canonry of Chtid-church, and the va¬
luable reftory of Evvelme, co. Oxford ?

J was ir.uch druck with the ingenious
remaik of Mr. Dallaway, in his enter¬
taining Elfay on Heraldry, refpc6ling
the prevateuce of certain armorial ,dif~
tinolions through particular diftndls un¬

der the fame feigniory 5 the faid dif-
tinftions being formed from the coat
armour of the lord, with proper differ¬
ences, Mr. Dallaway mentions the
wheatffieaf (or, in the Heraldic lan¬
guage, the garb), as borne'by many
antient Cheffiire families with refe¬
rence to the great Earl of Cheder, who
exhibited this device on his Ihield.

Is it not poffible that the original
grant of this lingular bearing arofe from
the circumdance of the Earl of Cheder’s
being pantleror fenefchal to the Crown,
or in feme method or other charged
with the office of furnidiing the Court
w’ith bread for the royal table ? That
certain didriffs, where the corn was
fuppoled to be of more, than ordinary
purity, were didinftly appropriated to
the ufe of the fovereign’s houlehold, we
learn on the authority of Norden, who,
in his Speculum Britannia, mentions the
pandi of Hedon, co. Middlefex, as ho¬
noured with the didinftion of furnifii-
ing manchet- bread to Queen Elizabeth,

* Cliolmondeley, Grofvenor, Wright, &c.
&c. Eden lias the fame bearing, with an
allufion, probably, to the fertility of the
Heaven-planted garden. It is found hkewife
in the pateinal coat of the family of Erdcine ;
for w'hich your illudrious coi refpondent
Albanicus may, perhap'^palfign a bettea: rea-
Ion Chan myfeif.

for

1794-] Garh in Heraldry P — Mtfcellaneous Ohfernrations, -^^03

for \vho(e foie ufe the luxuriant corn¬
fields in its vicinity were referved.

: The fertility of the vale of Evefham

i is well known; and the armorial bear-
i ings of the borough-town have a refe¬
rence to it exH6lly in point, ‘viz. a garb,

I or wheatfheaf, with a royal crown, and
plumes.

Probably Gerberoy, in the Ifle of
, France, diftant about ten leagues North
from Paris, had its name from lome fi-
milar caule. The name is, doubtlefs,
one of the fix thonfand which have re¬
ceived new denominations from the
Convention. None called more loudly
for a change, now^ there is little corn, and
no king !

The title l^indicja Britannica (fee p.
930) is not a new one ; it is to be found
among the catalogue of heraldic and
other works publiflied by the eminent
Antiquary Edmund Bolton. (Dalla-
way, p. 24.1, note).

Has it ever been clearly afcertained
who was the author of the popuNr
work, of which, in all prob-ibiiity,
more copies are difoerfed than of any
other human compofition, “ The Whole
Duty of Man ?” That its popularity
was coeval with its appearance, we have
every reafon to believe. The Decay’-
of Piety,” and that excellent and balmy
cordial- “The Art of Contentment,
offer themfelves to public notice in their
refpe£l:ive title-pages as written by the
author of Tbe Whole Duty of Man; and
I have in my poffelhon a little fcarce
tra6t, without date, on a very {ivi.il!
fcale, intituled, “ The pious IVI;rn’3
Direftions, fhewing how to walk with
God all his Days,” dated to be vvritten
' by “ a well-wilher ot The Whole Ducy
of Man;” fufScient indications of its
favourable reception.

Of the pleafant and heart-reviving
work, “ The Art of Contcj^tment,” it
were much to be wifhed that a moderni¬
zed edition might be given to the world.
It will have its ufe as long as there is a
fufferer upon earth.

Poffii)Iy fome of your correfpondents,
_Mr. Urban, may be able to extend my
catalogue ©f the works of this ingenious
author, and perhaps to immortalize his
name by giving it a place in your Mif-
cellany. Yours, &c. G.

Mr. Urban, Der. 3.

OES not L L. go too far when he
lays, the Eltablillied Clergy are
nothing when Itnpped of their trappings,
p. 974; and that bifliops liiould ordam

perfons who have not been educated at
either univerfity, p, 975 }

1 w'ifli your correfpondent W.
would favour you with a drawing of
the crofs and bas-relief demi-iigure at
Cadre, p. 980.

Mr. Lowndes’s feal, p. 98 1, is that
of John Rahbe,

The infcription in Earl Rivers’s ora¬
tory at Macclesfield, p. 982, was en¬
graved, with the figures, at Dr. Raw-
linfon’s expence.

P. 985. Mr. R. H. Wyndham’s only
ffe^ was fird wife to Sir Richard Cope,
hart, and died without iffue before her
brother. Mr. Arundel married Anne,
daughter and heir of John W. efq. of
Alhcombe, Wilts.

lydio Cano's poems, p. 987, do not
appear in Baretn’s Italian Library.

1 am much miftaken if I have not
read of the dafceadants of the Cimbri,
p. 1000, in fome part of your Magazine,
though the paffage does not readi'y oc¬
cur, The idea is not new, for they are
mentioned by fome travellers. X. Y,

Mr. Urban, Carlife, Nov. 14.
BEG the favour of you to iniert in
the Gentleman’s IMagazine the fol¬
lowing letter from me to Sir Jofeph
Banks, that the publick may be ac¬
quainted witii the experiments which it
contains, as they mud decide the very
important controverfy wliich at prefent
divides, and which has for iome time
divided, the Chemical World. Thefe,
being added to my other experiments
upon the calx of mercury, cannot fat! to
have weight witli every cheraid who
ithinks for himfeif. Is it necelTary for
me to add, that I have long fmcerOiewn,
in a former publication, that the calx of
mercury yielded no air, but water only,
upon being reduced to its metallic form;
an important experiment, which has
been lately incontedably confirmed upon
the Continent beyond the fhadow of a
doubt; and after which, 1 think, no
philofouher can hefitate a moment to
acknowledge whofe dofltints are the
true ones. RoE. Harrington.

To Sir JOSEPH BANKS.

Sir, Carlife, 08, 15.

I am much obliged to you for your
politenefs in faying, “ I (hall readily re¬
ceive any paper you are plealed 10 fend
me ; and, if the doftnnes it contains
are not, in my opinion, contradifled by
the refult of experiments already made,
or which may be tried after receiving

it,

Ii04 Copy of a Letter from Dr. Flarrington to 5/V Jofeph Banks. [Dec

it, for the purpofe of hringingphem to
the teft of reafon and truth, 1 will molt
readily prelcnt it to the Royal Society.”
I, therefore, fend you the experiments,
in order that you may have them tried,
and fee whether they are juh or not.

After the numerous experiments
which I have made (and pub ilhed in
my different Works), by expohng wa¬
ter impregnated with fixed air to the
influence of the fun, and thereby pro¬
ducing pure air ; and likewife after the
experiments of Dr. Prieflley, in which
water produced air by diffillation ; a
very important queftion occurs, ‘vix. to
what caufe are thefe produolioas of pure
air to be attributed >

To elucidate thefe pbtenomena, I
•made the following experiments. I
took fnow- water, which had been pre-
vioufly diftilled feveral times, taking
care to prevent its contaft with the at-
mofphere, fo that it would yield no air
either by the procefs of expofure to the
fun, or by diftillation. I then impreg¬
nated it with a fmall quantity of fixed
air; after that, I added a little earth
which had been precipitated from,
i'pring- water by the procefs of boiling;
then corking them carefully in a bottle,
and fhaking them occafionaliy till the
earth was (olured bv the fixed air and
water. After that, I put the folution
into a ftili, and let it undergo the fame
procefs of diftillation which Dr. Prieft-
ley fpeaks of in his laft publication on
this fubjeft ; and I got from it a quan¬
tity of air, partly pure and partly azote.
And, as the airs were geneiated, the
water depofited the earth which it had
held in folution. And by repeated dif-
lillations it would yield no more air till
fixed air was added to it again, and
which foluted again the precipitated
earth. And I found that, if the folu¬
tion be expofed to the light of che fun
for fome time previous to the diftilla¬
tion, the experiment will be alfifted.

1 have likewife found that water,
which had undergone tiie aftlbn of the
fun, and had produced air, as in the
experiments of Sir Benjamin Thomp-
fon, will do equally as well for the
above experiment as fnow-water; for,
after it has boiled, it vvill be found to
pofl'efs no air, its power having been
exhaufted by the air which it had al¬
ready^ geneiated by the adtion of the
fun. Bur, if fixed air be added to this
water, it will again foiute the earth
which hud been precipitated from the
water by the procefs. And, if this fo¬

lution be either diftilled, or expofed to
the fun, pure air and azote will be again
generated, the earth precipitated, and
the fixed air difappear’^.

Now I think. Sir Jofeph Banks, thefe
expeiiments require no comment; iris
unnecelfary to fay from what caufe thefe
phsenomena proceed. But I fliall fay
nothing upon that head; 1 only fend
you the experiments that they may be
repeated, and their validity afeertained.

The Dutch chemifts have repeated

an experiment of mine, in which, from
expofing fulphur and iron to heat, I
found that inflammable and vitriolic
acid airs were generate^d : their refults
are fimilar to mine. But I liave carried
the experim.ent farther than they have
done. By expofing the fulphur and’
iron to a greater, more rapid, and more
contin:*;ed heat, 1 have produced a
greater combuftion, and formed them
into a vitrioiated iron. But this procefs
requires attrition as well as great heat;
which 1 contrived to give it by a heated
iron or glafs peft'e, moving it rapidly
at the time. Now, as the fulphur and
iron were pure, and perfectly dried,
there being no water, acid, nor pure
air, in the procefs; and as great heat
and flame were gsnerited, therefore I
think philofophers will agree with me,
that the fulphur and iron were decom-"
pounded of their fixed fire, of that fixed'
fire which formed the one into fulphur
and the other into a metal, as the refi-
dumn was a vitrioiated iron.

I /hould hope that what I have faid
in my Chemical Effays maft fufficiently
prove, that in Dr, Fordyce’s late expe¬
riments, publiflved in the Philofophical
Tran factions, the vitriolic acid was the
principal calcining body, aided by the
water; and that, when he added the
alkaline fait to the folution, it attra6ied
the acid from the calx. But, to prove
It more ci tally —

If a calcarious earth be foluted in the
vitriolic acid and water, and precipita¬
ted by the fame alkaline fait, or kali
purum, it will be precipitated as lime ;
and, in both thefe (olutions the acid is
required to be mixed with water. But,

Will it be believed, Mr. Urban, that
this experiment, from which a knowledge
of the origin and formation of the atmo-
fpliere nhay be deduced, could not obtain a
- reading before tlie moll learned and refpeift-
able Society in the world, which, for a feries
of ‘years, has made the iludy of air one of
its moft; peculkr and moll mtereffcing ob-
jeds ?

j794*] of a Letter from Dr. Harrington to Sir Jofeph Banks. 1105

if the caJc^iious eaith be precipitated
with the ntild alkali, it will be thrown
down as calcarious earth. And, that
the calcarious earth was foluted or a6led
upon by the acid, is clear from its fixed
air being expelled ; and it is equally
clear that this cafe is frmilar when me¬
tals are foluted or calcined by acids and
water; for, their phlogifton is expelled ;
the water in one procefs going to the
formation of fixed air, and in the other
to that of inflammable. But, if any doubt
ftitl remains that the acid and not the
water is the calcining body, let the fo-
lution be expofed to a ftrong heat
(which is one of D?*. Prieflley’s experi¬
ments), the calx Will be precipitated;
and, it carefully examined, being pre-
vioufiy well wafhed in wa’-er, in order
to wafh avvay any acid that does not
make a part of the calx, it will be found
to be formed of an acid and the earth of
the calx, together with a faturation of
water. But, vvhat muff we think of
that theory which confiders water as the
calcining body when the vitriolic and
marine acids are ufed, and the nitrous
acid when that is ufed in the procefs ?
Bat I have found that, if the flephlo-
giliicated marine acid be employed in
the procefs of calcining metals, even
though it be mixed with water, marine
acid air is produced, and not inflam¬
mable eiir ; which is owing to the ma¬
rine acid having a part of its phlogifton
taken from it; therefpre, it attacks the
phlogifton of the meral with more force
or violence, and confequently greater
heat is produced, and they form the
marine acid air. The nitrous acid does
the fame, having likevvife a ftrong at¬
traction ; for, phlogifton (a well-known
faCt) will attack the phlogifton of the
metal with violence and force, produ-
cing fo great a degree of heat as to form
the nitrous air, which is an acid one,
the fame as the marine acid air; for, they
both turn the vegetable juices red, be¬
ing airs containing more of the acid and
lefs of the phlogifton, which fotms the
inflammable air principally; though all
ihefe airs have water for their bales.

And farther, to render this doCtrine
ftiil more clear. If the nitious acid be
not ftrong, and if the folution be made
in a veliel furrounded by a freezing
mixture, the acid being gently added to
the metal, they will only produce a ^
phlogifticatcd air. This is the cafe
when tin is added to a neutral folution
of tin in the nitrous acid ; it is calcined,
Gent. Mag, Decembtrj 1794.

a calx is thrown down, aiid an imperfeCt
nitrous air produced, which is f> much
phlogifticatcd as to have its acid neu¬
tralized fo as not CO ailc£t the vegetable
juices.

Or in the folution of zinc in the ni¬
trous acid, if the acid be gently added
in a freezing fituation, they will gene¬
rate an' inflammable air that will ex¬
plode. By producing as little effer-
vefcence as polflble, and confequently
little heat, the acid gets fully faturated
with phlogifton.

The afilion of the afcids upon metals
is exactly the fame as that of fixed air
or aerial acid on lime, which is an earth
faturated with fire ; but fire more loofely
concenirated than in metals. And it is
worthy cf remark, that the aerial scid
will not expel the fire of the lime with¬
out the aid of water, but by their joini:
influence or attraction for the earth of
the lime they will precipitate the fire ;
exactly as the vitriolic acid and water
will expel the fire in afting upon the
metals ; but the metallic fire is expelled
in a fixed ftate as inflammable air. For
a more full elucidation of this doflriae
1 muft refer to my former publications.

If the a6fioa of acids upon phiogiftoa
is managed in a gentle wav, without
producing great heat and effervefcence,
they will unite without forming airs.
As, for inftance,

if the volatile vitriolic acid be added
to iron nails (which is one of Dr. Hig¬
gins’s experiments, lee p. 49 of his laft
publication), they will generate no air,
but the acid and the phlogifton of the
iron will form a fuiphur; which ariles
from this, the acid being phlogifticated,
us activity for additional phlogifton is
partly blunted, and it unites to it in a
very gentle manner. But I have found,
if this mixt!#re be made in a vclfel
expoled to great heat, that both inflam¬
mable and vitriolic acid airs will be ge¬
nerated. And it is from the lame caufe
that the tin produces lb high a phiogif-
ticated air when fiefh tin is added to a
folution of tin in the nitrous acid ; for,
the acid leaves the calx to attack the
phlogifton of the frelli tin ; but it leaves
the one to attack the other in fo gentle a
manner that little heat or effervefcence
is produced, and the acid gets its full
faturation before it is fufficiently aeria-
Uzed to produce an air that will admit
of a candle burning in it with an en-
lar-ged flame. But, if this experiment
be made in a veliel furrounded by a

freezing

(

X io6 Ciiingford and Stoke Rochford Chuxches, Cofton Chapel, j^Dec,

freezing mixture, it will get fo full a
f-ituration of phlogifton as to form in¬
flammable 'air vvhicb explodes. Surely
this is a connefted chain of fai5fs which
cannot be rnifunde; flood. I am, Sir,
yoar rnofl obedient, huinibie fervant,

Robert Harrington.'

Mr. Urban, Nov. 6.

PERAliT me, through the channel
of vour valuable Milctllany, to
c 'jrnin ur. ica te to the pub.nck a view of
the handfome old church at Chlngford,
in Effcx, and which you may polhbly
not think an unfuitable coinpanion to
the many reprefenrations of antient ec-
cleflaitical edifices which you have of
late, and with fo much propriety, hand¬
ed down to pofleriry. (PI. ill. Jig- i)»
The town of Chingfuid is iKuited
near the river Eee, and takes its name
from the ford over that river, which
M . Morant fuppofes our Saxon ancef-
tors pronounced Kingsford. At forne
dihance flands the church on the (um-
mit of a hill, commanding a mofl: ex-
tenfive and beautiful profpe^V, and not
far from the turnpike-road which crofles
the hill. There feem to have been an-
tientlv two manors in this panfli ; the
firfl, Chingfofd Shi Pauli, was given to
the cathedral church of St. Paul by Ed¬
ward the Conftflor, and remained at its
poUeiflon till the DdTplution; the ie-
tond, Earls Chihgford, -was, at the ge-
jierai furvey, iii the poflelhon of Robert
Gurnon, the anceflor of the family of
Montfitchet. The church is built in
this lafl naanor, and owes its origin to
fome of its pofieflors, in whom the pa¬
tronage dill continues. It is dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul, and confifls
of a body and South aile, with a chan¬
cel. The whole is tiled ; and in the
tower are three bells. The prefent'
building ieems not very antienf, not
more lo than about tlie time of Henry
VH, as may be conje6fured from the
flatnefs of the arcbes and ilyle of the
mouldings; and the whole appears to
pave been put lome time back into a
ftate of very found repair, fo as to ap¬
pear almoft unakrrable even to Time it-
feif. IXDAGATOR LONDINENSIS.

We "vr'ere favoured with an a'curate
Del'cj option of St 6 k e R ochford Co tiRtn,
intended to have accompanied the ne.at View
of it lit plate III. fig z ; but it has been,
unfortunately and unaccountably, miflaid
wluUi the Drawing was in the hands of ti;e
Engraver, It fliall be printed, hovvever|
immediately on its being recovefcd.

Mr. Urban, Nov.S.

^f''H£ Rev. Mr. Polwliele, in the
fecond volume of his Survey of
Devon, lately pub'itflicd, has given
fome account of Cofton chapel, in the
parifli of Dawl fo; and, prefuming
that 'a perfpt^live view of its prefent
ruins would be acceptable to fome of
your readers, I have taken the liberty
of fending you one (plate III. fi^- 3),
and aUb the infeription now vihbie on
Dr. Kendall’s monument in a pannel
agaitift the North wall in the chancel of
the laid chapel.

‘‘In memoriam

viri eximie eruditi Georgii Kendall,
SStse theologias docloris, filii Georgii
Kendall, de Cofton, armigeri, qui e
vita dilceffif xix. Avg° mdclxtii.
et juxta hie fepultus jacet.

Nec non in naemfiriam
lefliffimse ejus conjugis Mar lAi, filiae
Periam Pole, de Taili^on, armigeri,
quae obi t xmo die Aprilis, mdclxxvi.”
In the year 1785, when 1 flrft viewed
the rums, the arms of Kendall and
Pole under the m.onument vvere v fible;
but at this time they are effaced- Thole
of Kendall, Arg. a chevron Sa. between
three dolphins naiant ; and thole of
Pole, Az. a lion rampant Arg. between
fix lozenges Or. F* J*

Mr. Urban,

Dec, 2.

XT' IT H how much more levericy

i J ^ •

than juflice the fentence paOed
by your Reviewers on Mr. CoUinion s
Hiftory of Somerfetfhire has been im¬
pugned, will lafficiently appear frorq
the correftions and fupplements fug-
gefled, from time to time, in your Mif-
celiany, by pesfons refident in, or well
a^cquainted with, the places he fo fu-
peiflcially deferibes. The poor Hiflo-
rian is no longer in his place to put in
his anfwer. Another County Hiftorian,
who follows him baud pajjibus aquiSf
has made a. very p'Ciiui one indeed to
the criticifms thrown out on lus hngular
plan and execution. As if he feared
Vbur impaitsahty, he recurs to Mu
Baldwin’s tribune, and thence difpenfes
tiie mofl ineiflcacious retorts that could
poliibly be thought of by the mafter of
talents that have produced luch ef-
fo ts of theology, oratory, and poetry,
Alas ! Mr. Urban, you and 1 know
thefe are not talents for a County HiK
torian. ''

Mr. Urban, OSi. zo.

XTOU R cool and candid profeflional
^ correfpondenr, who Hates hiniH^^

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to “ have been many years in extenfive
pra^ice in a populous city, and a prin¬
cipal attendant in a large county hofpi-
tal,” would not, I apprehend, have
trahTgreffed the limits of your Publica¬
tion if he had been a little more d ffiife
on the fubjeff, and had told us to what
other caufe the death of a perlon bitten,
or reputed to have been bitten, by a mad
dog, is to be aferibed than to the canine
bite, but which he has not thought pro¬
per even to luggeft. Unlefs mv recol-
leaion fails me, Boerhaave confiders it
as a point not admitting of any doubt,
and afferts, that there is no certain pre-
>lervative as^ainft this dreadful diftem-
per, and few (if any) inftances to be
'depended upon of the recovery of a per-
fon after his being affliSltd with the hy¬
drophobia, or dread of water. If your
correfpondent can throw any farther
light on this fubjeft, I doubt not but
every one will attend to it with plealure ;
but at prefent, 1 mull confefs, it appears
to me nothing more than a vague alTer-
tioo unfupported by the leaft lliadow of
reafon, and much too ferious and im¬
portant to be relied upon without good
confirmation. Should he wiflt, there¬
fore (as he Teems to anticipate), “ to
afford eafe and comfort to many indivi¬
duals,’* let him iranfmit you another
letter, and fet forth reafons and exam¬
ples to ground what he affirms in fuch
general terms.

Having, within this fhort time, re¬
peatedly heard many people cry out
owing to the pain occanonally caufed
by their being afili6ted with corns, and
having as often heard them attribute it
to the rain, which has defeended To co-
pioufly of late, I take the liberty of sfk-
ing fome of your curious Literati, whe¬
ther the aquatic meteor has Tuch an eS'c6l
upon thefe callofities of the Ikin as to
add to the pain, though the peifon af¬
flicted docs not even crofs his or her
threfliold ? And farther, whether a per-
Ton much troubled w>ch iheie tubercles
(as almoft univerfaliy contended,

Jeriim ac fenibus, ac anibus ) is aware of
the approach of a florm from the addi¬
tional torture which it is faid to occa-
lion ? It being fo generally allowed, I
prefume there is fomething more in it
than mere piejudice. P. H,

Mr. Urban, Dec. 8.

OU mention, p. 964, the deceale
of the Rev. Owen Davies, and ob-
ferve, that he was many years curate of
Sto Mary’s, under the Dean of Win-

chefier 5 and, you might have added,
many years re6or of Exton, co South¬
ampton ; for, he came to that living in
the year 1760.

1 Tend you a curious inTcription from
a mural monument in the above pjrifh-
church of Excon, which poiiib y you
.may think worth preTerving from obli¬
vion. Youts, &c. V.

S. Trinitati facrum.

JoH. Young, S. theol. do<5l. dec. Winton.
Petri equitis aura'.i fi!. reniilirnorum
regum Jacobi pacifici laceliani, iutlnii
Caroli ; hie corpus depofitum in firma
fpe gloriofa?. refurredlionis.

Morientis de Te : -

Adami exnvias vetei is terns hie ego mando
A Chrifto expedtans qaas liabit induvi.;?.
Old Adam*s rags to earth 1 here commend,
And ChriR’s rich robes from Heave I flill
attend.

Ad Viatorem ;

Venturum memores Dominum moritur’ viator
Perj^etuoque valens vivere difee mori. ^
Thou, palling pilgrim, know the Lord draws
neere ;

Now learne to die, then lhall thy life appeare.
Ad Viatorem aliud :

Mors tua — mors Chnfti — fraus mundi—
gloria cocli —

Et dolor inferni — font memoranda tibi.

Thy death-^Chrill’s deatli — world’s fraud
and vanity — [memory.

Heav’n's joyes— hell’s paines — keepe Hill in
An’o setatis cliraadlerici chronograraa.
Venl. Venl. ML lesV. IVDeX. Venl. CIto.
Come, come, my Jefn, judge of all ;
Come, O, cofhe quickly ! Poll i call,

Mr. Urban, Dec. <^.

OUR lall Cbiruary, p.1063, merely
records the death of Tlio. Strong,
eTq. F. A.S ; but, as I w.fh to do juf-
tice to his memory, I hope you w-ill in-
Tert the following fhort, but, I believe,
correftf account of him ; which I am
enabled to give from having been ho¬
noured by his frieridfli'p for many years.

He was born Jan. 13, 1735-6, in the
parifii where he died (Ct ippLgate), and
was bred to the prakllion of the law,
which he carried on with the higheft
reputation as an attorney to the time of
his death. In 1776, he was ele61ed
F.A.S. ; and, though he never pub-
lifhed any thing, was a fkilrul Anti¬
quary, and extremely attached to the
Itudy of various branches, particularly
Roman Antiquities. He communicated
to the Society a drawing of the monu-
nient of R'therus, in St. Barthoiomew’s
church, engiaved in Vetufa Monumenta'j
but his greateU meric was that of a truly

honelt

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honeft and benevolent man ; which was
not onl yknowii by the circle of hisfriends,
but witneffed by the whole neighbour¬
hood where he refided. Such unaife6l-
ed manners and goodnefs of heart are but
rarely to he met with as were united in
him. He married firft, 1770, Elizabeth,
daughter of Mr. Bird, of Frid&y-ftreet,
wholelale woollen-draper ; and, fecond-
ly, in 1787, Mifs Irifh, of Greenwich}
but left no iffue by"eitherof thefe ladies,
the latter of whona furvives to lament
his lofs. }• C,

Mr. Urban, Southampton, Dec. 10.
Conftant Reader would be much
obliged for any information con¬
cerning Mr. Plunkett, who was a prac-
tifing furgeon in London fbme years
ago, and whofe name was rendered fa¬
mous by bis curing cancers without the
rife of the knife. J have heard, on his
death, he bequeathed his remedy to a
female relation of his own name; who
not only fold his plafler, but attended
the patients, and was as fuccefsful in
her praiSlice as her relation had been.
If there are any |>eTfons living who have
been fo fortunate as to have received
their cure by this remedy, it would be
kind to the pubiick in general, and to
fufFering individuals in particular, if
they would publifh their cafes, and give

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PROCEEDINGS IN

H. OF LORDS.

May 17.

ORD Crep^jille delivered a Meffage
from his Majefty, fimilar 10 that
delivered in the Houfe of Commons.

The MelLge having been read ;

Lord Grenville moved, that it be ta¬
ken into confederation on Monday.

The Duke of Grafton contended, that
the Houfe ought to have grounds laid
before them, upon which to found their
judgement, belore they look the Meffage
into conhderation .

Earl of Coventry gave his hearty con¬
currence to Lord Grenville^'s motion.

Earl of Lauderdale thought the Houfe
of Lords treated difrefpeblfully, in not
having the fame proofs laid before them
that were laid before the Houfe of
Commons.

Lord GrenviUe^s motion was then
carried without a divifion.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
Houfe haying waited for feme time for

information where the remedy may be
obtained.

Yours, &c. Benevolus,

Mr. Urban, Dec, 16,

N the accuracy of the following
ftatement, if the authority of Cam-
bon, in his report to the Convention, is
at ail fterling, you may depend. If the
fplendour of external viStory* is to be
purchaled fo de-^rly, may the French
remain vi^orious during the fhort pa-
roxyfm (for fhort it will be) of their
democratical phrenzy. Your reader*
will bear in their minds, that the efti-
niaied value (and that edimate doubt-
lefs an exaggerated one) of the fee-
iimple of the lands in France, pledged
as a fecurity for affignats, is a little
more than 83 millions derling.

Repuolican OEconomy 1
Service of the year f,. s. d,

1792 75,000,000 o o

17^3 95>S33»333 6 8

*794 150,000,000 o o

Total, deding 32<^>833>333 6 §

Be THIS the bed anfwer to thofe
who call crowns and mitres expenfive
baubles. I am far removed from inter-
courfe with the poffeffors of either : but
1 hope I am no fool, and I am fure 1
am No Alarmist.

PARLIAMENT, 1794.

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the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he at
length entered } not, however, till aftcT
the queflion of adjournment had been
moved by Mr. Sheridan, and feconded
by Mr. Francis; which was, however,
negatived. Ayes 37, Nues 161,

On the motion lor the third reading
of the bill for the fufpendoa of the Ha¬
beas Corpus a£t,

Mr. Grey compared the precedent of
1722 with the prefect cafe j a precedent
which he proved neither fo dangerous
nor alarming as the meafure now urged
for acceptance. A doubt had been in-
dnuated on the lad night, that, if he
had lived at that period, he would not
have been fo ready to oppofe that mea¬
fure as he now was to oppofe the pre-
fent. This, if it meant any thing, was
intended to convey the idea, that he
was not ready to allift in ftrengthening
the hands of the/ Government when
needed. To all fuch inhnuations he
fhould only anfwer now, as on all limi-
lar occafions, that, as they merited his

contempt.

Par it ament ary Proceedings of Lords and Commons m 1794* 1 109

contempt, they fhould meet with his (i-
lence. The next precedent in point of
time was that of 1745 >
penhon of the Habeas Corpus a6t then
took piace in time of aftual rebellion,
he ihould not lay one word upon it, as
being totally inapplicable to the prefent
circumftances Another precedent oc-
*urred in 1777; the proceedings on this
occahon he propoled havin,g read by the
clerk from their minutes, in order to
prevent all doubt upon the fubjeff. The
Houfe would here 6nd, that the bill for
fufpending the Habeas Corpus a6t was
brought in on the 6th of February, and,
with the interval of fome days between
each ftage of the bill, it was not finally
paffed until the 17th of the fame month.
Here was a proceeding unlike the pte-
fent; decent in its appearance, and con¬
formable to propriety. It was urged by
the advocates of the meafure, if done at
all, let it be done quickly. He called
upon fuch to fiate what would be the
danger in a delav of two days, which
would be time fufficient to allow men
to make up their minds upon the fub-
3e6l ; and he concluded by ginng his
negative to the meaiure.

Mr. Canning obferved, that the pre¬
cedents adduced by the Hon. Gentleman
on the oppofite lide ol( the Houfe refer¬
red to what bore no analogy to the pre»
fent queftion in debate. It was curious,
he faid, to remark how gentlemen Ihift-
ed their ground, and palfed over thofe
precedents which were in point againft
their arguments. In the precedent al¬
luded to of 1722, he argued, that his
Majefiy’s Minifters had an ample fup-
port in favour of their rneafure; for,
then there was only a MelHge from the
Crown ; but at prefent the MeflTage was
fultowed up by a Secret Committee,
whofe report evinced the necellity there
was for the fufpenfion of the Habeas
Corpus att. Good God ! he exclaimed,
how then could gentlemen oppofe a
meafure that, at the prefent crifis, was
fo obvioufly neceffiry ! What, he aiked,
was the Houfe to be told that thele So¬
cieties had no correfpondence with fo¬
reign enemies, whofe objetl; was to
lubvert and overturn the Conftiiution !
It had been hated that, during the ad-^
miniftration of Walpole, time was gi¬
ven from Chriftmas to May for mem¬
bers to ftudy the fubje6t ; and it had
been obje£ftd to, that, though Minif¬
ters vveie in cufiody of their prefent in¬
formation at the beginning of the fef-
lion, they did not think proper to bring

forward any propofitipn on the fub]e6k
till the prefent fellion. This, he f^‘d,
was a flimfy argument ; for, it flriifily
accorded with the meafures adopted at
that period; and Adminiftration had
a£led agreeably to the caution ufed by
our anceftors on a fimilar occafion. What
had been faid of the precedent of 1777
was not, he contended, a cafe in point,
but was diametrically oppofite to thfi
prefent fubje6l ; therefore, what gentle¬
men had offered on chat vva5, in his
mind, in a great meafure irrelevant.
He then adverted to the condu6l of Mr.
Pitt on a Parliamentary Reform ; what
he thought on that fubjeft now fignified
but little to the queftion in debate. He,
however, entertained the fame opinions
with his right hon. friend; he fupperted
him in thofe opinions; and he agreed
with him, that, though fuch Reform
may not be improper for decifion in the
time of peace, yet it was not a propofi^
tion that ought to be agitated in times
of tumult and ftorm.

Mr. Grey fpoke in explanation, and
reverted to the feceffion of Mr. Baker
from the Friends of the People.-

Mr. Baker faid, that he had certainly
belonged to that Society as long as he
conceived it afted with propriety ; but
feceded when he thought that he could
not continue in it longer with fafety.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer fpoke
at large on this important fubjedl, and
with much earneflnefs; as did Mtflrs,
Courtenay, Dundas, Sheridan, Wyndbam,
Fox, and Lord George Cauendijh.

Mr. Fbompfon, on mentioning that a
refolution of the Conflitutional Society,
to which he had the honour to belong,
had been entered into for the expreis
purpofe of not fending delegates to a
Convention, by leafon of an exception
which they had made to the term Con~
mention, defired to know whether fuch.
entry was on the journals of the Society ?
If not, either the book was a falfe fub-
ftitute for the real one, or the fecretary
was bribed.

Mr. Fitt faid, he did not recolle6l.

Mr. Grey infifted on an anfwer.

Mr. Pitt ref ufed any fatisfaiSlion to
fuch a peiemptory tone.

Mr. Maitland fpoke againft the mo--
lion.

Mr. Jekyll faid the whole had a myf-
terious appearance, and fufpe£ied that
either tiie Committee had paffed it in¬
tentionally over, or the fecretary was
bribed. He moved to adjourn.

yii, Courtenay fecoftded the motion;

when

1 1 IQ Parliamentary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in 1794

when the Houfe divided, for the ad¬
journment 33, againfl it 183.

Strangers were excluded, and’ the
door continued {hut until the Houfe di¬
vided on pairing the bill; when there
appeared, for it 146, againfl it ^8.

Mr. flarrifon moved the following
claufe, to be added as a ryder to the
bill : “ And be it further enabled, That
if any perfon fhali be committed to pri-
fon under the powers of this A£l, and
fhhll not be proceeded againft, or in-
didted, in the term next after fuch com-
Kiitment, fuch perfcn fhall be delivered
©r admitted to bail, in like manner as
if this A£l had not been made;^V which
was neea’-ived.

Mr. Fid moved, that a copy of the
IReport of the Secret Committee be fent
to the Lords. Agreed to. — Adjourned
at three o’clock on Sunday morning.

H. OF LORDS.

May 2,0.

Their Lordfhips balloted for a Secret
Committee to infpedt the treafonable
books, and papers lately feized in the
pofTeffion of feveral revolutionary So¬
cieties, and tranfmitted by the Corn-
iTions to the Lords. The lifts being
drawn from the g^affes, the following
perfoRS had the majority, and were no¬
minated to infpeft the papers, and make
& report thereupon :

The Lord Chancellor, Earl of Carlifle,

Lord Privy Seal, Earl of Carnarvon,
Luke of Leeds, Earl of Chatham,

Luke of Portland, Earl Mansfield,

Earl Hardwicke.

The Houfe then proceeded to the trial
of Warren Haftings, efq.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
Dundas moved, “that the thanks of
the Houfe be given to Sir Charles Grey
and Sir John Jervis for their fervices in
the Weft Indies which was carried
nem. con. He moved alfo for fimiiar
thanks to Prince Edward, Gen. Prefcot,
and Col. Dundas j and farther, to all
the officers, foldiers, failors, and ma¬
rines, employed in the fervice; both
which motions were likewife agreed to
nem, con.

H. OF LORDS,

May zi.

Their Lordfiiips having met at twelve
o’clock, in order to receive the report of
the Secret Committee chofen for exa¬
mining the papers feized from the Cor-
ierpond;ng Societies, the Committee

prefe-nted the fame ; which was readi
A debate of much warmth occurred.

Lords Stanhope and Lauderdale .op~
pofed it on the ground that the data did
not warrant the dedu£lions made by the
Commitree. The report was fupported
by feveral Noble Lords who had framed
it. The refult was, that the report
ffiould be taken into confideration to¬
morrow, and that the Houfe be fum-
moned.

In the Commons, the fame day, there
being an infufficient ndmber of members
to proceed to buhnefs, the Speaker ad¬
journed the Houfe.

H. OF LORDS.

May zz.

The report of the Committee of the
Houfe of Commons on the papers laid
before them by the King, and the re¬
port of the Committee of the Houfe of
Lords, concurring in fentiment and
opinioji With the former report, being
read 5

Earl of Lauderdale conceived that the
Committee had not done what they had
been appointed bv the Houfe to do, and
was go.ng to Ihew what they ought to
have done, when he was called to order
by

The B'ffiop of Rochejlery who thought
any obfervations on the formality of the
report were perfe£l!y out of order.

Lord Grenajille preffsd the attention
of the Houfe to the fubjeft immediately
before them, namely, the palling of the
bill brought up from the Commons to
enable his Majefty to imprifon all per-
fons whom he had reafon to furpe6l of
treafonable intentions againft his perfon
end government. This he would move
upon one ground only, deduced from
the reports of the Committees of the
Isolds and of the Commons, that there
had long exifted, and there did now
exift, a treafonable confpiracy for op-
pofing the conftituted authorities of the
country j , for annihilating the legiflative
bodies, and introducing in their room
thofe feenes of anarchy and confulion
which have fo long exifted in France.
At no period had there been more oc-
cafton lor the fufpenfion of the Habeas
Corpus aft than at prefent, or was it
adopted with greater precaution, for it
had been the fubje6tof inveftigation by
both the branches of the Legift^itute;
and the cleareft proofs appeared of the
immediate neceliity of adopting this
meafure, to prevent the total annihi-la-

Tarlia?mntary Proceedings of Lords and Commons in i794*

lion of the authority of Parliamenit, and
of every legiflative capacty inveft^d in
the Goveinment of this country. His
Lordfliip then entered at length on the
proceedings of tl.e Society, founded
■upon the principles of the French Ja¬
cobins, whofe fentiments, language,
mode of realon ngj and foimahties,
they had confiantly adopted, even to
the appellation of their members; all
diffindtion of itie different ranks of fo-
ciety having been me ted dow n into the
word cutset}. In their re(oK*ttons they
openly avow their cemtempt of the au¬
thority of Parl a'uent, their determina¬
tion to reliif the laws of their country,
and to pay obedience to no laws hut their
own, which it is their inherent tight to
ell.-.blifli. Tiieir ^*ddre^^e^ to the National
Convention, their refo'.utions on the
late trials in Scotland, their violent
abufe of all the conftituted authorities
of the country, are expreffed in too
grol’s language for us to copy, and
ihocked every perfon who heard them
read. From the whole of their tranf-
atfions, there cou'd not be the fmslleft
doubt of their treafonable iniCntions.
Their laft a6f was the calling of a Ge¬
neral Convention of the people, to meet,
by their Delegate*, in a ceitain part of
the kingdom, already fixed upon for
that purpofe, and the management of
which was veiled in Secret Committees,
the ntcelfity of which was liiongly inti¬
mated in their refolution on that fub-
3e6t. Although there could be no
doubt but that, had tl^y proceeded to
force of arms, the iffue of the conteff
would have been againft them, yet we
were nor, becaufe they were Imall in
number, defpicable in chara6fer, and
bankrupts in loitun,e, to trull our laws
and liberties to luch -an ilfue. The
hillory of all ages tells us, that confpi-
lacies the molt terrible were begun by
the moll woithiefs individuals. I'lius
it was in France ; for, we had the au¬
thority of a man (^Dumourier) who had
great caufe to know uhe means which
produced the Revolution ; and who
laid, that no more than 200 men were
concerned in it, and thole the molt de-
fpicable among them. From all thefe
cbfervations, liis Dordlhip concluded
with laying, that there was no tune
to be loft. He trufted that the vvildom
and prudence of the Houfe would
fee the httle cloud that threatened a
great fiorm^ and avert, by timely and
Itrong mealures, the calamities juftly to
apprehended from it. He then mo*

ved the firft reading of the bill, “ to en¬
able his Majehy to imprilon perlbns
whom he has realon to fulpecl of conlpi-
ringagatnlT his perfon and government.”

Earl S aj>:hope faid, he ihould oppole
the introdu6lion of fucii an a» tend¬
ing to reduce this country to the fame
ftate of fubje6lion in which France was
previous to the Revolu^icn. The fa6ts
on which the Noble Lo; d had founded
his opinion he iikewife proiefted againft;
and laid, it w'ould be ealy for him to lub-
vert them. The dotlrefs to the Jacobins
and Convention wi>:. h the report cf
the biiiCT Floule ciuioufly nates o have
been ip^de on the e^je of the coM'ne.nce^
ment of a war, w'>s legal, in hisupinr >n,
as long as the war w'as nor begun. Tbs
anlwer wiiich the Convention t turned
TO tiiat acdrtls is as curi.mfty liaitd as
a^Time, without its being knowQ whe¬
ther she anlvver was appioved, or'ev^a
read. This was a courie of ftrattge and
violent prefutv.ption at which the hu¬
man mind revolted, and vvhicU c uld
Icarcely b£ repeated with gravity . I 'ne
report too was as defe6tive in fadt as it
was in candour. Barrere and Roland
are faid to be leading members of the
National Convention, when, in tadl, it
is well known that Roland wa* a mi-
nifter of ftate, which, in that country,
is an office incompatible with a feat in.
the' Legtliamre. From this view of the
fadts, on which it was often fibly to be
founded, he ffrongly condemned the
prefent bill, and fhould,' in confequence,
give it his mtdl deiermined oppofition.

Earl Spencer admitted the prefent was
a very ftrong rneafure; but, being con¬
vinced of danger, he thought the cir-
cumftances of the country warranted it,

Loid Kinnoul Ipoke in favour of t»he
mo ion.

Lord Burlington regarded the meafure
as juftified and called for by the peculiar
emergency of the times. He agreed,
that no force could Hop opinion ; but
thought, ncvertheiefs, that a p-udent
furelight might ^void many evils which
negligences would encourage beyond
all povver of repreliing. He meant not
to deny the Rtghis oj Man\ but thought
the moft valuable light he had was that
of protedlion from the laws under which
he lived.

Lord Thurio'iv faid, the prefent fnb-
je6l came oeiore their Lordlhips by a
Meffage from his Majtlly, accompanied
by documents, which this Houle, Ukc
the other, had thought proper to rtfer
to a Coauiiutee, with a power of leporc-

ing

ri!2 Pariiamentary Proceedings of Lords and Cmmons in 1794.

ing as they might fee caufe ; and the
Committee to which their Lordlhips
bad referred it had taken, in his opi¬
nion, a much more judicioi/s courfe, as
they had reported an opinion of danger,
without affigning reafons which would
not warrant it. He thought it unfair to
the accufed, however, fo to prejudge
rheir cafe as for both Houfes of Parlia¬
ment to treat the offence as treafon. He
for one, though he conceived it to be
the very higheft fpecies of fedition, did
not think it treafon, uniefs it could be
made out in evidence that they had at¬
tempted to carry their doflrines into
execution. He profeifed huiifelf totally
at a lofs to explain why this had been
called a fufpenhon of the Habeas Cor¬
pus, whereas, in faiSt, the fubje£l would
have juft as much right to the benefit of
that a6l after this bill had palfed as be¬
fore; and any defeft in the warrant, or
wrong motive of commitment, would
be as fatal to the arreft. A judge is juft
as much obliged now as ever to grant
that writ, and any magiftrate as much
liable to an a61ion or profecution for
any erroneous or corrupt exercile of
authority ; and, in £a£f, this bill would
have been juft as neceffary if the Ha¬
beas Corpus had never cxifted. He
was the more inclined to give his affent
to the meafure, is lie conceived that it
did not convey any arbitrary pouer of
iinprifonment to Minitlers, but only a
power to detain till fuch time as they
may think proper to profecute ; being,
however, bound in honour and duty to
have reafonable caufe of fufpicion a-
gainft every perfon arrefted.

Earl of Lauderdals, after ufing a vari¬
ety of arguments againft the bill, madie
a motion to adjourn. He ftated an or¬
der of the Houfe, in the year 1715, to
prevent bills being read afecond time on
the day of their introdu£lion.

Lord Grerfu'dle ftiewtd by the Jour¬
nals that, ip ciicumftances where the
HabeaB Corpus aSt was fufpended, this
order of the Houfe had been difpenftd
with.

Earl of Abingdon fhortly exprcffed his
approbation of the bill.

Earl Mansfield reminded the Houfe
of the many periods at which it had
been thought right to furrender, for a
time, the benefit of one law fOr the
prefervation of all laws.

The JMarquis of Lanfdonvne wifhed
to argue the queftion in the fame man¬
ner which had ever been adopted by
wife men in that Houfe> namely, by
4

the rule of reafon. Upon this ground
he attempted to Jliew that the meafure
was equally impolitic and unneceftary;
and that the Convention, fo much al¬
luded to, had no improper or illegal
objcift in view j that the line of condu5%‘
was chalked out for them by former
meetings in the year 1773 ; that the
prefent plan was, the old Jacobin^
perfecuting the new, and was conform¬
able to the old adage of “ Set- a rogue
to catch,”' &c.

The Duke of Leeds fupported the bill;
and concluded an emphatic fpeech by
declaring that, if their Lorcifiiips fhould
refufe to difpenfe, for a time, vvich the
operaiinn of the Habeas Corpus bill,
there might fiiortly be no fuch law to
difpenfe with.

T'be Lord Chancellor very fufficiently
proved, that the condudl of the confpi*
rators was far from harm’efs. This
being once eftablilhed, it would natu*'
rally follow that, previous to any blood-
fhed, the Legiflature fhould think it
necelfary to take precautionary meafures
according to the old Roman rule— -Cia-
•veant con/ules^ ne quid re/publica detri^
menti capiat.

The queftion being now called ^or,
the Houfe divided ^upon the motion for
adjournment.

Contents q, Non-contents 107.

The bill having been read the firft
and fecond rime, and committed, the
Earl of Lauderdale oppol'ed the third
reading; upon which the Houfe divi¬
ded, for the third reading 95, againft:
it 7'. Adjourned at three o’clock oa
Friday morning.

In the Commons, the fame day, a
new writ was ordered for Huntingdon-
&ire in the room of Mr. Brown, apr
pointed fteward of the Cliiicern Hun^
dreds.

H. O F . L O R D S.

May ij.

The royal afient was given, by com-
miliion, to 80 public and private bills;
among which was the bill for the fiif-
penfion of the Habeas Corpus adf.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr^
Barbe vindicated the report publilhed by
the Managers for the Cornmons, againii
which he conceived fome reflexions had
been thrown out in. another place : he
profeffed hirnfeif ready at all times to
ftand forward in defence of that report.
('Tfl be canclurded inmr S u p p l eme n t .,)

198. Fomis

1794*1 Review of New Fubheatisns, ' ' m3

198. Perns, Lyric and Pajloraf. In’Tnvo Vo~
iumes. i)’v Edward Wi'liam";, Bardd ‘iv^tb
Fraint a Defod Beirdd 2''nys Prydain. lznto>
HERE cannot pnffibly be a more
heterogeneous and unnatural mix¬
ture than poetry anti politicks. Seldom,
indeed, do theMufes fiourifli arn'd thofe
turbulent feenes wliicJi penerare the dif-
content of Fa£lion or the wild enthii-
fiaTm of Reform. ^ They better love
quier and humble feenes, and breathe
f wetter odours iu retirement than in a
crowd.

Mr. Willia^ms has much poetic ima¬
gination, and, ccrtainl V, noinaal! portion
of genius ; but why would he deface arid
deform his volumes bv unavailing as
well as unprovoked excUmations apainil
things and individuals, not as they really
cre '^ but as tbe jaundiced eve of Preju¬
dice represents them to a difTatiTed
mind ' We Would be under dood to
foeak, in particular, of the preface, and
of fome of the notes ; for, to the poetry
v/e have very little, indeed no exception
to make. On the whole, we are inclined
to prefer the rrandations to the original
poems, though many of bodi are emi-
ncntlv beautiful. V/e rele6f th.e follow¬
ing for the < mufement of our readers :

‘‘THE FAIR PILGRIM;

f‘ From Dafy* * * * §^l ap Gu-ilym, a VVelHi Bard,
w'ho floarilhed about the Y ear r 3 50.

“ The Charmer of fweet Mor.a’s* file,
With Death attendant on Iter fmile,

Intent on pilgrimage divine,

Speeds to Saint David’s -p holy fhrine ;

Too confeious of a finful mind,

And hopes (he may forgivenefs find.

‘* What hafi thou done, thrice lovely maid ?
What crimes can to thy charge be laid ?

Didlb titop contemn the fnppliant Poor,
Drive helplefs Orphans from thy door,
UncluWous to thy parents prove,

Or yield thy charms to lawlefs Love ?

“ No, Morvid, no; thy gentle breaft
Was form’d to pity the Diftrefs’d ;

Has ne’er one thought, one feehng known,
Tliat Virtue could not call her own ;

Nor liaft thou caus’d a parent’s pain
Till quitting now thy native plain.

“ Yet, lovely nymjih, thy war purfue.
And keep repentance full in view' ;

Yield not thy tongue to cold rellraint,

But lay thy foul before the Saint;

Oh ! tell him that tl^y lover dies ;

On Death’s cold bed unpit ed lies;

Murder'd by thee, n lentlefs maid,

And to til’ untimely grave convey’d.

* “ Mona,] the Ifle of Anglefea.”
f “ St. David] was, in thofe times, reckon¬
ed tlte tutelary Saint «>f Wales.”

G£^T. Mag. December , 1794.

Yet ere he’s number’d with the dead.
Ere his lateft breath is fled ;

Confefs, repeat, thou cruel Fair,

And hear, for once, a Lover’s pj'ay’r,

S/) may the Saint, with ear benign,

Sweet Penitent, attend to thine.

“ Tl'iou foon mufl: over Menai* goj
May ev’iy current fofdy flowq
Thy Iktle hmk fecurely glide
Swift o’er the calm pellucid tide ;

Unruffled be thy gentle hreaft,

Without one fear to break thy refh,

Till thou art fafely w'afred o’er,

To bolvl Arvonia’sf tow^ ring Ihore.

“ O ! could I guard thy lovely form
Safe through yon defart of the ftorm ];,
VVhere fiercely rage encount’ring gales,

,4nd whirlw’inds rend th’ affrighted vales:
Sons of the tempefl, ceafe to blow.

Sleep in your cavern'd glens below ;

Ye llreams that, with terrific found,

Pour from yonr ihoufand lulls around;

Ceafe with rude clamours to difmay
A gentle Pilgrim on Iier way.

“Peace! rude f’raeth Mawr§ ; no longer
urge

O’er thy wild flrand the fweeping furge ;
’Tis Morvid on thy beach appears,

She dreads thy wrath — the owns her fears ;
O ! let the meek repentant maid
Securely through thy windings wade.

“ T raetii Hychan j|, check thy dreadful ire,
And bid thy foamy waves retire ;

Till, from thy threat’ning dangers freed.

My charmer trips the fiow’ry mead j
Then bid again, with fullen roar,

Thy billorys lath the founding fhore.

“ Abermo*^, from thy rocky bay.

Drive each terrific furge away :

Though funk beneath thy billows lie
Proud fanes, that once alfail’d the ikyf-f.

Dafh’d

* “ Menai,] the frith or channel di’/iding
AngleGa from Carnarvonfliire.”

f “ Arvonia,] Carnarvonfliire.”

J “ Defarc of the iform,] the Snowdon
mountains in Carnarvoqihire, fuppofed to he
the highelt in Britain.’

§ “ Traeth Mawr]/'A^;?g//Ve,Great Strand),
in Carnarvonfliire, lu ted for its qnickfands_,
and tile fudden flowing of its tides; the paf-
fige over it is very dangeroir^, and not t i be
aflempred without a guide, w'hich, however,
the Pilgrims to St. David’s did in itiofe days ”

[| “Traeth Bychan] (Little S'rand', m
M erio'-ethfliire, a place equally dang.-rou

“ Abermo,] a dangerous rocky bay in
Menont;thfliire.”

f f “ Proud fanes, that once alTail’d the
fliy.] A very large traff of fenny count' y on
this coatf, called Cantre’r Gwaelod (1. e, the
Lowland Canton), was, a''out the year 500,
o'’erflo’.vn l)y th. fea, occafion'^d t>y the cace-
leliue s of tliofe who kepi the flood-gat s ;
as w'c arc inlcraied by Taliefin, th? famous

Bard,

I! 14

DafhM by tl>y foam, yon veflal bravfcs
The clangers of thy burlVirg waves.

O ! Cvric^-, fee niy lovely fair
Confign’d to thy paternal cart-;

Eehtike t)'e raging fea=, and land
Iviy Morvid <■>!! yem friendly flrand.

<‘D'/j^y i! i f, tao’e thy hit ions tide.

Fix’d; at thy fonree in pe ce abide j
She coiTies — O ! gr' ec I'.er -.'v-ith a fmilel —
The civ rraer of fweet Men ds ifie.

So may thy limpid rills arctind

Pnrl down thteir dells w'ith foctthing found,

Spt It on thy bofom, and di'play
Th.eir cryflal to the glit’ring day ;

Isor fhi ink from Sumnier’;-. parching fun.
Nor, chain’d in ice, forget to run.

So 'may thy verdant marge along
Wervinda’s Ba' ds in rap: in ’d h ng
Dw'ell on ri y bold majeibc feene, .
puge hills, vail wood-, and vaUcy^ green,

Vd here revels thy enchanting flream,

The ! over’s hafunt, and Poet’s then e.

Tiv u, Pyvi §5 ‘langerons and deep,

On beds of ooze unrudi^td deep;

O'er thy gieen wave n'y IViorvld jj fads;
Condudl her fufe, ye gentle gales ;

Charm’d wiih her beauties, waft hei o er
To fam’ci Ceredig’s-e* wond’ring fnore.

Foamy Hhedioiff, r ge no more
Powri thy imcks with ech(<M roar ;

Be filenh^Yitwyth ft, m thy me;.'ds, ,
Clide F ttly thiough iby peaceful reeds;

Nor bid thy dells, rude Aeronff , ring,

But halt at thy mattrnal fpring;

Bard, in a pwem of his ftdl extant. There
were, it is faid, many la' ge' towiis, a great
number of villages, and palaces of no' le-
men, in this catiton ; a'ld, aoior.glt them,
the palace oc Gwyddno Garanhir, a petiy
prince of the country. There were latcdy
(and 1 believe ai*e ftill) to be Crn, m ihe
h nds of this bay, large ibones with inferip-
tions on them, the charadlers Roman, hut
the language unknovvn. — 1 his diCllroua
circumfiance is recorded by many other an-
tk nt Wellla writers. ’ ,

^ “ Cynic. ] t he patrem Saint of the
Wellh m.^rmers-”

p “ Dyffynni.] A river in Meriontlh-
fhire, runmn ; th'Oogh a heautihd country.’’

+ Mc-rvinia.J Meiioncth-fliirc.”

^ Dyvi.] A hu'g'* liver, dividing Me'-
rioi.eth'bire Irom Cardig.iuthire.”

II My M('-rvid fails.] It was ufual hir
tho-fe (even females) wh.o w’e-nt from North
Wales on pilgrimages to St David’-s, th j>afs
the drngercus flr-:nds, and fail oner tbe
rough bays, in flight coracles, wiihout any
one to gui 'e or afiilt them ; fo firmly were
they nerhiadcd that their at’ced Sain'’, as
we ll as ^ yi ic, the ruler of the wave'', would
proiecT, thfem in all danger.^.”

An antieni pi-nre, from whom Cere-
tlMion /’A'W/c/?, Cardigan) derives its nanrie.”

"f f « Rhediol, Y ftwylb, and Aeron, rivers
Ill Caidigai^iltir'*,’'

[Dec,

Hide from the nymph, ye torrents wild,

Or wear, like her, an afpeifl mild ;

For her light Reps clear all your waysj
O, lif en ! ’tis a Lover prays !

Now, fafe beneath ferener /kies,

Where fofter beauties charm her eyes,

She Teivi’s* verdant region roves,

Views flow’ry meads and penfile groves;.

Ye lovely' fccnes, to Mervid’s heart
V/arm thoughts of tendernefs impel t,

Such as in bufy tumults r&ll.

When Love’s confufion fills the foul.

Her wea' ied Rep, w i'll aw^e profound,.
Now treads- Menevia’sf honour’d ground.

At David’s fni'ine now, lovely maid,

Thy pious oiifons are paid :

'Fe fees the fecrets of thy breaR 7
One fin, one onlv, fiends confeF'd,

One heinous gui’t. tluP, rn.thlefs, gave
'i'hy hopcleis Loner to the g’'a'’e.

I'lry fnftcu’d boforn now relents,

'Of all i's Cruelty ir pent'^.

Gives to Remoife the fervent figh.

Sweet Pily s tear bedev. s thine eye ;

Now Love ligh'.s up its hallow’d f;re, ^

Mil s a!i thy h.eai t with chafle dehic t
Whiiil intliy f<ml new feelings ourii,

O! Morvid, to thy Bard return;

One lender look Wili cure his pain,

Wd' bid him life ■gain,

A hfe like that of S.iin s a'o 've,

Extatic joy, and endlefs lo're!’’ '

1.9c. Jnq.mry into tBe Covnn'Jfion and Doc-^

trine of the ne%o jhfofile, Emanuel Sweden-

boi g ; containing a fort llifoiy of Tm^fors-

^ Teivu] A large river dividing the
counties of Caroigan and Pembroke.”

p ‘^'Menevia.] ] n Welflr A^«vw, the an-
tient city of St* David’s, in PernbrokeRiii e.
The piigrim iges to this place were, in tiioia
times, eileemed fo very meritorinus as to
occalion the follow iiig pioverbiai rhyme in
Wei Ik :

Dos i Rufain nmvaith^ ag i Fynyw ddivj'^
vJciitb,

A' V tJ7i el-w cry no a gai di yma ac y no.

And in L .tin :

Roma fcmel qtcantum, lis dat Menevin
tantum

Wiudd haughty Topes your fenfes bubble,
And once to Rome your ilcjis entice;

’Tis quite as w ell, and Lives feme trouble,
Govrfitold Saint tWiCe.

“ The VV'elfli Earths mo.t relfieClful com-
plimsrts to th.eir hfnUible Holiiuffes the
Pcprs of all ftdls and ueaomin.itu.ns (for
fuch tfiere ceitainly aie), and hojies they
will pardon him for not giving a Gofer ven-
fion of ihe good t)!d j'ngl-ng line; al-

furos them, that he h.ts m t taken g;ea:er
lib’ rties with it than wh i they daily 'nks
witli the Bible (and indeed w itii all truth in
genend), well knowing ttiot it wi'l not fully
anfw’er their laudable purpofes W'itbout a little
-sfecewif p<ji V£ifioii.”

Review of New Puhlictritoni

>794 ]

Preview of Necu P uhlkailons*

and JLnthufuilli^ an Hxamination of M’‘.
Swede. ib()rf;'i> Vifon\ hh Caba'i/iic Inter¬
pretation of Scripture ; his den^i g the Re-
JurrcBion, as aljo Tbirtv one Boohs of the Old
-and Nc lo '^refamenits : the affehled Ohfeurity
of his Writings } and Jnne Remarks on his
moji palpable Contradidiions : concluding with
a few StriBures on Lis calling his Followers
the New |eiufdem Church, By a Member
of the Old Church.

AS, in ibe reign of Charles II. fo at
the prefent period, Infidelity and Scep-
ticifm keep pnee with Erthufialm and
Fanaticifm. It is not thfficult to ac¬
count for the quick tranficion from the
two extremes. Tliat a heated imagina¬
tion fhouid fall ia..o i’uch extravagances
t-s Baron Swedenborg is not to he won¬
dered at, or that he fiiould find fome
men of a fimilar turn, in every ag.e and
iia-iun, to adopt them. But that, in this

pular language, very well fuited to guard
thofe who may he mofl in danger from
the fpreading iufeflioa of lids new I'pe-
cics of fanaticifm; and concludes wj'h
foine fenfible remarks toexpofe the im¬
propriety of Swedenborg’s calling his
fo lowers the New Jerufalem Church. —
The au hor gives this general opinion
conctinirig the Baron’s waitings:

“ The whole that can bs faid of Mr. S we-
denborg’s v\riti'ogs may be drawn within
this narrow conqufs — either his works are
an exprefs revelation from God— or they are
written under the influence of a difordei e<f
rn'nd — pr they are vwitten, like the irapof-
tor Mahomet’s, with an intention to irapofe
upon and deceive tlie woi’d. That they are
not a revelation from God, I think 1 have
already proved to a dernnullration, fo far as
ever we have been taught in what manner
<to judge of the credibility of a divine million.

enlightened age, when nidukind psetend As to the fecond, 1 allow it is pollible, but
to grow vvifer every day, or it is the in- indeed vety improbable, that a man for
tereft of certain fd-difant f htlofopbsn to twenty-feven years fhouid be pnder the in
•peifuade them fo, itisirulyextraordi-
rarv that his followeis fhouid ii'-cr afe
to fuch a drgrte as to t)ecume an obj di
of pub ic attention. I'h: writer before
us has e-xpofed his inriuinerahle errors,
nrany. of which are as in 'oeent as the
Ipirituahzation of John Bunyan. He
notices with proper warmth Bweden-
borg’s denial of tVie veiurrtdlion ; and
the application which ihs baron makeg
to himfelf of the language ol Scripture
-t'.'acerning Chrift’s fecona appearance to
j jdge the world. Of the attfccfed ob-
I’curity of Sw’edenborg’s wriiina-s many
curious examp’es are quoted ; and tiic
abfuvdity of his theological and nm'a-
p’tyfical language is very f<*ir'y*tx,pofr;d.

Farther to dlfprovc iiis pretentions to in-
Ipuation, among vyhi'h many grots con-
Uadii^lions and inconfilkncses are detcdl-
td in lus writings, take the following:

JVives inhell. Tht No wives in hell.

wicked fpirits, when A fingle faian and a

llreyare brouglit in.tq
hell,' are brought into
a cavern, where there
arc harlots, and the
noviciate fpirlc is per¬
mitted to cake one to
lumfelf, and call her
h.s wife Univtifal
Theuiogy, N° i3i.”

woman once came
from hell to fee the
baron at tiis lodgings.
The woman couU af-
fume all habits and fi¬
gures of beauty, like

fiuence of fuch a delufion. With vegai d to
the laid, 1 am not obliged to anfwer it ; let
it fuffic'’, that I haveflTCwn he tiad no com¬
mand from God to pub-liih thefe works as a
revdation from heaven. The heart of man
is deceitful abo.e all things, who can know
it ? The tranfition from emhuflaftn to irn-
.pofture is very eafy. ‘ The energy of a mind
bent on the fame (jbjedt may convert: a
geim-ral obligation into a particular call;
and the Warm fuggeflions of the underflami-
ing, or tlie f>ncy, may be confidered as the
iiifpirat on of heaven ; the labour of thougnt
may expire in raptitre and vifion ; and the
inward fenfaticxis and invifiblo monitor may
be defenhed with the form and attimdes of
Tg\ aiTgei of God. From raptures of imagi¬
nation to intentional irapofltire, the flep is
perilous and flippeiy ; the demon of Socrates
aff.'irdS' a memorable inhance how a jvda
man may deceive himftdf, how a good man
may deceive others, how the confcieiice
may fl umber in a mixed and middle ffate
between felf-iilufion and voluntary fraud.’
(Gibbon.) Whether the writings of Mr.
Swedenborg be t!ie effedis of cnthphafrs or
impoftu- e, or of both, I wdll not take U4>on
me to deterra'P.e ; but tliat either a heated
imagin.vt on, or a frat^dulent intention, ha.s
produced tliera, I as fnmly bedeve as 1 l)e-

lieve in rny own exiflence; nor do I licfitate
a Venus, or princely declaring tliem, after a very careful pe-
vlrg'.n. 'I he baron rufal,- to be a mofl: £h meful corruption of

Chi ifliaaity, and .a grofs perverfion of that
revelation winch Cod has made of his ivnn4
to the world.-’

alked the fatrn, if (he
■was his wife ? Satan
replied, wliat is a
wife? we do not
know the meaning
cf the word; fiiie is
inv harlot. Univer-
falTheology,NoSo.”

The work is UTicten in plain and po-

200. Advocates for Devils Refuted, and their
Hope of the Damned demoHJhed ; or. An
everlajiing Tajk for vyiucheller all his
Confederates By Wiiliam I luntington, S.S,
Mynijier of the Gofpcl ui providence Chapel,

l.ltllc

Ill6 ^ ' Review of New Fuhlicathns, [Dec,

Little Tichfield-ftreet, i}t Monkwell-'
flreet Meeting.

“IF any of our readers (liquid have
the curioiity to fee how few ideas it is
pofhbie to fpread through a hundre<l
paget', and how coolly — we fnould rariter
have faid impud€ntly-~-t)x\t rninlFer of trie
gofpel can give another the lie in the
name of the Lord, let him read tliis re¬
futation of ‘ Wipcheller and all his con¬
federates.’ N. B. Winch.efler, that is,
Mr. Wincheher, fays, the fouls in hell
will all be faved at lad 5 which Mr.

Huntington, S. S. fays is a - lie. S;'e

p. 100.” ( Anuiyiical Revienv.)

101. The TJijiory and Antiquities of the Unhter-
ftty of Oxford. By A. Wood. Vuhlijhed
by Gutch.

THIS !s the SECOND volunre of the
work notic^^d by us in vol LXH. p.
439, refuming the hiftory 1510, 2 Hen-
IV vyr. and continuing it to 1661*
Charles II. “The third and laid vo¬
lume, being much larger than was ex-
pe6led, tlie remainder ot the Anna’s, a,s
far as Mr. Wood has completed th.em,
is now ready^ to be dediveied in boards.
The conclu lion of the vvoik is now in
the prefs, and will be pv.blilhcd as loon
aspoilible, with title-page, indexes. ;
which will enable the editor to fulfa his
engagements to his fubfcribers.” We
heartily wiHj him health to coi.rinue his
ufful and intereiling publications, for
the credit'of his Aima Plater 5 and tiiat
he may flill find the pation'agf, for him-
Llf. and increafing family (lee p. 764),
he on all accounts lo well deferves.

20 Z. A Sermon -preached at the Conjecration of
A^e Chapel of Holme, i>i L'tncalbire, fitly
ig, 1794* ^Viiitaker, LL.'E.

vdeii. xxviii. 17. Air. vV”,
w’th etpual judgement and iearrdfyg,
compr.henfiveiy oetnonfitatt-s the notion
of local fanciity bv the Scriptures, and
the pradlice of the Chnllian Chutch and
the people of God in ail ages.

203. The Duties of a Soldier^ illuf rated and
enforced in a Sermon preached at the Ccnfccra-
tion of the Colours of the Somerfet Light
Dragoons, VVediief’ay the 6th of Auguft,
1794, the Church of St- Mary Magdalen,
Taunton. By the Rev. John Gardinei,
Curate of the abense Church, and Retlor of
Br iilsbird, c£fc. in the County of Derby.
Bhbiijhed at the Requejj of the Corps.

FROM pfalm xx 5. tiie preacher
ably vindicates tlie propriety of “feeing
up our iianners in the name of our God”
fiom the abiurdityof thole fe£larlcs'^vho
affum that war is foi bidden by the Gol-
7

pel. Re (hews the juftice of the caufe 1
for whicli it is now undertrdeen, and the
confidence in divine allulan-ce, with whicii
we mav feel ourfelves infpired to carry it
on. 'riie.lermon was iiandfornely re¬
ceived I and Lari Poulet, lord lieu’enant
and cuidos rotulorum of the conn-y of
Somerlet, and colonel of* the EaH; regi¬
ment of the Dcvonlhire miiitia, and of
the Somerfet (hire regiment of light ca¬
va rv, .vod the reft of the officers, fab-
feribed for too conies.

204. A Sermon againf facohinical and Puri*
tanicnl Reform, recommending Unanimity and
Loyalty to the Ecclefrajiical and Civil Gense.r-
nor% of this Kingdom \ preached o/.; Fi'idav,
April xg, 1793, by Fiercliffr Dixon,

Ficar of DuffielJ, and Chaplain of che 34X3
Regiment. '

A PLAIN and forcible difeourfe,
from Mark iii. 24. i

205. A Letter to Gilbert Wakefield, B.A..
on his “ Spirit of Chriftianity compared with
the Spirit of the Times in Great Britain.’’
By David Andrews.

VVS have aiie.idy feen the tendency
of Mr. Wakefield’s pamphlet, p 34^^ >
and it will not appear lurpjizing that it
(hou’d have proviaced tliis rude attack;
on Revelation, to which the pubiijhsr is
aftvuued to fet his name.

Mr. W, however, does not think him
unworthy Ids regard; and has atilwered
hini, in a fecond edition of liis Exatni'
nation of Ae Jlge of Reafon, in the meft
decorous and ?^eniir nsan-’ ke^ manner.

. “ TIte modern David cannot be deemed a .
formid d-le adverfary agtiuft tiiis antient and
ftab'e foitrefs (;f Faiil) and Hope, unlefsour '
inteliedfual optlcks ftimilJ h-aply, by. dimnefs 1
or diilnrtinn, acquire fuch a perverl'e Ftculty ■
of exaggeration as to ice a forty-pounder ia a ,
pop-gun, and a mortar in a p — p —t" (n. 65).

i he objedls of Mr. VV’s abufe mav '
rrtort on him, that “ he feems to be of !'
the man’s mind in Fi -.race :

“ Frcetulerim feripwr dclikvs inei fque 1
videri, [fallaut, 1

Dnm mea delsAent mail mea, ve( denique I:
Qsi'arn fapere, & ringi -

2of‘. A Sermon preached in thy ParifJo CJrurch I'
of Can'biidton, in the County of Surrey, on |-
thezSth of Febru.ny, 1794, being 'the Day |.
appointed for a general Fa/i. By Wiili.am
R' lie, AJ. F. R S. Reel or of Cur (lyAtoiif
and of Kfcckenham in ICcrit. Publijhsd by ;
Dejire of the Parif.-iuntrs.

A temperate, well writren difeourfe;
in which tiie writer deprecates the mife- ■
ries of war in general, and Inments the »
peculiar infelicitv'^ of the .prefent, which !
c^n neither be profecuted nor abandoned t

1704.] Review of New PuhUcationi. 1117

wiihout equal dar'ger ; — reconritnends
fubniiiTion to eflnb! Iheci authority, una¬
nimity in defence of that libetty, i>otli
civil and religious, whicli is cur Iriith-
Tight, and uuiverfal reformation of inan-
rers. He (kploffes the impiety of the
French nation, who, in abohnriog a na¬
tional re)igiot!s eftaoHAntcnt, have al o-
Ijflted all religion, tiie one being the na-
tuial coiilequencf. o! the other.

207. Notfs. ond Annotatloiii on I.ocke qn the
Jt/ fKun Uruic' j^andinq;, ‘xvrhten hy order oj the
^uim ; cornfyjmiingf in Section and i^nge,
^L-iih the Edition of 1 793. By Thomas
Moreb, D D Refjor of Buckiand, and
F 56'. R and A. '

THERE IS no end of pubh firing
every fragment that is foi.ind in the
fiiuly of a ii.craty man after hi-s dtaili.
H he be a writ-' r of reputation, no ad¬
dition is made to his fame by fuch an
undertaking ; andf if he be not of that
chaiaffer, it rarely fupplie'S that dtfe61.
We doubt if th'd'e notes will he admitted
into a vpriorum edition of Lfjcke’s
works; and, v.ith no better reference
than to fetflion and page of the lateft
edition, we do not fee of what utility
^V.ey can be.

2c8. The Captive Monarch, a Tragedy, in Five
A6i\. By Rkharti Hey, of the Middle
Terri pie, F.fq. L L.V. and f 'eliovu of Mag¬
dalen College, C; mb ridge.

DR. HEY has attempted to exh.ibic a
general <■( titc principles am! pro-

cetcings. wl.ich have of late deiolated a
netehbouring riaiicn, rather than luch
3S traces li e aboia! events; and tlure is
frmc indulgence in Petiun. Tnis piece
was written fo long a^o as May, 1793,
and kept b.ack while the unfortunate
(bjeen of Fraure was living. In this
tiagedy ibe (r.ietn is made to flab her-
felf, and the king furvives.

2C9. Firf Report fyotn the Committee of Secrecy j
ordered to he printed 17 hlay, 1794-
210. Second Report on the Papers fri:e,ed hv
order of Government, and prefentod to the
Tloufe by Mr. Secretary Dnndas, May 12,
13, 5794; v’ith the Appendix', printed hy
order of the Houfe.

AS it did not become us to anticipate
the public opinion on the fuhjedi of thtfe
i\e ports, which came fan^lioned Iry the
inoli; lefpeclable authority; w;e waited In
filencc the gradual developtmenc of the
plot againft our happy ConlVitution ; ard
we now bow wirh r^veiencc to the dec:-,
lions of '’»! English Jury. (See p. 1050;
and our Hifioncal Chronicle of the pic-
(enc month )

2 1 I. Moral Annals of the Poor and Middle
Ranks of Society, in various Situations of
good and had Condu&.

A Colieblion of real infiances of ho-
nehy, falfehcod, gratitude, parental, fi¬
lial, and conjugal afie£lion, fidelity in
fervants, fo givenels of nvjuries, good
citizenfliip, principally dravva from Our
own counny, and of which the ennipiler
fo'icits fcinmunic;iMons to Mr. Penning¬
ton, brickff-l'er ar Durham, for the be-
nebr of the Sundav-fchcols in which city
it is intended The followii g fiory is
pjrticulai Iv aprlicabie to ilie prefenc
time : ‘‘M. de Tounville, a. French ad-
mirr^l, mediated a deicent on England
in tl:c Istbnnmg ol King William’s
reign. As he intended to land in Suffex,
he fent for a fiiherrnan belpngH^g to that
ro-rfi, 'who liad been taken by one of hts
fleet. He imaained Ire might get from
him feme informatioin how die people
ftriod aU'e^led to the government. “ Do
vou!' counfrvm E!!! be, ■* love King
janies.^ are they webl affeched to the
Prince of Orange, or to King WiPiam,
as vou call him? Are they fatisfied
with the preicor government?”' The
fifiierman ficod amazed at thefe c^uef-
ttens. At iatt, fays he, * I have ne¬
ver heard of the gentlemen that you,
talk of. They may he very good gen-
tEmen for augiu i know. I wii'h none
01 them any harm ; they never did me
any. 1 know' nothing at ail alxnicthem.
God bl-ds them ! As for the govern-
ntf nr, how can you irosgine that a man,
who has never learnt to read and write,
fiiould know any thing about it? I have-
enough to do to take care of my boat and
my nets, and to fell my fisl'i wricn I have
cai’.ght them.’ The admiral uno'erfioocl,
frou) tlie manner' in whah the fifij.rmaa
expri-fied hirnlelf, that his ignorance was
unalfei'fed. “ At lead,” replied lie, “ by
your looks I am fare you will make a
goo<i (ailor: and, as aP p.arties are lb in¬
different. to vou, vou can have no objec¬
tion to.ferve on-boaid inythip.” ‘VFhat
I,’ cried the fiiherman immeniately, ‘I
ferve .againfi my country ! I Would not
do It for a king’s lanfom.’

2J2. Fetter addrejfed to Sir John Sinclair,
Bart. reJpeCiing the important Dijeovety, lately
miuie in Sweiien, of a Method to extinguijh
Fire, with an Account of the Procefs adopted
for that Purpofe-, and Hints for prefertiing
Timber ufed either in Houjes or in Ship-huild-
ing from that dejiruCiive FlUmcnt. By Mt\
William Knox, Merchant, //r Gotheribui'g.
JN October, 1792, M. Von A<en, ot
Ore brer, exhibited at bcockhoim the ef-

1 1 Review cf New Publications,'

f af certain fii\;-ex:inp:uifj';inp; folu-
of wjiich a lii awing and cieferip-
t»on ?.re 'here given. Jn the following
3i)ect,n'.l)er, M Nils Nyilroem, apothe-
tary in Nockoeping, lent to the fvoyal
Society cf Stockholm a paper on the
piinc'p'es of various limpiu and coin-
pou’Vj foliuionb lor the faiwe pu-r pole ; a
tiai Jiation 6i w'hich conlliiutts the chief
part of the prch,;nL publication. Tlie
j. enera! idea is, to inipregnate the water
\i!ed in (paeachiirg hie with certain com-
•hufthde IngreoIi^iiUi, whether halts capa¬
ble of folution, or earthy matteis held in
The chuicc of thefe is itpre-
jlented as n matter cf no great conlc-
tiiiencc. The articl-s n'«'uaonet:; lor
liniple foiution or nitr'niw are wood-
aihes, pot-alhc^j corntnoiT lair, green vi¬
triol, lierr mg- pick! e,' alum, arii! clay;
the . compounds arc clay, vitpiol, and
common fall j wotKl-aiiies and clay ; red
ochie and cuimuonlaltj hen in; -;aickie
sad red ochre, Tlieie are cholcn, prin-
cipslly, on a^ccount of tisc local .opportu-
ijities of eahly "prccuring them. Toey
5) re ro he rn’xed, in large piopoitions,
with w'?ter, and the thicker the mixiures
are, the rnore efficacious they are found.

la a note by the tranflat m, it is lu-g-
gsitted that the cl'ieapull materia!, in
ioanv p2its of Grtac Britain, would he
tne bittern of lea-lalt, which might be
inired to the coRli'Unce of ho>'-ey with
prepared clay, and kept in caflcs ready
for diiulioa wh^n wanreci.

An appendix gives fome additional'
direistions lor preparing the udurioos,
and th-e refult of two experiments made
in Norkoeping in 1793, by Vviiicn tiieir
txiingUiiliuig power appears to be very
lesnai kabie. It is fuggified, alfo, that
fomtions or ^fixtures of the lame kind
rti.'ght be ad'vancagetmliy lifed to im¬
pregnate the wood employed in houics
or m fiiip-’ouilding, lo as to triake it lit¬
tle lufceptible of taking fire.

The ladls cunt.uneti, in this fmall pub¬
lication Item to ddui'i'e a t n ion.

a I 3. Jt Meteorological ‘Journal of the I'ear
A 793, hfpt in Luiuicn. JJj W’dliam Bent.

' ‘To avhicL arc added, Ghfiajaiiorn on the Jdif-
cajei of each Month in the City and Sahur^s.

'x xiiS j mr.jai v\as kept rm the Sui,ch
fi<ie of Pater- nob: r-row, L.;ndun, ar.d
toniains tiie Iie’ght ot the barometer,
temperature of the air, in the open air,
and ai!o within doors ; the degrees of
jL)e Luc’s hydrometer; cfliindted degrees
of cloudinels ; the direftion and force of
the vAnd; aod general medical rcuia^iks
annexed to «ach month. It is impoilibiu

to give any ufeful account of fuch a 'e-
gittcr. An irillrument to mealure the
(juantities of rain is circntial to the com¬
pletion of a journal of the weather.

214. Rapport fur les Mouvemem qui ont eu lieu
Jur ififcuare de la Ktpublique, od'e. — Report
delivered to the Reprejentativer, of the Veopie
along vaith theVleet relative to the Commotion
nvhich took Place on board the Squadron oj the
Repullick commanded by Vice-admiral Morard
do C>alie;', and the Caufe of its Return to
Brell. By Jean Boa St, Andre, Breft,
1'l.iLS iotereilicg pampiiLt difclofes
the I cr"r caufes ot the dekat which the
Fror.ch fl.;et fufi.ained on the glorious
hr:fi of June laft ; and (hews ! ow' much
the Or.kiotine party had negltiled the
marine departnifnt : and tliat Inch a
Ipiiir cf difalfediion and dilunion reign¬
ed on-boarcl the French fleet as, joined
to an acknowledged vrant of leamanlhip,
and itiexperience in naval ta£\:cks, con-
cupred with the gallaimy and h-'.r.i'm
of cur countrymen to eltcdt a vi£t rv, on
which 51 w-ould i>e curious to lee a le-
coiui report from Brell.

2 1 5i Otjdins-of .q Ccnnmentqr'; Rev.si. i — 14.

THIS iS not one of the leak extraqr-
dinary diffoitions of holy feripture which
have iffueti in lucii numheis from the
Ihau; nhnt. While all former expohiors
of the Reve’afikons with humhic diffi¬
dence refer iliC two wi.nelies to the ad¬
vocates for the truth and puriiy of Re-
kg on, and tlie bealt fioin the bottomhTs
pit to the Pope and the cerruptions of
tile Chuich of Rome, the prelent cum-
incniritt)!' pel verts it to the Combination
of the Powcis of Euiupe againil Ri-
E ER T Y as aiLr iug htr rigl-ts in France.
Unpifjutiictci mrnds Will loontr conceive
that tlie fjjhtn of govern soseat which lias
tyranmjed tv^r that wretched country
is more like to the thar role out

of the bottomlels pit than the defenders
of good order in reiigdun and policy.

2 1 6. Dedicated to the Candid and Pious of
'every Deriontination. Quotations from Dr,
iN'eiVt-m’s Differtation on the Prophecies,
which have remarkably been fulfriied, and at
this Time we fulfJling, in the I'Vorld ; with
feme humble Remarks reJpeSling the latter
Days, or the Approach cj the expehied Mil-
leniim;, juppojed to commence at the Expira¬
tion of Six Tboufand 'Tears froyyi the Creation
of the I'J'orld : and Objervations oyi the Beyieft
of the Frefs, zTc. By Mrs. Alice WilliaraSj
late Mfs VVitls.

WHAT induced this lady to lay both
her iiames be. ore the publick, we. know

nut;

«794 ]

rot; brt \vp cpnce'ive flie is filler to ih.e
dowager Lady Lyttelton, wiio was the
wife of the hue Lord, fon of the cel' hi a -
ted Hi dorian. The extraft from Bifiioo
Newton, 11 205. refpt61:in^]; the ovei-
rhrovv of the Ottoman puwe? by the
RulTians, i-'i introduced by a letitr ir- in
Tvlarrlia} Saxe to the Empiefs of RuHia,
pointing as a prediBicn, the cer¬

tainty of Incccfs, politicailv, if (he pur-:.
I'uea fuch and fuch n:etiiods tdl flie
gained polTefiion of Oczakovv; which is
i'uppoled CO have encouraged the at¬
tempt, and has hitherto fuccceded. This
is the only thing new or worth noticing.

217. Ohfervations on Tithss'y fhenving the In¬
convenience cf all the Schemes that have been
^^opojed for altering that nntient Manner of
providing f-r the Clergy of the Ejfahhped
Church of Ireland. By William H.des,
D. D. ReSlor of Killil'andra, in the Pro¬
vince of Ulder, late a Felto-w of I'nnily
College, Dublin. To which is annexed, A
fecorid Edition of The Moderate Reformer,
or, a Fropofal for aholijhing fame of the mofi
obvious and grofs Ahufes that have crept intc)
the Chutch of England, and are the Occafon
of frequent Complaints againji it. By a Friend
to the Church of - EnglancL”

1 r items exwa ordinary that the re£lor
of Rillifandra ihoukl recommend to riie
Irifl) accpiiefcence in tiihes from the exam¬
ple or the Kogb/h, who aie devifing every
method for a faWlituie or compeniation
for them, hitherto, indeed, with'^ut iuc-
ctfsj while “the Moderate Reformet”
had made an addition of Eve pages to his
former edition (reviewed vol. LX!I. p.
E47). to obviate the' principal obje6t!ons
to tithes among us, which he has done
witii his well-known judgement, having
before exprclTed an unwillingnefs to al¬
ter the law concerning them.

21 3. A jJ?ort Expofition of the imporfant Ad¬
vantages to be derived to Great UriCuin front
the IVar, whatever he its Iffue and Succefs.
By the Author of “ The Glimpfe through the
GloornT

THIS writer is of opinion, that we
fhouid have no farther concern .with the
war on tiie Contuienc, but direct all our
exeriions to the deUruSlion of the French
navy and com.meice, and t 'cuie to oui-
feives the commerce of the rwond.

219. The Good Samaritan: or, Charity i0‘
Strangers recommended. • A Sermon, preached
in the Parijh Church of v-, cnnibe,

Bucks, for the : lencli Refugee Clergy, on
Sunuav, fuiic 17"-) 3* Publijhed by Re-
fueji, and for ihe Benefit, oj thejaid Clergy.

220. Mary iMagcL'en : A Sermon, preatbed irt
the Chapel of the Magala eu Ihojaital, Black-
friers Road, on Sunday Evening, iviarcb 23^
1794-

TBL'SE two ferrnon's, by the Rev.
Willi- m UhlliaiT) ., B. A. of VVorceiler
CoPegej. Oxford, curate of High Wy¬
combe, Bucks, have nothing to recom¬
mend ibrun hu*- the goodnefs of the in-
ctnticui. Vi/e are lorry to fee fuch a,
piece of criticifm as in p. 11 of the fit ft :
‘•KATA SUGKURtilN
Dr. Gill favs, the word may as well he
derived iron SUN and KURIOS, The
Loru, as from SUGKUREiN, to hap¬
pen. f EBay, p. 337.”

221. Dans'ers onihlch threaten Europe. T/anf-
lated from the Frencli.

2 2 2. E trope in Danger’, or. An Enquiry into
the C.aufcs of the t\:isfortunes of the /aji Cam¬
paign, with the Means of avoiding them in
future, by the Commencement of decifive liof-
t Hi ties. AdcLreffed to Monurchs, Minijiersy.
Leaders cf their E'o''ces, and the People.

B.)TH theic pamphlets, though the
latter does not acknow'ieds’c it, are tranl-
lations from a French woik of M. Mal¬
let du Pan: wIkj, though he wiites
a gain ft. the French Revolution, and
dooms its conductors to an extermina¬
ting war, was born and bred a republi¬
can at Geneva. He appears convinced,
that the republican i'yllem of France was
not founded on the free will of tiie peo-
p’e, but on their fears, formed by the
violation of every principle of jufiice
and found policy, and fupported only by
force ana all the horrors of prrrfcript on$
and bloody executions. It is certainly
incumhent on the favourers of Jacobiniim
to controvert the terrible reaioning of
this very able judge of his lubjeht, and
tel! us wkai fingle benefit France derives
from the change of its government.

Tiie fecond of rhefo j amphUts, if a
rranflarion, is a very free one, and inter¬
larded with quotruions from Shakfpeare.

223. P hilojbphkal TranfaBions of the Roy A
Society of London. Bor the Tear 1 794,
Vol. LXX X IV. Parts I. and 11. r\to.

ARTICLE I. Account of the dif-
covery of a 'comet, Otf. y, near

ift Ophiurij in a letter from AldsCaro-
lirc riericbel to joleph P/anta,Rrq. (tc.

II. Acc»)unt of a new pemiuiuni ; by
George Foriiyre, JM. D, : being the
Bakerian leflure.

III, Some faifts rcla'cing to the late
Mr. Jolm Hunter’s preparation for the
Ciocnisn kdlure; by Everard Home,

ElV

Review of New PuJAiciMhvs

1120

Review of New Fuhlicafhnu [Dec.

Efq. Conraining his u’ca that the crys¬
talline humour was enabler!, by its owra
internal aoli.ons, to atijuh itfe.f. To as to
arjapt the ey* to d Herent rhlhinres 5 and
h'is nid'eSirrn of tlo- eye of a < uti it-filh.

iV, Obh-rv^tions on a ({aintupk' belt ■
on the planet Saturn, by Dr. Rcafchel;
their irnmediate connexion with sc. rota¬
tion, 9S wchl as of tltat of Jupiter; and
tire analogy of one cafe to tiie other.

V. Oblervatiuns on the fundamental
oropercy of the lever; wiih a proof of
the prir/eip'c adurru-d by Archimedes in
his demontlratioR 5 by the Rev. S.
Vince.

VL Dr. Herfchel’s account of fpme
particulars ohl.rved during the eclipfe
rd the Sun, Sept. 5, 1793, being a rriea-
furernenr of the height of the iovveft
iTtoun^atns in the mom.

VII. The latitudes and longitudes of
feveral places in Denmark, calculated
from the thgono'.netrical opsracion!; ;
by The. Bugge, F. R. S Regius profeD
for of altronomy at Copenhagen,

VilL Dr. Flerfdicl on the rotation of
the planet Saturn upon its axis;

I.X. Account of a method of mea-
faring the comparative intenftties of the
light emitted hv luminons bodies; by
DieutenaiU-general Sir BenjaminThomp-
fon, count oDRum.tord, F. R. S. from
jVl u n i ch .

X. ExpetiRients on coloured fhadovvs ;
bv the iau.e.

XI. In ve(Vg?!tions, founded on the
theory of mothon, for detei toiining th.e
times of vibrations of waxh-balariccs j
by Geo.ge Atwood, Efj.

Part II.

X!I. On the cmverhon of animal
rnuie’e into a iubdanc-e much refembimg
fuermaceci ; by G-orge Smith Gibbs, B.
A. of ivlagdalen college, Oxf >rd. This
is a curious confirmation of the extraorr
dinury difcoveiy in the cetnf'derg dei in-'
f.oc€ns at Paris, by Al, T hourct, recorded
at length in our vol. LXil. p, 67. The
fubSUnce in qi-Kltlon is now known to
be formed by combinations witii the ani-
fnai fiejn and water. By f ver.4l experi¬
ments on meat, iVIr G. founo that run¬
ning water produces the elfedl more
tuliv ; and it is not necelfarr that putrt-
faciixe fei mentation flsOuld take place. ’
Xlll. AirllracI of a regiPer tf the
barometer, thermometer, and Gain, at
Xyndpt'), in the county of Rutland,
1793 ; bv Tliomas Barker, Efq

XIV Obiervations of feme Eg-yptian
mummies opene-rl in London ; by John-
Fredtrick Bluoitn-bach, M. D. F. R,.S.

Dr. B. opened four fmall mummies,
from 9 tfi 14 incises long, and two la ye
ones. What he more partic’j’arly noti-
c''d was, ibe^flare of the in'ifores^ as what
tnay hereafter prove a criterion for de-
ttrmining the period at which any given
mummy has been prepared; the malk of
fyeamore .wood, (haped, bv means of a
thick coat of plafler, in has relief, into
the form of a face, Pained with natural
colours: which laft,'with the iron na’ls,
and the different wood of the farcoph?.-
gus, are deemed fufpicious circum-
llances, ■afferfling the genuinenefs of the
animal. The delcriptinn of the murn-
mies by Herodotus .and Diodorus Sicu¬
lus does not in the lealt aeree with th.e,
Rate of thofe brought into Europe, whicli
are generally cd' two ions, the hard rom-
paft ones, wholly indued with rofin,
W'hich hence can be knocked info pieces^
and the foft ones, which yield to the
prelTure of the hand, and are prepared
with verv little rofin, and often with
none at all, ^vhofe ioofe bandages may be
n.vjund cjf, and which contain in their
cm-ities icirceiv any thit g but a vegeta¬
ble mould, and p'.irticulariy no idol
whatever, as far as the Doclor had hten
able to learn. The front part of the
latter is ufually covered with a painted,
ami at times gilt, mafk of cotton cloth f
and, as they appear more variegated
than the formt-r, and have no r^fin in
them yielding drugs foV traffick, they
are brought in much greater numbers,
and may be feen in many coilefVions in
Europe, in a more perfect. hate than the
former, though often rendered fo by re-
Jhraiion. The former, on the contrai^,
have, for tliis very reafon, remained,
moft of them, in the hand.s of druggifis.
“ Neither of the antient authors before
refer! ed torremion the rofin cr the paint¬
ed maftcs; though. Heredsutus cxpreisly
dclcribes fuch painted integuments on
tl'.e Ethiopian mummies j and Diodorus
advances fome very ftrange alfertions,
iuch as, that the (kill of the e mb aimers
extended ft) far as petfeflly to prefetve
the lineaments of the face, although the
faces of mummies of both forts be ge-
reraily covered with cotton cloth to the
thick neis of nearly a mart’s hand.”
Hence the Doclor concludes, that we
have few’ mummies made in the time of
thefe . writers ; tlu'iugh what we now
poiTef:', which difflr fo much in their
preparation and charadlcriftic Prufilure,
are at leaP of a period including a thou-
fand years.

The tvvQ criteria for determining,

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/ith feme accuracy, the age of any
articular mummy, are, i. a more ac-
urate determinacion of the 'z/an'ous, fo
:rikingly different^ and yet as ftrikingly
haradlerijiic national configurations in
be monuments of the Egyptian arts,
i^ith a determination of the periods in
/hich 'thole monuments were produced,
ad the caufeS of their remarkable dif-
irrences; 2. a very careful iechnical cx-
minaiion of tiiC charaiferiitic forms of
he fcv'eral fculh of mummies, and an
ccurate comparifon of thofe fculls with
he monuments abovementioned. We
aufl adopt, at leaft, principal •va-

ieties in the national phyfiognomy of
he antient Egyptians : i. the Ethiopian
aft ; 2. the one approaching to the Hin -
ioo j and, 3. the mixedy partaking, in a
nanner, of both the former. The firft
S like the prefent Copts and the antient
iphinx ; the fecond appears in the fe¬
male figure painted on Capt. LethuiU.
ier’s mummy; the third partakes of
)Oth configurations. Thefe are lcv,eraliy
Uuftrated by prints. Adopting, as the,
i)c61:or thinks it conformable to nature,
ive races of the human fpecies, i. the
Ilaucafian, 2. the Mongolian, 3. the
Vlalay, 4. the Ethiopian, 5. the Ame-
ican ; he thinks the Egyptians will find
heir place between the Caucafian and
he Ethiopian; but that they differed
Torn none more than from the. Mongo-
ian, to which the Chinefe belong.

The diminutive mnmmies are not of
fmall children and embryos; but fome
ire the rearmummies of Ibifes, and, in
fgme inilances, may be conjeslured to be
dreft up with a fingle bone or two of
that facred bird to pafs for the reality,
and for the profit of the murnmy manu-
fa6lurers for {ale, or as the memenlo
mart introduced at the Egyptian fef-
tiyals.

■ This paper contains, at leaft, inge¬
nious conje6lures, not totally unfop-
ported by fafts.: but, While the Doflor
detefils the errors of others, he is nor,
perhaps, himfelf totally free from error.
Could the period when mummies ceafed
to be made in Egypt be afeerrained, a
gieat obfeurity would be cleared up.

XV. Obfervations on vifion ; by Da¬
vid Hofach, M. D. An attempt to ac¬
count for many phaenomj^na of vifion by
the aflion and efFcfts of the external
mufcles, illuftrated by a plate.

Gext. INI AG, December) 1*704.

which converge by the powers of So;
by John Hellins, vicar of Potters Pury, *
in NorTrhamptonfhire.

XVII. On the method of determining,
from the real probabilities of life, the
values of contingent reverfions, in which
firee lives are involved in the furvivor-
lliip 3 by William Morgan, Efq.

XYIII. Obfervations on the great
eclipi'e of the Sun, Sept. 5, 1793; by
John Jerome Schroetei-j Efip at Liiien-
thal. Contaitrs fevcral interefting difeo-
veries on the Moon’s fuvfacs, and whitifh
nebulofities, more or lef Taint, coveiing
the Sun’s, bn which appeared only one
fmall diftinfl blackifh ipoti

XIX. Experitnenrs and Obferr^ations
made with the doubler of electricity,
with a vievv to determine its real Uiilitv

in the inveftigation of the eU6lric and
atmofpheric air in different degrees of
purity ; by Mr. John Read.

XX. Tables for reducing the quanti- ,
ties by weight, in any mixture of pure
fpirit and water, to thofe by meafure ;
and for determining the proportion, by
meafure, of. each of the two fubltances
in fuch mixture; by Mr. George Gi’-
pin, clerk to the Royal Society. This
article occupies above 100 pages of 450.

XXL Obfervations and experiments
on a wax- like fubftance refembling the
Pe-la of the Chinefe, coHe^fed at Ma¬
dras by Dr. Andetfon, and bv him called
White Lac ; by George Peaifon, M. D.
This wax was colkoled from a certain
coccus, which alfo produces a kind of
honey. White lac is found by thefe ex¬
periments to be homogeneous with bees ¬
wax, and probably might be made to
ferve the fame purpoLs under certain,
modifications.

XXII. Account of fome remarkable
caves in the principality of Bavreuth,
and of the fofiil bones found therein ;
extrafted frpm a paper fent, with fpeci-
mens dif the bones, as a preltnt. to the
Royal Society, by the Margrave of
Anfpach. A ridge of primeval moun¬
tains runs almoft through Germany,
nearly from Weft to Eaft; the Hartz,
the mountains of Thuringia, the Fich-
telbtrg in Franconia, are parts of it;
which, in their tar'^her extent, conllitute
the Ri^-ienberg, and join the Carpathian
mountains. Over them runs the main
road from Bavrevuh to Erlang, or No-
limberg r half way to this town lie«
Ctrutburg ; and, four or five EogUni
miles thence, near the fmall villages of
Gatleureuth and Klausften, the trad! of

hills'

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hills is broken olFby many fmall narrow
valleys, confined, moftly, by fteep high
rocks, here and there overhanging, and
threatening, as it were, to fall asjd crnfli
all beneath; and every where there¬
abouts are to be met with objei’ds which
iuggeft the idea of their having been
evident vehiges of feme general and
iri'ghtv cataftrophe, winch happened in
the primeval times of the gloh«. An
arch, near feven feet Idgh, leads, by an
antichamber, into three other caves, the
firll two covered with flalafilites. In the
paifage to the third, fomc teeth and frig-
ir.ents of bones are to be found ; but the
greater part of it is paved with a flalac-
tical cruft, near a foot thick, and over-
fpread with large and fmall fragments of
ill forts of bones, which are alfo to be
drawn out of the mouldering rubbifh ;
aind in narrow caverns at its fides have
been found bones of fmaller animals in
Iriige heaps. In the fourth cave are im-
anenfe numhets of bony fragments of all
kinds and lizes, flicking every where in
rhe tides, or lying on the bottom inter¬
mixed with the true animal mould which
covers it. The fame occurs in the fixth
cave, flicking in the flalaflical cruft.
And Jicre ends this conne('ded feries of
molt ren atkable ofl ^.olithical caverns.
Air. Efper has written a hiftory of thiin
in German, and given clefcriptlons and
plates of a .great number of the folhl-
bones, to vvlviwh we are referred.

XXIII. contains the late Mr. John
Hunter’s obfervations on thefe incrufted
bones, which he fuppofes had been pre-
vioufly expofed to open air, like thofe
in the uM^ks of Gibraltar, Dalmatia, and
Ccitgo. Thofe in Geimany are found
in caves; thofe in D.tlmatia and Gibral-
t2L form the coaft, Tltofe in quehion
belong to carnivorous animals, chiefly
the wdiite bear; and the iuppofed animal
HiOvild is compofed partly of the dtrng.
Tho!e in Gsbrairar ri>ck are moftly of
the ruminating tnl>e, of the hare kind,
and the bones of birds, tome of a fmall
dog or fox, and likewife fh'dls : thofe in
Dalmatia mostly of the ruminating kind,
(ome of horfes intermixed.

XXIV. Account of a mineral fub-
ftarxs called S!ronitQmtei in which are
fc.xbih'ired its external, pbyheal, and che-
charabiers ; hv ?vlr. John Godfrey
Sicii'Meilfer. This fu brtur.ee comes from
diu; gs^n'ite o'cks at Siroatiofi in Scol-
laod. The btroncion earth, wn'ch ac-
. c o<i‘ pa"!’ i' >. 11, iw a photpiiatc ot licn and

[Dec,

XXVI. XXVI T. An account of an
appearance of light like a liar, feen, for
five minutes at leafl, in the dark part of
the moon, Friday, May 7, 1794. ky
William Wilkins, Efq. architect at Nor¬
wich, and by Thomas Stretton, fervant
to Sir Geo. Booth, in St. John’s fquarej
and fuppofed by the former to bu a vol¬
canic eruption of the moon.

224. Roman P(>rtriiitSt a Poem in Herole
Verfe : Contain! a Delineation oj the mofi
intetejiing Events in the Roman Story, %uitk
Characters of many of the moji djlinguijhecl
Perfons who flourijhcd during the Dime of ihs
Republickf and of the mof celebrated Claffis
Jluthors of the Ang;uflan ^ge. With Hifo-
ri al Remarks and llluf rations. By Robert
Jephfon, Efq. Embellifhed with Nineteen
Engravings after the Antique, by Bartolozzi,
Clamp, Harding’, Efc. and the Authors Por¬
trait, by Singleton.

7'HE poem intituled Roman Por¬
traits, which is printed with uncom¬
mon elegance, is divided into fe6tions,
with a preface and notes, and a fupple-
ment of additional comments.

There are two topicks which ought
particularly to be invefligated in the
confideration of a new w'ork ; — liie object
and the plan. By the former we are
enabled to judge whether the tendency
of the compofiiicn be fuch as to merit
our attention; by the latter, wliether the
intentions of the author are fuccefs fully
executed.

The obje6t of this poem is, t@ blend
information with amufement. The poet
has modeftly aflerted, in his preface,
that “ what is to be found here is nat
intended for the mafler but the fludent.’’
In this he undoubtedly under-rates hiS
performance. While the ftudent, who
begins to acquaint hirtifelf with the
wonderous efforts of antient literature,
will be animated and delighted, the
mafler will furely find new food for re-
fieflien on thofe fubje6t{> with which he
is well acquainted, when placed in' light*
fo different from thofe in which he lia*
been accuftomed tq view them. This is^,
in fafi, a woik (poovoNla avutloterty, foinn
e.d equally puerts, fenibufque ; and, ay
mongft many excellences, it has thifl
peculiarly, — that there is, perhaps, nfi
fingle poetical volume, in oui languagt^j
which contains fo much inflruftion
all ages.

The plan comes next to be confideredj
The preface, in which the author
acknowledged his obligations to

Maleal

Review of New PuhHcatlons*

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Malone for his care and adiduity in fu¬
serintending the edition, contains many
^'ery iudicious obfervations, and is pre-
:.ifely what luch an elfay ought to be. Tt
[peaKS the feelings of the author on fe-
^•e.ral leading points, which could not be
commodioufly inferted in the notes; and
it refrains from anticipating any of the
energy of the fucceeding poem.

Iniele^lingthe characters which
form the principal part of hi? work the
poet has chofen the moft confplcuous for
their talents, or for the parts they ieve-
rally bore in the dory of Rome, from
the building of the city to the Auguflan
age. Thefe are intermixed with rela¬
tions of great and flriking events, and
with didaddic fedlions on the general
charadler, policy, and manners, of the
Romans. An invocation introduces, and
an addrefs to the Deity concludes, the
poem.

Perhaps, to a claflic reader, the notes
and illuftrations may not be the Icafl
pleafing part of this volume : they are
numerous, but concife, the author ha¬
ving reftraincvd hitnfclf from multiply¬
ing quotations. The purport of them
is both to elucidate the work by expla¬
nation, and to corroborate it by authen¬
ticity. For this purpofe, the moft ftri-
king and appofite paflages have been
chofen ; and the notes themfelves, ex-
. clufive of the poem, mav he confidered
as a very valuable body of erudition.

The additional remarks, though in¬
troduced in the form of an appendix to
the particular topicks treated of in thofe
^mnexed to the poem, may, however, be
confidered as diflindl and fubflantive dif-
fertations. Comments on the lives and
charafters of Cicero and Caefar 5 on the
Romans’ belief in prodigies; on their
cruelty; on democracy, exemplified
from the Athenian and Roman dates ;
on the nature of the Roman republick,
(hewing how it deviated from freedom
and approached to tyranny, are the chief
fubjeits of thele treatifes, which gre
alike remarkable for learning and dif-
cenirnent.

it frcctuently hippens that men of ge¬
nius are not permitted to enjoy the tn-
comlums due to their abilities, but that
the envious or parfimonious world re-
lerve thofe laurels which (liould have
decorated their brows, when they could
lie graiihed by wel -dtfervtd fame, to
embcllifh the urns of their uncoafeious
allies.

■ The Republic of Genoa, when they
jJcjeimined to confer the greateft pofiible

honour on Andrea Doria, the prote^lor
of their country, thought they could not
dsmonftrate that intention more decifivy-
ly than by infciibing on his fiarue “ Se-
natus Genuenfis viventi pofuit.” A
fimilar fortune attends on Robert Jeph-
Ibn ; his talents have already polfe^fed
that applaul'e vvliich, however, could not
fail, at feme period, to accompany the
efforts of Literature and Tafie ; nor
have they waited for the tardy plaudits
of pofthumous Panegvrick.

Bv the Roman Portraits another

branch is added to his wreatii ;

ic . . . . non deficit alter

Aureus, et fmfii fi'ondcfcit metallo.”
But the nature of this compofition admits
of a more ample difplay of genius than
any of his former works; and, whether
we confider the difficulcv of the under¬
taking, the fanciful fights or irr.agina-
tion, the frength and eafe i»f the verfe,
or the tendency and efFelds of the obfer-
vations and precepts which are confpi-
cuous through the whole, this alone,
fcxelufive of any other exertion of his
mind, muft eftablifh him as a man of
letters, a poet, and a philofopher.

Though the beauties of this uncom¬
mon, and, we may (ay, fingular produc¬
tion, are fo flriking that they cmin t
efcape obfervation, yet it may not be
thought a work of fupererogaiion to
dwell upon forne peculiar graces which
the reader of fenfibility and judgerneiit
has, no doubt, on the firfi peruful, dii-
covered; to participate widi bim in the
pleafure he has already felt, and to gra¬
tify him by engaging him to delay on
thofe chofen (pots of the Parnaifian
mount, w'hich he had before, with equal
approbation, but not with fucb critical
curiofity, admired.

The difficulty of a work of this nature
has been remarked. To revive and to
decorate with novelty fubjedls which
have already attraSled the ftttention, and
exhaufied the talents, of mankind, (ince
the relloration of literature, muff, at the
firft view, appear no eafy rafk ; but harder
(till, and rc([uiring the elTorts of a mind
not onlv friiURht with poetic fancy, but
illumined with every power ot perlpica-
city and dilcernment mud it be, t(> paint
the nice gradations of motives and ac¬
tions, to diferiminate the almoft impes-
ceptible tints which intermingle in the
human mind, and to mark expiicitlt trie
charaftendic quali ies cf dilTcrcnt men,
aftuated by the (anu-. ptinciples and en¬
gaged in tlie fame purluits. Among d
multiplicity of events ^nd the ciowd of

agentiy

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figents, it alfo required no ordinary de¬
gree of judgenQ^nt to feleft thofe raoft
interefling- and mcft calculated

To raife the genius, and to mend the
heart,”

'T'l at ibis choice has been critically
made, u'.e can only refer to every fediion
of the book itfelf to corroborate. The
legiAator, the gener.al, the citizen, the
confpirator, the poet, the orator, and
many others, are lierc cieiineated ; the
refernblances not dyavvn with abftia£led
and getrefic attributes, as many a figu¬
rative writer would have exhibited them,
hut fo emblazoned with all the traits of
•iNature, that he w'ho fiudies this page
would not exclaim ‘‘this was an ambi¬
tious, and that a cruel rhan but “this
was Ctefar, and that vvas SvlIa.” ’ it is
in tliis wonderful facility of infitllhg the
quaUry or paffion into the mind and ha¬
bits of a fpecific man, and not of modi¬
fying the perfon to the charafter, that
Shakfpeare has infinitely furpafltd all
dramatic writers j and we doubt not that
the fame diftinguilhing marks 6f the
knowledge of human nature will ^be
found in the work before us.

The flights of poetic fancy are f® .nu¬
merous in this v/ork, that it is really
difficult to difiinguifh the moft firiking j
and probably, with different taffes, dif¬
ferent paffages may affume the vpre-emi-
Bence, A rterner difpofition, fox* in-
flance, may find a fuperiority in the
boidnefs and ftrength with which Cati¬
line is defcribed; the filver Itrains that
found the loves of Anthony may bear
away the pairn, in the opinion of a more
florid reader r and the pathos of the
lovely Oftavia may charm the fentimen-
tal breafi; ; yet it may be doubted whether
even thefe, depiSlured as they are with
all the magickof genuine poetVy, convey
warmer fcnfations than the lines that
open, and thofe that clofe, the poem.

Exclufive, however, of thefe grand and
prominent features, the whole ss inter-
fper.red with exarhples of the fublitne j
of which the preparatlcn for the defcrip-
tion of the battle of Pharfalia may be
produced as a fplendid infiance :

“ Since the firm earth’s fouiidatio£is,^ne’er
was fough.t

A combat with fuch migirty import fraught:
blow pco? muff towns and provinces appear.
The common objeCls of men’s hope or fear,
\Vben, with comparing view, is fcann’d the
extent

or all dcj)ending on this huge event !

‘T'he miftreis of mankind, high-feat'ed Rome,
}•> om Uijs great day expects her fmai doom 3

To fee her rights, lier liberty, her all, .

■ Confirm’d forever, or for ever fall.

And next the matchlefs agents fill our eyes.
The world’s be£t leaders, and the world the
prize.” ’

Fancy could not devife, nor Evpref-
fion dilplay, a chain of ideas more pow¬
erful to incite and to a'rrefi attention.. .

Another pasTage of equal effe6t, though
of an import eniirtiy different, is that in
which the author crowns the charaSler of
Augufius with this exclamation :

But not his power, nor gorgeoiri Titan’s
beams, [ffreams ;

Orient and finking o’er Rome’s fubjeiff
Not all the trophies of the Julian fword.

His endlefs tribunefhip, and name ador’d|
Not that his fpacious theatre could flow
A nation as fpeclators at a Ihow,

Where tawny lions from' hot Libya’s fand '
With bloody fragments ftrew’d th’ impurpled
flrand ;

Not that his domes inUlatelier order rife, '
Proud arches bend, and columns pierce the
fkies;

Not all, filch luHre o’er his reign diffiife,

. As the bright record of the immortal Mufe,”

V/ e may add the apofirophe to Virgil,
which appears peculiarly replete with

■ elegance as well as fubiimlty :

“ Majeftic Bard ! as golden Ikies befiow
• A mellow tinge on humble vales below.
Warm’d by thy lyre, where’er its rays de-
feend,

Richnefs and radiance on the themes attend:
From Tityrus, beneath the beech reclin’d, .
ToTurnus fiarinking from the death Jefign’d,
Some kindred Mufe breathes in each tunefiii
line, [Nine.

And the verfe glows’ with all the alfiftiHg
Now, near two thoufand years fiuce Virgil’s
birth, ’

The Sun, grown older, has illumin’d earth.
And brightly his infpiring beams has fhed
O’er genius living, and th’ illuftrious dead.
Yet fcill fnpreme, unequal’d and alone,

Sits the great Mantuan on the Epic throne.’t

Tlie lafi fix of thefe lines have, to our
feelings, mat-chiefs beauty and force.

But, vvhilfi we pay due homage to the
fublimity of the author’s fancy. Pet us
alfo admire his art. With what care
does he diverfify his fubjeiffs, and how
happily is the mind relieved witli varied
and alternate imagery ! The chaia6ier
of Scipio, commencing thus,

“ Of every virtue, every art poffefs’d,” Sec.
how finely is it oppofed to that of Marius !

See, nurs’d by furies and forhayock bred,'?
Sec.

Witli what ingenuity does lie again
(often into the dyfeription of I ucretius {

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*^Yet, midft the horrors of ihefe frantic

Chaos of ruin, maffacre, and crimes,

With thcie the faithful Mufa (till bears'along
The tuneful errors of Lucretius’ fong,” icc.

We find alfo a firiking contrafi; ih the
condu£l of Pompey, after the battle of
Pharlalia, with that of Cato, when he
found his countiv verging to inevitable
ruin. But of all the variety of ftyie, and
antithefis of fentiments and manners, the
moil llriking, perhaps, is difplayed in
the two female opponents, CleoI’A tra
and Octavia; in the defcriptive lines
of Cleopatra’s blandifhments —

<^Not fhe, for whom Dardanian Troy was
loft,” &c.

and the deification of the virtuous and
amiable fifter of Auguftus :

Come, decent Venus! come, each modeft_
grace,” he.

In thefe rivals, if fuch they may be
fuppofed, where fo tranfeendent a iupe-
riority exifts, though we cannot help
condemning, we ftill admire the miltrefs,
whilft we pay unbounded adoration to
the wife.

Not, however, to confine our criticifm
to one topick of poetic Ikill, we may ob-
ferve here, that the ftyle and the nui.?-
bers ftill vary with the fubje£l. The
judicious reader will eafily perceive with
what fimplicity and neatnefs the ftory of
Fabia is related; and how again the
poet lifts in exprelhon and energy, when
he emerges into the pathetick or the
fublinie. Witnefs the deploratiou qf
Virginia, which is fo excellent as to de-
ferve being quoted entirely :

Oh piteous fpedlacle! the fweeteft maid
Of all the virgin train in death thus laid 1
No matron eye that faw her, but approv’d ;
No youthful, rruiuly heart but figh’d and lov’d.
Pale her fofc cheek, and clos'd her beamy
eyes, '

On the cold ground a welt’ring corfe fhe lies.
A foul more form’d all joys to ihare and give.
Earth could nut iols, nor opening Heaven
receive.”

Witnefs, alfo, the portents, after the
death of Caefar, and the defenpeion qf
the ferpents in the eulogium on Italy,

Wiftiing now to advert to other con-
fticuent btautlcs of this compoficion,
what need is there, after the quotations
already exhibited, to fpeak of tue veiilfi-
cation ? Of all the Englifti poets, the
numbers molt rcfemble thofe of Dry-
den ; and, it has been obfeiwed, by a gen¬
tleman of great daffical talle, that his
ftyle is no; ii;diiatcd, but icar.sfu[cd into

this woik. Many paftages might be
pointed out in proof of this obfei vation ;
but we lliall produce onlv one, in which
the refemhlance is fo ftr<-ng that the po¬
etical leader will at once acknowledge
it, and be convinced that our author has
inherited the mantle of this delightful
bard. The lines alluded to are the laft:
four of a fine eulogium on the elder
Scipio Africanus, which we have diilia-
gui filed by haiicks :

“ If fame fmooth lawn its verdant mantle
fpreads [heads.

Nigh to where mountains lift their craggy
There the pleas’d eye diredfs its willing ray.
Fatigued too long by Nature’s rude difplay :
So his foft manners our regards engage,

Midfl; the ftern heroes of that warlike age.
Nor think the Great from their high place
defcencl,

Who chufe the Mufe’s favourite for a friend.
When mighty Scipio Rome well pleas’d could
With Ennius join’d in kindeft amity; [fes
Could hear him wifh tiieir friendihip might
furvive, [live;

When Fate’s iaft mandate bade them ceafe to
That not ev’n Death their union might o’er-
come,

But blend their allies in one common to.mb.

^ hundred conquerors the niuorld haxie torn ;

Where were two Homers or two Maros born?
Genius is fornt\i frotn Nature's choicejl clay.^

While warriors are the ware of every duyN

Amongft many examples of harmo¬
nious verification that may fuit various
feelings, the following lines, previous to
the death of Pompey, are peculiarly en¬
titled to notice while we are on the lub-
j'-cl of metre :

Dull as the banks where Lethe’s poppies
lleep, [keep.

Where torpid weeds their llimy chambers
Lies the fiat fliore. No choral nautic found
To charm the heaving anchor from the ground;
No Ihepherd’s pipe, iior feather’d fongflers,
there

Pierce the tliick ether, and revive the air;
But o’er rank iwamps, on tainted vapours
borne.

The buzzing infeifk winds his peevifh horn.”

Before we relinquifii the difeuflion of
our author’s ftyle, it may be oblervcd,
that hs has liimfelf very juflly lamented
that there is no adequate tranflatioii of
Virgil ; but, were we to judge licth by
the fluency and exprefiion of his own
numbers, or by the accuracy of his vci-
fion, in a fesv inftances which may be
traced in this poem, he could beft fill up
that fpace in the chflic library. Tiie
precifion and elegance of the ingenious
Mr. Bourne, wlio turned into Latin
Ycrfe Toms beautiful ballads in ths Eng-

hfh

5126 Revhw of N^w Puhllcailons, [Dec.

Itih language, liave been much admired,
as far as modern Latinity may deCerve
commendation/ The verfion of one line
may furnifh an example how hlen'^lcally
2 thought may be exprefied in two verfes
of different languages :

The fails their fvvelling bofoms fpread/*
Vela lurae'centes explicuere finusd’

In the following pafTages from the
poem before us, how empliaiicaliy is the
fenfe of the original transferred into the
copy I '

es- - — — ■‘quent mque. laudarc nentfe vitvperare

. qwjquam Jatis dignl potej},"

- - - - his deeds were fuch

Fame could not praife him, or degrade too
much.”

^iales mugituif fuglt cum faucius aramy
Tauru^y ct incertam excuffit cemice fecurirnd' •

As the if ruck, bull, who fl rives in vain to
fhake [neck, —

The tU-aim’d hatchet from his bleed eg-
l^ot knowing tvheie to hide his forfeit b.e.aii,
Bellowing with rage and Ibame, prefenn’d
be herh”

Aiieni apfcierny Jut frofufuiA

Alike for avarice and profafion known,

- - - - — - - me wjligia terreni

€hnnm te adverjum fpeBanliayytuHa retrorfumP

. To hor, as to the lion’s munrrous den.

The f’Ot may go, but ne’er return again.”

Some of thefe ideas, if' more exuberant
than the original, have acquired ftrf ngth
Ivy the amplification. A moil. V>eautthil
Itre in Virgil’s defciiption of the hode,

I fiw happily has this poet transferred
to the tamed tiger, tahmg viral b.ood,
to which he compares the fuppreh'ed fe¬
rocity of Auguftus ! '

^■‘In fmother’d volumes roils his firy breath.”

But, to convince us more decifively
how capable this author is the “ rich-
Btfs and radimee” of \'irgil, vve have
only to read with atien'ion the dtfciip-
t!on of italv, whic.li he has eviilendv
ifnitared from the gteat R'onrau mader.
We have dwelt, perhaps, too hng on
this part of the luhjeft; but the reader
will excufe us if thefe remarks flioiiVd,
by any chance, engage this writer to
give to the world a woik which he fo
truly laments as a d>fideraium in Enghfh
poeiry. ,

Let us now adv«rt to another
fource of elucidation, as well as embeU
lifliment, the fimiles intcrfperf.d in this
6

work, which rife fb on each other that it
is difflcuk to lay which is the moft ap-
pofiie or moft ingenious. It would
iwell thefe remarks to too great an ex¬
tent vveie v/e to enumerate the whole of
thefe ; let fome examples fuffice.

The image of Marius is tluis happily
ilhiftrated, whilft he meditates the de¬
li tuil ion of his countrymen :

“ As o’er Parthenope Vefnvius ftnnd^,

The boaft; and terror of furrounding lands, —
Ere firft to furge his waves of fire begin,

The mineral de'uge boiling burns within ; ,
Thick fmoke, in many a dark and awciul
wu'eath,

PvolT'ug above, difmays the reelm beneath;
Black with the brooding florm of vengeful
pride, [cide.”

So tower’d, fo frown’d the obdurate homi-

Of the qualities of Auguftus our poet
gives us the foMowing vivid portraiture;

Tluis Zarafs tiger, tam’d by human care.
May for a while his inborn rage forbear,
Sequacious feek the haunts where men refort, ,
And with, mild gambcls make his keepers#
fpoi t ;

But if warm v ital blood diftaih bis jaws.

No longer he contraifts his dreadful Claws;
His nuflrils fvvell, each fang is Ikarp with#
death,

In fmodier’d volumes rolls his firy breath ;
No blandifhments his fury can reltrain.

And all the native favage glares again.”

With equal happinefs the ftient pro-'
grefs of tyranny is delineated :

**' As the fmnoth flream, which, glift’niag;
rhiMugh the grovd

Glides on, and gliding mines its b.mks above,,
• flo every r.unpnrt freedom could provide,
Silent funk in, to fwell the imperial tide.”

But amonpft tliis leries of beautifull
iiTia.^try, that which deferibes th.e- feel--
ing:^ of afr-e people, when firft l«bjeifttdl
to flaverv, is perhaps the. .moll intereftir g n
The phrmy rover c.aught, with idle rage
Fh'ft pines, or fiuUers round tbo \\ ii y cage;
The ruffled featliers, the defipoudingwing,
]b-Oc!;iim his foul fno forrowfnUo hng;
Sullen and fad the aftonil’n’d mourner fit.^

Or ffl) ills a captive’s frethil note by fits';

His hnil'.Ful mate, the weh-know n downy nefh
Imurefi tlieir fond rememliranceon hisbi eafti
Bnt foon the thr - IdonS he forgets to feel,
Contented bps, and pecks his little meal ;
Muilckand joy infpirc his gurgling thioat,
Till the dome echoes wit!) nis i aptvn o ).snote ;
Familiariz’d at length, tht- abode lie love',
Nor, fieed again, ■vyuukl leek lyis nat'vs
groves.”

We come now to that great and piiu-
cipal object pf this beautiful poem, when
religion, morality, and patriotic ardoufi
are inculcated and exerntdllied. In time-

' ' like

>794-3

like the prefent, the exertion of taUnts,
ID every predicament, is btft employed
in inculcating true principles to regulate
the aftions of mankind; and this lervice
to the publick is as honourable to the
poet as it is to the orator, the politician,
or the divine. The general precepts lo
perfpicuouflv and lo energetically inter-
I'perfed in this poem are obvious : the
watning againO: the fatal effe6ls of
Rome’s luxury; the condemnation of
cruelty in the charafter of the fiift Biu-
tus, in their favage and fanguinary fports,
and in th-e inhuman pra61ice of parents
■expohng their children to peiifli with
cold and hunger; the caufes of the Ro¬
mans change of manners; tite refle6tions
on the ertcifs of noble lineage; with
many otlier inllances. But let us parti¬
cularly applaud what may be confuleitd
as the TO crps— Gv of this compohtion, the
exhortations it contains to the adoration
of the Deity* At no peiiod was it more
necetfary to raife men^s thoughts to that
all-ruling Power; and of this the poet
has been entirely fenfihle. A fervour of
true religion animates the whole poem,
and exalts the mind, in proportion to
the energy and Iplendour of its num-
i>ers. But the invocation at tire coneio-
lion is a moll fublime emanation of poe¬
tic devotion.

Thus far we have adverted to tliofa
IdTons of lacred and moral truth which
adorn and edify the human mind in
every clime. But when we confidcr our
authoi’s application of the great and
various incidents, cornpi tliended in thu
volutiie, to the Hate of the pariiciilar
countries in wliich we a.re more deeply
interefturi, we read wi.h avidity thole
deduflious which the Cranfa/dions of
j very <{ay corroborate. Various paf-
lages, interw'oven in the thiead of the
poe:n, exhibit ftriking images of tire fad
effects of innovation and anarch.y ; and
the oblti vationi annexed tend to amphfy
and elucidate the principles which h.is
verfe fo forcibly inculcates; principles
founded on reverence for our happy
Conftitution, on rei’peit fur royalty, and
1 u bin i (lion to haw.

But, in rtdei^ing on the annotations,
it W'oald be injuftice to our author, as a
fehosar, no: to anticipate the p!c.afu'e
tiut the learned mult feel in afimiring
thofe flowers which tie has chclen from
the clalhc garden; and, though his quo-
nations announce fo edegant a dilplay of
literature, yet, by the feltiflion, tlicy
evince that a greattr CKafurc Hill ic-
tTialns bciinid.

1127

The ftudyof hiflory conGds not alone
in the memory of fadfs, or the accumu-"
lated knowledge of minute accidents or
occurrences. Thefe are, in truth, but
the grammar to hiflory : the genuine
benefit arifing from the rontemplatioa
of the adis of our progenitors is com-
prifed in deduflions judicioufly drawn
from them ; in reflecting on the various
charaflers of mankind, atxi the motives
that bialfed them ; in invefligating the
caufes of the rife and fall of Hates, and
in exttafling from thefe materials, rules
for our condudf, by a ct mparifon with
former times and fimilar fi.uations.

Machiavel, who, in his dilfertations
on Livy, iiiuftrates, by his own example,
the efficacy of his precept, delivers this
judgement cleciiTvely :

“ II che mi perfuado che- nafea, non tant®
dalla debulezza nella quale la prefente edu-
cazione ha condotto il mondo, o da quel
male che uno ambiziofo ozio ha fatto ne11«
provincie s citta Grill iane, qi-ianto dai m«
anere -vet a cognix.ione delle ijiorie^ per nontrarrec^
hg^cndole, quel fenfo, rie gufia'e di loro quel /«-
pore che le banno in fe. DenJe nafee che in fmitt
che lege^ono, plghano -puicere di udhe oncUa "yrf-
lictn ddV accidetiti che in ejje ficofiicngom^Jenz-is
pe/ifurt nltiimenie d’ imitadc''

Tive r.cverfe of uhat h-facldavel fo
utfllv dMCtif^. is the charadlci iflick of
the Roman Partra ts. The author h*.-;
extra6\ed the honey from ihofe plants vt
which many others had only avlmir-«i
the colours, cr rtlpued tlie perfume,
Th is is a perennial work ; and the pro^g-
nolHcation would not, perhaps, be boid^
were we to divine tirat it will be adopted
as a part of tlic coutle of ftudy in tl ofe
giea (eminaiies where youth is h>lt
taught to tread on claffic ground,

225. ccmplcti Vi ('ll- of the Tltejffii und ITahits
of the People cj Er^irtnd, the Ejlald/j/^~~
tnent of the Saxens in Britain to the prejens
T;we. hj [ofeph Strutt.

■O F this anattfing publicaiion four
montitly numbers have appeared, and s,
fifth is announceci j of svhith it will be
fuilic eat, for rlie prcfcnr, to fav, thax
each number contains four* curou«
plates, illuflrative of the lubjiul; and
that, in thofe already puiilifiod, the
reader will find foirie entertaining re¬
marks, C'Xpreffied wish a becomvrg liiffi-
cience, o« tlie Civil, Militaiv, and Lc-
cichafiiCai Mahits of the Anglo* Saxoi^s
to the Conefuhon of the Eigb-h Cen
rary ; on the State of the Clnathmg
Trade parriculariy ; — on tlie habi's of
fire Men; the Ihirt , the tunic, tli. l-mr-
coat; tire clcak, 01 Riaatlc , ihi. hc i.:-

Rsvieu) of NiW Puhlifnilons

iiicx* ;

112^ Review of New Puhli cations, Indicatorlus. [Dec.

drefs ; the fiioes, (lockings, &c. of the
Women; the unclet-garment; the gown;
the mantle; the cDverchief,or head-drefs ;
the flioes, (lockings, &c. ; — of the Mili¬
tary the tunic ; the mantle; the hel¬
met; the lliield ; the fvvord and fpear ;
the horfe-foldier, the foot foldier, and
the military officer attendant on the king.

226. The Scholar s ^/eJiion-Book \ cfj yin In^
troduSiion to VraBical y!rithni''tick. Part the
Second. For the Uje of Macclesfield School.
^/Thomas Molineux.

THE former part of this work, pub-
liffied in 1781, was favourably received
by the publick ; and the I'econd, v/e have
no doubt, will be equallv acceptable.

The principal fuperiority of the Quef-
tion-Book,” above other treatifes of .the
fame kind, cpnfifted in the numerous ex¬
amples for the learner’s exercifp in the fun¬
damental rules. The fame plan has been
continued through the fecond part, which
contains vulgar and decimal fraHions, with
a great variety of quefiions in all the higher
rules; and many improvements, the refult
oh.adlnal experience, not to be met with in
any other treatife, 'rhe oacafional direclions
were not merely compofed for the ufe of
this work, but written, as occafion required,

^ for the affifiance of different boys. Thefe
are peculiarly calculated to lefien the labour
of the mafter, and to accelerate the progrefs
of the learner.”

In the title-page is a neat engraving of
the f.al given in oUr lad, fig. 9, p. 982.

2.27. The Siege of Gibraltar, a Poem. By
Cagt. Jof. Hud worth, late Lieutenant of the
7 2^/, or Royal Manchefter Volunteers in the
Bengal and the North Hants Mi¬

litia', yluthor of yl Fortnight' s Ramble to
i^he Lakes.” vol. LXII. f.ll 14,]

THIS poem, as we learn ,by an ad-
%"eriifemenc in the public papers, is
“ printed for the emolument of the wi-
jdotv* and children of a naval officer of
rank, who has recently fallen - by tiie
yellow fever, and who rtfolutely brougiit
his ffiip into Gibraltar, and ieveral times
into Minorca, during tlie beges.”

This circumnance alone would diiann
eriticilin, if the manly fentiments of the
author, and the glorious fubjefl on
which he I'o warmly writes, vt'C-ie not
(uffic’cnt to fecure our commendation,

“ BleiT be that heart, in every comfort blefl,
That, fooths the furrows of the widow'd
bread.”

The original of thefe verfes was de-
livoyed, vvith many others, when llalf-gry
founded its knell to the ambitious : and i

* The lady accompanied her huibaiul
round the nvoild', and lier voyage will be
published by fubfeription early in the Spiinj.

really did not expedt there had been one re¬
membrance of them ; but an ineftimablc
brother officer told me, a (hort time ago, he
had preferved the copy 1 gave to him, ex-
preffing a wifh to fee them. I read them
with that pleafurc fo natural when we un-
expedledly meet an old friend, and particu-
lirly if it relates to an interefliHg period of
life. 1 became wmi'm as J went on. [ was
again befieged — I found my pen in my hand
. — I revifed — corrcdled — added — and who
could do otherw'ife, when I had to fpeak of
great characlers now no more — who had
been the foul of tire defence, and the caufe of '
the enemies’ failuie.^ Vanity, I truft, nei¬
ther unbecoming nor prefumptuous, whifpers,
though more thau tw'elve moft chequered
years have rolled along fince they were
written — the fubjeiff, dale as it is, w'ill al¬
ways meet a liearty welcome from nrty coun¬
trymen. — If there is merit, it is due to that
friend of the author’s who had fo much value
for him or his verfes to fay he would never
part with them. I may therefore be only
(aid to have borrowed ray old thoughts, and
trknfplanted them with fome new ones,: the
foil that produced them is not altered ; the
fame zeal always continues with thofe who
love the profellion, whether capable pf the
mod laborious fervice, or, from wounds or
n^ceffity, obliged to quit it ; and the old fol-
dier, who has it not in his power to giVeaf-
fidance when his country wants it, may cer¬
tainly be allowed to [were won.'?

Slioulder his crutch — and (hew how fields

We do not call this a fauklels piece j
but we boldly pronounce, that in many
pairs it burfts forthwith the njis poetica in
a fuperior degree; and the dedication, the
preface, and the notes, convey fo many
original obrervations,- and thofe (b con¬
genial to the feelings cf a Briton, that
we are forry our fcanty limits prevent
our making fome extra£ls, both from
^ the poem and the notes ; wliich, how¬
ever, we lh.all not fail doing in our Sup¬
plement. im the mean time we refer
the reader to p. 1129 of our poetical de-
pat rmenr, for a plaintive produftioii of
the fame author, written at Gibraltar.

INDEX INDICATOR lUS.

It is. believed our Constant Femalk
Rkader, who aiks what any literary friend
could inform her as well as Mr. Urban, will
find fome account'of Engiilh manners in the
reign of Henry Vil. in Harrifon's Deferip-
tion of England, jirefixed to Hohnlhed’s
Hidory of England, vol. IE; the volume qf
Dr. Henry’s Hidory of England, if publifh-
ed, which takes-in that period ; Strutt’s
Manners and Cuftoms of the Inhabitants of
England. The Druids are treated of m the
Univeifal Hidory, vol. XVllE p. 540, Svo;
joubert’s Knowledge of Medals, 1O97 ; and
A.ddUbn on Medals,

Sele^ Poetry^ Antient and AdoderUy fcr 1794. ll’29

HAL F-P A Y.

written at GIBRALTAR, ON A VERY
STO|<MY EVENING, WITH THE ME¬
LANCHOLY PROSPECT OF GOING UPON

half-pay. (Seep. iiz8.)

is't to toil amid ft the din of

To talk of honour, or a dLcadful fear,

To live on hope, the fhadow d heft we have,
With ling’nng wounds that torture to the
grave 1

Yet even hope, dclufive hope, is fled.
Half-pay mu ft cover a once-bleeding head !
A fate too oft the worn out foldier meets,
Such too the friendlefs of our Britifh fleets ;
Not like thofe idle balkers in the fun,

^Vho reap the profits that the Ik ave had won,
Who never knew, nor ever willi’d to know,
What his to ftruggle ’gainft a hardy foe ;

Put men, whofe adlions with the war forgot,

Slip from the Minifter’s Protean tliQoght. .
Alas ! his painful Inch a change to tell,

To bid our friends in arms a longing, laft,
farewell I

If.

Soldiers, and Brother Scldiersy doubly dear,
The time will come we meet no longer here^;
No more is heard the thund’ring cannon’s
Caljic is filent; Echo fays no more 5 [roar; ^
! Ko more terrific to Iberia now,

I Yet fcornful frowns with dark tmalter d
I brow;

! * H%r harden’d front at reft from fruitless rage,
i Whilft Hift’ry plants her in the choiceft page.

I But halt: — Carnage is o’er, and we muft go
' Toother climes ,* ah 1 where vve cannot know,
i Chance muftdire6f, parent of hidden wiles,

I Tg guefs— as ufslefs aS paft Fortune’s fmiles j

1 But, wherefoe’er it is, we pait with pain,

[ For feparatioa breaks the foldier’s chain,
i Alas ! ’tis rueful fuch a change to tell,
i To bid our friends in arms a longing^ laft,.
i farewell !

III.

f Oft has been heard, when fight imbrues the
j plain

> (Where many a gallant Fngliihman is flatn),

' 4 The loudeft plaudits through the country rife,
And empty approbation is the prize ;

; Such as a nation on her Rock beftow’d,

^ When no rich manna ^ from the fount o’er-
i flow’d ;

t Promotion loft f, and hard the foldier’s fare,

I For thanks alone are nothing more than air.

*(■ At that time fnbalterns had only re-
I ceived about fix founds hat and forage money.

f It is notoi'ious that no officers over had
i lefs promotion than ihofe of the old gMrrifoa
I of Gibraltar, the regiments having mure bre-
I' vac field officers than any in ihefervice, and
\ pi omotion being refufed out of the g irrdon^
Ui>J, Mac. Derendir^

And now fair Peace her genial influence fends
To ftop the glut of war, when foes are
friends,

The time fo wifh’d-for by each hoftile fide,
The downy time that life Ihould be enjoy'd j
Ah ! then it is the foldier droops alone.
Retires with penury, and lives unknown.
Alas 1 ’[is painful fuch a change to tell,

To bid' our friends in arms a longing, laft,
farewell !

IV.

Should all the little ftock be ftarv’d Half-pay,
Hope gleans no comfort from *the coming
day ;

(Hope always was a ftiadow in my breaft,
hi or e’er dropp’d anchor near fome pl*cc of
reft ;)

Onward Time drags ; relations now' no more,
Who would have added to the fcanty ftore;
Some (not a few') whom fortune lb much
chang’d, [eftrang’d ;

Tlieir wealth as ufelefs 3s their hearts
Whilft the old foldier fickens at his fate,

In the lone dulnefs of forlorn reiieat.

Yet, fhouid he hear again of War’s alarms.
And Britain’s voice call forth her foas “ i&
arms!” [fire.

His breaft would glow with retrofpedfive
For the true brave ne’er willingly retire.—
Alas 1 ’tis painful fuch a chang-e to tell.

To bid our friends in arms a longing, laft,
farewell I ^

V. '■ '

Ah ! fhouid aid Time the embers qiiench r
and fay, [gfay ;

“ Thou canft no more,, thine ev’ry hair i«
‘‘ Thy veins ftart high above the palfred hand,
“ That ence with vig’rous nerve obey’d com-
mand; ^ [breaft,

“ Thy head hangs drooping o’er thy furrow’d
Where once the tender pafliou Avas— a
SH®ft ; [find thy way ;

“ Trem’ious thy fpeech ; fcai ce canft thou
“ And faithful tell’ft thy ftory thrice a day ;

Thy legs, the crutches to thy tott’ring frame,
“ The body’s feeble paftnerfhip proclaim ;

‘‘ Therefore, my vet’ran, thou muft now no
more ;

“ Thy zeal is only left, thy pow’rs are o’ar;
Let the bold youtii, vvhofe bofoms pant for
fame,

« Come forth exulting in the Britifh name
“ Such fiiould advance, with prudence for a
gi-Hde, [pride ;

Proud of their country, fucli theircountry’s
Give them the wiilies of thy worn-ouL
breaft,

“ But let thy head in calm oblivion reft.

“ Co! to thyfelf re-thmk thy aftions paft,

“ Weigh ev’ry hour, prepare to meet the

[ovvas

By fuch great means make happinefs tny
in youth thou jferv’dM thy King ; in age
ferve God aioiiel’’ Rambi »■».

^E'b>

1130

Eele^ Poetry^ Antl&ni and Modern^ for December, 1794:.

P E T R l A.

am ode written in the year 1788,

pN OCCASION OF A LARGE FALL OF
TIMBER AT THE ABAVE FLACE'-*^.

I. .

iETR.EIA rears aloft her naked head,
Shorn ofits honours by one fatal ftroke,
Ye native forefts ! whither are ye tied ?

The graceful flowing alh, the Iturdy knot¬
ted oak !

Forc’d by the Genius of the place '

Each lad difiever’d root I trace.

And drop the fym pathetic tear ;

Around me furious whirlwinds howl,

And o’er the bli^hte^ defat t fcowl—

Alas, no theiter here !

Savage ! with-hold thy murd’ring Reel,
And feel thylelf the pangs I feel,

Where’er a DryadizWs ; , .

But ah ! too late 1 bid thee fpare.

Too late arrives my foil’ ring care,

Too late, alas ! compaffion calls.

Yet ftill I fee a venerable thade, ,

Where Mellten f darts along the glade,
With pious aw'ethe axe vvitlidrew,

And fav’d the eonfecrated few —

The hoary parents of the wood, [flood.
Who long the furious Weflern gales have

II.

Oft on moffy beds reclin’d,

Siielter’d by thy fpreadiiig trees,

Blefs’d with health and peace of mkid,
Dozing to tise hum ol bees,

There I’ve view’d the flow’ry hill,

■ There- I’ve heard' the gurgling rill,
Breath’d the fragrance of the thoiu,r—
Pleafures never to-return.

In thefe fweet lhades kind Nature did impart
Her firft choice lelTnns to my infant heart,
Guided my infant pencil not to ftray
From Nature’s I aw-s, and Nature led the way,
Nor let it wander wdld in Fancy’s maze,

But fliew’d the beauties ihe herfelF difplays;
The rugged, mottled, grey, or filvyr, rind, \
The tufted foliage clofe in malTes join’d, V
Or, thin and featir’iy'', flowing in the wind 5 ^
The molfy ftone, the ihick-entwiftei! brake,
Th’ inverted feene in yon pellucid lak's,

The brufliy brow, or common bare.

And diilant mountains melting into air.

' HI.

Behold where Phoebus gilds the weflern fkies,.
And Vagas ftreams refiedf the varied dyes,
Clear V^aga^ whofs msand’ring floods,
Embrace fair fields and woods ;

Here; gently gliding through the pl.ii».
There, foaming like the raging main.

Rufliing tlirough rocks with horrid fvveej^
Or'wliirling down tlie giddy deep, —

See, fee the wide horizon’s glorious blkze I
The fetting fun, defeending low
Bey#nd tite fervid mountain’s brow,

And high Catneda^s top reflciSt the lingTing
rays.

But now yon ruffet heath attra6lsour eyes,,
Where fable Llngodiddu s vapours rife,
Here oft, ’tis faid,

Thewandr’ing fjiirits-of the dead,

By magick’s awful ait confin’d,

Th’ affrighed hind and ruftic dame
See— glowing in the lambent flame—
Hear — howling in the wind.

Hortens I us.

Though the names, for forae particular
reafons, are a little altered, the fceneiy is
painted from nature.

f Mellten in tlie the Britifh language fig-
nifies here the name of a

Iniall brook, I0 called prohabiy fi^pr tjie
i.i[ddity uf its ftre^ nr.

M O O N - L I G H T-

(*T'HE FIRST FLIGHT OF AN ASEIRING
MUSE.)

HARIC ! the long curfew'’ from yon
hoary tovv’f [d’rous peals,

Heaves round the groaning delve his pon-
And the coy ev’ning to her wave -arch’d j.
bow’r,

Day’s golden -fringed mantle, blufhingjfleals.
Calm fleeps the florm. Night broods her
agate wing,

And truant meteors mock the parting breeze.
While moon -beams flutter round fome fairy

Or in faint glimm’rings langaifh on the treeS^

Dead filence all; — faye where th’ imprifon’d
figh,

Stealing through virgin veils and filken bars,.
\Vin.ds with long toil his deep-drawn melody,..
And breaks the fl umbers of the drowfy ftars j

Or wdiere the rdl of Philomela’s fong
Through airychannels wings its weeping way,
E’en midnight fmile?, and all her flame-
plum’d throng

Drink in fweet extacy the dying lay^-

With wanton nod, the em’rald-crefted grove-
In fpiral wave frifks o’er the fleeping glade-,
(Where thonfaad rills irt fportive fljuadrons
rove) , ' [fliade.

And WOOS the moon-beam to his tender
Lo ! the fair Naiad of fome mantled ftream.
In white array’d, forfakes lier filver bed,.-
T’ embrace the moonlight’s lafl expiring
gleam, [brofial head.

And pearl witlx floating dews her own am-

Lyricus.

To T H E Re^ THOM AS BARNES, D. D.

MEMBER O'E THE PHILOSOPHICAL S3-.
CIKTY OF PHILADELPHIA, AND OF
THE LITERARY A N D P H I L O S d P H I C AL
SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER.

CCOMFIJSHD Preacher! to Reli-
^ gion’s aid,

By tiiee a cai^'e ■where all feel iTU'e 'efl mide,
Who through an honour’d ieng’h of years halt
brought

Tiiis fancy, ml ikti thovJgbt;.

F.incJt

Sele^ PoeV-y^ j^ntlcnt and Mocinv, for Decemhtv, 1794. 1131

Fancy fhat 'kindlins with thy theme f\ill 1
pours [ftores;

Each grant! and beauteous image from its
To whicfi, whene’er occafion may demand,
Nature and art in prompt obedience fcand.
From pleafure’s dream awake, deluded youthl
And hear v.'ith reverence the voice of truth,
Daughter nf Heav’n. O may their pious
friend

Still find tliem hers when time itfelf (fltah end !
Superior to the world’s nnhallow’d (Irife,
Tliy precepts are the tranfeript of thy life.
Virtue^s own energy thy language warms
That animates the good, the bad alarms.

By watciiful cares the guilty foul to fave,

E’er yet o’ertakes the darknefs of the grave
Life’s little day, and thus the angelic Brain
Tiiat hails the youngeflof Religion’s train.
Awake, to pining Mis’ry’s feeble cry
To lesid an ear, nor pa-s unfeeling by ;

As pity prompts to yield each office kind,

Or drop her tear in wounds thou canft not
bind ;

Such a61s as thefe oft bring thy fpirit pure
The joys that to eternity endure ;

That fpirit, form’d upon the gofpel plan,
Ne’er mid diftiniTionsvain o’erlooks the man.
His nature’s common t’e ; revenge above
Can make injuflice fan the flame of love.
Though meek, thy lips yet 'breathe religious
ze '.1,

For God’s infuhed honour qnick to feel.

Let thy ftrrng eloquence the Word proclaim,
And ev’n the fcoffer trembles at his name.

So when the Higheft, before whofe righteous
thfone

Rofe cajative Solyma’s inceffant moan,

Her haughty tyrant’s pow’r prepar’d to bow,
To rend the diadem from Chaldea’s brow,
The dtead infeiption, with the light’iiing’s
force,

Ari^fls the bold, blafphemer in his covirfe;;
Lo! his proud thoughts are fcatter’d by dif-
ffiay, [ptay.”

** And be who canoe to feoff remains to
When, by.fome heavy Broke of ill iraprefl,
Grief's ling’ring canker gnaws Affedfion’s
bieafl:,

Thy voice divine fufoends the fenfe of woe.
And gives of Virtue’s heav’n an earnefl; here
below. T. R.

Harrington, OH 2.1.

MoVS^IHUR UkBAIN,

JE m''amufe quelqttefois a lire votre excel¬
lent Magazin, et je vous avoueraifranche-
ment, qne, (juoique je ne fuis pas bien verfe
dans la langue Anglaife, j’en retire toujours
et du plaifir et du profit. Telle eft la va-
riete de vos communications, et la profondenr
de plufieiirs de vos recherches, que I’efprit le
plus badin et folatre ne pourra pas s’ennuyer
-A la before de votre ouvrage, et cepeiulant
le genie le pluseclaire y trouvera fon comj-Kc.
Ponrvu que v(<us daignez jetter un ceil fa-,
verable fur la petrie bagatelle que voict,
je me trouverai tente de m’euroler parmi
vos autres coirefpondans ; Mats, licLisl

Monfieur;, je fens que Je fa'.ai oWige, du
moins pour quekpie terns, de vous ecrire
feulement en Fran9ais; et peut-etre que
cela ne vous conviendra pas ! Permettez
que je vous offre mes refpefts, en me fouferi-
vant, Monfieur, V6tre ties humble fervitehr,
Jacques de MoSNfER*,

paralele de DEUX .SCEURS.

Vous avez routes les deux
Et de grands et de beaux yeux,

Voila la reflemblance j
L’une fj^ait s’en prevaloir,

L’autre ignore leur pouvoir,

Voila la difference.

IT.

L’amour, dans vos doux regards,

Semble avoir mis tons fes dards,

Voila la reflemblance;

L’ut?e vlfe, et veut frapper,

L’autre les iailTe echapper,

Voila la diflerejice.

III.

Toutes deux a votre tsur,

Pouriez prendre de I’amour,

Voila la reflemblance
L’une aimeroit vivement,

Et I’autre plus tendrem.enr,

"Voila la difference.

‘ IV. _ '

Toutes deux avez un coeur
Fait pour I’amoureufe ardeur,

Voila la relfemblance 5
L’une par fes mouvemens,

L’autre par fes fentimens,

Voila la difference.

Mille ccEurs viennent s’offrir,

Vous avez droit de choifir,

Voila la reflemblance 5
L’une n’enveut perdre aucun,

L’autre n’en poffeder qu’un,

Voila la difference.

VJ.

Vo'la la reflemblance 9
Mais I’un toujours agite,

L’Butre toujours enchante,

Voila la difference.

vn.

Vous avez, fans contredit,

Toutes deux beaucoup d’efprjt,

Voila !a relfemblance j
L’une penfe jolmient,

Lt I’autre folidement,

Voila la difference.

VHI.

Pour m’expliquer autrement,

Vous plaifez ecalement,

Voila la reflemblance;

L’une a I’efprit plus badin,

L’autre un jugement plus fain,

Voila la difference.

* We have no doubt but that our friend
DE Mosni'ER is an honeil Englifnmau.

LX. Lorf?-

H<f2 SeleSi Poetvy^ Antutit and AJodeyn^ ^r^I)sccmbel*5 1794*

IX. •

Lorfqye vous vous exprimez,

Toutes deux voqs me charmez,- •

Voila la reffemblance ;

L’une va comme le venl,

' ly’autre penfe auparavant,

Voila la difference.

Vous avez de quoi piqner
<^i voudroit vous attaquer, *

Voila la relTemhlancc 5
L’une laiffe aller fes traits,

* L’autre ne s’en fert jama'S,

Voila la difference.

Xt.

Du pjaifir qui vient s’offrir
L’une et I’autre aime a jouir,

Voila la reffemblance ;

, L’une yeut le devorer,

L’autr.e aime a favourer,

Voila la difference.

XII.

Vous avez toutes les deux
De quoi rcndre un homrae heureux,
Voila la reiremblan:c j
L’une pour un favori,

Et I’autre pour un mari,

Voila la difference.

XIII.

Je crpis qu’il feroit bien donx
De pouvoir vivre avec vous,

Voila la reffemblance j
Avec I’une queiques jours,

Avec I’autre pour toujours,

Voila la difference.

Je feroit cliarme de voir une tradu6Hon
,de ces vers des mains de vos leifeup. J-

III II IWi ^

SONNET

TO the: honourablje t. ers^inf.

WHEN BritiHa Freedom for a happier
land [affright,

Spread her broad wing'^, that flutter’d with
Er s K I N E ! thy voice ihe heard, and paus’d
her fliglit — [hand,

Sublime of hope, where fearlefs thou didff

Tf iy oenfer glowing with the hallow’d flame.
An liirelefs Prieff, before h.er hallovv’d
fhri ne, [divine

And at her altar pour’d ft the ft ream
pf matchiefs eloquence 1 Therefore thy
n,.rae

Her fons fijail venerate^ and cliear thy breaft
■ With heav’n-breath’d bleffings; and, when
Lite ihe doom

Of Nature bids thee die, beyond the tomb
Thy lic’ht ftiallfhine; as, funk beneath the
Weft,

Though the. great Sun not meets our wiftful
gaze, [blaze.

5l ill glows vyidc with his diftended

S. T. C/

EPITAPH ON DIOPHANTUS,

EXTRACTED FROM A WORK. OF J. H»
BEATTIE *.

ITII diagrams no more to daunt us,
Here deeps in dull old Diophantus j
Who fcorns to give you information
E’en of his age, but in equation.

A lad, nnfkiil’d in learning’s ways,

He paff’d ttiefixth part of Ins days ;

Within a twelfth- part more, appear’d
The fcatter'd blolToms of ab“ard.

A feventh part added to his life,

He married for his fins a wife;

Who, to complete her hufband’s joy,
Produc’d in five years a fine boy.

The boy, by the good man’s diredlions.

Read Euclid, Simfon’s Conic Sedlion!^,
Trail’s A-lgebra, w'aslsarn’d, w'as happy,
And had got half as old as Pappy,

VVhen, fpite of fords and biquadratics.

Death cur’d him of the raaihematics.

Poor Diophantus, you’ll believe,

Did nothing for four years but grieve ;

Then died. Giv’n of a Grecian fage
The life and death,-i.-reqifu '’d his age.

AMOR.

OIL, avvay 1 the jocund fair
Hates the weary brow of care ;

Bids the noble, tided vain,

Count liis honours reign to reign j
Accumulating mifer’s cold
Hoard inanimated gold ;

Science lead the learned few

Plodding oh for fomething new; , ,

Wiiilft but nature we may proye.

Living for ourfelves and Love,

Beauty fnch as mine to tell, ■

Mark her bofom’s rifing fvvell,

Eye's, whole paffion’d glance convejr
Thoufand things the foul would fay.

Lips, that pouting ripe^ exprefs
Brijikd hrethrerty coxnc carets
Ringlets wild and and carelefs flow
Round her high majefttc brovvq
Form complete, enough to move
Aufterity of age to love.

Summer’s gleby covert breaks,

And her blooming veftment takes,
p-oliage op’ning to the day
Courts the leifur’d mortal’s ftray ;

Mlnftrels blythe, on burnifla’d wing,
Energetic carols fmg;

Hills are fpread with golden beams.

Vales with variegation teem',

Eclio through the woodland grove
Sounds of univerfal love.

Hours like the Halcyon fly ;

Now from bold intruflve eye,

Where the bower clofely fpreaJs, \

Hiding of the rofeate beds,

^ Effays and Fragments in P.rofe and
Verfe,' Edinburgh, 1794.” Ourcon efpon-
deiit wilhes aa early folution of this riddle.

§cented

Sele^ Poetry^ JntUnt and Modern^ for December, I)(54\ 1133

Scented turf of redolence,

Cheating life and cheating fenfe, '
There to whifper all we feel,

Unifon of hearts reveal ;

Whilft around light zephyrs rove,

Fanning NatuiVs couch of Jove.

What if winter comes, fweet maid.

Strews the brown leaf in the fhade,

Let her iron tempefl reign,

Blafl the beauties of the plain,

We will hid the hlaft recoil, ,

Banifh’d by our mutual Imile;

Toying loie her irkfome fway,

Life’s no monarch of a day ;

Stealing leffons from the dove,

Sympathetic fw'eets of love.

Love above this world can foar.

Scorning Time with mantle hoar j
His the precept — nature fcan
Woman’s made, and made for man.

He and beauty tend her biith,

Happy idol of the earth,

Softnefs and delirium
Modelling a form divine,

Hers alone to bid vis prove
Eartlily heaven, joys of love!

Bloated fons of Bacchus’ fchool
Call me whining knt e-bent fool;

What istiiinebnt noify flrife,

Poor cajolery of life,

Ribakhous and vacant laugh
Wait the beaming how 1 to quaff,

Enervating fibres keen,

Apathy the clofing feene ;

Hence I turn, nor with to rove
From the bappinefs of love.

Let me ever hang and gaze,

Loft within the wily maze.

Let me elafp, connubial chjfte,

All the treafures of her waift.

Be it mine, the raptur’d blifs,

Wild extatic glowing kifs,

Swdmming languor of her eye,

Murmur of a half-loft figh,

Guiles which none cun difapprove,
Interchanging fouls in love !

Conduii-Jlrect. J. H.

SONNET.
written on the cliffs near

MARGATF.

TILL let mo loiter, loiter long ! for here
Soothing my troubled mind the murmurs
rife [dies),

(As o’tr the bifid fteep the fpeni breeze
Mild as th.e voice of confolation dear. —

But m.y ftrain’d fight, while eve clofe fhrouds
the waves,

Scarce vifible on the horizon, finds
Some darker fail, which much of him re¬
minds

Who trufts th’ uncertain element, who braves
Theftorm that rives the fragile bark. — Dread
feene ! [night.

When feai and clouds convolve like endlefs

The thunders peal— ^wlnds howl — and
thw'arting light

Bluefl/sflies ! — Unlike it now — ripples ferene

And tempting. — Thus atfts deceitful Friend-
Ihip’s art [wound the heart!

That lulls with pafljng eafe more deep to
Conduit-Jireet, n J. H.

'SONNET.

*1 MBOSOM’D in yon woodland, fide the
bourn, " [faint^

Whofe glaffy breaft the moOn-beam tilTues
The Twilight’s minjlrelj continent;, doth
paint

To day’s lafl hour, and melancholy mourn
With undulating note, her haplefs tale ;

Like to the pining of fame heart beguil’d
By wily love 5 when beauty’s changing,
fnfil’d

Capricious. But, ah ! to foothe his wail,
Silv’ring with hope, comes Friendlhip’slore ;

fweet balm [cairn

To heal the the fuff ’ring bofom’s wound, and

Its agonies. Whilft thou art doom’d to pain.
Lorn bird I for aye; nor can thy plaint
fubdue

Accents harmonic, fuch as gently woo
The fequeftrated being to himfelf again.
Co'Hduit-Jlreet, J. H.

^ T H E CONTRAST.

BY A LAny.

read Indolence! thy torpid pow’r
Adds a dull weight to ev’ry hour,
And, deaf to Reafon’s blefs’d controul,
Clogs ev’ry movement of the foul.
Trembling, by thee, lies pallid Fear,

No force t’avert a danger near j
While thy weak offspring, lgnoran«e,

With lolling tongue (un- nerv’d by fenfe),
Hears Sloth drawd out, in languid tone,

The talk 'of. life will ne’er be done I’' *

This whifper rouzes Induftry,

Alert, gay, adfive as the bee ;

Its field, fair fcience, it explores,

And taftes of all its fweeteft ftores ;

Extradls foft pleafure frtrm the rofe,

Bleft ethics from each flower that blows ;
Learns from the gentle violet’s bifth,

To eftimate that modeft vVorth,

Wliich blooms conceal’d from vain regard.
Yet fpreads it? virtues far abroad.

The faithful myrtle’s leaf and flower.

Recalls true love and frieiTdfliip’s power.
That fades not with the fummer’s fun,

Nor when life’s wintry Waft comes on;

Yet flirinks from paffion’s cold extreme,
Nor trufts the poet's airy dream.

^Contrafted is the tulip’s pride,

Whicii fcorns its dazzling charms to hide,
And emulates the thoughlefs fair
Who vegetates iu falhion’s fphere,
Regardlefs while fome coxcomb views
And loud extols her varied hues,

Ne’er dreaming that with next day’sfun,*
Her life, pride, beauty! a'lisg^nie!

Imitata

I X Pceiyy^ Aniicnt and HAodern^ f^oy ID-CtiTihQV^ I

IsilTATA A MtT.TOnI L’ALLEGRO
C A R M t N A .

TE graves hiaus! et amarit bile laboraiis
Anxieras! furvo vos quondam Cerberus
antro

■?Vogenuit, {uperafone mabgnoemifit m auras
L-uiicla nox pnrtu! procul, oh procul iie lub
umbras

Tartarean, iterumque inferna revifite regna
‘Foa *a cohors ; inter gemitus, et vifa nefanda
Exidula"e, bus qua fparferit invida nubes
Mater, et obfeosno femper cr^epet ontme bubo.

5ed tu tiedbareo fubridens leniter oi e 1
\Jnica fpes ccel; ! Veneris Isfciva pr''pago,
I'.uphrofyne ! Bacchique patrisj iudique, Iq-
porumque, ,

- Alma Parens, audi ! Seu mnlis Iscta vocari
Aurorae foboles, (juam, dum pudibunda co¬
rollas

Ne<5lebat capiti', formofaque lilla vernis
iVbfcebat violis, incenfus amore puellts
Ambiif, et tenera eft Zsphyrus couqdexus
in licrba': [oaterva

Hue age, Nympha, veni, veniatque faceta
Hue tecum ; lepidique bales, et fefta juvenise
Fedtora pertentans rifus, ti’citique bufnrri,

Kt jocus, et tetri fugiens commercia ! u6ivis
Ixetitia, et, Nyrnpla; qui confeia puipurat
ora,

Ludat amor circum, bbcl numine piaefens
Lil5erta3«at, el raonlanos defer^.t a! ces.

Lt miiii (ft Lcilern non dedignere clientem)
Eas, Eea, ftt biandis tecum indulgere cbo-
reis ,

Molliler, ac purn fociis diffnndere plauftns
FecSiore, dumcantai, dudloque per aei'a gyro
, Se lev ai in nubes, et fidera nudeet alauda^
rella fet ignavos hiiari modulamine i'empos.
Latratus audire ranum, confufaque turbss
IV^jtarmura jam viuei v, latitans, ubi porrigit
umbras.

CoIItS; el ingeminat fonitus reparabd'S Edao,
Cornua dum Icetas ditjumdunt jerea vo(
inclyca, qua tacite viridantia rura pererro.,
Forma oci ios capfat, tenuis non murmun.t
aura,

Hon avis arguto vibrat de gutture cantum,
IVurirna quin tacitos pertentent gaudiaieni'us;
Jgneus Eoa cum fe pater exerit arce,

Tulgida vis folis per amcena rofaria ftammas
(Hoi tus ubi gratis perfund't odoribus atir s)
Jadlat, et aurifero fublimis in trthere lucoi ;

^ Ridet l)unius, ndent laquea.ta palatia t odi
Hnbes qncetiue nitet vanos indiita coloies.
A.nte ocui )s floret naturae dseilala veftis
Muuiticse, bine moles fuperas fe tollu in auras
Mrintis, et albentes clivofo tramite ducit
Fafloroves, hinc mollis ager fummiUi: opimae
Luxur errs tegetis, ftnuo.f.'iqi e flemme \olvens
Lj-mplia fanat, campofque ferocibus allu.t
undis. . liviliri

Hcc procul hinc junci" cannaque intextapa-
ViHuIa jiacificos pardit .fecui'a receffus ,

Qiia pietas, qua nuda fide-, qua jufta volupta',
Lxcubias agit, et ccelcftem fpirat araorem.

Ducitur interea rofeis Aurora quadrigts,
Turrigei zeque arecs, laieque lonanfia vidai

Murmura, et exuvias jaftans percompit^i
curru, ,

Vidor inanrato fnlgens, atejue otia pacts
Jam feftlva juvant ; croceumve indutusarnic- ■
turn [rufcati

Qna fpatia'-ur Hymen, qua lucida taeda co- ■
Klamnnjferos ratlins, aurataque tela Cupido
Exscuit, jru.lles dum fundit tibia cantus,

Et pulfis pedibus latjuearia pulfa refuUant.

TEollae refonate ftdt s,' lenique fnfurro '
Imbelles citharae placidi modulamina cantirs
RedJite, dum bcandet ftiper alti iidera coeli
Mens t'lata piodis, quales pepuliffe fopores
Threicii vat is poiTent, aut pedtora Djtis
Eiedere, et Eurydiceri cupido bis rqddereii
fpon'’o.

Ite procul ludlus! ft gaudia talia praeftes h
Euphrofyne mihi femper ades! dnlcique ca- '■
\et)k

Sponte me.a, captum me vinci, nulla fubi-'
bunt

Txdia fervilii, placidjc dum blanda volnptas, i;
Et redivivus amor fett obie6laminn menu-.
Licbfiela’^ Nov. i . X. E. ►

“A

CARMEN OL. GOLDSMITH, M.B,

L A T t N F. R E n D I T U M.
f Co?icIuded from p.

T mihi‘ flagit'um 6fl — mini fola pdi' '
% “ cala — nec jam

“ Vitarem poenas, eflugeremve mori;
liftapetam, infci.x peciit quos ille, receflas,
“ Deferto imponam frigida membra folo:

“ Illic moefta jacens, caecis occulta tenehris,
“ Et gemituextremote,mirerande,vocans,
Quod mild jam dederis infaufli pignus
“ amoris [tuo. ’

Ferfolv^tm cineri prompi^a lubenlque

Fata vetfnt meliora nefas!”-—
nec plura locutus,

Implicat amplexu coVla venufta fenex-
Reipicit ificrepiiura. O res miranda ! pu-
elhm ■ [rent.

Euryali, eury alt, brachia cara te-

Ergnne mutatae veftes, prolixaqne baiba
Decipiuut t'Culos, dulcis ' e l i s a , tuns?
** Nec libi, quem , flebas,. quern mot tern
G-’difte putabas

lufcia, amatorem cernis adeffe palam ?

Elincprrcvd, o lachrymae! procul, o fnlfi-
“ ria I mentem

Vexatam toties leniat alma quies.
Flevimus — -at rcEquam, mea fpes, mca
“ gaudia, vitanv

Tranquil'ac pacis nmnera grata manent.

Concordi pariter vit?e mortifque tenore,

“ Unus erit nobis connubiaiis amor.

** Una eademque ftmul, longo poll lempc-rCj

. “ tu SAM, [dies.’

EuaYAJLUMque fuum toilet ad aftra

H.G.E.

Erratum inouridft; — Stania 6, lit;* 3;
per. -A’

read** pern.'

E ii?s 1

OCESDINGS or the NATIONAL CONVENTION of FRANCE} /rsw p. 94^;.

H E So6\ion of Bojnne-Nonvell«

5. came tx) demand, as a revolu-

nary rne.ifure, tEiac iTiercbantc (bould be
eluded from all public funefiions. This
tition was received with maiked difplea-
re ; and it gave occafion to Kobefp erre
vho appeared at the alTcmbly this day, for
e firft time fince his indirpofition) to r fe,
id, after exhoi ting citizens nut to foment
:w jealcufies at this crifis, he thus po-
eJed:

The execrable faflion,’^ faid he, who
ould enflave us, and uhofe plots have
een difeovered, has alTembled at Paris bands
f emigrants, and of defperate men of all
efcript'.ons. With the aid of thefe mon-
:ers, crimes have been planned, the idea
,one of which makes one llmdder, and of
.hich the annals of the world atford no ex-
mple. All the tyrants of Europe were
^ell acquainted, with the -exadl time at
i'hich this incredible tragedy was to have
ommeneed. To fxu ce the prifons, to ent
he threats of a part of the prifoners, to arm
he l eR, and to f. 11 on the National Repre-
enfatives and' murder them, to do the f;jme
)y ilie Conftituted Authorities, and all the
irmeft fupporters of the Repulic; to obtain
)y thefe means the pofl'ciiion of nil the
towers, and, upon the fmeking ruins of the
emple of liberty, to re-eflabiiflr royally }
his was the lion able fate which awaited us,
aid which lias been planned by men Vv-lio
lad contrived to inhnuate ihemfelves into
he confidence of the people. With regard
or the proofs of tb efe-ci imes, we have them
n abundance. Thefe j/i'oofs fliall be liid
leforeyou; but, b.' fore all things, 1 adjure
:he people to employ thcmfclves to dTcover
liefe enemies; 1 adjiue them to defend the
[acred, caufe of liberty with their accuftom-
sd energy ; I adjure them to fecond an<l fup-
port their Repi efentatives, who will rbvays
:ondu6f themfekes with a fidelity propor¬
tioned to the confidence repoled in liiem.

I intreat the people to go through the Sec¬
tions , to pull of the mafic from the accom¬
plices of the criminals whom vve have al¬
ready in our poffeffion, and to confound the
traitors who are falsried by the tyrants.”

The Convention defired to know' the con¬
tents -of the letters of which Robelpiture
fpoke, as being in the hands of the Com¬
mittee ; upon which Coutlion rofe, and (aid :

“ The fword of the law is ready to fitrike
tlie traitors. [Heie the hall rung with ap-
pl-aufes.2 The confpiracy is de\el''ped every
inflant more and note; the proofs, are

comit’S

portance that the people preterre an attitude
firm .and terrible. 1 hey muft chafe from
their bofom every thing that tends to ener¬
vate and relax their manners. It is of im-
pcxtaucu that juftite ai.d viitcc be the oider

of the day. An agent of the Republic with
the Swifs Cantons wrote that the Emi¬
grants were triumphing in the iuieHlgeucc •
they pretended to have, thuf a maliacre
w'ould take place in Paris in eight or ten
days, and the Convention would be diflolved.
The Committee had intercepted two letters,
which left no doubt of the exiftence of tiie
confpiracy. Tli.e firfl is written to a jier-
fonage who adls a great part with a foreiga
defpot, by one of his agents at Paris. ‘‘ It
can no longer be diilemMed,” faid this letter,
“ that there exifl at prefent two parties in
Paris, in the one is. the Committee of Pub¬
lic Safety, who are defirous that the Rsvo-
lutionaiy Goveinment iTiould proceeil, but
with a Ready and ineafnred pace; and the
Jacobins, condudied ly 'Robefpierre } thefe
aie in perfedt accord. As the head of
the other party arc Hebert and Vincent,
wild diredf the Cordeliers. At this moment
the two parties are irritating each other,,
and the laft is labouring to deftroy the po¬
pularity of Robefpierre. Eleheit, in parti¬
cular is violent, becaufe the Cmnmiuee of
Pulilic Safety difapproves the attempt of ut¬
terly aniiihiiatiiig public worfiiip, and ltd!
moie the method by which tins rnd is puv-
fued.” The fecond letter, which, as well
as ti.u firfl, is d.ated Feb. 2-1, is addreli’ed to
a Banjn. In this it is faid, “ The two new^
pai ties wiT foon come to blows; but th^
party of Vincent and Hebert has’ moR pof-
fetT’O!! of the public opinion, efpecially thai:
of the women, whofe influence over their-
hufo inds is w.ell known. A defeent upon
England is flill t .Iked of. Ea Vendee, iu
fpite ot the viddcnes over the rebels, ildl
fubfifls.”

Barbere here took 'up the dlfcourfe, to
add, he faid, fort^e new fadds in confirma¬
tion of what had been related. “ Mallet da
I'an, that defpicable hireling of the Bour¬
bons, announeed, about four or five days
fince, that tlieie would be a violent rumiilc
at Paris, and that it ould be occafioned by
a fcarcity of piovifions. This confpiracy is'
not confined to Paris, its ramifications ex¬
tend to t ther places. In the department of
7'avon the peit'ant'- of t'm didtridls of Gayan
are in a tumuit, and, as here, dem«nd tlie;
opening of all theprifnu''. The conrpiratocs
werd in periedf fecunty, and only waited
the concerted moment; but their criminal
heads fliall foon fat'sfy the vengeance ot the
people. Already 300 wit-ielfes have bten
heard. Citizens, in time-' of confpiracy w e
ri.nfl y.dl with celerny. We nuifl not let
our enemies ha\e time to put in execution'
new jntriguts. It i? neceilarv fin- the peo¬
ple to Keep a continual w atchiful eym onon-
every periou : it is nccpfl..rv for them even
to dilcover, by the lea ores of the couute-
naiicg; their frisnds from wlio aie

«.iger

II3& Proceedings of the National Convention in France.

conger to opprefs them. Juftice is foon going
to be executed upon that crowd of foreign
deferters who are all on a fudden come to
this capital. All the traitors will foon be
(UTfcovered.” — “ Yes,” cried Couthon, “ you
will yourfelves difcover all the confpirators ;
but^ fellow citizens, beware efpecially of
thofe hang-dog figures you fo often meet
with ; they can belong to none but counter-
levolutionifts.” All thefe fpeeches were
received w^ith the loudell applaufes.

March 1 8. Couthon announced that proofs
of the late confpiracy arife from all parts.
This infernal plot, faid he, had connexions
in the departments, the armies, the popular
focieties, and even in the Committees of
"V'igilance. Let all thefe wretches,” added
Couthon, ‘‘ covered with opprobrium, im¬
morality, and crime, ceafe.any longer to
conceive criminal hopes. The Convention
did not pronounce vainly when it laid that
virtue and ferocity were going to become
the order of the day. The Committees of
Public and General S.ifety have taken vigo¬
rous refolutions *, and they h(T[)e that, w ith
the power of the Convention, ahd the affif-
t\nce of the people, tliele refolutions will
be executed.” (Loud applautes.) Couthon

West India News.

Peclaratiou inviting t!ie inhabitants of the
Weil India iihuuls to fubmiilion. '

George R. !• i794'

The Ailembly, flyling themfelves the Na¬
tional Convention of France, liaving in the
laid kingdom and its dependencies exercifed
the moft boundlefs and fet ocious defpotifm,
deilroyed religion, government, and laws,
violated all forts of property, and to fo many
crimes added a declai ation to plunge other
nations into tb.e fame calamities, to over-
tli^'ow their relpefii'. e conltiiutions, and the
ftindamentai principles of all civilized Rates;
and, in order to attain their end, not fatis-
fied with dark manoeuvres, incendiaries,
and fecret emiliaries, have gone the length
of committing overt hollihties, and declaring
a nonprovoked war againlt his Britannic
Majefty and his allies, and his faid Majefty
having thereby been forced to have recourle
to arms, and to purfue a juft and neceffary
■war for tiie piute<5tion of his fubjedls, the
laf^ty of his throne, the prefervatiou of the
Pritifh Conftitution, and the defence of his
allies : The King confidering alfo, that ac¬
cording to public notoriety, the faid Con¬
vention and its adherents, amongft other
l^trocious proje£ls, have conceived that of
to-ally deftroymg the Fi'ench colonies in the
Weft India illands, a piojeiSl which, income
places, they have executed under the moil
horrid circumftances, and by the moft
wicked and abomipabl^ means, and that, at
the fame time, they have manlfefted fimijar
iu.ent.ons agauift his,Maj6j^y^s polfcffwus iu
3.

[Dec.

concluded with armouncing that to-morrow
the United Committees would prefect the
decree and aift of accufation againft Hebert
and Simon.

March 20. Barrerc rofe to make a decla¬
ration, that no confpiracy was ever more
atrocioufly contrived, more adroitly ma¬
naged, or more wickedly combined, than
that which was now the objeift of delibera¬
tion. Treafures, troops, arms, the means
of terror and fedu^lion, the fufpenfion of
military men, the malcontents, the relation^
of thofe imprifoned, and prifoners of every
defeription*— all thefe means had been af-
fembled. The little Cromwells to a man
ought, he obferved, to he ordered to the
fcaffoldj and the Rcnublican State of France
Ihould not difhonour the annals of liberty
by refemblances of the hiftory of Englifh
tradefmen.. At the clofe of his report, Bar-
rere caufed a decree of accufatiou to be
ena6led againft Delaunai d’Angers, Julien
de Thouloufe, Fabre d’Eglantine, Chabot,
and Bazire, conviifled of being complicated
in the; confpiracy againft liberty and the
French nation. Tliey were accordingly
ordered be carried before the Revelu-
tionary Tribunal. (To be continued.)

this part of the world : In order, in the
prompted and rnoft efficacious manner, to
check the execution of thofe defigns, and to
protect his own colonies from the misfor¬
tunes by which they are threatened, his
Majefty, relying oh the protedfion of Pro¬
vidence, the valour of his fubje6ts, and the
jultlce of his caufe, has thought it conve¬
nient and necelTary, by force of arms t»
fuhdue the adherents of the afurefaid pre¬
tended National Convention, and to refeue
tlie ifland of Martinico fr6m the misfortunes
and oppreffion under which it groans. In
confequence whereof, w’8, the underfijned
commanders in chief of his Britannic Ma-
jefty’s land and fea forces, in. the Weft In¬
dies, by virtue of the powers which from
his Majefty we have received to that effeift,
invite 'all. the friends of peace, government,
religion, and order, in the ifland of Marti¬
nico, to fhake off the yoke of tyrannical
oppreliion, and to fhelter themfelves from
the hi.-i rors of anarchy, under the proteilion
and government of a juft and benevolent fo-
vereign : And, by the prefent, folemnly
promife, grant and infure, to all thofe who,
availing themfelves of this invitatation, in a
quiet and peaceable manner, Ihall fubmic
to the authoiity of the King, and put them¬
felves under his M.jsfty’s prottdlion, per-
fonal fafety, as well rrs a full aud immediate
enjoynieuc of all their lawful property, ac¬
cording to their ancient laws and cuuom*',
and on the i^oft advantageous term?, thofe
perkius alone excepted, whofe removal
ftwulij be found fo*' tlae fafety of

794-1 IrgcreJIing Intelligence We fl Indies, ^ 1^37

[and ; and even to perfons of this tlefcrip-
)n, w hatever may h.avehe'.-n ch.eir conduct,
■e promiic a h fe conveyance to France, or
ly other pi ice they may choofe, without
'.jury to the King's fervice. We farther
romife, that, at tire reftoration of peace,
le faid illai'd of Martinico !h;ill enjoy all
le ccmmeicial rigiits and privileges which
•e enjoyed by tire colonies ol Iris Brittjnnic
lajcfty in the Welt Indies: We promife
fo, to all perfons (the above mentioned
lone excepted) who, in the aforefaid m;,n-
er, pe?.ceab!y fuhmitting, (ball coududt
remiilves as good and lawful fubjedts of
is M.ijelly, a full and unlimited amrelly
)r every adt they have committed under
colour or pretence of any authoiity what-
ver, exei cited previous to the publication
f the jmeient, fecurir g them thereby aga aft
11 profccutions.and molehacions on account
f adds prt.ceed.ing from an authority unfaw-
iiliy ahumed, All inch porfoi s as, ui con-
empt of Iris Majedy's gracic/US and beire-
olent intention, O.ould dare to eppofe this
)eciai ation, fnail he treated as enemies,
nd remain ej^pofed to all the evhls which
he operations of war cannot fail to bring
iver their perfons and property. Given
m-board his Majefty’s (hip the Boyne, Jan.
> 1794-

(Signed) Charlks Grey, General.

John Jervis, Vice-Admiral,
5y order of tlreir Excellencies,

Signed) G. Fisher. ?

G‘i'\ OCGI CL4AI ivw«

EO. Fu k VIS ^

>y order of the Right Hon. Thomas Dun-
tlas, Major-General in bis Britannic Ma-
jedy s army, commanding the conquered
pait of tlue Nortli of this illand.

. Ail merchants, captains of veffels, faftors,
ind others, eiiher French or foreigners,
laving in their poddbon, within the cii-
tumference of the town of St. Pierre, colo-
lial produdlions ai d provifions, of w hatever
iind and quality, are heieby oialeled^ to-
norrow nu rning, between n and 12
o’clock, to deliver, wit‘ out fail, an exadt,
aue, and vended fpecification thereof to
Mr. Baillie, at the lit ad quarters, at the In-
lendant’s hotel, under pain of i.mpriionment
rigainft the tranfgreluir'-, and condfcation t.f
Loe goods, not delated; and. the peifons
al ovc-meniiiintd mud take care, in tiie faid
li>ec;fiCHtiop., to fet down tlie name of the
proprierois -of the above met chandif'-, the
warthonfes where tl.ty are laid up, and the
ft reet where the faiti vvarehoufes are fi-
tuated. At St. Fierrc, Martinico, Feb. 19,

1794-

Thomas Dux das, Majtr-General.

PrOCI. AMATlON.

Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis,
Commanders in chief ot his Bnttannic Ma-
jeliy’s lain! ard fea fotces in the Windward
ifiands, having leb Ived that all the pruvi-
fions and other articles, heretofore dt dared
Gsmt.Mac. December^ I794*

to tire agents of feizures in the tow-n (T St.
Pierre, iliall be pul-Icly fold for tiie profit ■■
of tl'ofe who have feizrd them ; all perfons-
having made bach declarations are herewitfi
ordered, as foon as the a.^oieiaid agenr- (hall
defire i', to deliver up the pr.ivifions ^and
other : rt'cles thus deci.ired. All perfons,
that liave hitherto l eglected to m ke fimila.r
declarations, are aify ordsred, .-'t tiieir rifk
and peril, to muike tfiem without any fnrdrer
del.iy. Given, figned vv.th my own hand,
and fealed with my arms, at head-quat ters,
April 10, 1794. Frisco XT.

By order of llie General; B Clifton, Sec.

A Proclamation w. IS likevvife iliued, or¬
dering, un3er pain t'f confifcation, a diftind:
declaration to be m.adeof all forts of goods;
whicii Rated, tliat “ no attenticui h d been
paid to the proclamation of the loth inllant,
ill'ued by Gener 1 Prefect, defVring all the
good people of hat ci-ionv to aifemble in
their refpedive panihes and quarters, for
the purpofe of chooiing perbms of knovixi
intelligence and aj>proved integrity, to re-
.preleni them in an alfembly, which, accor¬
ding to the f.iid pjoclamatioii, was to be held
at Fort Royal, S'onday, the rSth inflant, to
meet the commillioner^ appointed and di.dy
.authorifed by the Commanders in chief, and
to confer with them on the moll equitable
and moil exjiedit ous ways and means to
raife a (lam'cf n.oney adequate t<' the value
of the cono' efl defined to rewiard the va¬
lour, to compeniate the excelTive fatigues,
and their confequencer, fickm fs an'l mor¬
tality, and to make good t^e heavy expence
incurred by the Biitiih (ifhcers, fo niers, and
failors, wI;o, with un(haken firniiiefs and
matchlefs perfeveiance, have atcheived the
conqueil of this ifland, fubjedled it to the
Brithli government, refeued from a wretch¬
ed exile the greateft number of its inhabi¬
tants, and reftored them to the quiet pof-
felTu n of their propeny, the confifcation of
which had been already decreed : And that
the pix Cl allination of this gei^eral arrange¬
ment had been the caufe w hich prevented
many vvell-difpo^ed inhabitants fiom carry¬
ing iheir commodities to market, and pro¬
curing Uiemfevrs what is neceffary for their
habitations to the obvious prejudice of the
whole colony.”

Anotl'.er proclamation, concerning the
feized goods, dated, that the agrnts of
feizuies had rtprefented that, at the lale
of commcxlities feized at the town of St.
Piene, a confideralde deficiency had been
found in thie quantities delivered, which ori¬
ginated from the long (pace pf time eiapied
fince (he delivery of tfie fpecifi' ations ; and
the inhabitants of St. I'lei re a-e ordered to
deliver an exact fpeciftcation of the pro'luc-
t’ons of the colony, at that tim“ .xfiually
exifting in their houfes and vvare|ioufe">, for
which they vteie to remain anl-.'-e; abi • at
their own peril and hazard ; a-gcneial fale

liere-

II3S Iniirefling Intelligence from the Continent, America, [Ded

hereafter to take place 5 ami, if itfliovilcl thea
appear that any goods have been coiicoaJsJ,
the guilty to he feverely punitlied.^

Another i'-’rocianaation was ilfued -con¬
cerning the appointment of a deputy from
every p.«riila, for the purpofe of regulating
the contribution.

Foreign I n t ei-L ig pnce.

ylrchangel. The navigation here never
experienced greater activity ; 2.07 velfels
have bc.*n cleared outwardf>, 135 of whicli
wer? Englifli, which exported pUnks, &;c.
but no fliip-timhrr, the lading of which the
emprefs has Idridtly forbidden.

The Prince- Bilhop of Pairau, in
has ordered the mode pf teaching ufed by the
ancient Jeluks ,to be re-introduced in tlie
fcliools of the circle. Several ProfeiTors,
adverfe to this meafure, have 'been difa^iiiTed
from their ofiices, and banillied the Princi¬
pality.

The Papal Staff, and other infignia, h ive
lately-been burnt fey tlie populace at y^nt-
werp. All coaches, three exccj ted, have
been fent to France, and tlie hoi fes marked
with the Republican fignature ; and fo great
has been the want of jirovifiuns, that tlireb
perfons, ua:^b‘e to bear their fufferings any
longer, killed e.ich otiier by mutual conient.
Bread is only U} be |)iocured in the inn.s, and -
at Bois-le-Duc a pound of butter coifs f6i ty
llivers.

Amekican News.

The accounts received by the American
packet are replete w'th the mod dift reliing ,
intelligence of the renewed havock of the
direful malady at Philadelphia. At the houle
of Mb. Clifford, in Water- ffreet, feveral .
perfons bad died in coafecjiience (T it, and
in the* two adjoining if reels the murtulity
had been alarming. At Baltimore and
Newharen, in Connecticut, it had been fa¬
tal to great numbers. It is fome coah.iation
to hear, that it is not fo confagiou.s as liie
feverwhich raged on that continent laR year ;
and the coolnefs t)f the w'eat.her, it was
hoped would clieck its tavages.

Country New's.

Wair. 22. There was a General Meeting
of the Volunteer Yeomen Cavalry of the
countv of Surrev on Epfom Downs, for the
purpofe of receiving . uheir Ifandards, fhe
regiment being drawn up in front of feveral
tents pitched for the reception of the com¬
pany, Cornets |ones .and Onllow came for¬
ward, attended by tlie Colonel, Lord Leflie,
to receive the ifandards, w liicli were deliver¬
ed to them by the R^giit Hon. Ladv Ltilie
and Mrs. Hume (wife to the Major) dreliVd.
in the uniform of'the regiment- immediate¬
ly upon the Cornets prefenting the iLuidards
towards the regiment, the whole corps dVew'
their fworJs, the trumpets at tlie fame time
iuunJiiJ'g a fiuuriili, and the band playing

God fave the King.’’’ The regime it then
difrnouated, wlieo rdvine b rvxe wa'j per-,
formed, ruin an exedienr iennon highly fuit-
abte to theoccafon was prea::!)''d by tlie Rev.,/i
i6r. Tavk>r, reblor of Woottoo, in Sur. ey.

Leeds, Sept.zi)- Our Oend.rmen Volunteer;
Corps had a grand ^'ieid-DaV, ior the pur-,
p fe < f I'eceiviug tiieii* Co'ours : at nine;
o’cl )i:k in the m-orniug tl-.c Carps parade.! inr
the vVhite-Ciot.h Hr).il h ard, rind marchcdl.
thence o) Chapel Town .^.loor, where an
irnrncnreconcourfe of pecple wx're atfem'.led
to be pia.'fent at tlie cereiuoiw, which was.
folemn, imprefhve', and p’pafing. The cc--
lours were conveyei! to the iitlJ in cafvj un¬
der an escort of ferjeants ; and, being nn-
fu' led , were tnen pn-iented by Mr.s. bJay-
orefs and Mrs. Llgyd : aftervvhici!, Samuel

back, £fcp the Rt:c -rvkr, in a fhortbut ex-
prehive fpeecb, exhe; te-d the'^.Iorps.to guard,
thofe Military Lnfigns, thus nrepared and ,
given them by 'lie L.s lies, riie differeid
C<'.rnpanies then formed a cire’e, and, tlie
Coloui's being placed in the center upoti tijc
drums, the Kev. Petrr Hrt-uil<'ii, our Vicar
and their. Chaplain, proceeded to the confe-
cr, tion.

Oct. zi. Lady Mentlicote give a ball at
i alkingharn, which was, .^tended by ilie
principal people' i.i the rxig !ibnurlu)0{b con-
lilling of ne'ir eighty. Her ladyflsip alfo
ordered a loaf, and forns meat and beer, to
begii en to eveiy poor p.erfon in tlie town.

At Gainjlorough, Fivncis Lrry, a fnrrieiy
of I'o! kfey, puLaaig haitily paid — Jones,
a recruiting 'e.je.uit of the lort'u imgiinent,
he w'our,i,led liirn witli Ins fword under the
left breald, of which wound he l.inguiRied
till the following nigiit, and then died.
The Coroner’s inqueR, after two days in-
vefliga'-ion, brought in their verdiit man-
flaughtcr.

- As Mr. Slater, of Barton, near Bedford, in
vVarwickilairf, wa*^ going to attend divine
fer. ice at Bid lord church, accompanied by
fome of ids friends .and neighb.mrs, he was
attacked- by four fdout men, armed wjth
bludgeo: s and tu ks, who foi cilily feized
liim and dragged h.im along, pretending

tlv. it they li.ad an attachment .-igaini't liim,
and tluit he mufd appear witii tiieni at the
Crewm-ofiice, London, by ten o’clock the
ne.it morning. An alirm being foon given,
Mr. SLter -was lefcued, and taken back
to liis houfe 5 and, as there appeared no pro-
babiiliy of their liaving a legal procefs
againfi him, and tliat no fneh procefs could
be legally executed on the Lord’s-day, Mr.
Slater’s friends determined to purfue the
ofienders, and take them before araagilbrate
for the alfault. I Jis leader of this baiulitti,
whofe.narac was Camden, and formerly an
inhabitant of that neighbourhood, immedi¬
ately fled, and, forcing his way through
feveral llrong hedges, at laid threw himfelf
into the river Avon, to dvoid his purfuers ;
but, though an expert fwimmer, he had

taken

[)94-] Inter eft ing Intelligencs from various Country Towns, 1 1 ^

akca veiy few flroke- before lie turned up
)n. the Wiiter, dead : atKi. notvvsrijrtand'.ng
le \va;i. ifr.mo.Ji.itelv taken our, rvitliout
lavin;;' fa; k, be could iK)t he lecovered by
any inedicrl aif. The oth'=r three men
ip^ere focn M' -ared. On their examination,
it appeared t*'.at they came fr ati the tie yh-
houihood of Bi ' id ford, 'ami bad been bared
jy Camden, at an extr,; 'i dina' y rate, to
Buceft ■ h 1 c.:i ;v ing away Mr. hia-er, under
a ria. feUnGn ait.,ehmeid ; but th- leai mo'ive
of tins daring and ex' nmrdinai V attempt
w:';', is i'- c 'jecUired, to force or inveigle
Mr. SI ter into in'oe i nproncr rnatnrnonial
coiM-iokinn. I'ins is the fecund -rtempC ot
the farce, iiatnrc tha" has brea made upon
the .above grc.'icrnan, v. bo is polieiled of
very conirJerah'ie In ■;'.!«< property.

Oe?. z6. fl’e Lriagfr Nav.g.itvnn, Which
has ever pr-mniteu the 'ru pxtcnfive ad¬
vantages to the to'.- 0 ac.u oCrinp/, li.is been
oi-eneu fevemn m xitlif for t'le conveyance
of mcrchaiujile- ; bat tiv- conveyance, of
co.als, tl’.C' pruic pal objr.'L of local aJvau-
t-ye, was on'v •.■.ndemiken Icr the twit time
this d',y. I'c- point out'm a few w-..-us the
jmp'.'rt.'n’- benefits of this pnhp.c w'orlc, we
liave only to ffnde, that coals, vvluch liave
hitherto bajen fold in Leicft-.r during tlic
v-'inter fe.ifon at iz arc* tsd. jier cwt. may,
ill iutuve, he purc' ;i! vi c.t the c* Tnp.^x-a'ively
low price ot N:>tc--pcrr:e. 1 ’ T night tlie
two ntal boats. Ln.ien with Colcorton and
Derbyihi'e co-.ds,. fet out ii am i^oughho-
rough ''in -lied' voy.age to Leicelfer, The
Conimitmo of lUe L'^Tr-P c; Navigation had
arranged f'le cevcmoni.il' t them expedted
at ami h id pi ovided tings, a b.ind 'of

miific, &c Ah' ut 12 this day the C< m •
rnitt..re, atte.”dc<l by a C'ln fide ’able number
of people, [.rocee.<led h nn tlie Ti'ree t’rovvns
inn to t i l Co -p .ir ’s wharf in Eeigrava
Gate, where at tim l/ ne hour tbe boats ar-
rlvr-d. On rtieii ert( ri g, the C inal b.'ifpn,
tha popub ce receir ed them with tlie loudeif
a Cam anc ns .uiJ every teltiniony cf joy.
The Committe.! then went oa-board the
C'.'e./rtoii i)oac ; and Mr. Deakin, their
Cl' iiiman, dTivi red fiom the deck an ele-
ganc and urp.-< liive fpeech. Aft men, aging
tlic afteiiMoi of his aud.tors on the hleifings
of inia’u! commerce, he concluded an ap-
P' fpe fp,."ach nearly in the following man¬
ner ; hat he congratulated liis. friends and
ir’ighhours on the event of that auipiicious
day, and truile.J they would cordially unite
with hmi ill heartily wilbiiug ti'.e Canal
might prove a faiirce ot ircreiiUi'g ni orpe-
rity fj tile Ptoprie-tors, the inliabii.uiis and
trade of .1 e town of Leicefter, and tlie
inibli..k at lai ge, even to, .the lateft pofte-
nty.’’ Mr Cokman, anotiier gentiemap of
the Committee, thdii proiiounced an Ode.
After which they proceeded with the veliel,
accoiopanied ,hy the band of mufic, along
tjie Navigation, giving and receiving three
cheats as They p.Tled luider the feveral

bridges, till they arrived at the bafon of tjl.e
Union Cana!. Here the Committee dif-
ernbarked, and formed a very numerous
proceffion, through the principal directs to
the Three Crowns, wh.ere an elegant en¬
tertainment. had been provided. Many ex¬
cellent 'v/afl--' and appofite fongs, united with
th:.' rnoll agreeable harmony and convi-
vial.ty, concludetl the pleafures of this
F ‘■'f v, the utilitv of whofe obje<5l has never
yet, nor perhars ever will be eitudled in.
the fodal and domeflic hiftory of this town.
On the completion of this underta.king,
■w'licli has n,ow occupie<l the lolicitude of
ttie peop'e of Leicefleo for ne'u ly a century,
It becomes our duty to point out the gr-tCi-
tude due from ihy town to the feveialre-
fpedfable and publicrfpirited iiulividu.ds who
have been tlie means of its completipn. The
oblig.atioms due t'j Earl Moira have been,
and ever w'ill acknowledged ; the uii-
vvearied exertiinis of the prefent Gentlemen
of the Cnmm.ttee, and, in particular, of Mr.
Ueakiu and Die Bi ec, call for efpecial men¬
tion, and, we truft, will meet with thofe
tefli.monivs of gratitude and refpeel; wTitch
are io dcferveuly tlieirdue.

A ftatement lias lately appeared concern¬
ing the Honfeof Induftry at Shre%vjhury, for
tlie laid ten years; by which the 'gentF’raen
wh.o fuj-ei intend this excellent inlfitution
pi ove, that the redudfion of the ex'pence of
ir.aiiiLaining tlie poor of that place, in ih. t
period, is upwards of id, cool, bcfides a ba¬
lance cf 24V q!. now in hand in favour of
the lioufe. Before this new fyftem of ma¬
il. rgement was adopted, the poors rates of
the united parifhes in Shrewniuiy amounted
to 4.605L per anmun. On its eflabUibrnKuC
they w’ere imme.liaiely lehuced to 2992I.
at which fum they have continued ever
fince. Bur anotlier benefit, has arifen, of
infinitely gre.iter imp' nance than the pe-
cuniaiy favings; w liicli is the vvife plan
adopted f r imoroviag tlie morals of (he
p.'or, by traiiung up t'le chdi’rcn in h.ibits
of clean-inefs, ind’a ,ry, and viriiie. Tiie
held families are now folicitous to obauu
fervaiits from the houfe of inJuldry ; an-! as
fo.'ii as (he children grow up fit for places,
tney find a preference to any other Lrvanis
that are to he hired.

N'rj. 1 '. la n’any pa’ts of Nisrfolk, Suf¬
folk, and ETeXj the n.in d'uruig the la.d
week w'as la • (:s ivy as to overflew th«
ci'untty f 'I' many mil-s together. At A^/ -
wfi d, on Thurfday and Friday, the parifiios
of Heigham, S'. Martin’s at Oakj Maty,
Michael at Collany, Swithin, George o£
Colegate, Edmond, Clemebt, See. wer«
flooded to fuch an excels that boats rowed
r.longthe fcver/1 flreets; much damage had
been done, and fome lives loli . The waters,
however, have begun to fubfi.de. So high
did it rife in dome parts of the city of Nor¬
wich as to flow into t!ie one-pair of-ldaiis
windows. Subferipnons have been opened for

Uie

Interefling Intdligenee from the Country Towns. [D:c

.1140

the relief of the fufFerers. The condaft of the
Coivimittee of the Court of yuaixiianp Qii tins
t! ftrelling event oeterves paniculav notice*
Tf^e . poor .lurFerers were acopiy pruvit>ed
with every comfort'ihie necelTry; proper
people were employed 'o feek, out thofe
iviio might recpiiie re'ief, whiph was' ex¬
tended to every one who fFood in need of
it. By the dire<^iio;i of our wcriiiy mayor,
the wrrkhoufes w^ere open to receive thofe
whom the waters had deprived of a home,
and food was giveji to all who tve>'e pre¬
vented hy the inuiid ition from pnv 'ding it.

in many other jtarts of the countjry the
invmdatitMi was fo great as to reovler it
a’.moft dangerous to pyf^. The e^virtMts
of Ne%uport-Pagnel prefented an almoit
general Iheet of’ water ; and the dcduge has
been excetdive in every quarter.

N'-w. ’13. l^aft nig;ht, about eight o’clock,
a moll dreadful accident happened at the
boufe of Mr. Craig, gentleman-farmer, near
Jpuckfand, alvuil four miles h om Plymootii ;
he had purchafed fame hundreds weight of
dam-ged povvcler, which he had placed in
*a room over the kiclien. Unf')rtunaiely,
feveral pounds', being put in a bag near the
fire to drv, v^ere taken up and placed on a
table ; when, a candle falling out on a bag
of powder, it b'ew up, and communicated
to tl'.e powder a$ove, and, Ihocking to re¬
late, dellroyed, with a molt violent expio-
fion, the infide of the houfe. Mrs. C. was
bl own out of the window' on fire, and '^ as
taken up in flames by a perfon palling by,
who plunged her uito the pond of the court-
,yard ; but (he is f> dreadfully buimt* it is
thought The cannot pecoVer. Mr. C. was alfo
much' hurt. Seven fervants an.i apprentices
|iad their arms and legs broken; two ' of
whom, iiioiV likely, will not fui vi'''e. For¬
tunately, Mr. C’s daughter, 14 y^-ars old,
efcaptvl unhurt on t!ie fin't explofion. It
js hopea this' very 'melancholy accident will
make every ])e''fm rnrt’culuiy cautious of
gunpowuer a-v)' rs pffhdtr.' '

Nyv. 28. Ab-out 10 o’clock at nigtit a fire
broke out in fh.e flables of Mrs. Mmcent, in
Coopt'l’s lane, Nortbax'^', wjh'ch in tv^u)

' hours' deflrr'ydd theo.ij willi two facldk’-
horfes, a th.n1 um^fiav' d, hut re; nhly 'm
ged. It !s f'u;'>p>ue(' ro have he'en occaAo.ieii
by a candle, hft wh.le the ierv.'uic eat in'o
* the I'oufe to fer'cli ih'me gru- 1 for a iickTiorf'.

Noxk 30. By th.e ludden fall of vail
q’aaii'iLities of rain in fiie afrernoon .tiid even¬
ing. the waC:TS role'to fugh as, I’y the tiees
which they bore down, to break dovvn ttie
bridge at Enfield walh, and render it im-
paiT.blefor the following niglit and dav.

Dee 10. 'All' flnnby, CO Linc(>in, ueas !hot
by Edmund FroO, jun, ; game-keqrfr to Sir
Peter K.irrel, hart, a '•eAgi'-', WholT viiq.-s
W'heh exteiv.led, me.ilhred n ne feet, aui
from tile he.ik to the end'(‘'f the tail,- thfes
feet four inches, an<) tlio taf.fns are very
thick and long. Tins bird had bi.en feen

about Guiiby for feveral nights before, Ivat
could not be come at till the above night,
wl'.en it w-as xvatched to the tree where it
perched, and was (hot by mtoon-light. — About
the fame time another ia-ge eagle was ihot
in a wood beltmging to Arrliur Va .fittarh
Efq. at Sbotie/hrook. !t weighed upwards of
9ih. and meHlurrd upwards of feven feet
two ii'ches from tlie tips of the wings when
extended. Upon taking out the entrails,
the 1 g of a hare was found in then; the
bone was C'ltire and quite perfeit, with a
little fiefli and fkin upon it,

Dec 13, Early this morning a fire broke
out at Cejn, th.e refidepce of Roger Reii-
yon, Efq. which exterrded fo rapidly through
the interior parts <'f the lioufe, that; thefamh
ly, who were all in bed, liad f arcely ti'me tQ
elcape t!ie drea tful ravages qf the fl imes.-
h'he al irm being given, a great number of
perfon.- foon colledlsd, by whofe exertions,
alhilcd by fhe VVrexh.am engines, the fire
was\prevented from communicating to any
of the adjacent bniidings, which in all pro-
hability would have been demnlithed. Theiii7!
fideof the houfe futferei confiderahly, and a
great part of the furniture is dellroyed. For-;
tun -tely no lives were loft, noi' hwe wei
heard of any one being materially hurt. The;
fire was pretty well g,it uoder by day 'break,!

Dec. zz. This day a iqbin’s neft, coii-i
taining four eggs, was difcovered at
Coombe-land farm, in the parifh of PuEoy
tyugh When the above neft was fouudy
the old bird was clofeiy fitting on the eggs,;
and, though difturbed and driven off, Ihei
returned to her neft before tlie finder had
time to quit the foot. Till w.thin thefe
fe'.v days pail there were in this neighbour
hood fevei al inftancesof carnations, expofd
to the open air, being oat in full fl.)*^ er.

Dec. 24. The veiTry-roiim of the Cathei
dral Church of Ely w.is broke open and;
robbed of all tlie Cohrmnnioa plate, tagc-i
ther w'ith feveral other articl.i3 of plate foiii
private ufe.

Dec. 23. Being Chriftr.as tlay, tlie Rev.r.
, A'ir. A orthington preached his annual fer-i'
mo; 1 at the Great M. e'ing at Letcejier,
dif'lfed to tlte janilr part of his coi grega-;
non Tlt’s wa- the fiity-feco id Termoa !)C
hid. pre idled on Miriftmas-days, in the faaiC;
place, for thef.ime purp f ; and, in the very
long cuurfe of f i r t v- 1 h“ k e v ears, hi
has had only one interrupti- .u ! — Of ‘his ve-i
pieuerablc inci amiable pallor we rem irk wid'
much pleaiure, tlru, n itwitiiilandius b>'
gi'eai age, he preaches with .ill the viv.'cit}:.
of youth, and ftill tioll.nfes an unufual de-r
gree of c ammaad't g and perfuafive e!o;
(juenc', united with a itrengtli of judgemeni
and laC'jhies wh,)hy unimpvured. He is 1
liinng example of the amiable and v.sluabiq
tendency of tlie Clinftia'i Religion, ani 0
the .ulvanlages and happ.nafs refulting
a !o ig life devoted to temperance and
exercife of all the moral Unties.

v' > . I . , I 'AN

E 1141 3

INTELLIGENCE op IMPORTANCE
"he humble ^ddref\ ^,f the Lord Mayor,
Aldei ivien, and C( nitnons, of the City of
Londof,, in Ct.mmun Council ajjembled ;
^jcfented to hi$ Maielty 'JmeiQ,

Mcft G^nciol•l^ Sov ereign,

‘‘WE, yi'Ur Maj-lly’s moR dutiful and
oyal Suhjedls, Ihc Lord- Ma'; or. Aldermen,
nd Comm' iir, o' tSe (Jity of L’'iut<-n, in
’ommon CovincUair'-mhled.humhlv he'j leave
o appro :cn y;!ur M j ily witli *)ur vvaimeft
;ongt Htu’.:Uions <'n the late glorious fuccelTes
vith: 'vhirh it ha.'. pleafMl Divine Providence
o hltCyour .‘vltnelty s ru ms in different c;uai -
et'p <'f il'C world, and more eipeciallv on the
ignal victory obtnined by the Ih iiiflt fleet,
inder the'command of Admiral Earl Howe,
>ver the fleet of the French, on the firft of
Iiis ntoni-h.

“ We have the pleafureof acknowledging,
A'ith heait Lit fat sfaaffion, that by the re-
Ui(flion of ih.tf piincipal fet-tlements of the
'rench in the Indie'-, and bv the capture
)f their Welt India illands. the mod valua-
ible commerciai a.cquiflne'ns have been gam-
sd to Your M.jeiW’s fubjedt', at the lame
;inae that the commerce of the en.emy h:.s
been del\r< ved in thofe pails. And Lliefe
u’var.t .g s are great'y enhanced, m our
fflmuation, by ti e im zing rapidity and ht-
:!e, bh odihed with whn.h they were accom-
Hiflied.

“ We reii.'icein feeing '’our Majefty’s arrps
viiflor'ous 111 the reducuon of B a fl i. i, 4v here¬
sy not only the Corfleans are liberated from
he tyranny of French Anarchifls, but our
deets havp acquired commodious harbours in
:tie Mediterranean

“ We have viev ed, w;t!i peculiar fatisfic-
tion, the klni loin exertions of ou. brave coun
trymen, encouraged by theexaraple o‘ tiieir
illufricus Comn; nder, and r 'hei brandies
of tlie Roy.. I Fam ly on the Continent, m
which your M:.jtity’s_ pa'ern li leCnigr muff
have participated in an extra,or<'ui.;ry degree.

“ b' e- iy imprelft'd w ith the importance
of theft ad\ ..n'agcF, we flionld thinkonrfeh.es
wanting in the duty we owe to your M.qeffv,
under hofe m-!d Go emmeut we deem it
our gr^'a'eff happinefs to live, w'ere vve to
deity-taking the earlieff-i ppdriunity of teffi-
Fying, .it f he- font of ilie ihrom, our inoft
ird n joy at the late figral ■ uflory ga'iitil by
your Mujeltyh fRci over tin t of the enemy ;
a vidlory p^i haps uiiexarnpl.--d in the annals
of the Brit fh navy, and which has materially
reduced liic jk)v\ i:r ol Uie French at fc i, atld-
ing ecuntv t.'iiur w.de- extended commerce,
and ir iifnv ting a moff Fnlliant example of
Britilli \ aloiii' to the lat^ti pofletity.

“Andjwlniff we ihws rejoic- inthefiiccef-
fesof' -m! M .jelty'sai ms .‘''broadjwe dell) e to
sxpreisou- w . ueff approliat.on of the vigi¬
lance an zcjI o y-)ur Majefly s MinilterS at
aome, 111 re;n effing liia atterr.pis of ihe Se-
iitiou'^, and thofc who wickedly aim at tiae

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

fubverflon of your Majefly's Goveriiment
and nfl'ure your> Majeffy that your fani fr*
Subjedts, the Citizens of London, will con¬
tinue to exert their moff conffant aqd earneff
endeavours to preferve to themfclvcs and
rheir pofleritv the fecure and permanent en¬
joyment of the invaluable blelflngs of the
glorious Conffituiion as eftablilhed by law.

“ M.ay thefe brilliant events convince your
Maj' ffy’s enemies of tjie j'.iftice of your Ma-
jefty's caufe, and thereljy the bleffings qf
peace he reffored to thefe kingdoms and to
Europe on a fafe and permanent found.ition.

Signed, by Order of Court, RIX."

Tonuhich his Majeffy mofi g>acmtjly anfiuercdy

“1 receive, with great fatisfaFtion, this
dutiful and .affeeffionate Add; els. The ex-
preiiions of attachment fram my faithful City
of London are at all times liighly fatisfatffory
to me, and peculiarly on the prefent con-
junilure. The cordinl congratul itions oa
the late glorious victory, ribtainf-d by my
fleet under Earl Howe, and on tlie fignal
fuccefles which have attended my arms in
ibffei ent quarte' s, anti the fe .fonable affuran-
ces of then- unnorm attachment to our inva-'
luabie Coiiffitution, prove how fenfible they
are of tl'e impor ance of Uie conteft in wl .ich
we aie engaged, and of the numerous bleff-
ings for the prefer vation of which we have
to contend. 3 he City of London may at all
times rely on the continuance of my favour
and protedlioti,’^

Horfe Guards, Dec. Bv difpatches re¬
ceived' from Gen. S r Charles Grey, K, B.
dated Martimque, the i6th, 19th, anti 24tli
ofOdlobet , ii appears, that the Enemy from
Point d Petre, m the IjQand of Gu.idaloiipe,
made a landing at Goy »ve arxl Lamentin on
the fame ifland, on the 27th of Seprember,
and proceeded to attack the Camp of Ber-
viiie, under the command •af Bi igadier-Gen,
Graham, wlio defended this pofition, with
the ntmoff gallarury and fpirit, untU the 6th
of Oib./ber, when, finding his provifions
nearly ex’oanfief, and that he was ctit off
from a'l communication with the fliipping,
, and without hop. s eff' relief, he was obliged
to furter der, his fot ce being ved ..iced to ize,
rank and file fit for dntv. By this unfortu¬
nate ev'. nr, tl>e w'liolec-f the Illand tif Gu ula-
loupe, except Foi t Matild.'’, wheie Lieut.-
Geneiv.i Vhefcc-tt command?, fell into cite
bands of tjie Enemy. 1 he following are the
te rns uf Capitulation granted by ihe^finemy.
Articles (if Cafitulutionjor the Vof of BervilUy
ana its Deptnasncics.

f. ihat, in coufiJeration ol the gallaiat
defence the g.an ifoo h.-s made, fficy ihidl be
allo'.vf d the hnnobr' of war. — AtiLGi anted,
H. That the Intiab'tams ')f the Tfl.tnd now
co-operafng wir!^ th.e army, li-ther vvh’te
or free pi- -pie of celoni-, being Bntilh fub"
je<fts, haviug taken the Oatiis'of Allegiance

1^2 Ga%eite Ntws,-— -Diary of the Royal Excurfon, [ Dec*

to his Britannic Majedy, flaall be confi lered
and treated as fucli. — -Vnr. Not ad'-niilihle :
fcut a covered boat (hall -be allowed to the
General, which lhall be he’d facred.

III. That the troops, and fuch of the inha¬
bitants as do not wifli to become fnhie'Ts of
the Fr&fich Republic, fliaU be fent to Gie.t
Britain, as foon as frai/ports can be provided
for that nvtrpofe. — Anf. The troops Ih-li be
fent to England as loon as tranfports are rea¬
dy 5 but IS to the Inhabitants, it is aafwered
in Article II

IV. That the baggage of the Officers and

InhabitantsMii camp lhall be allo'^ed to them.
— Anf, The troops Ih.dl be allowed their
baggage. *

V- That the Tick and wounded, who can¬
not be font on-board tranfports, *b;dl be al¬
lowed Briuih Surgeons to attend them. —
Anf. A greed to.

VI. that the Ordnance and Stares of every
denomination fhall be given up in their pro-
fent ftate. — Anf. Agreed to.

VII. If any difficulties in fettlingthe above
fhall happen hereafter, tl\ey fhall !)u amicably

adjaffed bv the refpe6li'/e commanders.—
Anf. Admitted.

(Sigiiedi Colin Graham, Br. Gen.
('"ignetO VicroK No cues.

I'erviUe.., Oa. 6, 1794.

TIk; BrniHi Force';, .which were taken at
B-> vi'ie Camp, confill of the Flank Compa¬
nies from Ireland, rnrd of th.e 39th, 4:5d, and
6 5tb Regiments. Theii’ lofs in -the different
adilons between the .reth of September and
f'lh of OfUdoer, as nearl/ as cimld he afeer-
tain'^'d, amounts to 2 O hears killed, 5
wounded ; 25 Non •commiffioned Officers
and Privates killed, and 51 ditto, wootulod.

Oifflcer.<; killed.^ — Major Ferbes 5 Lieiuea-
ant Cochran, of the 391)1. .

Hotje Guardsy Dec. 13. By Difpatches re¬
ceived from Lieutenant Colonel Iap'’e : Grant,
commanding Officer at Capa Nicholas Mole
in tJie Iffand of St, Domingo, dated the 2il1c
of O.rpiher, it 'appeal s, that th.e To'.’-n ap.<l
Poff; of Leogane, in the Time Iff.tud, had
fallen into the hands of the For ces of die Con¬
vention, itiided by a numerous Corps of re¬
voked *’

Negroes.

H I STO R I CA L

Di.-vry of tlie Royal Excursion.

^Concluded from p. (oco.J

Sept, 4.. Princefs Auguita bathed. HisMa-
jefty, with his attendants, walked the F.ijda-
nade. At nme the fi pial was made for tlia
Royal Family going on-board the Southamp¬
ton, at ten thpir Majeffcies, and five Prinerf-
fes, attended by Ladies Poulet, Hovvaid,aiid
C. Bruce, Lord VValfmgham, General GoUlf-
worthy, Mri Grevilie, and. Major Price,
went in the barges from the flo iting ma¬
chine. On the Family’s going on board,
Capt. Forbes immediately put to fea, to m'-a.c
Lord Howe’s fleet, as a coaflmg veffcl
brought in word the Admu'al vaoald he near
the bay this morning. Prince Rrnelt took
an airin.g on'horfeb ick. Tlie Pi inceis R oy a!,
attended by Ladies Courtoun and VValde-
grave, took r.n airing t > Durcheiler.

5. This afternoon Ins Majeffy, ‘accompa¬
nied by Prince Ern.-il:, and alieiid^d by
l.or lij poulet and W.iiffngh vm, went to
Lo.ngherry, to View th.o Fcncib'.e Cava ry un¬
der the comma'id of the Iv-irl of D •rciielt. r.
His Majelly few chern go through their dif
ferent maiHOuvi es, and expreffeu ins fitif-
faefion. In tiie even ng lier Majefty jiad a
ftlecT card party.

6. This rikmnuig Pnneefs Angnfta bathed.
At 10 ':ffs M.ijeliy ; nd Prince Lrneff, -with
their nruid a’tend.mt.;, on t'orkback ; her
M^fePy, and th.e' fix Princelie-, a't-nided by
L.idies Howard, Courtoun, and Waldegrave,
in them carr a^es ; all vrent to pay a mci ii-
ing vifit t\) Mr. Di.mer, ne.m j^orchfefler.
In the evening the Royal Family rdl went to
tile Tiieiu.re. At ten the Duke and-Frincefs
Sophia is)f Gk;uccltsr arrived^

C H R O N i C L E.

7. His Majefty, Prince Ernefl, Princefs
Au.gafta, ami thxe Duke of -Glouceff er, all
b:-, tiled. At 1 1 their Majeflies, the fix Pnn-
ceilk'-’, Prirme Erneiff, and Duke of Gloucei-
ter, -vvith their ufual attendants, went to
Melcqmhe church, where a fermon was
preacr.ed by the PvCV. Mr. Gordon. After
fervice, Ims M.ijeTcy, the Duke of GLoucef-
ter, Prince Erneft, and fi.'e Princefras, took
a w.dk Co the- Luo’fC'Ont, attended by Ladies
CourCinin-, Waldegrave, and C. Bruce; and
returned to G'puceffer Ludge to diuner.
The Pi ince of Wales arrived liere to dinner,
attendod liy Lor.l Clermont; the Lord Chan¬
cellor alfo arrived. live Ruyaf Famity all
went to E'ne Roo ri'; at 3 o’clock.

<S. Princefs Auguffa Viathed. His M.'uef-
ty walked the Erjdanadc, w'uere he hud a
long cooferenee with the Lon’ Ciia icellor.
At leu ins M-tjefcy, accomr.anied by the
Prince of Wa.les and Prince i',rncl.r, attended
by L 'fds VValflugham and i'oulet, Ge-eial
Goldfvvoi thv,- and Mr. Grevilie, t'lok an
airing to Dorcheffer. This being the Anni-
verfary of their T’lnjeffie^ weilding-day, the
guns of the frigates and fl-iops in the B.iy
fired a royal faime, winch was anf.vered by
the guns from the Battery. Geaer.d Guldf-
wortiiy’s hurfe were drawn up on the lull
near th,e Look-out, and fired a feu dc
as did the Backinghamflflre Milt' -. The
-Marquis of Salifbury arEved. Pheir Ma-;
jeffies gave .a ball and Tapper ip the evening,
in hjirmu- of tiic.d.ay, to llic fidlowing com-
par.y : Prince of '.V..1js, Prince Erneff, thQ
fix PiiuceUes, PiincAs Soph'.i of Gloucefler,
Duke of Ghniceffer, tVie Lord Chancellor,
Lard Maasfleld, tii^ M.irc^uys and Marchio-

I ^94*1 Diary cf the Royal Excurjion to Weymouth, , l'^43

nt fs of Bucku’gbaiTi, l.ori! and Lady Chefter-
fu; Id, Lord and Lady Poulet, Lcrdand Lady
Maiy Stor.inrd, Lady Cour:;oiua, Lady C.
Waldegi av?e, Lady F- Howaul, Lady C.

liCt', ^'r. ani< Mr?. Damer, Lord Cler-
ifioi'.t, L(.rti Tcmpif*, Lord WaPinpdaraii,
M)'. Fa'vkeut", Captain For’ne?, Gcr.eral
Cjuldf'vor'’!)' , LoL'i’-el Grovilie, !Vlr. Price,
and ie\ ei iil naval r-fiicers.

9. Mair'iiy b.-ahed ; aaJ afterwards
walkcu Lde LioLiuade, where fie had a long
cok'iereace uitli Mr; Fawkener. At 11
his A’a.ief^y, a’ te nded by l-ords Walfingham
and JL'u’.et, Gen. Goldfw orifiy , and Mr.
Gjeville, rode to Pi efori. Her Majeify and
four ^ril)ce^^e^5 wiih their ufual a'. tendants,
took an airotg in their enriageato Upway.
Ti ds' afteri O'ni his - ^'!ajePy iKld a Piivy
Council at Gl( iKerter Lodge. There were
pitlent, hi-> Royal liigiinefs tb.e Prince of
Vv’alfcf, the ITike of Giout'etder, die Lord
Chancellor, Attorney General, Marquis of
Sahihury, Lords M msfiekl, CheflerfieUl,
Walfingham, and St' pford, and, Mr. Faw¬
kener. it broke up at half paft four, when
tb.e latter gentleman immediately fet ofr for
l.oiu'on. A-fter t-ie Council broke up, tb.e
King walked the Erplanade with h s ul'uhl
.'’’tcndanis. TIjC weather being ramy, tb.e
Lh,!t’en a-d Princ- lies did not leave the
Lodge ; in tlic evenii g the Queen had a con¬
cert and c.ard {>any.

10. This m' rring tire Duke of Glnncef-

ter, Prince LnicLI, and PrinceCs Augulda,'
bathed. At i 1 Lis MajeBy, accompanied by
Piancefs Sophia, and the Duke and Princefs
Sophia of Gioucefier, took an airing , to
Dorchcller. lier Majefty paid a morning
vifit to the Coanmfs of Cheftei field. The
Princelfes, h iib. their ufual attendants, walk¬
ed tile Efnlanadc. The King honoured the
1.01 u Ci.ancel or with a \irit. At noon the
Lord Cb.ancelior went to the Lcdi e, where
fie bad a long cor.iureuce with the King.
The i ’rince ot \S ales ; nd Pi ince Erneit took
a ride to the camp near Upway. 1 lie Lord
Chancellor and i.ord Mansfield left Wey-
nrouth tins day, Tlie Royal Fanal;. intended
to honour the theatre with orefence;

t *

but were pi tvtutei. by the lij nvai of an ex-
prefs witii the iv-wsof the death of her Ma-
jelty’s litter.

1 1. His Maj 'Py, PrLice Erneft, and the
Duke of t-IoucePer, fiatiied. At ten his Ma-
jelly, acconqranifcd by the Prince of Wale?,
Prince EruclL, I ruicefs Sophia, ahd the
Duke and Frincefs Sophia of Gioucefier,
with their ufual attendant'', took ah airing
on horfeback. Her Majelly, and hem Prin-
ceh'es, attended by Ladies Courtoun, How¬
ard, and VVnldegr..ve, took an aiiirg to
Dorcheller in the r carriages. All returned
to Glouceiler Lodge to dinner, la the
evening his Majellv, accompanied by the
Prince of Walts, Prince Erneit, the fix
Princelfes, and the Duke and Princefs Sophia
ei Gioucefier, walked the Efidanade till 7.

1’, His Majefty, Prince Ernefl, Princefs
AuguO'a, Eiizabeth, -and Mary, and the
Duke of Gloucetlei-j ail bathed. At 10 his
Mnifcfly, Frincels Sopliia, ami the Duke of
Glouceiler, attended by lady C. Pruce, and
Gen. Goulfwoitby, took an airing on horfe¬
back. ,.'it 12 the Fi'ince of Wales took leave
of her Majefy; and left Weymeutiu Her
MajePy atul five Frincefies afterwards took
aii airing in tlie/ir can lages to Upway. All
retui ned to the Lodge to dinner. The Prince
of Wales went on a Atooting party to Mr.
'Ci'iUrclriirs feat, near Biandford. This after¬
noon farmer Enfield, of Lor:g''€riy, gave
to the Fencible Cavalry anoxroafted whole.
Tbs fjvccLirors. were numerous.

13 LLs .MujePv, Prince Erncll, and the
Duke of Gioucefier, bathed. At ten his
Majel’y, accoimpanied by Prince Ernell,
Pr incefs Sophia and (he Quke of Gioucefier,
and their ufual attendants, took an airing on
liorfeback, round by the Camp, and return¬
ed by Upway. The Queen, attended by
Lady Conrioun, took an airing in h r Soci¬
able ; and in the evening had a card party.

14. Piince Erneil, Princelfes Mary and-
Elizaheti:, and the Duke of Glouceiler, bati -
ed. At eleven the Royal F.*nily all went to
Melcombe diurch, where a fermon was
preached by the Rev Mr. GiffaJien. After
fervice, the Royal Family, attended by La¬
dies Courtoun, Howard, Waldegrave, and
C. Eruce, Geuei a! Goldfworthy, Mr. Gre-
vil’e, and Mr. Price, walked the Efplanade.
Tliis day the Pvoyai Family and the Nobibty-
b.ere'went iij4;o nm'urning for the Queen’s
filler. In the evening the Royal Family
went tn the rooms, which vrci e full.

15. His Majelly and Prince Erneil bathed.
At nine the fignal was laoilled for the Ropal
Family going on board. At ten they went
in the bulges from the pier on-board the
Southampton, where they dined. As they
palled tlie fliips, they fired 'a Royal fahite.
In tb.e evening their Majefties, fix Princef-
fes, Pi ince ErneR, and the Duke and Prin-
cefs Sopiiia of Glouceflei', with their ufual
atteiK'ants, went to tlie theatre.

16. Princefft'S Elizabeth am! Mary, Prince
Erneil, and tlae Duke of Gkuceller, all
batheit. A.t ten the Royal Family fet oil for
the review of the Buckinghamllrire militia;
who vvent through their manoeuvres to ad¬
miration. His Majefty paid tlie Marquis a
very high compliment on the men being fo
W'ell difciplined. A.fteiwanls the party of
horfe commanded by General Goldfworthy
was reviewed. Their Majefties and Family
partook of a cold collation in Lord Chefier-
field’s marquee. On their leaving the camp
a royal faliue was fired ; when a metencholy
accident took place, oneof the gunners belong¬
ing to the anillei y iiad his arm ftiot off, and
exiiired foon after.

17. His Majefty, Prince Erneft, and the.
Duke of Glouceiler, all bathed. At ten the
Royal Family went, yvfith their qfual atten¬
dant' f

I?44 P^oyal Exc74r/!cf2 to 'WtymouXh, — Domeftk Oci^rrevces, [Dec.

c’.Tnts, to Pomeroy, near Maiden Caflle, to
view rhe feociSie ^avah \ . Thev ai re'urncd
to Glcvicefter Loi’ge to d.miei-. As Mr,
Fana'wand li'is two <*ai)2ht(:irs, wifhtw'o na¬
val offirers, were ctnitiiMg ort fhore at the
pier, the boat ran fou! cf a pofl: underwater,
and was nverfet ; bin, by the alliftHuce of
otb^r hoa'f, they wc.e all taken up fafe.
In tlit; evening the Pv.«.y,d t amily honuircjl
the the^^tre with their p»et'.nr5, to fee tiC
Biot tiers” ;,nd th® *• Village Lawyer”. i
j8. Priacefies Mary and Elizabeth bathed
in the floating machii.e — Prince Frnelb and
the Duke of Gioucefber alfn batiied Parly
this morning a tremendu.us ftorni of ttuin-
cler v^iis felt here. A,h,:Hit nine, the Sea-
flnvver, being driven from her anchor, ttiey
firetl two guns of dnhrcfs. By th ; atlifla'nca
of the men in llie long-boat belonging to ttie
Souibampron tlae was wntli great difficulty
fared from going upon the rocks. The
fborni continuing till the middle of the day
prevented Che Royal Family going 'out.
Tliis evening they again lionoured the thea¬
tre ivirh their nrelVnce.

S9. His Majefty, .Prince ErneR, and the
Duke of Glouf^eft''!', b.iiheil. At nine tlie
flag was hoiRed for the Royal Fannly going
on- boat'd. At ten they went, with their
ufual alten.dants, in tlie b..rges from the pier
on bo.a i'd the Southam; tc;n with an intention
of dining ; bunthbi e'fni'ang up a very biiflc^
gale, and, the fea being very rough, it was
with much difficulty tliey were rowed on
fhore, about two o’ciock.

2C. Pt'iuce Errieil ami the Duke of Glnn-
cefler bailied. Tire day proving wet, the
Pmy d Family did nc/t go out. in tire evening
her Maiefty liad a fdecl card party.

2r. Ki:- Majefty, Piiiice Frneih, and the
Duke of Glouceiher, all ba-'bed. Attieveii,
the Koval Fairiily, with llieir'ufual atten-
.clanis, went to M-elco.mbe church, where a
fetmoa was preachet; by the Rev. Mi'.'Goi-
dor, of '"atli. After lervi'ce, hi-- Majcfty
an : fnt PnncelTes, accompanied by tlie Duke
of Gl atceOer, walked ih.e Efplanade. Hc-.r
Maifciiy tc.ok hn airing on the fands in fb.e fo-
ciablc, amended by Lady Poulet. In the
evening tlie Rdyal Farmly went to tlie rooms.

2.2.. Princefs Angulla, Prince Ernetb, rtud
the Dnke of Glouccflcr, all batlied. Phis
being the anniveifary of their Matjellies’ co¬
ronation, tie tioops tired a feu de-jOjC,
which was'aiiKVered from tlie b itieries. At
one tlie ihips fired a royal falute, and were
all d'clled on the occafio.n.

2t. Their Majefiies, with. Prince Erneft,
the brine tfes, and the vbike of Glonceller,
breakfatfed whih the Marquis and Mar-
chione's of Buckingham in the camp ; at
ten o click the Royal Family went on'a vifit
to the Earl of Dorchefier.

'24. PnucelTes Elizabei,h and Mary bathed,
ten his Majefty, accompanied by Prince
Erneff, and attended by Lords Poulet and
"VValfirgham, Gen. Qoii^lvyorthy; and Mr.,

Grevillc, w’cnt hunting with Earl Ponlct’s
hafr'ery near Dorchetter. Her Majelly and
Prince'.l'ef, attended by Ladies Courioun,
Howard, and ’Waldegrave, paid a morning
viht to Mrs. Buxton, near Wick j all return¬
ed to the Lodge to dinner- In the evening
then' Maieidies drank tea at lady Piiulet’s.

25. H'is ^4ajeAy am! Prince Ernell bath.ed.
At ten liis Majefiy fet o.T, w'ith Irs ufual a:- '
ten<ia“fs,' to Upway, tointht w^ith Lord Pou-
lei’s liarrieis. Her M.vjelly and Princelfes
took aid airing. In the evening the Royal '
Family went to tlie theatre,

26. Preparatir ns for departure.

27. The Royal Faimly left Weymouffi at '
fiveoklock this morning ; flopt at Salifbury
an hour to tee the Engliib Indfars, command¬
ed by Gem Gwyn ; ih 'n came forwo'ird to
Hariford-bridge, and duied at De.mezey’s,
and arrived at Wmdtor at half pall fix. A
general illumination took place in the even¬
ing, bells ringing, and guns firing, amid live
acciumapions of tlie whole town;

zS. His Majefty and five Frinceffes, at¬
tended by Ladies Courtoua and Waldegrave,
went to St. George's church, where avermon
was preached by the Rev- Dr. Langford,
canon m refulenve. After fervice hi*- Ma¬
jefty gave audience to the Hanoverian Minif-
ter. The Royal Family then took an airing
to Frogmore, and returned to the Queen’s
Lodge to dinner.

DOMESTIC OC URRENCESv
Sunday^. Sept 28.

The Chapel of the new Hr life of Correc¬
tion for the county of Middlefex was open¬
ed for Divine Service this d-iy with great
fulemnity. Mr. Mainw^aring, tire chairman
of the feffions, and a great number of ria-
giftraies and other refpeftable gentlemen,
af-ended on the occafion. Near 70 pri-
foners weie prefent, who wei e thorough'y
cleanfed and new-clothed, and made a ve;y
de-cenl appearance ; and their behaviour
was extremely proper and lerious The
fervite ' vv'as pcifotmed by two Reverend
magi'ii-atc.& f >r the county, at tlie re'jueft of
the Couit. The prayers were read by Dr.
Gabn-i I ; and a lermon fuited to the atfedting
fi'uatinii of tlie prifoaers w'as preached by
Dr. Gldfe, from Matthew, xxv. 26, “ I
was in prifon, ainl ye came unto me.” The
prifoueis were fed, their return from
the Cliapil, with a meE of go.id broth , one
only excepted, who, for milbehaviour with¬
in tlie pnfun, was in clofe confinement, on
tiieoidmafy pi ifon allowance.

'Tuejdayf Nov, 4.

The followhng addrels of the Eaft India
Company w^as this day prefented :

To the. King’s Mott Excellent Majefty.

We, your Majefty’s loyal lubjeifts, the
Doited Company of Merchants of England,
trading to the Eaft Indies, beg leave, in this
.arduous crifis, to exprefs our feiviments of
zealous aitaciiment ta your Majefty’s royjil

perfon.

1794-] DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. 1145

perfon, family, ami governmeat. When
principles eu'i illy unlive* to the right
of jirivate p'operty, ami to all ell.iV-lilh-'
ments, religious aiul polifcai, are avowed
aiul aiiied upon by a popnlyus and jKuvei lul
nation in the centi’e of Hurt'pe, we ennhder
it as a duty moumben’ on all vour Majeily's
fubje^fis, but p.iiri. ui:n ly on g- eat conimer-
cial focieties, poliefiiug auu emphn’ing large
caoitah in the circulation of tr'de, to ex-
prefs, ill the niolf decided terms, a deteflia-
tinn of fuel) a I y firm of warfare, which is
without examole in the hidorv of the, civi-
lized woild ; and at the fame time vve de¬
clare that we will, as individuals, in com¬
mon with our fclIoW-frd'jeifls, cheei fully
fuftain the. extraordinary bui thens which a
war, fo extcijlive in its opera' ions and fo
important in its confcquences, may retjuire.

“ Tiie Coiillltulion of our country lias
been fully tried, and vve have every reafoii
to he hitisfttd with the priaci]'-les on
which it is founded ; the comfort and hap-
pinels enjoyed by all clalTes of your Majef-
ty's fnbjedls, .ar-e proofs of its wifdom and
efficacy ; and the public power of the coun¬
try equally demon rti atcs its fuperiority tiver
ev^rv other kjiown g.wernraent in th.e
world. Having thefe fentimems ftrongly
imprelfed on our .minds, we pledge our-
felves to fupport your Majefty’s government
and the conllitution, with our liv^ts and
fortunes, agaiiHT the forc'gn eremj ; and the
fame fentiments will prc/mp” us to every
aftive 'exertion necelfary for the' fuppreffinn
of domelfic tumults. In nil communities
there will be fidlion and dd'co.itent ; but
the fubjedfs of your Majefly’s government
are fo fecure iu pro}>e! ty and pcrional
liberty, that amongft the n fadlion againil
tlie law and conflitution can originate oidy
in wdckediieH or folly. Anxious as we na¬
turally are to fee the peace of Europe re-
jdored, we are fully perfuad.ed that adlive
and vigorous exertions for the piofecuiion
of the war are tlie on'y etfec ual me;)n,s
to obtain it on fafe and honourable terms.
As a fmall but ean.ell teffimony of our
zeal to fapj>ort y.mr Majeby’s government,
i)e conflitution of the c.-ntry, and Lfie
rigiitsof fociety, groflly violated tg.mhe prin¬
ciples and pradlices of the common enemy
of E.urope, we beg leave to fnbmic to your
Majefly our wi:b to raife at)d clo hs th»es
regiments of Inf.tii ry at the exputce of this
Company, to conhll of ro'o men each,
for the eventua’ fei vice of the Company in
India; but to reinam, during the prefent
war, at the difpofal of yc.ur ^'ajellv's go¬
vernment, to lerve in Gre, t Bi;it .in or Ire¬
land, or the illauds of Joikey, Gueinfey,
Alderney, and Sark. ud vve beg leave
;o requell that the nilicers belong og to our
laiUtary ellabhffimeuts in India, now in
Lurope, mav be employed iu thofe regi-
aientv, lubjedl to your M;*.je{l.y’;> royal ap-
GtN'i. Mag. Vtumb:r^ T794.

probation. Given under our Common Seal,
this qthday of Movemher, 1794.”

Dec. I.

The-mails from Scotland, Yorkffiire, the
whole of the North Lincolufiaiim, Cam-
hi-'i’gnffiire, S:c. were nearly loft on Ciislh-
tinr wa'h th’^ morning about 4 o'clock ; t’.ey
■ were obliged to retina to Hoddeldmi to get
a chatb;, and crofs the country to H.-tlfield,
a')d !w B.:r et. They arrived at the Gene¬
ral Poll office about nine o’clock, wiiich is
about four hours after tlieip ufual time. Tlie
exertions of th guards on this occaftun are
very conimen'dable. ,

St. Anvhew's day falling on Sunday, the
Royal Society this day held their aniiiver-
fa'-y meeting ; wlirn tiie Prefident, Sir )o-
feph Bank-^j B mt. in the name of the So-
cietv, prelented Sir Godfrey Copley’s medal
to Prof'eribr Votr->, f;n' Ifrs feveral c immu-
nicaiions on animal eledlriciry ; and deli-
vsred the cuilomary dil'courie .on ' the fub-
jefls contained in fhe Profenor’s p.apers.
The following arc the officers for the en-
fuing year. Of the old Cuuuci' : Sir jofeph
'Bank", Bart. Henry Beaufoy, E-q. Sir
Cliarhs Bbg'len, Knt. Henry Cavendiffi,
Eiq'. t!)e Rev. Clayton-'^.Iord.iunl Crache-
rpde, M. A. Sir VVilliam Mufgrave, Eart,
the Rev. Anthony Hami'ton, D. D. the Rev.
Nevi! Malke!yn.e, D, D. [ofepli Pl,,nta, Efq.
the Rev. Will'. m Tooke, S/imuel Vv'egg,
bfq. Of the new Council : CliaTes George
Lord Arden, Sir Hemy C. PingleheUi, Barti
Sir dharles Giave Hudfon, Bart, joh-i Hun¬
ter, M.I>. [ohn Ord, Efq. joh.n Oi'borne,
Efq. Sir Ralpti Pavue, K, B. Ma'thew' Ra-
per, Ihq. John Douglas, Lord Bnh p of
Saliffiurv, Samuel Foart Simmons, M. D.
The oil ofticers 'vere ie-ele6led.

Tlie fame day there was a General Court
of the Scottilh Gorporat'ou rgrtiealEv to
their charter, when tiie Duke ot Montrofe
w.'iS re-elehed prefident; the ildarqu' V Or
Huntley, the Earl of Glasgow, t'ie Ihnlof
Dalkeitli, Lord Dongl s, the Hnn. P. Pufey,
M.P. Alex. Broaie, Efej. M. [h Vice-pre-
fulents; and P.itrick-George Cravvfurd, Efq.
Trec'ifii. er. Tiie Court a<ljonvn<'d to t.he
Cro^vn[ and Anchor tavern to dinner, with
tlie friends and henefaclors of the inllitn-
tion. Tlie com [ 'any, upwards of 270, was
luoft refjicciab'e ; and tbc fubfciiption to
t'le charity uncommonly hbeial, and tiy
iingliih geatlenann .as well as Sco'ch.

]J^ed/'ejJay,'Dt'c. 2.

At a General Courc of the a, ion, .Artillery
Companv, the following Geuilemeu w-ere
elcdle.l for the year enfamg :

Prefident, Sir vViiliam i iom.e’q Knt. and
Alderm.an.

Vice Prefident, William Curtiq Efq. Aid.
and M. P.

Trcafuier, John William Anderfcn, Effi.
Aid. anti M.P.

Colonel, Paul Le Melurier, EAp Aid. and

J.IVU.

1146 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. [Dec.

Lientenant-Colonel, William Dawfon,Efq.

Major, Roberc Ritherdon, Efq»

For the Court of Affiflant*-, Robert Willis,
Robert Browning, William Dawfon, Tho¬
mas Mawdfley, George How Brown, John
Maiciment, Richard Hooper, William Henry
Gibfon, John Shephard, Stephen Clark,
Francis Field, Jofeph Chamberlain, William
Elizard, John Allen, James Councill, John
Meyrick, William Moore, Peter Biggs, George
Wood,»Alexander Glennie, Edward Dowling,
Charles Eeffell, Robert Lvne, Thomas Greene.

Thurjdayj Dec. 4.

At a Court of Common Council, the new
Lord M.ayor, for the firfl time, addreffed the
Court and allured them, that he Ihould adl
with the uttnoft impartiality, and be pundfnal
in his attendance, and had no doubt of meet¬
ing with the fupport of the Court. Thanks
•wereunanimoufiy voted to PaulLe Mefurier,
Efq. late Lord Mayor.

A Memorial from the Inhabitants of Bride¬
well Precindf, refpe<5fing the dangerous pave-
ntent in Bridge- Erect, was referred to a
Committee, to give directions for repairing
it forthwith, without prejudging the queftion
in whofe province it was to do it.

Fridcy, Dec.

This d.ay the trud nf Mr. Thelwall, before
the High Commiffioii Court in the Old Bailey,
was ended j and the Jury, after retii ing for
three quarters of an hour, gave in their ver¬
dict.. “ Not Guilty.’'

The event of the late important trials, it
is hoped, will have the good effedt of con-
cdiating the mind of every Briton to a Con-
llitution, in which the Laws are with fuch
purity ' adrainiftered. And to the inhabi¬
tants of the Metropolis, in particular, it
muft have been highly gratifying to behold
the pre-eminent dignity and fplendour of
the City of London ; hei' Magiltrates Alfef-
I'ors W'ith the greateft number of Judges
perhaps ever in one commiffion, in a mat¬
ter the molt critical and important to the
very exiftence of relig’on, law, goveia-
ment, liberty, property — our ver;y lives.

Syndayy Dec. 7.

A fire broke cut at the Crown and
Shuttle public- houfe, Shoreditch; owing, it
•was fuppofed, to the carclelVnefs of a man
who went to bed drunk. The fire raged
with great violence for forae time, but wns
happily got under by the affiifance of the
engines. The man periflaed in the flames ;
and, what is moft lurpribng, a woman and
boy, fuppofed to be Ids v\.ife .and foio, left
him in bed with an infant, by whofe cries the
fire was difeovered.

Moffday, Dec. 1 1;.

The Court under the Special Commiffion
wa^ n 1' morning again opened at the Old
Bailty, . t nine o’clock ; a Jury was impan-
rieled fro forma y when Richter and Baxter
were put to the bar, and acquitted ; no evi¬
dence aga.nft them being produced on the

part of the Crown. The Court then ad-*
journed to the 26th.

Wednefday y Dec. 1 7.

' The Merchants trading to North America
gave a fpiendid entertaifiment to Mr. Jay,
Envoy Extraordinary from the United States,
at Free Mafons Tavern. The company was
numerous and refpedable ; the Lord Chan¬
cellor, Mr. Pitt, the Duke of Portland, Lord
Grenville, Mr.Dundas, Mr. Pinckney, Mr.
Hope of Amfterdam, 5cc. &c. Mr. Sanfom,
Chairman of the Committee, Prefident. The
toafts were received with loud acclamation.
Among otliers, the King and Conftitution:"

Prince of Wales;” Queen and Royal
Family;” « Prefuient of the JJnited States.’^

May the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, andl
Navigation between Great Britain, and thei
United States of America be the bafis ofl
permanent friendfhip between the two Coun¬
tries !” May Britons and Americans never
forget that they are of one family!” And
Mr. Jay having given An honourable Peacei
to the Belligerent Powers of Europe !” the
following was given in return : May the:

united exertions of England and America,,
induce the Indian Nations to bury the Hatchet
forever 1” Many excellent fongs were fling 51
and every perfon feemed to feel higli fatisfac-
tion from the confideration that fb friendly a.
meeting fiiould hove taken place at fo fhoit.
a period from the time when apprehenfionsi
were entertained that the two countries would,,,
be involved m al! the horrors of war.

Saturday, Dec. 20.

About fix o’clock a fire broke out in
Buckingham-Ereer, York-buildings, near'
the Adelphi, by which two large houfesii
were totally confiimed and burnt to the flielS
in about three hours, notwithEanding every,
exeriion on the part of the firemen. Thei-
fire broke out in the houfe of Mr. Sanders,,
a tailor, and was occafioned by the fnuffingsii
ot the tailors candles having caught among;
the Eireds of cloth iu the fecond floor, and;
continuing to fpread unperceived'cluring ihes
wdiole of the night. — Tlie flames communi¬
cated fo ra}>idly, th.it it w.as impoflible toi
fave any of the furniture ; but, happily, neic
lives were JoE.

Monday f Dec. 22.

St. Thomas’s iJay falling this year on ai.
Sundays, the annual eledliou of Commoni
Councilmen for the Metropolis this day took; -
place. In many of the Wards gret alterations;'
weie expedted ; but, on the whole, fewer’
have taken place than ufual. In Farringdorr
Without, the moE exlenfive, being a Bill
fixth of tlie wh()!e City, the tvi'o. Deputies,.
Meflis. NichoR and Brewe;, were, by the!*
unanimous confent of the Wardmote, aliowedi
to take the poll,. inEead of tlie Alderman^
Mr, Wilkes ;• which ended on die 24th by thef
re-ekdtion of all the old members excepttwo,(
one of whom had given up the contefl beforet
the poll began.— in Queenhithe, Deputyf

Hum-;

1794-] DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. 1147

Humfreys was polled out, after having re-
prefented the Wai‘d for 29 years. There
were alfo ftrong conteils in the Wards of
Cripplegate, Dowgate, and Portfoken.

This evening a houfe in Hounfditch
caught fire, by fome hemp and wood laid
improperly by the fervant to dry, :kfter the
people of the houfe were gone to bed. The
vvhole dwelling was in flames fo fnddenly,
that the maid ran out into the yard with her
cloaihs in a blaze, leaped into the well,
which happened to be very full of water,
but could not gel out again. The fire fpread
with fucli rapidity, and was fo tremendous,
that the lady of the houfe l-^aped out of
window witli two chilaren, one under each
arm. The hufband was refolved to fave
his property, and nearly periihed in the
attempt. Fortunately, however, by the
ready aflillance of the engines and tire fire¬
men, who exerted ihcmfelves wonderfully
on the occafloa, the unhappy man at iatt
got upon the roof. He climbed from one
houfe to another ; but the frpfl being fo fe-
and the tops of the houfes fo flippery,
lie fell to the ground, and fradlured his fkull
in lo dreadful a manner that he now lies
dangeroufly ill.

Monday, Dec. 29.

This evening the Prince of Wa'es return¬
ed to town from Sheernefs, where he had
been to fee the Nobil ty with their attendants
embark, to bring over tl'.e Princefs of Wales,
The Duke and Dutcliefs of Brunfwick being
expecTied to accompany the Pi incefs to Eng¬
land ; apartments are fitting up on the left
wing of St. James’s Palace for their refidence.

Duefday, Dec, 30.

This day his Majefly, in the ufu.il flate,
went to the Houfe ef Peers ; and opened the
Seflion of Parliament witii a mofl gracious
fpeech from the throne, declaratory of the
iieceflityof a vigorous piufecution of the war j
announcing the negotiation of the State;
General with France ; the ac<iuifition of
the Sovereignty of Corfica ; and the nup¬
tials of the Pruice of VVaies. This Speech,
which fixill be given at length in our Supple¬
ment, is the belt refutation of the idle and
unfounded rumours wthich hwe been propa¬
gated for the hill ten days rcfpedliiig a Gene¬
ral Peace ; and which have, been evidently
coined for the nefarious purpofes of llock-
i-.bbing plunder. A v.iriety of concurrent
circumftance.s, however, lead to a pre unip-
tion that a peace between EngLind and France
may not be very difl;..nr.

This day a numerous meeting of the Ward
of Farringdon Wiiiiout, convened in come-
quence of a regular requifition to their Al-
dei man, was holdenat St.Sepu'chi e’s Church ;
where feveral ftrong refolutions were aimoft
unanimoufly agreed to, exprellive of their
diflike to the Lt>ndon Militia A<ft, and their
wi flics for a fpeedy peace; and conveying
inftruiftioas to their le, refentatives in Com-
tiion Council, to ufe their endeavcuirs to
abtaiu from Pai liameat aa amendment 01 the

A61:; and to fupportanaddrefs to the Throne,
to recommend a peace.

PJ'^ednefdayy Dec.-^x.

Lord Howe is expedled Iiourly to hoift his
firg on board the Royal Sovereign; and our
Port [mouth correfpondent tells us it wastl ought
he would fail either this day or to-morrow,
with all the Ihips that are ready for fea, on
a oruize down Chahnel, in order to join the
Plimouth lliips, and goinqueft of the Enemy.

A Letter from POrient, liated the 15th
inft. fays, The fvrft of the French Ihips
that came up with the Alexander, was a Sloop
of War, carrying 2© guns. In lefs than five
minutes (he was funk, and every foul on
board periflied. The two 80 gnu fliips came
upon her nearly together, and flie ehgaged
them with obvious advantage for three hours.
By this time the three 74 guns fliips, having
relinquiihed the chafe of the Canada, came
up, and the Alexander, with the molt un
daunted fpirit and refolution, was engaged io
more than an hour longer with the w'hole
five. HeiTofs was great indeed : only fifty
of her crew remained fit for duty when Ihe
ftruck, of which number her brave Com¬
mander, Admiral Bligh, was one-- The
firft Lieutenant, who diftinguilhed himfelf
greatly in the adlion, has loft an arm aiul a
leg ; but his wounds are not likely to prove
fatal. The flaughter on board the French
Ihips was immenfe. One of the 80 gun fhips
was completely a wreck, and hnl upwards,
of five feet water in her hold when Ihe en¬
tered Breft, n itwlihftanding her chain pumps
were kept continually at work.’’

A Caufe of importance to coach proprie¬
tors was lately tried in the Kings Bench j
Englifh verfus Mountain. The action was
brought by the father of a child, jgainft the
owner of the Peterborough coach, to recover
the amount of dam.*ges fuftained by a fail
from the roof of a roach, In coufoqr.ence of a
brace breaking, it appe. ring that there were
8 peopl; on the roof hefides the coachman,
the defend mi agreed to pay 53b the amount
of Che expenccs incuired by the plainiiir for
ins child.

Expeiiments arc now making at Wool¬
wich with a nevv fnecies of Telegraphe, Co
afeertam at what diftaocfi ir.Lehi.;ence can
be conveyed by it during the irgiit. It is
compofed of leaers or figui'rs ihne ret ingh,
cut out in a board, winch is oaint’ d bl.ick
in frbnt, and ' to ugly iilmruoated '.ehiiid by
patetit lamps with tefiett'ors; it is p.actd
on tiie top of the hut gauhl which t:.e
cannon are proved ; and proper perlons are
ftalioned at I’u; fleet, aiu; ot ter intermediate
places, with t lelcoper t > determine a what
diftance le’.ters of ih.ii fize are legible at
niglit . by v\ hich m an an ... oid lUay be
w'ritten by a (u.xefli )u of tetter , and intel¬
ligence may be conveyed writ .lifan ihmg
cel rity dot ing he nigiit, by U i.ing a tei ics
of diflurent fignal houfes at pr iper ilfltances
between wliaie- ■ r pi oes infuimati 'm is in¬
tended to be coiiirauiijoatcd.

P. 3S7

1 14B Additions and CorreSiions*-

P. 3S7, col. 2, correfi the article in lines
15 — 17, thus: At his Lordlhip’' houfe in
Kilda e-hrect, Dublin, aged 70, Mary Vii-
cuuntefs Harb/rton- i4er ladyfni]') was the
daughter and coheirefs of Henry ('olley, efq.
of Carbery, co. Kildare, by the Lady Mary
Hamihon, daughter of james Earl of Aber-
corn, and was married to Arthur, the pr^’-
fent i,.d. Vifeount Barberton, Ocl. 20, 1747.”

We defire to corredf a mi bake in tiie
account of tire late Mr. Knight, of Gtjdr
merfhain-pruk., in Kent, in our lab, p. loyi^,
W'.here we have ft ■ ted that his mother rtfuled
at Eg»eithn. It was Mrs. yn?ie Knight, liis
eldeft fijier. who purchafed and occupied
that houfe fora few' years after her fatlier’s
deceafe : nor could Mrs. Kniglit tlie mother
have lived there at any r.ite, as it was tire
eftate and refutence of Mrs. Sarah Gott for
many years before, and fo)' ft'me years af¬
ter, the death of Mr. Knight’s mother , 1765.

. — in addition, however, to our account, we
are now aiulrorizerl to lay, that Mr. Knight
has bequeathed his fine collection of i\if-
PALS, and his feries of EngUih coi.t;s, to
liie Univerfitv of Oxford.

Births.

AW.Tn Stratford-place, Mrs. Adamfon, a
26. _J^ d iiigiiter.

2,7. Mrs. Sale, wife of Mr. S of Clifton,
near Rugby, co. VVarwick, two Ions and a
daughter.

Lately^ at their houfe in Pall Mall, tlie
I.ady of Sir W. Manners, bart. of Hanby-
Iiall, CO. Lincoln, a fon.

At his houfe in Stafford-row', tine Lady of
"VV. B ofeawen, elq a fpn.

The Wife of John Pigott, a Madcfmitb at
Compton, Berks, three fons ; who have been
baptized Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob.

Dec 4. At Southhorougb, near Brorsley,
ti t Lady of the Rev, John Banks, a daugh.

8. Mrs. A. Gordon, of Denmai k-hill, a fun.

9. At Four-oaks liail, co. Warwick, the
Lady of E. C. Hartopp, efq. a fon.

10. AtBli-hill, Berks, the Marchionefs
of Blandft rd, a Ion.

12. At Wilford, co. Nottingham, the I ady
of Sam. Smith, efq. M.P. for Leicefter, a fon.

13. Hon. Mrs. Butler, daugjiter of Sir John
Danvers, bai t, a Am and heir.

14. Tlie Widow of Mr. VV. Hoare (fee
p 9')j), a fon.

zr. At AfvN'arhy, co. Lincoln, the Lady of
Sir Thomas A hichcote, hart a fon.

22. At’ her houfe in Finlhuiy -fquare,
Mi s. Buckworth, a fon.

Marriac es.

OhL A T the illand of Beimuda, C.aptaln
4- Jr\. eftern, of the roy.d naiy, to

Mils daughter of the late - 'K.

efq, of t' at ifland,

Etuv. . o. Rev. George Allanfon, redfor of
I'.'^alpas, in Cliefliire, to Mifs.D.tvies, daugh.
of Fvter \V hilehaU D. elv^. of Broughtoii-
halt, CO. Fifnt.

— Births and Marriages. [Dec,

18- Mr. Peter Roberts, to Mifs Anne
Pomerov, both of Falmoutii.

Mr. Howe, of Langar, co. Notiingham,
to Mifs Pieifon, of Bowden.

19. At Hull, Mr. John Conlfon, fon of
tlie la'e Alderman 0. to Mifs Anne Bine,
daugh. of the late Francis H. eftj.

20. At Edinburgh, Dr. |ames Rohertfon,
pliyfician in invernefs, to ^Ti^s Katharine
inglis, I'econd daughter of the late Alexan¬
der I. efq of South Carolina.

At Liverpool, Mr. H. Mattliews, to Mifs
Flu 'fon, of Caton.

At Craike, Rev. John-VVatfon BOwman,
to .Mifs WanfteV, niece of the Rev. Henry
Guderk, of Suttuii-ni-the- Foreft,and grand¬
daughter cf the late Dean of Rijion,

Ar Dtrhy, Mr. G. Cahon, haberdaT.er, of
London, to .Mifs M. Gihfon, of Chtfterfiekl.

,2z. At Bath, Eduard Butler, eftp fecund
fon cf the late Sir 1 iiomas B. to Mifs Tyfon,
daughter of Richard T. efq. mailer (»f the
cere-monies of that ci'y. ' ’ '

Mr. A. Courtenay, to Mrs. O. Stone, of
Ripley, in Surrey.

24. A.t Liverpool, John Shaw, efq. of
Eveiton, to Mifs Anne Latham.

Mr. f, Barrow, farmei , of Morcut, to
Mrs. Holt, of Glallon.

Mr. Charles Metcalf, attorney, of Wif-
hech, to Mifs Skrirndhre, daughter of Wm.
S. e^q. of ihe fame place.

At Louglihoruugh, Mr. G Wiid,ofQj.iorn-
don, to Mifs Robins, of Tin-meadiWV-houfe.

25. At Tidmington, co. \Vorcefter, Rev.
John Scagrave, of Halford, co. Warwick, to
Mifs Bobiiis, of Ardley, co. Oxford.

Mr. Buckw-'orth, to Mils Stanger, both of
Ketton, Rutland.

Mr. Thomas Cole, of Knoffington,to Mifs
Green, of Oufton, both cc). Leicefter.

Mr. W’m. Smith, one of the members of
the Loyal Leiceller volunteer corps of infan¬
try, to Mifs Sarah Miles, both of Leicefter.

27. Rev. Heniy Forfter MilE, 10 Mils
Alicia Mar’Kliani, tliird daughier of the
Archbifliup of York.

At Bally Rev. Mr. Midford, of Swallow-
fielti, Berks,- to Mifs K. French, one of the
coheirelfes of the late John F. efq. of Percy-
Itreet, J^oadon.

Mr. Baveiftocke, of Windfor, to Mifs
Heath, eldeft daughter of Dr. H. mafter of
Ltuu fcliool.

\\'m. Boucher, eftp of F’'iday-ftr. Clieap-
fule, to Mrs. Leu-is, of 01 J Broad-ftrect.'

At Huh, John Hafell, efq. to Mifs Hall,
daugh. of Francis H. e'q. merchant there.

At Morpeth, [olin Clavering, efq of Ca^-
)a'y, CO. Northumberlarid, to Mifs zwin-
burne, on.ly t'a-ighter of the bale Sir Edward
S hart, of Caph.eaton, in the fame county.

Mr. Palmer, of Kimbolton, co. Flunting-
don, to Mifs Beach, of Northampton.

Rev. Wm. Cheales, vi>..ar of Eall Mark¬
ham, CO. Nottingham, £0 Mis. Wriglit, of
Wainfleet All Saints.

29. At

*794*] Alarrsa^ii and Deaths of remarkable Perjonsi Ii49

19. At St. George’s, Han.»fqnare, Richard
Earl of Morniiigton, to Madame H. Ro’land.

Mr. John Brittam, merchant, of Sleaford,
CO. Lincoln, to Mrs. Anne Gwillim, relift
of Wm. G. efq. of Upper Cl'pron, illinjton.

At Edinburgh, ev. ■ r S r uLhei s, to Mifs
M^rguer [effi i.ina Symes, only dr-u. of the
late Capt. 4. Smyth S. of the -j8tl) regiment.

At Buln)er,'Eifex, Samuel Vachrl, efq. of
Bow, Middlelex. ''o M fs S-dly Andrews,
youugelf dau. of Robe'X A. efq. ot Aube-
ries, Elfex.

Capt. Paget, of the Weft Ntu folk miijtla,
to Mrs. H. .viurrav, hookfcUer, Fleet-ftieet.

Rev Dr. 11. Berkeley, of Shi Hey, co.
Worceft -r, to Mifs James, of Woodflock.

At Mylrneld, Cv^o. Mylne, efq ■ of Lon¬
don, to bLifs Fleu her, only daughter of the
late Lieutenant- Cv lonel F. of Landeti?.

Ac Bnflol, Rev. David Horndoo, M.A.
late fellow of Exeter college, Oxford, and
redtor of M.u ton, co, Devon, to Mits Jane
Smethca, of Bi uarwick-lquaie, Briftol.

Lately, at Poitfmouth, Beni. S'-'unell, efq.
one of the navy pay-. lerks at that port, to
JMiL Betfey Toukiir, of Bi'ompCon, Kent,

John Clerk, efq. to Mils Antie Mibimay,
daughter of the late Carew M. efq. of Shaw-
foi'd houfe, CO. Hants.

Hdvv. Langley, efq. of Edgev, are-road, to
lMr3.Rohu'.fau,ofNorCon-ftr.M.\ry-la Bonne.

Mr. Jolin Brewman, of M.argate, banker,
to Mrs. [ones, reiidt of Mr. J. of FeverQiam.

John Evelvn Dormer, efq. to lady Eliz.
Kerr,eldeft daugh. of the Marq. of Lothian.

Mr. T.iylor, of Little Hallam, efq to Mifs
H. Cocker, ferond daughter of the late J. C.
gent, of rkelion.

Mr. Edwards, furgeon and apothecary, of
Strood, near Rocheiter, to Mils Comport,
daughter of Mr. C. gentleman farmer, of
Coolling caftle, near that town.

At Holcombe Regis, co Devon, Rev.
John Reudle, of Afhbrittle, co. Someifet, to
Rlifs M.iiy Hellings.

At Reading, Berks, James Chriflian, efq.
to Mifs iVIarfhall, daughter of the late Mr.
M. ofDeihv.

Rev. Mr. Buck, redVor of Lavenham, to
Ivlils Anne Adams, slaughter of die Rev. G.
A. redlorof Widdington, Elfex.

Dec. I. Mr. Thomas Britten, of SufFolk-
lane, merchant, t j Mifs De Hahn, daugli. of
Mr. G. E. De IT. of Stamford-ftr. nierclr.

2. Rev. Henry Pearfon, LL.B. of Jehrs-
college, Cambridge, to Mifs Jane Arnold,
ilaugTuer of Dr. A. pliyfician at Leicelter.

3. At Biibop’s Storiford, Herts, the Rev.
[am-^s Dalton, rcclor of Copgrove, and vicar
of Catterick, co. hoik, to Mifs G.bfon,
daughter of the Rev. Edomnd G. viiair of
Bilhop’s Storttord, and cl>au..c’.lor ol the
diocele of Bi iftol.

4. At Peterborough, Rev. Dr. Myddel-
ton, rector of Ro'liei hithe, co. Surrey, and
vica’" of Saxhy, co Eeicefter, to MilsOgil-
vie, of Peter borough, only dau. of the late

Capt. Jas.O, of the Valentine E. India-man.

7. Mr. Richard Crolhaw, an opulent far¬
mer, to Mifs Polly Prifenall, both of Nevv-
bold-Verdon, co. Leicefter.

9. At St. Jve’s, Mr. John Warner, and
Mr. Thomas Warner, two fons of Mr Rob.
Wt an eminent leather-cutter and currier, to
Mifs Anne Stocker, and Mils Lydia Pea¬
cock, both of St. Ive’s.

I-'. At Barnes, co Surrey, Rev. Alfred
Roberts, of Wandfworth, chaplain to Guy’s-
hofpital, to Mifs Beah,of Baines.

IT. At Maidftone, Mr. fohn I.ane, of
Emfu’orih, ' Hants, to Mifs Charlton, of
Week-ltreet, Maidftone.

12 Mr. Wm. Ed fall, of Helftone, Corn¬
wall, to Mifs Stokes, of Lothburyi

13. .^t the Eati of Tnuilkilling’s-, in Pul-
teney-ftreet, Bath, Rev. Richard Wynne,
to Mifs Catharine Beevor Browne, liis Lord-
fliip’s niece,

xy. At Lincoln, Benj.imin Burton, efq.
fon of Wm. B. efq, M.P. for the county of
Carlow, in Ireland, to Mifs Main waring,
daughter of Lady Kaye, and fifter to Cha.
M. efq. of Goltho, co. Lincoln.

16. David Murray, efq. of Great Ormond-
ftreet, to Mifs Smith, daughter of S. S. efq.
of \Vray, in Lancafhire.

18. Samuel sawbridge, efq. fon of Mr.
Alderman S. of Olantig'q in Kent, to Mifs
Elli<;, daughter of the late Brabazou E. efq.
of Wydiall-hall, co. SrafTord.

22. Rev. Tho.Trebeck, vicar of Waith,
CO, Yoik, to Mifs Eloifa Burwood, third
daughter of the late [ouathan B. efq. of
Woodbridge, co. Suffolk.

23. Nathaniel Gundey, efq. to Mift Emma
Clay, daughter of the la^e Richard C. efq.
one of the Direiftors of the Bank.

25. Mr. Carda’ie, attorney, of I.eicefteh,
to Mrs. .h.nliington, widow of Mr. B. of
Cufllngton.

zij By fpecial licence, at Lijkeard, co.
Cornwall, Mr. Ward, oimmander of the
Eagle revenue excile cutter, to Mifs Lydia
Rawle, of that place.

Deaths.

IN Corfica, l.ieux Tapper, of the

24. i royal navy, fon of Major-general T.
who has lately fucceedeJ to the ct>mirtaiui in
chief of the corps of marines. He has left a
wife and three children to lament Ids lofs,
who doubtlefs will become objects of tlie
juternal bounty of a Sovereigi; ever ready
to reward merit and to relieve misfortune.
He was buried in a fequellered pdace under
the walls of Baftia, in the ifland of Coiltca,
with tins epitaph :

He-c lies brdy of
Casre Tu!’PE(<, Efq.

Lieutenant of his Britannic Majefty’s fhip
Viffory.

He was killed by a mufKet-ha’l,
in bravely attempting to laud,
dujing the fiege of Baftia,

c«

I ISO Obituary if remarkabl'eFirfons ;

on the 24th April, 1 794* >

aged twenty eight years.

His allociates in arn-ts
deeply regretted an event
which deprived them of
an intrepid, exceilewl officer,
a worthy, amiable man.

. He was born twe nth February, 1766.”

j^^ug. .... Aged about 20, Mifs Atkins,
the oidy child of the Rev. Mr. A. rebtor of
Midhurft, Suffix. Riding with another lady,
in a linglc-horfe chair, near her father’s
houfe, the horfe took fright, and ran away
with them, and was not flopped until, with
the utmofi violence, he ran againll a tree,
daffied the chair to pieces, and threw the
ladies to a coufiderable diflance ; by which
nnfertunate accident Mils Atkins had her
ficull fradlured, and died loon afterwards, at
neighbour’s houfe to which ffie was convey¬
ed. The other lady had her arm broke, and
was otherwife much bruifed.

15. At Long Jfland, in America, John
Dennifton, efq. a refpedlable merchant, and
raenaber of affimbly for ISiafiau.

Sept. .... In his 20th year, of the yellow
fever, at St. Doming<.>, Mr. Peter Ogilvie,
fon of the Rev. Dr. Ogilvie, at Midmar,
Aberdeenfhire, an affiftant furgeoii to Dr.
Hedlnr McLean, of St. Domingo.

4. In Jamaica, of a fever, Mr. Barten-
fbaw, eldeft fon of the late Henry B. elq. of
Lewes.

14. At Guadaloupe, of the yellow fever,
two days after his landing on that ifland,
Mr. James Boyd, merchant in London, 4th
fon of the late Dr. Wm. B. of Martinhail,
XU Galloway.

At his eftate of Dromilly, in Jamaica,
John Durning, efq.

19. At the King’s houfe in Spanifh town,
]amaica, univerf.-illy lamented, Mrs. VViN
iiamfon, tlie amiafie lady of his Honour Ma¬
jor-general W. lieutenant-governor, &c.

At Ftirt Augnfta, Jamaica, Capt. George
S]>ens,.of the 1 6th regiment.

26. At Rofeau, in tbe ifland of Dominica,
of the yellow fever, aged 15, Mifs Judith
Matfon, daughter of John M. efq. his Ma-
jtefly’s chief jullice of that ifland.

Oci . Capt. MLVlillan, of the new fhip

Luropa, of Greenock. He vv^as going on- '
board in a very dark night, when he fell in¬
to the river St. Lawrence, and was drowned.

Of a malignant fever, |t R upleraonde, his
plantation, in South Carolina, in his 68th
year, George Roupell, efq. who had been
many years poll mailer- general fox' tlie
jT.onthern department of North America,
and fearcher of the cuftoms at the port of
Charles- town. _

c;. At Jamaica, Capt. John Harry, of the
fbip VVilfon, of Liverpool,

At St. Pierre, in Maituiico, Mr, Fearfon,
of Mancliefler.

6. At the fame pl.ce, Mr. Thomas Levyv
in paitneilbip with Mr. Riciiaid Dobfon,
of Liverpool.

with Biographical Anecdotes, [ Dec!

II At Dublin, of a confumption, the
beautiful and accomplilhed Mifs Anne Phe¬
lan, of the caftle of Roferea, co. Tipperary.
She was at Dublin in her way to Briilol
wells, by the advice of her phyficians.

20. At his houfe in Hereford, in his 8zd
year, George Phelps, efq. a gentleman much
refperfled.

25. At Ripley, in Surrey, aged 78, Mr.
William Yalden.

2.6. At Philadelphia, Dr. John Carfon»
j)hyfician, and one of the profeffors in the
univerfUy of that place.

29. In Jamaica, Mr. John Hunter, eldofl
fou of Mr. John H. profelforof humanity in
the univerfity of St. Andrew.

30. At Gibraltar, Major James Wilfpn,
of the royal regiment of artillery.

31. In Red Lion ftreet, Holbom, aged
80, Mr. Vickers, 48 years an inhabitant of
that ftreet.

Mv. 2. At Madrid, the infanta Maria-
Therefa, daughter of his Catholic Majefty.

At Rome, after a long iilnefs, aged 79
years and 5 months, Cardinal de Bernis. He
was one of the molt remarkable men in the
reign of Louis XV. whether as a courtier, a
man of letters, a poet, or a rregociator. He
has left 300,000 crowns in effidls, money,
ew’els, &c particularly 8o,cco crowns m
plate ; all which he has, by will, put into
the hands of the Chevalier d’Azara, the Spa-
nilh minifler, to whom he lias recommend¬
ed his family in the order in which they
would be entitled as heirs.

4. At Bot-hw'ell .parifh, in Scotland, Mr.
Thomas McCulloch, of Weflfield, formeHy a
merchant in Virginia.

10. At the Fort, Briftol, Mifs Margaret
Turner, daughter of the Rev. William T. of
Roborough, Devon.

14. In his Sad year, Mr. James Brace,
wdio for many years was mailer of the New-
inn in Herefoid. He was the full iierfon,
it is believed, who kept chaifes to let for hire
within that city ; and his attention and civility
gained him much efteem.

15. Mr. Henry Clements, of Great Britain-
ftreet, Dublin, an eminent merchant, and
reprefentative of that guild in the common-
council of that city.

At Edinburgh, Lady Barbara Stewart,
daughter of Charles fourth Earl of Traquair,
and aunt of the prefent Earl.

His Serene Highnefs ttic reigning Duke of
Holilein Augullenburg.

At his feat near Prince-town, in his 72d
year, Dr. John Witherfpoon, prefident of
the college of New Jerfey, in America.

16. Mr. Stephen Walkin, grazier, of
Wilbech.

At Holdfield-grange, iaCoggelliall, Efiex,
the feat of Ofgood Hanbury, efq. the Rev.
Ciifpus Green, redlor of Wakes Colne, in
the fame county, and vicar of Bures St.
Mary, Sulfolk.

At Ripley, in Surrey, aged 57, Mrs. M.
Griffin. 17. At

1794*] Obituary tf rmarkahU Perfons ; with Biographical Anecdotes, 1 1 5 1

17. At Uppingham, Rutland, aged 67,
Mr. Thomas Hill.

Robert Todd, a fine promifing youth ; on
the loth Dec. his filler Agnes ; and on the
1 8th, Elizabeth, another filler, both ami¬
able girls, from 17 to 20 veai s of age, chil¬
dren of Mr. James Todd, at Methel, in Fife.
One fever proved fatal to them all, and Hill
continues in the family.

In the 86th year of his age, at his pre-
bendal houfe in the college at Ely, where
he conftantly refided for the greater part
of his life, the Rev. James Bentham, M. A.
and F. A. S. Prebendary of Ely, Rec¬
tor of Bow-brick. -h 11 in the county of
Bucks, and Domellic Chaplain t > the
Riglit Hon. Lord Cadogan. He was the
fon of the Rev. Samuel Bentham, a very
worthy clergyman of the diocefe of Ely,
tvho was defcended from an antient family
in Yorkfli ire, which has produced an unin-
texTupted fuccellion of Clergymen from the
time of Queen Elizabeth. Having received
the rudiments of claliical learning in the
grammar fchool .of Ely, he was admitted
of Trinity College, Cambridge, March 26,
■1727, where he proceeded B. A. 1730, and
M. A. 1738, and was ele6ted F, A. S. 1767.

* — In the year 1733, he was prefented to
the vicarage of Stapleford in Cambridgelhire,
wliich he refigned in 1736, on being made
• Minor Canon in the church of Ely. In 1767
he was prefented by Btlhop Mawfon to the
Vicarage of Wymoudham in Norfolk, which
he refigned in the year following for the
retflory of Felt well St. Nichol.t.s, in the
fame county. This he refigned in 1774
for the redtory of Northwold, v/hic.h in
1779 " induced to change for a pre-

bendal flail in t'\e church of Ely, though
he was far from improving his income by
the change. But his attachment to his na¬
tive place, with which church the family
had been connected without any intermif-
fion for more than 100 years, furmounted
every other confulei ation. in i7'83 he
was prefented to the recloiy of Bow-
brick-hill, by the Rev. Edward Guellaume.
From hi.s firft appointment to an otiice in
the church of Ely, be leems to have dired^ed
his attention to the lUidy of cfiurch archi-
tedlure. Jt is probable that he was deter¬
mined to the put fiiit of ecclefiaflical anti¬
quities by the eminent example of Bifixop
Tanner (a pi-ebendary of the fame flail
which Mr. B. aft^-i vvai ds heliQ, wiio^had
honoured the family ^v'■lth many marks of
his kindiKfs and fnei-dihip. For refearches
of this kind Mr, B, leems to have been ex¬
cellently qualified. To a found judgernent,
and a confiJerahle degree of penetration, ac¬
companied by a mmuttnefs and accuracy of
enquiry altogether uncvmmon, Mr. B. ad ed
the moll patient afliduiry and ujiwearied in-
dullry. The hiflory oft lie church with which
he was conneaed afforded him full fcope for
the exeixife of his talents. It abounds with

almoft all the various fpecimens of churcli
archite^lure ufed in England to the time of
the Reformation. Having previoufly ex¬
amined with great attention cvei'y hiflorical
monument and authority which could throw
any light upon bis fubje<5l, after he had
circulated, in 1736, a catalogue of the prin¬
cipal members of this church (Ely), viz-
abbefles, abbots, biftiops, priors, deans,
prebendaries, and archdeacons, in order to
collecl further information concerning them,
he publifhed The Hiftory and Antiqui¬
ties of the Conventual and Cathedral Churdx
Ely, from the Foiindatimi of of the Monaf-
tery, A. D. 675, to the Yeai 1771, illuftrat-
ed with copper plates, Cambrid^i-ej 1 77
In the luirodudlioii the autlxor thought it
might be uleful to give fome account of
Sa.xon, Norman, and what is ufnally called
Gothic, architeifluie. The many novel axid
ingenious remarks, which occurred in this
part of the work, foon aitradled the attexi-
t!on of thole who had turned their tuoughts
to the fu'bjedl. This ihort effay was fa¬
vourably received by the public, and has
been frequently cited antT referred to by
mofl writers on Gothic architedlure. By
a fli’ange miftake ihefe ^obfei'vations were
haltily attributed to t!ie celebrated Air.
Gray, merely becaufe Mr. B. has mentioned
hn name among that of others to whom he
conceived h.rnfelf indebted for communica¬
tions and hints. Mr. B. was never informed
of th;s extraordinary circumftance till tlie
year 1783, when he accidentally met with
it in the Gentleman’s Magazine for the
month of F-tbruary in that year ; upon
wnich he immediately thonglit it neceilaiy
to redtify the miflake, and to viudicam lus
own charadler and reputation an author
from the charge of haviiig been obliged to
Mr. G. for that treatife, wnen he had pubs-
liihed it as his oWn ; and this he was en¬
abled to do latisfaCiorilv, liaving fortunately
preferved the only letter which he h.^d re¬
ceived from Mr. G. on the fuhjea. The
truth was, that .Mr. B. had written.the trea-
tife long before he ixad the honour of any
accpiaintance with Mr. G. and it was that
which firft introdticed hlna. to Mr.G. What
his obligations were will appear by re¬
ference to a copy of that letter (inferted in
the Gent. Mag. vol. LIV, April, 1784,)
which he received from Mr. G. when
he returned the fix Iheets which Mr. fE
had fubmitted to him at his own re<jueft.
It happened that the two laft Iheets,
though 'compdTed, were not worke.l off,
wliich gave Mr. B, an opportunity of iri-
fercing fome additions aih’ded to in Mr.
G’s letter. Jn the Magazine fir July,
1784, may be feen c,,c full and liaod-
fome apology which thi,* expbm/.icn pro¬
duced from a coiTefpnndent, wh.o, under
the . fignature of S. lE had in.-id'. ei-te tly
aferibed thole ren.aiks to Mr. G:;iy.
V/lieii the DwiU a u! Coapior oi i-'v l.a i

in.ued

11^2 Obituary of rmarliahle FtrJoni\ with Biographical Anecdotes^ [Dec.

tletermined upon the general repair of the
fabrick of their church, aiui the juclicir)us
removal of the choir from the dome to the
prefljytery at the Eaft end, Mr. B. was re¬
queued to fuperintend that concern as clerk
of the works. VVhth what indefatigable in-
duflry and attention he acquitted himfclf
in that ftation, and how much he contributed
to the improvement and fuccefs of the public
works then carrying on, aj)pears as well by
the minutes of tliofe tranfacfions, as by the
fatisfadlion with whicli the body recognized
his fervices. This employment gave him a
thorough infight into the principles and pe¬
culiarities of thefe antient buildings, and fug-
geiled to him the idea of a general hiftory of
antient. arclutedure in this kingdom, which
lie juflly conftdered a defideratum of the
learned and inquihtive antiquary. He was
Hill intent upon this fuhjedt, and during
the araufement of his leifure hours con¬
tinued almoft to the laH ^to make collec¬
tions with a view to fome further illuflra-
■tion of this curious point, though his avoca¬
tions of one kind or another prevented him
from rciiucing them to any regular fdrm or
feries. Bathe did not fnlfer thefe purfuits to
call him off from t '.c mofc liional duties of liis
ftation, or from contributing his endeavours
towards promoting works of general utility
to the neighbourhood, 'i'o a laudable fpint
of this latter kind, animated by a zeal for
his native place, truly patriotic, is to be re¬
ferred his Heady perfeverance in recom¬
mending to his countrymen, under all tb.e
^lifcouragements of obloquy and prejudice,
the plans fuggefted for the improvement of
their lens by draining, and the pradlicahllity
of increafing their iiiterccurfe with the
neighbouring counties by means of turiv
pike roads? a mebfure till then unat-
teupied, and for a long time treated with
-a contempt and ridicule due only to the
moft wild and vifionary pixjjecls, the merit
•ol vvliich he was at laft forced to reft upon
the refuft of an experiment made by him-
felf. With this view, in 1757, he publiftied
Ids fenliments under the title of ^erie^cjfersd
to the Conjideration of the princi-pai Inhabit a)its
of the City of 1 ly, and Towm adjacefitj
and had at length the fatisfadlion to fee the
attention of the publick direfted to the ta-
vourite objedl of thofe with whom be was
alfociated. Several gentlemen of proneny
■and confideration in the county generoully
encaged in contributing donahous towards
fetting on foot a fcheme to eftablifti turn¬
pike roads. By the liberal example of Lord
Chancellor Hardwicke (the late Lord Hard-
wicke), Lord Royfon, and Bifliop Mavvlbn,
and the feafonable bequeft of 200I. by Gso.
R'lfte, Kfq-. of Cambridge, others were in¬
cited to additional fubfenptions. In a ihort
time thefe amounted to upwards of locok
and nearly to double that fum on intereft.
T!ie ftheme being thus invigorated by thefe
Ij.qr ., and by tlic increafing Ibaus of thole
t

whofe prejudices began now to wear away,
‘an adl was obtained in 1763 for improving
the road fiom Cambridge to Ely, Similar
powers and provifions were in a few years
obtained by fubfeejuenc a6ls, and the benefit
extended to other parts of the ifle in all di-
rcdlions, tlie fuccefs of which hath anfwereci
the moft fanguine exjjedfntions of its advo¬
cates. With the fame beneficent difimfuion,
Mr. B. in 1778, fubmitted a plan for inclo-
fing and drainii g a large tradlof common in
the vicinity of Ely, called Gruntifen, con¬
taining near 1300 acres, under the title of
Conjiderations .and RcjleBiona upon the prefent
State of the Fens near Ely, C£7c. Carnb. 8vo.
1778. The inclofure, li9vvever, from what¬
ever caufe, did not then take place ; but
fome of the hints therein fuggei'fed have
formed the groundwork of many of the
improvements which have lince obtained
in the culture and drainage of the fens.
Exertions of this kind could not fail to
procure him the efteem and refpeft of all
who knew him, efpecially as they were
wholly unaccompanied with that parade
and oftenration by which the beft pub¬
lic fervices are fometimes difgraced. Mr.
B. was naturally of a delicate and ten¬
der conftitution, to which his feden-
tary bfe and habits of application were
very unfavourable ; but this was fo far cor-
redled by rigid temperance and regularity,
that he was rarely prevented from giving
due attention eithbr to the, calls of his pro-
felfion or the purfuits of his leifure hours.
I-Ie ret.ained his faculties in full vigour to
the laft, though liis buddy infirmities de¬
barred him latterly from attendance upon
public woiihip, which he always exceedingly
lamented, been uniformly exemplary

in that duty. Hdvp-ead, with full rclifh and
fpii it, moft publications of note or merit as
they appe.i^red, and^ till within a few days
of his death, continU>jd his cuftomary inter-
courfe with his friends. Though temperate
and abftemioux to a gre.at degree in his own
perfon and habits, he lived generouny and
holpitaldy with the fochty of the place,
to wliich he endeared hiinlelf by the moft
gentle, inoffenfive, and benevolent, de¬
meanour. Of himfelf he never fpoke or
thought, but with the greateft ddfidence and
raodefty : Of others, with equal candour
and charity ; always ready to credit and dif-
fufe every favourable reprefentation of their
coudiuft, feehng a real uneafinefs whenever
any thing to their difadvantage was menti¬
oned in his prefence, and.difcouraging, by
the moft marked difapiuobation, every at¬
tempt to dif(>arage ihtir merits and reput.a-
tion. But tiie ruling afteftions of his foul, and
thofe which fhone forth moft confp’cuous
in his cljaradler, and fpread an engaging
kind of tauctity over his countenance and
whole demeanour, W'ere Ins luifeigiied hu¬
mility and piety. Thefe had been his refuge
and coulolatioii under fume fevere and trying

circumftances ;

1794*] Obituary of remarkable Per f ns ; with Biographical Anecdotes. 1 1 5 J

'circ'-’twilances ; r.rul to thefe he reforted in
:the t.'.nie him '.’c confid'jnee : ;]ie e’efe of
l:fe. f'lpi'oitiori' hirnfelf, engtlieniofr

the I opes i-if ')i!ie;rs, hy fendnieuLs of pi--ty
an'? ' ehynai ion To tnb!e lo 'ha!: fi.nreme fc-
for Re!’-:j on which fje had nraui-
in h'/ery occurrence of his life. Mt.
B. left only -n.jn, die F^ev- james Ben-
tham. \ icar ci Bradheuii.'iai, in l’ :';'-

fv)Ik ; i 'i' Hhi. li prereririent he is inde’sted
to tlie kind patronage of rhe piefe-iit Cifhop
o( kly. *

At Edinburgh, John Macdonald^ efq.
of Cbnranr.id.'

Mr. V'ilhain Knigl;t, farmer, at ClifFe,
nea'’ Rcchcftar.

After a long illnefs, "Jr. James Pitts, of
Exeter, n v nmo'tger j an irduilrious, honefl
naan, and rr.ir:;; lefreAed.

At Tuiabcklge, Kent,J.lr. EcUv. Trevor,
an eri'.gn in tlie Wefr Etlex regiment of nai-
li'ia. camnaanded by Col. Sir Wm. Smith.
T!:?; ricuncr.t w;;’. rcurning from ti e camp
at Haifing;q to vvinier-ciuarters at Uxbridge
and the neigh''0>.thcod, where Mr. T. was
taken fo I'.l as to be unable to proceed with
the regiment, and furviyed only four days.

At York, of ayoplexy, Ilichiird tYiy.rton,
efq. of Carlton, near Pontefradt, and late of
Cholerton, in Nortluimberland. Mrs. W.
tlied about a m-.-nth before.

19. Uiiiverfally regretted, t!ie Rev. Dr.
Lloyd, late of Jefus college, Oxford ; wiio
for 34 years had condndted the raaTerfhip
of Lynn grcmm.ar-fciioO! in a manner equally
lionoui'able to himfelf and to his piipiis. in
liim mere united, with ail the virtues of
private life,thofe ineflimable qualities winch
ought ever to charadlei ife the indrudtor of
youth. To the authority of I he tutor iie
added the lendernefs of a father. His eliefl
Ion, lately ofneiating minlfter at Margate,
is feik)w of hvin ty college, Cambridge.

20. At his lioufe in Store- ftrest, Bedford-
fquare, Mr. Baddeley, comedian, of Drury-
lane ti’eatre. Mr. B had many good qua¬
lities, .and among tliefe a perfeveriug friend-
llnp was very confpicuous. Having been
nearly ruined by the expenccs fiis ivife’s
tliffipation brought upon him, he for feveral

'years reduced Idmfc-if U) a plan of the moll
fevereoeconomy, to obviate the pr'o^abie con-
fequences of thofe expenccs. He was taken
ill on the evening ofthe loth, as lie wxis about
to drefsfor the charad'ter of Mofes in tlie
School for Scandal His rem.ains wery interred
cn the 27th in the church.- yard of St. Paul's,
Cnvent-garden. The he.arfe was followed
by three mourmng co ches, in which were
feveial i.enT.lemeii of the Ibciety to which
Mr. B. belonged, called The School of Gar¬
rick, and which was frimed immediately af¬
ter the dreeafe of Mr. Garrick, and confid¬
ed of fuch performers only as h:\d played
wrli him ; hu.’:, as the fociety began to get
thill, tiiis rule was broken through, and other
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performers were admitted by eleiSlion. The
manner in which he iias left a bequeft to
the theatriesr fund is honourable to his feel-
ifigs. That the decayetl adtors, \v!io are to be
c’lofen by die fund cnm.mittee as ten.ints for
ins houle at .ilampton, may not app .ar like
tiependaois on charity in the eyes of the
neighhouT hood, he lias alfo left a certain funi
to lie diftiibuied bythofe ten.ints to tlie poor
of the vicinity. There is alfo to be a little
fnmmer-houfe for thofe tenants to fmoke
their pipes in, and it is to be fo fi'u.ated as to
command a view of tlie temple of Shak-
loeare, eieded by Mr. Garrick. Tliis fum-
mer-bOafe is to be compofed of part of the
wood that belonged to old Drury-lane thea-
tie, the feene of Ga’iick's excellence and
fame. The wood w.gs bought on purpofe,
for this obje6t. The fum allotted for ai/
annual twelfilt^caks is three guine.is, ex-
preflly to make the future Tons and dangh-
teis of 1 hefpts remember ,an oh.! friend anti
member of the nrofeflh'n tiver a regale of
c ke and ale. Thus will Bat!dclev*s cake
and ale float for ever dowm the ftream of
Time with Dogget’s coat and badge. Mr.
Wioughtoo .and Mr. Brand are Ins execu¬
tors.— The body was opened by the celebra¬
ted atiaiomiit VVilfon, the IsdOrer. Upon
the brain, ,m a very unufiial cavity, a confl-
derable tjuantity pf blood had coagulated.
His death mufl neceflariiy iiave been iiiflau'*
taneous, and attended with little n.ain. ,

In Ins 47 1^*^ year, the Rev. Bcniamiti
Winflon, M. A. 1779 of Caihanne-hrdt,
Cambridge, vicar of Holmer, reftor of
How-Capieand Sollers-Hope, in Hereford-
fhme, and cuflos of the college of vicars-
chot al in Hereford cathedral' His refpea:
and attention to an aged mother, and his
charity to his poor parifliioners, rendered
tliis gentleman’s death much lamented<

At Milford, near Lymington, David De-
war, efq. of Enham-honfe, co. Plants, in the
corrsrailiion of the peace and a deputy-lieute¬
nant of the faid county; a gentleman uni-
verfally beloved and fincerely lamented:
alfo, a charitable good ChrilJian,

In Stratford-place, aged 89, Juliana Dd-
' c'lels-dowager of Leeds, third vvife of Pere-
gi me Hyde, third Duke of Leeds, avho fuc-
ceeded his father in 1720, and died in 1731,,
grandfather of the prefent Duke. Her Grace
was daiigliter and coheir of Roger Hele, elq.
of Halewell, co. Devon, and married, 1732,
to Charles Earl of Portmore, who died
1783, by whom foe had David Lord MiU
fiogt in, who died 175c; a daugiitrr, Caro-
Ime, born 1733, naanied, 1750, the prefeiit
Lord Scarfdaiy; another daughter, fuliana,
born 1735, married to Uenrv Davvki'ns, eflp
of Standlvncli, Wilts; and an itbtr fon,
Charles-William, ra.arrieil, 1770, to Mifs
Lafcelles, wlio fnc.ceeded his father.— —Sh6
w.aS greatly beloved, revered, and refpefted
by. all lanksj and her de.vCh'wili be fincerely

felt,

S 1 54 Ohlhia^j.of remar kahle Perfons >

elt, particularly by every part of her family
Mid acquaintance, to whom the had eiKlear-
ed herfeif by the moft affable and courteous
behaviour. '

In New-ftreet, Edinburjijh, Mrs Grizel
Cat flail s, daughter of the late Janies Bruce
C, efq. of Kinrofs.

Mrs, Godfrey-) wife of Lieut. G. of St.
Sid well’s, CO. Devon.

At N. vvcaftle-, in his 70th year, Thomas
Barker, efq. brother of the Rev. Dr. B.
mailer of Chrill college, C.amhi id.ge.

At Rhcuin,jn Holland, Mr Gec/rgeWeb-
fler, fou of Mr. George W. merchant in
Dundee, and furgeon of the 80th reg.

IX. In bi.s 83d year, Mr. Gon'ond, one
of the femor members of the corporation of
Hereford.

At O’ivit, near Orleans, 'n his yjd year,
the famous French phyfitia,!, Petit. His
merits and writings are kuovvn to llie feien-
tifick of alLIiurope.

[11 an advanced age, Mrs. Almond, of
Derby, relidl of Rev. Geo A.

At Burton upon Trent, after a fliort ill-
nefs, much lamented, Mrs. Finlow, wife tkf
I'hoiTias F. efq. of that place.

22. Al Wickhambreux, aged 72, Mr.
W. Holman,

Canterbury, Mifs Sedgwick, elded
daughter of tiie late Rev. Mr. S. of Hew
Romney, in Kent.

At Corby, co. Lincoln, much refpe6kd,
aged 75, Jolu) Wade, gent. He liad been
many years fenior feoftee of the free gram-
mar-fc’ ooi there.

At Bath, the Rev. C. K. Savage, a chap¬
lain in V e royal ntvy, and of muck ctiebrky
as an e'oquenf and pathetic preacher.

After a 'ong illnefs, Mr. Hanifon, archi-
ttdbjtf Leicefler.

2 ^ Mrs. Tntton, wife of Mr. Robert T.
of Allif^rd.

At Bath, Mrs. Morgan, wdfe of the Rev.
Nathaniel M. mafter of the grammar-lchool
and redlor of Dean, in NorthamptonlLire.

24. In Nuitlium be: land-buildings, Bath,
Mr. F liber. His detUh was occafioned by
cutting a corn, vc hich bi ought 0:1 an infiam-
iTiation. and en».ied in a rnoj tificatu^n.

At Hootun, in Chelh l e, aged 83, Sir John
Stanley, hart

26. Mrs Edge, wife of Mr. E drupgifl,
of 'Northampiou, who was from home on
hufiners. At one o’clock Ihe was walking
on the parade, in lu-r nfua good health and
Ipiri's; ibe laife fiaim dmadi, and W'as IlR
fitting alone in the parlour, looking over
fnme papers 7 hut, about two, a lervant
giiing intci the rv om to I’peak to her, found
iier <>u t he flo'U', hreathRfs.

At Seat' -n, Rutland, aged 70, Mr. Benja¬
min Tett, farmer.

Fr-ancib Tomkins, efq. of Park-pb.ce,
St. Jatues’s.

wilh Biographical Anecdotes* ]^Dec.

A.t Cheltenham, whither he went for the
recovery of his health, aged 52, Nicholas
Truught, efq. of Jamaica ; — on the 3Cth, at
the fame place, Anne Trought, his only
child; — and, on the 16th, aged 74, Mrs.
Anne Trougiit, mother of the above Mr. T.

At KetchwO'tli callle, Surrey, Mrs. Ju¬
dith Tucker, eldeft daughter of Abraham
T. efq. by his wife Dortithy, daughter of
Baron Barkc.r, and aunt to Sir Henry Paw-
let ,Sr. John r»lildniay,harL. who inlieritsher
eftates. She w'as found dead in her bed, in
confequence of an afihmatic complaint with
wliidi lire had been for fome time afflldled,
Fler palTtge to a better Rate Was eafy and
traiHjud as herl’fe vras pure and marked by
benevolence Her many virtues and uncom¬
mon talents, from the nfes Ihe made of them,
nuin; ever render her memory refpedted in
focieiy,. and dear to thofe who knew her.
Her rem.ains were interred in the family
vault at Dorking, Dec. 3. Mrs. T’s f .ther
was t!ie celebrated Mr. Search, author of
“ The Light of Nature,” 1768, 9 vols. 8vo.

In his 83d year, Edmund Bryclges, efep of
Madlty, near Hereford, a.nd fathe-r of the
late W. F. Erydges, efq. of Tibberton, ii.2
tile fame county. To a mind liberal and
wel kinformed were added the mofl; eu-
gagirig and facial manners, whidi had long
rendered bis company very acceptable to his
friends and numerous acquaintance, and by
whom he was much refpedled, and will be
long remembered with regret.

27. At ■Edinbui'gh, Major Janies John-
flone, late of the 6rft reg. of foot.

Mr. Vv^right, furgeon and aporliecary, of
Waltham, co Leicefter.

Mrs. Davenport, wife of the Rev.. David
D. of Bard-well.

xS. At F'orton, near Gofport, aged 83,
Mrs Deacon.

In his 73d year, Nicholas Smith, efq. of
Hnnflet-Iane, near Leeds.

At Havering BoWer, Effex, in his 87th
year, Kobet t Howe, efq.

At his feat at Draycot-houfe, ne^r Chip¬
penham, CO. VTiltr, in his 58th year, Sir
James 'Fylney Long, hart, reprefenlative in
parliament lor the county of Wilts, and he¬
reditary clrief warden of the foi'eft of W al-
li;im, co. Eflex. He was defeended from a
family of good note and antiquity, in Wilt-
Ihire, and in 1767 fucceeded his father, vvho
married, 1735, lady Emma Child, eldeft
dau. of Richard Cecil T. of Wanfted. Of tlje
fnperior merit of his ch.at after they only are
qualified to fpeak who, perhaps, may be
mofl liable to be fufpefted of pqriiahty in
their reprefentations ; namely, his nearcll
relations, and thofe Ids moR intimate friends
who were imm-ediatsly about his |>eifou.
Thefe, however, can with truth hear wit-
nel's to his living in the cnnftant exercife of
viitufcs more folid than fpecious, more
really beneficent th'’n oilentatioui.. Form¬
ed, by i-ialure and by habit,, fur an honoura-

1 794. J obituary of remarkable Ferfons ; with Biographical Anecdotes, 1 1 55

Me anti ufeful retirement, lie felt very little
relilh fur tlie gay and fplendkl fcenes of
what is called high life. He was then with¬
in Uie fp!>ere of thofe enjoyments which
were moil congenial with his difpofition,
when he faw Jiimfelf furrounded with a few
fober, chearful, well chofen h iends, fiip-
porring an innoceiat, ufehil, lively converfa-
tion with them, wiihont referve. With re-
fpedl to tlie religious pait of liis chawidler,
SirJ.T.I .ong wijs a fiedfaft adherent to tlie
worlhip of tile riiurch of England, and was
an eminent example of regularity in his ob-
fervance of the public duties of the Sabhatli.
And, that his domeilicks might not be deprived
of this privilege, he was very careful that the
biifinefs of Ids family fbould be fo arranged
as to admit of tlie attendance of as many as
poffible, at both parts of the day. His great
accelfion of fortune a' few years before his
death, if it m’ght not he laid to have proved
a burthen to him, certainly made no adduion
to h:s happinels. Acruttemed from prin¬
ciple and fjom virtuous habits to live within
the bounds of his paternal income, he would
have been well content to have preferved to
the end that character of npriglitnefs and
refpedlability, as a private country gentle¬
man, which he had maintained in his native
county. To nnrilh fchools, as well SunJay-
fchools as others, he extended his moft libe¬
ral encouragement. But he was fo defirous
of feeing induftry blended with inftrudtion,
that thefe feminaries never fo fully met with
his cordial approbation as when he fivv that
their defign was to render the cluldrea nfe-
ful members of fociety, as well as to prepare
them for the happinefs and enjoyments ol a
future ftate. He married, firft, 1775, the
Harriet Bouverie, fourth daughter of Jacob
Vifeount Folkftotie, and fifter to the late
Earl of Radnor, by whom he ha<l no chil¬
dren ; fecondly, 1785, the Rt. Hon. Lady Ca¬
tharine Windfor, eldeft daughter of the late
Earl of Plymouth, by whom he had three
daughters, and one foil, an infant of three
months old.

29. At Ripley, in Surrey, aged 33, Mr.
John Nighliiigals.

At Kilmarnock, in his £8th year, Dr.
William Park, of Langlands, in the com-
niiliion of the peace for the co- of Ayr.

At Market Boluorih, in hs 63d yen',
the Rev, James Richardfon, curate of tlie
adjoining parifh of ShakerOon, co, Leicefler.
it was remarked that > e pei formed Ids
duty on the preceding Sunday particularly
well i and the funeral of a young man, who
died at the point of marri.ige, gave him an
occafion, in the courfe of it, of prononneng
h'S laid difanirfc from thefe words : Blef-
fed are the dead whicli die in the Lord ; even
fo faith tlie Sjdrit, for they reft from t.beir
labours.”

At Copenhagen, in her 36th year, of an
nflamm uion in the cheft, her Royal High-
aefi Sojihia- f rcdenca, coufor: of Uis Damfti

Majefty’s half-brother. She was defeended
from the houfe of Meckleuburgh, and a Uif-
tant relative to our Queen.

30. At Sawl^y-hall, Haffrll Moor, efq. an
alderman of Beverley, co. York.

At hi:' houfe in the dock-yard, Plymouth,
Rowland Cotton, efq. vice-admu' d of the
Blue, and commander in cliief of his Ma-.
jeflv’s lliips and veffels at that port.

OF the drojify, in h’-s qrth year, Mr. Ed-
w.ard Pope, tailor and d aper, of Chatliani^
but lately retired from bufinefs.

Mr.<s, Oihorne, widow, linen-draper, of
the fame place.

At his -houfe in the Petty Cury, Cam¬
bridge, aged 56, Mr. John Gillam; of whom
it may be truly faid, he lived refpedled, and
died lamenteii.

Inteftate, after .a fhort illnefs, Mr. Tho¬
mas Goate«, a confiJerable and wea.thy far¬
mer at Wentworh, many vears an officer
to the commilfinners of Ely turnpike- road.
He lent twice to Elj^^for an attorney to make
bis will, but finding himfelf inqapable, has,
in eonfequence, left many poor didant rela¬
tions unprovided for.

Mr. Boggit, Leen-fide, Nottingham,

At Leirefter, aged 72, Mrs. Harnfoil.

Latehy^Tit Nallau, in New Providence,
Mr. John L indfay, who went paffeng^ji^r in
the brig Geueitd Clarke, from London.

In the Weft Indies, of the yellow ferer,
and in the fame hour, Mr. and Mrs. Shields.
Mr. S. was formerly fnrgeon to the 58rh re¬
giment, and lately appointed furgeon to the
forces at Martinico.

Ac Jamaica, in his i8th year, Mr. Wm.
Bloom Ctiapman, eldeft fon of Mr. Deputy
C. of Colernan-ftreet. (See p. 966, 1. iS.)

At Guadaloupe, in conffqueace of tlie
wounds he received in the aitacls. of Point-
a-Fctre, Capt. Adam Tweedie, of the gre¬
nadiers of the I 2th reg. of foot.

At Lifbon, whither he went laft Aaigufl;
for the recovery of his health, George Hart-
pole, efq. high Iherlff of Queen’s county, in
Ireland, and reprefentative of the autieut
family of Hartpole, long feated at Shrnle-
caftle, in that county.

At Carnew, co. Wicklow, in Ireland, his
family-feat, Richard James, efq. brother to
A.lderman William James, the Hte Lo.d
Mayor of Dublin.

Mr. Gordon, conductor of a tonfulerable
broad-cloth and cotton-manufadtory at Ri-
vers-town, near Cork. He put a period to
Ills exiftence athis own houfe thei e, by firing
a piftol into his mouth. He has left a wife
and children.

At the advanced age ( f 112, Mrs. War¬
ren, of Tollagh, CO. Dublin. Site had a
grandfon and graiuKiaughter, who arc granj-
lather anti grandmoiher to children upwards
of 20 years of age. Her brother died two
years ago, at the age of 120. Ho pl.iughed
the Eaft fide o[ Gr..fion ftreet, and lowed
wheat in it; vvbicli lie held for 2s. 6d per

acre,

Ohituary of remar hahle Perfom

acre, anil had 6 or 700 acres at the fame
rent. He was, on the day of the battle of the
Boyne, condu6fing fome farm-carts of 'his
father’s, which were imprefied by the army
of King William, to carry kiggagc into the
camp.

J a Dublin, in confequence of a blow on
the head from a gentleman whom he had
affronted, the well-known Lefley Grove.

' At Edinburgh, Mr. james HutchinfoK,
jun. mercliant in Glafgow.

, Tliomas. Hewitfon, efq. of Bellevue, near
Wakeffeld, late major in the 59th regiment
of foot.

At Plymputh, John Dnlheare, efq, for¬
merly an eminent brazier, of Alhbnrton, and
'for fomc years poft-maller of Plymouth.

At the fame place, aged 6?, Abraham Jo-
JvSph, wholefale dealer iir flops for die navy.
He was one of the people called Jews, but
tire aS-ions of Ills whole life would have dene
honour to any perfuaOon. He amaffed a
eonflderable foitune by very fair and honeft
laaeans. As an agent for feamea, his praffice
Was wmll worthy the imitation of every per-
.fau in that bnfinefs, as feveral orphans and
zndigenl widows can teffify.

A-Ifo, Mr. Eidlake, formerly an eminent
>2tveller there. '

S j'Jdenly, Mr. Chriff . White, a refpedfable
jpurmer, of Rockingham, co. Northampton.

At Uppingham, aged 46, Mr Tho Baines,

■ quarter' matter in Colonel Edwards’s fencible
cavalry.

' Of a decline, Mr. Squire, jun. of Peter¬
borough.

Lamented by all who knew him, "the Rev.
Peregrine Ball, vicar of Treleg, co. Mon¬
mouth, and of New land, co. Glonceffer.

At Egremont, after a long illnefs, the
Rev. John Hntcldnfon, M. A. feilcw of
' Queen’s college, Cambridge, and fome time
mafler of the free grammar- fchcol of Sc.
Bee’s, but which t’ne bad Rate of his health
compelled him to relinquifh.

Advanced in yeaiS, Mrs. White, widow of
Rev. Mr, W. of Canwick, near Lincoln.

John Broadley, efq<. of Blybnrongh, near
Lincoln, major of the North Lincoln militia.

At Rocheffer, in her 92d year, Mrs.
Chapman, a maiden ladv ; who has left
'ici a-year to t'ne parilh of St. Nicholas.

At Kicbmond, co, York, aged 9a, Mis.
Tabitha Tinkler. She began biifinefs at 15
yeafs of age; married at iS; was 63 years
a wife, and 12 years a widow; managed
bufinefs 67 years; 2 years, at her latter end,

' incapable ; fnp(-H;fed to be the olcefl Ihop-
keeper in England. - *

At Cliadhngton, co. Oxford, in his 73d
vear, John Smith, gent, late of Bonldov. n,
CO, Giouceffer. He ffrff in rodneed the
prefent fyffem of agriedenre in that county.
Tlie united ages of the two fenjor pall¬
bearers at his funer.al amounted to 168 years.
^ After a long illnefs, Mrs. Mannfel!, wife
of ILonias Cecil M, eicp of .Thorpe-Mai-

with Biogratihlcal Anecdotes, [Dec*'

for, CO. Northampton, and daughrerof Geo.
Piill, efq one of his Majeily’s feijeants
at law.

Near Whitby, co. York, Mr. William
Thiffiewood, of Bardney, ' near Lu coln,
land-furveyor.

Mr. Facer, of Bolton, in Lincolnfhire,
land-fnrveyor.

At H.)it, ' co. Leicefter, Mr. Tyler, late
butler to*Cofm:.s Neville, efq. in wliofe
fervice he had been enraged no wards of ao
years. Hi- lieath was occafioned by a prick
he rfxeived m th. finaer from a needle wh le
packii g fome cheefes. The rem-Yns <h this
tru'y worthy man were .attended to t* e grave
byaUihe poor of Med^'cni ne an;l the.neigh-
bonring vill.ages, to whom, in thd lionr of
diPerefs, he had given repeated- iuffances of
his benevolence.

At Authorpe, co. Liuco’n, fuddenly, Mr.
Brinkle, firmer and grazier.

’ At Spiliby, aged 99, El z. Robinfon.

In G’o!den-''^quare, Lady S.arah Bdlenden,
wife of John Ker Lord Bailenden, heritable
nrner of tlie exclieqner in Sct tland.

A.t his fori s honfe in Newman-flreet, aged
83, H.arrTon Cray, efq. furmeily iie-ufurer
■and receive r-g.-meral, for upwards of 23
years, in Noith Americll, and one of his
Majeffy’s mancamms con’T Hors.

Mr. Jones, dilf 61 .r to bt. Bar hofornew’s
hofpitai. His death w as ccc'ifionfd by a fligtit
cat in the huger wdtile uiffcflifig a corpfe
which I'lad died of a raostiffcatiou. He caught
the infeClion, and, nnt.* ithfLahiing evrry
medical ahiftance (except that of amputa¬
tion) was immediately adminiRsred, it cauf-
ed his death in about a week.

in Bridge-road, VVcftminlfer bridge, Ma¬
jor John Nafli, late of the 6 2d regiment.

At liis lodgings in Orange-itr. Mr. Haily,
one of the oldeff pnrfers in the navy.

Dece^nher i. At Exeter, aged "’q, Jofeph
Littlefear, elq. formerly a merchant in the
city of Lixidon, but had I'etircd- from bnff-
nefs fome years. He was a pious, benevo¬
lent, .and well-informed man, an agrcia’-de
companion, and an afba6lionate friend. He
fymjvi^.th'.zeJ with the afflHted, afSffed the .
' diiiixired, and ardently wiihed the liberty, ,
p.er.ce, and hapninefsof all mankind. In his
religions pro^’eRion he was a Piotcffaut D f- ■
fen'.er, and (if liberal principles. There-"
fignati.-n which he difplayed, irider re--
peate.l attacks of a very painful diforder,,
was founded on fublime and jure views of::
th-3 wifdom and goo'dnels of his Maker, andli
on a firm belief of the premifesof tlieGofpel.i.

'1 ho.Greenon^b, efq. of Bedford-fquire,

At Sparfflolt- honfe, ne.ir W^antage, Lien-o
tenant-general Jofeph G.abbir. color, el of tliei:
66 th regiment of foot, now on duty at I
Gib altar.

At Hampflc.ad, co. Middlefex, aged 66,;
Caleb Welch, eff}.

Suddenly, nniverfallv Idmente ', aged Sc,-
Wm. Beaumont, elq. of Hampffead.

Suddenifcl'

L;94*] Obituary of remarkable Ferfons

Siiiklenly, at her fon-in-law’s (the Rev.
]Vir. Holwort! y, at EU\vorfh)j Mrs. Deftjo-
rough, wife of .^Idei'man D. ai> eminent lur-
geon at fiuatirgdon-

Agetl 87, Eiiv.ard Inge, fen. efq. of the
Cliaitet iionfe near Coventry.

At Pev' y. aged 70, much refnedied, Mrs.
Ba'nvo, grocer.

■’ At Bedford, Mr. John Hallet, midf’aip-
man on board the Bounty at the time of the
nintim, and one ofthe 18 vvho accnmpained
capt. Tiligh in the d..ngerous voyage of four
months in an open boat ; in confequence of
which, after his return horoe, he loft the life
of his limb', but recovered them fo as to be
able to perform a fecund voyage with capt.
Bligh, and accomplilhed the expedition.
On his return home he again loft the ufe of
his limb-, and recovered them no more.

2. Mr. Jonathan Kerlhaw, liquor-mer-
merchant, in Park-lane.

Mr. John G.imbP, agent to the Sun fire-
office, Lynn, and' many y-ears clerk to the
iron compatiy.

At Great Mapleftead, co. ElTex, aged 67,
Rev. Thomas Ord.nrJ, M. A. 2^ years vic-ir
of the faid parifla ; w'ho might juflly be faid
to exemplify in himfelf the great virtues of
peac^ aMenefs of difpofition and uaiverfal
benevolence, which ihune conipicuoufly tdl
his 60th year, when a feclufive gloominefs
pervaded his former agreeable manners : but
ihofe who faw neareft his heart difeovered
that not only jufiicfe, but humanity and p'ni-
lanthropy, had a predominancy in his__roind
.to hk lait morneuLs.

At his brother’s h.oufe in Surrey, David
Ramfay Carr, efi;. many years 'furgeon of
the royal dock-yard at Portlmuutli.

3. Found dead in his hed, at Southwell,
co. Nottingham, Sherhrr.ke Lowe, efq. His
death is fuppofed to have been occafioned by
drinking fome acid punch the preceding
evening.

Mr. fames Green, of Ledftone, co.Ycrk,
late of Lambeth- hill, Londrin.

Mr. Jofeph Bull, ftirgeon, of Nottingham.

4. Ac his father s houfe in Doncafter,

Charles Ayflrope, efq. (late an officer in the
Lincolnftiire miHtia), fon of - A. efq.

At Stockton, Jn. Stajryltou Raifbeck, ef(|.

5. At Ch.dfont St. Pe:er, Bucks, Ricliard
Whitchurth, e!q a bencher of the honunra- ,
ble Society of the Middle Temple, and re¬
corder of High Wycombe.

in an advai.ced a'ge, Mr, Thonr.as Gdhnnk,
of York. . He f:rveJ the ('tiice of Iherilf of
that city in 17S5.

Rev. Robert Rainey, redlorof Great Sax-
ham, co. Suffolk.

6. Aged 80, Wdliam Nalh, efq. of Twick¬
enham, CO. Middlefcx.

At Landalf, aged 78, Thomas Edwards,
efq. clerk of the peace for the counC^' of
Glamot gan.

Mr. [ohn Bixnvn, of Noith-court, near
Abingdon, formerly a wine-merchant of
the city of Oxford.

; with Biographical Anecdotes. 1157

7. Mrs. Carfan, wife of Mr. C. furgeon,
in Vauxhall-place, Surrey. Tlia affiduities
of afTeclion fmoothed the piiiovv of deatii.
And let the companirins of Iter g.ayer hours,
who had not. patience or inclination to re¬
concile manner with merits feculiaritv with
frlnctiik, who did not propeily refpedl her
living —

Do honour, to her affies, for ftae died

Fearing Gad ! — '

The jull and generous difpofition of the
litile property Ih.e had feraped t 'g:ether (fur.
painfully fhe vv as limiCrd), renders ih it /’/-
tanre lacred and acceptable as flie willow's
mite I”

' hx. her honfe in Batli, Robiniana countefs
dowager of Peterborough. *

8. Aged 6cv, Mrs. Kilpin,one of the nieces

of tlie late Mr. Poole, y, diaper, who died in
the prefent year, ami le!t a handforoe fum
to the poor of V. ahliamllovv p.-.riih, where
he had a heufe. ''

9. Aged 28, after a t.r. drial dsclin^? of f -
veral ye.ars, at Eaft Cranmore, co. Somer-
fet, the Rev. Richard Paget, M. A. fecond
fiin of Richard P. efq of that place, proba-
thiner fellow of Magdalen-coliege, Oxford,
and, occahooally, a valuable correfpondmt
in car Magazine, fir!t under the fignature
of D. T. (till that fignature w'as affurned i;y
fomo other correfpondent in the Supplement
to 1 79c), and afterwards iR.

' Aged 69, [aw.es Fallorieid, efq. of his
M. jeRy’s great wardrqbe in Scotland-yxai d,
near Whireiiail.

At Sfanhi-rd, co. Worcefter, the Lady of
Sir Edward vVsnniogfon, hart, fifter to the
Hon, Edward Foley, one of^Uie members
for t’nat county.

Mr. Gomm, fteward of St, B.artholomew's
hofpital, formt riy an eminent cabinet maker
in Clerkenwell. ’

On her return from Bath, Mrs. Hen tie’ ta
Dickenfon, fourteenth dau,ghte.r of the l.ue

■ - - D, efq. of Eaft-iil.ice, co. .Ydik. A.11

tier thirteen fillers died in the f.i4'nc year of
their refpedtive ages.

TO. A" M..ntrofe, John Foulerton, efq.
late of Thorntcnin.

11. At lier father’s houfe at Chelfea, Mifs
Au ft,’ only .daughter of Gecrge A. efq. of
the feeretary of ftaio’s o"dicc.

In Btdl-head.-court, Newgate-ftreet, aged
93, fohn Tovvn'fend, efq. late of Cullum-
ftreet, a member of ■ the Corporation of
Surgeon';, and one of the govemars of
C’nrdl’s hofpital- .

Aged 91, Mr. Richard D.nvfon, of Lin¬
coln, formerly innholder at the Ruin Deer,
near the toll-b.ir.

Suddenly, at Cjru'ron, the Rev, A. Rudd,
reeftor of DiJdiebury, co. laloji, and reader
at St. Lawrence, Lu.llo.v.

12. At his luHife on St. Tame.Ps parade,
Bath, Jolm Tobin, t;fq.

Aged 92, Mrs. Wodhull, widow of TeShn
W. efq. of 'i'henford, near LracxR.y, co.
Northampton. 13. vVm.

1 1 5 S 01 huary of remarkalU Perfim j

Wm. James, efq. ftore-kceper of his
fvl.iveily’s oi'dnance at Purfieet, Effex.

InChapel-fireet, Bioornsbui v, Mrs. Free-
Kiao’, relidi of William-GC(‘rp,e F. efq.

At Scone, Rev. ].<>hn Writjht, miiiifter of
that parin*.

Aged 78, Thqtnas Adk'm, efq. of Yar-
jTtouili, many years in the commilEon of the
peace for Noi folk.

At iier houfe, in the Belgrave-gate, Lei-
ceftcr, Mrs. Coleman, lelidl dt the late
Menty C. efq.

14. At Falmouth, afiei' a fliort bat fevere
jMuefs, Wm. Dalhwt'od, efq. captain of iiis
Majeiiy’s packet tlie Expedition, on the
Lifbon Nation.

In Great Portland-ftreet, in the 19th year
of his age, Robert S.adleir Moody, jun. efq.
lecond fon of R. S. M. efq. one of the com-
imffioners for vidlualhng his Majelfy’s navy.

Aged a years and 7 months, John-VV.f-
I'iam- Charles Fagg, ehp only fon <;f the Rev.
John F. hart, of Myftde, in Fvent.

At her honie on St. James’s par.ade, Bath,
a'.g€d85, Mrs.- Krander, vi'idovv of Charles
B,. efq. late of Nea, Hants.

At Montrofe, in Scotland, Mrs. Scott,
«Jo;wager of Benholnri. -

15. Suddenly dropped down dead, at the
corner of LilH-pnt-alley, leading to the Pa-

sade, B-atb, - Freetnan, efq. a gentleman

firom the Weft Indies ; who has left an ami-
sbie widow and five children.

James Morgan, efq. late mayor of Briftol.
At Dulwkh, Robett Nixon, efq. mer¬
chant, of Dgvonfhire-fqua. Bifhopfgatc-ftr.

At her hon e in Up(ier Brook* ftrett, in
her 83d year, Mrs. Ford,, wddow.^^

At Old -park, co. Durham, in his 79th
year, fmldenly, Tlvnmas Wharton, efq.

At the maufe in Ayrfhire, Mrs. Chriflian
‘Frail!, widow of Dr. Rob. T. late profelfor
of drvinity in the univerfity of Glafgow.

At Bath, where he had been fOr the be-
r^-fk of his htakh, Robert Ballani, eS'q. al-
t&'rsrcin and magiftrate for the town and
coxinty of Southampton.

At Leieefter, in i.is 77th year, Philip
Ferry, efcp lieutenant on half- pay i;i the la.te
2rft regimtmt of light dragoons, or Royal
S-orrefters, and late captain in the Leic'ef-
terfriire m.ilitia. '

At the fame place, Mrs Davie, relitR of
the late John D. gent.

16. Aged /S, Mr. Chailes Coll'n ,of Ox¬
ford, foirneily a rinober-merchant, hut had
declined hufinefs feme years.

Aged 77, Mi s. H( riier, idow of Mr.
la'^ionce H. of Oxford, and mother of the
Rev. Dr. H. late ledlor of Lincola-collcge,
in that univtihty.

In Yuik, iiged 78, Mr. David Rnffei,
printer j but v/I.o had ret.rcd fome years.

Mbs Eburrie, youngeft d-aughter of Tho.
E. efq. of 'MigTibury-place, Ilhngton.

17. After a long i Inels, Richard Swin-
sterton Dyer, efq. el.deft..fon of 'f lihmas .D.
eiq. of Park-ftreet, Weftmiafter,

with Biographical Anecdotei, [Dec,

At the Rev. Carqan Bagnall’s, in Here¬
ford, in his 15th year, Mafter Thomas, eltleft
fon of the late Mr. T. attorney at law, at
Cardiff. This young gentlem.’.n’s difpofitit>n
w.as fo amiable, and his manners fo en¬
gaging, that he is much and defervedly la¬
mented by his acquaintance.

Major-general Alexander Stewgrt, colo¬
nel of the Queen’s royal regiment of foot,
and M P. fur tlie ftewaitry of Kircudbright.
The general retired from the continent about
a rnontli ago, and fell a facrifice to an illnefs,
contrafled in confeq aence of the fatigues he
had underpqine in the cour.fe of laft campaign,
in wh ch lie commanded the firft brigade of
Britifti infantry.

18. Ac her houfe near the chapel at VVood-
houfe, CO. Leicefter, (the old manfion in
which the pixfent lady Howe was bornj
Mrs. Mary Heanes, a maiden lady, in her
86th year, Mr. Edward H. the father of this
lady, lived at Bingham, co. Nottingham;
and by Mary his wife, who was daughter of
Skinner Rytner, efq. of Bingham, became
heir at law to a confidera’Dle property ; with
part of which he purebafed the eilate of
Chiverton Hartopp, efq. at Woouhoufe, and
came to live there. He had two fons awd
two daughters; and died July 15, 1749,
.aged 74 ; and his wife a few years after
liim. The fons -were, Edward, who died in
November, 17S9, aged 72 ; and Thomas,
V ho died January 10, 1779? 59- The

daughters w.tre Elizabeth, who died Nov.

I , 1785, aged 691 and Mary, .whole
de.-Xli'vvc now record ; and the very early
part of whole life was fpent in the family of
ckl lady Hcw’e, tire prefe.nt eail’s grand¬
mother; which family have ever Ihewn her
much refpedf, and fome of them have vifited
her at V\ ood houfe, which lias been h.cr le-
fxdencefor fifty years. She was an early riRr,
being always up the firft in lire village, and.
geneially in bed by nine at night,. Though
of fo advanced an age, fhe retained ail
lier faculties, eye-figlit, and hearing, quite
perfedt ; and enjoyed good health till
within a few ytars ck lier uealli, -wTien
Ihe was unable to' leave l>er houfe. Sirs
w'as of a moft hapi>y chearful difpofi-
tion, a ftiidf obferver of her word ; what¬
ever fhe pfomiftd was fure to be performed
to t!,e greaieft nicely; kind and forbear¬
ing to iier tenants, conhderably to her owm
Ltfs and difadyanlage ; charitable to the
]ioor ; a good miflrefs, a'- fne was fcarcely
ever knoAu to change her ferv ants, one
of them having lived in her fervicemear
40 yt-ars. In lier houfe fine kept up tlie old
Eogbftx hofpiialiiy, particularly at Chriftrras
time, wdien the tvas happy to fee her J’riends
am! neighD'uis. .'•■uclr is the true cUaraCler
of Mrs. Maiy Heanes, warm ficm the heart
of.| one who knew her virtues * and lh.it Qp
both her brothers and her fifter was equally
ehimable. 't'!»ey all palled a life of retire¬
ment in the greateft harmony, auJ were all

! '794*1 Ohlinary, — Theatrical Rcgl

of the fame torn cf miiul ; neither of them
ever fieepinga finjle nigh>' out of their home,
or -ever known, except from illnefs, to he
abfent from public worlhip on a Sunday (of
%vhich they were l^ridf obforvers) during a
great number of years. AlLthe four died un¬
married, .anil were buried in Wooiilioule
chapel, ftsl.alt furvlvcr, Mrs. II became pof-
felfed of aU the property of the famdy, which
was confiderahle ; and has left tlae whole of
it, except a few legacies, to hei>next of kin,
a diftant relation.

At Lynn, co. Norfolk, James Everard,
efq. fecond fon of Edward E. efq. cf that
place. He was a young man of very rare
nnd excelling qn;^lit’.es ^ his talents for bufi-
nefs weie, per!iaps, unrivaled, in which his
apprthenfion was .as quick as .his execudon
Vv'cs deceive ; his honour pure as Ins he-,
nehy was perfecl- He was a good for, a
good brother, and a good friend. He fell
an innocent viiVim to that fl ittering difurdcr
where Death and Hope dwell fo long toge¬
ther, a diforder to w’.iicli youth rruift furren-
461^ h s pioud jirergth, and beauty he.r freeuder
foiuer, a diforder which flill continues to
redden nuiih Jl. arne the clieeks of V HYS ic, and
liumble tlie dnogauce cf the College — a C jN-

SU MPT ION.

19. At riiiflow, aged flf, M-r. John Ee-
veii, formerly a fiioe-maker in Whkechapel.

T FI E A r R i C A L
I)ec. New Dritry-Lane.

j. The Siege of Bidgrade-^Nobody.

2. d'be Roman Father — The Wedding-day.

3. The school for Scifndal — -No Song No

Supper.

4. The }ew^ — Lonloifka.

i;.'A Trip to Scar’^'orough — Th^ Prize.

6. Macbeth — Nobody.

8. The '.fouritaineeis — Lodoidta.

9.. King Henry' the Eighth — Devil to Pay-

10. The Confederacy — Ho Song No Sapper, _

11. The Jew — Lodoihea.

jz. All’s Well iliat Ends vVell — The Critic.

I 3. J.ane S!iore->-rhe Drummer.

15. dheSiegeof Belgrade — Tlie Wedding-day.

16. The Grecian Danghter — Lodo ika.

17. A I'np to Scarborough — The S-'nze.
iS I he Jenv' — LovloifKa.

19. Tlie School for Lovers — The Critic.

2.0. ’Cbe Cherclee — I he Wedding-tiay.

22. Ditto — Tlie Enghiliman. in Paris.

23. Ditto — Ditto.

26. Ditto — The Sultan.

27. Ditto — Tit for Tat.

29- Ditto — rhe Deaf Lover.

30. Meafure mr Meafuse— -Lo’oifka.

?£. The Cherokee — 1 he Citizen.

BILL of MORTALi TY,

Chrillened. Burled.

879? ^ Males 895?
Females 7963 E'cmales 7973

Wheieof l:ave died under two yt'rus old 482
Peck Lo»f 2s jd.

hr. — Bill of A'fortaUty, ^

2s. Suddenly, at the hoofe of William
Newdicke, efq. of Chefhunt., Ilert-. the af-
fciflionate and much lamented wife of Fran¬
cis Pyner, efip of Brook-boufe, Chefliuut 5
and fornicrly an audlioneer in London.

2T. Ac her brother’s houfe in Ingram-'
court, Fenchurch-ftreet,- r.fter a lingering
and' painful illnefs, Mifs Aume Galabin.

23. At his brother’s houfe at Flammer-
fmirh, - Mr. James Burchall, printleller ani
carver, in the Strand.

24. At his houfe in Blooiflfbury-fcpuarc,
Peter Hamond, efq.

At Hlington, Mr, NichoLas Davlfon, many
years an eminent apothecary in Wood-flreet,
CheapLde.

25. Mrs. Brown, wife of C.aptain B, of
Dahvich common, Surrey. . ,

28. Of an inflamrnation on the lungs,
brought pn by a cold caught on Wind/or ter¬
race, Mr. Thomas Pole, bookfeiler and' prin¬
ter at Eton. , He has left a widow and
young children. Mr. F. was univerfallf
knov. n to be the printer .of tlie Eton fciiaoi-
books. In fociety he rvas very’ generailT
eflesmed . as a chearful, lively companion^
.and .an open. hearted, obliging f ricii d. ft is
not doubted but the lieads-of that fem*-
nary will continue their protection to a re-
fpe^fiaiile fauiiU/, vvhicir has enjoyed their pn-
tron.age the greater part of the pi-ehint centuiy,

5. The ■Rag*'— H-frcules and Omphal®,

2. Dii'o — Ou.to. s.

3. Ditto— Ditto.

4. Thtro — Dittf).
r. ifl'to — Ditto.

-6. 'The 'Tc%vn Before 2 cii"— rNet'ley' A-bhey.

8. Ditto — Hei c'tles and Cmph-ale.. ,

0. Ditto — Ditto.

I o- Grief A-la- Mode — Ditto.

1 1. Tlie Rage — Ditto-

12. Ditto— Di'.u>- , . ■ , -

13. Ditto — D tto-
55. DitU' — Dluo.
j a. Ditto— Diit'O.

17. Ditto — Ditto.

18. The Town Before — NetL-y Albbey,

19. Ditto — Her udesand Orr.pluk.

20. The Rage— Ditto.

22, The Towji Bcifoie You — Ditto. ■

23. The R 'ge-' Diuo.

26 The En’-j of FdT''X — Mngo -and Dago ■ cr^
llarleqxiin.the Hero,

27. The Grecau Daughter — DiRo. ,

29. Karr.iet— Ditto.

3c. Inkle and Vai ido — Ditto. - ' .

31. Notoriety — Ditto.

from Dec. 2, t-n Dec. 23, 1794.

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Embellifhed with Pidlurefque Views of Alfreton Church, Co. Derby ; the Tower of
St. G EORG e’s Church, Canterbur,y ; Heathfielu Tov/er, Sussex ; the Pfli fonage
of NfWiN-GToii Butts ; a Monument from Ledbury ; anew T.J'Legraph, Sic.

Mr. Urban, Dfc. 2.

VIE'VV^ of the parfonage-houfe
of Newir/gton Butts, defcribcd by
Mr. Lyfons* as “vety antient, and fur*'
rounded by a moat with four bridges,”
may perhaps be not unacceptable to
your readers. (See plate /.)

Ahridng the rfc(‘ifors of this place have
been many of hrll-iate eminence — par¬
ticularly Nicholas Lloyd — the juflly-
famous Bifhop Stillingfieet — and the
truly learned and highly rei'peftable
charnpion of Chriftianity, the prefenc
Bp. ofRocbefter. M. Green.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 5.

HE fweec ferenity of one of the
nneft days in Sepiernber, height*
ened by the enchanting profpefit of
commerce gliding along the Thames in
innumerable veffels, induced my friend
to participate with me the pleafures of a
marine excurlion frdm Sheernefs round
our Bricidi bulwarks, then riding in
roajeftic grandeur at the Nore. The
tide was juft floating out of the harbour
different companies, from whoie eyes
beamed oleafure whilft contemplating
their aufpicious hunching out. My
curiofity was firft excited by our ap¬
proach to the gun-boats (lying off the
garrilbn) which, though i'lnali, contain

— ^ — deep-throated engines,

- difgorging foul [and hail

Their deviltlli glut, chain’d thunderbolts,
Of iron globes.

The clumfy for.ms and murky colour
of thefe Belgian- built veffels properly
contain this thundering enginery, and
are truly exprelhve of their intent. A
gentle breeze now brought with it emu¬
lation to our hardy condublors, who,
with fails and well-plied oars, impetu-
oufiy hurried us along, anxious-io ar¬
rive at the deftined goal (the fleet)* be¬
fore their competitors. No regatta
could have yielded greater exertions j
and, though honour alone was the prize,
an olive crown would not By any, Reman
have been more earneftly contended for ;
each heart pa'pitated, and wifhed fuc-
cefs to his Chat on, whiift cheery fongs
refounded around. The unfortunate in

this conteft foon forget their ill fuccefss
and the polrte atreurion paid to every
company by the difi'erent oflicers on¬
board the fleet claimed a general ac¬
knowledgement. After ftiying about
half an-hour, and taking a refrefninent,
we defeended once more to our humble
vehicle, and tacked about for New
South End, which we reached in about
an hour and an half, and were ailonifh-
ed to find lo great a ciiange made du¬
ring four or five years f.

The towering oaks., which had for
ages withftood (even in their exalted
fite) the rough blafts of Winter, and
had thrown a folsmn (hade over the
brow of the hill, have now fallen under
the ruthlefs hand of the woodf-cutter,
.and given place to an earthly Paradife,
almbft Hupeiceptibly Ip rung .up. From,
the Ihore. arifeth a bold, declivity, man-
t!“d with evergreens and the gayeft
fhrubs of fummerj various walks in-
lerl'edf each other, meandering along the
fide of the hili through flis'des, where
feats are placed, fecuie from the fun’s
hear, for the accommodation of vificors.
One arbour on the brink of a precipice,
whole bafe is laved by each returning
tide, for its romantic fuuation claims ,a
.fuperiority to any other on the Effex
coaft. Seated here, the contemplative
reader may be. agreeab-.y gratified, and
tiie novelifl look round and fee his ima¬
ginary feenes partially realized by the
variety of profpedls ; a piciurerqus
landfchape to the right, Old South End
to the left, Sheernefs and -the junbfion
of the Thames and Medway m f^nt,
and the iml behind, with its fummit
crowned by a noble terrace in front of
a fuperb budding, overhanging thefe
hlooipiug fccncs. Here Grandeur, ac-
,companied by Convenience, liave c'ho-
.I'tn their feats, fileniiy inviting ilie i'uoi-
mer lounoc.s to hilsnty and coatent-
.ment3 and, hu tjl, ukt Argus fiiri 'U<f-
lim, qu't tot Jimul oculis tufita de^orem
gaud’ai" Wtiether the viftior is a vaie-
tudinanan, or, what is more frequent,
fMV.r pa(Je~iejr.i, to either this chauniug
variety mult be equally engaging. The
former will effehtualiy reap the benc-hc

* Environs of London, p, 394. f. See p. 543. oi our prel'eat volume, Epit.
Gent, Mag. Supplement, 1^794. of

ii62 South End In Effex. — The Family of Slatyer. [Supp,

of the falubrious fea air, whilft the lat¬
ter may enjoy in plenitude the pleafing
as vvell as healthy amufements of the
field. Should the impending cloud,
apparently teeming witn rain, deter
thofe delighting in rurd walks from
taking their diurnal exercife, even
though defended by an umbrella, the
day may not be lofi j for, the romantic
library, the elegant card, afi'embly, and
coffee rooms, all combine againil the
ennui of a fummer afternoon’s gloorri.
The Bacchanalian votaries may riot in
the exuberance of choice wines ; whilfl
the mind, foftened by imlsfortune, or
ruffled by care, may find alleviation in
the fbothing melody of mufiek ; for,
here, in ' rnafierly execution, the piano
fweils to the forte, and boldly dares
Hand in competition with the inhabi¬
tants of the grove. In a few fummers,
I doubt not but South End v/i!l be the
rage, fince, even in its infancy, Nobi¬
lity has deigned there to j«in in the
my flic dance, and the lovehefl of Eng'
land’s pride to grace the promenade on
the terrace.

The numerous round (tones of %'a-
rious fizes hanging in the cliffs, and
difperfed on the Ihore, ■ defei ve the vifi-
tor’s attention. Thefe, when broken,
fall into fmall pieces, each covered with
a thin petrified fcaie refembling bees¬
wax. Many of them are highly orna¬
mented with ftars of different-coloured
jTpar ; which, from the deep yellow to
the pale firaw, fpotted by corufcanc
rays, induce the Curiofo to give them a
place afnongft his ornamental curiofnies.

Old South End emulates, in a lefs
degree, the conveniences of its new
neighbours j the humble cottages of the
lilliermen, interfperfed with a few
houfes neatly builc, and furniflied as
lodging-houfes, have an agreeable ef-
fe 61 upon the eye j whiifi the inns af¬
ford viands and wines not at all inferior
to thofe ar the grand hotel, and, what
may be equally acceptable to many of
the vifitors, on much more reafonable
terms.

During the furn'mer, many parties of
ladies and gentlemen from Kent, parti¬
cularly the ills Shepway and its vici¬
nity, have vifited this delightful wa¬
tering-place 5 for, its proximity to
Sheernefs (where numerous boats to
convey you to the oppofite fhore are al¬
ways ready), the pleafures of a morn-
' ing’s fail, and the return by the even¬
ing’s tide, are great inducements to
take dinner at the Grand Hotel, Since

thefe improvements (which are fiill
continuing), the two turnpikes to Lon¬
don, through Rochford and along the
cordf, are much improved ; daily-
coaches pafs up and down, and a regu¬
lar poll of four days in the week has
been appointed by the Poft mafier-
general. T. C.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 20.

T N the Topographer, vol. IV. p. 407,
A is a poetical defcription of Weft-
well downs, in Kent, figned W, S.
fuppofed to mean V/illiam Slayter, of
whom the following account, extrafted
from Wood (Ath. Ox. II. p, in), is
prefixed :

“ He w'as born in SorHerfetfhIre, matri¬
culated in the univerfity of Oxford as a gen¬
tleman's foil of that county, and a member
of St. Mary-hail, in Lent term 1600, aged
Tj. Wi ence tranflating himfelf to Brazen-
nofe college, in 1607, he took his degree in
Arts ; the next year he w’^as made Fellow of
the college, proceeded in that faculty t6ii,
entered i,nto lioly orders, was foon after be-
neficed, and, in 1623, took the degrees in
divinity, being then in good efteem for his
knowledge in Englifh hiftoiy, and his ex¬
cellent vein in Latin and Engliih poetry. I
know not any thing elfe of him, only that
he, giving w^ay to fate, at Otterden, in
Kent, where he was then beneficed, in the
month of Odlober or November, 1647, was
there buried, leaving behind him a widow,
named Sarah.”

The Topographer adds,

‘‘ The church was re-built, a few years
fince, by the Wheelers (who have a fine old
raanfion clofe adjoining, now, 1 fear, going
to dtxay) ; fo that there can be no memo¬
rial of iiim remaining — ”

a conjetSture as abfolute as it is erro¬
neous, as the following inferiptions are
in the new church in good condition :

On a flat Purbeck ftone, in the mid¬
dle of the fpace, nearly oppofite the
puipit ;

Mors mild Ivcrvm.

Vita Mori.

Flic jacetGvLiEL. Slat YER, fa. the.doiSlor,
eccse. cath. mene. chefavr. Jacob, reg. coll,
prapofitvs. ferenif. Carol. Princ.
ciomeft. hvivs ecc. re61or.

Vir pietate infig. dodt. inclhvs ling. X

expert, ecc. pvgil fchifraat. debcliator.
philaretophill. philalethophill.
philandtophill. extat openbvs.

Ob. xiiii Feb. mdcxlvi. ast. lix.

On a flat ftorie at the South fide of
the above :

Spe refvrredfionis vitae,
hiciacet Margar£t TA;VxorGuliel.SIatyer,

fiU

*794-] St. George's lower ^ Canterbury. — Hcathfield Tower, 1163

fil. Lvc. AngelVid.Hen.Potens,qvi3sdecer. 29
cvm prel. grato partv n'.orien. I et fil. Maria
Slaiyer. Ob. i4eivfd. Ma'j mdcliiii vait:. fil.
Marg. Slatyer, ct 3 fil. Hen. Job. Lvc. Pocen.

reliqvit. . ^

Round the margin of the flone :

From thee, fweete babe, I p.aine and forrovv
found j [did wound.

Thy death, deare child, with greefs my halt

In the middle of the ftone, under a,
canopy, is dialed the figure of an angel,
with two fmall ones below aiming darts
at the other. Below is,

An Angel in her birth with Slatyer ends her
dayes ; [dies rayes.

A Margarite w^rapt in earth till Xt . . . . bo-
To live with angels bleft this more than angel
dies : [Slatyer lies.

Thus Pottin fleeping refts ; here Margaret

Above the figures is, Refurgam ; be¬
low, Frna Ex.

Yours, &c. Z. Cozens.

Mr. Urban, Canterbury, Nov. i.
■*‘HE fine old tower of St. George’s
church in this city, which contain¬
ed a flight of fteps afcendjng to the ftee-
ple, being recently taken down ; ihould
a iketch of it and the adjo’ning build¬
ings, with part of *;he gate to which it
gives name, be jpdged by you worthy
of prefervation, it will gratify many of
your readers here, who cannot behold
without regret the frequent demolition
of the edifices raifed by our anceltors,
which have w.thflood not only all the
force of the elements for pafi ages, but
alm'oft bid defiance to the mouldering
hand of Time. (See plate 11. jig. 1 ).

This handfome building was about
75 feet hi^'h, exclulive of its Ipire,
moft fubfirtiitially built of chalk and
flints, and finifhed with an embattled
parapet, banded and coped with flone.
in 1788, among the nectlfary altera¬
tions occafioned by new paving the city,
a faculty was obtained for' i^emoving
certain obftru£fions appendant to this
church; and, in order tp pieferve this
tower, certainly ornamental and ulefu!,
though its projection confiderably nar¬
rowed the llrcet in the part wliere^it
flood, an arched palTage was opened
for foot-palTengei s through its bale. The
incumbent weight very naturally caufed
a fettlement ; which, after fix years,
was fuppojed to vveaken the ftrufture fo
much, that its final demolition was re-
foivcd on, and immediately followed.

Yours, &c. J. L.

Mr Urban, , Nov. 6.

'S'5ND you a drawing of Heathfield
tower (fig. 2,); a flone building, 57
feet high. The bottom is an oftagon with
recefles. This bsautiful' edifice, which,
being fituated on an eminence, com¬
mands a view of the whole country
around, was built by Francis, Ne'wbery,
efq. who has a fine feat, called Heath-
field Park, about half a mile diftant, in.
honour of the late Lord Heathfield, the
gallant defender of Gibraltar. Over
the door is infcnbed, Calpes Defen-
SORI; the letters of which were call
from the brafs of one of the floating
batteries taken from the Spaniards in
that memorable fiege. PiCTOR.

Mr. Urban, Nov. 29.

PIS following articles, extra£fed
from a parifii Regifter, dated 1538,
Hen. VI. 30*^, now before me, may
perhaps 'amufe ibme of your readers :

Yours, &c. 1$,

. wher tbe Ld Cohham and

the Lord - Sr Walter Raulie wer ar¬
raigned wh . and condemned of

treafon . Mr. Broke was .....

“ Queen Elizabeth died on Thurfday
morning at Ridgmont, being the 24th of
March, 1602, wdien .... fovraigne fortye-
focr years and odd months.

The 28th of Julie, being our towne
feaft daye, the Sunday after Samt James
day, Kings James, kinge ot Great Hrittane,
Fraunce, and Ireland, was in his royal per-
fon prefent in the church of Houghton Con-
queft, with fundry ncble men, when he
he..rd fervice, and a ferrnon preached by
Ore Air. Bayle. This was the 28th Julie,
annoDom. 1605, regni regis jacobi fecundo.

“ • I here wear at church at the ferrnon wh.
the king, Duke of Linnoxe, the Earle of
Northampton, Henry Howard, Sr. Robert
Dynle, Earl of Salfbnne, Earl of Suffoike",
Earle of De’nfire, Earl of Pembroce,

and Dr. Watfon, Eilhop of Chi-
cheflre, the kmge’s amner, the Lord
and the Lord Wotton, and the L. Siaunope.

“The soch July, Thomas Archer, per-
fon of Hougl'itojj, preached at Hawnes be¬
fore the kinge’s majeftie . in'elenr-

Jy ai'ter the fermon ended, yt pleated the
king’s majeflie to caufe him to be fworne
his majeilie’s chaplaine in ordinarie, July
30th, 1605.

“ The great wynde, when the cytye of
Eriftowe, by the breakiog-in of the fea,
was ouerfloweu with water untill the jtreets
towards Gloiler were ouerfiuwed, and great
Ioffe of men and catrell, was the zoih of Ja-
nuarie, r’l regis Jacobi quarto.

“ Thomas Archer preached before King
James, at Tuddington, the 24 Julie 1608.

“ Henricus

1164 Epitaphs from Houghton Conqneft. — Merci Argcnteau. [Supp^

Henricus princeps, filius regis Jacobi,
obi.it ... die Nouemhris, j6tz.

The up-part of the cbauncellwas paued
with paving tyle by me Thomas Archer,
anno Dom. 1613, quo anno I caufed my
graue to be made with brick in the grounde;
and 1 made my cohin, whereon ar fet thes
figures 1623 ; au;i the reft of the chauncell
was paued by me anno Dorn. 16 . . with a
dore to the chauncell.

An. Dom. 1625 — The great plague.
Puried within the 07 parilhes within
the walls of the citie of London of all dif-
eafes 14,340; whereof rh. plague 9197.

From Auguft 25° . September 3385.

In one week there dyed within the cytie . . .
This year Bartliolomew'’ fair kept at Win-
chefter. All faires. forbidden wni 50 miles
of London.”

The following are fome of the epi¬
taphs in the parilh-cburch of Hi'Ughton
Conqueft, to which the above Regifter
belongs.

A monument reprefenting Archer
(who made the above entries sn the Re¬
gifter) preaching. Under neaih :

- “ Suftine et abftine.

Intus fi bene, ne labora.”

Inftruxi vivens mukos,

IN unc inftruo cumflcs:

Quod ftruit una dies,

Peltruit una dies;

Sic fpeciofa I uit
Spacioii fabrica mundi.

Sic oritur, moritur,

Vermis inermis. Homo ;

O ! me feliceui,

Qifi carnis fafee folutus,

Mutavi veris vitrea !

. Vana, bonis !

Fui Thomas Archer, capeilanus regis
Jacobi, re6lor hujus ecdeftse per annos 41.
invitaheepofuit, anno Domini 1620. set. 76.”
N. B. He died 16^0.

Quem tegat hoc marraor fi quer.as, ledlor
amice,

Awcleio Thomam junge, nomen habes.
Obiit 1 1 Febhi, 1633.”

A great ma.oy infrriptions on the
tombs of the Conquefts; the oldeft of
which feetns to be :

“ 31ol)aniie^i Conqu?!!, ai'nu'gef, Bo-

ininu^ M fpougljtDit tc* g:C- » . . . . .

nul qiiiDern Slelj’ obLt Dh' ........

mixQ iDcmiiu

Upon Grey, the itarped editor of
Hudib ras :

Sacred to the memory of
Zachary Grey, LL.D.
late redlor of this parifh ; who, with zeal
undilTembled ferved his God ; with finceiity
unafiedted promoted the interefts of his
friends ; and with real charity and extenfrve
humanity behaved to'wards all mankind.
He died Mov. 25, 1766, aged 78.^’

Edmond Woodward, efq.

Neere this place lyeth interred ; being line-
ally defeended from, t'le ancient family of the
Woodwards of this parifh, who have conti¬
nued hei'e before and ever fince the raigne
of King Edward the Firft. Hee was at the
time of his deceafe, a member of the Hon’ble
Society of the Inner Temple, London. Hee
dyed iTth of Aprill, in the year of our Lord
God 1659.”

Arms: A chevron Gu. between three
trefoils.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 8.

HE annexed remarks on the reflec¬
tions caft on the memory of Count
Merci Argenteau form part of a letter
from. Monfteur De Blumendorf, who
has ferved in the capacity of fecretary to
the embaiTies of the emperor to the
courts of A'^arfaw and London, and fi¬
nally to that of Verfailles, where he.
went 30 years ago with Count M. and
remained with him in that fituation till
th.e rime of his dep.arture from Paris for
the Low Countries, during the iifurpa-
tion of Vandernoot, when he was left
by that nobleman in quality of Chqrge
ties Affaires to the Emperor, which ap¬
pointment he held until the commence-
menr of hoftilities between Auftria and
France ; fince then he has been employ¬
ed in ail the negociation.s undertaken by
Count M. and from thefe cii cumltances
he certainly mull be enabled to anfwer
any unjuft aitacks made on . the conduce
and aftions of hisdepaited friend, which
he does with a zeal and warmtli that do
equal credit to his attachment to his
memory, and his regard for truth, efpe-
cialiy where thofe who are concerned
are incapable of defending themfelves.

Yours, L:c J. F.

Exti'asft of a letter from Vienna.

“ 1 feel myfelf fenfibly affedted by the inte-
reft you take in my juft concerns for the unex¬
pected and unfuituu' te deceale of the Count
de Mercy, in whom I loic a fecond father,
protedlo! , and 1 do not fcruple to fay raoft
valuable friend. The juft ice which you do
to the diftiiiguiftaed qualities of this great
mimfter ?s a real conlolatiou to me ; at the
fame time that it increafes my indignation
agai nil thole who have fuggefted to one of
your journalifts particulars of which you
have fent me extradls, a.mong which are
feveral circumftances totally deftitute of
foundation except in downriglit calumny.
It is fake that M. de Mercy furrounded the
Qu sen of France with his creatures', and it
was falfe that he was the firft mover of the
war againft France. It is equally unjuft for
. the Emigrants to afci ibe to tlie councils of
tins enlightened minifter the plan ofconquefts

from

I794’3 StriSfures on Collinfon’s Htfiory of Somerfetfliire. 1165

from our common enemy, and the mifchiefs
of the prefent war ; but the greateft falfe-
hood of all is the charge brought againft him
by them of having purchafed the property of
the French clergy, and particularly the ab¬
bey of St;. Valori, which is advanced on
very flight grounds indeed.” (See pp. 774,

858). _ _

Mr. Urban, Dec. 10.

URING the life of the late Mr.
Collinfon, I forbore pubhfliing
any ftri6tures on his Hiftory of the
County of Somerfer, that I might not
prejudice its fale. But, as almoft all
the copies of this work are now dilpo-
fed of, and the author is far removed
from the efFcSls of either praife or cen-
fure, it mav be an acceptable fervice to
offer a few obfervations on the defici¬
encies of the Hiftory, as they will not
only ferve as hints to other County
Hiitorians, but afford fome dire6V afiift-
ance to whomever fltal! attempt a new il-
Juftration of Somerletfhire, as recorn-
inended by Mr. Richard Locke, p. 980.
That ray cricicilm may be dealt oat
with drift impartiaiitv, I will begin by
premifing, that the general face of the
country is defcribed with accuracy ; that
many lenfible remarks are introduced
on the fubjeft of agriculture j that the
defcent of manerial pioperty is traced
with fidelity; that the more curious
monumental infcriptions, with the ac¬
companying arms, are copied with due
care and attention ; and that fome ufe-
ful extrafts are given from theRegifters
at Wciis Terpefting the endowments of
feverai vicarages. Of fome few parifiies,
fuch as the author’s own at Long Afli-
ton, near Bnltol, and that of Trent,
near Yeovil (for which laft we feem to
be indebted to the prefent reftor), a fa-
tisfaftory furvey ts given. But the in¬
formation afforded with regard to the
far greater number which this extenfive
and populous county contains, any com¬
mon traveller could tolleft that would
undergo the trouble of vifiting them.
An extraft from Doomfday Book is
generally given, though often incorreft-
ly tranflated ; then t\.liow the names of
the lord of the nianoi and of x.\\c prefent
incumbent of the living ; and in many
cafes It happens that it is not diftindlly
marked whether the benefice be a rec¬
tory or a vicarage. The pofftffors of
impropriations, the particulars they con-
fift of, and their values, are entirely
omitted ; the'prelent worth of ecclefi-
afticai benefices is not given, I believe,
in a fingle inftance 5 and there are many

parlflies in which no notice is taken of
the Valor of the 26rh Henry VI if*
(which might have been eafily colic
from Efton, or Bacon’s Lib t Rtgis),
nor of the more antient on-", n, ,d;' m
1291 by comm'fiion tr im Fop^ bll cho-
las. The 'e is, not gwen the d-i'e (;r
matter of a fingle Tenier, though great
numbers are prefervtd in ihe archiv^s
at Wells, and many of them fo ant ent
as the time of James I, being drawn up
in obedience to the c non* made in die
beginning of his reign. Thefe oould
have tlivown great light oh c cl-ui al
property. The terurn to the pari lament
commiffion in 1650 never occurs, »;•, r
are we often favoured wirh accounts of
the proceedings of the trufiees ; ^ Q^ieeii
Anne’s bounty. Patrons ot benentes
are generally omitted; and tiittc ..rc no
lifts of incumbents except in rwo or
three pariflies : the author contents hirn-
felf with giving the name of the clergy¬
man who poileffed the living at the time
of Mr. Rock’s perambulation, not it ail
regarding the predeceffors whether they
were men of eminence or otherwife.
And here I rnuft take notice of the bio¬
graphical department, which is fo ex¬
tremely jejune and meagre, that, if any
curious enquirer wants to know any
particulars refpefting the lives and ac¬
tions of the Worthies of Somerfet, he
mull not confult the County Hiftorian,
whole duty it was to commeniorate
every one who did honour to it by the
powers pf his genius or his prowefs in
ar,ms, but muft have recourfe to fome
other informant. Mr. C. tells him no¬
thing but what he picked up frona the
Biographical Dfotionary, and that in fo
very curtailed a manner, that, in fome
inftances, we have little more than his
name. Even of that great philoiophsr,
Mr. Locke, not a fingle circum fiance is
narrated except that he was born at
Wrington; fee vol, I. p. 209. The
date of his birth we muft leek elle-
where. it ought to be remembered,
that Mr. C. lived within four or five
miles of Wrington ; and, if he had pol-
feffed the true paffion of an Antiquary,
he would not have failed, examining the
Parifli Regifter, for the purpofe of fixing
the day that introduced into the Chril-
tian community lo very diftmguiflicd a
philofopher, and fo very able an advo¬
cate for the reafonablenefs of the Chrif-
tian religion. But why ought we to
expeft that Mr. C. ihould have exami¬
ned Wrington Regifter when he has not
honoured a fingle one with bi-s perulal ?
i Whatever

ii66 SiriSfures on OoWm^on^s

Whatever important entries any of them'
J5iay contain, they are flill buried in the
duft of the parifh cheft, or left to be de¬
voured by moths in fome obfcure corner
of the parTonage houfc, I thus exprefs
mvfelf refpecfing the care taken of pa¬
rifh regifters (whfch are evidences of
the firh confequence), becaufe 1 have
fcen many thus treated. I. could men¬
tion one fo old as the reign of Henry
VI II. that was ah' ndoned to the ravages
of worms, and damp, and every fpecies
of filth, on the top of an old bedhead.

The Britifh and Roman antiquities
with vihihh the county of Somerfet a-
bounds are touched very faintly ; the
mt>nafiic inftitutions are commemorated
with a brevity, and coldnefs that alrnotl
©ccafion difguft. In fpeaking of mo-
nafisries, the very magnificent one at
Glaftonbury naturally prefcnts iti’elf to
the mind' What reafon can be affigned
why Mr. Bonnor’s elegant pencil was
BCt permitted to immortalize the fuperb
ruins, of the chapel of Jofiph of Arima-
thea, and the grand pillars that fup-
ported the tower of the abbey church ?
The kitchen alone, which remains en¬
tire, would have been a fine lubje6I for
the draughtfman. But, perhaps, Mr.
Coliinfon thought that he had difcharged
jhis duty to iiis fublcribers in affigning
to the venerable remains of Glaftonbury
she corner of his map of the county :
but, I believe, I Ihall not be guilty of
sn error when I fuppofe that many a
reader of the Hiftory has paffed it over
unnoticed, not knowing what ruin it
was defigned for, or deeming it merely
a fancy woik for the embeliifhment of a
void corner. Mcft of the plates were
contributed by the proprietors of man-
JiQn-houJei, thougii there are fome for
which we feeni to be indebted to tiie
author; and yet fhe contributions of
his numerous fubiciibers (far more nu¬
merous than what has uftiered any for¬
mer County H ftory into tlte world)
might have enabled him to have given
a greater number. The cathedral and
panfti church at Weils, the beautiful
towers of St. Mary M igdalen at Taun¬
ton, and of St. John’s at Glaftonbury,
fine fpecimens of the florid Gothick,
liiould not have been negledled. Two
or three plates ftiouid have been appro¬
priated to the prefervation of the town
pieces and tradelmen’s tokens that were
jflued in the middle of the laft century,
in the fame manner as has been done in
Hutchins’s Hiftory of Dorlet; a work
which Mr, C. has often quoted, and

Hljlory of Somerfet fliire. [Supp.

whofti plan he would have ’done well to
have followed. But Hutchins was a
complete mafter ('f the {ubje6i — and Mr.
Coliinfon Ihall be allowed the benefit of
the adage, de mortnis nil nifi bonuriK

There are no lifts of members ol par¬
liament except of thofe for me county
and the city of Bath ; nor a word is faid
of the conftitntion of the feveral bo¬
roughs, nor 're any extrafts given of
the charters by which they have been
incorporated. Many of the large towns
contain antient trading companies, ^nd
are governed by antient corporate offi¬
cers, vvhofe origin and privileges flrouid
have been diftin6tlv afcsrtamed. Their
common feals, and thofe of the abbeys
and borough- iowiiS, ibould have em¬
ployed the graver of Mr, Bonnor. No
records are cited in ret ard to judicial
proceedings, though many might have
been introduced of giea* confequence to
landed ptopcVty. How far the county
has been- benefited by commiflions of
fewers we are not inforrned j what a£Is
of parliament have paffed for the con-
ft u6l;ion of bridges or roads, or for the
iinp.oving and inclofing the moors and
vvafte lands, we are left entire ftrangers
to. On the fubjeft of charitable foun¬
dations, the author faved hirnfelf the.
trouble of confalting original evidences,
by tranfcribing the tables hung up in
parifti-churches, which generally give
the name of the donor, but are often fi-
lent in rerpe6t to the particular purpofes
for which the chaiity was intended.
Long enough before the publication of
Mr. C’s book, a return was made to
parliament of the nature and value of
all charitable infiitutions. Copies of thefe
might eafily have been procured. But
why fi'iould we complain of this inat¬
tention, when not a fingie public office
was relbrted to except the Regiftry at
Wells, and even from that we have not
half the information which it would
have afforded. At the Tower, the
Rolls, and the Mufeutn, Mr. C. was
a perfebl ftranger : the officers never
heard of his name; and, though forne
records are cited in his work, we ought
not thence to conclude that he examined
them in perfon ; for, he derived his
knowledge of them from the Collec-
t.ons of the late Thomas Patmer, efq.
and others, without any other trouble
than that of f'oliciting rhe ule of them.

You will perceive, Mr. Urban, that
I have confined my remarks entirely to
fins of omillion; thofe of commiffion
muft be left to the animadverfions of

Mr.

1794-] Enormities at 5/. Domingo.

Mr. Richard Locke, who is far more
able to point them out than

Yours, Sic. J. B. R.

Mr. Urban, Dec,

F all the fljocking enormities com¬
mitted at St. Doniinfi^o fince the
French have recovered prifTcnion of part
of it, in confequence of the decree of
Convention for immediate emancipation
of the Negroes, be true, it is to be hoped,
for Heaven’s I’akcj we fiiall hear no mote
of abolilhing the fiave tsade. Ail the
horrors praftifed by the BriiTotine fac¬
tion in that unhappy iflandj before it
came into our poirduon, have been fuF-
ficiently detailed ; and it was impolilble
to w'pe out the ihame, or controvert
the truth of them. The wary Ameri¬
cans have purlued a wrier courfe by a
gradual difeour igeinent of flavery, and
reftorati m to libertv, welhknowing that
human nature cannot bear any other,
and lead of all the Negro race, who,
with ail th.e boad of what their common
nature is capable of, aie but a fet of
wild beads when let ioole without con-
troul. Theie inhabiranfs of the new
world appear to be indruments in the
hand of Providence to avenge the cru¬
elties committed by the inhabitants of
the old world in their difcovei ies of the
other hemilphere : but, that Providence
Ihould intruil to them the refioration
and eftablifliment of the equal nghis of
man, is no more to be believed than
that it fhould let looie the brutal fa-
vages of the woods on mankind. It is,
however, highly probable that tire juf-
tice of Heaven, finding that man, with
all his advantages, can lubmit to no
controul, but is daily waxing more and
more vain in his o\Vn conceit,;?, fliouid
leave him to the tendency of his own
imaginations, and, after he has jmaiffi-
fed every ineafure of his own to ella-
blifli them, Iweep away the human race
at once in the midft of them all. No
other confiderations can offer themfelves
to the refleifing mind, when it is the
manifed aim of a mighty people to drive
the Almighty out of the world. They
muft be fina.iy tofers by the conted.

A CONCISE View OF theScottish
Corporation in London.

( Cencliided from p. 873.^

HE union of Ipirit, and of opera¬
tion, in the two kingdoms, which
effedled the glorious Revolution in 1 6SS,
happily paved the way for the incorpo¬
rating utt oi Union in 1707, by which

-The Abolition of SlaveTrade ! 1 167

the two were confolidared into one great
kingdom, and the didin6lion of Eng¬
land and* Scotland began to difappearj,
and to 'melt awav, into the aufpicionfe'i,
common narneof Greaf-Britain. There
being, from that eventful epovh, but
one legillature for the whole Ifland’s
one feat of government, one court of
appeal, in the lad refort; one civil.,,
commercial, and political interefl ; th«
iuccrcouife of the two countries became
of couTe unbounded. The Engliifk
■Court of Exchequer travelled North¬
ward, and carr ed wi’h it to Edinbu-rgh
Engiiih law, Englilh judges, Engliila
practice, and Enghlli manners. Th«
doois of both Ploufrs of Pariiamenr,
O') the oriier h:md, opened for the ad-
miffion of the Scottiih delegates; and
this in te; change was highly beneficial
to both.

Ffoin the very nature of the cafe,
however, and from the well-knowm
cha'-aiffer of the S.totrifli nation, the
infiux from Notth to South muff have
been out of aU pioporribn greater thaa
the refiux from South to Nnrtb. Lon¬
don liad now become the alone feat
of civil government, as it had long
been the great centre of commerce, of
fcience, of arts, of induftry, of areufe-
ment, of opulence. Ail thofe, there¬
fore, who were fired with ambition, or
fiimulated by avarice, prompted by cu-,
riofitv, or preffed by want ; ail who
had iuits at law to determine, or litera¬
ry purfuits in hand ; all who poffcffc4
taleiits, O! imagined that- they poll-ffed
them — ail flocked to London, as to the
fluid of fame, of fortune, ©f enjoy¬
ment.

The number of fuccefsfu! candidates
was undoubtedly very gjeac-; but the
difappointeii, the unfuccefifui, 'the un¬
fortunate, increafed in full proportion.
Tune, which brings every tiling to the
tefl, at length demenfirated, that eveiit
the fecGiui Charter, that of 1676; had
put the Corporation on a fcale tiili too
f'mali to be of very extenfive utility and
effe£V. It was found that the flight ex¬
ertions of a great multitude mutt be ic-
conceivably more clh.irtit than the moS
violent efforts of a tew, liowever weii
thefe niigiic be difpoled ; and that, of
confequence, this very important chari¬
table Intticution mufi cither fink, or aa
attempt be made to fupport it by nzim^
iers.

Under this impreffion, and after vefy
niatute detiberanen,. it was refoived -lo
make application to his prelent MajeRy

tiji

II 63 Concife Hijlary of the Scottifh Corporation in London. [Supp,

for a new Charter of Incorporation,
conveying a farther extenfion, as to
number of governors, and as to powers
and priviliges, fuch as were adapted to
the exigences of the cafe. This appli¬
cation too was fuccefsful ; and a third
Charter was accordingly obtained, bear¬
ing date the 28th of November 1775;
by vvhich the Corporation is re-eftabli-
Hied, under the ancient name and ftyle
of “ The Scottifii Hofpital, of the
Foundation of Charles the Second :
and, inftead of a government vefted in a
mafter, with a limiied number of go¬
vernors and affiftants, it is by this laft
charter veiled in a pieiident, fix vice-
prefidents, and a^treafuVer; to be eleSl-
ed annually on St. Andrew’s-day, or
the day after, as the cafe may require,
and in fuch a number of governors as
by any future bye-iavy of the Corpo¬
ration may be determined, in other
words, the number of governors is,
with great wifdora and propriety, left
unlimited.

It ever has been a favourite obje£l of
the Corporation to create a broad, per¬
manent, and produ6live capital, to fe-
cure the charity, as far as it can be
done, againft contingent defertion, neg-
lefil, and decay. In conformity to a
bye-law, it is accordingly the pra^ice,
in order to the formation of iuch capital,
to inveft, in fome one of tlie public
funds, one half of every donation of ten
guineas, and upwards, to twenty; and
the whole of every donation of this laft
amount, or beyond it. The annual
fubfeription of one or two guineas,
which is the qualification that confti-
tutes an annual governor, and the moie¬
ty of the lower donations, are applied
toward the regular monthly expendi¬
ture. Every perfon, therefore, quaiin-
ing himl'elf as a governor for life, by a
payment of ten guineas, has the fatis-'
iaftion of being aflured, that one half
of his bounty is fo-much added to a per¬
manent fund of relief; and that, every
iliilling of a, donation or bequell amount¬
ing to twenty guineas, and upward,, is
part of a provifion made for tl\e mirera-
ble, not only of the prefent, but of fu¬
ture ages.

Every governor, whether annual or
for life, has the privilege of recommend¬
ing one, and only one, diflrelTed object
to the committee appointed for the pain¬
ful, but humane and meritorious, fer-
vice of receiving the petitions, and cen-
jfidering the cafes of the unhappy fufte-
ieis who come before them. This

committee fits at the hall of the corpo¬
ration, in Crane-court, Fleet-flreet, on
the fecond Wedhefday of the month,
all the year round, from fix in the
evening tor generally a very late hour,
according to the number of poor peti¬
tioners. All governors have a right to
attend thefe meetings of the committee,
and to fit, deliberate, and vote, as if
they weie fpecially nominated to that
efFe6l.

But there is ftill a very great propor¬
tion of opulent, fubftantial, thriving
Scotfmen, lefident in London and the
neighbourhood, who do not contribute
any thing to this charitable purpofe.
Many do not fo' much as know of its
exiftence, who need nothing but infor¬
mation, to be induced to (Iretch forth
the hand to promote it. For their fake
chiefly this concife view is, compiled ;
and it will infoim chofe into whofe
hands it may fall, that, for 130 years
lafl paft, there has been, and there is,
in London, a chartered company of
Scotfmen, and the defeendants of Scotf¬
men ; the end of whofe incorporation
is, by voluntary contributions, to create
a fund for the relief and afliftance of
poor Scots people who have not acqui¬
red a right to any parochial provifion in
England; and who have furvived the
power of labouring, or are difabled by
cafua^ty -and dileale, to earn a liveli¬
hood, or who, defirous to return to
their native country, are deftitute of
the means.

The number of fuch ob]e6ls is much
greater than is generally apprehended,
though by no means incredible to any
one who refle£l;s on the vaft multitude
of journeymen artificers in every branch,
feamen, day-labourers, the wives of
foldiers, fai!ors,and fervants, and others,
who are continually flocking'to London,
but never arrive’ at the nieans 6f ma-
king good a fetilehaent. ^ With it's pre¬
fent llender funds, the Corporation has j
of late been called upon to confider the i
cafes, one year, with another, df near
looo agcd, infirm, clifeafed, mutilated,,
"helplels creatures, who had ho other::
"refou'rce, no other hope ; and, hard ne- |-
celfity ! the adminifttators'**of thefejs
funds have been often obliged, witliii
bleeding hearts, to difrnifs th'e neceffi--
tons wretches.^ with a' very ‘inadequately

. ^^ppjy- / . ' \

It there be Scotfmen of fafhion andji
fortune, who either ftatedi'y or occa-f-
lidnally vifit the rne’tfopolis, whom they
Corpoiation has not yet the honour ofH

reckoning-!

. /

794*1 Conctfe Tlljiory of the Scottifh Corporation in London; 1169

"eckoning as members, it is to be pre*
umed they have never had proper ap¬
plication made ro them ; for, it were an
nfult to fuppofe it could be made in
vain. Notone of the Scottiih Peerage,
ivho has either an hereditary or an elec¬
tive feat ill the Britifh Parliament, could
polfibly reje6l a decent requifition of his
tountenance and fupport to fuch a caufe.
Phe whole forty-five Scottilh members
af the Houfe of Commons would un¬
doubtedly, to a man, deem themfelves
happy in adding to its refpefi^ability
ind permanency, were it properly re-
prefented to them. Of Scotfrnen not
in Parliament, there muft be a very
lonfiderable number of high birth, and
^reat fortune, who regularly pafs a
part of the year in London, and would
receive with pleafure a folicitation in
behalf of indigence and diftrefs. The
intermarriages of illuftrious and affluent
Englifh with Scottifh families might
furely be turned to good account, in
favour of a Scottifli charity. And let
it be acknowledged with gratitude, thst
many gentlemen, entirely Englifli, and
particularly a connderable proportion of
the Court of Aldermen of the city of
London, have been fo favourably im-
preflfed with the meritorioufnefs of the
objefV, as, at different times, to quali¬
fy themfelves as governors for life.

The number of fubflantial tradefir.en
From North-Britain, who have not yet
become members, either by donation or
annual fubfeription, is undoubtedly ve¬
ry great. Men of this defeription are
rifing into notice every clay ; they would
be flattered by an application j and, be¬
ing nearer in condition to the objefils
which the inftitution propofes to relieve,
are more likely to iympathize with
them, and to contribute toward their
comfort.

There are many opulent families,
row naturalized in Eimland, but of
Scottilh eactraflion, and that not re¬
motely, who alfurtclly would tfieem it
an honour to contribute to the relief of
the unfortunate natives of the land of.
their anceftors. i^rid why not put a
mark of refpeil on fuch, by making an
application that goes on a prefumpiion
of their generofity and attachment to
country, as well as of then humanity ?
The lifts which the Corporation regu¬
larly circulate are a happy demonftrati-
on that the ideas new fuggefted have
been, in part, realized ; and ..ft'ord an
encouraging prelage of farther counter
Gent. Mag. StippUmenty 1794.

nance and fupport. One of thefe lifts,
in particular, that of the PatronefiTes of
the charity, confers high luftre on the
Inftitution, and that luftre is reflefted
without diminution on themfelves. It
is but yefterday that the appeal was
made to Female compaffion anti genero¬
fity : iind heboid honv great a malier a
hitie fire kindle lb I the immortal fire of
charity, which ever burns, in its high-
eft purity, in the heart of a good wo¬
man. What is not to be expefted from
fuch an example of emulation, emulati¬
on worthy of Angels, emulation m do¬
ing good ! A. IT.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 29,

O W the mania of emancip.ation is
fomewhat abated, per.mit an old
correfpondent to fay a word or two on
that (ubje6t. With all hontfi men who
Lave been in Africa (and hardly any
man carr, be a proper judge who has
nor), 1 am 'perfeftly convinced that,
when a Slate is take'n to the \Veft In¬
dies, he experiences a liappy change,
aiid ought to thank God for it ; not-
withftanding all the cant of the Taber¬
nacle, or hypocrify of Convention Phi-
lofophers, may urge to the contrary.
Can the firft movers of the cry againft
Slavery be the friends to Government,
when they muft know, if they knovy
any thing, that the Slaves that are fold
would all be butchered in cold blood
unlefs they were ro be refeued by this
very cruel trade, as they are pleaied to
ftyle it ? The Africans are. all Slaves in.
their own country j and I believe it will
be allowed by every one, who knows
any thing of the mar.cr, that the Chrif-
tian mailer in- the Weft Indies is tin
worfe than the Evage Pagan they leave:
behind, initances of cruelty are col-
lef.led; but what trade or place is free:
Iroiu fraud of deceit ? Rafcals will per¬
vade all ranks and clalTss of men. The
idea of buying and jelling human be¬
ings is what mifUads the good people
of this country; but, if thefe hu.-nati
beingd are bettered by »he exchange of
mailers, where is the injury done?
And, if no injury is done to the Slave,
why, to give him his fieedom, and
make him more miferable, invohethe
nation in calamity and dillrejs ? No one
who is well informed, 1 beheve, but
Ihudders with horror at the 'dea when
freedom is to be given to Slaves, And,
ihould it ever happen, whicli God for¬
bid in the prefeat ftate of things 1 the

coniequence

1170 The Slcwe Trade. — III Confeq'uences of high Duty on Afait: [Supp;

conreqoence wiH be trerrrendous indeed.

Whatever cant the people’s heads in
this country may be filled with, I api
verv fure that thi? Weft- Indian Slave is
by far' a more happy mortal than our
own dav-labourers with ali their free¬
dom. They are better fed, ,\york Itis,
and enjoy more indulgences, erpeciaiiy
fince the'very high duty on. rudlt tn this
kingdom. Indeed, it is from this that
almoft ali the mifery of the poor origi¬
nates. It is this unhappy tax that
makes them all poor,, and ad foes. They
cannot now, as formerl y , brew at home;
tlie confequence. of that is, they adjourn
to the alehoufe; for, di ink they muft
and will have, whatever becomes of tlie
wife and children at home. Here it is
they get initiated in the ways of wick-
ednels, and many become thieves or
poachers. Hence arifes the increafe of
poor’s -rates, poverty, and mifesy.

it aonears to me that Government

I. J

are no. gainers by taxing this necellary
of life io high. For, .firft, inn-kcepers,
I am told (peihaps that fpecies the poor
refart to), do not ufe half the roalt they
-ought, but fupply the place by intoxi¬
cating drugs, tempted, no doubt, by
the high duty. And, fecondiy,. I be¬
lieve, twice the quantity of mak would
be ufed by almoft every farnily in the
kingdom^ and perhaps mere ; th’s cer¬
tainly would- .eompenfate Government
for lowering the prefent high duty. I
am of opinionj that a low duty on mak
t>nly, or none, would be a greater blelf-
ing to this nation than if ali other taxes
together were repealed; it operates fo
unhappily on that uleful body of men,
the farmer’s labourers, B. I. B.

Mr. Urban, D^c. 3s.

following letter was ablually
written by a perfon, who, hke
too many others, fancied that America
was the land of promb'e, where every
new- comer would inftantly roil in nches
and plenty. The gentleman to whom
jt was addreffed communicated it to fe-
■veral of his friends, who all concuned
in requefting him to make it pu-bli.', as
It triight help to check the fpirit of emi¬
gration fo prevalent in this country ;
and, by fhewing the dilference between
fadl and theory, ferve as an antidote to
the .poifon fo generally diffufcd by wri-
ters, who fcruple not to injure their
( native country by the grofleft reifrepre-
featations, and the molt barefaced falfi-
ties. It is more particularly meant to
aS’ufd- a piam aiifvver to a pamphlet

lately puhliflied by Mr. Cooper; the
m^'ft calculated, perhaps, to do mifehief
of any thing hitherto written, and
which IS in reality only an advertife-
mtnt (or fettlers, it being a well-known
facl, that the faid M.'. Cooper has ob¬
tained a grant of a very lai jjs tract of
land from Congrefs, of which he can¬
not make theexpecied advantage other-
wife than by peopling it with deluded
adventurers from this country. The
writer never chought of his letter being
made public, confequentiy took no
pains .in the compofition; and the whole
of it is given in his own words, with
only the precaution of ftriking out two
Or three paffages which were of a per-
f'onal or private nature.

An occasion al Correspondent.

S I R, ThiladelpUn.

We arrived in this promifed and much--
fouglr-for laud, flowing with milk and ho¬
ney, after a paffage of more than eight weeks
from leaving Gravcfeiui. There came over
in the fame veffel not lefs tuan 'oo paffen-
gers. During tlie paflags, 1 could eafliy dif-
cover that many of them emigrated from the
necelkty of leaving tiieir troubles behind ;
others, from motives of bettering them-
feives ; fame others, from an entire diflatis-
fadtion aMhe relative jtuation -'f their own
country. The great influx od ftrangers from
all parts of Europe, and parcicubiiy the
French from the Weft India ifland.';, forae
of whom brought confiderahle wealth and
money with them, and being accu domed to
pay heayily for all kinds of provifions ui the
ilkmds they carr.o from, raifeJ the markets
here full double, as I find it a general cuf-
tom to lie by for events-, that the' monied in-
terefl: may be properly lupplied.

We found, upon our nrft arrival, that
it coft us more than in London. Hou/e'^,
lands, near Philadelphia, are at an

enormous price ; fo, without a good capital,
a perfon makes but an indifferent figure
here. A great many wifh themfelvee. back
again ; however, raechanicks, labourers,
frnaU farmers, particularly tiiofe who do the
work chiefly themfelve?, are fom-'times bet¬
tered, a> tile price of labour is three times as
ni'ich/ as m England, and in many cafes
more. It requires a capital of fome hun-
died pounds fterling to procure a fituation ;
for, ihe bufinefs and Gircumftances of the
paii'engers are firft; ferutiaized into, and
whether they mean to fettle in the couatrv.- .
And, tliougli there are daily advertifemencs 1
of fituations for'farmers, millers, &c. either ;
to fell or let, thofc who have them to dif- '
pofe of have a fcientiiic method of knowing. ]
wlieiher the perfon applying muft, or is de-. ■
firous to, lidve it, as a diredd aufwer canuoE I
be obtained though exprelfed in very civil I
language ; fo that it is-ab-folutely necclfary to 1

coutinue- 1

f794-J Skuaizon of the Emigrants t

:ontina<? fome rime at a jrreat expence be-
;oie any frtt' meat can be prudently obtain¬
ed, thac a CO'. ipeient knowledge oi the cuf-
tom of the conntry may be had, i every
thing feeais to be traalacted rvitei' great deli¬
beration, or nie new co.ucr nta, have rea-
fon to rereat his barg.a'n, ..n:ch mull he
ablblntelv under black and wiiiie, :• hcie
tire nri. y of both colours in tins cuu.M'y. A
Granger comitig iicre, and hav ng iro ac¬
quaintance or place ‘o come to, : , v)b!iLed to
take up I'i^- rjuartevs at fome inn, wherefhey
fail not to .uueeai; without meicy his iait
coppe-'', as th; • tl nk he t - •, <■ t from him
to them lav/i .1 g . and '.oach ii.e) as
eagerly follow, /umi.ft e'-uiy h uue, or
prut o" a h.oufe, ■.$ a (1..)^ ^^f feme . • rchan-

ilile or other , tly, th.M; wrioie

bufinefs is empsoye'l liow they ihali acquire
wealth ; and iney wait, as a fpiUei for its
prey, ev^ry raeiaou tlisy can fuggeil in¬
deed, the great influx: of cinr,; -.nts from all
partq and of e/.cry del’cripti'ui, h.a' .hern
proper materials to work v:pon f.>r that
purpole ; and, if I mn' be allowed the ex-
prelhon, America feems to me what 1 Ihould
call the Botany Bay of the ivhole -world.

The vacant land in Arne; ica is a ch.arm¬
ing fund for larsd-jobb •• s of every de crip-
•tion, and they iiave ru..nc! S fer that -pur-
pofe ; and fome, M'orn their u owledge of
the hulinefs of tre State, paAicubrly liiole
in .Congrefs, and tr;e'.i coanvxions, make
immenfe ioi tunes, whicn ate caily increa-
fing from the prc'digtous influx of ftrangers
from all parts : 1 muji not fay fiom Europeoji

Lnnd-jobben', both in England and
Aniet ic.a, ,;Te inr refted in propagating re¬
ports of r.h. great advantage.s, emolumeiits,
and the eai'y hvi g, in America, compared
to Europe ; mu' privaie indivi ‘n tls having,
in cnniunftion v\rL!i Ute ' i: .fereded corre-
fponu'.nt'' here, Cv)ntrad,cd for large quanti¬
ties of land a" different limes, vvuicii they
want to 'nf.'-.A ta at an auva; ced rate, the
rage fo. '.m:graiion ,in ail parts of Europe
keeps u’p the bv.fmefs a: the .expence aiad
fully ct th fe who engage in it.

“ I'he leiilemtnt in Kentucky has been
defciabeJ as very flourilhing ; but, from what
1 can learn, the rage for emigration ihifhcr
is nearly .,ver in America; and therefore
there mule, i inould think, be lets induce¬
ment for Europeans to migrate thither : be-
fidcs, it IS not ahfoluCeiy ceuain, vviiea a
pnrenafer has C intradled for a lot of un¬
occupied laud, that he has not purchaiied
with It at ieaii 'a lavv-Cuit, if not a bloody
nofe, fet afide the claims of the Indians.

“ Great farmers make a fmall figure liere;
for, labour is veryitear, and the meivhiied
mull be uled le y difieiently tiom that cials
in El ^land, or ilicy will leai e their enquoy
immediately; they are paid trom r.. ()d.
ys. (id and even to lOi. per day currency,
and fuiau board and lodging; thole hired by

? dlmcnca feelingly defer ibsk^ ii‘j

tlic year are generally from 20, 40, or 60A
currency, £cr wages only. TJiey mud fit
at the fame table, and the fame provifion§y
indeed, whey will not fuifer any difference in
thefe particulars, and, fince liavery has been
abolillied in this il.tce, the farmers muff
e'esn the..’ own boots, fhoey &c. and bs
very careful to aflc them to do nothing but
what tiiey judge is the cufto'm nf the country,

1 efpedliog the > rights of fellow-citizens,
nauaely equality, i hey vyili not acknow.-
Icdge to liave any mailer or miftrefs, but
name tlnmi employ rrs. Little farmers fucceed
much better he: e, as they chiefly do the
.work themfelve.s, or hire as little as poflible,
and aiway.s work with thern, '

Ships are daily arriving with emigrants,
ioraefrom England, but moll from Ireland,
to the amiuuit of feveral hundreds in a veffcl,
and they are immediately fent off to the back
fctlLments ; indeed, they are landed at Wil¬
mington,, about 18 miles below Philadelphia,
thence to Pittfburgh, '.and thence dif-
pofed of to different lettlement^, when they
are feldorn heard of any more, the whole
country being fo interfedled wnth creek§,
rivulets, and water, that roads and direct
^conveyance cannot be obtained.

“ 1 hear that Dr. Prieiliey, or rather his
fon.s (as'ths Doclor him, felf affects to have no
con' ora .a the bufinefs) and Co. iiave con¬
tracted for a large quantity of land, eftimaied
at 300,000 acres, in Northumberland and
.Luzerne counties, in theflateof Pennfylvania,
about 120 miles from Phdulelphia, fituated
on the well branch', north of the Sufquehan-
nah river. The firll purchafe is one dollar
(45. (id. fterling, or ys. bd. currency,) per
acre, and the fa ft fettlers are to be indulged
at one dollar and half, afterwards at two
dollars or more, per acre, as they can geC
cuftomers, undoubtedly after the American
falhion.

“ What I have faid refpeiflLng America
rauft not be taken upon a general i'cale, for
here are nrany worthy charaiilers, of which
fort I have fortunately found feveral, from
the ‘ recommendations of my L lends in
England; I believe by their afliflance 1 fhall
do very well; for, every bufinefs is well paid
for here; but it takes fome time to form
connexions, and is ‘attended with great ex-
peiice, therefore ihould never be at'teinpted
in' the evening of life. The Americans look
with a.jealous .eye upon ftrangers, particu¬
larly from England, and treat them as if
they meant giving more than afilent difgufl,
which is increafed by a llrange idea, that, if
it were not for the Englijh, they might live
without labour,

“ I have been alked by a gentleman to
whom 1 have been introduced here, and who
has ihewn me inuch kindnefi, wiiat motives
I had in leaving Old ^.nglanl i I anfwered,
to better mylelf and family — He afkell, if I
had done it, or had any profpedl to do it ?
1 anfwered, that my family were at prefent

1 1 721 Emigrants to America.-T--Swifs,^;2i French [Sapp.

in great meafure provided for, but how long ^ will inflrufl me how I may render myfelf
it might laft I could not tell, as every thing ferviceable in communicatiqg a proper ac-
was very fludluating — He advifed me to count ryhich may prove ufeful to individuals,
return-^I affured him, I fhould have no ob- who like myfelf have overrated the great ad-
jedtion, but did not approve of returning vantages they expedl, not one of which I

/■wounded; befides, by continuing I iliould
have an opportunity of giving my friends in
England a, more proper defcription'of the
country, and what they might expedl here,
than they had hitherto met \\n\h from thofe
flattering accounts already fublified in England,
“ The Frei'ich have contradted for large
quantities of land, and I find that the beft
method js to join in a body (I mean induf-
trious men, fuch as farmers, labourers, fmiths,
carpenters, wheelwrights, ihoe-m'akers,
tailors, &;g.), that they may be able to fupply

have found as yet realized.

I am, &c.

each other''s wants, or the careful ftore-

keepcrs fettled upon the coafi: willeafethem
, of their w^ealth and money they bring with
them, and give them little or nothing in
return.

“ The only American coin I have feen,
are copper cents and half cents, loo of the
former to a Spanifh milled dollar (45. 6a.
lie! hug, or ']s. td. currency at par). — the
bank, keep their accounts in milled dollars
and cents, others in pounds, Ihiliings, and
pence, as in England, called currency, 100/.
iberiing being 166. 13 4, currency, at par
of exchange; but there has been of late a
great demand for Lon lon bills, w-hich has
railed the lool. fterling to 182. 10. o. curr.
beig nine per cent above par. At New
York they have nothing but Spaniflr money
and paper notes, called Jerfey notes, of dif¬
ferent value, fuch as one penny, tw'o, three,
four, fix pence, ^c. and winch notes the
• honell innkeepers on the roads in the fame
province refufe taking, fo that a ft ranger
mufi: take particular care to have ready
change in his pocket, or they will give him
inch as he canin-t difpofe of without lofs.

Mr. Urban, Coffee-Houf,,

Dec. 25.

IDESII'vE you will return my thanks
to Impranfus for his polite' invi¬
tation, which I muft beg leave to decline;
a bottle of Swifs wine wiU never tempt
me to make new acquaintances, what¬
ever [ might be induced to do by a batch
of French Cole rotie. That is the Cote
for me, and the wine connoilTeurs mean
when they talk of Cote. I do not deny
the appellation to wines in Switzerland.
There are vlns de la Cole in many parrs
of France, even in Bria, which is a
diflrift proverbially noted for the bad-
nefs of its wines. The fituation is fuf-
■ ficient to give the name to the produce.
As Impranfus allows my other remarks
on Mr. Gray’s work to be juft, why
does he make a difplay of his own
leading at the expence of mine.? and
why does he pronounce thofe mad that
trull to the word of Dam as iP PUS ?

Mr. Urban,

Erin. Coll. Cambridge

For the remainder, , indeed, my good Sir,

what would he called by fume Ivvindling i
here cuftdm, 'and, as I am told, pradlifed

December 19.

N aufwer to your correfpondent MM.
p. 936. enquiring whetherany of the
Uvedale family married with any of
William of W ykeham’s female defeend-
aats, or, as it fhould have been ex-
prelfed, defeendants of William of
Wykeham’s^^rr, I can only fay, tha^
no fuch marriage appears to have taken
place. Ill” regard to M. ATs fecond
query, I do not find that Agnes

little or much by all univeifally from Nova Chawmpeneys had any male ilTue, but
Scotia to Florida. ‘hat William Wykeham, fon of her

Dr. Prieftley has been attacked on ac- d.augluer Alicia, was heir to the Wyke-

count of his religious principles, and in con-
fequencc. a paper war has already commen¬
ced. The Dodlor is not pleafed witli his re¬
ception, and 1 hear, for my comfort, is as
iga- Titiit as_^myfelf reipedluig lire w liole mafs,
and feparate views of particular ftates, each
of which has a different intereft; to purfue
incompatible with the good of fociety in

ham farhily : at his death 'the efface
went to Sir Thom.;s Wykeham, Knt,
and afterwards by an heir female to
Wiiiiara, fecond Lord Say and Sele *.

Your correfpondent having given rae
fo fair an opportunity, 1 beg leave to
o|fer fome obfervations on the con-

general

nexion of my family with the cele-

“ 1 fear that I have already tired you with brated William of Wykeham.'

my confufed aiid unconneiffed account ; but,
if not loo troublefome, I could wifli, as you
Were fo kii’d as po fay you would honour me
v\’iih a line in return, t! at you would fend
me an ari'angement of w'liat, from} our ex-
j>erience in the world, you may judge proper
for my inveffigation. It will be a rule for
my future purfuits the time I am here, and

We are certain that Wykeham’s pa¬
rents were unable to give him a liberal
education, and that this was fupplied by
a patron. As to the name of the patron
--It has always been fuppofed (lays
Bifhop Lowth) rather from a common.

Coilins’j. reer.ige, YZ. 30, fifth Edit-

^raditioA

[794*] Family of Uvedale, Patrons ofW, of Wykeham.' 1 17^

tradition than from any authentic ac¬
count I can meet with, that Wykeham’s
firft and great benefaftor was Nicholas
Uvedaie, lord of the manor of Wyke-
ham, and governor of* Winchefter
caftle, an officer of great note in thofe
days

Suppofing Nicholas Uvedale to have
been governor of Winchefter caftle as
aforefaid, it is not only extremely pro¬
bable, but amounts to a certainty, that
he patronized William of Wykeham,
for the latter was undoubtedly fecretary
to the conftable of Winchefter caftle,
and the marriage of his nephew with
Alicia Uvedale 3 farther proves his con¬
nexion with the Uvedale family. Dr.
Thomas Martin, in hislife of Wykeham,
feems to fay that the tradition of William
of Wykeham’s patron having been
Nicholas Uvedale, is fupported “ ex
codice pervetujio Unjedallorum^,'*

Leland’s Itinerary mentions the cir-
cumftance of the U vedales having been
the firft patrons of Wykehamj but
Bifhop Lovvth thinks that Leland did
not write that particular part, becaufeit
is elfewhere ftyled “ Dr. London his
Reporte” ; he likewife doubts the truth
of the whole account. It is, however,
obfervable, that the great antiquary
Thomas Hearne exprefles not the leaft
doubt of the truth of the report, or of its
being Leland’s produ61;ion. Hearne has
added this title — “ Notes concerning
William of Wickham.'* The term Jcan-
dalous has, by fome ignorant perfon, been
applied to the report, probably becaufe
it mentions the iuppofition of W.ilham
of Wykeham being a baftard. Thts,
however, is not affirmed for truth (as
Hearne juftly obferves) but is only men¬
tioned as a fuppofition of fome people,
not as a thing which Leland believed
himfelf. See the preface to Leland’s
Itin. Vol. IV.

Granting that the note’s were Dr.
London’s, yet, had Leland thought
them fcandalcus and untrue, would he
have tranfcribed them ? In the follow¬
ing particulars at leaft, I think, we have
no good reafon to fufpeft the truth of
the report.

^ Lovvth’s Life of Will, am of VVykeham,

p. 13. To the fame eftetft, vita et res gejias
Gul. iVickami, Oxon. 1690. p. 116,117.

3 See Append. No. II. of Lowth’s Life of
\V} kehani.

Ldit. Oxon. 1690. p. 116. Query- — Is
this MS. now extant; is it in the pollellion
<>f Lord Carl. fie, or any other defcendant of
the Wykeham branch of the Uvedr^ e family ;
if nor, in whofe polfeftion is it?

Perot brought up by Mr. Wodale of
Wikam learned gramer, and to write faire.’*

“ The conftable of Winchefter caftle, at
that time a great ruler in Hampfliire, got
Perot of Wodale, and made him his clerkeS.’*
Now, Mr. Urban, in ihefe articles,
Leland’s Itinerary materially differs
from Martin and other authors. The
Itinerary ftates that Perot was brought
up by Wodale or Uvedale of Wikam,
and that the conftable of Winchefter
caftle got Perot of Wodale, &c. but, ac¬
cording to Martin, Nicholas Uvedale
was William of W^ykeham’s firfl bene-
fa6lor, and the lord of the manor of
Wykeham was the fame perfon with
the conftable of Winchefter caftle.

This difference between the two ac¬
counts is, I am inclined to think, a
prefumptive proof of the authenticity^ of
that in ihe Itinerary. For, unlefs I am
much miftaken, Nicholas Uvedale was
never lord of the manor of Wykeham.
The Uvedales of Wykeham are def-
cended from Peter de Uvedale 6^ vvho
Was fummoned to parliament among the
barons in the 6th, 7th, 8ch, and 9th, of
King Edw. HI 7 j and was polfeHed of
confiderable efiates in Hampfliire, Surry,
Norfolk, Combridgefhire, and Suffex.
This Peter, Lord Uvedale, fucceeded,
his father Sir John de Uvedale in his
eftates, 1321, and di d about 1345
It fnould feem, therefore, th.:»^t Ni¬
cholas Uvedale was not lord of W^yke-
ham manor, and that Peter de Uvedale
was William of Wykeham’s firft bene-
fa6tor, who recumniended him to the
governor of Winchefter caftle. And a
paffage in Wykeham’swiil may, perhaps,
be thought a farther confirmation of the
account in the Itinerary — “ Lego Jo~
hanni U'Vedaie unum cyphum argentcum,
uel aliud jocale ad valor em decern mar-
carum^.’* the John Uvedale here
mentioned was, I fuppofe, the fame who
was ftieriff of Hampftiire, 2 R. JI,

1 Hen. iV, and of Surrey 17 R. II,
and was moft probably a defcendant of

5 Leland’s Itin. IV, 151, Append. 2d
Edit. Stowe, (Chron. p. 332. Edit. 1631.)^
Ipeaks to the fame eltedi, in nearly the fame
words. See alto Holinftied, &c.

^ Eng. iiaronetage, Vol. 11. p. 321. Edit,
1741. under Coihet of Leighton.

7 Dugdale’s Summons of the Nobility to
Parliament.

^ BJomefield’s Norfolk, HI. 108. VVm. of
Wykeham was born at W.yiceham, A. D.
1324.

Lov\’th’s Life of Wykeham, Append.
No. KVil.

William

.I0jf4 Conduit of the Medical Board In Staff Promotion, fSupp,

"VViifiam of Wykeham’s firfl benefaftor
Ptter de Uvcdale, afterwards Lord
tJvedale, from whom likewife de-fcended
-three principal branches of the TJ vedale
family, the Uvedales of Wykeharn,
ilamp&ire, and of More Crictuil, and
lioiton, Dorl’efSiire* Yours, &c.

* Robert Uv^edal^. -

Mr. Urban, Br/fol, Dec. 25,
"CONVINCED that you wifh your
< publication to be the vehicle of
truth, and as truth can leldorn be ob¬
tained without esaminiitg both bdes hf
an argument ; 1 make no apology for
troubling you with a few remarks on a
Jctter which appeared in your Magazine
•of lail month hgned Emeritur,” con-
dernning the condu£l of the niechcal
board with refpe6't to iLfi-promotion,
and finding fault with rite arrangement
and execution of thofe duties which
parikulaily attach to hoTpital furgeuns.

Defore I proceed tofettliis gentleman
right in the manifold erroiS he has
cornmitced, I muft beg leave to fay,
that hss fentiments and the language ui
which they are conveyed fpeak him, to
my conception., the vi6lirn of mortifica¬
tion and difappoin tmenr, mofe 5 ban a
-man a^hiated by that difinterertednefs
and purity of motive which he avows.

To prove the exifience of all thofe
abul’cs of which he complaiOf:., he refers
,10 “ common report.,” whicii m this
•infiaace fo completely veiities the old
-adage, that the poor man is cooltaiuly
reckoning without his lioft.”
if he would take the trouble to con-
'Ca'c viie Gazettes ■iiuce the efiablilhmenc
^tof the nicdicai board, he wcspld find
■that at lea.fi; ten regimental furgeous have
been advanced to the fiaff, and, by much
the greater pare of them, men u-ot new
so ihcir bulinefs, but who were then
.affuaUy on iervice. Nay, foppofing
ills dficrtion to be true, it bears no proof
wuti it, in my op.-nson, “that the ad-
■vifers of the plan have never feen aiifual
fervice, and that therefore th; ir advice
ougiu to be over- ruled it ordy
proves, chat the plan did not accord
with the wifiies of trie complainant, ivlio
perhaps ivds Jeen icrvicc.

1 m-ufi here beg leave to ohrei ve, that
feeing ) twice d->fs not nacor diy and
coc. it pucntly beilo'w arg.-e penetration,

lud '•■•“*'■

lot

Ec. Eaubv

to ?r:ci u, hat ‘
talk io doi.w companions..

m £ n t, p c r ■. 1 a c n t r c a I o r. i n ;■■*• .
may have miwit t.icie
ns at beftbui an iovidious

There arj
tti V’. ho mull h^ve t-YCi.y fubjecilub-

muted to their bodily eyes before they
can be brouijht to any conception of it,
who inufl (ro ufe the common phrafe)
have every thing into themi there
are alfo who, with their mind’.s eye,
can penetrate much farther into any
matter, realbn on it more accurately,
and draw concluru-ins rno'-e jufi and
cogent, than thole whofe optics ar€
obliged to furnifli them with every idea.

l.'hdr operations of confequence can
febdoi-n be performed on the feene of
a£lioa, e»ery candid man converfimt
with field-practice iniu't confe!% Ic
might take place in cafe of a general
pitched battle, where the fate of the day
v\'3S to detrrrnine the fare of the armyj
hut in engsgernents of lefs magnitude,
fuch as happen on piquets, &irmilhiPg,
&C, the belt thing to be done generally^
and the only mre tuo often is, to pur the
patient into a fp^'iftg n.V'yg.gcK, and con¬
vey him to tisegeueral hotpitai.

“ Whe-e,” fays Emeritus, “ is the ’
\oung fieff ■ furgeon to be found at thele
jundlures?’ “With the genera! hof-
pi’.al, twenty or thirty miles from the
fpot, and oken double or treble that
ddiance.” Th's is a bold airertion.,
and, if true, would throw alevere ftigma
very defervedly on the common fenle of
thofe to whole care the iivco of jo many
brave fellows aie entrufiedj but the caliu
unbialfed voice of truth proves the
ailercion as fcilfe as it is bold.

O-i the continent, the general hofpita-i
is divided ;n to three parts, one of which
confiantlv follows the army in all its

' j

movements, and is eilablil^ied as near as
podible to it j a phyfician, tiiree or iour
lurgeons, and an apothecary, with a
certain number of mates, compofe the
eftabliilirnenr. No engagement ever
takas place but one or more flalT-fur-
gcons, with each two mates, and a cart
or carts with inftruments- and other chi-
rurgica! apparatus, and a few medicines.,
regularly attend.

As i am not fo warm a zealoc for re¬
gimental feivices as my opponent, he
will excufe me from leconding his eu-
logia j neither will I, having nothing to
praife, fay all the truth that I tnighr,
uj ermtradidtion to what he has advanced,
Ttiere aie amongit regimental furgeous,
as in any other let of men, fome who
would do honour, and others Uiicred't,
r » ororrotion. I have known limbs

i'Uit to the h.ofpital that might have
hern t.?ken olf oa or near the field, the
nepUi't ot which has toll the maimed
iuUeret? their lives. 1 have known the

touiniquet

'1794*] Nicholas Kiimliis.- — Remarki oh the French Telegraph, 1175

tourniquet applied in a fituation where
it could be of nf> kind of fervice ; but
much may be owing to the hu»ry and
icqnfulion of the monienr, which none,
but thofe who liave witntiled, can pof-
fibl V conceive.

With lefpeCf 10 rank, none whatever
attaches to medical men from the resii-
mental mate upwMrds j on this (core
therefore, the legitnental fuigeon has
nothing to iamenr, end, wMth refpe£f to
emoluments, f;e, better paid than the
(urgeon on the liafk.

i‘ fhail conclude with hinting, that he,
who “ with manly fplrit c^n barolh
mortifying rePicxit.ns frtuTi his bofom,'*
cannot properly be laid to “ futFer”^irtuch
from them ; rny opponent, 1 fear, is
tortured by the p.iin, without fpiric
enough to diive it into extie. Yours,

T. F.

Mr. Urea-n, Dee. S.

*^/ OUR correTpondent D. II. p. itoi.
in regard to the proverb,

I'ncidit in .Scyllam, cupieus vitare Charybdira,
conjt£lures rightly, that it is taken fior.«j
“ Erafmj Adagia,’^ where is iikewife
the hirnc in Greek,

Tijy IxipuyA, 7v TpiETe-

COJ'-

Vide ErafThi Adagia, p. 1259, under
the article “ Malum fiiale vitaium ”

Yours, &c. N. B.

Mr. Urban, IVaheJidd^ York.

F you receive no better anfwer to the
query of C, T.' p. 256 of your va¬
luable Mag-.zine frr Match, 1794, con¬
cerning N.choias Klimius, you may in-
fo?m him, that it was originally written
in Latin, the title “ Iter juhterr aneutn^'^
fomc fixty or feventy years ago, by Baron
Holbergh, profedTor and ciianccllor of
the univerhty at Copenhagen : it wss
foon after tranfiated into Dutch, by the
title of Klaaj Klim's onderaardfe Heizstj j
alfo into German and French, See. Sec.

Any learned Dane in London could
pive afuil aniwtr to C.

Baton Holbergh has written fome
volumes of very good plays-in the Danilh
language, whicfi I have read in Low
Dutch and in Germ'’.n, as alfo his life,
and a lid of his literary works, though
I c nnot now recollect wlien he was
bu-n (I believe the beginning of this
century.) He died about twenty or
twenty- fi ve years sgc. 1 have none of
his woiks litre except Klaas Kltmf in
the German trar.ilartor;. Lxcule tiks

imperfeift account of an author who was
born in low condition, but ennobled bf
the King of Denmark for his uncorhrnoa
abilities applied to the benefit of his fel¬
low- fubjedfs. Yours, &c, H.. P.

Pvlr. Urban, Barro^v, Dec. 25V

€ '

~7^

OMIL peifons, perhaps, msay think:
that ihc French Telegraph,
defciibed in p. 992, is only an exhibi¬
tion of the above figures, which have
been long known to young people, an<l
ufi-d as a cypher ; but it is of the verf
poorefi kind, though it has one form.,
the central one, or fquare e, which tho^
Telegraph has not ; which, however, is
decidedly fuperior by doing its bufine.'s
cbmpletely under many more varieties,
of form than are wanted ; and its im¬
portance, which on ail occafions is ijs-
difputable. It is, therefore, delirabie
to know as much of tire matter as may
be. What puzzles me is, that a bean-^.
(1 fhoLild rather funpofe it to be a board
or plank) 12 feet long and one broad^
painted of a dark-broTJon colour^ Biould
be vinble at the difiance of three or four
leagues, i. e, nine or twelve miles. If
telefcopes will do this, I fbouid think
a brsfs plate, well gilt, of the above
length an.l breadth, would be ni ore ma¬
nageable and more vifible,* but, whai:
is more important, if this was covered
with fieeiy-fwinging lamps, I think k
rmeht be diflinjtuifiiibie in the n vht as
leall as far as the brown board bv dav,.
if common lamps, fuch as are ufed ia-
illuminations, fufpended, and fieelf
turoing. on hooks, would not do, the
tolling lanip's ufed on ihip- board cer-
tauiiy would. 1 have feen, but cannot
now recolledl, liow far the light of a.
fingle candle is vifible. (Q^. twomiies?^
Lighthoufes with lamps a^e much the
moft appioveci, and ar.- vifible from fca
20 miles, which is as far as the con¬
vexity of tlie fe-i will permit, and nearly
equal to the difiance between Calais
and Dover

Of what vaft confiqnence a power c?
communicating fecie: intelkgence wirh
i’afety a.nd ceriamty at this rate may
fonietimes prove, need not be ii firud

* See Lh.e Town and Count) y M.igaz ne
for April, 1778 ; fici-au, ip .'v.r, Gi’l-
lingwatei's Hiiiory oi I.oweRub, p.^73. ‘

on :

Iiy6 Hints towards an Improvement of the Telegraph, [Supp^

on : and, if I am miftaken in fuppofing
that gilt brafs would be feen as far, or
farther, in the day-time than a brown
board, the extenfion of the inftrument’s
ufe to night-work, or nearly two thirds
of^the 24 hours in winter-time, is To
confiderable, that it may be advilable to
have one of each fort at every fiation.
Suppofing this propofal to be approved ,
of, the whole machine might be made to
turn roun<l, and the back covered with
the mirrors and lamps; and fo a fecond
machine is unnecefl'ary. The machine
I propofe might be wholly covered with
three rows of plane mirrors, each four
inches fquare, the middle row flat, the
others a little raifed ail along the out-
flde. V

P. S. It feems to me that the ma¬
chine’s capability of turning round is of
importance, as a liitk obliquity may
occafion its being more enlightened by
the funfhine, and confequently more
vifible at the next place of obfervation.
This invention, for its flmplicity, and
the confequences that may be expelled
from it, may deferve to be ranked with
any fince that of Printing. Peed.

Mr. Urban, 24.

H vtZYilvcre n^occvis -fcclib vjfi Aawv.

OUR defeription and plate of the
Telegraph, p. 992, has combined
with the circumftances of the times to
make me think on the fubjeft. What
you will here receive has been che refult.

The principle of U:ie Telegraph is
very antient ; it is of Greek origin : and,
though its firfl inventor is not certainly
known, it was improved and perfefiled
in its then confttuftion by no lefs a man
than Polybius'-^. He has deferibed it in
his Hiftoiy. The Englifli reader will
find it in Hampton’s elegant and valu¬
able tranflation.

The modern Telegraph is, in fome
refpefts, an improvement on the Greek ;
but with the great difadvantage of being
ufelefs in the night. That which 1
lhail propofe I hope combines the prin¬
cipal advantages of both.

In that deferibed by Po!}bius, the
fymbols which expreffecl the letters of
the words which required to be con¬
veyed were rendered confpicuous as be¬
ing made by torches : and they were
viewed through tubes ; which, by con-

We are much obliged to W. W. D.
who had before .pointed out to us this paflfage
in Polybius. Eoit,

fining the fight, not only rendered the
vifion more diftinft, but made it eafier
to avoid errors in number or pofition.

To x\\t. perfediion of an inflrument of
this kind, it feems to be required that it
Ihould be fimple in conftruflion and
management ; eafily diftinguilhable by
day or night; quick in combining the
neceflary figns ; and thofe figns as few
and clear as poliible.

Nothing feems to me, at prefent,
more likely to unite thefe requifites than
the inflrument of which I have made a
rough diagram ; and which, at the fame
time, may be ferviceable on a variety
of occafions, when graduated to pr6-
portionably fmall divifions ; for deter¬
mining bearings and diftances of tow¬
ers, mountains, elevated camps, &c.
by meafurement of angles ; and particu¬
larly for afeertaining the line of march
of an approaching army, or the pofldon
cf a fleet. When this ufe is clefigned,
the inflrument llipuld turn on ftrong
hinges, with a proper foot to fupport it,
that, from its perpendicular pofition,
when ufed as a Telegraph, it may be
made horizontal. It may then, the ex¬
tent being fo confiderable, be graduated
to feconds with great clearnefs and ac¬
curacy, or even lower if wiflied, ac¬
cording to the ufe for which it is in¬
tended when thus applied. As a Tele¬
graph, its divifions will be few indeed.

It confifls of a SEMICIRCLE, to be
properly elevated^ and fixed perpendi¬
cularly on a ftrong fland. The radius
12 feet; the femicircle, confequently,
fome what mors than 36. This to be
divided into 24 parts. Each of thefe
will, therefore, comprize a fpace of 18
inches, and an arch of 7® 60' on the
circumference. Small trial will deter¬
mine at what diftance this portion of a
femicircle on the given radius will be
feen under fuch an angle with a tele-
fcQpe of a common power, as will dif-
tinguifli the divifions without difficulty
or confufion. if the diflance at which
they would be diflin^l with this radius
ffiould be found too fmall, it may eafily
be increafed, as a double radius, would
give a fourfold increafe of the apex of
the intervals and apertures on the cir¬
cumference. But, when it is confidered
that the objects to be viewed will be of
the figure moil eafily diftinguilhed, that
they will be luminous, and arranged
upon a curve particularly fuited to af-
certain their intervals and politions, I .
apprehend it will be found that, with a J
power of about 80 or 100, the Tele- I

graph i

1794*] Propofal for an Improvement of the Telegraph: ^^77

graph would convey its infoimation by
2: femicirde of the propofed radium duly
elevated at the diftance of two or three
leagues. And its ufe to us would be
chiefly within a moderate diflance from
the coaft.

Tbefe 24 divifions to be occupied by
as many circular apertures of fix inches
diameter; which will leave a clear
fpace of fix inches on each fide between
the apertures.

Thefc apertures i beginning from the
left, to denote the letters of the alpha¬
bet, omitting K, J ccnfonant, V, X,
and as uleiels for this purpofe.

There are then 21 letters. The four
other fpaces are referved for signals.

The inflrument to have an indeXy
»jmoveable by a windlafs, on the centre
of the femicirchy and having two tops,
according as it is to be ufed in the day or
nigbt \ one, 2 circular top of lacquered
iron or copper, of equal diameter with
the apertures (and which confequently
will eclipfe any of them againft which it
refts) ; ihv- other, a /pear or ariow-
ihaped top, black, and highly polifhed,
which, in {landing before any of the
apertures, in the day-time, will be dif-
tinclly vifible. In the mgbt, the aper¬
tures to be reduced by a diaphragm
fitting clofe to each, fo as to leave an
aperture of not more than two inches
diameter. The diaphragm to be of
well-polifhed tin ; the inner rim lac¬
quered black half an inch.

All the apertuies to be illuminatedy
when the inftrument is ufed- in the
night-time, by (mall lamps; lO which,
if neceflary, according to circumflances,
convex lenjes may be added, fitted into
each diaphragm, by which the light
Gent. Mag. Supplement y 1794.

may be powerfully concentrated and
increafed.

Over each aperture one of the five
prii'matic colours leaft likely to be mif-
taken (the remaining two being lefs
dillinguilhable, and not wanted, are
beft omitted), to be painted ; and, in
their natural order, on a width of
eighteen inches, and a depth of foury
redy orangey yellowy greeny blue ; or.
Hill to heighten the contrail, and render
immediately luccelfive apertures more
diftinguifhable, red, greeri, orangey blue,
yello^jo. The whole inner circle beneath
and between the apertures to be painted
black.

When the inftrument is to be ufed,
the index to be let to the fignal aper¬
tures on the right.

All the apertures to be covered, or
daik, when it begins to be ufed, except
that which is to give the fignal. A fig¬
nal gun to be fired to apprize the ob-
ferver.

If the index is fet to the Jirfi aper¬
ture, it will denote that nxords are to
exprefl'ed j if to the fecond, that figures ;
if to the third, that the figuies ceafe,
and that the intelligence is carried on
in words.

When figures are to be exprelfed, the
alternate apertures from the left are ta¬
ken in their order, to denote from i to
10 in.clufively. The fccond froHi the
right denots 100 ; the fifth, 1000.

This order, and thele intervals, ar«
taken to prevent any confufion in lo
peculiarly important an article of the
intelligence to be conveyed.

And it needs not to be added, that
intervals, never lefs than an arch of 15
degiees on the lemiciicle, and, where

ihc

1 1 7^

Propofal for an Improvement of the Telegraph,

fSupp.

the difference is more important, a-if,
are not liable to be miRaken by any to¬
lerable attention j indeed, fcarcely with
any negligence.'

It will eafily occur, that the multiples
of thefe numbers may be expreffed by
taking the Rmple numbers to the left as
their indices. And the Ihorteft method
for this would be to ufe invo indices in
that cafe fimultaneoufly. , Thus, an
index to the left at 2, and pne to the
right, feen at the fame time at tooo,
would immediately exprefs 12,0005 to
one at 5, and another, at the fame
time, at lOO, for 5005 one at lo, and
the other at 4, for 40.

Should it be ne;celfary to exprefs, as
it often might, greater numbers, it
might be done thus : After making the
numeral fignal, the index might be
conveyed to 10, and kept there. When,
a fignal from the obierver at the next
nation announced its being feen, this
might be anfwered by a fignal from the
firft Ration of the Telegraph. And
JO, Rationary, as del'cribed, would be
underRood to denote that the numbers,
till a new fignal, muR be multiplied by
10, when made vifible. In this cafe,
there would be three indices, or gno¬
mons, employed at once. T he flation¬
ary at 10, fifR fixed, and the two fub-
fequent at 3, fuppofe, and 1000,—
30,000 would thus be readily and plain¬
ly denoted. ^

The gnomons §i-o\i\d be rcdi of metal,
6n account of the length of the radius,
and moveable by rack-muork. Thefe
metallic rods fhould be light, and the
wheel-work flrong ; as thetr length,., of
about II feet frotn the centre to the ex¬
tremity of the index, will require this
precaution.

To regulate the ad/uRments, there
ihould be an inner arch, three feet,

, luppofe, above the centre of the femi-
circle, graduated in like manner to 24,
by which to direil the index with the
greateR convenience to the operator.

It is fuperfluous to add, that the al¬
phabetical exprellion of the feveral di-
vifions may be changed at pleafure,
from time to time (the change beinp
duly intimated), the precellion only
chferved.

It will be neceffary in the ufe of it $0
enake a fenfible paufs between each /<#/-
ter', a more confiderable one after each ,
<!Word. This may well be fpared, as
only one movement ever can be wanted
to exprefs a letter, and that movement
will be nearly inRantaneous, aysn vyere

it from A to Y, the greateR interval
which can ever be required 5 fince even
then the index, accelerated and regula¬
ted in the manner explained, would
have to pafs over a fpace of only 3r
feet 6 inches. The beam of the French
Telegraph, when perpendicularly ad-
juRed, paffes with each of its extremi¬
ties over an arch of half this extent,
and rather more, and a large proportion
of the letters bring it near to this ex¬
treme ; which would very rarely occur
in this.

This Telegraph, even fuppofing it
filled upwith lefes, would not be very
ex'penfive ; and the weight may be mo¬
derate. All the fpace between the outer
femi circle, w'hich forms the telegraphic
part of the inflrument, and the inner
regulating circle, might be open, ex¬
cept a beamv/hich divides the ftmicircle
into two quadrantal areas, and is Hea¬
ded in the diagram ; and another beam,
if neceffary, on each fide, at an angle
of 45®, to bife£l thefe divifions.

In the inflrument itfelf neither letters
nor figures would be marked, except
the figures on the inner regulating cir¬
cle. They are marked in the fcheme
by way of illuRfation only. There
would be on the machine nothing but
the apertures (at the intervals and of
the dimenfions expreffed already), wkli
fmall lamps and lenfes to each, if re-
quifite, for the night, and iht gnomons,'

Whatever perfeffion may be attain¬
able in the eonflruflion of a Telegraph,
I fear this war may too probably make
it very important for us to be furniRied
with the heft that can be invented.
Others, better Ikilled and more experi¬
enced, may do Jbetter i my pretenlions
either to Ikill or experience upon thefe
fubjefls are flight indeed } but J have
done my befl. The fpeeulation is at
all events interefling and curious; and,
if a neceliity the moR ferious fhould not
demand its application, the theory on
which depends the conRruftion of a
machine of this kind may fuggeR a va¬
riety of ingenious defigns, the utility of
which may extend to other obje61s be-
fide that of defenfinoe nuar, greatly as
that is interefling to the fecurity of a
nition 5 efpecially circumRanced as we
may be, it is impoffible to conjedlure
how foon. C. L.

"Mr. Urban, Reigate, Dec. 30.
HE occafional progrefs and de¬
cline of many arts conRitutes cu-
fioui matter for enquiry in the hiRory

1794* ] on the Time of DifcoVery of the Art of Printing. 1179

of the human mind ; and, as confidered
in conne6lion with catife and eifeft,
may be produ^^ive of much advantage
to fociety. The argument for the little
antiquity of the world, from the recent
exiftence of many arts, can furely have
■obtruded itfelf merely from ignorance ;
for, it is notorious that the arts have
been ptogrelTive as they have been en¬
couraged ; and, 'Vicewerjd : and an ac-
•curate hiftory of them, could we look
to the remoteft antiquity, would proba¬
bly give us a pi6lure of Nature itfelf in
fuccellive rife and decay.

But there are fome circumftances in
'Conne6lion with this fubjecl which per¬
plex me much ; and none more than the
very late difcovery of ibe art oj printi»g.
Tor many ufcful difcoveries we are in¬
debted CO mere chance, and can account
for the latenefs of them from the con¬
currence being merely fortuitous. This
is peculiarly exemplified in the contem-
porar. difcovery of gunpowder; a
chance which has given a turn to the
whole courfe of human events. But,
with refpe6l to the art of Printing, eve¬
ry thing would feem to proclaim that it
Ihonid have been co-eval with poliilicd
fociety.

There are few paffions ftronger im¬
planted in the enlightened mind than
the delire of applaule from our contem¬
poraries., and of tranfmitting .our name
to pofierity. This was enjoyed from
all antiquity by the artill of every de-
fciiption ; his work was permanent
•when he was departed ; and, from the
exiftiug fame of his predeceifor, he au-.
gured the" perpetuity of his own. It
was to the literary labourer alone that
the gloom of oblivion prefented itfelf;
or, what was perhaps worfe, an antici¬
pation that his works Ihould defeend to
-pofterity mutilated by a tranferiber,
and that the author fhould be charged
with, the blunders of a mechanick.
There was, therefore, a conftant and
flrong inducement to locde out for this
invention, which feems fo much within
the fcope of human Ingenuity.

But what adds to our aftonifhment on
this fubje^t is, that the principle of the
art was clearly known, although never
applied to this purpofe. Engraving
and working of metals were evidently
known in Greece and Rome ; nay,
mere, imprellions from dies were com¬
monly made, as is evident from the fine
remains we polTefs of their calls, medals,
and coins. This art pofftfied every
principle of that of printing j and that

in a degree which proclaimed fuperemi-
nent perfeilion in the artift. This art,
moreover, was praiflifed from the very
motive above fpecified ; a motive which
applies no lefs to the hero and the ty¬
rant than to the literary labourer for hii
own fame. And it is farther notorious,
tracing Che hifiory of man to the remo-
tell antiquity, that he eagerly adopted
every known method of tranfmitting
his fame to pofterity. Witnefsthe mafi»
of monumental records which fwell and
confirm the hiftory of paft ages. And
is it not a wonderful inftance of human
infirmity, that an art fo fimple, an art
which courted, which feemed to folicit
difeavery from the Hero, the Poet, the
Hiftorian, in a word, from the whole
human race, Ihould not have been
heard of till the world itfelf began to
decline ? How may we account for this ?
1 fhall not prefume to do it, Mr. Ur¬
ban ; but will venture to obferve, that
it affords a ftriking leflbn of humility,
a fingular encouragement in purfuit of
difcovery *. b. .

Mr. Urban, Bee. 2^,

SINCE the death of the Somerfetlhirt
hiftorians, it feems fomewhat fafliion-
able to depreciate the hiftory of that
county; vvitnefs the many Philippics
againft it in your Magazine from time
to time. Such procedure appears to
me ungenerous, if not unmanly, feeing,
as Corporal Trim has it, the po^
ftut has no one to ftand up for hei^'’
There are very few of thofe critical
nibblers, whom I could not more readily
excufe than your cotrefpondent Mr. R,
Locke, in your laft Magazine, who of
all men ought not to have wielded hi#
pen againft that part of the work which
he has attacked.

I need not detain vour readers Jong
in telling them that the hiftory of the
county of Somerfet was undertaken
jointly by the late Mr. Edmund Rack,
and the Rev. Mr. Collinfon : that they
were both men of integrity and abilities,
no one, who had the pleafure of an ac¬
quaintance with them, will doubt la
this arduous work, the former under¬
took the topographical and parochial
part, vvhilft the latter was feduloully
employed in fearching forand arranging
from authentic records the hiftorical
antiquities of the colmty. Mr. Rack
was employed in his provincial excur-

* Wc ftiall he glad to be favoured witl>

the Drawings thi5 gcatismau offers. t.

li8o Vindication of the Hiftiirlam of Somerfetfhire. [Supp,

fions great part of five years. In one
of his earlieft journeys, whilft in the
hundred of Bremftone, he fell-in with
your correfpondent Mr. L. Their chat
was agieeable, and Mr. L. obligingly
offered his affillance in communicating
much hiftorical matter relative to his
part of the county: - and hence it is
reafonable to fuppofe, Mr. R. was in¬
duced to abbreviate his enquiries. How¬
ever, year after year palled away with¬
out Mr. R’s receiving the promiled
communications : a fecond interview
renewed the promife : but other years
rolled on without Mr. L’s fulfilling his
promife ; and honell Edmund dropt into
the world of fpirits. His co-adjutor
took up his papers as he found them,
and publilhed then as we have feeiv.

Why Mr. L. with-held the promifed
conamunicaiion is bell known to him-
felF; if it were from interefted of pe¬
cuniary motives, I doubt not but he has
felt ih^r fiiame which ever attends un¬
worthy adlions or the neglect of generous
ones. .

About two years after the death of
Mr. ‘Rack, Mr. Locke drew up an
effay, which was entituled “ a brief
Hiftory of a Part of Somerfetfliire,” and
which was inferred in the fifth volume
of the Bath agriculture fociety papers.
In this effay we find the manners of the
inhabitants of Bremllone hundred pour-
trayed in pretty flrong colouring; and,
asthepiflure is curt, I will give it di-
redly from Mr. L’s penciling :

The manners of the inhabitants of this
fiat country”, fays Mr. L, “ cannot fo well
be judged of by a Granger as a native; they
are civil or rough as the traveller pleafes.
Take an example founded on fa61.

“ Q^Hark yon, fellow, which is my road
to Frog 1 1 ole ? A. What’s call L fellow for ?
1, I, I, zed nothing to thee. Q^Well, my
g,ood man, 1 would not have be offended,
fv)r I did not mean to affront yon, but pray
do tell me the road. A. Where didft thou
come from then? Why, my honell
frieiiJ, can it make any difference to you
frona whence 1 come ? A. No ftiour and
Ibour, but then it can be no odds to I where
thou'll g I.” And fo left the gentleman,
without telling him the road to Frog hole,
making a merit of his forbearance in not
Iton.ng lura lor a bailiff, an excifeman, or a
fpy; whereas, it the ftranger liacl Satisfied
the impertinent curiofity of Hodge, with
rullic good humour, he would have carried
him through the waters on his back, if it had
been a mile, for fix pence.

Now, Mr. Urban, fliall we fuppofe
for a moment, that, if Edmund Rack

had been previoufly acquainted with
Mr. L’s jocular account of the manners
of the inhabitants of this land of frogs,
he would Iiave with-held from Mr. L,
the fixpence” ? No! had the fix-
pence been as large as a double joanefe.
He, honeft foul, was too generous, too
munificent, to vvith-hold a farthing from
any one to whom it was due; but, not
knowing what fize the fix-pence was to
be of, it was not prefented.

I would crave the reader’s patience
for a few minutes longer, whilft I exa¬
mine the validity of one or two of Mr.
L’s hyper-critical remarks.

The hiftorian fays, that Burnham is
ten miles from the town of Axbridge :
Mr L. fays only fix, to which he fays
two more, for the b'-eadth of the parifti
may be added. This is too barefaced a
fophifm. If any one afked you, Mr.
Urban, what the diftance from Kenfing-
ton to Brentford was, vvould you dedu£t
the weftern breadth of one pariui and
the eaftern of the other out of the real
diftance of five mites? Although lam
confident you would not, yet fo it ap¬
pears Mr. L. would do:, the truth,
however, is, that the length of road in
queftion from Axbridge church to
Burnham church is ten miles, within a
furlong, moreorlefs.

Another of Mr. L’s remarks is de-
ferving of refutation. THe hiftorian
fays, Bafon bridge is on the river Brew.
Mr. L. fays this part of the river is
called the Brent. No juft reafon for
this can bealfigned, feeing the river has
i:s fource in the extra-parochial lands of
Brif’au-ham-lodge, in the eaftern verge
of the county, and paffes by the village
of and the town of Brewton

to Bafon bridge, and from thence to
Burnham, where it difembogues itfelf
into Bridgewater bay.

Farther: the hiftorian fays, that the
tide on the Burnham coaft ebbs half a
mile; Mr. L, fays, ten miles. Wonder¬
ful ! this ebb would extend almoft to
the Culver lands, little lefs miraculous
than the drying of the Red Sea. The
writer hereof has vifited Burnham more
than once, at times of ebb; but never
faw the beach there fo much as half a
mile broad.

Not to be further tedious in my ob-
fervations on Mr. L’s nibblings of the
Somerfetfliire hiftory, 1 will leave it to
'the confideration of your readers whether
or no implicit confidence ought to be
placed in the generality of his remarks
on that work, or whether his condu.61 is

fair

! 7 94*1 Critical Remarks on the

lir and generous to the manes of the
liiftorians. Yours, C^JELQu’uI|L
' P. S. Should any future hiftoR^n
lavc temerity enough to combat the
ounty of Somerfet, let him not forget
I broad fix pence for fome one or other
he land of frogs.

Mr. Urban, Rov, lo.

T length, your correfpondent, the
Rev. R. Polwhele, deigns to gratify
the public expe61ation by producing the
fecond volume of his grand work, “ The
Hiftory of Devon,’* It will doubtlefs
feem extraordinary to fome men, that
the fecond volume Ihould appear before
the firfl; but let them only perufe Ins
preface, and their furprife will foon be
loft in the admiration of his prudence.
They will there find that it was in tender
companion he referved every thing
curious and ftriking, the more interefting
points in antiquities and hiftory, the
architeftural deferiptions of caftles and
monafteries, the memoirs of remarkable
perfonages, and the beft of his materials,
for future publication. Suppole for a
moment, that he had ventured to af~
fociate any of thefe lighter matter^ with
fuch folemn fub]e6ts as are difculfed in
the volume before us with topographical
delineations, accounts of landed pro¬
perty, genealogical memoirs, or de-
feriptions of parifh churches ; and let me
alk you, Sir, who could have anfwered
for the confequences ? It requires but a
fmall lhare of difcernment to perceive,
that the ftudent, inftead of reckpning
the generations from Atho, who lived in
France, to Lord Courtenay, who lives
in England, (even 25 generations), in¬
ftead of contemplating the flu61uation
of landed property, and that of the two
only decent houfes in Kenton, (vid. Hilt.
Dev. p. 160.), that which belonged to
the Rev. Richard Polwhele is within fo
fliort a fpace transferred to Richard Rofe
Drewe,Efc[j Ifay, inftead of attending
with becoming gravity to all this, he
would have been bufying himlelf about
Roman ftations, Saxon and Danifir in-
campmencs, battles, fieges, &c. &c. He
would have trifled away his time in
reading the romantic exploits of his heroic
anceftors, without knowing exa£lly the
degree in which he flood related to them ;
and, all this being evidently too fubtle
and aithereal for the grofs perception of
a ftudent of provincial hiftories, he muft
infallibly have gone mad. Luckily, by
the prudence and forefight of Mr, P, no
misfortune is likely to attend him, and
may fcrufc this fecond volume with-

Hiflory Devonfhire. 'ii8i

out danger of having his antiquarian fe-,
renity difturbed by any “ volatile
dTence.” I believe you will think this
laft obfervation rather fuperfluous, when
I inform you, that forty pages, in the
firft outfets are filled with copies of mo-
nun\ental inferiptions, and epitaphs on
tomb-ftones in the cathedral. It is far
from my intention to call: any refle£lion
on that fpiritof induftry which piompts
many gentlemen to make colle61ions
of this kind for ufe ; but this I will with
confidence|a{Tert, thatjUnlefs the tranfeript
be correft, fuch colleftions are of no ufe
but to miflead; they are mere trafli j and
the man who collets them in this incot-
reft way, inftead of approbation, merits
cenfure, for fuch a ftiaraetul abufe of his
time, to fay nothing of his impofition
on the publick. Let us now fee how far
Mr. Polwhele is reprehenfible in this
refpeft ; and, for the fake of candour, I
again recur to his preface for the principle
by which he wifiies every one to form
their judgement of his work, namely,
to “ decide upon what he hath done by
what he profelfed to do.” What thea
does he profefs with regard to thefe in¬
feriptions? Take his ovvn words, “The
monuments with their inferiptions as
they exift at prefent, or as they are de-
feribed by dilfcrenc writers, fhall be
examined in regular order.” He than
enumerates the different parts of the
church, which he meant to explore for
thefe inferiptions ; and concludes, that,
having done fo, very few could be omit¬
ted. His method in tracing the epitaphs
on the grave-ftones was to be the fame,
(feep. 3.)

In page 9, Mr. P. gives us the in-
feription on Bilhop Alleigh’s grave-flone;
but W'here he copied it from I cannot
divine, for cn the ftone itfelf, which
lies open for the infpeftion of any one,
and in every copy I have feen, it begins
“ Reverendus Pater Gulielmus Alleigh;”
whereas the hiflorian of Devon has it
thus “ Pveverendus Peter Willlelmus
Alleigh.”

[We omit a number of errata pointed
out by our correfpondent ; as they are many of
them undoubtedly mei e faults of theprels.J

Let me now fay a word or two as to
regular order of omiflions. 1 believe,
when any one undertakes to examine a
church in regular order, we conclude
that he means to take tilings according
to the method in which they are dilpofed.
But that this was not Mr. Polwhele's
intent is clear, for hardly any of the in¬
feriptions in iiis work follow each other
according to their order in the church.

WiiU

Mlfcellancous Corre^ims, [Supp*

tiS2 Polwhele’s Devonfhire.-

Withrefpeft toomiffions, it lhall fuffice
to notice thofe in the aile on the north
fide of 'the choir; and they are

A ftone to the memory of Elinor Vil-
Tain, daughter of Thomas Hinfon Efq.
and a defiendant of Margaret Countis of
Bath.

Another hone with this infcviption :

Here iyetlr Anthcnye Ciyfford of Sof-
^omhe in Wylfliere Efquire defcendetl of
the honorable howfeof the Lord Ciyfford
Earle of Combeilande leavinge five fones
and three daughters who lived and dyed
a good Cliriftian the twelfth of September
anno Domini

A hone to the memory of— Parys
Canon of Exon, who died 8th of July
1435. — lEdward P^yleys, Canon of Exon,
who died January 4, r 577.— Thoraas-
Auftle, Treafurer of Exon Cathed. who-
died in 1513.— A Daughter of Bifhop
Hall, Wife of James Rodd, Gent, who
died in 1638, aged 22. — John Vife,
Treafu rer of Exon Cathedral. — Thomas
Shapcole of the Inner 7'emple Eiq. who
died Odfober 3, 1643, aged ng. — Henry
Webber, Dean of Exon, and foinlerly
Chancellor to Bifhop Edmund Lacy,
who died February 13, 1477, aged 70.

One can hardly fuppole thefe to have
been omitted on account of infignifican-
cy 5 and yet tb.ey lie io inteifpcrfed with
thofe Mr. P. has inferred, that it feems
impollibh they fhould have efcaptd
^jfafervation. Yours, &c, T. L.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 2g.

HE line enquired after by D. H.
p, s 'iG i, (fee p, 1 175) is to be found
in a Latin pcem, intituled, Alexandrei- .

compt/l'td by Guakerus dc Inful is, or
of Lifle, in Etariders, who hourifhed in
the i2th century. This work, which
is perhaps equal to Lucank Pharfalia,
was, during the middle sg>es, preferred
in the gr ammar-fchoois to all the poets
of antiquity. The poet defcribes the
flight of Danus as follows :

Kadlus equnm Dtvrius, rorantia csede fiiorum
Retro gradu fu.gic.arva-graduyquf) tendis inerti
Rex periture fuga ? Nefcis, hdu perdite,
neicis . - hoflern ?

<^em fuglas, heflefque in curris dum fugit
Incidis in Scyllam cu-piem, 'iiitare Chttrybdin,

Lib,.V. fo. 55, c4t. ingoldliadt, 1541, 12®.

The \yo)l; is cxaemely fcarce. An
edition pTinted ai Lyens, 1658, 4:0, was
fold for tuq guiricas at Dr. Lot tk la!e
at Leigh and Sotheby’s.

Will Mr. Ur 'ran have the goodnefs to
mention in wh t past of his volume* the
former explai).iiion of the line, Ptrdere

^ Wc Will in a future Number, Eoi'i .

quos vult Jupiter &c. occurs ? and to
allow me to afk his correfpondents, in
rny^turn, where the line.

Ad vifcam Druidse, Druids cantare foiebant,

is to be found } It has been cited as from
Ovid, but is not in that author.

P. 1091. Lafontaine’s Mari confef-
feur” is taken from the Cent nouvelles
X'^ouye!!es, as hehimfelf acknowledges;
a colleiftion much older than the ballad
in queffion, Bdides, the latter has not
the point which is found in the tale, and
coiiftitutes its principal merit *■. S. E.,

Mr. Urban, Dec.

HE celebrated line, after which
your conefpondent enquires, p*
i!Oi, is to be met with in an epic
poem “ De Gefiis Aiexandri,” by Gual-
terus Gallus f. It is an apoftrophe to
Darius upon his flying to Befl'us after
his defeat at Gangamele :

Quo tendis inertem, Sec.

Mr. Andrews, in his “ Anecdotes*'
(art. Proveibs), gives the fame infor¬
mation ; but he feems never to have
feen the original author, as he quotes
Galleotus Mortius de Narni (who died
in 1476) in his work “ De Do£frina
promifeua.” Erafmus appears to have
believed that it was taken from feme
antient poet. “ Celebratur apud La¬
tinos,” lays he (Adagia, Chii. I. Cent.
V. Adag. 4, p. edit. Bafil, 1539),
“ his verficulus, c]uocunque natus au-
tore, nam in prefentia non occurric
Incidit in Scyllam,” Sic.

Permit me now, in my tuin, to pro-
pofe a queftion to your genealogical
readers. Dr. Campbell, in the “ Bio-
graphia Britanpica,” art. Edmund
Dudley, note [I], makes that gentle¬
man (who fuifered with Sir Richard
Empfon, Aug. 18, 1520, 2 Hen. VIII.)
to have married, for his flrfl wife, Anne,
daughter of Sir Andrews Wmdfor, af¬
terwards Lord Wind for; then the ov/-
tib-xu of Sir Roger Coi ber, of Morton,
CO. Salop; and for this he quotes a cu¬
rious MS BaronAgiiini Angtia, written
in 1^96; and of trie higheft authority.

This and tiie following letter, w'e liope,
xvill fatisfy tlie groupe of ladies, and the
brother of one of them, who have addreff-
ed us by S.W.

4 '1 o the fame purpofe T. K. of Engle-
field ; adding, that Philip Gnalter, called alfo
de Ciiatil'.ou, lived about the middle of the
13th century. The verfe above cited is in
book V. ver. 302, wi eii the poet' addrelfes
Irimfelf to Dari’as, v/ho, flying ab rilexandrOf
■fell into the liands of l^eflus.

Now

1 794.3 Mifceliatit infortn(*ilo7tandCcrre^hns»-’^iyio^\id.nt\x^'sAge» i

Now it appears, from a pedigree of the
Corbets in Hath MSS. 1174. Plat. 7-v
c, tliat the perfon who married Anne
Windfor w-as Roger Corbet, efquire^
fon of Sir Robert Corbet, and father of
Sir Andrew Corbet, knights. It farther
appears, from Cole’s AbftraSi^s of the
Efcheat Rolls, Harl. MSS. 760, p. 292-,.
that this Roger died 20 Dec. 50 Hen.
VIH. ; and, in an inquifition , abdraft-
ed in the fame MSS, and taken 4 June,
5 Henry VIII, he is faid to have been
eleven years of age the 24th of June
laft. The difficulty is how to reconcile
thefe oppofite accounts ; for if, on the
one hand, Dr. Campbell’s MS* be of
the higheft authority ; on the other
hand, records, one would think, can¬
not lye. Yet the former declares Anne
Windfor to have, been, long before
a Hen. VIII, the widow of a knight,
whom the other affirms never to have
been more than an efquire to h^ve
been but nine years old in 2 Hen. VIII.
and to have lived till 30 Hen. VIII.

Will your intelligent correfpondent,
p. 106^8, favour us Country -gentlemen
with fome account of the original por¬
trait of Shakfpeare which he mentions,
the manner of its clifcovery, its pre¬
tences to authenticity, Sic.

In the inlcripcion, p. 1086, col. 2,
1. 17, 22, for “ Fyrk” read Syll.”
This is an additional proof how imper-
feflly the beft copies reprefent ancient
inlcriptions ; an additional reafon for
their prefervation, and an additional
Rigma upon the barbarous demoliffiers
of them. Nugator.

Mr. Urban, Dee. zo.

T'* HE inclofed from Ledbury church
(pi. Il.y may perhaps be worth in¬
fer ting in a mifcellaneous plate. S. L.

For Heathfikld TPvver, in the
fame plate, fee our vol. LXHL p. 1027 ; and
for St. George’s Tower, fee LXIY. 79.9.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 30.

The follovving infcripnon was cut
on a flip of white marble, in three
lines of Roman capitals, in fome part of
the old houfc or offices at Copped-hall,
Effix:

Perdidit fides

Qiiae venit immerira pcena dolenda venit
Pro tali ? non.

All that appears in your Mifcellany is,
that John Dean, the only furviving lailor
of the Suli'ex India fliip, wa*', by iha
llirtilois of tl'.c Eafl; India Company,
made an eldtr^ in the room of Mr.
Adams, de^cealcd, Feb, 1745, »

and that he died Dec. 1747, in th* Eafl-
India Company’s hofpital at Poplar^
XVII, 592. There was a mezzotint®
by Faber, after a portrait of him by W*
Verelft, naked, leaning on a rock, anJ
holding a pike in his hand. It is be¬
lieved that a pamphlet was made of the
narrative of his adventure. ’ D. H.

Mr. Urban, Dee. 31.

HOPE the following folution of the
queftion, propofed in p. ^132, gives
the age of the fage Diophantus.

Let .V — his age.
x~- x X X — 4

Then — 4-~ + y + 5 + “7^+4=-^?

per queftion. This equation, cleared of
fradfions, ~ il)%x -j- 8'4a’-|- 544^^ -{- 5040 -f*
504X-- 20 1 6-{-4032=: lOQiiv. Whicli, when
contra6leti, — 900^: -|- 7^56 looSar. Or,
— iooSat — 9oar=: loSar. Thereforej*
ar=65|=:65 years 4 months.

Yours, &c. JUVENIS,

To the fame purport Alexis anfwera.

P. 543, 1. 12, for Burltigh r. Praleigh.

Mr. Robinson defires to corre,ft a
paflage in his letter, p. S76, thus r “ I
might with more propriety have called
it a caricature, as perhaps it bears ia
one part of it a •very faint ^ but d for ted,
refemblance of the original.” The
paflage as it ftands is, “ I might, &c.
as it bears no refemblance to the origi¬
nal which is contradiitory, as a ca¬
ricature certainly bears fome refem¬
blance j but, in the inftance alluded to,
no otherwife than from occafional in-
difpofition.

P. S90. Mr. Wheeldcn, it is believed,
is not lole patron of Cauldoii, bur hath
only a third turn in the prefentation.

A London Rector ffiggefls, that
the title at the top of p. 9-85, “Ordina¬
tions of Scotch Epifcopalians in Eng¬
land invalid,” is vaflly inaccurate, be¬
ing what he never meant to affirm, nor
wlut his obiei vations have any tendency
to pjove. All that he meant to affirm,
and what he has affirmed, is, that a
nomination to officiate in an Epifcopal
chapel, on the other fide the Tw^ed,
cannot be a legal and valid title for holy
orders from a ilifliop of the Church of
England. If, however, a perfon does
receive holy orders from fuch a Biffiop,
they are as valid as if his title had been
exadlly what the lawrequiiesj and io
they are, if ordination take place with*
out even the lhadovv of a titie. The
fuperfeription fliould, iherclore, have
been — “ An Epilcopal Ciapcl in S.oi.
land no Tuls for En^Mh Orders.”

Mr.

1 104 Stoke-Rochford — and the Family ^Rochford. [Supp,

Mr. WooLSTON defires us to fup*
ply the following lines, by way of in-
trodu6lion to his fecond Sonnet, p.1036 ;
referring to the lady it was addrelTed to
as an example of benevolence :

** My fair Reader, whofoever you are,
whole tender heart can melt in fympathy
with misfortune and affli6lion, attend to the
words of the Prince of Heaven — Go and do
thou likewise —

“ Then lhall the Mufe,” &c.

Ib. !. 9, read “ pearl drops p’ and,
J. 13, “to foothe.”

In the fecond Sonnet, 1. 31, read

The widow^s bleffings all thy paths lhall
Rrow.’*

■ Mr. Urban,

HE church of Stoke-Rochford, in
Lincolnlliire (of which theinclofed
fee p, 1106. is a N. E. view), is five
miles fouth of Grantham, and about a
quarter of a rtiile on the right hand of
the great road leading thence to London.
It ferves for the paiilhes of Stoke-Roch-
fqrd. North -Stoke, and Eafton, in the
}aft of whicli it is fituated, though ge¬
nerally called Stoke church. It is dedi¬
cated to St. Miry and St. Andrew, and
is in the patronage of the prebendary of
South Grantham, in the Cathedral of
Salilbury. ^

' Bijho'p Sander fan thus defiribes it, “ a
fair and well-built church, a beautiful
chancel ^with three quires, and goodly
windows, and fundry monuments*;” and
Mr. Hollis'^ enumerates many Ihields of
arms in glafs of the families of Rochfordy
Grayy Hilary. Hajlings, Rujfely Tilneyy
Cromnvelly Scropey Tibtoji, and Ne'v'tlle.
(in all 24 Ihitlds.) The dimenfions
within are, ttie nave with the ailes 42
feet by 46 — the chancel, including the
fide chapels, 38 by 46, The Saxon
arches in the nave, and the lharp-pointed
arch in the fteeple denote antiquity.^ The
chapel on the fouth fide of the chancel
Was built by Ralph Rochfoid and his
wife, in they^ar 14483; the north chapel,
(the windows and pillars of which are
extiemely light and elegant), appears to
have been built in the time of Henry
VII. Between the pillars on each fide
the communion table, is a large altar-
tomb, with plain fhields, and no inferip-
tions ; that on the fouth fide is ornamented
with a foliated canopy of fione. There
is alfo an antient altar-tomb in the wall
of the north chapel, with a Gothic arch
ornamented with foliage, lofcs, &c, and

' Sanderfon’s Index^ M§«

» MS. in Mufeo. 3 ibid.

a large flat ftone meafuring 8 feet by 4,
with the figures of a man and woman cue
thereon, with a fliield of three fleur-de-
lis ; Ne‘ville, This ftone is reported to
have been brought from a field in North-
Stoke, called Ganthorpe, where probably
there was a chapel.

There are three monumental flabs
inlaid with brafs figures and arms very
perfeft. For Henry Rochford Efq. who
died 1470, StbellaSeynt-John, who died
1493. And the following memorable
tnJ'cripUon :

for tlje foil of aDIjJb

^entjclin fquie;; fonne unto I'tdjt
ejceellent anfl prgnee^f

tsuc^ef^J of ^omTst g’ntiame unto on’
fobe’gn ILorOe Ii)arve tfle ail3l,
ano foi* tliefoU of Bamc (ClifabttI)
gotj tDifftoI)o nep’teB tr’iifitote
liffe ft jcii gay of june t y’yereof ou’
{ora m.ccccc ana lit.

The fouth-aile of the chancel is now
ufed as a burying place for the family of
Cholmeley of Eafton. There is a hand-
fome monument with figures and columns
painted to refemble alabafter, and gilt#
ere6ied 1641, by Montague Cholmeiey
Elq. of Eafton, for his anceftors, fince
1632, and feveral other mural monuments
of marble for that family. In the chancel
are ftabs for the Rev, Thomas Naylour,
and the Rev. Thomas Lingley. In the
north aile of the chancel, within an area
paved with black and white marble, is a
large marble monument with lonick co¬
lumns, and an urn at the top, erected by
Sir Edward Tumor during his life-time,
for himfelf and his wife, who died in 1679;
to which are added, the deaths of others
of the family fince the above period.
The only arms in glafs remaining are
“ Quarterly Or. and Gu. a border fable
bezanty”, Rochford. “ Ermines, on a
crofs quarter-pierced Argent, four fer-
de-morlins Sable.” ‘Tumor,

Having thus, Mr. Urban, briefly
deferibed this elegant country church, £
fliall conclude with afhort account of the
family, from whom Stoke derives the
appellation of Stoke-Roebford. From
the time of Edward III (1344), to the
loth of Henry IV (1409), tiirre were
feveral of this family high Sheriffs of
the county of Lincoln. In this laft
King’s reign flourilhed Sir John Roch¬
ford, whom Bale^ “commends for his
noble birth, great learning, large travel
through France and Italy, and worthy
pains in tianflaring Jofephus his anti
quities, Polychronicon, and other good

^ Qe Scriptonbuj antiquis.

authors

1794* Stoke-Rochford in Lincolnfliire. — AlfretonVwDerbyfhlre. 1185

authors into Englifii but the laft of
the family rehdent at Stoke feems to
have been Henry Rochford, Efq. before-
mentioned, who died 1470, leaving an
only daughter, Joan, married to Henry
Stanhope, Etq. whofe grand-daughter
and heir, Margaret Stanhope, married
Thomas Skeffington, of Sktffington, in
Leicefterfhire, Eiq, who thus became lord
O' the manor of Stoke-Rochfoid. It was
afterwards divided amongft the daughters
of Thomas Skeffington, who, about the
year 1638, fold it to Sir John Harrifon,
of Balls, in Hertfordfhire, Knt, who
gave it in marriage, with his daughter
Margaret, to Edmund Tumor, Efq. of
Milton-Erneft, in Bedfordfeire, who was
knighted after the Reftoration, and made
Stoke the place of his refidence.

Henry Rochford, Efq. the laft of the
family, married Elizabeth daughter of
Henry Lord Scrope, of Bolton, relict of
Sir John Bigod, Knt. She married,
thirdly, Oliver St.John, Efq, anceftor of
the Vifcounts Bohngbroke, vyho in his
lady’s right poiTcfted the manor of Stoke-
Rochford, and, by will dated 1496,“ di-
re3s bis bodf to be buried in the quire
ajore St, Andrew, in the farifh chureh
of Stole and gives to Ralph Rochford
iuch lands and tenements as he purchafed
in North-Stoke and- South-Steke.”
Thus Leland *^lays, Stoke a four miles
a this fide Grantham longith now to Maf-
tsr Seynt-John,” whom in anotiicr place
he deferibes “ a black and big fedow,
who died at Fonterabia in Spain.” Etibop
SandfirforA , who vifited Stoke in 1641,
fays “ the gate-houfeof the old liali was
lately part of ieftanding; and by it, taken
out of the ruins of the other parr, a large
fcutchcon, cut in ftone with Rochford’#
arms, and a helmet and crett, a man’s
head with large curled beard and locks,
covered with a cap or a pyramidal form^.”

There is a chapel yet ftancing belong¬
ing to this halfs.’’ This chapel, w;tli a
fine Goihic window at the eatt end, was
elegantly fitted up by Sir Edmund
Tumor, and ufed as a chapel during his
life-time, but has fince been dcftro,ed.
E^,Jhop Sander fon “a little difiant

from the fite of the old hall, weftward,
arifeth out of the fide of a hill a goodiy
fpring of clear water, (the largeft that 1
have ever leen in any piace,) ilfuing out

5 Collins’s keei age, Arc. Bolingbroke.

* Itinerary. ^ Index to MSS.

* This is preferved in a building now
ereifing at Stoke-Rochford.

^ Sander fun, utfupra.

CJent. Mag. Svpplementt 1794,

in fuch abundance, that it turneth a mill
immediately at the very mouth thereof,
and meeting with the river of With am
giveth a good addition thereunto*®.”
Thus the antient appendages to a capital
mainrion,amill, a dove-coat, and a coney-
green, were had here in the gre teft
perfeclion. Yours, &c. D. R.

Mr. Urban, Dec. iz.

N the town of Alfreton, in Dei by-
fhire, pfeafantly fituated about nine
mdcs from Mansfield, there is an
excellent inn, built by the late G.
Iv^orewood, efq. lord of the manor,
whoft large pnlTdfions in this place are
now enjoyed by his relief, fince married
to the Rev, Henry Cafe, who has taken
the name of Morewood, and refides at
‘the hall, feme diftance South- weft of
tlie church. Little can be faid at this
time of the hail, as it is undergoing a
comp ete repair as well as confiderable
® I ts 1 ct 1 1 o 0 s . The grounds are floping
into lawns 1 and, from the abilities of
the conduftors, and liberality of the
pofieffor, it will doubtlefs be a magni-
ficriU ftrudlure when completed.

The town boafts great antiquity j
vvhetherwith truth 1 know not; but it is
no Ids than having been built by King
Allred. It certainly retains very un¬
certain memorials at prefent of remote *
antiquity. However, Robert was fen
to Raniilph, lord of Alfreton, who was
one of the affafiins of Thomas-a- Beck¬
er ; and, in his hours of penitence and
remorte, founded the abbey of Beau-
cuud.

The church (pd.iil ) wasdedicated to
St. Mary, and is a vicarage. As 1 have
unluckily mrftaid or loft my notes of the
infule of the building, 1 would efteem
It as a P'jiticulai favour ii yuur relpedl-
ab’e cotrefpondetu H. R. ( who lias fa¬
voured you with Do'Vedaie) would, in
hi* vifu to Aifretcn, indulge you with
an account of what is remarkable there.
His releaiches as an Antiquary have
icpeatediy enliglueirtd and amufed

Yours, Bic. J. P. Malcolm.

Mr. Urban, Dec. ^o.

'HE remarkable fafl mentioned by
A youi Cambiiuge coirtlpondent,
p icoo, is by no means novel, although
pciliaps it may never iiave been noticed
by any of our ti\rtVelierL But ! recolle£l
fending you a pretty long extrabt from

*° Sanderfou, ut fupra.

Maf'ei's

1 1 86 Defcendants Df Cimbrl in Verona. — Shakfpeare’s Portrait „ [Supp.

Verona illufirsiay in which he
fpeaks at large of the tlefcendants of the
Cimbrians ftill living in the mountains
rea/ Verona. This cxtra6f I tranfmitted
you from Germany, I think in tlie fum-
mer of 1792. ; but, not having feen your
Magazines for ihat.year fince my return
to England, I ?.m uncertain whether you
ever received rt. I therefore fend you
a Ihort extra6t from an abridgement of
MafFei, by which your correfpondent
will perhaps receive more accurate in¬
formation. Viator A.

Non e ftato fuor di propofito il diflen-
<derfi alquanto nel racconto della fpedizione
cle’ Cimbri, si per diftinguerne i tempi ed i
fatti, si perche olcre all’ elTere di qiieUa fa-
inofa''guerta il j^aefe noflro ftato teatro, un
avango di quella gente rimafe per ferapre
nelle montagne del Veronefe, del Viceatino,
e del Trentino, manteneudu ancora in
quefti territorii ia difcendenza, ed una lin¬
gua differente da tatti i circoflanti pfiefi. Si
p trovato Tedefco veramente elfeie il lin-
guaggio, e hmile pvire la pronunzia, non
perb a quella de’ Tedefchi pui limitrofi dell’
Itaha, ma a quella de* SalToni e de’ popoli

PROCEEDINGS IN PA

H. OF LORDS.

May 26.

HE Houfe refolved itfelf into a
Committee upon the bill for the
iregu’ation of llatute labour,

Earl Stanhope took Ibme objeblions
on the bill ; and contended that, inftead
of relieving the poor, it vvouic) tend to
add to the hardfhip.s of their fituarion.

Lord Vhurh-w thought there were
fome llrong grounds in what the Noble
Lord had faid ; and iheiefore moved,
that the Rev. Ps elate (Bp of Bangor)
iliould seport progrefs, and poiipone the
Committee; which was agreed to.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
Skeriddn wovtd for leave for a bill to
prevent certain qualifications, now call¬
ed fov by law, from being acquired in
in fu ure of perlbns bearing military
offices. I'his was oppoied bv' M".
Duftdas, who moved the previous quef-
tion ; which was carried.

H. OF LORDS,

May 27.

Prayers being read, their Lordihips
proceeded farther on the trial of War-
zep HallingS; efq.

fitunti verfo il mare Baltico ; il che fu rtudi-
ofa mcate riconofeiuto da Frederigo IV. re
di Dannimarca, che onoro con fua dimofa
di dieci giorni, la citta di Verona nel 1708.
Non s’lnganna dunque il noffto popolo,
quando per immemoi abile ufo Cimbri chi-
ama gli abitatoii de que’ bofchl e di quelle
moiitagne.”.

Mr. Urban, Dec. 29.

OUR correfpondent J. B, who fa¬
voured you with a lill of the por¬
traits of Shakfpeare, and the engravings'
chat have been made from them (p, 1068),
enumerates, among otheis, that prefixed
to Dr. johnfon’s edition of that Poet’s
Works in 1765 5 but adds, that it can¬
not be alcertained at what time, or for
what work, it was engraven. He has
truly deLribed it as engraved bv Vertue •
and the faft is, that the identical plate
was firlt ufed for Pope and Warburton’s
edition, in ■'oblavo, 1747 j piefixed to
which he will find it, if he has the good
foitune to get a fight of a copy that has
not been robbed of the head.

Yours, See. J. S. H.

RLIAMENT, 1794, concluded.

'' -

In the Commons, the fame day, there
being an infufficient number of mem¬
bers to proceed to bufinefs, the Speaker
adjourned the Houfe.

H. OF LORDS.

May 28.

Proceeded fartdier on the trial of
Warren Haftings, efq.

In the Commons, the fame day, read
the third time, and palfed, the bill for
the dtfeharge of infolvenc debtors in
certain cafes 5 as alfo, the bill for ereft-
ing a penitentiary houfe at Batterfea ;
and the bill for regulating the mode of
carrying Slaves from tne coaft of Africa.

H. o F L o R, D s.
t May 30,

The Duke of Bedford endeavoured to
imprefs upon the Houfe the impolfibi-
hty of obtaining any one of the objefts
for which we are at preient engaged iti
war, without a total change of the
meafures adopted by the exi Aing Go¬
vernment. He faid that, to make their
Lordihips more fuhy acquainted with
the grounds lo which he this day called

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their attention, he would read over to
them a firing of refolutions vvhich he
had prepared. [Tiiefe relolutions were
14 in nurriber, and contained the fev'e-
ral fiate papers which have appeared
during the prefent war, and for a fliort
period previous to its commencement.]
The laft of thefe refolutions exprelTes
the opinion of the Houle, that it was
the duty of his Majefiv’s Minifiers to
recommend it to his Majefty to point
out fome fpectfic obje6i of the prefent
war; and to declare, in the firongeft
terms, his determination not to meddle
in the internal government of France.
Upon the fiate papers eontained in thefe
refolutions his Grace made fome re¬
marks, and then entered into a view of
the Fienc'a revolution from its com¬
mencement 5 and contended, that the
unfortunate monarch, Louis t he XVIth,
was inclined to grant his fubje6is ';very
thing, but that there were men in
France f© attached to that fyftem of de-
fpotifm in which they had been brought
up, that they oppofed his wilhes. Had
the French been unanimous, and afted
with care, thev might hare fo.med the
moft brilliant ftrudfure mankind ever
beheld ; but ihofe who were for the old
defpotic Tyfitm (the Ernigrant Princes
and their adherents) thought it impoHi-
b!e for naen to be happy who did not
live by the will of an individual ; and
to them al! the ills th it have befallen
France is to be atTitiuced j nay, the
very defituciicn of their unfortunate
king; for, they tauglii the people to
mifiduft them lovereign, and to bedeve
that no man cou d wi dngly facrihce lo
much power as he was pi llelled of. His
Grace entreated their Loidlhips to look
to the progiefs of tcie French and of the
Combined Armies, and thev would be
convinced that neither can conquer j
this counti y may continue to exhauit her
blood and trealu.e, but it would be to
no purpofe. It had been the pradlicc
of luce to heap fufpicions and calumnies,
both in public and private, on ihofe
who differ from the Mihifter ; they
were almoft too defpicable for notice,
and he mentioned them merely becau'e
they had fallen on leveral of his friends;
for himfelf, from his heait he moft fin-
cerely defpiled fuch inhnuations. His
Grace concluded by moving the lafl rc-
folution ; t-he fubltance of wh-ich we
havK; given above.

Lord Auckland was fully convinced
ot the necelfity of tiie meafuies vvliich.^
have been adopteiF,'’' and that, if the

treafonable meafures that were concert¬
ing had not been flopped at the time
they were, this country would have
been ferlotifly endangered. His Lord-
fiiip concluded by making a motion of'
adjournment.

His Ltirdfhip was fol'owed on the
fame fide by Earl Darnley and Earl
Fit^-wilham i and was oppofed by Lord
LauderdaUy the Duke of Grafion, Lord
Albemarle^ &c.

Lord Gren-villcj after a fpeech of
much animation and information, con¬
cluded by declaring, that he fhould vote
for the motion of adjournment.

At one o’clock the Houfe divided on
the motion for acijourn.menc.

Contents 113, Ncn-contents 13.

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr.
Fox, in a long and able fpeech, took a
view of the fiate of this country both as
to its external and internal affairs With
refpedl to the fituation of affairs at
home, he contended, they \v?re fuch as
fiiould induce a wife Min ifier to avoid
a war, or at leafi to obtain a peate as
foon as it could be done honourably.
As to our fituation on the Continent,
he contended, it was fidl more difeou-
raging; we had failed in evetw one of
our efforts. Our Gazeires daily record¬
ed viilories, and yet what benent had
vve derived from them ? VVers we at all
advanced ? Was there any greater pro.
bability of peace } He was afraid not.
Under thefe circumfiances, he thought
the mofi l.kely means of obtaining fo
dcfirable an objedf was, to point, out
fairly to inankind rhe objeft for which
we were contending, fo chat it might be
known when we were likely to have a
peace. With this view he had psepa-
red a variety of refolutions; which he
concluded with moving. The rc(;.du-
tions contained a fiateinentof the various
events of the war 5 and the !aft recom¬
mended to his Majeliy’s Minifiers ro
point nut rhe difiiudt obje-if of the war.

Mr. JenkirijOn replied to Air. Fox j
and contended that our affairs on tiie
Continant •rvere not lo unprounling as lie
fiad reprei’euted ; on toe coutiary, that,
now rhe Ihullians had arrived, there
was iweiy leafon to expedl >he moft
complete 1 iccels.

The H. uie divided ; for Mr. Fox’s
motion 55, againfl it 208.

H. OF L O H D 3.

June z

The judgeshaving given their op*.

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nions on the writ of error, Gibfon and
Johnfon ‘verfus Hunter, the Lord Chan¬
cellor affirmed the judgement of the
Court of King’s Bench.

In the Commons, the fame day, Lord
"John Cavendijh and Evelyn Jamei Ste-iv-
ari. efq. took the ufual oaths, and
their feats.

H. OF LORDS.

June 3.

On the riatute-labonr bill being read
the third time, Earl Stanhope objefted
to the powe- which it gavs to juftices
pf the peace; which power he called an
arbitiaty one, inafmuch as iti allowed
the magiflrate to ffiew that lenity to one
man whtch be might deny to another j
and therefore he ffiou d move an amend-
ment to alter that part of the bi'l ;
which was negatived witnout a divifion,
and the bill paffied, and was oidered to
the Commons. '

In the Commons, the fame day, the
Koufe took into conhderation the a-
mendments made by the Lords to the
Bfiftol church bill ; and the fame, being-
lead, were agreed to.

H. OF I. o R D S.

June 5.

The Duke of Clarence prH'ented a
petition from the Wed- India merchants,
psaying to be lieard, by counfel, againk
a claufe in the Slave- carrying bill;
which was agieed to. An anren<iiTient
was then agreed to', uurpoitmg that, in
caies of a^grtffion of the malttrs ot the
ihips, the owners fliould not be entitled
to recover their infurance, ft iols en-
I'ued.

In the Commons, the fame day, there
being but 14 members prcieut, the
Speaker adjoui ned the Houle.

H, OF LORDS, ,

June 1 1 .

Ttreir Loidfhips proceeded farther in
the trial of Warren Haltings, eiq.

In the Commor-s, the fame day, the
f^saker informed the Houfe, that 15
public, and 9 private bibs, had received
•che ioyal allent bv cominiffion,

H, OF LORDS.

June 12.

Their Loidfhips proceeded farther in

the trial of Warren Haftings, efq.

In the Commons, the fame day, there
being only five members prefent, the
Speaker adjourned the Houle.

H. OF LORDS.

Juue 13.

Lord Grenville^ in confequence of
previous notice, rofe to move the thanks
of their Lordlhips to Earl Howe. This
was a fubjeft upon which, he was fure,
fuch perfect unanimity muft prevail,
any attempt on his part to expatiate
upon the circumftances attending the
late glorious vi6tory obtained by his
Majelty’s fleet, under the command of
that able and gallant admiral, would be
perfefdly unneceiTary. He coirld not,
however, avoid faying that, when all
the circumftances of the late engage¬
ment were confidered, it would be
found to be one of the moft glorious to
this country of any that are to be found
in its naval hiftory; for, exclufive of
that determined courage which has al¬
ways characterized the Englifh feamen,
there was a degree of Ikill and fcience
difplayed by the Noble Lord that never
was exceeded upon any former occa-
fion. Thus much his feelings prompt¬
ed him to fay ; and he fhould conclude
with moving,

That the Thanks of this Houfe be
given to Admiral Earl Howe, for the
important lervices rendered to this
country by his able and gallant conduct
in the vidlory obtained by the fleet un¬
der his command, over the French fleet,
on the I ft of June, 1794.

“ That the thanks of the Houfe be
given to rear-admirals Flood, Greaves,
Gcrdner, Pafley, Bowyer, Cjidwell,
and Sir Roger Curtis, and to all the
captains and officers of the fleet, for
their brave and gallant behaviour du¬
ring that engagement.

“ That the Floufe does highly ap¬
prove of the condmff of the leamen,
loldiers, and marines, on-board the
fleet ; and that the officers of their re-
Ipeftive fhips do commumCate the fam.e
to them : and

“ That the Lord Chancellor do com¬
municate the thanks of the H..*ure to
Earl Howe.”

The Duke of Grafton could not avoid
faying a few words on the fubjedt ; for,
in the courfe of 35 years moft intimate
acquaintance w’ith the Nob.e Earl, he
entertained but one fteady and uniform
opinion; that he was a great and valu¬
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able charaSler, capable of rendering the
effential ft'rvices to his country.

I This opinion had now been juilified.

I He concluded with obferving, that all

’ ranks of perfons in this country, who
had any wilhes for its welfare, mull
join in thanks to this great cornmander.

The Duke of Bedford could not refill
the ftrong irnpulfe he felt to join in
congratulation with the reil of his coun¬
trymen to the Noble Lord. He rejoiced
in the vitlory the more, as he hoped it
would point out to Minifteis, that the
fea was the proper element upon which
to exert the foice of tiingland, becaufe
thfere it would always be crowned with
fuccefs. He rc jiuced a: it alfo, becaule
he hoped it wou d tend, in a very con-
fiderabie degree, to accelerate the re-
fioration of the blelfings of peace.

The Duke of Clarence heard fuch
genet al approbation of the condu6l of
the navy of Great Britain with particu¬
lar fatlsfa61iori. He confidered the ac¬
tion as one of the greatell of which the
annals of this country boafied, and he
congratulated the country at large on
it ; for, it proved that ftill we had as
great fuperiority as ever at lea, and that
this country is not to be conquered by
France.

The queftions were then put; and all
of them paffed nem. dljf.

Lord Grenville then moved the or¬
der of the day, for raking into confi-
dcration the report of the Secret Com¬
mittee. It was unnecefl'arv for. the
whole of it to be read, for he was con¬
fident it had been attentively perufsd by
all their Lordlhips. He then proceeded
to read feveral extra6ls from the report,
which, he had no doubt, he faid, had
made a deep impreffion on the minds of
their Lordfiiips, and would, he trailed,
lead them to the fame concluhon as the
Committee had drawm, namely, that
there now was, and had long been, a
deliberate fyltematic plan to overturn
the Conftitution, and aboliili the laws
of this country by force ; which was
propofed to be brought about by means
of clubs and alfociat ons, as had been
done in France. After enumerating
what they had already done, and what
they farther intended to do, his Lord-
fnip concluded with moving an addjcfs,
the lubilance of which was, to thank his
Majefty for his gracious comnaunica-
tioivs on the fubjeil — to allure him of
the inviolable attachment of that Houfe
*^that they are convinced of the ex-
ille.uce of a confpiracy to overturn by

force the happy Conftitution of this
country — and that they will uie their
exertions to prevent fuch confpiracy
from being carried intnefFe6l, for which
purpofe the laws ftjcuid be rigoroully
executed, &c. If this Addrefs ftiould
meet the approbation of their Lordfiiips,
he fhoald propofe that it be fent to the
Commons for thc-ir approbation, in or¬
der that it fliould be prefented to his
Majefty as the joint addrefs of the two
Houfe-s of Parliament.

The Ear! of Abingdon approved of the
Addrefs, and thought that the Sans Cw-
lottes Lords were much too heedlefs of
the tfffc:6l of their conducl-

The Earl of Lauderdale wiftied to
afiC their Lordlhips ferfoully what
proof they had of the exiftence of
this confpiracy, or, at leafl,' what
proof tiiat would juftify them iu
pledging rhemfeives in that decifive
manner ? There was one confequence,
that would proirahly follow this mea-
iure, whi' h Minifters had not forefeen,
VIZ. they wouid piove to the govern¬
ment, of France that there exified in this
country not only a confpiracy, but fo
formidable a one, that it was neceffary
to inveil the Executive Government
with extraordinary power to refill, and
thit that confpiracy was favourable to
any defigns the French might, have up¬
on this c.'untry. Whether it was ad-
vifable for Minifters to give fuch infor-
maiion, he would leave their Lordfh'.ps
to confider. Their Lcrdfiiips were de¬
ciding upon a queftion for which, in a
fliort time, fome perions were to be tried
for their lives ; and their Lordlhips’ de¬
termination mull have a confidei able in¬
fluence upon their fate. Fiis Lordfhip
then contended that, in the year 1780,
language much more violent was held
by a let of nobiernen and gentlemea
who aftociated to obtain a reform for
certain abufes. In this aiTociation were
to be found names of leveral Peers and
Members of Parliament; but, though
they uled luch ftrong language, it was
not thou;{ht neceftary to fufpend the
H beas Corpus af.l, or to take any fuch
violent rneafures. His Loidfliip con¬
cluded with (fating, that he did not feel
him (elf jullilied in coming to the con-
ciufion drawn by the Secretary of Stafe
upon the report..

Lord Sidney was one of the perLns
who belonged to the aiTociation jjft
mentioned 5 but, as his ideas of rcfi'rm
did not go fo far as others, he very fel-
do:n attended it ; but, at all tvrmus,

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their obje£ls were very different, and
propofed to be obtained in a very diffe¬
rent manuer) from thofe of the prefent
Societies,

Earl Mans^e/d ckhnded the report in
a very able manner, and proved that the
intention of the confpirators in Scotland
was to have commenced their operations
with feizing the Bank and all the ma-
giftrates of the country, and that their
firfl ftep would be to throw that country
into the moft dreadful confufion. Hav¬
ing ftated thefe circum dances in a drong
point of view, his Lordfliip concluded
with giving his hearty affent to the mo¬
tion.

The Lord Chancellor then put the
queftion, which Wa5 carried Vv^ithout a
divifion.

In the Commons, the fame clay, the
Speaker counted the members ; when the
requifite number fo confiitute a houfe
not attending, an adjournment took place
at four o’clock.

ytine 16.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer pre-
fented the fuppiement to the fecond re¬
port of the Committee of Seciecy, which
was read by the clerk, and conhfied
principally of letters circulated between
the different political locitties, which,
after a long eonverfation, was ordered
to lie on the table.

Mr. Secretary Dundas moved the
thanks of the Houfe to Admiral Earl
Howe, &c. &c. in nearly the fame words
as in the Lords, which was agreed to.

It was alfo ordered that a monument
Ihould be eredied to tire memory of
Captain Montague, in Weftminfter-
abbey, and that the Houfe would make
good the expences of the fame.

After the order being read for taking
into confidera;!Ot) the report of the Se¬
cret Committee ; and the addrefs to his
Majefty on the occafion, tranTmiitcd to
the Houfe of Lords, being alfo lead ;

Tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
an eloquent and energetic fpeecli, of
feme length, commented on the different
topics fet forth in the report, and urged
’ the propriety of joining the other branch
of the legiflature in an addiei's to his
Majefty, expreffive of their common
fentiments on fo momentous an cxca-
lion, and their firm determination to
fupport our prefent happy and excellent
eonrtitutioH. He concluded with moving,
that this Houfe do agree in the adclrtfs
communicated by ihur Lordfliips. On

this occafion many gentlemen delivered
their fentiments ; among whom were
Meffrs, Lambiony iVatfoeiy Robinfon, Sir
Ik'atkin Levues, alderman Nenjonham, &c.
After which the queftion for agreeing
to the addrefs was' put and carried.

H. o F L o R D s.

June 17,

Earl of Lauderdale moved, that a
Committee be appointed to infpeft the
ftate of the houfe and buildings adjoin¬
ing, and to devile the means of render¬
ing the houfe more commodious for the
reception of its members. This motion
being palled nem, con. tire following,
among other peers, were nofumated
members of the Committee, IL.me of
Dorfet, Earls Lauderdale and Mansfield^
Lords Grenville, Auckland, Hauvkejhury,
&Ci five of whom are to make a Com¬
mittee, and meet when convenient.

Lord Grenville then obferved, that, in
the prefent feffion of Parliament, it had
twice fallen to his lot to propole votes
of thanks for the fuccefs of two difinct
expeditions. It now remained for him .to
propofe a fimilar mark of iiomage to the
third grand oivifion of our navy, w’nich,
in his opinion, iiad an equal claim to
national gratitude for accompiifiiing its
objedl. He would, therefore move the
thanks of the Houfe to Admiral Lord
Hood, for his diftinguilbed fervtces, and
alfo to a!i the men on board the fleet
under his Lordlhip’s command.

Lord Lauderdale, after taking a gene¬
ral review of Lord Hood’s fervices, rie-
clared, that they fell fo far Ihort of
thofe performed by the Weft- Indian and
Channel divifions of cur fleets, that he
could not, without depreciating the me¬
rits of Sir Charles Grey, Admiral Howe,
&c. &c. give his' affent to the prefent
motion. A vote of thanks was the
higheft honour that the Houfe could
confer on any naval or military cha-
radter, and it behoved their Lordfliips
to guard againfl doing it on every fri¬
volous occafion ; on thefe grounds he
would give his diffcnt to the motion.

Lorti Havohejbury vindicated the con¬
duit of Lord Kjod, and contended that
it merited the gratitude of his country.

The vote 6f thanks was put, and car¬
ried without a divifion.

In the Commons, the fame dav, Sir
Watktn Lewes brought in a bill for the
better regulation of the city militia.
He thought it was fo pioptr and im¬
portant to have a good force in readincis

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in the metropolis, that be did not fee how
any gentleman could oppofe this bill,
Mr. Soeridan was ot opinion, that it
was now/ too late in the feflion to bring
forward a mtafure of fuch importance.
The hill was read the fiitl time, and or¬
dered to be piinted.

H. OF LORDS.

June 18.

Their Lordfinps proceeded to St.
James’s with the addrefs to his Majefty.

In the Commons, the fame day, the
London Mihtia bill was read a iecond
time, and committed j after which the
Houle carried up the adcirefs to St.
James’s.

H. OF LORDS.

June 20.

The herd Chancellor reported to the
Houle the anlwcr of Earl Howe to the
Vote of thanks, of which the following
is a copy ; ■

My Lord, -

Acknovvledging rr.y obligations in re-
fpedl of the very flattering terms in which
your Lordflup has been pleafed to make
known to me the highly efteem.ed honour
conferred on me by the unaairnouo Refolurion
of Thanks of the Houfe of Lords, fignifled
in your letter of the 14111 inllant, 1 am to
intreat that you will have the farther good-
nefs to allure their Lordiliips of the deep
imprefiion 1 lhall ever retain of their con-
defeending notice. The raer t I would af-
funrie on this occafion confuts in my good
fortune, inafmuch as 1 lield the chief com¬
mand, when fo many refolute principal and
fubordinate Oflicers, as well as brave men,
ferving under their orders, were employed
at that time in the fleet ; and I rnufl; add,
that, if there is caufe for triumph in the late
defeat of the enemy at I'ea, it is truly the
triumph of the Bntifla Sailors, w^hofe ani¬
mated and perfevering courage i believd has,
in no inftance, ever been exceeded. 1 lliali
therefore liave a great increafe of happinefs
in obeying the commaiids of the' Houfe of
Lords, by communicating to tlio.e feveial
defcriptions of perfons the fenfc their Lord-
lliips have deigned to exprefs of their good
condudi. I havethe honour to remain, with
the greateft refpeot, My Lord, your Lord-
flnp’s moll obedient humble Servant,

Hows.

The Charlotte.^ at Spithcad,

the day of June ^ i 754.

The Lord Ch anc ellok, &;c. See.”

Their Lnrdfiiips waited a conhoerable
time for the City Militia Bill from the
Commonf , and the Bill not being brought
yp, they adjourned to Monday next.

In the Commons the fame day, a de-
fultory converfation took place between
Mr. Hheridanf who oppofed the London
Militia Bill, and the Aldermen Sir J.
Sanderfon^ Curtis, Anderfon, Ntrwnham^
and Sir IV^ Le^wes, and Mr. Dundas, in
favour of it The Houfe divided on the
queflion of adjourning the debate, Ayes
12, Noes 70.

Mr. Fitt, in a moll able fpeeo-h, called
the attention of the Houfe to the condu^i
of the gentlemen who had been ap¬
pointed to the very laborious office of
managers in the impeachment againfl
Mr. Haflings ; he Ipuke in very high
terms of the induftry and abilities they
had difplayed, and , concludeo with
moving them the thanks of the Houle.

Mr. Dundas leconded the motion.

Mr. Sumner oppofed it; he thought
the conduct of the managers, particularly
tlie gentlemair who was Tuppofed to
lead them, had not been fuch as to en¬
title them to any degree of praife j he
dwelt particularly upon the harfh terms
ufcii by Mr. Burke curing the trial i he'
concluded by moving the previous
queltion, which was negatived. Ayes
21, Noes 55.

The Houle then divided for the motion
of thanks j for the managers 50, againfl
them 2 1.

The Speaker then communicated the
thanks ol the Houfe to the managers in
a very elegant Ipeech.

Mr. Fitt moved that the Speaker’s
fpee..h be printed.

iMr. Burksj in the name of the Mana-
ger--, returned thanks to the Houfe.

Mr. Dundas, witnout preface, moved
the thanks of the Houle to Lord Hood,

Melfvs. Shifidan and Fox oppofed rhe
motion. Alter a oebaie ot conlideiable
ieng''h, and leveral aiucnuinents propoled
by Mr, Sheridan '(ail of which were
negatived), tlie oiiginal motion was
earned.

The London Mifria Bill was read
the third time, an<> palied.

H. OF LORDS.

June 30.

The B:ll for new modelling the City
Militia was read the th.rd rime, and
palfed.

File Duke of Lfeds preLnted a report
from the Comiiiittte aopointt.d to in'quiie
into the flace of tuc Houle with refpeil
to cold and hsat, which was agreed to. ■

In the Commons, the fame day, tlie
Speaker n- [sowed the acknowledgement

11^2 Parliamentary Proceedings of Loyds and Commons in

of Earl Howe, for the honour bellowed
upon him and his fleer, by the, vote of
tlve Houle of Commons.

The Chancellor of. the Exchequer
moved, that the papers laid before the
Secret Committee be iealed up, and re¬
main at the Secretary of S:ate’s office,
which was agreed to.

• H . OF COMMONS.

^uly n.

Mr. Sheridan vvillied Mr. Pitt would
favour the Houfe with feme informati m
on three points, namely, the war, the
fubfidy to the King of Prufiia, and the
iituation which tius country flood with
refpeil to America.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer laid,
jt was the intent of his Majefly’b mi-
nifUrs to carry on the war, and that the
object of it was the deftruiiion of the
Jacobin Government of Fiance; as to
the tw'o laft points, he did not^think it
his duty to fay any thing on them.

Mr. Grey deprecattu the continuance
of the w'ar.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer then
moved, that an humb e AddrcTs fli®u!d
be prefented to his M-Jeflyj
to give diredlions for a monument to be
ere£ted in Weflminflt r-abhey, to the
memory of Captsais Hunt and Flarvev,
for their diftinguiffied fli vices < n the ifl
of June; and’ that the Houfe would
dcfiay the e^penccb of the lame; which
was agreed to unaniinoufiy.

H. OF LORDS,
j'w/y 1 1 .

His Majefly went in Bate to the Houfe,
where, being fla ed on the Throne,
and the Members of the Houfe of Com¬
mons, with the Speaker at their head,
baring come to tlie Bar, his Majefty <!e-
liveud the following moft gracious
Speech.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

“ The ftate of public bufinefs^enablss me
now to clofe this feliion of Parliament; in
doing which, I have again to acknowledge
that affiuuity and zeal for the interefls of my
people, of which you had before given me
fo many proofs, and which have been fo
particularly manifefled in the prefeot year.

I am perfuaded that you entertain too
jufl a fenfc of the ii-ture and importance of
tire contefl in which we are engaged, tofuf-
fer your zeal to be abated, or youi perfeve-
rance lhaken, by the recent liu cefs of the e-
nemy in the iNetherlands.

in a moment which fo ftrougly calls for
energy and vigour, it is peciiMaiiy gratifying
to irje to reflect oa the nnifor m Ikill and bra¬

very of my fleets and armies ; the undaunted
fjftrit and unwearied exertions of my officers
and troops in every fltuation ; and tlie gene¬
ral public fpirit of my people, which have
never at any period been more confpicuous.

“ I have obfervecl with the higheft fatif-
fadlion the rapid and valuable acquificions
made in the Eafl: and Welt Indies, the fuc-
cefsfnl operations which have been carried
on in the Mediterranean, and the brilliant
and deciflve vidlory obtained by my fleet,
under the command of Earl Howe, an event
which mult ever be remembered as one of
the moft glorious in the naval hiflory of
tills country.

“ Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons,
“ I return you my warmeft thanks for
the chearfnlnefs and liberality wdth w'hich
you have granted the large fupplies which
were neceffary for the fervice of the year,
and for the maintenance of a caule equally
important to the fecurity and happinefs of
every clafs of my fubje6\s.

“ My Lords and Gentlemen,

“ I feel it incumbent u[)on me particularly
to acknowledge your diligence in tiie invefti-
gat'.on of the deligns which had been for¬
warded againft the Goveinment and Confli-
lution of thefe kingdoms, and to thank you
for the confidence ycai have repofed in me
on this occafion. It w'ill be a principal ob-
jedt of my attention to make a vigorous and
prudent ufe of the additional powers vefted
in me for the profedlion and fecurity of my
people ; and relying, as 1 do, with the ut-
mofl: confidence, on the wnifurm loyalty and
public fpirit of the great body of my fnb-
jects, 1 fiave no doubt of fpeeddy and effec¬
tually repreffing every aitemjit to diflurbthe
puhhc peace, and of defeating the wicked
deligns which have been in agitation.

“ It mull not, however, be forgotten,
that thefe dtfigns againll our donieflic hap¬
pinefs are effentially connedled with the fyf-
tem now prevailing in France, of which the
principles and fpirit are irreconcileably liof-
tile to all regular and eftablilhed govern¬
ment j and t’nac we are therefl re called up¬
on, by every confideration of our own in¬
ternal fafety, to continue our efforts, in
conjun6lion with my allies, and to perfevere
with iucreafed vigour and exertion in a con-
tefl, from the fuccefsful termination of
which we can alone expedt to eflablilh, on
a folid and permanent foundation, the future
fecuf ity and tranquillity eii her of this counii y,
or of the other nations of Ijiurope.’^

Then the Lord Chancellor, by his
Majefty’s command, laid,

“ My Lords and Gentlemen,

It is his Majefly’s royal will and pTea-
fure, that this Parliament he prorogued to
Tuefday, the 13th day of Augull next, to
be then here holden ; and this Parliament is
accordingly prorogued to Tuefday, the 13th
day of Augufl next.'”

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1794*1 ReVtetv of N^w Puhhcattons* 1^93

228. T'hc Sie^e of Gibraltarj a Poem,
f Concluded from p. 1 1 2 8*7
ITJi pleafure we embrace the
opportunity of tranferibing a
Dedication that contains fentiments of
which every Englifhman may be proud.

To Hans Slo ane, Efq. M. P. for ChriH;-

Church, Hampfliire, Colonel of the North

Hants Regiment of Militia.

“ Sir, When men of cwnfulerable landed
property quit donieRic eafe to buftle through
the tented field, fuch defer ve well of their
country*; at the fame time they prove the
good policy of being ready to proieift the
nation, and the great Rake they have in it.

‘‘ I liave often followed you, when at the
head of your family of five hunuked; and
have been highly gratified at the attention of
the men, and the ficlll in rr.anceuvring them.
That yhur regiment Paould be well-difci-
plined is not afloailhing, when we have
witnefl'ed the adlivity of your honeji veteran^
who is conRantly about them. A. regiment
of defperadoes may be forced into the niceft
point of field propriety ; but the greateft
pride of a national militia is the enrolling
of hardy friends together, and bringing the
leading charaCler of the county along with
them. Who, but a decent race of hulband-
men, when a company had been violently
cheited by a baker, and half the informing-
money offered to them, would have fponta-
neoufly faid, ^ We do not profecute for too -
ney, but for jufiice !’ and modeflly decl ned
the fum tendered by the Mayor of Roclief-
ter ? I never faw one foldier in liquor du¬
ring the four months I was encamped with
them ; and I do not remember one man be¬
ing abfent from a , roll-call during that time.
Thefe fadls fpeak too w'ell to be commented
upon, and convince us how much we may
depend upon this our ^virtuous national force.

“ When the militia w^as called on", i fol¬
lowed our mutual friend, and had the luck to
be in yowr regiment ; and I efteern it a moft
fortunate event, as it lias made me acquaint¬
ed with fome valuable officers, and I have
had an opportunity of ffudying the native
charafter of that moff ufeful order of our
fellow- creatures in the Hamnfhire Huf-
bandmen.

“ I only left you hecaufe the alarms that
were afloat when you were em!)odied had
fubfided ; but, Ihnuld invafion or neceflity
c.all forth the exertion of every Knghlliman,
1 am glad to h.ave your promife that 1 (hall
be received as a volunteer. There is only
one man that I (hould gi'’e tlie preference
to, but who has retired from the army.
"When my native Town of Manchefle-r no¬
bly gave One Thiuif.-nd Men to Govern¬
ment, and even clo ithed them until tliey ar¬
rived at Gibr.drar, tlrey were put under the
command of Lieutenant-colonel Gledffanes;
A finer regimeni of recruits liad never been
Gent. Mag. Supplement) 179-^

feen before ; and, in a very fhort time, from
the indefatigable exei tions of the Cploiiel,
they were comiiletely difciplined. He treat¬
ed them with ffridfnefs without feverity ;
humanity, without relaxing in duty ; he fo
well won them, the remains (for they are
fadly thinned) fpeak of him as tlieir father.
Charge me with partiality— but I never faw
fo fne a body of men, or more undaunted
foldiers, than the Old Roval Manchefter
Volunteers; and it is not to be wondered at,
when they had fuch diffinguiflied regiments
to imitate in the old coi p^ of the garrifon. I
was the oldefl: man but one, in a company
of one hundred ftrong, at twenty-one; and
it is great credit to them, and fatisfadfion to
their officers, to have feen them return to
theiiTooms with as much indullry as they had
flicwn alertnefs againff the common enemy
of Gibraltar. You, Sir, may judge wdiat that
corps once wa.s, by the appearance their
countrymen made at Brighton encampment,
where we had the pleaTure of feeing the
Lancalhire and the Hamplkire men good-
hurr.oured, and hand-in-hand togeiier — ia
countenance they refembled the younger
brothers of the Lancafhire Militia. My
countrymen having for an adjutant an offi¬
cer wdio entered the army the fame day I
did, and whofe condufl was confpicuous on
every occafion— and I know no one who is
a greater honour to his native place than
my fiiend; this young man, when a flore*,
in which an amazing quantity of flour was
on fire from the enemy, thougli not on
duty, collciffcd the unemployed of tlie regi¬
ment, and, in the miidff of the flames and
fire, faved a great number of’barrels;’ for
which, the next m.oruing, General Elliot
thanked him, and gave him a handfome
prefeut to diftrlbute amongft his men ; and
the garrifon may be faid to be obliged to
this enterprizing young officer for a fupply
of bread. Juflice induces me to mention,
what his modefty would never allow him to
fpeak of.

1 know it is right, Vth tow’ards Colo¬
nel Gleclftanes and yhurfek, to fay, you have
often in the field, and in your hurnane tmn-
ners f) the men, rv’^iicul;-.! oumT him ; and
the only reaion why 1 couU! give a prefer¬
ence is a juft one — gr.jiiuuie to rhe man who
taught me to be a foUiier, and wtio, hke
yourfelf, always treated me as a friend.

“ In pre renting to you this pirduffinn of
my Gibialtar idle-hour?, 1 have in recollec¬
tion the friendfliip that fubfi'^e.l b-etween
you and General Elliot, who, it is diffrcffing
to think, like the invincihl; Marlborough,
was fallen almoff to a ffn're of fatuity before
he died ; and we have heard, with <iifguff,
the malevolent charge him W'itii being ol.ieu-
tatious, when, alas! he has only aiiied frorr;
a relaxed (late of intellect.

^ Eoy-Ts ffure^iicai ttte Moonffi cafflc.’"

“ X

I IQ A Review oj New Fubllcatrons* [Supp.

I caT^not, good Sir, offer you the ftudied
efforts of the clofec — I am no fcholar } but
you have the unlaboured effufions of a mind
tluit was in tlie midff of the fcenes it at¬
tempts to defcribe ; and, if it may tend to
give an unadorned account of an event the
world was once intei elded abovu, it will not
concern me if I (hould be faid to fail in the
poeti y,

‘‘ May diffenfions in this mold favoured
country ceafe! may we lay our Ihoulders to
tl:e wheel, and not forget the foil we ha^'/e
to piOte6d (with all its valuables), if raflwiefs
ftiould dare to invade it! — and, in due time,
may the errors compl lined of be wifely cor-
re6led! and ‘ God fave the King/ and hap-
pinefs to the people !

“ 1 have the honour to fubfcribe myfelfy
with regard and eideem, dear Sir, your
faithful, obedient, humble fervant,

Jos. BunwoR TH.

SIoane~p-eet, C.heljca^ Nov. 17, 1 794..”

In our farther exTra^ls, we fhaU not fo
much feck for Idrikin?. paffages, as for
thofe which pive occ-ifion to introduce
tke mold appot'jte hi'toric informa-tion.

The poem opens with a defcripikm of
*UKe firm pillar’' of Gibraitarj
“ Where oft the din of War has clafli’d
aiound, [found.

F.re the Monk’s art tlie dire combufiion
When Moor and Spaniard with invet’rate
Idrife [life ;

Fought for the nohleff gifts — conqueft and
Urril proud Sfain expellM the tawny hold
To the rude coufiaes of their bai'b'rous co«id j

Forc’d them from homes where Arts en¬
lighten’d reign’d.

To be — by Idupnr and by tyrants chain’d;
And gave the nations fuch apparent hare.
That iVem’d to fix it in the Book of Fate.
But, now allur’d by the vile bribe of gold
The faithlefs Moor his nat’ral hatred'^ fold;
With Spain agrees, that ne’er agreed hefoie,
And fends her herdstoCalpe’s fons no nuire —
The perjur’d Monarch^ no compundlion feel,
And for a diftant hope- — the confcience fell r
Galpe^i idaunch fons — though hopelci's of
flip plies,

The gi'ded treaty cordially defpife:

The little pittance — unrepining bear,

And, with afoldier’s franknefi,— “ ffiare and
fhare.”

Tr. the progrefs of the “ Sieged’ various
incidents are naturally introduced — the
firft blockade 3 — Rodney’s viiflory^j and,
“Splendid as harmlefs — pidlurefque as _
bright, [fighp 1

The flaming fire-fnips 5 form’d a coltly f
Cloa’h’U in the fulemn awefulnefs of night.
Whllft modeft Harvey, of undaunted mind.
Tow’d their hot prows, and left them to the
wind :

Or fome, more lucky, reach’d our rock-
bound flrand.

And left the welcome on th’ indented fand ;
The g ludy pageants our dull kitchens flor’d.
And cook’d the little plenty — for the board.’*

A fecond blockade^ — the Spanilh
vauntirig-. — the concern of the garrifen,
not for their own lives, but for the weak
and the defencelefs^ — a fortie^ in which

I “ The Emperor of Morocco not only refufed to fupply the garrifon with any more cat¬
tle but he permitted the Spaniards to take fome merchantmen when at anchor in Tangier-
b.iy ; and Conful Logie, whofe indefatigable attention to fupply provifions every one in
Gthrahar acknowledges, w’as not only forced to quit Barbaty, but the Moors fpit upon him,
and treated him with every poflible ignominy, thongli ihefe poor wretches, at the fame lime,
had ihe greatell regard for him ; but it was by order of the Emferei.”

% « The Kings of Spain and the Emperor of Morocco, in their coronation-oaths, fwear
perpetual war agamd each other.

3 “ Commenced June ii, i779-”

4 “ Admiial Rodney beat Langara, and relieved the garrifon, Jan 25, rySc.’*

s “ June 7, 1780. At half pafl: one in the evening the enemy fent nine fire-fliipr, which
did no deflrudV.un, owing to the vigilance of Capt. John Harvey, of the Panttier— they were
all of ihem in full blaze almofl; in an inftani : one of them driving towards the Panther, the
fail -IS held by the boat-hooks, and, though feme of cliem were much fcorched, they tqwed
it between the buoy and the fhip, whence it drlfred into the Mediterranean ; thofe which
came on Ihore were called ‘ God fern’s.’ Wood for rooking then fold at five fhdlings and
tiisee I'.ence a cwt. according to the comfe of exchange. It is in gratitude to his fervices I
have uj add, he was the Captain Hai vty of the Brunfwick, 7jo fell in Lord Howe’s glorious
victory in June, 1794.’' [See our pieienr volume, p. 673.]

^ They ag.un attempted to hlockaiie ; Admiral Darby relieved us April 12, 1781 ; on
which d..y, on tiie fecond man of war dropping anchor, at ten in the morning, they ojiened
their batt.iie uiion us. ’ '

7 “ The Spaudii Gazettes w'ere continually faying, “ The Mountain is Iialf won.**

5 “ Then' gnu and mortal -boats did no material mifehief to tlie garrifon, as avowed by
their G zette ; but, as they fired imlifcriminately at the camp, the l-.ofpit.il, and into few
town, whicii was tlie retreat of the iuliabiUnts, fome men, women, and children, were
j^dlcd and w'ounded.’*

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1794*1 Review of New Puhlications. ^^95

^‘The gallant Rofs^ lei on the fearlefs hand,
And mercylbone — cnn^’picuons in command,”

A Hanoverian Woithy is thus noticed ;
The genileft manners to the hern join’d,
The polifh’d fcliolar learnedly combin’d ;

Jo courage vig’rou': — in ex-perience — old,
Am id ft the foremoft — boldeft of the bold.
For fuch good Hugo's venerable breaft
That cv’ry virtue feem’d a native gueft.

Ye rock-knov\ n vet’rans, who delight to tell
V^'hate’er we lov’d — or truly honour’d well.
Let grateful Mem’ry his paft w’orth proclaim,
And confecrate jn leai'S — your tribute to his
named’

A melancholy lift of ficknefs and ca¬
lamities is detailed, bv thofe who, in their
prattlings to each other,

*‘Told their old ftories o’er and o’er again :”
“ How the fcorbutick^’',withcorrodmgpain,
I/Ong’dfor reviving juice~but long’d in vain.
•In frightful fhnpestlieblnck’ned poifonfpread,
And on the fpringsof life deftruftive fed ;
Whilft the laK flux unmann’d the boldeft
thought, [caught.

And wdth more rapid ftrides the viftim

O n e fo r ro \v m or e i n Nort he rn cl 1 m ates — n e w.
That muchcompaflion for the fuff ’rers draw :
Scarce liad briglit Sol 'his Ifated journey done.
Ere the dim eye — its vifual courfehad run ;
And even fire, with the full force of light,
Darken'd as chaos, could not cheer—
night.

But, when the morn unfolds.the myftic chain,
The orbits are reftor’d to life again ;

From faplefs food — thefe direful fconrges
come.

And fill the fick’ned mind — with longing
thoughts of home.”

The prowefs of General Boyd^^ is
next defcribecl — and the appearance of
the adverfe fl.,ec *4^ clofed with a liberal
and Wveli-tinied compliment to one of
their principal commanders; ^

D’Aryon, ’twas thine, whofe penetra¬
tive mind [ftance join’d;

Firft form’d the whole, and then tlie filb-
On fuch a plan as man had never thought,
Tli’ idea built — and then purfued tlie plot.
“Such pond’ rows efforts in the works confpire.
Although they fail’d, thy genius we admire ;

9 November 27, 1781. The fortie, under the command of Brigadier-general Rofs,
went out at three o’clock., and effeflually did its duty. The author’s Mufe prefented him
with a long poem the morning after this attack : this fubjeft gave Mr. Trumbull, an Ame¬
rican artift, an opportunity of difplaying the chafteft flcill as a painter; and, from his being
•formerly on active fervice, he has exprelled much military propriety in the adfion. Mr.
Sharp ttie engraver is to produce a print from it ” ,

“ Colonel Hugo, of Fiekl-maiihal HardePberg’s regiment, gave up the command of
his regiment, tfi have the honour, as he faid, ‘ to lead on the Hanoverian grenadiers and
he was the firft man out of the g n ifon 011 the attack.”

The feurvy and tlie ciyfentery carried off many foldiers ; and, if the men of war’s
boats had not luckily taken a velfcl laden with lemons, during the blockade, which waS
becalmed behind the rock, we might have been in as terrible a fituation as tlie Centurion
w'as in during her voyage round the world. 1 he feurvy, at that period, was raging moft
deftru(ftiveiy ; and tlie fruit of this veffd was the means of cleanfing tlie conftitution fo fuc-
cefsfully, that this fcourge was never fo fevere afterward.?, though it alw.iys cut a, figure on
•the fick-lift. Sucking the juice, and rubbing the wounds with the infide fkiu, was the grand
reftorative, and gave many brave fellows to life and their duty, who ocherwifc muft hav*
funk beneatli difeafe.”

12 -‘When this complaint made it^ appearance, the fit ft of the afflidfed were fuppofed to
be Malingarers, and many mounted guard, though as blipd as beetles, ileft they fiiouUl be
fufpeiSted to be fo. On the night the fire-fin ps came, .one man of the company f was in
cried moft'hitic'lv that he cnild jiot find his things; and I knew tlio niglit before he iiad
been on duty. 7 he eye had no particular appearance i but, .when they were called by name,
it feemecl vacantly to turn towards tlie perfon that fpoke. This fingvdar malady muft be
owing to poor food, as it fometimes happens to the natives of India, who live on rice of/ly ;
and at this time rice w'as .amonglf the beft nuurilhments tin? garrifon had; but it was in fuch
fmall quantity it r.'uld not .alone affcdl the fight ; fo that we will venture to add to thecaufe,
the dry ftock-fifii, and the fi inking faplefs meat.”

*3 “ Sept. 8, 1782. This is tlia firft time red hot fiiot was fired from ll.e garrifon ; it
was at tlie particular requeft of General Boyd, and under his diredlion : but it is to be un-
derfti'od, it was ahways the intention of the Governor to fire red-hot balls upon the floating
ba’tenes ; tlie General kept up a moft tremendous fire, and totally deftroyed Malion-bat- .«
tery, befides otlier damage. Prince Ferdinand recommended Genert,! Boyd fo ftrongly to
his Majefty, for Ivs comluCl at the battle of Minden, he immediately received his Ji'-Ji com-
m.ifihin — a lieuten.'.nt-colonel in the guards ; ami he has done the hlgheft honour to the re-
c rumendation. J he veteran is interred in a vault purpofely made for him in the King’s
haftion— a h.ittery he had the honour of building, and which had often witueffed his con¬
tempt of every danger.”

^ •‘4 « i'he combined fleets of France and Spain.”

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1196 Review of New PuhlicatiGns, [Supp.

And as ihe whole we trace — the end pnrfue,
D’Ar^on^S has fail’d — but credit is his due.”

We now come to the oieparatioriii for
the 12th of September and the high
expeilatioiis formed by the Spaniards ^ 7.
Ac this period, an unufual number of
t'ne leathered tribe li(.vering in the air

One Bird of Heav’n! — The Monarch of
the whole

Pefcends— -and perch’d upon tlie fignal-pole;
^Twas thought afignal for a Britiih fleet,
And loudoh joy burlf forth in honufelt greet:
But, nearer flen — wit!', bold erective crefl,
A miglrty cugd’ rear’d hisfweUing chefl,

And ilauntlefs overlook’d the crowded bay,
The favour’d omen of the coming day.”

The 13th, ft proud morning ^9^ is
d fieri bed ; and

“ The high-Joul'd Chief ere& — in danger

feen,

And wl'jo in danger alw.ays is ferene,

Daits round the whole witii comprehenfive
eye, , ' _ ^ [fly.

Whild through the works his pointed ordei's
Sound as the rock, th’ undaunted leader s
mind,

Yet fof.ly textur’d— as the moft refin’d,
Though boifl’rous words (too often) Jhade
the hour,

None but tiie great de'’.aulrer feels his power,
'ihe fick — the vet’raii — and the prif’ner
knows [flows.”

The fihnt fpring — whence his rich bounty-

15 Monf. D’Ar^on, a Frenchman, formed the idea, and the fliips were built under his
irmTied!a*^^e dire6lion.”

“ After the baitering-fhips had moved tn the Orange- grove, io rake in their ammuni¬
tion, thev were cur dautly decorating them, and firing f. d ues ; • and it wouV.! be i-npoflible
to deferibe tlieir grand gala day, the pageantic 12th of September. On fli'.jre there vicre va¬
rious iirocefllons"^civil, military, and eccieflailic ; bieflings and pardons were ascoromon as
words. Tl\e priefls not o'tly blefled thofe who were gomg m fight, hut r>romifeJ them par¬
don for fWery thii;g they had do'ie amifSj^if they were killed : and I uiidarfl;jnd, amongft
iheir hlejjing^, mercy to the Hereticks was not included ; but a kind of fide-biow given to
the minds of the ftijier tlitiou; , in caf- they were viftorious, which would have made the
blood of all tlie Hereticks in the garnfon of no more value an thl't nf one of th.e King of

Spaur’s pointers. Ir I may judge from tl)e conve.fUiO ! 1 had witn one of theV/alloon
gvxards immediately upon his landing, I can believe .dl tins.”

17 The number of fpedlatois was beyond calculation ; the many hills r,vere like moving
forefts timing the day ; and, as they knew not the c.rlarnity which h.ad alre.id.y taken root, I
do net believe titere could he more chearfnl beings under lieavem On the following morning
hardly a perfon could be feen ; “the barren wildernefs had ceafed to fmiie,” they' retired to
their difiprO'5itmen,ts ; and, as a Spaniard, of diPtmdlion afterwards faid to Genentl Elliot,

We were neither covnpany for ourfelves or fur each other.”

18 “At tlie tinae tlie (liiDS were fvveeping rnajeflicrdly round, different flights of eagles
hoverqd an a razing height above the fummit of the rock. At certain fj.afons this is not
uncommon ; hut they made their /n/f appearance this year at the very hour the fieet-eame.
We had been given to under 0 and dUiC Lord Howe’s fleet was expeifled to relieve th.e garri-v
fon ; su-d, upon th.e cry of Another fleet 1” v.'e turned to the fignal- ho’ufe, a. a* wh.-.t w'e r.C
hrfl toc.k for the fignal proved an amazing largu eagle, probably tired !)y his fligiit from a
diflant part of B rbavy. It remained fome tune, and 1 rememlicr it was faid, ‘ Wliy ihould
not the Britons think it an omen of vidtoiy, as the Pmmaiis would have done 'C and we gaily

agreed to think it fo.”

j:9 The ten floating-batteries had fprings upon tlieir cables by to o’clock; in about half
an hour one of them had two of her rnifls llvut away, and the fire poured in from theland-
bAteries and the juuk-ihips was tremendous : our 1 3-inch and 10 inch Oiclls rebounded from,
their tops without having made any aj^pareat impreffion. The conduct of the Royal Artil¬
lery was on this, its it is upon all orcafuMis,' beyond praife- and, notwithflar.ding the rapir
ditv, and then- im tslTant firing of red-hot ha’l:, nc t one accident happened dm ing cite attack,
though t'ney were lunning about with them in all direilions. Not on’y the a tiliery, hut that
part of the troops cp.uii tered at the King’s baftion, and the piccju-r-guard, were as body as
bees in fupplying amrnurfinen, &c. ; and thofe qu.ii'tered at the Southward lent every afliit-
ance ; even Tme of -the fick Hole from t'ne hoCrdtal, and particularly a corporal who had
been recentlv trepanned: and thefe z 'aious fi>'ulieis were found in the ttiickeil of the fire, ■
and wMth r?l ihtance reUu ned to the hofpbab'’

“ General Mliot maTained upon tl'e King’s Vaflion the greatefl; part of ihe day, againfl
which three of the nattormg-ihips chredded tiie r force. This ill-judged bravery of theirs was
certainlv taking the hull by the horns; (’ne governor Tent for his dinner and ate it on the
raniparts. As he is gone to the final “hounie,” we may now fay what lie never wiflicd to
be known in liis Ide time. I remember, wlien an olflcer of ncieiit wilhed to fell out to pay
bis debts, that he Itas advanced Qie money, faying, “ tho fervics flull never lofe a good ofS-

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No wonder then — as the good naval Chief
Did almoft more than man — to yield relief;
Her very fons — Ihould fire upon the crew:
Deny it, Spain ? — bhe cannot— ’tis too true.

“ But who could paint the grandeur of the
feene ? [pea.)

(Words wmuld fall fhort, but from a Milton’s
When w ifh’d Aurora op’d th’aufp'cious dawn.
And (hew ed to Calfe’s fons the happy mo! n ;
When the explofums rent the trernbiing air.
And columns high m majehy appear;

When million dangers dverfpread thefea, ”1
Each Britilh heart, brave Gurtisj felt for L
thee, j

Thou native fon of fair Humanity ! ^

But, as that day can never be expreft,

expreffive filence” — paints thebeff.
To “Silence,” then — which cheers the bufy
thought,

As Reafon didlates, and as Nature taught,
The reft is left— Come, gen’rous “ Silence,”
then,

And think the Glorious Addion o’er again.”

229. Dijlionep Shame the -primarv Source of the
Corruption of the Chrijitan Dodrine : ud Ser~
man, preached at the Gravel pit Meeting in
Hackney, April 6, 1794. Thomas
Belfham.

FROM tlie words of St. Paul, Rom,
i. 16. Mr. B. rakes occafion to expofe
the cliihonfefty of being afliamed of the

cer for .an hundred poun^ds.” 1 have heard of his giving a handfome new-year’s gift to an
old quarter-mafter who had a large family, after having repj irnanded liim a few days before
in his unfortunate manner : and 1 know he has faid, that he never felt anger for an inftant
after he had fpoke in his •^vay (which, we all know, was difagreeable enough) ; but, when
any on deferveu a reprimand wiiich he did not wifti to.bring to extremity, he faid nothing,
but then only felt 1 ecolledled difpleafut e. — I have heard of bis having purchafed promotion:
unknown to officers, and afterwards told them to “repay him when they were general offi¬
cers.” And wl'.at officer ^n^\ foldier did he ever hurt, who djd not deferve it ? And has he
not, with fuccefs, applied to his Majeity for defaulters under fentence.of courts martial?
Thefe are circumftaiices which muft hide his difagreeable defedts; and we may fay,

“ Me had no faults, is dead.'”

“Capt. Beeves, of the Artillery, was mortally wounded, at four in the afternoon, by a
randem fiiot from a long ranger, after having been extremely adlive in fuppiying the dif¬
ferent batteries with ammunition. This misfortune was, if poffible, heightened from h s
buftling in the midft of danger all the day, and he was then gone to give diiedtions at a point
where foot feldom readied. He wr.s born on the 13th of September ; ferved under Wolfe,
at Quebec, on the 13th of September; and a ftraggUng ftiot took him off on the 13th of
September. His long ferviccs, atui his particular ones on that day, were the occafion of a
penfion bemg fettled upon his daughter. He was adjutant; and the diftrefsof the foluiers
tliat Carried him to his grave, and the officers that attended, was the heft proof of what kind
Df man h.e'was.”

“ Captain Curtis went out with his gun-boats early in the morning. When the firfl:
fioatmg-batteiy blew up, his ci^ckfwain was killed in his barge, and three failors wounded,
befides c.ne of his gun- boats fiu'k. After this, in the midft of two other explofions, he
continued to alfift the wretched fufferefs, and faved near 400 prifoners, fome of whom had
been .much wounded in the engagement. Count D’ Artois, on his going with a flag of truce
C:> tlie Spanifti camp, complim.ented him, in ttie name c'f the French nation, for his huma¬
nity-, rvhicii lie faid, “ I was an eye-witnefs of, and anxious for your fafety.” — It is with
concern I feel myfelf obliged to mention a cmcumftance which is but too true, though we
will I'ope it was miOre from ignorance than defign : fome of their guns from the lines fired
.rp.on the beats while faving their countrymen. The aiulufr has fome reafon to fpeak with
everjty ; he \\ as at tlie Ragged Staff during the landing of the prifoners, where a valuable
erjvAnt of the 720 regiment had his right arm taken off by one of thufe ungrateful fliots.”

fnic

A friend’s death is feelingly lamented :
One fatal fhot (the faddeft in the day)

Tore from my friend — the vital fpark
away-.

On the fame day immortal Wolfe was (lain,
He ftiar’d the laurels of th’ embattled plain ;
And on that day the foldier firft drew
breath,

That painful fent him to an honour’d death.”

The cquclufion is a tribute fo juftly
due to Bravery and Hhmanity, that it
would be unjuft to pafs it over :

“ Health to the naval Chief — to whom
we owe

The final grandeur of this fatal blow ;

In whom, true courage and good condudljoin,
In whom Humanity did nobly (hine ;

Who pain’d the admit ation of his friends,
And Bourbon’s felf — the gen’rous adl com¬
mends: [power,

For, while the batt’ries burnt with fcorching
A-midft. the fury of the dang’rous hour,
Carelefs of life — and all alive — to fave
The vi<Slim’ci Spaniards from th’ impending
grave.

And yet, how painful to the human mind,
What muft remain a ftigma — on mankind;
Wha‘ ! — No — not all. the fophiftry of Spain
Can auord away — the ignominious ftain.

But what — the hauglity Spaniard will not do ;
Witnefc, ye b/ife— your murders at Peru :

Revisw oX -iVfro Publ'icat'om,

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true faitf). Eat, while he charges the
fource of this fhame on the opinion, that
the Author of the Chriftran Religion,
who was crucified, was. Tome thing more
' than man, it feems to us that he hi-mfelf
is as much aQiamed of the 'ruih as it is
in Jefus. He certainly diftorts the pre-
fent received Sciiptures to his purpofe.
But, while he reje^ls the iniraculous
conception, he is forced to acknowledge
that, though 'it i^ found in all cur pre-
leht copies of Matthew and Luke, it
was certainly wanting in fom.e cf the
anrient ones~~in the copies ufed by the
ChryftmnSy and by Mareion.
Here the argument rr\ull; be in a circle
ad in/inilur^i the orthodox charge the
heretieks,' the hereticks the ortlvo-
■doK, with corrupting the text. “ If the
Chrifttan Relieioo will not hand the
fcrutiny, let us difcard it as an impious
forgery.” This is well laid ; but if this
fcrutiny is to cut out of the book of life
every leaf which we cannot fqutte to
our UHclerilandings, though pi^bably
abler and wifer men haled their belief
of them with their Wood, we fnould
furelv difiiuft the motives of our free
examination, whether they are not too
flrongly tindfured with a fpirit of fingu-
larity and unrefTained ftlf-opinion, or
perfedliy confident wi h the. candour
and ntoderation fo.much and fo fre-
-q^uentlv lield-outin ho-aft. The drift of
this fcrmon, i>y which Mr. B. may he
faid .to infial! himieif as the fucceilor of
Dolors Price and Piieflley, is eafily
feen- Tim objedlion to the year of
ChritVs b'ril'i and the death of Herod
may he ^nTwriecI trora Mr. iMann’s eHay
on the true years of Citrifi’s biith and
death, p. 3^ & 'uq.

230. ^./ Srrtnon frendhed in t'he Cathedral Church
of VS orceiter, at the Mujlc Meeting, Sept.
10, 1794. P o'x^rt Lucas, D. D. Cub-
lijhed at the far*iailar Requefi of tlye Steav-
erds rind the Gentlemen fiefcnt, and fur the
Beneft of the Charity for the Relief of dif-
ireffed Clergymen, anti their IFidd-XLn and Chil¬
dren, in the Diocefes of VVorceher, Here¬
ford, Gl.oncefler.

A decent defence of the miniHers of
the EHaldiflied Religion, text, i Thefi'.
V. 12, 13.

231. Original' Co’-reftondmee on tie refpeCive
^'eneta of the T'evo Orders of hpfr.opalians in
ScotUu’d, rcjpehfing the Royal Siepremac),
the. Canoricaf Ohedi noe due from inferior
Clergy^ a”d the Ufaa;es in the Ofiee of tM
l ordds I upper ^ in nvhich alone the i'Vorf ip cf
the StOtCtl Order no’o d'ffeisfom that of the

Church of Eng)aiHl. To which is prefixed,
yl brief hifoncal IntroduCHon, firpioried by
Citations front its Sources of uduthority.
THIS is the conclufion of a corre-
fpondence beeun in our Milcelianv,
vol. LXL p. 426, LXII. 239. 331, 497»
between Mr. Aiiken, a ptefoy erian of
the Scorch Epifeopa! Church, and a
clergyman of the Church of Eng’and,
w’uo, in the pamphlet i)efore us, diico-
rets himfelf to he the Rev. Thomas
Watfon, of Witjliill, near Tadc/tfieij
and has, we think, dtte(flcd forue falla¬
cious aaul e(|uivocal dodlrines of the
Scotch Epilcopalians j thougl), on ac¬
count of Its length, we found ourfclves
under (the necefiity of declining to admit
his concluding letter, here publifhed.

232. T7’J Origination of the Greek Verb^ an
llypothefs.

THIS ingenious fpeculation, tlie
work of Dr. Vincent, head-iTiaher of
Weftminfler-fdiool, confifls of neither
mare nor lefs than tiie aflumption of the
primitive verb tii as the origin of' all
terminations in the Greek verb, and the
fource of all its exrenfive variety.

“ The chief ahidance tow'ards the invef-

tigation of this fnbjecl lias been drawn from
Villoifon’s comnientai y on tire p-ahoral hh-
toi y of Longus. Tliofe who are .acquainted
with that work will perceive that fewer li-
heities aie taken, and Jefs violence ufetl,
with the Greek verb than he lias done.
Valkenaer, Daw e.Cj Rurgefs, and Kufter,
have all contciliuted their fliare ; and, w hen-
ever a regular treadfe fiaall he prepared,
their coiuributioiis fhail he duly acknov/-
ledged^ hut nothing is due to L-nnep, who,
inftead of hnap-lifying U e difliculties, has
a-ugmented them, by midiiplying n ots and
tliemes vvithaut difcretion. U is 1 ot pre¬
tended that this fehenr-.e of the veib fliould
fuporfede the necellity of acquiring the con¬
jugations by thofe who are commencing
tlieir acquaintance vs ith the h’nguage ; but,
as foon as they compiehend ttie power of
tlie refpe61iv''e charadieriltic letters, one
nu'iuh’s practice, in forming every Greek
verb ujKin the model of Eil, will give them
a primary and general idea, which will ne¬
ver be obliterated from the men'oiy. This
will be equally ulc-Ful in pradlice, whether
the fciieme is founded in faCl or fuppofition ;
and as fiich it if clfeicd, both to thole wbo
leach anil thofe who learn. No proficient
in the langtrage can look back to Itis own la¬
bour, in the acquifition of conjugaiing a
Gietk verb, without wifhmg tlint the road
Ihou'.d he Iho! tsned for otliers ; and, if this
Ichep.'e fhouhl not a’tfwer ih.e purpofe, it
will at leaft lave the t'ouhle of travelling
the fame journey fo repeatedly, and fome-

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times without obtaining the obje6l at the end
of It.”

23"^. An Addrcfs to the Proprietors of Enft:
India Stock, on the SuhjcSi of uddre/jinsr llis
Majcfly, to exprefs their IJ'i/h to fopport the
Conpitution, and to mi fe 'Th/ce Fentible Ke-
gimentsfar the prefcnt Service of the State.

TH& mtal'ure ftrenuouHv recom-

mended by this Anti-Cartnagnol (for fo
the writer fuhrcjibes himfelf) has- been
carried; and he in a poOlicript fpeaks
hig!ily of another ad<!refs to the propri¬
etors on the fame fubjc6i.

234. ’The Principles of FJoquerice, adapted to
the Pulpit and the Ear’, hy the Alb' M<iury.
STumflatedfrom the French, nvith additional'
Ptotesy by J ohnf N eal Lake, M. A.

THE, zeal and talents of the Able
M. in the late ciihs of public affairs in
France, will long be rememl)ered. Elo¬
quence appeals to ha'^e occupied liis
matured thoughts ; and the juftnefs and
enlargement of his ideas upon this fub-
je6t mark the fucctfs with which he
puifucvd it. His precepts and rules are
every wav adapted to form tlie tafte of a
young orator to that affc6fing fimpTiciry
which difdains all frivolous crnamenis,
and has no ether objeifl in view than to
touch and to orefide. The editor, who,
W'e underhand, is minifter of the Calvi-
nihic congregation at tiie new meeting
at Walthamriow, apologizes for his
trandation by obferving, that “ be be ¬
gan at urh to perule and tranflate this
performance in the courfe of his private
ftudies, and merely with a view to his
perfonal itnorovenient. Some elucida¬
tions fiom Englifb auchorlties naturally
occurred to his mind, wiiich he has ac-
coidingly annexed. But it was not till
at erwaids, and in compliance with the
wiff of thole whole judgement he re-
fpt61s, that be thouglic of iubmitting
the whole, to public view. He cannot
be inlenfib'e that imperfeibons may dil-
cover themfelves to the eve of rigid cii-
ticilm ; wlhile, at tlte fame time, he
would indulge a liope, that rhe time and
prnn'^ employed will render this tranfla-
tion of me Abbe’s fentiments not wh.oliy
unacceptable to the voting ftudent and
reader, for wliole ufe it is principally
dcfigned. The Abie’s precivetfion lor
Flench preochers and orators gives a
tin-ffure of feverity to his cenfures on
the Englifh ; and, in one or two jn-
liancts, Ids zeal for the Romifh Chinch
embitters h'S language w'ith regard to
tiie conduit and writings of fome P;o-
teltants. Ev-ry man has his parwalities.

1199

For the prejudices of education, country^
and conneiions, great allowance muff,
and by every liberal mind will, be made.
This is an age of free enquiry; and, in
proportion as this fpiric prevails, w’e
lhali fay with the poet,

— - Veniam petimuj

Dabimufque Dtaffim -

Free liberty mull therefore be allowed t©
every reader to judge for himftlf what
degree of regard is to he paid to a few
palfages wherein the A;>l.e gives fuch an
unbounded preferen-<e to forne of his fa¬
vourite preachers above rhi-de of the Pro-
teftant church and the Englifh nation.”-—
This tranflation is dedicated to the Biihop
of London, “ wlio, in addition to his
other eminent qual'ties, has exhibited,
both fn>m the pulpit and the prefs, fo '
diftinguifhed a modei of the cKcellence
and commanding influence of his art.’*

233. ' Con f derations on a Separation of the Me-*
thodijis from the F-fiahltfi-cd Church ; ar/-
dreffed'ts fuch of them as are friencUv to that
Meafure, and particularly to thof in the City
of Brilttrl; By a Member of the Fjlublijhed
Church. Briilol.

A calm and candid addrefs to a nu¬
merous body of Religionifts, who. now
they l.ave loft their great leacier, Teem
like fiteep without a fhephercU From
the example of the fir ft reformers in
Germany, and the finl puritans in Eng¬
land, he advifes them itot orecipitately
to go out of the Eftablifiied Church, buc
to flay till tlicy are thrteji out ; and, from
the example of God himfelf, who com¬
mands that the tares and vvheat in his
church be let to ^rotv together till bar*-
njefy he infers the folly of fuch a fepa-
ration at prefent ; and, from Mr. Wef-
ley’s own example, he protefls againil it.

236. ObfervatioHS on the National Chara&er of
the Puicli, and the Family Charailer of the
Uoufe of Orange; co’f-dercd alonz nuith the
and Means n.uhii h they huTje to defend
their Co intrv at this Time againf F: each
Livaf on. By Robert Walker, F.R S. Se¬
nior Min fter of Canongate, and Chaplain /»
the Chamber of Commerce. Edinbmgh.
x\FTER drawing a Ivcly picture of
tl>e Biravian charaAbr for courage, for-
tirude, and patrlotifm, fiom their conteft
with the Romans to th.fe wth the Spt-
niards, arid a no lef' flatter ing one '1 e
houfe of Orange, ti'C author rroc-eti to
flj'ew the fource of rhe pr-. lent deva ion
in the pe-qrlc ar Lri,>e, and p'hcts tr en¬
tirely to th'* ac oant of d.ifeicict of
opinion in re’igion, to the uupi ct.y >,f

~ lire

Rgview of Niw Fuhlfcathnsn

*1200

the Arminian party, who fpare no pains
to infinuate thenifelves, into offices of
power and trull, in defiance to their
confcience. But ihefc are carefully
watched ; and the treatment of the Fle¬
mings by the French has opened their
eyes. Though the commercial fpirit of
the Dutch has, in a degree, (quenched
their military ardour, it appeared in the
fea fight with us off the Dogger Bank,
1781. The French may crofs the
Maefe, and over-run Gelderland, Over-
ylTel, and Friefland j but, fhould they
.penetrate thus far, the chief llrength of
the country would ftill be entire; an
oppcfing army watching to harrafs them ;
a communication of firong polls, Breda,
BoiS'-le-Duc, Maellricht, &c. behind
them; with the poiTibility, at lead, of
the Aullrians and the troops of the Em¬
pire to cut oft their retreat. Thele two
Jail refoutces have unfortunately failed
fince our author wrote. His remaininp;
hope IS, that tne natural fituation of the
country will proteft it from invafion
fiom the moft numerous armies, if the
inhabitants are OETERMlNED_tO
.avail themfelves of it. Tins is well
added j and perhaps, before the phleg¬
matic Hollanders have fo determined,
the country may fail a prey to invaders.
Ivir. W. admits that their navy, is but
fufficient to convoy their trade-; and
there were, and ftill are, circumilances
that render it difficult, if not impoffibie,
to augment their navy : the principal of'
thefe was, the fear of laying additional
taxes on the d)falfe£led ; and they con¬
tented themfelves with levying a regular
and well appointed army of 24,000 men,
to concur with the combined forces in
FI anders, befuies complete garrifons in
all their fortified towns. “ When it is
confidered that thefe troops have been
employed in all the moft dangerous fer-
vices; that they have repeatedly fuifered
immenle Ioffes, and yet have been always
kept up, by levies from the interior of the
the country, to the complement above Ha¬
ted, it will appear a very great ex¬
ertion in a country which hardly con-
fifis of 200,000 inhabitants, and thofe al-
moft univerfaliy engaged in occupations
mod unfavourable to the prevalence of a
military fpirit.” In an appendix w'e
Itave a flatem.ent of the taxes of Hol¬
land, which are chiefly laid on the ne-
cellajies of life. Bread-corn pays nearly
its or'ginal price for a licence to be
ground into flour; and," when it is fold
in the market fur other purpores,it pays
a fmaller duty, Ail kinds of butcher’s

[Supf

meat pays a halfpenny per pound; fowl!
a diver, and pigs three (livers each,
Private families pay in the lame proper-
tion for a licence to kill their own poul-
try, pigs, or ffieep ; and are bound rc
give to the furveyor of the town or ciif-
tti6l an account of their live ftock, all
kinds of which pay a tax per head:
calves and two years old bullocks, 24
divers per annum ; above that age, two
guilders. 'Every dairy-farm 24 guilders
per annum, in name of fope and fait
money. Every horfe kept for any pur-
pofe, two guilders per annum ; a faddle-
horfe for pleafure, 36; a carriage for
the fame purpofe, 50; beficles c;6 for
each horfe ufed in it. Farmers’ horfes
and carriages, although for travelling,
are exempted, Female-fervants in pri¬
vate families are raxed at the rate of fix
guilders per annum; and, in public
houfes, 23 guilders, in the name of li¬
cence for the inn-keepers to fell tobacco^
coffee, and tea; and their names muft
be given- in to the colle6lor before they
deep a night in thefe houfes, under pe¬
nalty of 500 guilders. Male-fervants
pay a graduated tax, according to their
number, as among us. All fiffi, fruit,
and vegetables, brought to marker, are
approved and taxed before they can be
expofed to fale. Fuel of all kinds pays
a tax more than equal to its original va¬
lue. Private families pay for u licence
to drink tea and coffee from fix guilders
upwards, according to their efiimated
.income; and this tax is confolidated
with that on fervants. The tax on fu¬
nerals is regulated by the ffation of the
perfon, which is perfect ly afeertained by
public opinion. In the higheft dation
a perfon cannot be laid in the dud un¬
der an expence of 70I. derling ; but an
ordinary phyfician vifits his patient for a
Ihilling each time, and a profeffor of
medicine for a guilder. Travelling in
Plolland, though very cheap, produces a
great revenue to Government; the treck^
fchuits are furnifiied by the magifi rates,
and renewed once in 20 years. Corn-
miffioners are appointed at each birth to
regifter the paffengers, ^and to hire [let]
our the cabin ; near one half of the fare
goes to the revenue. Each boat may
eafily contain about 60 paffengers, who
pay little more than a penny a mile,:
and, in fome fares, led. The land-tax,
is 5s. in the pound. There arc alfo very
high town’s impofls on the confumptioiu
of wine, fpirics, and beer: a tax on:
houfts, pleafure-boats of ail kinds, eranf*'
porraiio.a of goods for coniurnpticn iaj

Revlsw of New Fuhluatkns*

794*] Review of New PuhlicatioHs. — Index Indicatonus. faOi

mall parcels, viz- a licence of about
hree farthings on each; on the fociety
)f pilots in every navigable river, who
nuft furnifli a certain nionthl'v (urn to
he revenue; on locks and bridges in
nland navigations; on tire r^gihering ©f
parcels fenc by ti eckfehuits, or other
^'effels ; on the weighing of all s:oo(!s :
in a word, on a’moft every a?tic]e of
confumption that can he named. To
iclofe this account, there is a tax on col¬
lateral inherirages, in three claffes ; a
man fucceeding his brother pays 5I. per
cent. ; his uncle, 7-| ; and, to any mcne
diOant I'elation, 11 per cent, on the
whole heritage.

237. feiv plain ^ejlions, and a little honeji
Advice, to the hVorkirg People of Great Bri¬
tain. To ‘iL'hich are added, Texts of Scrip-
ture, recorr.nmided to the jerious Confideration
oj Pet fans in every Rank of Life. ^

WHEN there is a chance of doing
good by tne didributicn pf an uleful
little treatife at the verv cheap price of
4s. for 100 copies, who would 'not wil-
linglv attempt it ?

That the prefent times are marked by a
fpirit of difafiettion to Government, and a
contempt of iawTul authority, is a trutii un¬
happily too obvious to be difputed. To check
this fpirit, and to point out the neceffity of
lubordination, which alone can fecure tire
peace and comfort of foc’ety.feveral valuable
treatifes have been publifived by learned and
able writers. But, as many pc-rfons have nei¬
ther leifure noi' opportunity tp read tbefe
treatifes, it has been thought expedient to
recommend to their perufr-.l tlie precepts
upon this fubjedf here copied from the
Scriptures. And, as tbefe j)rec3])ts are de¬
rived from that facred Bimk which contains
the words of eternal life, which direcls our
Heps to prefent peace and eveilaftiiig hap-
pinefs, it is to be hoped that they wnli be fe-
rioully attended to by ail wiio piofefs to be
friends to the liberty and tlie religion of
their country.”

This ii'tie prrdu£licn is evidently bv
noordinrry hand ; and v;c therefore with
conhdence recommend it.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

In the billet from ‘‘ A Conflant Reader”
we recognize one whofe fricodfhip we
liighly ehceni, and whofe literary favours
are always acceji table ; but, as he is vurong
in his conjecture, he will agree with us tlrat
it would be irnpiudeut to r ecall attention to
the Letters which be veiy juftly reprobates.

A Frieno to moueration obferves
that K. p, iioi, has with great propriety
referred L. L. to the 1 3th chapter of St.
Paul’s firft epiflle to the Corintirians j and
CfiNX. MaO, Supplement, 1794,

defires alfo to refer him to Matthew, vii, 12,
and wifives they may do him good. In vol.'
LXIII. p. 221, of Gent. Mag. L. L. com¬
pares it to a fpacicus apartment, open for
the reception of malks ; and declares diat if
any perfon, whofe face is covered with a
vifor, forget himlelf fo far as to attempt re¬
moving or peeping under /j/s, he fhall make
no fcruple of a; pealing to Mr. Urban, as
M after of Che ceremonies, to refent fo inex-
cufahle a breach of decorum. This
cufable breach of decorum he himself has
been guilty of, p. 975. He happened, in¬
deed, to be miftaken ; but his conduct is cer¬
tainly ii'reconcileable wnth the dodlrine con¬
tained in the verfe that is recommended to
his perufal.”

In anfwmr'to part of the enquiry of E. E.
the names of the authors of the Independent
Whig were Gordon and Trenchard.

A. H. in anfwer to feme correfpondents,
refpeifiiog th-e cure of warts, agues, fts, &c.
by means of bean-ikell-, raw meal, pieces of
filver, rings, thinks it is to attri¬
buted to a much higher and better caufe
than the ftrength of imagination ; namely, a
firm faith in the thing tried. Perfons wlio
life thefe remedies are generally c.f the lower
clafs, and they have a firm confidence. Our
Saviour, it will be recolledfed, faid to his
Difciples, If ye had faitii as a grain of
mufxard feed, ye fiiall fay unto this moun¬
tain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it
fhall remove.”

A Friend recommends to our notice (and
we would gladly avail ourfelves of the hint)
to requeil a copy of the monumental inferip-
tio.i, placed ny Mr- J. Bentham (fee p. 1151)
in one of the North ailes of Ely Cathedral,
to tlie memory of his father anti family.

We wifli we could report to T. W. any
faipher information than that w^e believe
Ur. Warton. is bnfily employed in preparing
Fop k’s Works for theprefs. — Of the progrefs
of Dry.de N vve c.inat prefent fay nothing.

A Poetical Inamorato prefents compli¬
ments to Mrs. Robinfon, and wifhes to be
informed why numbers of poetical readers
are to be debarred the pleafure of reading her
works by the enormous price they are fold
at ? he, for one, can never think of giving
a guinea for a froall od'iavo volume.

P. R. of Wellingborough fliould recol-
le<ft, that W'e are not omnijdent.

Mr. Loverioht’s feconci letter on Bigh-
n.vays is^ much too long, and would proba¬
bly lead to an unending ditcuflinn.

We thank Clkricus of Chudleigh; and
have no ohjedlion to pay il e pos tag k.

Tiro’s Gift. le letter, p( ft not psid, is re¬
turned to the Poft-oriice.

P, M’s “ Theorems” are not within the
plan of our publication.

Mr. W- Rixon, of Havant, may fee the
Bodleian Catal'ogue in every capital
library; or at almoft any bookfelkr’s.

Edm-

1202 HISTOTICAL

Edinburgby Nov. This morning, abmit
one a dreadful fire broke out in Mr. Bell’s
great brewery in the Fleafance, which, in
a very few hours, was entirely confuTned,
together with the valuable flock of grain
and utenfils therein. Upon the hrrt alarm,
the Lord Provofl and magi if rates, a great
number of the Edinburgh Vcdunteers, fire*
men, city guard, and two companies of the
Argylefhire Fencibles, at prefent in the
Caftle, attended^ together with fire-enginfs,
by whofe exertions the fire was confined
within the walls of the buddings, and pre¬
vented from ftretching to Mr. Bell’s dwell¬
ing houfe, and other adjacent tenements,--—
The Edinburgli Volunteers made a mofl
refpeilablc appearance, in complete uni¬
form, aud, carrying their arms, rendered
effentidl fervice, by keeping off the moO,
and accompanying the property that was
removed to a place of fafety. It was a new
but very pleafant occurrence, to fee geiiiie-
men of the firft fo’ tune in the city mount¬
ing guard, and piotedling the property of
their fellow-citizens, -amidft Ihowers of
burning embers and volumes offmoke. The
flames were fo great that the whole city
was illuminated, as well as Arthur’s Seat
and Salifbury Rocks ; a perfon could have
fcen to have picked 'up a pin on the pave¬
ment,* or read the' fmalleft print in the
flreets. Happily the premifes were infured,
but not near to the amount of the hds. For¬
tunately the ale-vaults were not touched,
but it is not known if the liquor is foured.
Bell’s ale has been famous all over the
world for thefe 30 years paff, and he was
always very careful to guard dgainil fire in
his premifes. This, it is faid, began in oiie
of the kilns vvhere the malt was drying.

Dec. I. The judges under the Sf)€cial Com-
mffiion met atthe Old Bailey, when John Au-
guftus Bonney, JeremialiJoyce, Stewart Ay d,
and Thomas Holcroft, were brouglit to the
bar, and the Jury being fwOrn in, and thepri-
foners arraigned in due form, tlie Attorney
General faid, that wlicn he h,;d on the
lall trials had the honoui\,to ifand there in
t/ie difeharge of lus official duty, he had ad-
dreffed the jury on thofe occafion.s in order
to Rate the grounds of the profecXition, and
that the Juries on thofe trials had found a
verdicl of Not Guilty. It then became his
duty to confitfer w liat was pnrper for him to
do in refpedl to the pubiick and the pri-
fouers at the bar. The refuit of the coufi-
deratiou was, that as the evidence adduced
on thofe trials, and that which applied t'o
the prifoners, were the fan'ic, and as, after
the heft confideration, the perfons had been
acquitted, he Would fubmic to the jilry aud
the Court, whether the prifoners fhcull not
be acquitted, and for that purpofe would
not trouble them by going into evidence."

The Lord Chief Juftice to the Jury —

Geuilcffieu, as tkere no evidence/ you

CHRONICLE. [Supp.

muft of courfe find the prifoners Not Guilty.’*
The Jury then pronounced a verdidt of
‘‘ Not Guilty;’’ and by diredtion of the
Court thepriipners weie difeharged.

Dec. 26. Mr. Juftice Lawrence w.as the only
Judge whexthis day appeared on the bench un¬
der the Sped. dCommilfion. The Court open¬
ed a few minutes after nine o’clock, and
then adjourned to VVednefday, Jan. 14, the
d.ay on winch the ufual gaol-delivery is to
commence. James Martin," the attorney,
whofe trial was expeded to take place, was
not liberated, as being detained alfo on an
attachment for contem.pt of the Court of
King’s Bench, iffued againft him on the mo¬
tion of Mr. Bearcroft previoufly to the pro-
fecuticu for High Treafon.

Dec. 30. This day his Majefty was pleafed
to open the fefiion of parliament with the
following muft gracious fpeeh from the
throne :

My Lords, .and Gentlemen,

** After the uniform experience which I
have had of your zealous regard for the in-
tere.fts of My people, it is a great fatisfadti-
011 to Me to recur to your advice and afiif-
tancs, at a period which calls for the full
exertion of your energy and wffdom.

‘‘ Notvvithftanding the difappointments
and reverfes which We have experienced m
the com fe of the laft campaign, 1 retain a
firm convidlion of the usceffity of perfifting
in tlie vigorous pj ofecution of the juft and
neceff.:rv war in which VVe are engaged.

‘‘ You will, I am confident, agree with
Me, that it is only from firrnnefs and perfe-
verance that We can hope for the reftoration
of peace on fafe and honourable grounds,
autl for the prefer vat ion and permanent le-
curity of our deareft Interefts.

In confidering the fru ition of our ene¬
mies, you will not faiUo obferve, that tfie
efforts- which have led to their fucceffes,
and the unexampled means by which alone
thofe efforts could have hoeu fupported,
have produced amongft themfelves the per¬
nicious effecis which were to be expefled;
and that every thing which h.as palled in the
interior of the country has Ifiewn the pro-
greffive and rapid decay of theii refources,
and the mftabii.ty of every part of that vio¬
lent and unnatural fyftem which is equally
ruinous to France, aud incompatible whlh
the tranquillity of other nations.

The States Gener.d of the United Provin¬
ces have nevcrihe'ers been led, by a fenfe of
prefent dilficui'ties, to enter into ffegociations
for peace with the paity now prevailing in
that unhappy country. — No' eftabliflied go¬
vernment or independent State can, under
the prefent circu.mftaucts, derive real fecu-
rity From fucii negociations : on our part,
they could not be attempted without facrifi-
ciug both our honour and fafety to an enemy
whofe chief animofity is avowedly diredled

I794-] HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 1203

** I have therefore continued to nfe the
mod cffetdual means fpr the rnuiher aug¬
mentation of My foue,-, and I ihatlomit no
opportunity of concerting the f^perations of
the next campaign with hich of th.e powers
of Europe as are imprelTed with the fame
feiife of the neceffity of vigour and exertion.
I place ti'.e fulled reliauce on tlie valour of
My forces, and cn the atiedion aaid public
fpirit of My people, in whofe beh.df 1 am
contending, and wit. fe f-ifety and liappinefs
are the objeds of My Cendant folicitude.

The local importance of Corfica, and
the fpirited efforts r f its inhabitants to deli¬
ver thcmfelve" from the yoke of France,
determined Me not to witlihold the protec¬
tion which they fought for: and 1 have
fince accepted of the crown and fo'*ereigni!y
of that country, according to an indrument,
a copy of which 1 liave dircdcd to be laid
before you.

“ I am happy to inform you, that I have
concluded a treaty of amity, commerce, and
navigation, with the United States of Ame¬
rica, in which It has been My objedl: to re¬
move, as far as p'offible, all grounds of jea-
loufy and niifnnderd. iiding, and to improve
an intjercourfe beneficial to both countries. —
As fooii as the ratific. tions lhall hcive been
exchanged, I will dired a copy of this trea¬
ty to be laid before you, in order tha: you
may confider of the propriety of mak ng
fuch provifions as may ajrpear neceffary for
carrying it into effrd

1 have the greated fetisfad'on in an¬
nouncing to you the happy event of tlie
conclufion of a treaty for the rnai riage of
My fon the Prince of Wales with the Prui-
cefs Caroline, daughter of the Duke of
Brunfwick : the coudact proofs of your
affedion for My perfon and family perfnade
Me, that you will participate in the fenti-
ments 1 feel on an occafion lo intereding
to My domedic happinefs, and that you
W'ill enable Me to make provifion for fuch
an edablifhment, as you may think fuitable
to the rank and dignity of tlie heir- apparent
to the crown of thefe kingdoms.

Gentlemen of the houfe of Commons,

** The confiderations, which piove the
neceffity of a vigorous profecution uf the
war wall, I doubt not, induce you to make
a timely and ample provifion for the fevcral
branches of the public ftrvice, tlie edimates
for which I have dlrcded to be la d before
you. While I regret tiie neceffity of large
additional burthens on My fubjeds, it is a
jud eonfolation and fatisfadion to Me to
obferve the date of our credit, commerce,
and refources, which is the natural refult
of the continued exertions of Indudry under
the protedion of a free and well regulated
jjovernmeut.

My Lords, and Gentlemen,

A jud fenfe of tlie bleilings now fo
long enjoyed by this country will, 1 am

perfuaded, encourage you to make every
effort, wliich can enable you to tranfmit
thofe bledings unimpaired to vour poderity.

I entertain a confident hope that, un¬
der the protedtiqu of providence, and with
condancy and perfeverance on our part,
the principles of focial -order, morality,
and religion, will ultimarely be fuccefsful;
and that My faithful people will find their
prefent exei lions and facrifices rewarded by
the fecun-i and permanent enjovment of
tranquillity at home, and by the deliverance
of Europe from the greated danger with
which it has been threatened fmee the eda¬
blifhment of civilized fociety.

Dee. gi, A little before twelv'eo’clock, two
dore-houfes at tlie powder mills belonging to
Medrs. Pigue and Andrews, at Dariford,
in which were about z6oo pounds ofgun-
p iwxler, blew up, by which unhappy acci¬
dent eleven men employed in the fame un¬
fortunately lod their lives. Several have left
wives and fanriihes to deplore their unhappy
lofs. The explnfion was fo great, that it
flaook mod of tlie buildings in the town, and
the concuffion was fenfibly felt at the diftance
of niiire than fifteen miles round ; and the
horrible feene on the fpotwas Ihocking be¬
yond delcription, as the a 'joining fields'
were covered with fragments of the building,
confiding of large beams of timber ftitvered
into thoufands of fpi inters, fprinkled with
blood, and inrerfperied with the mangled
limbs of the unfortunate fufterers, many of
which liiive been gatliere^l up for interment,
but nut one of their lieads have been yet
found. Fr, gments of nine bodies were col-
ledled, and interred in five coffins, in the
upper but lal-g- (Hind at D, rtford, on Saturday
evening, and a trunk of another body was
fince bmnd at a greaier diftance from the
mill than could have hem expecled, as alfo
part of a foot fufpended on a tree. The
explnfion of this cuming mill was felt at
the parfonage houfe ai Wilmington, where
it cracked a pane of glafi, and at Mr. Tal¬
ker’s near the chu. ch drove in three. The
conculiion was Uie grea'er from tlie cakes
being under the prafs, and but a fhort time
before upwards of 45 barrels of powder had
been removed. How tiie accident happened
is at prefent, and probably ever will remain,
unknown. The explofion took place a
few minutes before twelve o’clock, wiieu
providenii.dly the overleer and two boys
had juft left the works, .and one of them
was ringing tlie bell fi r dinner, or they
could not have efcaped the untimely fate of
tlieir companions. Mrs. Wilkes, the wife
.of the manager, ftanding a: her own door,
about 200 yards dillance, was knocked
down, but happily not materi.ally hurt. On¬
ly fix men were blown up in the explofion
of Oaober, 17905 the body of but one
could be afcertaiaed.

Bift XKS.

1204

Births and Marriages

Births.

Dec. A T Solihull, Mrs. Yates, wife of
• • • • Rev. Mr. Y. a daughter.

The wife of Mr. Eurgefs, farmer, of En¬
field, two fons.

27. At his feat in Yorkflhire, the Lady of
Thomas Maffingberd, efq. a daughter.

30. At Richmond, Surrey, the Lady of W.
L, Symes, efq. of Jamaica, a fon.

31. The Lady of James Chriftie, efq, of
Pall-Mall, a daughter.

/Marriages.

Dec. A T Manchefter, Mr. James Wat-

T. \ kins, merchant, to Mifs Frances
Kirk, daughter of the late Mr. Matthew K,
formerly a conhderable cotton-manufadfurer.

James Morris, efq. of Pall-Msll, to Mifs
Harriet Saunder^, fourth daughtei' of Tho¬
mas S. efq. of Yalely, Hants!

At Halleaths, the Hon. Wm. Maule, of
Pamnure, to Mifs Patricia Heron .Gordon,
dau. of the late Gilbert G. efq. of. Halleaths.

At Berwick, [ohn Forfier, efq, captain
in the 60th regiment of f 'ot, fon of Capt.
Williarn F, of the 'rnarines, who died in No¬
vember,' 1790 (LXL 1148), to Mifs .Mar¬
garet Forfter, his couhn-german, and cniy
daughter of Matthew F.dlq of Berwick.

2. Rev. Wm. JurinTotton, F.A. yicar of
Meldreth, co. Cambridge, to Mifs Frandes-
Mary-Anne Church, eldeft daughter of Jn.
C. efq. of Ifhngton.

3. Rev. R. Lining ton, B. A. of Worcef-
ter-cdllege, Oxford, and vicar of Hampton
in Arden, co. Warwick, to Mifs E, Bayly,
pf High Wycombe, Bucks.

4. At Kenfington, Mr. Wm. Trimmer,
of Brentford, to Mifs Bayne, of EarFs
Court-houfe, near Kpnhngton.

W. B. Rooke, efq. of Duke-ftr, G rofvenor-
fquare, to Mifs L. Durnford, of South ftreet.

7. ' At' Gordon-caftle, Major Mai;donald,
of the looth regiment, or Gordon High-
Janders, to Mifs Innes, of Sandfide.

g. Key, Jonas Thompfon, of York, to
Mifs Etherington, of Scarborough.

Rev. C. Clapham, to Mifs Ingleby, fer
cond daughter of Columbus 1. efq. of Auft-
wick, near Settle, CO, York.

JO. At Stockton, near Bridghortb, co.
Salop, Major Lyftcr, of the aid light dra¬
goons, to Mifs Price.

IT. Cant, Foore, of tlie Wilts reg’ment,
eldefl; fon of Edw. P. efq. of Wadhampton,
Wilts, to Mifs WolfF, daughter of George W.
efq. the Dapifh cohful-general.

By fpecial licence, Wilbam Drummond,
efq. of Wim pole, -ftreet, to Mifs Boone, of
Berkeley fquare.

John Bntiand Hollings, efq. of Eaton-
.Mafcott, co. Salop, to Mifs Barrar, of Gat-
acre-park, in the fame county.

Mr. Charles Stupart, of Willock', to Mifs
Sarah Barnard, youngeft daughter of Mr.
Samuel B. of Greenwich.

' Mr. John Twigge, furgeo.n, of Market-

of remarkable Per fons, [Supp.

Deeping, te Mifs Charlotte Molecey, of
Weft-Deeping, co. Lincoln.

_ 12. At Edinburgh, James Haig, efq. of
BimeiTide, to Mifs IfabeUa Watfon, daughter
of Mr. Sam. W, writer in Edinburgh.

15. At Invernefs, Robert M‘Bean, efq, of
Tortola, to Mifs Margaret MHntofb, daugh¬
ter of the late Mr. M. of D.dmigavie.

At Edinhurgli, Peter Murray, efq. eldeft
fon of Sir Win. M. hart, of Ochtertyre, to
Lady Mary-Anne Hope, daughter of the
late and fifier of the prefent E. of Hopetoun.

15. At Fulham, Benj. Garnett, efq. of St.
George’s in the Eaft, to Mifs De Charms, of
Hammerfmith.

Mr. Alexander More, merchant, to Mifs
Margaret funes,, daughter of the late Alex.
I. efq. of Cowie.

16. At Hornfey, co. Middlefex, Mr. [ohn
Brauton, merchant, of AldeiTgite-ftr^et, to
Mifs Dav, dau. of Th,o. D. efq. of Higligate.

Charles Sinclair, efq. to Mifs Fozard, of
Piccadilly.

Rev. John Dudley, of Humberfton, co.
Leicefter, to MifsKiiby, of Nottingham.

18. Edmund Eaftcourt Gale, efq. of Great
Bedwin, Wdts, to Mifs Gooder, of Speec-
hamland, Berks.

At Oxton, co. Nottingham, R'ev. Ephraim
Rogerion, vicar of that place, to Mifs Hen¬
rietta Becher.

John-.deury Loft, efq. of Louth, rnajor in
the Prince of Wales’s regiment, and colonel
of aregimeiiLnoA^ raifing, to Mifs Eliza Farr,
fecond daughter of Gilbert F. efq. of C iiftor.

20. W. P. Piggott, efq. high flieriff of the
county of Wexford, in Ireland, to Mifs
Houghton, eldefl; daugh. of Henry- Tfio. H.
efq. of Kilmarnock, in fame county.

22. Rev. John-Francis Howei', canon-
refidentiary of Exeter cathedral, t.;) Mifs
Anne Kitfun, daughter of Henry K. efq. .
alderman* of Exeter.

2.3. Thomas Chandlefs, efq. of Golden*-
fquare, to Mifs Williams, only daughter of
the late Rev. Wra. W. of Blackheath, Kent.

26. At the feat of VI rs. Jackfou, near
Dundalk, by fpecial licence, Lord Gorman-
ftown, to the Hon. Mifs Southwell, one of
the daughters of Lord Southwell.

By fpecial licence, at Stanmer, co. Suf-
fex. Lord Sheiheld, to the Hon. Mifs Lucy
Pelham, d.aughter of Lord P.

At Burton- upon-'I rent, Edward Riley,
efq. of Harapftail Ridvvare, co. Staffbid, to
Mifs Anne Evans.

27. At Ewelm, Berks, Francis Kirbey,
efq. of Winterbrook, near Wallingford, to
Mifs Mafon, late governefs of Yew-hall
boarding fchool.

29. W.u. Webfter, efq. of Afhborne, co.
Derby, to Mifs Goodwin.

At Wliitehaven, Mr. O^Neil, Irifti linen-
draper, and well, known for his perform¬
ances on tlie union bag-pipes, to Mrs. Mar¬
tha Hartley, widow, of New-ftreetj and,
on that day week, Mr. 0‘N. died.

30, At

1 794*1 ^^arrtagti and D&aths

* i.

30. At Dublin, by fpecial licence, Am-
brofe Going, efo. of Ballyphilip, co. Tippe¬
rary, to Mib Looifa Englih,youngeft daugh¬
ter of the late N icholas E. efq. and filler of
Wm.T. E. elq ('f Dublin.

Charles Guftaf Baron Oxenftierna, en¬
voy-extraordinary and. miiiifter plenipoten¬
tiary from the Court of Sweden to that of
Portugal, to Mils Mai y- Anne T(>mkins,
yonngeft daughter of tlie late Francis T. efq.
of Park, ftreef, St. James’s.

■ At Goathurfl", co. Somerfet, Wyndham
Goodden, efq. of Clifcpn, near Briftol, to
Mifs Mary |eane, youngeft daughter and
coheirtfs of [ohn J. efq. late of fame county.

Mr. George Sharland, attorney, of South-
molton, Devon, to Mifs Ci uwys, of Cruwys
Morchard.

Mr. Sutton, of W’ragby, furgeon and apo¬
thecary, to Mifs Stennett, of Lincoln.

Mr. Tailby, farmer, of Tur fa.’gton, co.
Leicefter, to Mrs. Ofvvin, of Leicefter.

At Burrow, co. Leiceifer, Edwyn An¬
drew Burnaby, efq. of Gaddefty (fon of Mr.
Archdeacon B.) to Mifs Brown, only daugh¬
ter of the Rev. Mr B. of Barrow.

31. Richard James, efcj. to Mifs Elisabeth
Sharp, of St. George the Martyr, Southwark-

' Deaths.

^piil A T Cuddalore, in the Eafl Indies,
•6. £\ the Lady of Caj^T. J. Cockbutn,
of his Majblly’s royal artillery. She was
interred in the Million church, clofe to tlie
comivKinion-tahle.; and was fnpported and
followed by every lady and gentleman of the
place, and. a handh'me monument is eredl-
hig. ' The Rev. Mr. Horft p'erfotmed the
burial-fervice, and th.e children of his fchool
followed two and two. The patience, re-
lignation, and ferenity, with wh'ch this
aaciable-ch.trafder encountered the flruggles
of Nature, unt’er the lingering and painful
illnefs that ended in her diflolutio.’, were
truly charadferiB’.c of her habits through
life — of a funerior mind — of a 'confcience
void of offence— of a joyful f.aith, and its ex¬
alted views. In her, fociety is deprived of
one of its bell ornament*!, its fairefl exam¬
ples ; her family, of a fond and faithful
wife, a tender and vigilant mother, a duti¬
ful and alTedlionate daugh.ter } her friends
and cacquaintance, of one of their mofl va¬
lued and valuable ci.nnexions, — Tiie pen
that traces this imperfedl fke’.ch of departed
excellence on the tablet of truth, and fur-
nilhes the afilidlive record, feels thefaither
and the full regret of its own incapacity to
do juffice to the faint outline it has attempted
to di aw of a model wnu'thy indeed of being
copied faithfully • and circumtiantially by an
abler hand — nf being cojhed into a more
profitable and 1: fling page than the Obituary
of the day — into the imitation and praclice
of the age that pioduced^er. — [VVe have
much fatisfaffion in copying from the Ma¬
dras Courier this produdlion of an elegant

of remarkable Perfanit 1205

yunc . . . In the Weft Indies, Mr. George
Port, fecond fon of [ohn I’, efq. of Derby;
a young gentleman poffeffed of fuch t lents
and difpofition as led his friends to entertain
high expedlations of hisirifing to confideia-
ble eminence in his profelfion. He was an
officer in his Maiefty’s navy, and received a
wound in an adlioii which took place a
fhort time before his deatli.

2. At Madras, Mrs. M. M. Landion ; and,
on the 2:d, Mr. James Landon, in r.be Eafl:
India Company's fervice.

8. At Cuddalore, on his way to join the
army, of a putrid fever, Col. Maxwell, bro¬
ther to the Duchefs of Gordon.

Nov. 4. At Bruges, in Flanders, much re¬
gretted by all who knew lier, after, a pain¬
ful and. lingering illnefs, Mrs. Jane Edwards,
of Si. Anne’s, Jamaica, wife ©f W. E. efq.
She [ia.s left a u I’confol ite hufband and a large
family to deplore their irreparable lofs.

6. At B dfia, in Corfica, Capt. James
Tourle, of the c; i ft regiment of foot.

27. At Kimberwortii'-houfe, near Ro¬
therham, futldenly, Mrs. Winter, wife of
Thomas Bradbury W, efq. of Hammer-
fmith, and one of the daughters and coheir-
elfes of the Lite Mr. Jofeph Micoe, mer¬
chant, of Watling-ilreet. She has left a fon
and four daughters. One of this lady’s fit¬
ters, Mrs. Lewiiq was found dead in her bed.

Lately, in the Eaft Ind es, the following
officc-rs on that eftablilhment : Capt. Lee,
Lieutenants Boifdaune, Roberts, Wallace,
Graham, O’Bicrne, Mendam, and Enfiga
M'llmau. — At Lucknow, Capt. Conway.

At Tanjore, in his 27th year, Thomas
Pearce, efq. late ffieriff of Madras, and pay-
m of the troops at Tan-iore, eldeft fon
of the late. Capt. Pearce, in the Eaft India
Company’s fervice.

At Bengal, 'Sir William [ones, one of the
judges of tiie Supreme Court there. His
death is a great lofs to tlje republick of let¬
ters, for he had made profound refearches
into the literature of the Eaft, and vviih
g^-ear lucce.^s. He was himfelf a very good
poet ; and to Ids tr.trfl .tions we are indebt¬
ed for many benutif il eifufions of the Per¬
il n Miife, Sii Wil'iam, liowever, amidft
his attacliment to tlie Mufes, did not wholly
difregard the god of riclies, and is fnppofed
to have left a very fonfiderable fortune to
his family, for, contrary to the utual turn of
poets, he wasfeverely oeconomical. We refer
to our next volume for farther iiarticulars.J

In the Weft Indies, John Morice Davies,
efq. of Crygie. co. Cardigan, lieutenant in
the ? ift regiment,

Killed at Martinique, by the hurfting of a
cannon, Lieut, -col. Robert Irving, of the
.70th regiment.

At Qiiebec, the Hon. Erlwaul Harrifon,
one of the members of the Lgiiiative coun¬
cil for Canada.

1205 Obituary of re markable Per fins ;

In Flanders, - Whitmore, efq. fon

cjf the late Gen. W. of Slaughter, in Glou-
ceflferihire. This gentleman, with his lady
and daughter, had been releafed from prifon
only a few days before his death.

John fecond Lord Coleraine of the king¬
dom of Ireland, eldefl fon of Gabriel Manger,
cfq. who was fo created by priVy-leal at St.
James’s in 1761, and by patent at Dublin in
1762, and was grandfon of George H. efq.

©f Dyffield, co. Glouceiler, whole eUielt
daughter married Henry Hare Lord Cole¬
raine, which title became extintfl. The de-
ceafed lord fucceeded his father in 1773, and
is himfelf fucceeded by his brother William.

At his fear at Kevington, in St, Mary Cray,
Kent, which he purchafed of the Onflow
family, Herraans.Berens, efq. aged 89. He
married the daughter of Stephen Riou, mer¬
chant of London, who died July ii, 1790,
by whom he h.id two fons and two daugfi-
ters. She was aunt to Lieut. Riou, com¬
mander of the Guardian Rurefhip, loft in
December, 1789.

At Briftol, Mr. Jofeph Pope, who for
many years kept the Pope’s Head and -Peli¬
can inn there, fon of Mr. Jofeph P. a re-
fpedlable wholefale linen-draper at Exeter.

At Swaffham, eo. Cambridge, aged 78,
Charles Allix, efq.

At Kibworth-Harcourt, co. Leicefter, in
bis 79th year, much refj^edled by his tenants
and acquaintance, Ceoige Foxton, gent,
lord of the manor. From a nervous com¬
plaint he had been many years helplefs.

At Uppingham, aged 44, Mrs. Bell. In
her the poor have loft a kind benefadlrefs,
her hufband a worthy helpmate, and her
children a tender mother.

Dhc. . . . Aged 40, Mrs. Warren, wife of
Mr. W. of London.

2. Of a gradual decline, in his 50th year,
Mr. Jofeph Bond, citizen and cooper, for¬
merly of Craven- ftreet, Strand, wine and
brandy -mei chant, in which he fucceeded
Mr. James Warren, wine-merchant, who
quitted trade, and went to refule at Philadel¬
phia, a few years before the American war.
Having ill fuccefs in life, he may be faid to
have died of a broken heart- Mr. Bond was
fecond cc'ufin, and bad a handfome legacy of
500I. under' the will of Benjamin Bond
Hopkins, efq. w’ho died in January laft. He
was the only furviving fon of Mr. Bond, a
con fi d e 1 a ble c ! ot h - m ake r at. N e w bu ry , B e j ks,
•Whofe faiber w^as Jarnes,only brother of Ben-
Jartiin Bond, efq. of Leader'.ialbftreet, Tur¬
key merchant, and whofe family is mention¬
ed in p. 183, and other parts, of this volume,
lu the year 1771 lie manied Hefter, the
younger of tlie two daugb.ters of George Bo-
hem, efq. of Dunflable, by a daughter of
Vander Mulin, efq. of St. Albans, whofe
elder daughter is married to Mr. Mark
Broivi:, an eminent manuf.Kflurer of Dun-
ftable wares, and who is t'’e mother of a
jaumerous and amiable family. He has bad

with Biographical Anecdotes^ [ Su pp,

alfo a numerous family, two of whom only,
a fon and daughter, furvive him.

4, At Voylas, co. Denbigh, tiniverfally
lamented, Jn. Orifftth, elq. of Cefanamwich,
CO. Carnarvon.

7. At Perth, Mrs. Sandeman, wife of
Mr. David-George S. merchant.

18. At Cupar, in Fife, Robert Kerr, efq.
late captain of the Princefs Royal Eaft
India-mafi.

At Kerfey, Suffolk, Sir Thomas jThorow-
good, knt. He ferved the oflice of 'high ftic-
riff of that county in 1760.

At Wifbech, aged 99, Mrs. Coventry, a
Scotch woman.

20. At Gorcum, in Holland, after an ill-
nefsof 14 days, in his 27th year, Mr. Tho¬
mas Nafh, ilaff-furgeon to the Britifli array
on the Continent, and fon of Mr. Alderman
N. of Worcefter. ^

In his 68th year, Mr. Samuel Butler,
many years an eminent cutler in Hereford,
and lineally defeended from the facetious
author of ^^Hudibras.”

In his 51ft year, Mr. Philip Aftfley, an
eminent attorney, of Spalding, and fteward
to Lord Eardley.

At Chelfea, Mrs. Colepeper,

Mrs. Hudfon, relicft of Mr. H. coal-mer¬
chant, of Chatham.

At Burton-upon-Trent, Mr. Jofeph New-
bold, keeper of the White Lion inn. He
went to bed apparently as well as ufual the
preceding night, got up early in the morn¬
ing to brew, but complained he was hot
well, 1‘eturned to bed, and expired.

At Leverington, in the Ifle of Ely, Nicho¬
las Lumpkin, efq.

2T. At the manfe of Kilbirny, in Ayr-
fhire, in the looth year of his age, and 61 ft
of his miniftry, the Rev. Malcomb Brown.

At the new meeting-houfe in Norwich, ia
her 83d year, Mrs. Anne Ainger, one of the
people called Qiiakers. '

At Wifbech, Mr^'. Dixon, reli£l of Francis
D. efq. formerly of Upwell, Norfolk.

Aged 61, Mr. Storer, hair-dreffer^of Der¬
by. He complained of indifpofition the pre¬
ceding evening, and died in the morning.

Aged 94, the Rev. Edward Walmfley,
upwards of 60 years redlor of Falmouth.
Till within three days of his .death he was
in full poffeffion of his faculties ; and, when¬
ever his advanced age permitted him to at¬
tend his duly, his church was crowded.

22. Mrs, Douglas, of High-ftreet, Mary-
la- Bonne, relidl of Col. D. in the Eaft India
Company’s fervice, and late of Madras.

At Chatham, in childbed, aged 22, Mrs.
Talkinton, wife of Lieut. T. of the marines,
quartered in the lower barracks there, and
ekleft daughter of Major Andrew Burn.

In Berners-ftreet, Thomas Cheap, efq. lat«
a diredlor of the Eaft India Company.

22. la his 64th year, Edward Parker, efq*
of Brownfirolme, co. York.

23. In his 70th year, the R«v. Richard

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Berney, M. A. reiflorof Stokeiby and Bra-
merton, and uncle to Sii' John B. hart.

At Liverpool, after a fhort illnefs, in his
S8th year, Ambrofe Dawfon, M. D. fenior
fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians,

In his 80th year, Farren Wren, efq. of
BinchcBer, near Bifhop’s Auckland, co.
Devon. On the night of the i8th, as he was
putting out the candle, previous to getting
into bed, the flame caught his fhirt-fleeve,
and burnt his arm from the wrift up to the
Ihonlder before the fervants could get to his
affiftance. Mr. W, having no ferious ap-
prehenfion of the coni'equence, lefufed to
have a furgeon fent for till next morning,
and even then the infiahamation was not fo
violent as to caufe an alarm. The accident,
however, terminated in his death in hve days.

At the Rev. john-Weft Carew’s, at Bick-
iey, after n very long illnefs, which he hove
with exemplary patience, Timothy Smali-
wmod, efq. of Cumberland, brother to Lady
Carew, of Haccombe, and Mr. Carew, of
Bickley.

24. At Croyland, co. Lincoln, defervc’ly
and lincerely lamented, Mr. Geo. VVorrel, a
•onfideraV.le farmer and grazier.

A.t Hull, mu< h regretted, Mr. John Ro-
binfon, formerly a woollen-draper, bat had
retired from bufmefs ; and, on the 26th,
Mr. Geo. B. Thornton, of the fame place.

25. After a ihort illnefs, Mr. William
Bleckly, of Long Stratton, an eminent
preacher among th.e people called Qiiakers.

At Ludlow, Edward'Pearce, efq. of Cref-
fage, near Shrewlbuiy.

At Mottley-park, co. York, the Hon.
Eliza Savile, youngefl daughter of the Earl
of Mexborough.

At his feat at Hackwood, Hants, in his
75th year, the mofl Noble Harry fixth Duke
of Bolton, fcventh Marquis of VVir.clrRer,
and Premier Marquis of England, Vicc-ad-
miral of Hampfliire and Dorfetlhiie, and
Vice-admiral of the White, 1760; M.P. for
Lymington, 1754, and, in the fucceeding
parliament, for Winchefler. He niairiec,
firft, 1752, Plenrietta, daughter of — ^ h-iunn,
of Eltham, Kent, efq. ; and by this lady,
who died 1764, and is buried at Eltlram,
had a daughter, Mary, born 1753, and mar¬
ried, 1772, to the prefent Earl of Sand¬
wich. His Grace fuccesded to the title and
eflates on the 5th of July, 1765 j and in
April the fame year intermarried with Ca¬
tharine Lowther, filler to the Earl of Lonf-
dale, the prefent Duchefs ; by whom he had
only two daughters, Catharine, now Coun-
tei's of Darlington, and Lady Amelia Fow-
let. His Grace having died without male-
ilTue, the title of Duke of Bolton is extaidl:;
that of Marcpiis of VVincheller devolves on
George Powkt, efq. By his death a pen-
lion, on the Irifh eitalilifliment, of 1700I. ?.-
year, to the Rt. Hon. Tliomas Orde, ceafes,
it having been gt anted only during the life

of the Duke. Mrs. Orde, however, who
was related to the Duke’s family, from the
fame circumftance, comes into the inftarvt
poffeflion of 17,000!. per annum. Thefe
eilates were left by the Duke immediately'
preceding ;:h3 bit to his lately-deceafed
Grace and his male-iflue ; but, in default of
fuch iffue, to his daughter, fince married to
the.Rt. Hon. Thomas Orde, who' has linco
taken the name of Powlet — Sir Williarr^
Powkt, anteftor of the Duke of Bolton,
w'h'ch title is now extindl, was 30 years
lord high treafurer of England., during threa
fucceffive reigns. He was created Lord St.
John by Henry VIII. ; and Earl of Wik-
fliire, and Marquis of Winchefter, by Ed¬
ward VI. ; and died at the adva.aced age of
97. The family being inPrumenlal in for-
w'ai diiig the Revolution, the then-Marquifr
wa? created Duke of Holton by William HI.
T he barony of St John is in abeyance be¬
tween his Grace’s daughters ; the marquifalS'-
goes to another branch of the family.

26. Aged 31, Thomas Gooftrey Frogatt,
efq. of Langley, Bucks.

At Stoneho ife, Major Wm. Henville, of
tl,e Plymou h divifion of marines, and late
of the Cullod(3n man of war.

Mrs. Bu’livant, wife of Mr. B. of Cam-
raeringham, near Lincoln, far ner and grazier.

Aged 70, Jofeph Strutt, efq of Rickmc.nf-
worth, Herts, brother to Jed. Strutt, efq. of
New Mills, Derby fh ire.

27. At bis feat at Beecliwood, near Edin¬
burgh, after a few days illnefr, caught at
Glafgow in the fervice of quelling the late
riots there, the Hon. Alexander Lellie, only
brother to David Earl of Leven and Mel¬
ville, lieutenant-general in the army, fecond
in command in Scotland, and colonel of the
9th regiment of foot. Some of his mofl: ami¬
able .and refpciSlable qualities w'eie, friend-
fhip, alTediionately fincere and .Beady with¬
out oBentation, benevolence and liberality
without Ihew, public fpirit witliout parade,
and the truell valour wiih 'great modeffy.
On account of thefe and other fimilar vir¬
tues, gone with General LeBie, he is a real
lofs to his country and profellion ; wliile fi«
will be long and irreparably regretted as
fuch by all thofe who vvere honoured with'
his confidence, generofity, or kindnefs.

At the houfe of his brother, Mr. Aider-
man Farr, at Redland, Paul Farr, efq. of
'BriBol.

Aged 70, Mrs. Crofley, of Stamford, co.
Lincoln, BBf r to the late Mr. C, furgeon.

At Cambridge, the Rev. John Coleman,
D. D. m after of Een’et-college. He was a
native of Northamptonfhire ; admitted of
Bfeneft-college, 1745; proceeded B.A. 1749;
M.A. i753j w, s chofen fellow, 1752 j ap¬
pointed Whitehall preacher, 1767; took tlis
degree of B.D 1761; was fenior non-re¬
gent 1765; prodlor, 1759 ; chofen mafter
of the college, in tlie room of Dr. Barnardif-

ton.

l2o8 Ohltuary cf retnarhahle V irjQns\ with Biographical Anecdotes, [Sopp.

ton, June 25, 1778 (in which he is fucceecl-
ed by the Rev. Philip Douglas, B D.) ; and
took the degree of D.D. the fanse year; was
prefented to tlie valuable reddory of Stal-
bridge, CO. Doifet, 1773; eic6led F, A.S.
J778 ; vice-chancellor of the univerfity,
2779, and again 1794.

28. At Stirling, William Chriflie, efq.
merchant and banker there.

In Percy-ftrcet, Rathhone-place, aged 61,
John Jackfon, efq. vice-prefident of the So¬
ciety of Stewards and Subfcrihers fur main¬
taining and educating poor Orphans of Cler¬
gymen till of age to be put apprentice. He
has bequeathed confiderable legacies to feve-
ral charitable inftitutions.

At his houfe in Lincoln’s inn -fields, aged
65> Anthony Dickins, efq. more than 30
years one of the prothonotaries of the Court
cf Common Pleas. ,

At Donington, in the prime of life, John
Ward, efq. ; wh(/fe good difpofrtions and
qualifications made him highly refpedled and
efteemed by his friends and acquaintance.

In one of the aims-houfes in Crown-ftr.
Bury, in her loifl year, the widow Seal;
who, till after fee w'as 80 years of age, was
remarkable for her induftiy, but had been
many years bed-ridden, and fupported prin¬
cipally by parife-relief.

At his houfe in St. Andrew’.?-fquare, Edin¬
burgh, in his 85th year, George Gordon, 4th
Earl of Aboyne. His Loi'dlhip fucceeded to
the title and family-eftate in 1732. He had
received from Nature a found underRanding,
which was cultivated and improved by a
liberal education. Having finifesd the ufual
courfe of Rudy in the Scotife univerfiiies, he
went abroad, where, mingling for fevcral
years w'ith the higher ranks of life, his man¬
ners acquired a delicacy and gentlenefs
v/hich endeared him to all. On liis return
to Scotland, and when his charadler became
known to the Scotch Nobility, he was fre¬
quently folicited to become one of their 1 e-
prefentatives in parliament; but, from his
attachment to the pleafnrcs of calm and do-
meftic life, this honour he unifcnnl? de¬
clined. Though zealous for th.e purity and
independence of his order, never was there
a man more w'arraly attached to his King
and the Conftitution of his country. In pri¬
vate life his cliaradler was rcfpeRable and
amiable. With a clear and difcerning head
he poffelTed a tender and feeling heart. As
a hufband he was affe6lioDate — indulgent as
a parent. He was ambitious of being a
good, rather than a great man. Wfiiat he
faw could be eafily fpared from tlie extrava¬
gance and parade of life, he devoted to no¬
bler purpofes, the improvement of the fa¬
mily inheritance, and the fupport of the*
aged and indullrious poor. Of thefe laft a
confiderable number was confl.antly employ¬
ed in executing his extcnfive plans. The
banren mounatins and fequeftered glens,
wliich foimerly produced uothiug but heath.

are now covered with beautifel and thriving
plantations. ImprefTed at all times with
deep fenfe of the importance of religion, his
life, as a Chriftian, was exemplary. ^His
approaching diflolution he fuftained with
uncommon firmnefs and refignation j and,
in the calmnefs and compofure of h.s laft
morneatSj he bore teftimony to the pow«r
of Religion to fupport the mind at this fo-
lemn feafon. His lofs will be feverely felt
by his afifiicRed friends, and his memory long
revered by l is numerous and refpectable ac-
.quaintance. He married Lady Mary Stew¬
art, daughter of Alexander Earl of Gallo¬
way, by w hom he had one fon and two
daughters.

29. At Stamford, co. Lincoln, by theburft-
ing of a blood veiie!, Enfign Wm. Thomp-
fon, of the Starafi'.rd- volunteers ; a young
man of genteel appearance, and whofe, con-
dudl in the recruiting -fervice at Peter’norough
gamed h'.m univerfal credit. He was polite,
affable, and engaging in his manners ; and by
his death his Majefty’s fervice has fuftaineU
the lofs of a premifing, adlive officer, and a
valuable fuhjecl. His remains were interred
in All Saints cburcli with military hontmrs,
the whole of the regiment attending on the
folemn occafioa.

At Quainton, Bucks, in his '65th year,
Mr. Liplcorn^, furgeon, formerly a furgeon
in the royal navy, in which capacity be
ferved in thiC war of 1756, at the taking of
Manilla, Pondicherry, &c. ^ ,

At Glynd, near Lewes, , Su flex, in her
looth year, Mrs. King, mother of Mr. K.
gardener to Lord Hampden.

Mrs. Bell, of Dunfter-court, Mincmg-Iane.

, 30. Suddenly, at his lodgm ;S in Queen
Anuc-ftieet, Arcriibalci Kennedy, Ld. l^en-
nedy.and nth Earl of Cafidlis. He w^as in
perfect h.ealth the preceding day, and fuc¬
ceeded the laft earl, D.ivid, 1792.

At Mortlake, Surrey, Charles CliVe,. efq.
a near relation to Lord C.

At ^dontrofe, Alexander Chriftie, efq.
latg chief raagiitrate of that burgh.

At an advanced age, John Piget, efq. of
Bio.,k'ey- court, co. Somerfet,

At his father’s houfe m. George flreet,
Edinburgh, Archibald Campbell, efq. late
captain in. the 9th regiment of foot.

Mrs. Caufebrook of Lincoln, wife of
Mr. Thouias C. of the Crown inn, near the
corn-market.

Aged 73, Mr. John Wells, farmer, of ^
Sutterton-fen.

At Edinburgh, Mrs. Aytone, wddow of
James A. efij. of Kippo.

Returning home from the Tontine inn in
S'hefeeld, Mr. Handley, a gentleman-farmer
of r. fpedtability. He w as found the next
morning with his horfe by his fide, and his
neck difiocated, occafioned, it is fuppofed,
by a fall.

At Peterchurch, co. Hereford, in his loStfi
y«ar, Richard Brown. By the parifii regft-

t«r

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ter of Byford it appears, be was baptized on
the 26th of June, 1687 ; but, from the pre-
VaU;nt culiom of keeping clvildren for fonie
time before tiiey are earned to be baptized,,
and other conajbcn'ating circumftances, it
feems probable that he was fomewbat older.
He wai br'-d to the farming biTfinefy,
from uhicli be retired many years ago, with
v/hat he at that time conceived a competency
for the-remaiiiJer of his days : but his life
proved a better one chan he expedted, for
lie long- outlived his fortune, and was lat-.
Icily dependant on the bounty of his friends
for fubfiffence. In the example of this old
man, the aflertion, that fmo;iking tobacco is
prejudicial to health, is completely refuted,
as be »vas feUtom feea withemt the pipe in
his moucli, and toi'k his bill whiff a flwut
tim.e before his death. He had lived in the
r.,igns of fix fovercigns, aid was fo little
enfeebled by age as. to walk out to tlie hai-
makers tkiring th.^ lalt harvelf.

2 t. Found drowned in the river Ifis, High
Bridge, near Oxford, Mr. Edfall, head-but¬
ler of vVadham-college. No caufc can be
afhgMed for this rafh adfion, as he was in
good circumifances, and appeared very
chearful in the morning.

At her lodgings at Weymouth, Lady Har¬
riet ['ley dell Bouveric, eideft daughter of the
Earl of Kadnor.

Lntlr.'m Huddleilone Jerro'fc, efq. of
Britford-lr.ufc, n^ar Salilbury. About two
years fince, lie bellowed an cllate in Hamp-
fkue, of 25,00.0!. a-year, on his elder ne-,
plicw, George Purefpy Jervoife, efq. He
lias now bequeathed annuities to his other
nephews, and to his brother, the Rev, Mr.
Jervoife, the hulk of his fortune, fuppofed
to'be at leafl 8000I. per annum.

Mr. Burrage, jun. of Pulboiaiugh. He was
widking, on the 29th, before a perfon - vho
had a loaded gur. in his hand, which acci-
dcntaliy went off, and Mr. B. unfortunately
received the whole of the ch.-u-ge in his'
knee-joint. The confeqiiences proved fatal
to him, for be languilLed till tliis day, and
then expired in great agony.

At Liverpool, Peier Rig^y, efq. an alder¬
man of tint coi porarie,n.

At Afiiby- de-la Zonch, co. Leicefler,
aged 2 9, Mr. Samuel Cockram. His wife
died on the lyih, aged 30.

Gazette Pkomotions.

EORGE EOWYER, efq. of Radley, co.

JJ Berks, and Alan Gardner, efq. of Ut-
toxeter, co. Stafford, vice-admirals of the
Blue, created baronets.

Thomas Pafley, efq. rear-admiral of the
Red, created a baronet, with remainders fe-
verally and fuccelTively to the firft and tyexy
other fun and fons of Maria Pafley, his eldelt
di-nghter, and of Magdalene Pafley, another
ftf his daughters, and their refpeclive heirs.

Sir Roger Curtis, of Gatcombe, co. South-
Gsnt. Mag, Suf^lcmentj I794,

ampton, lent, rear-admiral of the Blue, cre¬
ated a baronet.

John .p'oote, appointed furveyor to the
holpitai for the-forces at Port au Prince, St.
Domingo ; and W, Sinclair appointed fui geon
to the laid forces.

The Earls of Chefterfield and Leicefter,
appointed joint poft-mafters-general.

Col. Hugh Montgomerie, appointed gor
vernor -of Edinburgh callie, z/ice Lord El-
phinRone, dec.

Major John V7augh, appointed command¬
ant of the inwalids at Alderney.

Enfign James Ha.mill, appointed adjutant
to the invalids at Alderney,

Major-general Gerard Lake, appointed go¬
vernor of Limerick, vice Clinton, rtfflgned-

Major-general Edmund Stevens, appointed
lieuLenant-governor of the town and garrifon
ol Berwick, vice Lake.

George Hazleton, from 7th foot, appointed
furgeon to the forces in Lower Canada.

\Cm. Lindfay, efq. appointed captain-ge¬
neral and governor in chief of the ifiand of
Tobago, in America, Ricketts, appoint¬
ed governor of tlie iflaoU of Barbadoes.

Rev. Edw ai d Ledwich, appointed chaplain
to the:ganifon of Sheernefs.

Rev. - Tunftall, appointed chaplain to

tlie garrifon of Montreal.

- Robinfon, appointed com miffary of

Rores and provifloas at New Brunfwick.

Sir Charles PieRon, bart. appointed bag-.
gage-maRer and infpciRor of the roads in
North Britain.

Captains [ohn-George Hurley, Thomas
Mailer, Henry Percy Pnlleine, Hon. C.
ARiley, johah Cottin, William Fulierton,
G eofgc Fearon, H aviland Smith, Pinfon Bon¬
ham, Henry- i hurlo we Shadvvell, and P. R.
Skinner, appointed majors of brigade to the
forces.

Em peror-John- Alexander Woodford, and
Wm. Tudor, gent, appointed aflaflant-com-
raillaries ol Rores, proviflons, and forage, to
the torces on the Continent under. the com-
rnand.of hisRoyal HighnefstheDuke of York.

Drs. Sutton, E. G. Clarke, and M^Laurin,
appointed phyficians to the faid forces.

John Whitelock, Geo. Muiiro, and Peter
Oliver, appointed lurgeons to the faid forces,

St. Leger Hinckley, Surgeon John Han-
nay, and Philip Priddie, gent, appointed apo¬
thecaries to the faid forces.

Guflavus Chaffepot, appointed lieutenant
of guides to the faid forces.

- Philips, gent, appointed furgeonto the

forces in Great Britain, x'/cc Home, retired.

Major Frederick-AuguRns VVetherall, ap¬
pointed deputy adjutant -general to the forces
at Halifax, in Nova Scotia.

Major-general Adam Williamfon, ap¬
pointed governor and comnnander in chief
of fuch parts of the ifland of St Domingo as
belong to his MajeRy j and created a knight
of the Bath,

Major-

1210 Ga%elU and civil Promotions

M:ij or- general Alexander Earl of Bakar-
I'as, appointed governor of the illand of Ja¬
maica, vice Williamfort. *

Charles - Holmes - Everitt Calmady, efq.
John Bourmailer, efq. Sir George Young,
knt. John Henry, efq. and Richard Rodney
Bligh, efq. app. rear-admirals of the Blue.

Robert- Weare Fox, efq. approved by his
Majefly as confnl for the United States of
America at the town of Falmouth.

Lieut. -col. John IVloore, appointed adju¬
tant to the forces ferving at Corfica.

John Duncan, appointed quarter-mafter-
general to the Did forces.

Dr. - Fiank, appointed phyfician ;

Surgeon Cope, furgeon ; Surpe®n Robert

Patnfck, apothecary; and - Fielder, gent,

purveyor of hofpitals to the faid forces.

Surgeon Wm. North, appointed furgeon
to the garrifon in the ifland of Corfica.

Sir Mxirton Eden, K. B. appointed envoy-
extraoid'oaty and minilfer-plenipotentiary
to tlie Court of Vienna.

Sir James Sanderfon, knt. alderman of the
city of London ; Chnftoplver Willoughby,
efq. of Baldon-houfe, co. Oxford; and Geo.
Wm. Ergfcptt, efq. of Tbeobald’s-park, co.
Her'iS) Created b.sronets.

Thomas Graves, efq admiral of the Blue,
created a peer cf Ireland, by the ftyle of
Lord Graves Baron of Gravefend, in the
county of Londonderry.

Sir Alexander Hood, K.B. admiral of the
Blue, and rear-admiral of Great Britain,
created a peer of Irelmd, by the llylc of
Baron Brid port, of Cricket St. Thomas, with
remainder to Samuel Hood, efq. fecond fnn,
and every other fon or fons born after him,
of Henry Hood, efq. of Catherington, co.
Southampton ; to Alexander Hpod, efq. cap¬
tain in the royal navy ; and to Samuel Hood,
efq. alfo captain in the royal navy, and their
refpedlive heirs.

Rt, Hon. William Earl Fitzwilliam, ap¬
pointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, vice Earl
of Weftmorland, rehgned.

Right Hon. David Earl of Mansfield, ap¬
pointed lord-prefident of his Majefly’s moiF
honourable privy-council, vice Earl fitzwil¬
liam, refigned.

Right Hon. John Earl of Chatham, ap¬
pointed keeper of the prlvy-feal, vice Mar¬
quis of Stafford, refigned.

Right. Hon. George-John Earl Spencer,
appointed firff lord-commillioner of the ad¬
miralty, vice Earl of Chatham, refigned.

Major-general Charles Leigh, appointed
captain-general and commander in chief in
and over his Majefiy’s Leeward Charibbee
Iffands in America.

Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick, appointed in-
fpe^Ior of health for the land forces.

William Fleming, appointed furgeon to the
forces at Plymouth.

Rev. Alexander Scott, prefented to the
new church and parifh of Dumfries, vice
Biimfide, refigned.’

■^Ecclefiafticd Preferments, [Sapp.

Rev. Angus Mackintofh, prefented to the
church and parifh of Tain, in the prefbytery
of Tain, and county of Rofs.

Lord Garlics, appointed lord- lieutenant of
the (hire of Kirkcudbright, in Scotland.

John Earl of Bute, appointed lord-lieute¬
nant of the county of Glamorgan, viet
his father, dec.

Civil Promotions.

Henry BOSANQUET, efq. of Long-
ford-court, CO. Somerfet, eledled re¬
corder of Glaftonbu! y, 'n/ce Gould, dec.

Mr. Elliot, coufin to Sir Gilbert E. ap¬
pointed, by the Duke of Portland, his pri¬
vate fecretary.

\Vafhinglon Cote?, efq. of Lincoln’s- im
old buildings, appointed principal fecretary
to the Lord Chancellor, vice Wilmot, dec.

George- A uguftus F.arl of Guildford, ele<5l-.
ed higli fleward of Banbury, co. Oxford.

Charles Abbott, efq. of Lincoln’s- inn, bar-
rifter at law, .appointed cleik of the rules in
the Court ofKing's I’ench, hisbrother,dec.

Robeit Hopper Wiiliamfon, efq. eledted
recorder of Newcaftle upon Tyne, vice
Fawcett, refigned.

Eleazer Davy, efq. of Yoxford, appointed
receiver-general for th=^ F.affern divifion of
the county of Suffolk, vice Spink, de-c.

George VVooJrolfe, efq. appointed chief
prolhonotary of the Common Pleas, vice
Mainvraring, refigned.

Ecclesiastical Preferments.

E) EV. J Colman, B. A. Oulton V. Norf,
Rev. Cyril Clough, Stredfet V.

Rev. Richard Patrick, SculcoatesV. near
Hull, vice Stainton, dec.

Rev. Thomas Banlam, M. A. Studley R.
co. Warwick.

Rev. Ralph Worfley, late of Trinity-col¬
lege, Cambridge, Finchley R. co. Mibdlefex.

Rev. Mr. Powley, Silfay R. near Thirfk,
cq York, vice Greenwood, dec.-

Rev. Dr. Grifdale, Stratford prebend, in
SaUfbtiry cathedral.

Rev. Henry Ford, LL. D. prebendary of
Hereford, Cradley R. ; and Rev. Robert
Strong, B. A. collated to the firff portion or
pi ebend of Affley, founded in the church of
Bromyard, co. Herefoi d . both vice Price, dec.
Rev. Cha. Preffon, Whenby V. co. York.
Rev. Charles Sraggall, B. A. of St. John’s
college, Cambridge, Wy verftone R. co. Suff.

Rev. Geo.Caj;per, B. A. of Ti inity college,
Cambridge, Little Bl'ackenham R, co Stiff'.

Rev. Etivv. Moon, BedinghamV. co. Nor¬
folk, vice Francis, dec.

Rev. Thomas Young, Neiffon R. with
Holme Hale, co. Norfolk.

R ev. W. Gorden, B. A. of Merton college,
Oxford, Dunfter V. co. Som^-rfet.

Rev. H. Quartley, M. A. Wolveiton R.
co. Bucks. ^

Rev. Richard Dixon, LL. B. Claxby and
Normanby RR. co. LLncol^i,

Rev.

I2II

Ecch'fiaftical Prefermenis,

Rev. George FricheU, B. A. Mathon V.
CO. VVorcefter.

Rev. Dr. Samuel Peters, eletfled bifhop of
Vermont, in No^tii Ameiica.

Rev. Mr. Wlifon, vicar of Soh.im, Ged-
ney R. co. Lincoln.

kev. John Tatfam, M.A. late vicar of
Mclling, Tatham R. co. Lancafter

Rev. VVm. Jurin Toitnn, B. A. ('f Oriel-
college, Oxford, Meldreth V. co. Canib.

Rev. Spencer Madan, M.A. late of Tri¬
nity-college, Cambridge, fon of the Biibop
of Petei'borough, appointed (by his fa' ho*)
chancellor of that city and winds diocele.

Rev. Mr. Haggctt, chaplain to the Biibop
of Dufh.am, prefvi red to the tenth prebendal
flail in Durham ca'hcdrai ; and Rev. Mr.
Plumbtree, to Long Newton R. co. Dur¬
ham, "vice Vane, Cec.

Rev. George Davifon, Hartburn V- co.
Durham.

Rev. R. Cox, vicar of Bucklerfbu y, Sod-
bnry R. co. Gloucefter ; and Rfv. John
Walker, tail Shefford- R. Be.^ks ; both vice
Willis, dec.

Rev. John Plampin, M.A. Whatfield R.
co. SufFolri.

Rev. Wm. Joimfon, B.A. Wiggenhall St.
German V. co. Norfolk.

Rev. George Betts, Overflrand R. co.
Norfolk.

Rev. Henry Gale, M. A. Efcricke R. co.
York, vice Harrifon, dec.

Rev, Robert Maikham, M. A. appointed
archdeacon of the Weft riding of Ycrklhire,
vice Conper^dec.

Rev. Nicholas Spencer, vicar of Eurlef-
combe and Hafle, co. Somerfet, appointed
dorfieftic chaplain to Earl Spencer.

Rev. Kugn Laurents, Grafton Fly ford R.

Rev. George Laughton, D. D. Chippen¬
ham V. CO. Cambridge.

Rev. Wfn. Paley, M. A. archdeacon of
Carlifle, appointed prebendary of Eald«
llreet, in St. Paul’s catbedr.d, London.

Rev. V^a’lcer King, D. D. (fee p. ybt;}?
andtlie Hon. and Rev. Ch r!es Digby, eleiled
canons- refulentiary of the catbedrai of Wells.

Hon. and Rev. Henry Fitzroy, ,M. A.
of Trinity-college, Cambridge, fon of the
Duke of Grafton, Eufton witli Fakenham
Parva R. and Barnliam St. Gregory with St.
Marlin annexed, co. Suffolk.

Rev. Nicholas Bourne, fellow of Sj.
John’s college, Kirk-EiU V. near Hull,
vice \Vade, refigned.

Rev. Valentine Lumley Bernard, B.A.
Stockton R. CO. Norfolk.

Rev. Richard Fiflier Belward, M.A.
Long Stratton R, co. Norfolk.

Rev. V\ illiam Chaplin, M. A. redor of
Raithby cum Hallington, co. Lincoln, North
Coates R.

Rev. Charles Mefman, B. A. Dunfborne
Abbotis R.

Rev. Thomas McCulloch, Bredfield V.
CO. Suffolk.

Rev. Thomas Reeve, Ilketfhall St. Law¬
rence curacy, co. Suffolk.

Rev. Jolin Vickers, M. A. fellow and tu¬
tor of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, appointed
otie of his M.ijcfty’s preachers at WhitehalL

Rev. Mr. Bayhff'e, of Greafbrook, Ro¬
therham V. co. York, vice Harrifon, dec.

Rev. Richaid Huntley, M.A. Buxwell R.
wkhiLeigliterton chape’ry annexed, in the
diucefe of Gloucefter, vke his father, dec.

Rev. Jofepii fackfon, D. D. of Rilley, co.
Dsrhy^ Keddington V. co. Lincoln.

Rev. HeniT Inglis, M.A. Late fellow of
King’s college, Cambridge, tltiled head-
iTi.'tftei- of Rugf.y fchoul.* ,

Rev. P..ichard Roberts, M. A. Sporlc V,
with Little Palgrave R. annexed, co. Norf.

Rev. Robert Foley, M. A. St. Peter V.
with St. Owen R. anne.xed, in Hereford.

Rev. John Ambrofe Tickell, Shiptoa
Moine R. co. Gloucefter, to wliich he had
been feveral years curate.

Rev. Richard Hardy, B. D. of Emauuel-
Gollege, Cambridge, appointed one of his
Majefty’s preachers at Whitehall.

Rev. Richard Slaney, M. A. of Shifnaf,
Penkridge V- co. Stalhnd, i.'/ke Stafford, dec-

Rev. Dr. Grifdale, coliatcd to the prebend
of Tolerton, in Salifbury cathedral.

Rev. Frederick Tompkins, M.A. of Uni-
verfiiy college, South Parrot R. co. Dorfet.

Rev. Wm. Walford, M.A. fellow cf Gon-
vile and Caius college, Cambridge, Buckle-
tham R. co. Suffolk, with Weeting All
Saints and St. Mary RR. co. Norfolk.

Rev. John Lewis, B.A. of Emanuel-col-
lege, Cambridge, KirfteadR. with Langhall
annexed, co. Norfolk-

Rev. William Smith, North Eavant V«
CO. Wilts.

Rev. J. C. E. Graves, M.A. Kilmerfdoa
with Afhwick V, in dioc. Bath and Wells.

Rev. John Arnold Bromfield, B.A. Mar¬
ket VVellon R. co. Suffolk,

Rev. Wm. Bowerbank, eleifted head m af¬
ter of die free grammar-fehool of Mansfield,
co. Nottingham, vice Kendall, dec.

Rev. Geo. Clarke Doughty, M.A. Floxnc
with Denl'.am V.

Rev. K. Douglas, of Knightwick, Hamp¬
ton Lovett R. co. WorcefUr.

Rev, Wm. Boughton, M.A. Blockley cu¬
racy, co. WorccTter, Selwyn, dec.

Rev. J. Edmonds, M.A. Skinnand R.
co. Lincoln.

Rev. Charles Anfon, B. A. Lyng cum
Wliitwell R. CO. Norfolk.

Rev. R. Fenwick, Brantlngham V. co.
Yoik.

Rev. W. Baverftock, Bil ingham V. co.
Durham.

Rev. Ed -ward Wigle);-, All Saints R. Wor-
cefter, vice Clcivelaiid, dec.

Rev. Henry Bright, M. A. of New-col-
lege, Oxford, Chiftlehampton V. Devon.

Rev. James Etty, B.A. Whitchurch R. co.
Oxford, via Stebbing, dec.

Rcyu

I2f2 Pr^^fermentu — Difpenfattons
'\

Rev. Charles Sntton, B. D. re<5lor or AUl-
Inirgb, Thornhani v. it!i Holme near the Sea
•V CallietoHj cltic.

Rev. Edward Waldron, M.A. Rnflmck
R. cof Worcefter/'wirr Waldi on, dec.

Rev: Weldon Ch-ampneys, M. A. .ij>j)o’ni-
ed fo a precentorllirp in Wcrtiiiinlter'ahbey,
ime Baily^ dec.

f R'iglit Rev. arid Ron. Dr. Wm- Reresfor'd,
fcillio'p of Olfory, in Ireland, tranfiaied to the
■afchhilho'prick. of Tnam, with the united hi-
ibapnek of Endghdoen, and the bifnoprirk.
ef Ardagh, in ccmmendani^ all njice Buurke
Eari of Mayo, dec.

Rev. Thomas ..Dixon, vicar of Droitwich,
ft'6.' Wctrceil'er, Y'arm perpetual curacy, m
tlikt county, vice Hophirifoi), dec.

Re\n |ohn Graves, Kirklavington pfefpe-
tiuii dnracy, near Yarm, -r'/Vc Hojdcinfon,
«>ec. 'f and High Whirfall perpetual curacy,
wear Y arnrr, vice Thornfon, dec.

Rev. Francis Randolph, M.iY. Halberton
V; CO. Devon.

R^v. Bernard Price, Billerton V. co.
W'O feeder.

. Rev.'john Probyn, re^fnr of Abinghall,
to. Gloucefter, Newhnd V. in fame county,
v'ith Bream chapelry, vice B dl, dec.

Yearly Bill of Mortality, [Supp,

Rev. George Smith, M.A. vicar of Sal-
combe, CO. Devon, Octery St. Mary V. vict
Sraerdon, dec.

Rev. James Hardwicke, LL.D. Sopworlh
R. Wilts.

Rev. Robert Greville, LL. B. OrRon W.
CO. Nottingham.

Rev. Rabei t YVatts, ele^led ThuiTday af¬
ternoon leclurer of Ailhallows, Biead-..treet.

Rev. Wm Smith, Coleridge V. co. Devod.

D I S P E N S .-V T 1 0 N 5 .

EV. J. .Y’yeis, M.A, of Ingoldfby, co.

|\ Lincoln, to hold Ruikingtou R. with
Somerby cum Huinby R. in fame county.

Rev. fohn Plampin, M. A. to hold vVlrat-
field R. Suffolk, with Great Clielferford V.
CO. Elfex.

R.ev. H. Freeman, M.A. to bold Evertoii-
enm-Tetworth V. in the diocefe of Lincoln,
wnth Norborough R.in dioc. Ptterbproug’.i.

Rev, Augnd us-Tliomas Hupfraan, M,
to hold BeverRone R. with Kingicote cha-
j'elry, alfo Berkeley'V. and Stone chapeby,
all in. the county and diocefe of Glouceiler.'

Rev. 'James Hardwicke, LL-.D. to liold
Sopvvorth R. Wilts, with Tytherington V’.
CO. Gloucefler.

rbe LONDON G E N E. R A L BILL of
Christenings rials from December 19, 1793, December 9, 1794.

-A J C Afales p ' . , 5^ Males 98^6 7

Chnltened i i r'emalesM, 5 ^

Decreafecl in the Burials
this Year 2508.

Died under 2 Years

6543

20 and 30 -

1363

60 and 70 -

1280

Between 2 and 5

2126

30 and 40 -

1674

70 and 80 -

9 5,7

5 and 10

772

40 and 50 -

1849

80 and 90 -

401

10 and 20

647

50 and 60 -

1563

90 and .ICO

- 59

100

101

102
105

D 1 S E A S

E S. ,

Dropfy

816

Afealles .

172

Casual ties.

Abortive Sc Slillborri 79

Evil

iVlifcarriage

Bit by Alad Dogs

Abfeefs

2 2

Fever, mail gnantFever,

iVIortiflcation

193

Broken Limbs

Aged

1124

Scralet Fever,

Spot-

PaJlV.

Bruifed

Ague

ted Fever, and Pur-

Piles

Burnt

Apoplexy

' 88

pies

1935

Plcurify

Dropped down dead

A ft ti m a a nd Phth I Ec 4 0 1

Fiflula

Quinly

Drowned

168

Erdrlddca

Flux

Rhenm-atifm

Excellive Drinking

French Po.x

Rlhng of the Llg

hts 1

Executed'"

Bleeding

Gout

' 97

Scurvv

Found dead

Blood v Flux

Gravel, Strangurv

y and

Small Pox

1913

Fimnd hanging

Buflien and Rupture 17

Scone

Sore Throat

1 1

F radiured

Cfa nee r

Grief V

Sores and Ulcers

, 16

Frighted

Chit ken Pox

Head-Ach '

S,)al m

Killed by Falls and feve-

phifdbcd

i8c

Headmouldihot,

Hor-

St. Anthony's Fire i

*ral other Accidents

C'dd

ihoeTicad, and Water

Stoppage in the

Sto-

Killed by Fighting

Col A k, Gripes, T

wiftiug

in the Head

mach

.17

Killed thcralclve-s

of the Gats

Heart overerown

Soddt'nly

^3^

Murdered

Confumpfion

47 Si

Jaundice

Surfeit

Overlaid

C<)n vulfions

4368

impofthume

Teeth ,

430

Poifoned

Coufb’, and Hooping-

Inflammation

366

Thruih

Scalded

Cough

469

Leprofy

Tympany

Starved

Cramp' ’

Lethargy

, 2

Vomiting and Loofe-

Died of a StiTiin

Croup

2 1

Livergrbwn

nefs

Suftbcalcd

ipiabf tes

Lunatick

Worms

Total

309

f There h ave been executed, In Middlefex snd Surrey, ii ; Vf which number 5 only have
Jjten reported to be buried (as fochjj within tlie Bills ©f Mortality.

INDEX OF N A M E S' in Voiume LXtV. Eart IL

Badcock

862

Belford

1054

Boughtoh

I211 Buckle

775

A BBEY

ic6o

Baddeley

1^53

Bell 672,

86 1,

Boult

1056 Buckner

774

Abbot

960,

Badnedre

768

957

, 1206

Boi’ike

865 Buckworth

1 1 48

1210

Baglf’y

768

Bellarry 772, 962

Bourmafter

’ 1210 Buffham

1052

Abel

965

Bagflcr

766

Bellalis

860

Bourne

1 21 1 Bulkeley

765

Adair

869

Hailey 96

ic6o.

Belle

1053

Bouverie

1209 Bull 86i,

I ^157

Adarn

1056

1212

Bel ward

121 1

Bowerbank

1211 Bullivant

1207

Adams yye, 862,

Bainesio^z

,Ilc;6

Benfield76 c

1,1052

Bowles

86 r Bullock

966

1061,

1 149

Baird

1052

Bennet 774, 1053

Bowman

1052, Bullyrrian

1052

Ad am foil

1 148

Balcarras

12 10

Bennifon

670

IT48 Buncombe

862

Adkin

1 1 58

B'lldwyn

764

Ben Ton

764

Bowyer774,i2e9 Burbidge

1053

Arfleck

774

B^U’our

672

Kenlled

764

Boyce

062 Burch 679,

1 148

Agar

775

Ball 86r,

1156,

Bent

1052

Boyd 774,

860, Burchail

863,

Aguillir

671

12 12

Bentham

1062,

1 1 50

1150

Ainger

1206

Ballard

1158

1151

Boyer

loqc Burdell

671

Alboo

672

Ballenden

I I 56

Berens

I ao6

Boyfield

672 Bntford 868, qcc

Alifon 678, 966

Balme

1157

Beresford

>053,

Boy ton

1062 Burges

774

Allix

1 206

Bamford

1053

12:2

Brace

Allam

86 X

Bankart

964 Berkeley

1149

Brachal

956 Burgh

1053

Allanfon

1 148

Bankes

764

Bernard

12 I I

Braclfiiaw

770 Burgoyne

^053

AlUrdyre

957

Banks

1 148

Berney 1052,1207

Brand? r 672

,1158 Burke

•j

770

Allen 765,

774>

Banner

670

Berms 863,

IT50

Branneker

862 Borliau

860

861

, 862

Bannityne

1052

Bertram

764

Branton

1204 Burn

767

Atlenby 670

1, 966

Barbord

773

Betts

I2II

Breadalbsne 764 Burnaby

IZOC

Allington

765

Barbut

673

Betty

676

Breithkopf

766 Burufide

1210

Almond

1154

Barclay

957

Beven

I I <59

Breley

86 r Burrage

1209

Alfop

864

Barker 670,

11^4 Bewiey

870

Brent

1060 Burrough67

2,869

Alt

768

Barnard

765?

BicldulpH

956

Brew'man

1149 Burrows

86r

Altham

956

1056,

1204

Bidlake

1 r 56

Bricktiell

956 Buitenfhaw

1156

Andrews

[061,

Barneit

1054

Bigge

966

Bridgeman

765, Eurtonio52

,1149

1149

Barns

1053

Biggs

765

775 Burwood

1140

Anbalt

675

Barnfley

768

B gnal

957

Bright

1211 Bute ic6i,

1099,

Aniialy

768

Barrar

1204

Bignell

957

Brinkle

1 1 q6

y y y

1210

A nnifs

86r

Barrow

I r48

Bilbie

860

Bnibane

774 Butler 77a, loce.

Anfon 862,

12 11

Barrymore

862

Billington

671

Brifeoe

860 114^;

12c6

Apledore

865

Bar lion

1^53

Bine

1 148

Brifiow 961

,1063 Byng

86i

Appleyard

671

Bartham

1210

Bingham

ir 60

Brittain

1149

Archer

861

Barton

86r

Bircham

771

Britten

1 149

Ardren

765

Bafs

86®

Bird

957

Broadley

670, c.

Armagh, Bi/hop

Bdffano

1052

BilTon

861

1 156

965

Bateman

771

Black

765

Brock

IC54 ^Alcroft

Armftrong

679

Bates

864 Biackborow

8 "0

Brockton

671 Calder

7 .

76 -j

Armytage

1061

Bath 671

> 773

Blackftoii

86 1

Brcdritk

860 Caldwell

774.

Arnaud

1054

Baihurft

770

Blagrave

861

Broke

865 Cail

/ f ‘v

ic6o

Arnold

1149

Bavaria, Eledtrefs

Blair

962

Brome

670 Calmady

1210

Arundel

860

of 863

, 960

Blake

76S

Erom field

12 11 Calthorp

loct

Alhburner

771

Baverftoke

1148,

Blandford

1148

Bro.ck

1057 Calton

I J4S

A(nleyizo6,i2C9

121 r

Bleckiv

1207

Brookt?'

86 f Calvert

870

Afnmore

*053

Bavliff

1 2 1 1

BlennerhalTetbyy

Brooks

€77 Camac

765

Alkew

1059

Bay ly

1204

Bligh

1210

Broughton

•670, Camden

670

Afling

956

Bayne 966,

1204

Blindfhail

S65

773 Cameron

860

Afpinhall

677

Baylifs

765

Hlittenberg

1,052

Brown 672,

765, Camm

76 c

Alchley

S62

Kazeley

7^' 5

Blundell

770

.-861,956,:

1053, Campbell

766,

Athawes

678

Erach

»c>59

Boddam

9,6

1054,

IC56, 863, 864,

869,

Atkins

1 I 50

Bean

1149

Boggetio62j

,1155

1061,

1062

Atkihfon

9 >6,

Beard

962

Foifdaune

1 205

II57r

1159, Cainplin

ICCA

1053

Beaver

862

Dolland

765

1205,

1206 Canners

w r

10C2

Attack

964

Beaumont 1

^055’

Bi'lion 862,

1052,

Brown'Bg

864 Cant

869

Avcline

962

1156

1 207

Brownlow

1059 Capper

1210

Auft

1157

Beavon

765

Bond

1206

Brumhead

765 Capron

76c

Ayres 76 r,

1055

Beavor

957

Bonham

1 209

Bruxby

6“/6 Cardale

* J

1149

Ay ft rope

1157

Becher

1204

Boone

1204

Brydges

1 1 <;4 Carder 771

-T 7

957

Bedcott

1056

Booth 965,

1052

Buchanan

673, Carhatnpton

y y w

774

Bedford

675

Bofanquet

J2 10

963 Carr

1157

J? A bmgton t 149

Betvor

670

Bofcawxn

I 148

Buck 1063, 1 149 Carrington

861

Bache

868

Begbie

864

Boucher

II4S

Buckendge

671 Carrol

locc

Cent.

Mag.

Carfaa

INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXIV. Part ID

Carfaa 1157
Carfon 1150
Carriairs 1154
Carter 77 1, 1053
Cartwright 1062
Caruthers 869
Caftleton 964,
1212

Catchpole 1952
Cathcart 764,967
Cave 956

Cavendiih 775,
3059

Chad . 1062
CJialmer 1060
Chamberlain 676
Chambers 7743'
956

Champneys 1212
Chandlefs 1204
Chaplinio5,T2i I
Chapman 671,

1^5f957y
1055, 1155,1156
Charlton 965»
J149

Chaffepoc 1209
Chatham 1210
ChavafTe 676
Cheales 1148
Cheap 1206
Chellan 1061
Cheffon 1062
Chefterfield 1279
Chcvallier 862
Cheveley 861
ChrWliaa 775,
1 149

Chriftle 1204
Church 1204
Clapham 1204
Clarence 774
Clark 670, 675,
773) 86c, ,861,
870,1051,1053,
1059, 1209
Claveri'ng S60,
1056, 1148
Clay 3149

Clayton 677, 957,
1057

Cleaveland 864,
1051, 12 31
Cleiveland 961
Clement 767
Clements 1150
Clerk 1054, 1 149
Cllefden 1051
Clifden 775

Clinton 774,1054
Clive 775

Clofe 865

Clough 1210
Clutterbuck 861
Clutton 860
Cobb 864

1053

Cock 676

Cockayne 774
Cockburo 862,
-1205
CockeU 764
Cocker 1149
Cock ram 1209
Coke 862

ColclougK 676
Cole 672, 958,
10567 1148
Coleman 1158,
1207, 1210
Colepeper 1206
Coleraine iie6
Collier 774
Collins 861, 961,
1158

Colloredo 1057
Collyer 1054
Colman 772,859,
1052

Colpoys 774
Colville 861,862,
1060

Comport 1*49
Conway ■*-'^.5
Conyngham 670
Cooke 678, 866,
1052

Coombe 765
Cooper 768, 956,
1211

Cope 964, 1053,

I2Ip

Copeland 773
Cornifh 774
Cornwallis 774
Come 105^
Colby 956

Cofteker 861
Co'.es 1210

Corlin 957

Cotterell 774
Cottin866, 1209
Cotton 764, 774,

1155

Coventry 1206
Coverley 1053
Goullon 1148
Courtenay 865,
1148

Couflmafeer 765
Couthon 763,955
Cox 765, 1062,
i2ir

Ccxeter 864
Coy 1 1 54

Cracroft ip6o
Craddock765,774
Craig 866,1060
Cranfield 775
Craven 671, 956
Craufurd 676
Crawford 764
Cray 1156

Cfeuwys 864

Crjpps 1061
Crofton 1052
Crofts 768

Cromwell 956,
1052

Crolhaw 1 149
Croliey 1207
Crols 956, 1054
Crow 677

Crowder 671
Crowcher 764
Crufoe 769

Crnwys 1205
Cutfe ^ 774

Gumming 774,
1054

Cunllffe 861
Cunningham 774,
1060

Currie 861

Curtis 774,1209
Curzon 775, 1060
Cuthbert 10^3
Cuthbcitfon 764

J)ACRE 676,
3051

Daer

Dalby

Dale

Dailey

Dalton

Daly

Dancer

Dane

D’Anvers

Darby

D'Arcy

Darfort

Darley

Dafent

Dafhwood

Daubeny

Davcinport

1059

765

1052
862

1149

1053

964

677

1061,

1099

672

957

1052

1^53

966

860

76S,

1*54

1C55
1 1 58
966,

David fon
Davie 768,
Dsvies 964,

1107, 1 148,
1205

D’lvis 956, 1060
Davifon 764,965,
1053,1159,
12 1 1

Davy 1210

Davys J061
Dawes 766
Dawkins 956
Dawfon765,865,
1157, 3207
765, 869,
1204

Deacon 75 s» 1154

Deakin 678
De Charms 1204
Peckencr 964
Dc Hahn 1 149
Deighfon 864
De la Fite 1060
Delancy764,io6o
Dellcmerc 670
Denham 1062
Denlfon 671, 7^^
Dt-nne 766

Denmllon 1150
Dent 864

Dering 865

Derry 1052

Dtlborough 1157
Defmargoe 675
D’Efterrc 957
Dewar 670, 1153
Dickenfon 1157
Dickfon 774
Digby 861, 121 1
Dighton 1052
Dimfdale 671
Divett S7#

Dixon 774, 1206,
1210, 1212
Dob fon, 106 f
Dodd 1®54

Dodge 865

Dodgfon 956
Uodfworth 1059
Doggel 773

Dolbeare 1156
Domville 770
Donkin 869
D{>«nithorneio52
Donovan 861
Dormer 1149
Doughty 957,
966, 1211
Douglas 860, 862,

956) 9^5) 96?)

1206

Dourn 671

Dowbiggin 1063
Dowdl'wcll 764
Dowing 10^4

Down 670

DownlTitre 670

Doyly 676

Drake 775

Draper 869, 962
Drewry 962,1053
Drummond 670,

676, 764, 967,

1204

Dry io6f

Dubois 671

Ducane 766

Dudington 957

Dudley 1204

Damarefq^ 774

Dumas 763

Dun 871

Dttnbar 768,871,
i^i4

Duncan 1055'»

1210

Dundas 672, 775
Donkley 956

Dunn 861

Duppa 870

Durazzo 958

Durnford 862,

1204

Durning 1050

Dyer 1 1 58

Dyne 767

Dynevor 1053

Dyfon 957

766

765

IC53

86r

1158

1210

1154

pADES
Eagles
if ames
Eatdley
Eburn
Eden
E ge

Edic 775

Edmonds 765}
956, 12 i r
Edmonlton 764
Edfall 1 149, 1209
Edvvards764>77>o,
956,1060, H49,
1*57) 1205
Egginton 80a
ElUot 1210
Ellis 775, 1055,
1149

Eimherft
Elphinftone

lOca

773,
774

765
676
1205
607
675
1204
1211

• 9^5*
1204

Evatt 671

Everard 770,1 159
Eves 960

Evill 861

Evinfon 865
Evitt 1053

Ewatt 671, 86r
Excel 936

Eyre 675, 870

Emerls

Emery

Efigli^

Ertys

Etheridge

Ethrinston

Etty

Evans 677.

pAGG

Fagle

Fairfax

Falloficld

Failjiwcs

115?

861

863

1157

86t

FanA

INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXIV. Part If.

Farlftl
pArley
Farr 1204,
Farrcn
Fantkner

86r
956
1 207
8*65
774

Froggatt

Fvomanteel

Frv

Fuller S66,

1207

86c;

678

95^»

1052

FawccU 860, 86 r, Follertrn
1210 Funia.e
106 I

I2S)r)

868
865
865

12 I t

962 QABBIT 1158 Gofling
870

Fearn
Fearnn
Feilder
F^ll
Fenton
Fenwick.

F^rgulon
Field 865, 1052

Furilenbtrg

Fyfc

Fyier

Gadlby

1 209
860
960
958
767

Goodenouglr 862
Goodhall 774
Goodwin 8-6 f,

1204

Gorden 1210

Gerdom 768,774,

Halda.ic
Hales
Hflikett
Hail 6

670
86r
764
7G 771,
957) »o5»»

10^6, I {48 Flellins

957, 960, 9'6z, Hallet 965, T157

ic6r, 1148, Halliday

1155, 1204
Gore ^^^53

Gorii'ig €72

Gormaoftown

1204

868

Gould

Hamill

Hamilton

962,

672,
ic6 r
1 209
768,
1052,
1053
1055

Fielder
Fielding
Filmer 9'65, 1052
Finch 774, 964,
IC51

Finlow 3 1 54

Finlyl'cm 676

1 2 TO Gal2bin957,i I 59 Goulds
1 0^62 Gale 677, T204, Gow

Hamm

HAmmerton 771
Hammond 1062
Hamond

Galloway
Gambler
Gamhle
Ga mon

1211

863

774

1157

771

Filh 871, 1051 Garden 76'6, 866
Filher 771, 1154 Gardiner 962
Fitch 862,954, Gardncr774,T209
956 Garland 861

Fitzgerald 670 Garlics 12 to
Fitzherbert 774 Garner 764
Fitzpatrick 1210 G3rnetr9'64, i2t 4
Fitzroy 1211 Gafeoigne 671
Fitzwilliam 774, Gafeoyne 670
12 lo GAttoii 8'6i

Fleming 764,957, GayUrd 765

1210 Gayton

1210

1054

67*7

Graham 670,768, Hanbury
86 r, IC52, Hancock
1054, 120^ Hancorne
Grant 765,865 Hancox
Graves 1210, Handcock
1211, 1212 Handley
Gray 870, 95,6, Hannay *
1054, 1055 Hanfell
Greaves 1054 Harberton
Gieen 670, 678, Hardey
764, 771, 86r, Harding
802,965,1054, Hardwick
1060,1148, 956,

1157 Hardy 864,
Greenhowfe 871
Graenoogh

Kcatb 765, 1053^
1 14S

Fleaven 963.
Hecflor - B66
Helli'. gs 1149
1 054
767
765
965
677
1 2 JO

1107

957
,861
671
1056

1159

1 1 50
1052
675
671

774
962
1 209
861

Hcrnmitt
Henham
Henley
Henn
Hem V
Ilenvilie
Herring
Hervey
Hcit

Hewitfon
Hewitt 67’S, 767,

T 156

Fl&tcher 958,
1149

Foley 1211
Fooie 1209

Forbes 678, 1052
Ford 774, 861,

1 158, 1210
Fordham 8*^5
Forefter 865
For fell 860

Forller 670, 1204
Fortefque 768
Fonnum 862,
Foulerton 1157
Fowler 1057
Fox 964, i2ro
Foxton 1206
Fozard 1204
France 1052
Francklyn 101^2
Frank 1210

Geddes
Cell
Gerlick
Germany,
prefs of
Gibb
Gibbons
Gibb'S
Gibfon670, 1 148,
G-idoin
Gi fiord
Gilbank

Gill 957

Gillam ^*55
Gillanders 77®
Gilliat 671

Gilli-es S62

Gilpillan 672
Girton ^°55
Gieen 765

Glentworth 677

77^ Greenwood 1052, Harris 765, 1052,
765 1210 1054

Keys 1062

Hicky 769

Highmore 967
Hildelheim 1059
Hill764,765,86i,
864, 869, 1151
H nchley 1053
1148 Hinckley 1209
771 Hine 862

1052 Hoare 961,1148
862, Hobday 956
1212 Hodge 1056
957, Hodges 962
9.66,1211 Hodgkins 676
Harrington 1056 Hodgklnfon 77 3^

869

Hodfoll 966,106?.

774 Gregory 1053 Harrifon 764,770, Hodfon 1062

86t Greville 1212 861,966,1154, Hogben 764

Em- Grews 861,868 1155,1205, Holbrook 765

6/0 Grey 1054 Holland 1060

956 Grier 1062 Harry 1150 Holliday 957

864 GritBn 1058,1 150 Hart 865 Hoilings 6%8.,

io6i GrifEths675,i2o6 Hartley 771, 862^ 1204

Grifdale 121®, 1204 Holman 1054

774 1211 Hartopp 1148 Holftein, Auguft.

671 Groben 767 Hartpoie 1155 Duke of 1150

11^7 Grove 962, 1156 Harvey 671,673, Hoio 670,1061,

Grub
Grueber
Guadern
Guilford
Guilliford
Gum'oreli
Gynday
Gunning
Gun-flone

768

S62

862

1210

764

1056

1149

764

1054

764

677, 860, 954,
957, 1052,
1053, 1054
Halbrook
Hafcll
Hatch w ell
Flaverfield
Hawkirts
Hay 670,

Hoole

Home

Hood

Hope

114^

769

1209

1210

677) 95-»

1055, 1057

Frafcr 670, 764, Gloucefter, Prince Gurch

768,963 William of 774 Gwillim

Frederick 864, Goates 1155 ^Iwinne

1063 Goddard 769

Free 899 Godfrey956,i i 54

Freeman 8 to, Going 1205 H.

Iic;8,l2r2 Gomond 1154

Freemantle 963 Gomtn 1*57 T-TADLEyT054

Freer 1058 Gooch 863 Haegeitiaii

French 773, 864, Goodden 1205 Hague 769

,956,1148 Goode 764, 1052 Haig 1204

Frewen 86 1 Gooder 1204 Haily 115^

1149 Hayes 967, 1059
1053 Hayne
Haynes
Hay ter
Hayward
Hazleton
Head
Headley
Healey
Heanea
Heart

767
1148
961

1054 _ 1204

957 Hopkins 770
863, Hopkinfon 670,
1054' ' 766,1058,1212
Hordon 965
HornbuckH 862
Horndon 1149
Horner 1158
Horton 95.7

Hofkins 675
Hotham 764
870 Houghton 1294
671 Howard 1059
1158 Howe 114S, 1154

7^5 HoweU iic4
Ho^ih

1052

675

966

765

1209

1054

INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXIV. Part IIv

Ho''Vth 967

1149,

1156, Latham

1 148

Lyfaght

^963

Matthews

86©,-

Hubbard §64, 956

1205 Laughton ■

1211

Lyfier 1052, 1204

1148

Huddleaone 764 Jordart

766 Laurents

121 1

Lythe

' 765

Maule

1204

Hudlon 1061,

Jofeph

1156 Law

764

Lyttelton

775

Maunfell

1156

; 148, 1206

Irilh '

1053 Lawrence

861,

Maw

1053

Hughes 772

Irving

1205

1053

Maxwell

775»

Hulbert 86r

Irwin 67

0, 764, Lawrie

769

1205

Hume 967

1052 Law Ion

672

Mayo

1212

Humphreys 1054
Hungerford 671
Runnings 766
Hunt 671, ir6o
Hunter 676, 861,
1150

Huntley
Huptman
Hurd man
Hurley
Hurft
HulkinTon

IfaacfQri

Judkins

J^PP

9^5 Laxton 769,861
7^4 Layton
677- Lsathes

Leatherdale

1052

1053
67 I

121 1

1212
768

1209

956

861,

957

Hutchinfon 765,
767, 866, 964,
1156

Hutt

Hutton

Hyde

675

960

670

Keays
Keir
Kelly
Kendall
Kenneth
Kennet
Kenny
Kenllng'6n
Kent 963,
Kerr

774
678
772
870
ic6o
121 1
765
866
767
678
1P5S

Led wich

Lee

Leeds

Leeman

Letargue

1 CP'h

Lticefter

1209
1205

765
671
676
1061,
1209

Leigh 775, 868,
1052, 1210
Leir^ , ‘1052

Le Mefurier 774
Lon rood

1204

77d

86r

958

956, , 960
1149, 1^05
Kerihaw 1157
I. and J. Key 957

Keymer 766

Kilpin 1157

King 763, 774,
957^967,1052,
1061, 1211
765 Kingdom
Kingfoury

Leonard

Lelhe

LetLr

L-'vett

Levy

670,

1211

770,

768

JAckfon

765^9

Jacob
Jacobs
Jalabert
James 765, 760,
1149, 1155,
1158, 1205

jamefen

Jaques

Jardine

Jeane

'Jekyll

Jenkins

Jephfon

Jervoife

^Icbefter

lliTe

Inge

Ingle

Jnglcby

870
86 r
964
1205

1052

1053
675

1209

861

765

1157
1055
1204

Kingfcpte
K ingfmill
Kirby
Kirk 1052, 1053,
1204

Kirkman
Kitchener
Kitfon
Knatchbull

956

670
1 207
joi;2
'860
1150
Lew in 764, 1205
Lewis 670, 76 <t,
956,958,^48,

12 I I

Lievefon
Lightfoot
Liiiington
Lind

6*0
670
1052
774 Lindley
1204 LiadLy

764*

966

Knibbs 956
Knight 1060,
1148, 1153

9 57

1053

1204

767

765

ii55>

1209

1054

774

1156

1^53

Knipe

Inglis 1054,1148,
121 1
1056
1052,
1204
1060
774

Ingram
lanes 9 5 7;

Lintall
1054 Lin zee
678 Littlefear
1204 Livirgflon

Lloyd 670, 863,

957; 963^ 1153
Lockett 860

Lockw'ood 671
Loft 1204

Lomas 670, 672
Long 871, 966,
1051, 1154

Lord

Loveden
Lowcay

TyfAcartneyi0 53
■*Macaulay86o,

, 1054

M'Bean
Macbride
M^Clare
M‘C!e)lan
M'Cullcck 1 1 50,
I - 1 1

Macdonald 1054,
1153, 1204
Macfailane 765
Mackenzie 774,
1052

Mackintofh 1059,
1204, 1210
Mackworth 870
M‘Laurin 1209
Maclean 766
Macleod 671,675
M‘Millan 1150
Madan 1211
Maddccks 960
Madocks 8 60
Mahon 957
Mainwaiingi 149,
1210

Malcolm
Malle fon
Mallet
Malpas
Maltby
Man

Mangnall
Mann
Manners
Mansfield
March
Maiechoux
MariaTerefa, In¬
fanta ^
Markham

MecklenburgStrc,
Prs. Chriftiana
866

Megaw

MelUlli

764

1054,

1055

963

1205

775

765

677

768

866

671

774

1052

861
1 148
12 fO

956

671

Melvin
Mendham
Mendys
Mercerioiji,T054
Merci, Count de

773> 859
Merrill 773
Mefman869,i2 n
Mefturas - 1060
Mefurier, Le 774
Metcalf 114S
Meymo'.h 765
Micklet^waite

860

MIddleham 964
Middleton 1054
Midford 1148
Mlerre 861

Milbank 956
Mildmay J054,
1149

Miles 862, 114S
Miller 1052,
1054, 1056

767

1150

1148,

1211

670

675

957

1054

86r

loafs

Jocelyn

fodrell

J^Abourn 670

L^dbrokeio56 Lowe 861, 1157
Li Grange 677 Lowther
Lake 1209 Lucadou

865 Lambert 860, 957 Lucock
Johnfon 765,862, Lincafter864,955 Lumpkin
1054, I2H Lane 1149 Lupfon

Johnftbne 862, Lingrifh 774 Lupton
866,1061,1154 Langworthy 1054 Lufwjdge
Jones 677, 764, Larmont 1063 Lydekker
■ 765, 860, 861, Larpant 765 Lyford

671

1053

861

1206

765

860

774

768

765

9^1 i 10537 Laicelies 86 j Lyoa, 677,869

Markland
Mzrneria
Marricti86i,957,
1053

Mar/h 1054
Marlhal!862,964,
1056, 1149
Mar. in 678, 769,
1053

Marton 770
Mafon 1204
Maffingberd 1204
Mailers 676,1209
Mather 672
Matravers 771
Matfon 1150

MilJman
Mills
Minfliaw
Mocker
Moggridge
Moifey
Molecey
Molefworih
Me Hoy
Alcncri( ffe
Monk
Montague
775

1205
1 148

864

774

1054

961

1204

766

771

865
765
774»
957

Montgomerie

Moody ii5'8
Moon 12IO

Moore 67c, 774,
86 t, 870,1052,
1155, 1210
Mcorhoule 769
More 1204

Morant 1063
Morgan 671,071,
1052, 1053,
1154, 1158
Morgell 1062
Mornington 1149
Morris

INDEX of names in Vol. LXIV. Part U.

Morris 764, 963,

0‘Neil

J204

Petit 860,,

.1154

Pro vis

764 Roebuck

767

1204

Onllow

774

Petre 956

, 965

Prowting

871 Rogers

1060

Moife 768

Orchard

1157

Pettingall

860

Pryce

i'054 Rogerfon

1204.

Morton 1062

Orde

1053

Peyton

1052

Pulleine

1209 Holland

1149

Mofeley 966

Orlebar

JO55

Phelan

1150

Pultcney

671 Rollefton

1056

Mount 765

Oi me

1062

Phelps

1150

Porner

765 Romer

105,3

Mountftuart 764

Orm Iby

670

Philips

1209

Purver

861 Romp

764

Mudge 1062

Orfon

^053

Phillips 678,861,

Purvis

86i Rooke

I V4

Mulgrave 775

Olborn 956,

II 55

956

Pye

671 Rooklby

1062

Mullion 861

Ofwin

1205

Philpot

671

Fywell 956,

1058 Rofe 766, 964

Munro 956, 1209

Ottley

871

Pick with

966

Roupell

1150.

Murray 671, 672,

Outwith

765

Piddock

054

Rous

869

764, 774, 870,

Owen 670,861

Plercy

1062

Rowley

865

96 i, 1 149,1204

Oxenftteina

1205

Pierfon 870,

1 148

Ruck

766

Murgravc67o,764

Pigott 672,

774»

O^ARTLEY Rudd

1157

Myddelton 1149

861, 865, 957,

1210 Rudyard

766

Myeis 1212

95S, .1148,

Ruffcll 770,

115s

Mylne 861, 1149

1204

DACEY

1156

Pike

863

Paddifon

865

Pinkney

774

J^Aghton 956
Napier 956
Nares 967

N alh 105451156,
H'57, 1206

Neifoa
Neale
Neave
Nepean
Netiltton
Neville
Nevirbolcl
NrW'bury
Newcome

Newdicke

Newington

Newman

957

1052

871

774

966

765

1206

862

767,

773

1159

957

862

Paley 1211

Palmer 671, 677,
1053, 1148
Palmour 860

Park 1155

Parker 671, 676,.

765, 774, 1206
Parkhill
Parkin Ton
Parky ns
Parry
Patfcin5769ji052,
1056, 1060

Plampin 1211,

958

670

861

Partridge
Palk

770

1053

PaHey 774, 1209

Pattrfon 670,

1052

Newton 770, 772

Nichols
NIckfon
Nicolls
Nightingale
Nixon
Noble 765, 957
Noel 772, 1051
North 1053, 1210

1062

956

C72

1155

1158

Norton

Nott

Nugent

Nundy

865
1059

1063

7^5

^^Beirne 1205
Oddy J054
Ogilvie *053,

Ogle
Oke
Oldfield
Oliver

1149, 1150

774

917

670

766

1209

Paton 775

Patrick 1210

Paxton 1062

Payne 965

Peach 1148
Peachey 775
Pearce 10545

1205, 1207
Pearfon 678,
1149, 1150
Peat 764

Peel 860

Pelham775, 1204
Pemberton 677,

,964

Pennington 1053
Percy 1060

Perfeft 1056

Perigal yji
Perigord 860
Peikins764,865,
1054

Perring 860
Perry 957, 1051,
1158

Pery 677

Peterburgh T157
PctCIS J2II

1212

Plcydell 966

Plimpton 671

Plombrree 1211
Plu rner 766, 1060
Pocklington 1052
Pomeroy 774>
1 148

Poniatowlky 958
Ponl^onby 1054

Poore 1204

Pope 769, 1155,
1206

Port i2c6

Portal 1052

Portcous 1053

Porter 962

Portland 774

Pote 1159

Potter 1059

Potts 1053

Powell 767,1054,
1063

Powley 1210

Powrie 775

Poyntz 861

Praed 670

PrafC 964

Prefcott 1210

Prentice 671

Preflon 8605 1210
Price 671, 764,
767* 1204
1210, 1212
Prichard 861

PiiclietC 12 1 1

Priddie 1209

Prince - 670
Pringle 774

Prifeual *149

Pritchard 861

Proby 1062

Probyn 1212

Prodler 764

Pfoudfoot 671

Rai

RackhaiTi 671

ney

1157

R ailbeck 1^57

Ralph 1059

Ramfden 670
Randall 670
Randolph 1212
Rafhdall IO55
Ratclitfe 862
Rawle It 4.9

Rawlins 956
Rawfon 86 1,1052
Raymond 863
Rayner 767
Rea 1053

Redman 960
Reeve 12 ii

Rendle 1149
Revitzky 766
Rhodes 966
Rich 774

Richards 765,
773, 862
Richardfon 1060,
1^55

Ricketts 860
Rigby 1209

Riley 1204

Roberts 670,
1054, 1148,
IJ49, 1205,
121 1

Robert fon 678,

8651 957> 963?

1 148

Robefpierre 762,
862, 987
Robins 1148
Robinfon 677,
962, 965,1052,
1053, 1054,
1063, 1149,
H51, 1207,
I 209

Rodham 966

g ADLER 1053
Sc. Barbe 957
St. Juft 763, 953

St. Leger

Sale

De Salis

Saltown

Salviaci

Sambrook

Sampfon

Sandeman

Sanderfon

Savage

Savile

Saunders

Sawbridge
Sawyer
Saxton
Sav and Sele

860

1148 ,

771
676

863

862

772

1206

I2ia

1154

1207
964,,
1204

1149
774
774
861,

765, 958,963,.

• 1058, 1158,

6ji

1062

764

77L

1052

767

672,

Scougall

Scrimihaw

Seagar

Searlon

Sebright

Seddon

Sedgwick

Selby

1210

IC54

957

765

J060

86r

957

961,

1154,

1062

SeJwin 865, 121 ll

Selwyn
Serla
Serocold
Settle
Seymour
1052,

86<

76'

76^

77<!

1051

Shaddoi

INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXIV. Part Tl.

shaddock

957

Southeram 866

Tanner 86 r

Tudor

1209

Shad well

r209

Southwell 1204

Tatham 12 li

T uffie

1062

Shafto

963

Spailhott 670

Taylor 678, S60,

Tufncll

869

Saarland

1205

Spears 767, IC53

965, 967,1149

Tullok

S6r

Sharpe 670,

671,

Spencer 764, 7^7,

Taynton 1060

Tunftall

1209

765,870,

1059,

774, 964,1060,

Tempeft 772, 859

Tunwell

677

1205

1210, I2T1

Templeniau '’65

Tupper

1149

, lOiif

> >U9

1053

Sh arf) nel'l 95^ , Spens 1 1 co

Shaw T052, 1054, Spilfhiiry 956

1057,1143 Spink 1057, 1210

Sbtffield 1:04. Spiqkes 957

Shelle Spong 809

Shephearel 860 Spr^y 1059

Srhpp pal'd 860, Spurrcll ii49

1054 Squire iii;6

MiaiTon 1052 Stacy 770

Shied 963, SuSord 768, 774,

Shtefcl 775

Shields 1^55

Ship ft on 6"8

Shipton 768

Short 86 1

Shuttkwonh678, Stanger 1148

9 s6 Stanley 678,1 154

Slddotis 670 Staples 670, 764

Simons 670 Stabbing I2ir

Simplon 956 ,963, Steele r^S5

1060 Stennet 1205

SimfoD 86 1

Sinclair 671, 767>

Terry 862

Tett 1 1 54

Thackeray 773
Thiftlewood 1 1 i^6

Turner 673, 767,
861, 868, 1150
Tumour 862

Ward 956
1062
Warden
Wardrobe ' 765
WarlngSyi, 966#
1051, 1056
Warne 764
Wamcr67o,io54,
114^

Wan^en.8615 956,
960,11 35,1206

• J ' - i - ' J'

765,1138 Torton 766,860 Warrington 1056

1210, 1211

Staggali 1210

Staines 766

Stainron 12 to

Siandling 964

Thomas/uj,,

Thompfon 671, Tuion 764

774863,1053, Tweedy 1054

1062, 1204, Twigge 1204

1212 Tyers 865

Thorne 962 Tyler 1156

Thornton 1207 Tyrrel 675

Watkins 1204
Watfon 675,766,
861, 869, 1204
Watt 967

Watts 868, 966,

I 2 12

Thofold 864 Tylon 677, 114I Waugh

962

Tborowgood 1 2c 6
Thorpe
Threfher
Tic'^’field
Tickell
Tiffin
Tinkler
Tippetts
Tobin

9 57
775
12 1 1
864
1156

V. & U.

si ft more
jxeggs

956, 1061,
1204, 120 9
868

SI"

Skene

Skinner

i<553
671
1052
. 866,

1053, 1209
to:

Sk I e p
Slrimffilre
Sky oner
Slaney
Slate-f
Sleath
Small
Smallwood
Smart
Smerdon
Smethca
Smith 67T, 67 5,
764. 766, 770,
860, 871, 960,
962,966,1052,
IC53, 1054,
IT48, 1149,

*157

Stephenfon 1062 Todd 764, 1052,
S’^cuart ’ 963 1151

Stevens 1209 Toley 936

Scevenfon 957 Toltrey 860
Stewart 672, 675, Tomkins 1154?
767,774,958, 1205,1211

3054, To6r, Tomlins 1052
1150,1158 Tompkins 861,
Stocker 1149
Stokes 1149 Tomfon
5101-101053,1148 Torkin

YACHEL1T49
Vandeput 774
Vandergroben'767
766 Vandergucht S70 k^'elby
Vane 859,1211 Welch

Weaves

Webb

Webley

Webftcr

1154

Vickers

Vignolcs

' I'jor

V ines
Vintfftn
Vlvier

1150,
12 1 1

957

770

864

1054

761

1 209
Wcatherby 678,
1060
963
670
1054
670,
1204
860
1156
Wells 672, 677,
768, 96-3
Welfti 866

Welftead i''53

Wemyfs 860

Wcftcoie 775

Weftern 1148

1 1 48 Stopford
676 Storer
1211 Story
'7C4 Strachey
965 Strickland
Strat haven
Stratton
Striiteer

1 06 1
1052 ■
1149

765>

1054

S64

1207

965

1212

11-49

774 Topham
12*06

773 Tolton 764,1204,

775 12 M
676 Townfend
764 Townfltend

IC53 ‘1053,

1052 Towrie

StroBgio63,i 107, Townfbn
1210 Towfey
1149 Tothill
Trail

Traill 870, 1158
Travers 675,1054

Strothers
Strutt 1207

Stubbs 765, 868

Srupart ■ 1204

Style 773

Sullivan 860

765

774»
1157
1205
1056
67 1

766
870

Upper Oflory 775 Weft-on 670, 861
Ure 863 Wttherall 1209

Uvedale 670 Wharton 764,

’ 1153) 1^5*
Wheldak 958
W. Whichcot 865,

1 148

Y/Addelow 675 Whitchurch II 57
Wade 861, White 671, 862,
IC53, 1154, 1058, ic6i,

1211 1156

W agner 862 W’^hitehoufe 86 1
Wainewright 965 Whitelock 1209

Traveffe

Treaffire

956

Wainman 959
Walbank 1053
Waldegrave 673,
761, 774
Waldron 676

Wale 962

1154, 1156, Sutton 956, 1 205, Trebeck

967 Walford 771,956,

1209, I2II,
1212

12C9, I2T2 Trench
Swinbum 1148 Trevor

IH9

774

^153

Sihyth

764

Swindon 765

Trimmer

671,

S*neU

1063

Symes 963, 1149,

1204

Sneyd

957

1204

Tritton

1153

5oaper

764

Symons 774

Trollope

676

5oley

■767

Trotman

670

Jomerville

869

Trought

J154

ionerdem

769

Tryon '

765

ophia Frederica,

^AILBY 1205

Tuam, Abp

. 865

of Denmaik

Talk'nton

Tucker

1144

i»5S

1206

12 1 1

Walker 677,866,
121 1

Walkin 1150

Wall 6;2

Wall8Cf774,i205
Walnalley 1206
Waltero:t7. 1052

775
1 148
862

95S

Walters

Warbuitoa

Whitfield
Whiting
Whitmore
1052,
Whitlhed
Wick man
Wiglev
Wilcox
Wild
Wilkin
Wilkinfon

861,957,1052,

1056

Willard 767
Willes 678

William of Glou-
cefter, Pr. 774
Williams 670^
671, 672, 676,

■ m>

962

965

862,

1206

670

764

1211

765

1148

961

765^

INDEX to the Effays, Occurrences, ^V. 1794. Part IT.

Wynne

774, 861, S62,
863, /)6, 1053,
1204

Willlamron 670,
956, I05Z,
1^53, 1150,
i’09, 1210
Willis izii
Willoughby 1210
Wilmoe 770,9^7,
1055,1.10
Wiiro:\ 671, 765,
86^, 871, 956,
964, 105 f,
1052, 1150,

121 1

Wilton 866
Winbnlc 861
Windham 774
Windus 773
Wing 675

Wingfield 677
Winmngton 1157
Winllow 1052
W”! niton 1153
W'lnter 1=53,
1205

Wife 765

Witherrpooni i 50
Withy 765, 1063

Wodhull 1157
Wolfe 770, 1204 Woolley
Wolfelcy 774
Wontner 861
Wood 957, 966
Woodcock 860,

1052, 1062,

IC99

Wood fall 1053
Woodford 95 7>

1 209

Wood ham 765
Woodroif; 1210
Woods 907

Woodward 672,

774
1052,

*053

WooWiofcn 960
W^ootton 672

Wordfworth 675
VVorrel 1207

Worlley 12IQ

Wore ley 866

V/ren 1207

Wright 670, 672,

, 86§, 1052,

1148, 1154,
1 15S

Wyld 1^54

yAi

den

lO'AOt

115©

.71'

8'6;

Vonge 774

Youog 774, 86/3,
1210

I N D E X to the Eflays, DiffertationSj Tranfadclons, and
Hiftorical Paffages, 1794. Part 11.

ERDEENy Cathedral
account of the old
cathedral 689

^boyne, Earl,. biographical ac¬
count of I 2c8

Adam, James, account of 1056
JiffeaneioTiy inltmaivc 626
/IgVnnbyy family, account of

656, 799, 814* ^^4

Agriculture y Board ot, encou¬
raged by the King 780
Airy on the prodnilion of va¬
rious kinds of 1104

Albrihgron, Shroplhire. account
of 799. church notes Soo
Alfretony Derby Ihire, account
of 11S5

Ailardycey Ann, her monu¬
ment deferibed 58S

Ahiri at Olympia 925

intelligence from
658, 946. advantages of
fettling in 587. penal
laws reformed 850* pro¬
clamations at New York
on the combinations againll
the government 1042. new
difeovery to the Picitic
Ocean 1044. Treaty of
Amity with Great Bri¬
tain concluded ICI47. fc-
. ver in 1138. fituatioa of
emigrants 1170. money of

1172

Ancona deferibed 738

Angel y Cbrijlopbery account of
and his writings 785, 918
Animalcuhy remarks on 601
Anncy Queen, bounty 619
Annjleyy J allies y bis fare 783
Anonymous firiAures defended

roo4

Ant'iquitieSy Keatlfh 705

Apoftles Creed, from an antient
MS. 612

Archangely intelligence from

1135

Armorial bgarings^ origin of

lOOO

Army proceedings 1047. fur-
geons 174. proceedings 659,
660, 661

Amold, General, account of
685. inftances of his great
prefence of mind 686

A undelCiPi\e.y account of 696
Animaly mufcle, csnverlion of
into fpermaceti, 1120

AJiley\% amphitheatre burnt
down 7^3

Atbenian democracy 740

Ackinjony Chr']jl'‘t>ber y cafe of

628

D AD D E LET, M r. com ed i an ,
account and charafler of

1153

Baking, on Sundays, bill to re-
golare 629

Barbers ^o\?: 6t2

Barker, Thom.JSy epitaph io36
Barnet, Friern, account of
the living of 1057

Baronet, account of that ho¬
nour 954

Baihurfly Earl, biographical
account and character 771
Battle Abbey, roof falls In 948.
damage to the ruins there

1002

Banvden family 892

Bedford, Duchefs, biographi¬
cal account of 675. Duke,
fpeech refpeflirLg the inter¬
nal Government of France

1 1S6

Bednuelly auecdote of 6r4
Bentham, Rev. Jarnes., account
and characler of 1062, 1151
Bergbait, Eaft, Effex, account
of .208

Berms, Cardinal de, account
of II 5®

Bible, pafiagesexplaiued
588. one of the Grecian
MSS collated bv R. Ste-
phens preferved at Cam¬
bridge 876. Oxford tranf-
lators 987, 1102

BifhopSy Irilh. 818. cenfote
of 974

Bijcayan, Indians, the extra¬
ordinary ufe they make of
their feet 81 1. their lan¬
guage ibw

Blindnefsy lingular at Gibral¬
tar 1^95'

Bluck, Wiliiam, account a''>d
portrait of 1069

Bolton, Duke, biographical ac¬
count of 1207

Bond, Jofeph, account of 120.6
foflil^ in Germany it2j.
eiicruHcd at Gibraltar and
iu Dalmatia 1122

Eoof jcaralogues with prices397
Bifurke, Aop. of I'uam, bio¬
graphical account of 865
Bramins, exceflivc cruelty of

1007

Brander, Alexander, account
, of 672

Bdtijh fettlement 599

Brooke, Rev. Mr. account a-nd
charafler of i®57

Brother, his duty to a liiter
who has been improvident

intelligence from 657
Buchan, Earl,- letter renew¬
ing bis corrcfpondence 387.
addrefs 10 786

Burial

INDEX to Eflays, Occurrences, . 1794* Part II.

thoughts ef a jilryrnan on
the prclenrments of 621
IJifbways, Oufei vations on
tut 2(9; for 884. obfervations
refpcttihg •• the indidmcnt
of i<^95

Bijhfy ‘letter to
,Dr. Scott 792. his lall
illacfs and death ib.

lIin4ooSj exceilive cruelty of
' iog6
fhjierical notes fram a pari(h
regider , ' 1 16 j

lloaiCf tFlUlcm, (fituff maker)
, charader of 961

Hogartbf account of an crigi-
nal piduie by 904

Holhergf Baron, account of

JI75

Holhtt'ff Dutch charaflenzed
1200. population ib, taxes

ib.

Homer y account of his blind-
nefs 924

Hope^ Sir Archibald, biogra¬
phical accountof 677, Mrs.
. acc' unt of 1^55

}Ierne Took^y trial of for High
, Treafon 1656

Horner-y Mr, anecdote of 1069
liorff-'rates in the vicini.y of
, London ceafured 793

Houghton Conqiieji^ regifter, 1163
lio’tOy Hon. Cbarlesy cuaraiiier

700

JI iuoey Lord, account of the
. viittory on the fidl of June.
, 659. family 823, 82.4.

Earl thanked by the Lords
1188. aiifv/L-r 1199

Uu'^an phenomen’.a , . '9( 2

Burnings , Bunery account of
I 766

Hunter, .yohn, account of his
life 1017, WillUm, cha-
• rafletizsd lorS

llutcbinjcn, yobrt tidy, account
and character of 866

Muttony Charlotte, character of
. , 96 a

Hyirophebtay cafe of 598. re-
mat k$ bn Mr. Robinfon’s
cafe 718* leal cafes very
r(re 7S0, melancholy cale
of 1055. obferva4oijs on
, 888, 892, 994, 10C9, 1107
lluggerfority H^ice 1 3 ->2

Improversy the common fate ftandards 857. navigation
of . ' ' 8i8 ' opened 113^

Index Indicatodut 648,- 728, Leghorn deferibed 736

824, 936, 1072, 1 X 28 j 1201 Leland, Dr. letter to Sp. Hil-
advantaged by the deilcv 7Qt

introdudlion of Chriftianity LejTtey Horn, Alexander, zcconot

1006 of 1207,

IndicSy Wejly declaiatlon and Liwe-Zree at Edmonton 697
proclamation. See. of Sir Lincohifiire \oyz\ty ^ 6zo
Charles Grey 1136. pro- iniellrgcrice from 657

ceedings of the army 1141 LHt-trgy, origin of the Italian
Inditfiry-b;ufe, at Shrewlbury, tranllaiion 1097.

ftatement of for ten years Lloyd, Rev. Df. charader of

”39 1153

Inglh, Alain, accountof 1054 Locke, Mr. born at Wringtou,
/w/ir/ihow a*- Farley 599, 617. Somerfet/hirc 1165

at Shrewibury 976. antient London militia bill, abflra^l of
982. at St, Giles’s, Shrewl- 668. riots 721. addrefs to

bury 991. at Hchefler, eic- the King 1141

plained icoi. at Chrlft- Long, Sir James Tylney, bio¬
church, Hai'its, 109^. at graphical account and cha-
T(defwell iroi ra(iter of 1^54

M;*. MSS of 888 Z.o»^«ii/;Vy of the ancients 1096
yi2»er, epitaph on 695 Z,ore/m deferibed 73S

Jones, Sir IHm. characfler of L«cca deferibed 736

1205 Lullington (Jtomtxitifh'iTt), &c-
Jabnfon, Samnely remarks- on count of 893. church 995
624. addi ion to his publi- Lutheran {'y>W\s more tolerant
ca ions looi than that of Calvin ' 633

y donjioney'^lv, author of Chry-
fal ■ 591

Johrjlone famil)? 8.14

Jo'eval'l d^'osY To-’4

helar.i, high Rewards of ' '

1045 ^fdcartney. Lord, embafTy.to,
China 6 c8- narrative of
his embalfy to China 70S

inteillgence fn m
Jupiter, the various 923.
tue of, at Elii’

fta-

925

JAMAICA, fever there de-
J Icnbed J043

I'AnJon, baronetage go6
Jciy, Mr. treated by the Ame¬
rican merchants ib.

Iwpranjits Wyz

Macaulay, Mrs. defended from
the charge of mutilating
MSS 6*85, 805. DHf-
raeli’s defence 8 1 6. far-
of Chilham caftle, ‘ ther vindication of, by Mr.
accountof 909 Graham 907, 996, locii

Kendull, George, epitaph iro6 Macdonald, Baron, his charge
Kitchiner, lV.n.h\ogr?y)\ Cd\2,c- to the Grand Jury at Lei-

cOunt and ebaratfer of 678 cefter 716

Klinius, ddcbolas, account of Dr. charadfer of 684.

Dr. literary charac-
' trr of 881

L. Maddocks, Counfellor, account

of 960

Y Ancafter, Mr. account of, Madnefs, obfervarions (jji 826
and charaiRer 933 Mahillans, account of 8ii.

L<Jw_g-i’ou, Dean, account of hiS embafly to Japan 812. a

death, tailing doiA'n a preci- dwarf race of men refem-

pice in Dei bylhire bling Negroes 8ri

Languages, on the affinity of Magnus, St. church, London

621,704 bridge 79^

Laurence, Major-general,’ epi- Mdt, ill confequences of the
taph on 730 dutycn il/Ci

La-iv, general Rigma on the Man, extraordinary cafe of a
prail'itioncrs of Sc8 roan without Ihoulders or

Leeds, Jiuiana 'Duth.efs of , hi- arms 8ri

ographical account of 1153 M<2W(ri’£y?«r regiment, commen-
Z<?;.'f/?£rvoiarit£er5receive their datioxi cf ^'9?

Manjleld,

INDEX to the EiTays, Occurrences, 1I794. Part IL

'datiifield^ late Eail, not a
Knight of the Thiftle 780
Marine excurlion from Sheer-
nefs to the Nore 1161

Vlarine-manf arcoont of 527
Marlborough^ Duchefs, builds
and endows lix alms-hooles
■ at Blenhfim 048

Airlbtirgy univerfiiy, ^xptiice
of * 633

Ma'neftjj Marchiont'fs dsy
account of 675

Mjronites, account of 814
Aarpf Herbert, letter to Tra¬
vis 876

XMajonry 799

Majowy, Free, obfervations on

Sro

ignorance expofed ib.
Melford difafter 762

Mellef, Somerfetlhire, topo¬
graphical account of ib.
Vlelmotb, Me. lift of his pub¬
lications 989

Mere), adrgerteau, account and
character 773, 859. epitaph

1164

Meveritl, Sampfon, epitaph on

1 101

\MHan defer! bed 734

Military punilhment in HoU
land 684

Hiiitia, bill for augmenting
679. of North Harapfliire
comnaendation of ^193
M'.lner, John, his anfwer to
variou.s anca?onifts 1070
Vlinotaur, an explanation of
that fable 923

IMi/cellane'usremarktf 600,
617, 648, 692, 727, 780,
799, 802, 8i8, 823, 918,
1001, 1099, Iioi, 1103,

' 118a, 1183’
Ifoney, Col. character of 829
Monkijh verfee, elucidated 8 i3
Mojaic pavement at Colcheiler

8c r

"Modena defcrlbed 73 5

Mountain ajh bearing pears 976
Muir and Palmer, proceedings
.in the Commons refpefting
, 632

Miirc, Hutchinjon, account of

771

J^APLES, earthquake and
eruption of Vefuvius 657.
deferibed 737

Naval adliors, Lord Howe's
vi<flory 6<;9. three frigates
defiroved by Sir J. li. War¬
ren 945. La llevolutinnaire
taken bv Sir E. Pellew’s
iqoadroa iv;46. account of

the Jofs of the Alexander Percy Mils, biographical ac-

1147 count anti charat'ler 1060

Newington Buttt I 161 Perry-ball 714

N^wf papers, proclamat'bn of PWs, on me origin of 83t»
Henry VIII. rel'pt£ling 787 997, icci

Newton, Ifaac, anecdotes re- Pierce, family 852. Geor-ge,
fpcifliog 620 anecdo es of 619

N’Wlrin-baU,F?it\6t'^,6Q.^,%0^ P/'/ii: deft- ibed 736

Nichols, epitaph 1 085 Piator.iUs, the later, charac-

— - - JVahe'-, epitaph 674 terized 92 1

membrsne in animals Placentia (itfonheA 735

• elucidated 765 Py/n/iol, proceedings of theRul-

Noel, Abbe, account of 893 bans and Prulii^os in 1042
Noje, new one fupplied 891, Pjly anus, ^cconut of IC25

1093 Pcntejhury, George,

Northamptorjloire, topography Poor rctrei, obfervationson 884
977, 980 P'fe, his ttrriiories charafic-
Nortbunibsrlar.d, obiervaiions rized ' 736

touching the eftate of 1094 Pope, Eenjamir;, account and

character of 769

Potatoes, improved culture of
O. 992r foap made of . 848

Po't, Percival, his thara£ler as
(JATS, agricuhnia! obferva- a furgeon IC2I

tlons on 780. impro- on difovders in 620

prierty of fovring them in Pruiyir, extraordinary 108 r
autumn 9S2. exTaordicary PriejUty, Dr. remarks on his
crop of 992’

departure 719. his recep-
ti n at New York 850.
defence o'’ 974. 306,000

acres of lar.d purcl.afed by
h:3 Ions and company m
America 1171

^'35

O' Bkerne, Rev. V*. it 76

Ombrometer 612

0, ^'Zr and Tarfhifh 974

Ordination, on refufing candi¬
dates becaufe they have not

hsd univerfity education975 Printers, eaviy
Ordinations o

nalians in EnglandgSssIlSs II79

O/lend taken poliefilon of by Prowf/'/iy, kf'ffj.chjraflrr of 871
the French 637 Prujfia, ¥ihj of, His‘ letter to

Owthorne cb arch 601 the King of Poland, with

Oxford, on fouiiders kin of A 1 ihe reply 1041

Souls 691 Pji’ms, a colleclicn for Dif-

fenting conc.rtgaiioi's about

f Scotch Epitco- pyinting, on the difeoverv ot

Oyjier-Jheils, pulverized, rs
com niendeti as a top-drefimg
for wheat 1009

p A DU A ^tfeviht A 738
Paget, Phom IS, epiiaphiunt
702. family 904, 1007
Pariiamenta'-y p.oceed1'’'gs 6z8,
723, 819, 915, I 010, itc8,
^ 1186

Pj'Wrr deferibed 735

Parochial regillcr tax cenfured

896

Parry, Planch, epitaph 1086
Pavia, def. r'p. Km of 7, 4
Paujaniar, aciovnu of and eba-
raCtei- of bis wiitings 9: I
Peers, the diiTe'ence of bllhops
and t mporal 5'* 8

Penny- poji, extenfion of and
regulnions 666

Ptnjions granted by Charles 11.

990

being pu jiilhed 696, 803

. R.

J^ALPH, Mrs. of Ireland,.

acco’jt t of 1^)59

P^.atcliJ'e firr 668. collection
for the fulfcreTs 95 1

Rrcufants in Northumberland

4994

Rc”ves, Capt, killed at Gibral¬
tar, ?ccount of . 1197
Rcgifie'rs, wiint of proper care
■..f, cenfured 1166

Rivi'x>ky, Count, account of

7 66

Rh'ne, fails of, cefeibed 634
Ri- rijrr!jon,Samu-e/,'cX.ftr of 3 93
Riots London, on account of
c'tliAing Laft India f ld'cis
Tit, 763

Rivers, on the doppan’C of,
with' t.t dr -cgl' t Sc2

Rohcfpfe'rre and ms prr y v :-.e-
cuced 763. charatfTer cf

Rcbinjr,,

INDEX U the EUays, Occurrences, 1794. Part 11.

Bobiti/oft, BiJhop of Armagh, rnffr^y in the people 1076

Baron of Rokcby, biogra- Shore-ditchy not named after
phical account of 965 Jane Shore rogi

Hohinfon family 1098 Sbrfw/huryj church notes from

Jiamatt buildings at Bath 918. St. Giles’s 694

infcriptions at Grcta.bridge defcribed 736 explained 58S1

69^ Sidmoutb (Devon) defcriprion Tar~%vat€r recommended 'fo.i:
J?ow« -defcribed 737 of 826

J^uddimatty publication by ^ 600 Sierra Leone fet'lemeot 1044
J^)/vesy Sir Risbard, epitaph Sidneyy SIv Henryy account of

^ ALlyiCO^IUSy account: of

1093-

Tanner*s MSS. 688

985

CANDTS family
Scales family
Scbevelingy near the
defcribtd

Scotland y two months

693

1091

Hague,

the urn in which his heart
was depofited 78^

lairy Pat. account of 767
Skejffingtxiny Sir JV. fpeech on

Sine la

difficulty in fpealcing 690
‘Taylor's MSS. enquiry con»
cerning. 1090.

Tea fold by one perfon only in
the reign of Cha. II. 951
Teigrmoutby Devon, dcfcrip.t ion
of 82?

prefenting the colours to the Tdegraphty on the invention of;

815. Barrerc’s accountof lb.
explained 992, 1072. ex¬
periments with 1147. French^
and improvements propofed

ib.

Leicefterfhire volunteer ca¬
valry 859

683 Skinner y alderman, eleifled lord
tour in mayor 952-

610. ftace-papers, enquiry Slatyer UmWy ii6z

after 786. query rcfpeAing Slave-tradey proceedings re- Temteft hmWy ' 77a

Church of England Cleigy fpe£ling the 631 Terif«^u/r,StaffordlhIre, account,

in 787. obfervations on the dangers to be dreaded of 715

from the abolition of 1167, T/jf/wa// acquitted 1146.;
1169. happy change of A- Tboroldy Dr. charaifter of 864
fricans fent to the Weft In- -

EngHlh Church in 1086,
jo88, 1098
Scotty on the origin of 881
jScfltj pills 936

Scott, yamety account of, and
chaiadter 958

Scottijh Corporation in Lon¬
don, concife view of 971,

1167

Scurvyy on the caufes of 690
Scylla and Chapybdis 1175,

1182

dies 1169

SUngsby family 615

Sntally Alex, charafterpf 864
Soap made of potatoes 848
Soapery Mr. account of 764
Souhy on the rota of 924
South Endy Eflex, improve¬
ments at 1162

Spanifh galleon deferibed % 1 1

Realty antlent, deferibed 981 Sphinx, explanation of the ho

ryof 927

Spink, John, account of 1057

Seafons, Spring, 1794, Chro
nicle of 627. Summer,
1794,816. Autumn, 1794,

Spring which ebbs and
three times a day

hows

734

Tbunderjiorm, damage by ati
London, &c. 855

Tithesy on the divifion between
a former and prefent inr
curnbent 982

Travis, Mr. remarks on 594,
anfwer to Por/on’s argu- .
ments

Tobacco defended 886.

Topers and Uppers of Warwick-
Ihire 1068

Torkington priory 785

Toulminy Mr. apology from 721
Tufnely John JoUiffe, account .
of 869

J/^ANDERGUCHTy Ben}.

account of 870. _

Venice deferibed 738

Vecen^a deferibed ib.

Vienna, intelligence from 849
Via de la Qote 1009 .

1067

Seditious pramces, King’s mef- ^r.ic^^^/efamily, accountof 7^5 Lieuf. epitaph on iiiq

fage refpeamg, and debates Staffordfoirey Mr. Shaw’s re- Tournament of Tottenham 613

port of progrefs in 602,

628,711, 803,920. me¬
moranda 890. a tour in

1077

Statues, antient manner of
making 926

Sieency farther proofs of his
pldgiarifm ^ 593) 615

Stockbolm, confpirators fenten-

849

Stoke Rschfordy Lincolnffiire, Vifion, remarks on 794. Dr.

v.t *■' ' r- 1184 Wells’s reply to Dr. Darwin

Shakipeare^o\s{t^s%ticsn%ony^^> Strong, Tho. biogrophical ac- on gir. obfervations re-

nous pslTages of 9.8. * his count of 1107 fpeaing lootj

prabHTee 1067. engraved Subfeription, volnot^xy, debate T/War recommendi=d for the
portraits of him 1068, 1183, on the legality of 819
^ .11 36 Su^iue 919

Sbaii}, Mr. his progrefs in the Surgeons, army 995, 1174
Hiftory of Stciflordffiireboz, iS’^'-^icrt/operation, curious 891

S%v&den, account of the con-
fpiracy of Count D’Arm-
feldr 1042, fentence of the
Sheriff, on the origin of that confpirators 1042

office 1075, danger in fer- Stvift, dean, letters to Mr*

ving IP75. cledioo for- Windar 625

Sympfon family ggg

thereon 1013

Sehuyn, Jafper, account ?nd
charafter of 869

Sensgaglia deferibed 738

StpiiUbral infeription, progref-
fye improvement in 990
Senoard verfus Johnfon 6 18
Seivardy- Mifr, her enmity to
Dr. Johnfon accounted for

Seward, Mr. his charafter de-
fendi^ 875

cure of burns and fcalds 638,
823, 936

628,711,803,890,920,1077
Sheldon, -va—r-y his chara^er aS
an aaajomift 1017

I^LCERATED legs, cure of
without reft 827

Upa, poifon tree of Java 918
Uvedals family 936, 1172

INDEX to the EfTays,- Occurrences, and Books, I794» Part 11.
w.

AINM John,.

account of and cha-
r\(f>er 959

fValdegfavt, Earl, biographi¬
cal account of 673. family
764, 824

Walfal, Scaflordlbife, account
of 7 14

letters kl8

Wahh 'w, Edmund, query, re-
f rifting 5r09

JVar,ohjttx of the pref. nt 6,87.

motives of the prelent 8 79
fP^drinv, R'ev. Mr. excellent
character of 9^5> IO51
Warner., Wtlliam, account t.l

613

Waff’S, flone blge a remecy
• for the fttng 885

Water, fudd- n appearance and
continuance of a pool on a
mounrain near.Seule, York-
(hire 9Q0

Watfon, Henry, zccoant ofioiy

Watfon, Thomas, 59I, 6j6

Wtitt, Robert, account of his
execution at Edinburgh for
h'igh treafon 953. account
of 967

Welfh, Robert, charaf^er ol 866
Wtjlinmjier abbey, fubfcripnon
propoied for reftoring mo¬
numents 817 neglefl of
the roonumentscenfured 892
Whitby zhbry, ruins of, blown
down 1046

}Vbit‘ lac, account of i i a i
Wb'te,Sii Thomas, original let¬
ter of 893

White, W Hi am. epi'anh on 909,
Whole D’Mv cf Man, by w.h m
written? I' 03

W'ni’vrrha.mpton, Staffordlhire,
r Uich notes 714

Wooa'ward, Erhnond, . e;iraph

1 184.

Wilkes, Mr. his V Ibk'n m
the llle of Wight delcribed

. 779

Wilkinfon, Rev, Ifaac, c^a-
raever of ^ 10.56

William the Lyon, King. oi
Scotland 593

Williams, Mifs, defended a* *
an tiiltorian, in feeing as
well as hearing 808. Mt--
hiflory ©f Britlih Bards an4
Druids, progrefs made ia

981

Jfilfon, $\r John, epitaph 1051
Wuhernjey church ^oi

Writers, pohucal, enquu'iea
concerning 109a

Writing, on appropriating it
by the ftyle 625

Wykeham family 117Z

Wyndham, Thomas, epitaph'

95^

'prrELEr (Hints) hittotyof

Tear of H e I'odo’ u.s 993"

To*k, Duke, account of the
defeat of the French by ths
Prince of Orange ^59'

— - efcape of 763,

j advices from 945:

Dr. letter of 7ot»

• - — ' John, epitaph 1107

INDEX to the BOOKS Reviewed in Vot.LXIV. Part I U

A, Fa ft Sermon 832

AMFELIUS, L. new edit.

by M.Tchllke 936 C.

Andrews^ s Hiftory of Great ^.•^DOGAhl, Rev. Bromley^
Britain 644, Letter to G. Letter to 1032

Wakefield II16 Gj/fm/o.nk Somerfetlh'rc 621,

on the Laws of falling 701,810,934, 9"7, 1106,

Bodies
Anthology, Engliih
Arabian Nigh’^f
Arcbceol'igia, vol. II.

93*

1032

783

1023

1165, 1179

on B?4

E idler, the Calvtn^iflrtc ■and’' St>-
cinian Syflems examined
and compared 935

QARDlNER's Sermon on*
the Duties of aSoidier

Couteau, Confefiions of 831 Gibbon's Hlliory 9S6

G7't^FjVilitation Sermon IC31
D. Fa ft Sermon 833'

'Pj ALL AIV A T* s EiTay on G(3rn7fj'i?«^Comment!itioiles'Re-
Heraldry 1102 giae Societalis 935

— ✓ -

!> ELS H /SM-s Sermon 1 197 .Dartwa on Vifion 794 Elegy, Pvemarks on 10819^

Bent's Meteurolog. Jour- Denwaw on the Eft'edls of Bux- T ur through Germany and
nal. for 1793 ton Water 646 Switzerland 633k784» 887,"-

Biograpbia Britannica 692 Diodorus Siculus 936 1009'^

Blair's Grave, a Poem 794 D/or’iDefcrip.ofDunklrk 1028 Great Britain, Q^vrefttdns and
i^/srif’s Hiftory of Winfieldbco D/xonh Sermdn iri6 Advice to the W'orking

Booth, the Death of LeHaL D add r tdge' z h\ie of CoX. Gix^ People of izci

diner

JfAST India Stock, Addrefs

Hope 832

Bounty, Proceedings of the
Court Martial on the Crew
of t he 93 3

Boaules's Sonnets and Poe ms 645
Bryant's Obfervatitoiis on a
Pafl'agein JuftinMartyr833
Buchanan s View of thcFilh-

ery of Great Britain 836 JJfABRlCJUS,
Budwtirth’s Siege of Gibraltar, Grtsca, vol. III.

790

JJALETs

Tithes-

Obfervatibns on
1 1 ) Q

to the Proprietors of 1199 ife»f/(?r,Baron,hisPoems,tranf»
Dangers which threat- lated by Mrs Ho'varth93 5
en 1199 Hamiltcn'sJoryinan'sGtiiht^ii'^

F. Voyage round the World*

Bibliotheca

936 Harrifon, the Infant Vifioi: vi

a Poem 1128,1193 on Carriages 1027 Shaklpe^re 645,930

Account of ihe Settle- Foot's Life of John Hunttr 7/ y’i Works 834

ment at 1028 797» id? Pious Mother 9*1

jPKf/frTHudibras,b}'Nafb 1027 i'VW^'-SacieucSjObfcrvalions lU<o, a poetical Piece, • ad-

uielled

INDEX to ihi BOOKS Reviewed In Vo!. LXIV. Part II.

dreffed to Marq. Cornv/’allis

834

Jlefs • Captive Monarch, a
Tragedy II17

Rslmes's Collation of the Se;’-
tUJgintjProgrefs of 744,824
J/oTuh devout Meditations >700
Hunter on the Caufes and Ef-
fefts of the War 739
llantingtoTty Advocates for De¬
vils refuted "fUS

Ilitrdls^s Remarks on the ten
fifftChapiersof Genefis S 36

I. and J.

^ARl>1NE’% Sermon on re-
*J ligious Falls 1026

Roman Portraits
'^oanfens Account of Bulatn

1025

y or tin’s Trails 741

T^ENTy Monuments and
painted Glafs in One Hun¬
dred Churches in 74a

King% Account of Canterbury
Caftle 9^0

Knrgbt, the Lsindfehape, a
Dida£lie Poem 645

JCnox’i Adcirefs to the Clubs
in the Parilh of Sr. Anne,
Weftminder 930. Letter to
Sir John Sinclair 1117

r IBANIUSy Rciply vol. II.

936

Lucas’s Sermon 1198

Lake’s Principles of Eloquence

1199

l\^ACKEN7AE’s Sketch of
the .War with .Tippoo
Sultaua iC‘c6

Medical Fails and Obferva-
tions, vol. II. 638

Merrick’ s 806

Methodj/isy on their Separation
from the Church 1199
Molineux's Scholar’s Qiiedion
Book in Arithmetick 1128
Money's Hiflory of the Cam¬
paign of 1792 .829

Montaigne, Voyage de 804
M'^ntague, Lady M. IV. I.et-
ters of 885

IVhnteJl.re’s Account of the
Expedition to Bulam 1028
Afoarr’i Travels in France 879
Morre, Tableau Chronoiogio.ue
de I’Hiftoire uHiverfelle 1026
Moral Annals (L the Poor and
Middle Ranks of Society

1117

Morell's Notes on Locke 1117
Mornington, Lord, Subllance of

hIsSpeech,Jarl.2i,i794 648
M'luntmorrssy Lord, Hillory of
the Irilh Parliament 704

IS^ASH, the W'indmiU over-
turned by the Barley Cake

934

National Penitence, Reafons
for 834

Neal's Hillory of the Puritans

720

WEN, Reflexions 9n the
State of Religion and Po¬
liticks in France and Great
Britain 646

p AGE’S Travels 8 1 1

Fame, Age of Infidelity,
in Anltver to his Age of
Reafon 1025

Ptzrro^’iLe'tcrsonFreedom 833
Paufanias's Delcription of
Greece 921

Penitence, Reafons for Natio¬
nal 646

Pennant’s London 1008

Ferry’s Reliques of Ancient
Poetry 10S9, 613, 817, 913
Philofrpbical AranfaAions, vol.

LXXXIV. 1 1 19

Piymky’% Vifitatlon Charge

1027

Devon (hire, voJ. 11.
729, 802, 825, 878, 935,
1O95, 1 i8r
Polyecenus s Stratagems of War

1024

T026

Priejlley, Dr. . Obfervations on
his Emigration to America

1069

J?ADCLlFFE's Mylleries ef
Udolpho 834

i2£;jnf//'iSermononGamin,g83 i
Reports from the Committee of
Secrecy 1 1 1 7

Revelations xi. i — 14. Out¬
lines of a Commentary on

1 1 18

ReynelVs Sermon 743

Reynolds, Sir ycjhua, Tefti-
monies to the Genius and
Memory of 806

Sermon it 16

Ro'wley on. Diforders of the
Eye and Eyelids 64S. Ra¬
tional and improved' Pradlice
of Phyfick 826

Rujh on the Fever of Phila¬
delphia 83S

S^: ANDRE, Rapport -fur
les Mouvemens fur I’Ef-'
cadre de la Republique i j 18
Report of, on the
Expences of France 1027
Scott'sSeTsTion on Equality 832
Se/Jen’s Table Talk 613
Sbipbord’s Trauflation of Po-
lyxiius’s Stratagems of
War 1024

i’.Wo’j Reprefentations of Mo¬
numents in the Eavirons of
London 1025

Smith’s Englilh Botany 1009
Strutt' sVitw of theDrefles and
Habits of the Englilh 1127
Sunday Schools, the Import¬
ance of 935

S'lvedcnborg, Enquiry •■nto h:s
Commilhon and Dodfr'me

J 1 14

Symons's Fail Sermon 832

pASKER' s Letters 644
Tatter jal' s Pfalms 806
Taylor's Tranllation of Paufa-
nias 921

Thompfon on Debtor and Cre¬
ditor Laws 833

77ffd«/hHiftoryof Evelham836
Tohf through the Theatre of
War 646

Tovonhy's Sermon 930

Tre-vor’s Latin deferriptive Po¬
ems of England 733

JVANDERSTEGEN on the
prefentState of the Thames

§33

Vincent de Legione Manli-
ana 641. On the Greek
Verb ^ 1198

JpAKEFJELD’s Examina¬
tion of Paine’s Age of
Reafon 642. Remarks on
the general Ordeis of the D.
of York’s Army 707, 931-
Spirit of Chriflianity com¬
pared with the Spirit of the
Times 7S1. Striffnres on bis
Spirit of Cbrijiianity , See.

930-

Walker on the i5atior>al Cha-
racier of the Dutch 1199
War, Advantages to Greac
Britain from 1119

W at tori s Poem of Sir Jolhua
Reynolds’s Painted Win¬
dow

INDEX to BOOKS and POETRY in Vol. LXIV. Part IE

dow at Oxford 806. Query
refpedting a fourth Volume
of Hiftory of Poetry 984
Jf 'atfon on the Two Orders of
Epifcopalians in Scotland

1198

PC&lms 794,805,1074
I'Velh on Vjfion 794

Whitaker* i Faft Sermon 834.

on the Confccration of a
Chapel t{i6

Whitor iComttitntzsy cn Shak-
fpeare 928

WtUiami I Poems II13. Quo-
tati*n from Newton on the
Prophecies n i8. Two Ser-
mons 1119

Windbam's Picture of the llle

of Wight 779, I0i6

Wood's Hiftory of Oxford i f iS'
Wrigbtf Knowledge commu¬
nicated to Chriftians at A-
vignon 1026

J^ENOPlWN's Defence of
the Athenian Democracy
739. by Morris 741

INDEX

to the POETRY in Vol. LXIV, Part UL

lage, Latin 747, 844, 942,
/dMOR II 3Z 1038, ^134

killing himfelf"

on the Tomb of hisDaugh- ^ ^ H. '

,ter . . 649 ^ALF Fay ■ 1129

Arrangement y the new 750 Na!Iiday\ ^ohn Delap y
AuguJiuSy on the Ch a rafter of Epjtaph-on 747

1124. Qua lifies of 1126 Hawky on the Flight of a tame

^ ^ ' . ■ '^5®

B. Headley, Henry, on the Death

Arnes, Rev. Tbomas, to of , .

the 51x31 Heatbeote, S'xt. Gilbert, Ode on

Birth-day Reflexions 651. his coming of Age <941
Verfes or» 652 /f'/Zo/j;, on the Study cf irzy

Bones, Human, Memorandum Horace, Book IL Ode XiV.
Lines on theNames of 1 138 4mi.tated\,652.. Book HI.

‘ Ode XIII. imitated 750

How's, Earl, Ode on his Vic-
I. Ode tory • • 1038

941 Humanity, an Ode 74S

1133 ■

JMPROMFTU 750
1034 Lady

Epitaph on 1132 Inter Amicos ne Jis Arbiter 846
Stanza on 746 Irtu/n, Elegy on thh late Q^^ieen
Drar.fcs, alias Sheridan, io- of France 841

tjn^ur 5 Turnus, alias Pif,
refpondit 942 K.

Dream:,, a Sonnet to 937 J^ITE, on a, which, after
Duce, an old Pointer, the bemg tamed, bad efcaped

QASJMTR, Lib.

XIH. trainflated
Contraji, by a Lady

£)ErUR Optimo

to, a

939

Zlf//E5/7,L’Allegro Imitatai 134
Mor.njitry, Reflexions on the
Ruins of one near the Seat

93r

Rhymes ■ 750'

Moon-liobt 1 1 -to

Moral Reflexion ' 645

Morning, the firfl Flour of 65 5
Mofebus Atncr fugitlvus tranf.

lated 744

Mountmorres's Ode on Lord
Howt’s Viftury 74^

- . N.

JSJORMANDT, Robert, B.
of. Poem by him in WeKh,
with an Englilii Tranflation

'98s

QCEf, romthe Ethioplc 749.
by the Author of the Re-
ceis 842

Orphan, occafional Prologue

to, at Cibialtar

939

humble Petition of 940

JP PIG RAM 652,942
Epitaphs 652

Evar.gclifls, the Four 941
Ere, C^ar/ej, on Lis Death 942

from Its Mafter 650. Ode
to 650

T E AS OWE S.

Tnfcription

fer a medicinal Fountain
at the 1037

i.ee River, Sonnet to 746

Let'er to a Sift'^r 6 c4

41 R Pihrim, iranflared Lines on ih<- Death of a young

from the Welih 1113

Fhnvtf and the Leaf 846

Friend, ad Amicum in Nor¬
thumbria 747

Gentleman at -G ifport in
Discharge of his' medical
Duty 1036

Love, Snnnet to 938

Lover, tlie perjured 652

n AFTER GRAY 653

Gibraltar, Dcfcription of the Image of 1 1 26

1194. • Extrafts from the liIarlboroiigh,\}^c.\\tG M,

Siege of

1194

Sonnet to, on her building
GoidfmUh's Edwin and Angc- Alms-houfes 747

liaa, or, the Hermit, in Melford Difalter 75O

Latin 6

L’cftrted Vil- Mtsijen irjeriptum

1038

"PARALELE de deax Sesurs

1131

Pajioral

Peir/fta, an Ode on a large
Fall of Timber there ir .-;®
Petrarch, Sonnet of, Italian
and Englifh 745

Pharfalta, Defeription of the
Preparafion for the Battle of

Poetry, R.ife and Fall of 938
Politic jI Etyflum defcrib<td 914
Pompf-y, Lines previous to bis
D ath 1125

Poflfcrij^t cf a poetical Epiftle
h-om a Gentiemaa to his
Frlewd 940

J^EID, W. H.milton, Tranf-
latsons by 748

Robin, Sonnet to a 940

Robinfon, Mrs. Ode to her be¬
loved Daughter 103 ^^Lin-Fs
to the Rev. J. Wbjieho.fc

.1:033

Roman Chs rafters 1 1 26

INDEX fo the POETRY and PLATES in Vol, LXIV.

^I^TPTO Afrtcanui the elder,
Eulogium on 1^5

Sth’veryy the Feelings of a free
i'^eople when firft febje\‘tecl
to IT76

S/gepy Sonnet to
ShaifpearSf Parodies on 654,

544,10’^ 7
ShaWf Rachel, Sonnet to 1-0^3 5
SnoHV^ .Day .554 5

<^OT^,iTone “To Anacreon in
Heaven’*

Smnet to the River Onfe 84’,
wr tten by tbe Bedfide of a

poor Wotttan "842. to the
Ktgbtin^ale S42. written
on thfc Coafl: of Devon 940*
to a Lady 941, to Stella
94 ». to Camoehs’ Crotto
at Macao 1033. to Cliar-
lot-te Smith 1035. to a
ynong Lady on her charita¬
ble Vifics to Poverty tn Af-
roj6. to Silence
TO 3 6. to the Htjn. T. Er-
fkme 1132. written on the
Cliffs near Margate 1133
Sonnett l<^35» 11.33

Sp^in^y to 631

(f'ASKER^s Ode to the King

745

^yrannyy the filent Progfefs of

X126

JAIR^IL, Apolirnpheto 1124
■frrgrttia, D>»pfoTation of

XI25

YOUNG, yui'id. Ode on 749

INDEX to the PLATES in Vol. LXIV. Part 1.

Dnvedale Soi* io6q Owthbrne Ruiha 4o£ *

Aberdeen Cathedra! 689

Alfreton Chtuch 1185

Antiqu’ties, Kentifh 705

- - Mifcellaneous 980

Arundel Caftle 694

Can'^erbury Caftle 909

. . . Si. George’s T wer

at 1,63

Chilham Keep 909

Chinjitord Church 1166

Cli.de, Eiienore de, Monument
of 809

Cotton Chapel 1106

CromweU’s Houfe, Clerk n**
well 617

D. O.

Soi, 1069 Owthbrne Ruiha
P. P.

FawHey Church and Manor- Purfgrove, Roh. his Monu-
houfe 977 ment iioi

H. S.

Heathfield Tower ShrewfljuryjSt.Giles’^Church '

Henry VIM, antient Portrait at 694, 909

of 980 Sidney, Sir H. Urn containing

L. his Heart 793

Ledhnry M nume.Tt itS3 Stoke Roc hford Church 1166
Lulli-gton Church 893 T.

M. Telegraph 992, 1177

Macclesfield Seal Torkington Pr'ory 793 ■■

. N. W.

Mewingvou Butts Parfonage Winistn the Lion,- King of

ij6i Scots 593

Nofe, new 883 Withernfey Ruins 601

Mr. Urban, T>ec. 23.

The furmlfe, p. iioi, refpefting the ori¬
ginal of the poverbiat expreftion lacidH
in Scyllam etipient -vitare Cbarybdtmy is well
fcundi-d ; it being thus noticed in Stephen’s
*Thefatirub : E'vUafa Gharybde h Scyt'am incidoy
Di?m vito gravius malum in aliud majus
incido. V. Erafmns ChTiadas I. centur. v.
prov. iv. The illuftration of it fills a column
and an half of vol 1 1. 183 4 fol. W & D,

Mr. Ur B an, Dec. 24.

AS the recent di/covery of a genuine like-
nefs * of our great dramatic v/riter has
excited a wilh in feveral gentlemers to pofiefs
.^for the fake of comparifon) all the pre' ended
as well as authorized reprpfen’atkijc cf bi.m,
the following lift, for th'ir folicits a
pl^ce in your valuable Mag^z ne;

I. Engravings from the true o.-iginal portrait
ofShakfpeare,paintedon wood tntheyeari 307:
M. Droelhout, before the firtl folio, *^23
W. Maffhall, before the Poems 1640

T. Trotter (two plates) 1 704

II. Engravings fiom theChandoDn canva.^ :
M. Vanderguch', beforr Rowe’s eciiion 1709
G, Venue (let of Poets) - 17^9

Difto, before Jacob’s L ves, S<'C. 1719

* Publifhed Dec. i, 1794,

chardfon, Caftic-ftreet, Leiceftei-fquare.

G. Duchange, before Theobald’s edition 1735

H. Gravelo:, befoic ttanmer’s edition 17434,

J. Houbrakeii (illoftrious Heads) ^747

G. Vertue, before Johnfon’w edition •f 1765
J Miller, at the end ofCapel’sIntrodufUon 1 76^^
J. Hsll, before Reed’s edition 1785

T. Cook, before Bell’s edi ion 1788

G. Knight, before Malone’t edition 1790

Le Goux (Harding’s Shakfpeare illuf-

tra.ed, 8<c.) 1790

III. Engravings from other fpurLus por¬
traits ;

G. Vertue, from Lord Oxford’s ptAures:

prefixed to Pope’s edition, 4to ^715

J. Simon, mcz. from a p'^lute by Zouft no date.
R.Earlom,mcz. from Jennens’s picture:
prefixed to his edition of King Lear 177®
All ether heads of Shakfptare are copies,
■with trivial variations from fome of the f^ore-
goir g plates. J.. B.

r Iti oai‘ Magazine far December laflj the fore»
goi'ig ariicle (on account of. ah accident at prejs)
hawr.g app'eat-ed In a niutilated fine, it is here
repiinted ’wUb tbe necejj'ary refijrattons!^

•f- For what work this head was origi-’
nally defigned, and the time at which it was
engraved by Vertue (who died in 1754^;,
cannot be afeertained. [See p. n86.]|

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